TCO is crap. I rember an analysis once that the TCO of the office coffe machine was in $100,000 range per year based on the amount of time spent running using and talking around the machine. It also made as much sense about TCO for computers.
In my position the total cost of downtime is orders of magnitude greater than the cost of operation. If the plants is down for one day, it represents enough money to buy a thousand servers running the most expensive software you could buy. (If the OS were Linux you could probably afford ten thousand servers).
I am not the one who posted initially, but I can state that I have not downloaded a song in a looong time and never really downloaded that many anyway, but....
I do not buy CD's and will not ever!! And I haven't bought any CD's in years, with the exception being a Sting CD I bought a few years back for $2.95 (note the price here).
If the RIAA wants to throw the book at their customers who also happen to download music, so be it. But my belief is that any industry that sues its customers DOES NOT DESERVE TO EXIST. Now, I sure as hell hope the MPAA stays away from suing its customers like the RIAA, because I do happen to buy DVDs quite often.
The Hauppage WinTV PVR 250 (and 350) for that matter, both work on Linux. They encode TV signal to mpeg.
MythTv is required if you want to flag commercials, cut them out, and reincode.
It will transcode your output automatically to another format for you, but to cut out the commercials, you have to manually check/modify the automatically created flags, but that's just because no commercial flagging is perfect (though for some channels, myth's is damn close.
Did you yank the firmware information out of the exe file from the windows driver? Ivtv needs that to compile. Also, many of the v4l modules need to be compiled as well.
Once ivtv is compiled lirc is pretty easy to get working with the hauppague remote. Be sure to do a make clean in the lirc directory if you've had failed compiles of it, though.
But I do know for a fact the PVR-250's do work, once ivtv is up and going and loaded (theres also some issues with setup of your/etc/modules.conf to get things loaded too).
My point was that the answer to that question would provide a lot of insight into the person's character. What SCO is doing is particularly heinous and possibly illegal.
Now what you said is true, one answer that could be given is that "I just write code, or I only worked on internal systems, not any of the products." But what if they were a coder who worked on the Linux kernel? Then the question would require an answer that would prove to me that they do not share the ethics of their employer.
The rub is that the issue really is black or white. You either get the job or you don't.
Extranneous factors do come into play. The most recent person I hired came from a place very well respected in my area, and that was a benefit to him. Other factors came into play as well, but in the end 1 person got the job, 50-60 others didn't.
Having SCO on your resume would not have ruled someone out as a candidate in my mind, but the question "What do you think of what your company is doing?" would certainly have been asked.
Its only problem is that the barrier to entry for setting up a Myth box is a large amount of skill with Linux, along with some luck regarding hardware compatibility with ivtv and your machine if you use the Hauppage PVR cards.
Its a tough hill to climb, but the view from the top is great.
Yeah, in my experience alot of channels all come up with pretty good commercial skipping in Myth. CBS (in particular CSI) and some other networks have more trouble.
But when the commercial skips works well, it is so undeniably cool! And it keeps getting better with each release. The CSI I watched last night only had one bad skip.
Do you really think Bush would think its in the best interest of the country (let alone the business world) to let SCO win a 3 BILLION dollar lawsuit against IBM? If that happens the repurcussions for the market and the economy would be horrendous.
If you want a Bush conspiricy theory try IBM giving him millions in donations and then a bill passing forcing Unix code to be public domain. Hell, its unlikey, but not quite so much as for Bush to be conspriing for a tiny good for nothing company to cause major damage to one of the largest corporations on earth!
Well, I'll differ with you. The GF4 on my Chaintech motherboard drives the TV AT THE WRONG FREAKIN FREQUENCIES! I'm boned because the NVTV project doesn't support the damn GF4.
Do you have a 7NIF2, or a different board? I recompiled my kernel to boot with framebuffer support and now I get a display on bootup with really bad resolution and frequency settings, but once X fires up things look fine.
Congratulations on becoming another Myth believer:-)
But I can confirm NVIDIA TV out works fine with just TV with one minor nit, overscan doesn't work with TV out with the last release.
I would really like to know if overscan is fixed in this release. Which also goes a bit to your point on open source, because if it were open source I could fix it myself (or someone else could fix it becaulse I'm too lazy).
My comment was mostly about what would cause the most disruption and trouble for outsourcing in India. Wages need to increase porofoundly to balance costs with doing things in the US. I was basically listing things that could do that. The disruptive power of a union would be very instrumental in that respect.
As for comments about how countries cheaper than India are out there. That speaks to the last part of my comment. Where the language barrier is fairly high with respect to india, its even higher with respect to other countries. Its just another force to put an end to this disturbing outsorcing trend, which I feel is being driven by the terribly shortsighted view of so called business leaders today. Knowledge is power, and when all the knowledge of your companies systems lies overseas, your power will shift there as well.
If you move to India, don't go there to do programming. Go there to start a union of tech. workers.
Wages will be going up very fast. Many of these outsorcers have fairly long term commitments and can raise their prices and renogatiate at will. Plus reports show wages going up very fast in India (a tech. union there would do wonders for this;-).
Plus, there is starting to be a consumer backlash agains non-english as a first language tech. support. What was bad tech. support years ago is now becoming bad tech. support that you can't understand.
If iTunes existed for Linux I would buy music at their store. As it is I'm not doing much downloading of music anymore (of course I will buy no CDs either). I would truly appreciate Apple having a Linux version of iTunes.
That being said, I would like to have a mac as well, I just don't have that kind of money lying around.
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You just got me thinking there. Do Microsofts TCO numbers include the cost of the BSA compliance audit you will face next year? ... I didn't think so.
TCO is crap. I rember an analysis once that the TCO of the office coffe machine was in $100,000 range per year based on the amount of time spent running using and talking around the machine. It also made as much sense about TCO for computers.
In my position the total cost of downtime is orders of magnitude greater than the cost of operation. If the plants is down for one day, it represents enough money to buy a thousand servers running the most expensive software you could buy. (If the OS were Linux you could probably afford ten thousand servers).
Well, this is one strike against them. I can't seem to remember google ever being slashdotted.
Of course they're justified in seeking compenstaion.
What they don't really pay attention to is that their customers are justified in leaving and never coming back.
I am not the one who posted initially, but I can state that I have not downloaded a song in a looong time and never really downloaded that many anyway, but ....
I do not buy CD's and will not ever!! And I haven't bought any CD's in years, with the exception being a Sting CD I bought a few years back for $2.95 (note the price here).
If the RIAA wants to throw the book at their customers who also happen to download music, so be it. But my belief is that any industry that sues its customers DOES NOT DESERVE TO EXIST. Now, I sure as hell hope the MPAA stays away from suing its customers like the RIAA, because I do happen to buy DVDs quite often.
Its a fairly cheap mini-itx, though (if its based on the newer boards). I'd be tempted to buy one and turn it into a Myth frontend.
You're exactly right.
My entire family has figured out how to run the Myth box. Though none of them could set it up.
The Hauppage WinTV PVR 250 (and 350) for that matter, both work on Linux. They encode TV signal to mpeg.
MythTv is required if you want to flag commercials, cut them out, and reincode.
It will transcode your output automatically to another format for you, but to cut out the commercials, you have to manually check/modify the automatically created flags, but that's just because no commercial flagging is perfect (though for some channels, myth's is damn close.
Did you yank the firmware information out of the exe file from the windows driver? Ivtv needs that to compile. Also, many of the v4l modules need to be compiled as well.
/etc/modules.conf to get things loaded too).
Once ivtv is compiled lirc is pretty easy to get working with the hauppague remote. Be sure to do a make clean in the lirc directory if you've had failed compiles of it, though.
But I do know for a fact the PVR-250's do work, once ivtv is up and going and loaded (theres also some issues with setup of your
My point was that the answer to that question would provide a lot of insight into the person's character. What SCO is doing is particularly heinous and possibly illegal.
Now what you said is true, one answer that could be given is that "I just write code, or I only worked on internal systems, not any of the products." But what if they were a coder who worked on the Linux kernel? Then the question would require an answer that would prove to me that they do not share the ethics of their employer.
Actually, I'd bet they've killed exactly 0 chickens with the turbines.
;-)
Chicken Wire would be useless!!!!!
The rub is that the issue really is black or white. You either get the job or you don't.
Extranneous factors do come into play. The most recent person I hired came from a place very well respected in my area, and that was a benefit to him. Other factors came into play as well, but in the end 1 person got the job, 50-60 others didn't.
Having SCO on your resume would not have ruled someone out as a candidate in my mind, but the question "What do you think of what your company is doing?" would certainly have been asked.
No its a great app in practice, too.
Its only problem is that the barrier to entry for setting up a Myth box is a large amount of skill with Linux, along with some luck regarding hardware compatibility with ivtv and your machine if you use the Hauppage PVR cards.
Its a tough hill to climb, but the view from the top is great.
Yeah, in my experience alot of channels all come up with pretty good commercial skipping in Myth. CBS (in particular CSI) and some other networks have more trouble.
But when the commercial skips works well, it is so undeniably cool! And it keeps getting better with each release. The CSI I watched last night only had one bad skip.
Because then there still a chance someone would boot into Linux and they can't have that!!
No better is better.
When you say cheaper is better the first thing that pops into my head in this case is....
"This week on Junkyard Wars, we'll give TWO teams TEN hours to see if they can bodge together a Martian Probe!!"
Do you really think Bush would think its in the best interest of the country (let alone the business world) to let SCO win a 3 BILLION dollar lawsuit against IBM? If that happens the repurcussions for the market and the economy would be horrendous.
If you want a Bush conspiricy theory try IBM giving him millions in donations and then a bill passing forcing Unix code to be public domain. Hell, its unlikey, but not quite so much as for Bush to be conspriing for a tiny good for nothing company to cause major damage to one of the largest corporations on earth!
Well, I'll differ with you. The GF4 on my Chaintech motherboard drives the TV AT THE WRONG FREAKIN FREQUENCIES! I'm boned because the NVTV project doesn't support the damn GF4.
Do you have a 7NIF2, or a different board? I recompiled my kernel to boot with framebuffer support and now I get a display on bootup with really bad resolution and frequency settings, but once X fires up things look fine.
Congratulations on becoming another Myth believer :-)
But I can confirm NVIDIA TV out works fine with just TV with one minor nit, overscan doesn't work with TV out with the last release.
I would really like to know if overscan is fixed in this release. Which also goes a bit to your point on open source, because if it were open source I could fix it myself (or someone else could fix it becaulse I'm too lazy).
Again enjoy your Myth box, Myth Rocks!!
My comment was mostly about what would cause the most disruption and trouble for outsourcing in India. Wages need to increase porofoundly to balance costs with doing things in the US. I was basically listing things that could do that. The disruptive power of a union would be very instrumental in that respect.
As for comments about how countries cheaper than India are out there. That speaks to the last part of my comment. Where the language barrier is fairly high with respect to india, its even higher with respect to other countries. Its just another force to put an end to this disturbing outsorcing trend, which I feel is being driven by the terribly shortsighted view of so called business leaders today. Knowledge is power, and when all the knowledge of your companies systems lies overseas, your power will shift there as well.
I am actually looking forward to them selling gas in my town.
.10 - $ .15 higher than many surrounding cities.
The local stations routinely conspire to fix prices $
You should be running for congress on a Libertarian ticket somewhere.
I'm serious. Great post!
If you move to India, don't go there to do programming. Go there to start a union of tech. workers.
;-).
Wages will be going up very fast. Many of these outsorcers have fairly long term commitments and can raise their prices and renogatiate at will. Plus reports show wages going up very fast in India (a tech. union there would do wonders for this
Plus, there is starting to be a consumer backlash agains non-english as a first language tech. support. What was bad tech. support years ago is now becoming bad tech. support that you can't understand.
Yeah, I know all apples aren't _that_ expensive. I just want a G5, so I'll have to wait for the price to come down. :-)
And true, the only way apple would do support for linux at this time would be just to be nice, I agree that there's not quite enough incentive, yet.
If iTunes existed for Linux I would buy music at their store. As it is I'm not doing much downloading of music anymore (of course I will buy no CDs either). I would truly appreciate Apple having a Linux version of iTunes.
That being said, I would like to have a mac as well, I just don't have that kind of money lying around.