Then it is a possible problem of TV capabilities and not Samsung limiting what you can or cannot do. E.g. the D8000 has full featured browser available.
If your company give you stipend, use it. Get both DSL and Cable so that you are not cut off when one goes down. Thats what I did. Do the same with phone, have cell phone and regular phone so that you are reachable.
Games force me to have one computer dedicated to Windows. I do have couple of games on Linux but majority of my legacy and new games are for Windows. If Steam ever decides to create Linux client and motivate developers to support Linux, I wouldn't probably look back.
On the other hand all other computes in our household were switched 4 years ago to Linux and we never looked back. The main reason is that for our main family computer we are running 3 way multiseat configuration (1 computer, 3 displays, 3 keybords, 3 mice) and this is not possible with Windows (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX). When we switched 4 years ago my wife who was graduate student at that time haven't even notices. She was using OpenOffice before and that still worked the same way on the new system. We use KDE which has proven to be extremely usable and stable with very fast learning curve.
I have a four tier strategy, based on the fact that discs are cheap. I call it 6666 as in 6 inches, 6 feet, 6 miles and 6 thousand miles. I developed it based on a need to backup several hundred GB to few TB of data with respect to the privacy but still allowing sharing with my family.
Tier 1: 6 inches RAID 1 in my desktop All important files that cannot be duplicated are stored on RAID 1 disk array. If a disk fail I have a local copy immediately available for restore
Tier 2: 6 feet Local online backup. Each important file is duplicated between my desktop and my file server. On file server the files are stored on a RAID 1 array. If my local desktop break completely (e.g. motherboard burns out and takes the disk controller and disks with it) I have the file server immediately available for restore. The replication is done on a scheduled and manual basis.
Tier 3: 6 miles All important files are from time to time copied to a portable hard disk that is stored in a safety deposit box. This disk is updated every few weeks/months. If my house burns down I have majority of my data locally available for immediate restore. The data which are not present are restored from the remote backup in tier 4.
Tier 4: 6000 miles All important files are remotely copied to a file server at my parents house on a different continent. It servers, two purposes. If for some reason my immediate locality is affected by natural disaster (fire, flood, tornado), my files are safe. Also if my parents wants to see my HD videos of my kids, they have them locally available and I don't have to share it with them. The replication is done on manual basis.
I have experimented with many different technologies how to implement this strategy (CrashPlan, HW RAID, SW RAID, rsync, etc.) and this is what I have settled on since it is foolproof, non proprietary and can be implemented (in case of remote backup) by non techie.
Tier 1: SW RAID using mdam on Ubuntu 64b Desktop encrypted using LUKS Tier 2: SW RAID using mdam on CentOS 64b Server encrypted using LUKS. Populated manually using rsync every time I upload new pictures and videos to server. Home directories and documents are rsynced automatically every few hours.(Before I used CrashPlan) Tier 3: Truecrypt on portable HDD populated using rsync manually to review changes. Tier 4: PogoPlug modded using http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=pogoplug+arm+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 to provide remote ssh server and local Samba server. Data are copied manually using rsync every time I update tier 2. The local Samba is used for local sharing of the multimedia (pictures, videos) at the destination. The beauty of this solution is that is is completely plug and play and my parents don't have to know anything about technology. I gave them 2 pieces of hardware (pogoplug and hdd), they plugged in 4 cords at their location (1 network, 1 usb, two power) and I configured their router.
Cost Tier 1: 1 extra internal HDD (assuming desktop computer is already present) Tier 2: 1 extra internal HDD (assuming you are already running filer server for your household) Tier 3: 1 portable HDD Tier 4: 1 Pogoplug ($30 on sale) + 1 portable HDD
If you start with 3 TB disks in each computer. This solution required 4 extra 3 TB disks + 1 pogoplug and little bit of manual effort.
I quite don't understand people bad mouthing PSP. It is not about size, hardware, performance, but about having fun playing game on the go. I used to be a PC game player. Never had a console. I bought PSP last christmas, just because they are now quite cheap (new ~130, used ~80) and have large selection of good games (for adults), can be used as media player on trip and also go online if needed. Now months later I played it almost every week, multiple days at a time, had tons of fun, own more games than I am able to regularly play and not having need to try different console or put it down any time soon. Whats more, I just bought another one for the family to share for watching movies on trips. From my standpoint PSP is really really good. Very nice hardware, very nice price, very nice games, who cares what other people are saying and doing.
Pretty good article? Hmmm "The new Palm Pre, another exclusive deal, this time by Verizon Wireless, tricked iTunes into thinking it was an iPod." I am sure people at Sprint are wondering what did they paid all the money to Palm for:-).
Nothing comes many times from IBM period. Read on the web about how many Texas government offices lost months of data and documents because IBM failed to backup servers that they were given to manage under outsourcing contract.
Skype on Linux does video just fine. Not all webcams though work on Linux. Ubuntu has a nice wiki page which webcam works with Skype and which doesn't.
One thing I wonder about is why to spend all this resources to send an impact probe? I mean, why don't you send a probe which can do more and just in case fails and crashes, there you go, there is your impact probe.
I am surprise nobody else posted this earlier or reacted to this post. This is the most important result and change of attitude that is needed to boot fast I have seen recently. That is not faster but fast to begin with. I just hope more OS makers (both Windows and Linux) will adopt it.
Whats the point of CE when you have limited amount of useful applications for it. You get a netbook to limit the stuff you have to carry around, not to limit the number of things you can do with it.
My guess is this is exactly why they bought PA Semi. Future versions of Mac will include custom chip used by OS that no other manufacturer will be able to purchase.
1. Client PC contains working copy
2. Home server in the closet (Running RAID 1 & RAID 5 volumes) (~6 feet away:-)
- pc data files are backed up to a working backup directory on this server. This is the only writable directory on the server.
- working backup is synced with the master backup every few hours after manually confirming the changes. The master backup is available as read only share.
3. Home server is backed up every few days to portable harddrive stored offsite (~6 miles away:-)
4. Every 4-6 months all is burned to DVDs and/or tapes and stored abroad (~6000 miles away:-)
Actually, I have been gaming on ATI powered notebook for 3 years without any issues. I am using one of the high ned Compaq workstation noteboks powered by ATI Mobility Radeon and it all works just fine. Granted I never play new games, always at least 2-3 years old so I do not have to worry about system performance but so far I had a great experience.
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NP. Look at the very first icon here
http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-smart-tv/#hub
It says Web Browser.
Then it is a possible problem of TV capabilities and not Samsung limiting what you can or cannot do. E.g. the D8000 has full featured browser available.
You can look at any website, not sure what you are talking about.
If your company give you stipend, use it. Get both DSL and Cable so that you are not cut off when one goes down. Thats what I did. Do the same with phone, have cell phone and regular phone so that you are reachable.
Games force me to have one computer dedicated to Windows. I do have couple of games on Linux but majority of my legacy and new games are for Windows. If Steam ever decides to create Linux client and motivate developers to support Linux, I wouldn't probably look back.
On the other hand all other computes in our household were switched 4 years ago to Linux and we never looked back. The main reason is that for our main family computer we are running 3 way multiseat configuration (1 computer, 3 displays, 3 keybords, 3 mice) and this is not possible with Windows (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX). When we switched 4 years ago my wife who was graduate student at that time haven't even notices. She was using OpenOffice before and that still worked the same way on the new system. We use KDE which has proven to be extremely usable and stable with very fast learning curve.
Thank you. Now I just need to learn checking my spelling better, sorry for all the typos (e.g. mdam instead of mdadm).
I have a four tier strategy, based on the fact that discs are cheap. I call it 6666 as in 6 inches, 6 feet, 6 miles and 6 thousand miles. I developed it based on a need to backup several hundred GB to few TB of data with respect to the privacy but still allowing sharing with my family.
Tier 1: 6 inches
RAID 1 in my desktop All important files that cannot be duplicated are stored on RAID 1 disk array. If a disk fail I have a local copy immediately available for restore
Tier 2: 6 feet
Local online backup. Each important file is duplicated between my desktop and my file server. On file server the files are stored on a RAID 1 array. If my local desktop break completely (e.g. motherboard burns out and takes the disk controller and disks with it) I have the file server immediately available for restore. The replication is done on a scheduled and manual basis.
Tier 3: 6 miles
All important files are from time to time copied to a portable hard disk that is stored in a safety deposit box. This disk is updated every few weeks/months. If my house burns down I have majority of my data locally available for immediate restore. The data which are not present are restored from the remote backup in tier 4.
Tier 4: 6000 miles
All important files are remotely copied to a file server at my parents house on a different continent. It servers, two purposes. If for some reason my immediate locality is affected by natural disaster (fire, flood, tornado), my files are safe. Also if my parents wants to see my HD videos of my kids, they have them locally available and I don't have to share it with them. The replication is done on manual basis.
I have experimented with many different technologies how to implement this strategy (CrashPlan, HW RAID, SW RAID, rsync, etc.) and this is what I have settled on since it is foolproof, non proprietary and can be implemented (in case of remote backup) by non techie.
Tier 1: SW RAID using mdam on Ubuntu 64b Desktop encrypted using LUKS
Tier 2: SW RAID using mdam on CentOS 64b Server encrypted using LUKS. Populated manually using rsync every time I upload new pictures and videos to server. Home directories and documents are rsynced automatically every few hours.(Before I used CrashPlan)
Tier 3: Truecrypt on portable HDD populated using rsync manually to review changes.
Tier 4: PogoPlug modded using http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=pogoplug+arm+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 to provide remote ssh server and local Samba server. Data are copied manually using rsync every time I update tier 2. The local Samba is used for local sharing of the multimedia (pictures, videos) at the destination. The beauty of this solution is that is is completely plug and play and my parents don't have to know anything about technology. I gave them 2 pieces of hardware (pogoplug and hdd), they plugged in 4 cords at their location (1 network, 1 usb, two power) and I configured their router.
Cost
Tier 1: 1 extra internal HDD (assuming desktop computer is already present)
Tier 2: 1 extra internal HDD (assuming you are already running filer server for your household)
Tier 3: 1 portable HDD
Tier 4: 1 Pogoplug ($30 on sale) + 1 portable HDD
If you start with 3 TB disks in each computer. This solution required 4 extra 3 TB disks + 1 pogoplug and little bit of manual effort.
I quite don't understand people bad mouthing PSP. It is not about size, hardware, performance, but about having fun playing game on the go. I used to be a PC game player. Never had a console. I bought PSP last christmas, just because they are now quite cheap (new ~130, used ~80) and have large selection of good games (for adults), can be used as media player on trip and also go online if needed. Now months later I played it almost every week, multiple days at a time, had tons of fun, own more games than I am able to regularly play and not having need to try different console or put it down any time soon. Whats more, I just bought another one for the family to share for watching movies on trips. From my standpoint PSP is really really good. Very nice hardware, very nice price, very nice games, who cares what other people are saying and doing.
What I want to know is, what open source code was worth such risk of being accused of inappropriate behavior.
Pretty good article? Hmmm "The new Palm Pre, another exclusive deal, this time by Verizon Wireless, tricked iTunes into thinking it was an iPod." I am sure people at Sprint are wondering what did they paid all the money to Palm for :-).
They never sold SapDB to MySQL, they just had marketing and distribution agreement.
Native Java on i386 and soon on amd64 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img8.html Anybody knows more about this?
Nothing comes many times from IBM period. Read on the web about how many Texas government offices lost months of data and documents because IBM failed to backup servers that they were given to manage under outsourcing contract.
Skype on Linux does video just fine. Not all webcams though work on Linux. Ubuntu has a nice wiki page which webcam works with Skype and which doesn't.
Hotmail was migrated from FreeBSD to IIS few years ago. It originally run on FreeBSD when Microsoft purchased it.
One thing I wonder about is why to spend all this resources to send an impact probe? I mean, why don't you send a probe which can do more and just in case fails and crashes, there you go, there is your impact probe.
I am surprise nobody else posted this earlier or reacted to this post. This is the most important result and change of attitude that is needed to boot fast I have seen recently. That is not faster but fast to begin with. I just hope more OS makers (both Windows and Linux) will adopt it.
Whats the point of CE when you have limited amount of useful applications for it. You get a netbook to limit the stuff you have to carry around, not to limit the number of things you can do with it.
As long as my wife doesn't know where I am then who cares about the government.
My guess is this is exactly why they bought PA Semi. Future versions of Mac will include custom chip used by OS that no other manufacturer will be able to purchase.
Yes, Texas, e.g. DFW area.
Multi Layer backup practiced here
:-) :-) :-)
1. Client PC contains working copy
2. Home server in the closet (Running RAID 1 & RAID 5 volumes) (~6 feet away
- pc data files are backed up to a working backup directory on this server. This is the only writable directory on the server.
- working backup is synced with the master backup every few hours after manually confirming the changes. The master backup is available as read only share.
3. Home server is backed up every few days to portable harddrive stored offsite (~6 miles away
4. Every 4-6 months all is burned to DVDs and/or tapes and stored abroad (~6000 miles away
How to websites
http://www.curiousinventor.com/guides/How_To_Solder
http://www.curiousinventor.com/guides/Surface_Mount_Soldering/101
http://tangentsoft.net/audio/
http://www.electronics-lab.com/index.html
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/hdr.php?p=tutorials
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
http://www.embedds.com/
Electronic parts websites
http://digikey.com/
http://www.vellemanusa.com/us/enu/engine.php
http://www.bgmicro.com/
Online Forums websites
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LTspice/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=1
Various websites
http://www.arrl.org/
http://www.makezine.com/
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/index.htm
There was similar thread few weeks ago realted to books about electronics. I have tried to complie all links for future reference
Electronics threads
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/06/2333256
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/20/1327207
Paper books websites
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-Scherz/dp/0070580782 +++
http://www.amazon.com/Bebop-Boolean-Boogie-Unconventional-Electronics/dp/0750675438/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210145164&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Robot-Builders-Bonanza-Tab-Electronics/dp/0071362967
http://pragprog.com/titles/ctelec/a-peek-at-computer-electronics
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-Mims/dp/0945053282
Online books websites
http://www.phy.davidson.edu/instrumentation/NEETS.htm
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-002Spring-2007/CourseHome/index.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/
http://www.hiviz.com/
http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/
Hardware kits websites
http://www.smileymicros.com/
http://www.arduino.cc/
http://ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/
http://www.adafruit.com/
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=68
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/Products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2735
http://www.nerdkits.com/
http://www.electronickits.com/
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php
http://www.quasarelectronics.com/epl200.htm
http://www.elenco.com/prolabs.htm
http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICAXE
http://www.phanderson.com/picaxe/picaxe.html
http://www.makingthings.com/products/KIT-MAKE-CTRL
http://www.parallax.com
http://www.xgamestation.com/
http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/
Software websites
http://www.avrfreaks.net/?module=FreaksTools&func=viewItem&item_id=145
http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/index.jsp
Actually, I have been gaming on ATI powered notebook for 3 years without any issues. I am using one of the high ned Compaq workstation noteboks powered by ATI Mobility Radeon and it all works just fine. Granted I never play new games, always at least 2-3 years old so I do not have to worry about system performance but so far I had a great experience.