This is something I have been pondering... i havent found it out in the wild so am tempted to build it myself. Perhaps we are looking for the same thing.
What i essentially need is an encrypted disk image (crypto-loop based?) that can be read and written to without ever "mounting". When ssh authentication has passed, the SSH key is used as a "pass thru" into the disk image. But it is never mounted or exposed to the host OS, only mounted "virtually" to the userspace process that handles the ssh connection.
I understand this could get tricky in terms of multithreading but I am sure I could come up with a proof of concept in Python. My C/C++ sucks.
Halon has been banned for quite some time now. The replacement, Halotron, was just recently restricted.
CO2 would make the most sense.
The problem from what I understand was the generator room. A CO2 system would be ideal in this situation, you're dealing with lubricants as well and foam just makes an awful mess.
What I dont understand is how the sprinkler system was involved at all. When that valve bursts, it only flows at th affected area. Its not like the movies where if one pops the whole system goes off.
I don't know the building in question but I worked in the fire protection industry a short while.
Having used BlackBerry, iOS and Android I have a few real world suggestions.
App Market: - Don't tie it to any "services". - OpenID to log in. - Should not have to log in for free apps.
Search: - Dont tie to specific search provider. As much as I like Google, I've found myself using DuckDuckGo lately.
General: - Include native SIP client - Don't half ass the native Email client. I like how BlackBerry broke each account out into their own icon. - Live Icons - even just little notification indicators on the icon would be great. Would be excellent if it could indicate now many n ew E-mails I have.
I built my own HTPC, but the hardware appears to be very similar to what you have in your Dell Zino HD.
I am curious, what are the problems you had with the Ati Catalyst driver, and did you ever resolve your issues?
My system is a Jetway NC81-LF ITX board. Onboard Radeon HD 3200, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850e CPU, 4GB DDR2 SODIMM & 30GB 2.5" HDD all retro fit into and old VHS player (I was bored one day). As an aside I plan to upgrade HDD to SSD soon. Whole system is only about 9GB. All media plays over NFS mount from my primary workstation.
I am running Gentoo Linux (kernel 3.2.12, w/gentoo patchset), Catalyst 12.4, Xorg server 1.11.4 and having no issues with any media. I do not, however, use XBMC, but a custom UI I've been working on that calls mplayer (eventually will be open sourced, currently working on integrating Youtube).
I did have to disable the sideport memory on my board though. If it was turned on I got a lot of tearing in video. I also set mplayer lavdopts threads to 2 (one thread per CPU core).
This setup is capable of playing anything I have ever thrown at it, including direct Bluray 1080p rips with no transcoding, even no issues with fast paced scenes (Disney's Cars & Rio).
mplayer config: [default] vo=gl # force audio over HDMI ao=alsa:device=plughw=1.3 # multithreaded CPU decoding lavdopts=threads=2
I am aware this is a discussion of the current legal uses of Bittorrent, I offer an off perspective to the idea of embracing the free P2P distribution channels.
We need more legal digital distribution avenues. Period.
The huge media corporations are screaming bloody murder but they refuse to back down on things like DRM and content regions. If they were to embrace the "free bandwidth" that Bittorrent provides they would not be crying about record breaking profits in years.
What if there were a service for those of us falling through the cracks who _honestly_ want to pay for the things they download "illegally." A service where I could purchase a license to obtain a specific media by any avenue I choose to pursue (aka. Bittorrent, Gnutella network, In the back alley, etc). If a company (or media conglomerate) were to open up shop online. Its role would be to sell customers a license to view the content and provide you with a bill of sale (that I would hope would hold up in Court if the situation were to arise), thereby authorizing you to obtain the media via P2P. Overhead for the business would be _very_ minimal, as your customers are also the content distributors and could probably sell licenses at insanely low prices. For example: $5 full CD album, $5-10 full length movie and profit themselves $1-$2.50 after transaction costs, etc. With over 500 Million people in North America, I am sure even capturing less than 1% could make it a worth while business model.
I would be interested in such a service if it existed. As all other options seems to be out of reach for me. I am sure there are others out there who feel the same.
I _want_ to pay for the media I download, but it has to be reasonable and not encumbered with DRM. Not everyones situation is the same but my situation is so: No movie rental stores in town (since Blockbuster Canada went under, as well Rogers Video closed many of its locations). Purchasing a movie is usually fruitless endeavour as you are still bombarded with ads you can't skip and lets face it, optical media is going the way of the do do bird. Living in Canada, I don't have access to Hulu and Netflix is very limited (I also don't have the right hardware or software configuration to use it, but that's just me). Amazon Instant Video doesn't exist in Canada.
Regarding the business model and potential profits... 528,000,000 million people in North America. Lets say 0.05% (around 264,000 people) of that market were to participate in such a service. If those 264,000 people are willing to spend $15-$20/month on media (like I am), they could potentially gross $3,960,000+ to $5,280,000+ per month. In perspective it is not a lot of money considering how much media companies make, but why not at least attempt to collect my money? Instead of calling me a pirate, embrace the free distribution channel of P2P.
The ability to to "buy a license, download wherever" at very reasonable cost (remember distribution cost is literally nothing, the "pirates" are doing the work for you) in lieu of living in fear of being sued into oblivion I really think such a system could flourish.
Any thoughts by the more enlightened? I am not a lawyer, just a man who is frustrated with his current options to consume media.
Its hard to guarantee that all the codecs that you will be using will be GPU accelerated, especially so if you are stacked up on a Linux distro, so the E-series and Atoms are not really a solution that I recommend.
I do use Linux. Gentoo, to be precise. I am not sure what you mean when referring to Linux there. Could you please clarify?
Do you have any recommendations as I am looking at building an HTPC. No capture or anything fancy, I have a huge media Library on my main PC I will mount over NFS. I had an idea to build a "retro" system into an old VHS player I have shoved in the basement. Space is very adequate, I could probably pack a full ATX PSU in there with plenty of room to spare with an ITX board. Looking to spend around $300 (Canadian, considering we pay more here for everything, my budget would be around $250 USD). Am looking at SSD. Knowing Gentoo takes very little space and media will be housed elsewhere, I'm thinking a 60GB SSD. 30GB drives seem to have gone the way of the do-do.
So far I have seen no mention of it, but would this not make a great HTPC platform? Very low powered CPU but a tank of a GPU sounds great to me... Especially when your box is idling.
Any thoughts from someone more knowlegable? I'm still like 5 generations behind running an AMD X2 5200+.
Sounds like firefox is being swapped out when you let it sit and isn't being brought back into RAM properly, either because of other applications you are running are consuming more than firefox needs or there is some kind of bug. I have never experienced such a bug. I have had the odd crash but nothing lately. Currently running FF 7.0.1
I have never, ever seen Firefox consume more than 300MB of RAM on any machine I've ever used it on. My workstation has 6GB RAM, AMD Athlon X2 5200+. On a regular basis I have upto 3-4 Windows with upto 2-10 tabs open at any given time.
Every system is different, there are too many factors to try to figure out what is causing the problem. You're talking about a piece of software that runs on virtually any x86-based machine, as well as few other architectures. Not to mention most operating systems, Win/Mac/Linux/BSD and a few others.. there are bound to be configurations that cause issues... as with any piece of software.
GP is right though, submit some information to the bug tracker. Complaining on slashdot is not going to get you anywhere.
NO you stupid fuck, the parent poster is talking about the cost of becoming a Certificate Authority and getiing your CA certificates in vendors browsers to be recognised!
If you actually read their post, you'll see that they specifically say "as a consequence the price for certificates is too high".
The last cert I bought was $20 USD (for one year), it was domain only validation but it provides the encrypted level without the bullshit warning you get with a self-signed cert.
Consumers don't care what kind of SSL cert you have, most don't even care if you have one, but those who know the sites you shop on need one, they don't care what kind.
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This is something I have been pondering... i havent found it out in the wild so am tempted to build it myself. Perhaps we are looking for the same thing.
What i essentially need is an encrypted disk image (crypto-loop based?) that can be read and written to without ever "mounting". When ssh authentication has passed, the SSH key is used as a "pass thru" into the disk image. But it is never mounted or exposed to the host OS, only mounted "virtually" to the userspace process that handles the ssh connection.
I understand this could get tricky in terms of multithreading but I am sure I could come up with a proof of concept in Python. My C/C++ sucks.
Halon has been banned for quite some time now. The replacement, Halotron, was just recently restricted.
CO2 would make the most sense.
The problem from what I understand was the generator room. A CO2 system would be ideal in this situation, you're dealing with lubricants as well and foam just makes an awful mess.
What I dont understand is how the sprinkler system was involved at all. When that valve bursts, it only flows at th affected area. Its not like the movies where if one pops the whole system goes off.
I don't know the building in question but I worked in the fire protection industry a short while.
Having used BlackBerry, iOS and Android I have a few real world suggestions.
App Market:
- Don't tie it to any "services".
- OpenID to log in.
- Should not have to log in for free apps.
Search:
- Dont tie to specific search provider. As much as I like Google, I've found myself using DuckDuckGo lately.
General:
- Include native SIP client
- Don't half ass the native Email client. I like how BlackBerry broke each account out into their own icon.
- Live Icons - even just little notification indicators on the icon would be great. Would be excellent if it could indicate now many n
ew E-mails I have.
I built my own HTPC, but the hardware appears to be very similar to what you have in your Dell Zino HD.
I am curious, what are the problems you had with the Ati Catalyst driver, and did you ever resolve your issues?
My system is a Jetway NC81-LF ITX board. Onboard Radeon HD 3200, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850e CPU, 4GB DDR2 SODIMM & 30GB 2.5" HDD all retro fit into and old VHS player (I was bored one day). As an aside I plan to upgrade HDD to SSD soon. Whole system is only about 9GB. All media plays over NFS mount from my primary workstation.
I am running Gentoo Linux (kernel 3.2.12, w/gentoo patchset), Catalyst 12.4, Xorg server 1.11.4 and having no issues with any media. I do not, however, use XBMC, but a custom UI I've been working on that calls mplayer (eventually will be open sourced, currently working on integrating Youtube).
I did have to disable the sideport memory on my board though. If it was turned on I got a lot of tearing in video. I also set mplayer lavdopts threads to 2 (one thread per CPU core).
This setup is capable of playing anything I have ever thrown at it, including direct Bluray 1080p rips with no transcoding, even no issues with fast paced scenes (Disney's Cars & Rio).
mplayer config:
[default]
vo=gl
# force audio over HDMI
ao=alsa:device=plughw=1.3
# multithreaded CPU decoding
lavdopts=threads=2
# set languages
alang=en
slang=en
# disable subtitles
sid=999
I am aware this is a discussion of the current legal uses of Bittorrent, I offer an off perspective to the idea of embracing the free P2P distribution channels.
We need more legal digital distribution avenues. Period.
The huge media corporations are screaming bloody murder but they refuse to back down on things like DRM and content regions. If they were to embrace the "free bandwidth" that Bittorrent provides they would not be crying about record breaking profits in years.
What if there were a service for those of us falling through the cracks who _honestly_ want to pay for the things they download "illegally." A service where I could purchase a license to obtain a specific media by any avenue I choose to pursue (aka. Bittorrent, Gnutella network, In the back alley, etc).
If a company (or media conglomerate) were to open up shop online. Its role would be to sell customers a license to view the content and provide you with a bill of sale (that I would hope would hold up in Court if the situation were to arise), thereby authorizing you to obtain the media via P2P. Overhead for the business would be _very_ minimal, as your customers are also the content distributors and could probably sell licenses at insanely low prices. For example: $5 full CD album, $5-10 full length movie and profit themselves $1-$2.50 after transaction costs, etc. With over 500 Million people in North America, I am sure even capturing less than 1% could make it a worth while business model.
I would be interested in such a service if it existed. As all other options seems to be out of reach for me. I am sure there are others out there who feel the same.
I _want_ to pay for the media I download, but it has to be reasonable and not encumbered with DRM. Not everyones situation is the same but my situation is so: No movie rental stores in town (since Blockbuster Canada went under, as well Rogers Video closed many of its locations). Purchasing a movie is usually fruitless endeavour as you are still bombarded with ads you can't skip and lets face it, optical media is going the way of the do do bird. Living in Canada, I don't have access to Hulu and Netflix is very limited (I also don't have the right hardware or software configuration to use it, but that's just me). Amazon Instant Video doesn't exist in Canada.
Regarding the business model and potential profits... 528,000,000 million people in North America. Lets say 0.05% (around 264,000 people) of that market were to participate in such a service. If those 264,000 people are willing to spend $15-$20/month on media (like I am), they could potentially gross $3,960,000+ to $5,280,000+ per month. In perspective it is not a lot of money considering how much media companies make, but why not at least attempt to collect my money? Instead of calling me a pirate, embrace the free distribution channel of P2P.
The ability to to "buy a license, download wherever" at very reasonable cost (remember distribution cost is literally nothing, the "pirates" are doing the work for you) in lieu of living in fear of being sued into oblivion I really think such a system could flourish.
Any thoughts by the more enlightened? I am not a lawyer, just a man who is frustrated with his current options to consume media.
Its hard to guarantee that all the codecs that you will be using will be GPU accelerated, especially so if you are stacked up on a Linux distro, so the E-series and Atoms are not really a solution that I recommend.
I do use Linux. Gentoo, to be precise. I am not sure what you mean when referring to Linux there. Could you please clarify?
Do you have any recommendations as I am looking at building an HTPC. No capture or anything fancy, I have a huge media Library on my main PC I will mount over NFS. I had an idea to build a "retro" system into an old VHS player I have shoved in the basement. Space is very adequate, I could probably pack a full ATX PSU in there with plenty of room to spare with an ITX board. Looking to spend around $300 (Canadian, considering we pay more here for everything, my budget would be around $250 USD). Am looking at SSD. Knowing Gentoo takes very little space and media will be housed elsewhere, I'm thinking a 60GB SSD. 30GB drives seem to have gone the way of the do-do.
Any info would be helpful!
Thanks.
So far I have seen no mention of it, but would this not make a great HTPC platform?
Very low powered CPU but a tank of a GPU sounds great to me... Especially when your box is idling.
Any thoughts from someone more knowlegable? I'm still like 5 generations behind running an AMD X2 5200+.
I count three prior to your post.
You either need to type faster or reload the page before deciding to comment.
When people use such stupid passwords, is it really even considered hacking anymore?
Conversely, does calling this hacking diminish the skills of those who actually know their security inside and out?
Clearly you didn't read the summary or watch the video (or read the title for that matter?)
The Tesla Model S is around $60K, and is a sedan.
The Tesla Roadster is around $120K, and is a two seater sport car.
Please read before posting.
I am betting you haven't tinkered with Android 4.0 then...
Sometimes I wish slashdot had a "like" button.
Fake, eh?
Considering Canada is larger than the USA.
Go f--- yourself. Fascist asshole.
Considering I live in Canada, why the f--- would I be protesting Wall Street?
I have a job. Two if you count my side-job of web design.
I also have a family I have to feed, and spending $100 for something I really didn't need at the time was a no brainer.
I'll 1-up you.
I, too, missed the first sale... Only because I didn't have $100 at the time.
When it came back around with the refurbished models on eBay I was surprised (read: pissed) to find that they did not ship to Canada.
If you pay 299 for a phone, you're a sucker plain and simple.
I paid $149.95(+taxes) with no contract agreement for my Samsung Galaxy Gio (S5660M). Decent phone for the price.
"Siri, Don't sue. Confirm.", Siri, "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave."
That's fine and all, but my name is not Dave..
Sounds like firefox is being swapped out when you let it sit and isn't being brought back into RAM properly, either because of other applications you are running are consuming more than firefox needs or there is some kind of bug. I have never experienced such a bug. I have had the odd crash but nothing lately. Currently running FF 7.0.1
I have never, ever seen Firefox consume more than 300MB of RAM on any machine I've ever used it on. My workstation has 6GB RAM, AMD Athlon X2 5200+. On a regular basis I have upto 3-4 Windows with upto 2-10 tabs open at any given time.
Every system is different, there are too many factors to try to figure out what is causing the problem. You're talking about a piece of software that runs on virtually any x86-based machine, as well as few other architectures. Not to mention most operating systems, Win/Mac/Linux/BSD and a few others.. there are bound to be configurations that cause issues... as with any piece of software.
GP is right though, submit some information to the bug tracker. Complaining on slashdot is not going to get you anywhere.
taking fake antivirus to the next level next time just say you work for best buy / a 3th party for the geek squad.
I am not familiar with this 3th, is it some kind of drink?
</sarcasm>
There is no way this will get passed... come on over! We have excellent beer!
Now the real question is, do I also own the IP the domain name is pointing to if I have a static IP address, or am I leasing it?
I know I shouldn't feed the A/C trolls, but...
NO you stupid fuck, the parent poster is talking about the cost of becoming a Certificate Authority and getiing your CA certificates in vendors browsers to be recognised!
If you actually read their post, you'll see that they specifically say "as a consequence the price for certificates is too high".
That is what I was responding to. :-)
The last cert I bought was $20 USD (for one year), it was domain only validation but it provides the encrypted level without the bullshit warning you get with a self-signed cert.
Consumers don't care what kind of SSL cert you have, most don't even care if you have one, but those who know the sites you shop on need one, they don't care what kind.