Not sure what are good options these days - I still have my WDs, as I only found out about the No Linux thing when visiting WD's pages to find out why IO through-put would die regularly (every n seconds they come to a full-stop). It is supposedly possible to fix my drives by flashing them with a different firmware, but that requires Windows or DOS.
For OS I'm using SSDs because they generate less noise and heat. Rotating drives are good for size/storage, so I'm surviving.
For future builds (Contemplating rebuilding home-server), I am considering some disks from Seagate, which are designed for always-on systems. I don't need through-put, so low rotation-speeds are oki, as long as they dont completely stop randomly.
I love (and hate) SIP but it's rare you'll get as good call quality as Skype. Both ends need a wideband codec which is rare.
I have never experienced anything but piss-poor audio-quality with Skype. Both when going Skype-to-Skype on LAN (tested from my computer to wife's), on VPN, via inet or when people call using Skype-out. Meanwhile, with SIP, we generally have good quality, unless Internal IT or Management again F'd up networking.
That aside, I can certainly see Skype soon becoming crippled in some way or other on anything that's not Windows 7+
I have it on Mac OSX - I can tell you it is already crippled. Features missing, whole releases missing, insane resource-requirements (firefox'ishly poor resource-requirements)
I have actually had to tell people to not participate in Conference Calls using Skype-out (or whatever) due to severely poor audio-quality.
I know 60-65% (depending on source) speaks Flemish - I work in Flanderen, I understand/read/partially speak dutch - Doesn't change that No Matter what I do, I have to use French when dealing with my local Municipality (Inside the larger Brussels area), government, when going to stores, when getting letters from just about anything. Fuck it, the university-hospital I went to recently had ALL signs in French, and only some in dutch.
Except you are dead wrong
No, I am not wrong: French is required if you want to live in Belgium - Even registering as a foreigner in Belgium is done in French! (Note: My observations are based on living in Brussels for half a decade; a place where French and Dutch are both legally equal, and where companies are required by law to offer their services in both languages)
French IS the Lingua Franca in Belgium, even if 60% or more speaks natively Dutch/Flemish, simply because most people knows and uses French.
Note: Reason you don't have a government is due to the political system of having Flemish and Waloon parties, and having the 2 groups given 50% of the seats. if parties were based on political topics, and you had proportional representation, you wouldn't have automated deadlocks:)
If you SELL the game used, you'll get 10 USD less from the store, who'll have to sell it 10 USD cheaper on to the next person to offset the 10 USD Sony will be demanding. Admittedly, it may end up that that the store resells the used game at the current rate, but pretty sure they'll use this as an excuse to pay less for the used game.
NURPA (Net Users' Rights Protection Association, active in Belgium and Europe to fight against ACTA for example) says it's stupid, useless, and in conflict with the European Court of Justice's decision about what, when and how filtering may be legitimate. (answer : never when it is about Intellectual Property)
Never heard of them and the fact that their website is only in 1 of the 3 official languages of the country makes me suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere.
Given that my local Belgian municipality's website is (was? not checked recently) available in 1 (French) of the 2 official languages in the region, that Belgian Rail only communicates in French, that Mobistar, MacDonald and several others only recognizes French in their stores and that everything I receive from the Belgian government is in French no-matter what, I "suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere" - or that French in simply the lingua franca in Belgium. (note: I live in Brussels, but am not Belgian, speaking a few germanic languages, but not really speaking French)
I'm on the Beta, so I'm getting updates ca weekly - I can say that 5+6 didn't go so well, but since then it has either been improvements, or "blah" (twitter-search? really??). Overall, last several updates have been all-good.
For work-work, I'd prefer my Blackberry 9000, if it wasn't insanely unstable (only surpassed by HTC phones!) - nothing else I've seen is able to keep up on that front. Our corporate rules state that we can choose between Blackberry or Nokia (to force people to use BB?), while exec team can use iPhone... and I've seen execs go back to their BB after finding that their iPhone just wasnt good enough.
I think it is a question of use-pattern, but current "smart-phones" just doesn't seem to be up to it, when it comes to actual, real-life, honest work.
(Note: I am currently contemplating getting an Xperia Pro, if Sony-Ericsson decides to release it)
I got a mental image while reading your post: Automated foam-missile turrets of the office-toys type, with the missiles replaced with tazers - brand new child-protection effort to show we take security serious. For some reason, those super-imposed on the memory of the daycare my first-born went to, did not scare/concern me....
heh - but I think most of these could employ their skills in a smaller forum. In fact, I think a lot of them assumes that it is the sole location their skills can be used, while being blind to all other facts.
This is the sort of thing I think of when people in magasine interviews say they want to move to Holywood: They probably don't know how well they have here in Sane World, what with our consumer protection laws and health systems.
Unless they are fragments of earth, having been thrown into space when earth in its young days was being bombarded with things from space. (see various theories about the formation of the Moon)
While reading this, I received notification from Firefox that an update was available. Was thinking "That was quick!", but alas - is a fix for reducing memory footprint.
once you get away from paper, you lose one of the current fundamental obstacles to increasing the extent and power of bureaucracy, namely, that someone has to keep track of all the paperwork and some place has to be found to store it.
You don't work in government, I think - the stories I hear from the EU, what with them being mostly paperless, are of excessive workloads handling non-paper-based documents.
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Not sure what are good options these days - I still have my WDs, as I only found out about the No Linux thing when visiting WD's pages to find out why IO through-put would die regularly (every n seconds they come to a full-stop).
It is supposedly possible to fix my drives by flashing them with a different firmware, but that requires Windows or DOS.
For OS I'm using SSDs because they generate less noise and heat. Rotating drives are good for size/storage, so I'm surviving.
For future builds (Contemplating rebuilding home-server), I am considering some disks from Seagate, which are designed for always-on systems. I don't need through-put, so low rotation-speeds are oki, as long as they dont completely stop randomly.
Try to order some WD RE drives
Why would you? WD are quite clear that they support Windows only, and you'll apparently get craptastic performance on anything free/libre.
Best. Joke. Ever!
Do as I did: Previous boss asked what kind of chair I wanted - I pointed as his (cost: USD 1000,-) chair.
2 weeks later, it arrived.
Couldn't you just take a few byte-values from the webcam's output? Place it in the school-yard, and colour/light input should be relatively random.
Text above pictures says to click-drag mouse on pictures - tried, but except cursor changings to some stange arrow'y thingy, nothing happens.
I love (and hate) SIP but it's rare you'll get as good call quality as Skype. Both ends need a wideband codec which is rare.
I have never experienced anything but piss-poor audio-quality with Skype. Both when going Skype-to-Skype on LAN (tested from my computer to wife's), on VPN, via inet or when people call using Skype-out.
Meanwhile, with SIP, we generally have good quality, unless Internal IT or Management again F'd up networking.
That aside, I can certainly see Skype soon becoming crippled in some way or other on anything that's not Windows 7+
I have it on Mac OSX - I can tell you it is already crippled. Features missing, whole releases missing, insane resource-requirements (firefox'ishly poor resource-requirements)
I have actually had to tell people to not participate in Conference Calls using Skype-out (or whatever) due to severely poor audio-quality.
I know 60-65% (depending on source) speaks Flemish - I work in Flanderen, I understand/read/partially speak dutch - Doesn't change that No Matter what I do, I have to use French when dealing with my local Municipality (Inside the larger Brussels area), government, when going to stores, when getting letters from just about anything. Fuck it, the university-hospital I went to recently had ALL signs in French, and only some in dutch.
Except you are dead wrong
No, I am not wrong: French is required if you want to live in Belgium - Even registering as a foreigner in Belgium is done in French!
(Note: My observations are based on living in Brussels for half a decade; a place where French and Dutch are both legally equal, and where companies are required by law to offer their services in both languages)
French IS the Lingua Franca in Belgium, even if 60% or more speaks natively Dutch/Flemish, simply because most people knows and uses French.
Note: Reason you don't have a government is due to the political system of having Flemish and Waloon parties, and having the 2 groups given 50% of the seats. if parties were based on political topics, and you had proportional representation, you wouldn't have automated deadlocks :)
Think that might be backward...
If you SELL the game used, you'll get 10 USD less from the store, who'll have to sell it 10 USD cheaper on to the next person to offset the 10 USD Sony will be demanding.
Admittedly, it may end up that that the store resells the used game at the current rate, but pretty sure they'll use this as an excuse to pay less for the used game.
NURPA (Net Users' Rights Protection Association, active in Belgium and Europe to fight against ACTA for example) says it's stupid, useless, and in conflict with the European Court of Justice's decision about what, when and how filtering may be legitimate. (answer : never when it is about Intellectual Property)
Never heard of them and the fact that their website is only in 1 of the 3 official languages of the country makes me suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere.
Given that my local Belgian municipality's website is (was? not checked recently) available in 1 (French) of the 2 official languages in the region, that Belgian Rail only communicates in French, that Mobistar, MacDonald and several others only recognizes French in their stores and that everything I receive from the Belgian government is in French no-matter what, I "suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere" - or that French in simply the lingua franca in Belgium.
(note: I live in Brussels, but am not Belgian, speaking a few germanic languages, but not really speaking French)
Any rule on how the key is deposited with the govt.?
I'm on the Beta, so I'm getting updates ca weekly - I can say that 5+6 didn't go so well, but since then it has either been improvements, or "blah" (twitter-search? really??). Overall, last several updates have been all-good.
After Copenhagen rolled out driver-less trains in the Metro, one of our lead developers declared he wouldn't use the Metro.
For work-work, I'd prefer my Blackberry 9000, if it wasn't insanely unstable (only surpassed by HTC phones!) - nothing else I've seen is able to keep up on that front. ... and I've seen execs go back to their BB after finding that their iPhone just wasnt good enough.
Our corporate rules state that we can choose between Blackberry or Nokia (to force people to use BB?), while exec team can use iPhone
I think it is a question of use-pattern, but current "smart-phones" just doesn't seem to be up to it, when it comes to actual, real-life, honest work.
(Note: I am currently contemplating getting an Xperia Pro, if Sony-Ericsson decides to release it)
"FSM Be Praised"
This is from the fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia.
...which misspelled Chile con carne :)
I got a mental image while reading your post: Automated foam-missile turrets of the office-toys type, with the missiles replaced with tazers - brand new child-protection effort to show we take security serious. For some reason, those super-imposed on the memory of the daycare my first-born went to, did not scare/concern me....
You would have to hire one teacher per child, and handcuff each pair together, to solve the issue
Simples: Daisy Chain!
heh - but I think most of these could employ their skills in a smaller forum. In fact, I think a lot of them assumes that it is the sole location their skills can be used, while being blind to all other facts.
This is the sort of thing I think of when people in magasine interviews say they want to move to Holywood: They probably don't know how well they have here in Sane World, what with our consumer protection laws and health systems.
Unless they are fragments of earth, having been thrown into space when earth in its young days was being bombarded with things from space.
(see various theories about the formation of the Moon)
Aha! :)
While reading this, I received notification from Firefox that an update was available. Was thinking "That was quick!", but alas - is a fix for reducing memory footprint.
once you get away from paper, you lose one of the current fundamental obstacles to increasing the extent and power of bureaucracy, namely, that someone has to keep track of all the paperwork and some place has to be found to store it.
You don't work in government, I think - the stories I hear from the EU, what with them being mostly paperless, are of excessive workloads handling non-paper-based documents.
I thought it was Lord Of The Rings In Space :)