I've been using Snapstream BeyondTV for 4 years. I started first with a Hauppauge SD tuner card. I now have a Happaugue HD-PVR, a Motorola HD FiOS box and change channels with a USB-UIRT. The Motorola HD box connects the HD-PVR with component video and optical SPDIF cables. The HD-PVR connects to my Win7-x64 system via USB.
BeyondTV downloads the TV guide, manages the recording schedule and controls the HD-PVR and Motorola HD box with the USB-UIRT. The recording format is an H.264 transport stream (the file type is.tp) which uses about 3.6 GB per hour on the HD-High quality setting. These files are readily burned to a Blu-ray disk without re-encoding. The system is completely seamless.
My next step is to configure a DLNA enabled LG Blu-ray player in my living room to which I can stream the recorded files.
The Photographer's Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the Bust Card and the Know Your Rights pamphlet that used to be available on the ACLU website. It may be downloaded and printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may make copies and carry them your wallet, pocket, or camera bag to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others, provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author.
How to Handle Confrontations Most confrontations can be defused by being courteous and respectful. If the party becomes pushy, combative, or unreasonably hostile, consider calling the police. Above all, use good judgment and don't allow an event to escalate into violence.
In the event you are threatened with detention or asked to surrender your film, asking the following questions can help ensure that you will have the evidence to enforce your legal rights:
1. What is the person's name? 2. Who is their employer? 3. Are you free to leave? If not, how do they intend to stop you if you decide to leave? What legal basis do they assert for the detention? 4. Likewise, if they demand your film, what legal basis do they assert for the confiscation?
I went to the NSA Cryptologic Museum back in 2002 while I was reading Cryptonomicon. Not only did they have Enigma machines, one exhibit had an Enigma out in the open that anyone could experiment with. The exhibits I was most impressed with were the Japanese encryption machines, Jade and Purple. These machines are quite rare and even the machines in these exhibits were incomplete.
SIGSALY was also interesting - I didn't know that voice encryption was possible during WWII.
I also found it amusing that they had a Connection Machines CM5. Sure, the CM 5's blinkin' lights are cool! But it was personally funny to me because my future brother-in-law used to work for Connection Machines and had a hand in their design and consturction. After I got home, I said to him, "Hey Sam, I saw some of your handy work in the NSA's museum".
The volunteers working at the museum were all retired NSA or military intelligence. These guys actually worked with some of the equipment on display and could expertly explain technical details.
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I'm waiting for smashmyH2.com. I'd cheer and even donate cash to take a few whacks with the sledgehammer myself.
Yes, I know the site exists, but it's not what I hoped it would be.
We installed Sophos PureMessage for UNIX about a month ago on our postfix SMTP gateways. The performance has been outstanding and provides web management user interfaces. Note that we specifically chose an AntiSpam/AntiVirus solution for our SMTP gateway servers different from our enterprise AntiVirus solution (we run McAfee GroupShield on Exchange and McAfee Enterprise 8i on our desktops and servers).
Uh, the original title of the post was "Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions?" That's what MPankau asked for, and that's what we gave him. All the questions asked are good, but they're only meta to the original question.
There are 3 major manufacturers of LTO2 drives: HP, IBM and Quantum. HP actually makes the LTO2 drives in my StorageTEK SL-500. The company we acquired last September also uses STK libraries (L80, L40 and 3 L20's) all of which have HP drives.
We use HP LTO2 drives and have only replaced one over the past year. I recommend buying a support contract with StorageTEK (or whoever your vendor is). STK replaced the drive for free the same day it failed.
Does anybody have information on the performance of IBM drives?
We run Veritas NetBackup Enterprise 5.0 Maintenance Pack 5 for UNIX and need to find time to upgrade to v6.0 MP 1. We run a master/media server at HQ on a SunFire 280R with 3 dual channel LVD SCSI cards and 2 GB RAM plus copper gigabit into our network core.
We also have 2 media servers in Atlanta and Bangalore running AIT3 on Windows 2003 Standard also gigabit connected. Backups through these media servers are much, much slower than the LTO2 backups.
I'm shocked and amazed that my former professor won an Ig in Physics.
I graduated from UCONN in 1990 with a Bachelor's in Psychology. Dr. Turvey taught perhaps the most interesting class in my experience at UCONN: Learning Theory. The department at that time was in split into factions, one espousing the usual sensation drives perception while the other (led by Dr. Turvey) held that direct perception was a better model. Interesting note, the direct perception group was using hard science and mathematics to prove their theories, something very unusual for what is perceived to be a "soft science".
BTW, does anybody know why the Ig ceremony is off schedule this year? They are usually held on the first Thursday of October, but in this case were held on the last Thursday of September.
Wonder why they decided against using them, especially considering that the BBC has some experience with OGG - they used to have some live radio streams running it.
Of course the stream is clear in the US. The BBC had bandwidth to die for. I've been listening to BBC 6Music for months from just outside Boston. The programming is much better than anything we get in the US, with the possible exception of KCRW.
To the US's credit, there were attempts to try and help Pyongyang out of this dead-end situation, by offering assistance in building reactors that were more efficient and would not produce weapons-grade materials. Unfortunatley, the Clinton administration never came good with their promises, and then the Bush administration came into power and... well, you know the rest.
The point of this plan was to prevent nuclear proliferation. Whether or not the light water reactors actually ever got built was irrelevant to this point.
I actually got my current SysAdmin job on SysAdmin Appreciation day two years ago. I had been unemployed for 4 months, which was not bad considering the Boston regional economy.
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I've been using Snapstream BeyondTV for 4 years. I started first with a Hauppauge SD tuner card. I now have a Happaugue HD-PVR, a Motorola HD FiOS box and change channels with a USB-UIRT. The Motorola HD box connects the HD-PVR with component video and optical SPDIF cables. The HD-PVR connects to my Win7-x64 system via USB.
.tp) which uses about 3.6 GB per hour on the HD-High quality setting. These files are readily burned to a Blu-ray disk without re-encoding. The system is completely seamless.
BeyondTV downloads the TV guide, manages the recording schedule and controls the HD-PVR and Motorola HD box with the USB-UIRT. The recording format is an H.264 transport stream (the file type is
My next step is to configure a DLNA enabled LG Blu-ray player in my living room to which I can stream the recorded files.
A Downloadable Flyer Explaining Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography
© 2006 Bert P. Krages II
The Photographer's Right is a downloadable guide that is loosely based on the Bust Card and the Know Your Rights pamphlet that used to be available on the ACLU website. It may be downloaded and printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may make copies and carry them your wallet, pocket, or camera bag to give you quick access to your rights and obligations concerning confrontations over photography. You may distribute the guide to others, provided that such distribution is not done for commercial gain and credit is given to the author.
http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf
How to Handle Confrontations
Most confrontations can be defused by being courteous and respectful. If the party becomes pushy, combative, or unreasonably hostile, consider calling the police. Above all, use good judgment and don't allow an event to escalate into violence.
In the event you are threatened with detention or asked to surrender your film, asking the following questions can help ensure that you will have the evidence to enforce your legal rights:
1. What is the person's name?
2. Who is their employer?
3. Are you free to leave? If not, how do they intend to stop you if you decide to leave? What legal basis do they assert for the detention?
4. Likewise, if they demand your film, what legal basis do they assert for the confiscation?
I went to the NSA Cryptologic Museum back in 2002 while I was reading Cryptonomicon. Not only did they have Enigma machines, one exhibit had an Enigma out in the open that anyone could experiment with. The exhibits I was most impressed with were the Japanese encryption machines, Jade and Purple. These machines are quite rare and even the machines in these exhibits were incomplete.
SIGSALY was also interesting - I didn't know that voice encryption was possible during WWII.
I also found it amusing that they had a Connection Machines CM5. Sure, the CM 5's blinkin' lights are cool! But it was personally funny to me because my future brother-in-law used to work for Connection Machines and had a hand in their design and consturction. After I got home, I said to him, "Hey Sam, I saw some of your handy work in the NSA's museum".
The volunteers working at the museum were all retired NSA or military intelligence. These guys actually worked with some of the equipment on display and could expertly explain technical details.
I'm waiting for smashmyH2.com. I'd cheer and even donate cash to take a few whacks with the sledgehammer myself.
Yes, I know the site exists, but it's not what I hoped it would be.
We installed Sophos PureMessage for UNIX about a month ago on our postfix SMTP gateways. The performance has been outstanding and provides web management user interfaces. Note that we specifically chose an AntiSpam/AntiVirus solution for our SMTP gateway servers different from our enterprise AntiVirus solution (we run McAfee GroupShield on Exchange and McAfee Enterprise 8i on our desktops and servers).
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Since a UNIX server is not an option (though the web management interface may change that), you might want to take a look at PureMessage for Exchange:
http://www.sophos.com/products/es/gateway/pm-wind
Sophos offers a 30 day evaluation:
http://www.sophos.com/products/eval/
BTW, prior to Sophos PMX, we were using SpamAssassin.
Uh, the original title of the post was "Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions?" That's what MPankau asked for, and that's what we gave him. All the questions asked are good, but they're only meta to the original question.
There are 3 major manufacturers of LTO2 drives: HP, IBM and Quantum. HP actually makes the LTO2 drives in my StorageTEK SL-500. The company we acquired last September also uses STK libraries (L80, L40 and 3 L20's) all of which have HP drives.
I would never trust my company's data to Iomega. Ever. They simply don't compete in the enterprise market.
And 35 GB is 'a little low'? That's less than 1/10th the capacity of an LTO2 tape's compressed capacity. I can buy prelabeled LTO2 tapes for $38 each.
We use HP LTO2 drives and have only replaced one over the past year. I recommend buying a support contract with StorageTEK (or whoever your vendor is). STK replaced the drive for free the same day it failed.
Does anybody have information on the performance of IBM drives?
We run Veritas NetBackup Enterprise 5.0 Maintenance Pack 5 for UNIX and need to find time to upgrade to v6.0 MP 1. We run a master/media server at HQ on a SunFire 280R with 3 dual channel LVD SCSI cards and 2 GB RAM plus copper gigabit into our network core.
We also have 2 media servers in Atlanta and Bangalore running AIT3 on Windows 2003 Standard also gigabit connected. Backups through these media servers are much, much slower than the LTO2 backups.
I disagree strongly.
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LTO3 is the way to go: 400 GB native 800 GB compressed.
http://www.lto-technology.com/
Look at the StorageTEK SL-500. The library is modular and can be expanded (up to 500 slots and 15 drives) as you requirements dictate.
http://www.storagetek.com/products/product_page22
I run our company HQ on 5 LTO2 drives in 142 slot library. Weekly full backups about 5 TB. Daily incremental backups take another 3-4 TB per week.
I just tried it and the results look very good next to the reference image.
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html
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You've got questions. We've got blank stares.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,11949 7,00.asp
I'm trying this out now on 1.5 Beta - works like a dream on slashdot!
I subscribed back in mid January when the last article ran in Slashdot.
Credit Order in the amount of $34.95.
Your subscription term is for 13 Months.
Your first Issue will be the 3/1/2005 Issue.
You may have to wait a while. In the meantime, I picked up the first issue at Linux World this week.
The car in question was a Renault Vel Satis.
As the Tom and Ray Magliozzi from Car Talk say about car design, "Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but nobody imitates the French".
I know Audi had similar problems in the mid 1980's. I guess the French are imitating 20 year old German design flaw.
I'm shocked and amazed that my former professor won an Ig in Physics.
I graduated from UCONN in 1990 with a Bachelor's in Psychology. Dr. Turvey taught perhaps the most interesting class in my experience at UCONN: Learning Theory. The department at that time was in split into factions, one espousing the usual sensation drives perception while the other (led by Dr. Turvey) held that direct perception was a better model. Interesting note, the direct perception group was using hard science and mathematics to prove their theories, something very unusual for what is perceived to be a "soft science".
BTW, does anybody know why the Ig ceremony is off schedule this year? They are usually held on the first Thursday of October, but in this case were held on the last Thursday of September.
Great! Now if we only had DAB in the US .... I really wish we did.
Wonder why they decided against using them, especially considering that the BBC has some experience with OGG - they used to have some live radio streams running it.
Because the BBC uses Real for the vast, overwhelming majority of their streams.
The ZBS Foundation originally produced Jack Flanders radio dramas. You can buy them here.
I found the Jack Flanders series again about 2 years ago after searching for them for years. I'm now the proud owner of a copy of Moon Over Morocco.
Enjoy!
The original radio series has been available as a CD box set for years. A friend bought them for me back in 1993. I found them at Amazon's UK site.
Of course the stream is clear in the US. The BBC had bandwidth to die for. I've been listening to BBC 6Music for months from just outside Boston. The programming is much better than anything we get in the US, with the possible exception of KCRW.
To the US's credit, there were attempts to try and help Pyongyang out of this dead-end situation, by offering assistance in building reactors that were more efficient and would not produce weapons-grade materials. Unfortunatley, the Clinton administration never came good with their promises, and then the Bush administration came into power and... well, you know the rest.
The point of this plan was to prevent nuclear proliferation. Whether or not the light water reactors actually ever got built was irrelevant to this point.
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I actually got my current SysAdmin job on SysAdmin Appreciation day two years ago. I had been unemployed for 4 months, which was not bad considering the Boston regional economy.