jermy

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by jermy 14y ago
You can get a similar effect, but in a different manner, with attempting to plug a CD or MP3 player into certain mixing desks. The obvious approach, when you have a 3.5mm (1/8") stereo jack from the device, to attach it into one of the 1/4"
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by jermy 14y ago
Supermicro's equivalent IPMI remote access (iKVM) is also Java
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by jermy 15y ago
Indeed - in this particular series (The Night's Dawn Trilogy) space warfare was conducted at very long range by kinetic drones, fired from spherical ships.
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by jermy 15y ago
Ah, apologies, I'll eat my hat (or buy you a beer sometime - you folks Covent Garden based?). I had assumed Kompressor also handled REDCODE with its hardware requirements, as well the Avid Connection Manager and other Quicktime codecs.
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by jermy 15y ago
The REDCODE format is proprietary - any of the above need to have the Red quicktime or AMA plugin to access the content. For amusement, see 'Baselight Kompressor' for what a linux-based grading system has to do to handle red content.
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by jermy 15y ago
As only a minor nitpick (my excuse is that this is my day job), you've got it the wrong way round - REDCODE is actually storing data as RGB, whereas 'every other camera' is almost certainly using a MPEG-based codec and storing it as YUV wit
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by jermy 15y ago
It depends on your use case - either you accept there is a write hole that the update wont appear until that host comes back online and other hosts can relay the change, or you add application-level checking to not return to the user in the
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by jermy 15y ago
I like Slide 251: 'solve it at the application layer' :) I'm part of a team responsible for cloud-based video editing software. We use multi-master replication (perhaps also known as optimistic replication) with our own tools throughout, bu
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by jermy 15y ago
Because the newer login system requires you to move away from having any easy to remember username (eg. someperson) that only needs to be unique on a particular Basecamp instance, to picking a harder to remember new username (eg. someperson
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by jermy 16y ago
What is described is already reality - I see it every day. I work for a company writing its own video codecs, who have a format that downloads a 70KB jar file before streaming the video. It's a Java applet (and still supports Java 1.1 - we'
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by jermy 16y ago
True, although I often fall into a worse trap when that 'Get back to work!' message comes up by seeing what's on Reddit instead.
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by jermy 16y ago
Odd that SSDs aren't mentioned in the article at all - they would mostly avoid many of the criticisms levelled at disks without requiring redevelopment
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by jermy 17y ago
Yes, producing encoded content would indeed require you to have a licence. But, if you're running such a service, at least licences are cheap (even if the pricing model is still set around the concept of hardware devices).
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by jermy 17y ago
A recent paper uses it to model the UK Motorway network - http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3967 Any references to the work on using slime to mimic the UK rail network that you mentioned? The best I could find was the following from http://www.s
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by jermy 17y ago
Quite. This'll be an awesome addition to the python toolbox when a diagnostic tool is built around it. Just in case anybody else is new to jython and wants to give Steve's HTML indexing demo a go: $ mkdir google-indexer && cd go
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by jermy 17y ago
The main 'problem' is that you'll still require an MPEG licence for encoding and decoding. Once you've bought one and abide by the usual LGPL rules (don't claim ownership, make source & changes available if distributing) then there shou
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by jermy 17y ago
video playback and compression is sufficiently cool, and could benefit from optimisation. Have a look to see if any help is needed in the ffmpeg tree at the moment.
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by jermy 17y ago
I've had good experiences of using DKMS under Debian for 3rd-party proprietary driver modules that recompiles as necessary when updating to a new kernel.
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by jermy 17y ago
Ah, they must be fans of Peter F. Hamilton. I wonder if they have they started growing Bitek yet?
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by jermy 17y ago
A sysadmin friend of mine swears by xapply - although it is largely a BSD-only application (and tricky to build on linux, to say the least) it appears to have been the inspiration for xargs's -P option.
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by jermy 17y ago
We use an absolute minimum in terms of packaging (#) - after all, we don't need to don't need to go out of our way to make it easy to re-build. Packages are mostly C/C++ and python apps, so fortunately none of the extra issues with Java pac
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by jermy 17y ago
We use puppet for configuration that varies between systems, but otherwise bundle our software as debian packages so just need to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' per machine. Separate private repositories for testing/staging/production sets of t
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by jermy 17y ago
Sorry, I would really be using a proper RFC 2104 HMAC implementation (eg. python's hmac module).
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by jermy 17y ago
So, is there much to be gained from encryption anyway? If, as the candidate, I suggested sending a cookie as 'userId=39493&role=user&timestamp=1414919&hash=<sha256-of-key-with-data>' then would I lose brownie points? I a
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by jermy 17y ago
No, that's easy. It's a shower in french. Right?
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by jermy 17y ago
It (Basecamp) is simple enough that our clients can use it. Enough said.
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by jermy 17y ago
It's only being suggested that Rails ties your website structure to your internal database model more than Django does, and that might be less ideal for your users.
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by jermy 17y ago
At least one of those loops in the 2-loop version should be backwards... :)
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by jermy 17y ago
Less clear-cut than the future plans for the database servers are those for Sun's ZFS and Oracle's BtrFS. Are they likely to continue development in parallel, or might the licence on ZFS be changed and development merged?