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An Essay On Subscription Television 306

Posted by kdawson from the wishes-and-horses dept.
dpu writes "Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable? This is a short essay on the current and past state of subscription television, and a hope for the future. It skips a lot of points that the thinkers among us might care about, but it does the math and drives a nail into Big Content's pinky toe."
Data Storage

Submission + - Back Up Linux And Windows Systems With BackupPC

Submitted by
hausmasta
hausmasta writes: "This tutorial shows how you can back up Linux and Windows systems with BackupPC. BackupPC acts as a server and is installed on a Linux system, and from there it can connect to all Linux and Windows systems in your local network to back them up and restore them without interfering with the user's work on that system. On the clients minimal to no configuration is needed. BackupPC supports full and incremental backups, and it comes with a neat web frontend for the administrator and normal user so that backups and recoveries can be managed through a web browser. It should be noted, however, that BackupPC does file-based backups, not bit-wise backups like Ghost4Linux, for example, so it is not made for disk/partition imaging.

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc"
Google

Submission + - eSommelier Server: Like Gracenote for Wine

Submitted by
Julie Jacobson
Julie Jacobson writes: "It can be so tedious to chronicle an oenophile's collection — entering the wine region, vintage, price, not to mention the location of bottles in the cellar. eSommelier has been offering an automated solution for a couple of years that lets collectors easily find and catalog their bottles. Recently, the company added two key features to the wine management system: the ability to pluck images of wine labels from Google Images, and the linking to wine-related information from erobertparker.com. Simply scan your bottle with the barcode scanner and all the information becomes instantly available via touchscreen or a networked PC."
Quickies

Submission + - PlayStation 3 Tear down

Submitted by
larytet
larytet writes: "iSuppli (El Segundo, Calif.) reports, that Sony is taking a considerable loss of at least $240 per unit on each PlayStation 3 video gaming console, according to the "teardown" analysis conducted by the company.

"With the PlayStation 3, you are getting the performance of a supercomputer at the price of an entry-level PC," said Andrew Rassweiler, teardown services manager and senior analyst for iSuppli.

Rassweiler said the PS3 is so costly to produce mainly because of its "incredible" processing power. "If someone had shown me the PlayStation 3 motherboard from afar without telling me what it was, I would have assumed it was for a network switch or an enterprise server"

According to Rassweiler, prior to PS3, iSuppli's teardown analysis team had seen only three chips with 1,200 or more pins in its five-year history. "The PlayStation 3 has three such semiconductors all by itself," Rassweiler said. "There is nothing cheap about the PlayStation 3 design. This is not an adapted PC design. Even beyond the major chips in the PlayStation 3, the other components seem to also be expensive and somewhat exotic."

See also fresh update of PlayStation_3/How to install Linux page on Wikipedia"
Programming

Submission + - Apache Derby databases, Part 1: Converged provider

Submitted by BlueVoodoo
BlueVoodoo writes: This article, Part 1, introduces the growing need for automated IT management, which is facilitated by the centralization and consolidation of applications, data centers, and front- and back-office functions. Discover how you can use Derby as a managed element, including working with the database's unified utilization and management requirements and how using FCAPS can help you design an IT management solution.
Linux Business

Submission + - What Ever Happened to the Linux Beer Walk?

Submitted by Greyfox
Greyfox writes: A few years back I tried to sell my manager at IBM on the idea of sending me to the Linux Beer Walk on the company dime. Well he wasn't particularly keen on the idea for some reason but I'm working at a new company now and am set to try again! However... there doesn't seem to be a Linux Beer Walk that I can pitch anymore! Whatever happened to that event and will there ever be another?
Privacy

Submission + - Australian govt draft: piracy stats are made up

Submitted by
koregaonpark
koregaonpark writes: "A private draft prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology for the Attorney-General's Department says that piracy stats aren't backed up by fact and that copyright holders 'failed to explain' how they came up with financial loss figures. The draft questions whether the techniques used by copyright holders (record companies etc.) to determine piracy statistics are valid and if the data they come up with is accurate."
Republicans

Submission + - Dead woman wins county commissioner's race

Submitted by smparadox
smparadox writes:
"A woman who died two months ago won a county commissioner's race in Jerauld County yesterday.
Democrat Marie Steichen, of Woonsocket, got 100 votes, defeating incumbent Republican Merlin Feistner, of Woonsocket, who had 64 votes."
According to the article, voters knew that she was dead and just wanted a change. How much must it suck to be the Incumbent who lost that face-off?

Google CEO — Take Your Data and Run 116

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the web-two-point-oh-no-there-goes-our-monopoly dept.
BobB writes to tell us that Google is promising to make the data they store for end users more portable and is urging other companies to do the same. From the article: "Making it simple for users to walk away from a Google service with which they are unhappy keeps the company honest and on its toes, and Google competitors should embrace this data portability principle, Eric Schmidt said at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco."

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