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Sun, 24 Aug 2008
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I'm preparing a new release of MythNetTV, and would like some help testing the code, as I have re-factored how the user interface works and there is some risk that I have broken things in the process. You can get the code like this:
svn co http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/svn
That will create a directory called mythnettv, with a subdirectory named trunk, which is the latest development version of the code. You should probably create that directory somewhere where you don't mind a new directory being created.
The biggest change is that the command line syntax has changed slightly -- the dashes have been removed from the commands. Therefore, to update your list of feeds, you now use:
mythnettv update
Instead of:
mythnettv --update
And so on. This was done so that I could add "real" flags, which are used to change default values like where the database configuration is read from, as well as what the default location for the temporary data directory is.
"Real" flags which are currently supported are:
--datadirdefault: The default location of the data directory
(default: 'data')
--db_host: The name of the host the MySQL database is on,
don't define if you want to parse
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
(default: '')
--db_name: The name of the database which MythNetTV uses,
don't define if you want to parse
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
(default: '')
--db_password: The password for the database user, don't
define if you want to parse
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
(default: '')
--db_user: The name of the user to connect to the database
with, don't define if you want to parse
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt instead
(default: '')
--[no]commflag: Run the mythcommflag command on new videos
(default: 'true')
(These are the result of adding the gflags module back into the implementation).
I am hoping to release this version in the next few days, so if you find any bugs please send email to the mailing list.
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Thu, 21 Aug 2008
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17:00: Mikal shared: TSA Employee Grounds 9 American Airlines Planes By Attempting To Break Into Them [Tsa]
I love the level of incompetence this shows. The TSA can protect us all by damaging planes on the tarmac. Hurrah!
17:00: Mikal shared: Microsoft's data centers growing by the truckload
An article about Microsoft's containerized datacenters. Basically they fill containers with machines, plug them in, and then run away as fast as they can. When X% of the machines in the container have failed, they unplug the entire container and send it off for remanufacture. What I want to know is -- do the failed machines continue to draw power? That sounds like a bit of an environmental problem to me...
17:00: Mikal shared: TSA Follies
Schneier on the awesomeness of breaking planes while trying to see if they're secure, and how the TSA is considering pressing charges against the airline!
22:00: Mikal shared: If asked, would you know how many houses you own?
I remember when an Australian politician (I don't remember who) was asked how much a loaf of bread was, and couldn't answer. I love the idea that McCain doesn't even remember how many houses he owns. I guess that's what happens when you're running for office and already overwhelmed with other details.
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LibraryThing, of which I am a member runs a program where members are shipped early copies of books for free, with the preference for them writing a review when they're done reading the book. The books are shipped by the publisher directly to the reviewers. This isn't that uncommon in the publishing industry -- both of my books have experienced a similar process, although less formal.
(In fact, any very early review of a book on a site light amazon.com should be viewed with a little bit of caution I suppose. These people probably got their review copies for free from the publisher.)
LibraryThing's implementation is a little different though, mainly because of the scale at which they hand out books, and the fact that the publishers don't appear to get any direct say in who gets the books. That means that there is less incentive to write a positive review, and that more people get access to early copies of new books. You can see a list of the books LibraryThing is currently handing out here.
The Spy Within is the true story of a senior CIA agent who turned out to also be a Chinese spy. Its the first book I've received through the early review program, so I am still learning the ropes and have sat on this book for a few weeks before actually reading it.
As I said earlier, this is the "true story" a senior Chinese spy within the CIA. However, it should be noted that large portions of the book are pure speculation -- inserted simply to make the story more readable. In addition, as with all such works, the book is based on a limited number of interviews, and is subject to the biases of those who provide source material.
This kind of book isn't really my thing, and I would read less one one non-fiction contemporary history book a year. However, I found this to be an engaging read, especially because the books manuscript flows much like a novel. However, the story simply wasn't that gripping (so, Larry Chin was a dick, I get it). Its hard for non-fiction to compete with fantasy for story lines I suppose.
LibraryThing link for ISBN 1586421484
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SIGCOMM 2008 had about 600 people attend, and felt a little like one of the early AUUG conferences. One of the things I am learning as I get older is that I am having increasing trouble sitting in hard hotel meeting chairs all day -- my back just wont let me. Surprisingly, I find most university lecture theatre seats more comfortable.
Below is a summary of the talks I thought are particularly good.
Don Towsley keynote
Don Towsley is the winner of the 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Award. His talk wasn't really a paper, he instead spoke about the need for models when performing Internet measurement research. If you don't have a theoretical model, then you don't have a way of verifying that your samples from the Internet are valid or not. This is an interesting point I hadn't considered, and which affects my own research work. My new problem is I'm not really sure how to produce models which have meaning to my current SMTP survey project. Additionally, Don asserts that PhD candidates shouldn't attempt to implement new applications. Instead they should work on enabling new applications. This observation is based on many years of supervising PhD candidates and their relative success.
A Case for Adapting Channel Width in Wireless Networks
Microsoft Research -- WiFi cards use a fixed bandwidth of 20 MHz. Using this quite large bandwidth for idle connections consumes a lot of power. This research proposes varying the size of the channel depending on what needs to be transferred -- 5MHz for an idle connection, up to 40 MHz for an active transfer. This does require a protocol for both sides of the connection to agree on a channel width. Sample implementation using the Zune peer to peer song sharing protocol.
Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics
Microsoft Research -- using URL extraction and a regular expression generator to find spam emails from botnets. Extract URLs from emails, track by domain over time and note bursty arrivals of such URLs. Send the bursty ones to a regular expression generator, which is then generalized to exclude victim specific IDs as well as domains, and then filter based on that. An interesting talk.
To Filter or to Authorize: Network-Layer DoS Defense Against Multimillion-node Botnets
University of California, Irvine -- DoS flooding attacks are a serious problem. The number of sources can be huge, as well as the packet count and bandwidth consumed. There are currently two schools of though on DoS protections -- filtering (anyone can send, and then filters are added when an attack occurs), and capability based systems (senders request permission before sending, and then use proof of that permission in each packet they send). This paper compares the two approaches.
BitTorrent is an Auction: Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent’s Incentives
University of Maryland -- the amount of research that is being conducted into peer to peer protocols, especially BitTorrent, is really interesting. This paper presented an alternative algorithm for how to select which blocks to offer for upload in return for the highest possible download rates. Specifically, it reframes BitTorrent as an auction system, in which leechers should be bidding the lowest possible in order to be selected as a download partner. This is implemented in BitTyrant (http://bittyrant.cs.washington.edu/). The rest of the talk focuses on strategies for gaming BitTorrent based on this observation. Very interesting. Implemented in a client at http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/propshare/.
Network Discovery from Passive Measurements
UW Madison -- the traditional approach to mapping the Internet is to use active measurements. This paper proposes a solution using passive measurements. The underlying problem is that you have data in the form (source IP, destination IP, number of hops) and from that you need to determine which hops are in common for any given pair of readings.
Taming the Torrent: A Practical Approach to Reducing Cross-ISP Traffic in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Northwestern University -- this paper proposes piggy backing on CDN networks in order to determine which peer to peer clients are nearly to a p2p leecher. The network routing overlays produced by these networks can be used to select peers which can provide downloads more efficiently.
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008
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19:00: Mikal shared: Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small
IPv6 traffic vanishingly small as a percentage of IPv4 traffic. News at 11.
19:00: Mikal shared: The DB2 book is done!
Cool! Grant's book on DB2 has been published finally... He's been working on the project for quite some time, so its nice to seem it finished.
22:00: Mikal shared: AMS-IX - Statistics
Although, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange certainly seems to be passing a lot of IPv6 packets.
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The Belgariad is a pretty formula fantasy epic, with striking similarities to things like stories of King Arthur. The series is written in a style which is very accessible to younger readers, which might explain why I loved these books as a kid. Its also a pretty "safe" story, in that nothing truly bad is allowed to happen to the main character, who is a child who grows up during the books. That might be why I loved these books so much as a child, and read them many times.
As an adult, this is a pretty easy read, and quite entertaining. I imagine its a lot like the Harry Potter series in its accessibility, although I haven't actually read Harry Potter as its not my kind of thing.
I quite like this book, and would recommend it to young readers interested in fantasy books.
LibraryThing link for ISBN 0552148075
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When I was looking for a hotel to stay at for SIGCOMM 2008, I had trouble finding one in downtown Seattle which wasn't insanely expensive. In the end I picked Hotel Max because it was only moderately expensive, instead of insane like the Grant Hyatt. The hotel is interesting because apparently it was quite run down until a few years ago when it was done up. Now every room has its own unique art, and the halls and lobby are filled with different bits of art as well. Very hip.
The room itself is quite small by American standards, which means its about the same size as the room that I stayed in while staying in London a few years ago. The shower and bathroom are literally cupboards off a corridor, but the bed is a full size queen. I'm not surprised about that given the yelp.com reviews.
Given all I do in hotels is sleep and work on my laptop, I like this place. If I had the kids with me I would go insane however. Also be careful to get a room that faces Stewart Street. Mine faces an alley and I can hear the binging noise from the streetcar until about 10pm, and the air conditioning plant from the building next door for a while after that. I still slept ok though, so I guess people turned all that stuff off at some point during the night.
Update: I was wrong. The binging isn't the street car, its instead the beeping thingie that all underground carparks seem to have here to warn pedestrians that there is a car about to enter the sidewalk. Its very annoying.
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Mon, 18 Aug 2008
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15:45: Mikal shared: Android SDK v.9 Image Gallery
TechCrunch has a gallery of Android screenshots online if you're interested in such things.
18:34: In Seattle. At Gordon Biersch to be exact. Its a little worrying that they have a large selection of martinis for under $9. I will have to try one after my burger I suppose. Until then its waiting for my food and watching olympic women's baseball on the TV over the bar... I didn't even know baseball was an olympic sport.
18:40: Ok. I am clearly not an expert on baseball only having seen about two games, but I am pretty sure you're not meant to pitch underarm. Is that a women's baseball thing or something?
18:45: Perhaps I am just showing my lack of sporting knowledge in general... Is handball a real sport? The TV in the bar has moved on to men's handball, and it looks like a cross between the game I played as a kid (with a tennis ball and one or three other people), and basketball. Its a pretty boring sport that could perhaps be improved if all the players were issued knives.
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I read this post-nuclear holocaust book as a kid and liked it, so I thought I'd give it a try again. Given most second hand science fiction books are $2, the barrier to entry is admittedly quite low as well. This book revolves around two groups -- the Amtrak Federation (a military society formed from survivors of those who crewed MX missile trains, a real system of roaming trains carrying nuclear missiles from the late 1980s and early 1990s -- the idea was that something which moved was harder for the Russians to find) and the "Mutes" (the civilan survivors of the holocaust, who are now mutated by radiation). Its a good book, although very different from the Asimov I've been reading recently. That's a good thing, because I think I need a bit of an Asimov break to be honest.
LibraryThing link for ISBN 0671559729
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I'm packing for my trip to Seattle, and I just put two web cams into my bag? Why two, well one works with video4linux v1 applications (and isn't a very good web cam), and the other one is the fancy auto focussing nice web cam which works with video4linux 2 applications. Why is it that several years after video4linux 2 shipped, I still have to deal with this problem? Grumble.
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008
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I'm getting really into reading second hand science fiction from the 1950s onwards. I read a few (but nowhere near all) of the Foundation series as a child, and I remember liking them a lot. Stolen from Wikipedia, here is a list of the books in The Foundation series in Asimov's suggested reading order:
| C | Year | Title | Notes |
| 1950 | I, Robot | Robot short stories. First collection, which were all included in The Complete Robot, though it also contains binding text (Mind and Iron), no longer in The Complete Robot. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 1 | 1982 | The Complete Robot | Robot short stories. Collection of Asimov stories written between 1940 and 1976. Purchased from Galaxy Books
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| 1986 | Robot Dreams | Robot short stories. Anthologised in a book with the same title. Purchased from Canty's Bookstore (no website)
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| 1990 | Robot Visions | Robot short stories. Anthologised in a book with the same title. This collection contains Mirror Image, which is referenced in The Robots Of Dawn and occurs after The Naked Sun. Purchased from Leigh's Favorite Books
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| 1992 | The Positronic Man | Robot novel based on Asimov's short story The Bicentennial Man, co-written by Robert Silverberg Purchased from Canty's Bookstore (no website) |
| 2 | 1954 | The Caves of Steel | Robot novel. Purchased from Leigh's Favorite Books |
| 3 | 1957 | The Naked Sun | Robot novel. Purchased from Canty's Bookstore (no website) |
| 4 | 1983 | The Robots of Dawn | Robot novel. Purchased from Leigh's Favorite Books |
| 5 | 1985 | Robots and Empire | Robot novel. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 1993 | Isaac Asimov's Caliban | Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. Purchased from abebooks.com |
| 1994 | Isaac Asimov's Inferno | Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. I have this one in large format, and still need it in paperback. Purchased from abebooks.com |
| 1996 | Isaac Asimov's Utopia | Caliban trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen. I have this one in hardcover, and still need it in paperback. Purchased from abebooks.com |
| 6 | 1951 | The Stars, Like Dust | Galactic Empire series. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 7 | 1952 | The Currents of Space | Galactic Empire series. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 8 | 1950 | Pebble in the Sky | Galactic Empire series. Purchased from Gaslight Books |
| 9 | 1988 | Prelude to Foundation | Foundation novel. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 10 | 1993 | Forward the Foundation | Foundation novel. Purchased from Rasputin's Books |
| 11 | 1951 | Foundation | Foundation trilogy. |
| 12 | 1952 | Foundation and Empire | Foundation trilogy. Purchased from Rasputin's Books |
| 13 | 1953 | Second Foundation | Foundation trilogy. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 1997 | Foundation's Fear | Second Foundation trilogy by Gregory Benford. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 1998 | Foundation and Chaos | Second Foundation trilogy by Greg Bear. |
| 1999 | Foundation's Triumph | Second Foundation trilogy by David Brin. Purchased from Bookbuyer's |
| 14 | 1982 | Foundation's Edge | Final chronological Foundation books. Purchased from bookstore in a basement, Curtin |
| 15 | 1986 | Foundation and Earth | Final chronological Foundation books. Purchased from Elizabeth's Bookshop |
Next step, read them.
Update: this amazon list is also useful as it has a guide to the short story books and how they overlap, as well as a bunch more robot books written by other authors.
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I was getting quite confused about which robot short stories I had already read (many appear in more than one collection), so I built this table to help. Note that crosses indicate stories which aren't about robots, and are really stow aways.
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Robot Dreams is another of the robot short story books from Asimov. It is a bit deceptive though and frankly quite annoying because only one of the stories in the book is a robot story, and its not very long.I am of course ignoring the robot stories that already appear in I, Robot and The Complete Robot. The rest are unrelated short stories by Asimov that aren't about robots, and aren't even consistent with the universe that the Foundation books exist in. That's what makes it so annoying for Asimov to recommend that you read the book as part of the extended Foundation series. Grumble.
Don't get me wrong, the other stories are fine, its just that they're not the robot stories that I was led to believe they would be. Wikipedia is a little more clear on the situation than I was:
Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of Isaac Asimov's short stories, intended largely to show a series of Asimov robot-inspired drawings by Ralph McQuarrie. All the stories except the title one, written specifically for the volume, can be found in various other Asimov collections. The companion book, which also showcases McQuarrie's drawings (and includes Asimov essays in addition to short stories), is entitled Robot Visions.
This would explain why my reply to James Taylor's comment was so confused.
I'll update my summary of Asimov's robot short stories accordingly.
LibraryThing link for ISBN 1596431083
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Nelson wonders why you sync twice on shutdown. I was told in a BSD kernels class run by Kirk McKusick once that the answer is because typing the second iteration gave the machine time to actually push the bits to disk. In other words, there was no good software reason.
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Most of the folks I work with actually live in San Francisco and commute down to Mountain View each day. I wouldn't be willing to do such a long commute each day (especially given San Francisco isn't my favorite city), but I am willing to do it occasionally. I spent yesterday in the San Francisco office, which means all those guys could have a break from commuting. I might end up doing this more regularly if we can work out the logistics a bit better.
The commute was a bit insane. Light rail from my house to Castro Street in Mountain View. The Caltrain shuttle to work. Then a work run shuttle to San Francisco. At least I didn't have to do the light rail in the evening -- Catherine and the kids picked me up from work. All up I think I spent about two and a half hours commuting yesterday.
The San Francisco office is really nice, and I got to bump into a bunch of people I haven't seen in ages like Chris (who used to take me shooting in Phoenix). That worked out well because apparently I should visit some folks in the Seattle office next week, even though I didn't realize they existed until yesterday.
(Have I mentioned that I am in Seattle next week for SIGCOMM 2008 yet? I don't think I have. I am in Seattle next week -- let me know if you're there and want to have a coffee or something. I probably wont make it out to Redmond or Kirkland though because I wont have a car.)
Anyways, while in San Francisco I made an effort to go to the Pirate supply store at 826 Valencia -- San Francisco's only independently owned pirate supply store. It was cool. I knew the trip was coming up, so for the last week I've asked people to recommend second hand science fiction books stores in San Francisco as my gtalk status message... Its cool that three people replied with recommendations, and all of them said that I should go to Borderlands Books. The store is small, but had a great selection. The best David Drake, Roger McBride Allen, and Terry Pratchett collections that I have seen in any bookstore so far. Finally, we went to Ritual Roasters for a coffee. They make a good coffee, and have a cool logo. A bit crowded though. All of this was for my first time in the Mission as well, which was an interesting place. A lot like Newtown, but with more hispanic people and a lot dirtier.
So, I think I'm trying to say I had fun. I'll be going back to the San Francisco office again I am sure.
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Thu, 14 Aug 2008
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11:45: Mikal shared: Electric Porsche
This dude converted a porsche 911 to electric!
11:45: Mikal shared: Electro Automotive: Parts Price List
Wow, a deluxe universal conversion kit is only $7,000 USD. That's a lot cheaper than I expected.
11:45: Mikal shared: Electro Automotive: DC Conversion Kits
A supplier of electric car conversion kits. Tempting.
11:45: Mikal shared: Electric Car Conversion Kit (for beginners)
I've wanted to build myself a kit car for a while, although I've always been stopped by the fact that I live in an apartment in the US. It occurs to me though that I should do this when I move back to Australia sometime in the indeterminate future. When I do, why not make it an electric car as well? That sounds like a seriously fun project.
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Wed, 13 Aug 2008
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I get a few support requests for MythNetTV, and I must admit that I sometimes get quite behind on my personal email, especially when I'm travelling. I've therefore created a mailing list for announcements and discussion in the hope that people will chat and come up with great ideas, as well as being able to support each other.
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New things in this release:
- Removed gflags because people found it hard to find
- Bug fix patch from David Linville applied
- Fixed broken imports caused by refactoring
- Transcode not needed for avc1 and m4v
- Another bug fix patch from David Linville applied
- Removed some namespace imports I am not a fan of
- Made verbosity optional for --update
- Small code cleanups
- Let the user know of repeated attempts to download a program
- Documented the need for bittornado for bittorrent to work
- Abandon downloading after 3 failed attempts (you can configure the number)
- Detect stuck bittorrent downloads
Release 3 had a few bugs folks reported, this release should fix those problems. Let me know if you still see any. You can grab your copy here.
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10:15: Mikal shared: Advice Fail
An excellent failure to provide the advice requested.
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