George L. Schmauch Jr.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”nwboater”]
Thanks for the info on Comskip. Does sound like I’ll be able to share between the server and client. It may take a bit of learning and set up for me. I’m going to wait for a couple of things before I get involved with it though. 1. The new Client built and running smoothly with me learning Windows 7.  2. SageTV 7 to be out of Beta. Two may very well happen before One does!
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FWIW, it took me all of about a week to figure out Windows 7 and that was coming directly from XP, with only about 5 minutes of experience in Vista.  One tip I learned through many OS installs:  Once you have Windows 7 installed and before you install any other programs, get it configured how you want and then create a backup image of the OS.  Then, install SageTV, get that configured how you want and create a 2nd backup image of the OS.  This will give you 2 pristine images to fall back to at any point in your future “fixing”.

SageTV will be out of beta very soon.  Even if it’s not out of beta when you’re ready, start with whatever the latest beta is.  I’ve gone from 18 to 23 without a single issue.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Naylia”]
This makes sense to me if you are recording on multiple pcs and then each pc does it’s own comskipping with available resources of the shows it recorded, but I wonder how this would impact network bandwidth if you run comskip over the network. Especially if you already have clients and/or network tuners using some of it. I guess you could schedule it for only late night hours and then the network bandwidth wouldn’tt be an issue.
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I’ve run 1 comskip instance on my client PC (E6600), while 3 were running on the server (all recordings are on the server) and watching a recording was not impacted at all over the Gb network.  Perhaps my CPU wasn’t processing the recording quickly enough to impact the network?

If they were all hitting the same drive, then I could see a potential issue.  I never checked if that scenario ever happened.  But, network bandwidth never seemed to be an issue.  Also, for playback, I always made sure that I had one free core on both the server and the client.

BTW, I did all this via Sage Job Queue.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Comskip is single-threaded, which means that a Comskip will only run for a single recording, using a single core, at any time.  If you have 2 cores, you can run two instances of Comskip, which would then run on two separate recordings at the same time.

You could have Comskip running on multiple computers, as well, which is what they were probably referring to.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”robinhoody”]
aww I wish I could go, i was just thinking to myself last week that it would be cool to have a missing remote meet up some where.  Come to Cincinnati! 😛
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Oh God, no!!!  (Sorry, no offense intended.  😉 )  Our corporate HQ is there.  I’ve spent far too much time in Ohio and, I’m sorry to say, there isn’t much to do in that area.  Plus, the wife would kill me if I said I was going out there… again… for something besides work.  Now, Cedar Point, on the other hand, would be a great place to visit once again!

I think the NY area would be a great location, though.  That’s usually an easy sell to anyone who hasn’t been there before or if it’s been a while since their last visit.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

I can’t exactly argue that, Mikinho.  I will say that the sex seemed more than a little gratuitous, but I’m no historian, so maybe that was an accurate portrayal, just as they were going for.  I also thought the gore was a bit over the top, but I even wrote that off to accuracy and quickly learned to deal with it because the story was so compelling.

Considering how well the casting crew did with season one, I’m going to give them some well-deserved respect and trust that they will do another fine job in casting the lead character again.  That said, I would hope that if Andy is well enough to return at some point in the future, that they’ll give him back the role he created.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”PHT”]
80mm in e6 and e7, 60mm in e5 and eHD10.
There are quiet but to answer your question I should compare both fans in the same conditions.
For isolation – rubber.  I added some pictures to show it.

Regards
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I like the hard drive mount.  Will you have something similar for the DVD drive?

Definitely test multiple fans.  For reference, most people use SilentPCReview to figure out what fan to buy.  They even have a nice [url=http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html]list[/url] breaking them down.  You may notice that there are no 60mm fans listed.  This is due to the difficulty in finding any quiet 60mm fans on the market.  With how nice all your cases are, they beg to be “shown off”, rather than hidden away.  If they’re loud, this won’t be possible, though.

With the shorter cases, you obviously can’t use 80mm fans, but what might be better is more fans spinning at slower speeds.  The eHD10 really comes to mind here.  I’m no expert on airflow, but I think the design might need some tweaking.  With 10 hard drives in there, it’s going to get warm.  I don’t know the direction of the 4 fans being shown, but I have trouble believing all drives are going to receive airflow from the fans.  Just my opinion here.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”Wendy [MSFT]”]
Skirge01/Jennyfur:  Am I hearing some potential volunteers for host duties for a Big Apple event?
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LMAO!  Definitely did not see that coming, but I sure should have.  Well played, Wendy.  ;D  I’m certainly not going to volunteer for something before I’ve actually attended one myself, though.  Who knows…  it might not be worth it.  😉  j/k

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

That’s usually what networks do now.  They test the waters and see how it’s received.  If it does well, they’ll order a full season of 10-13 episodes.  If it does extremely well (rare) and they’re very confident, they’ll order a 2nd season.  Otherwise, after the 10-13 episodes, they’ll examine the results and determine whether a 2nd season will happen.  Spartacus was an extremely rare case where the network was so confident after just the screenings (before it had even aired a single episode) that they ordered a second season right away.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Is all that really necessary, though?  All I’m looking to do is get EAX from some old games out to my receiver, so that it plays in 5.1 with all the “extra” EAX stuff.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Based on what I was reading [url=http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=1&CatName=Sound+Blaster&subCatID=208&subCatName=X-Fi&prodID=17927&prodName=PCI+Express+X-Fi+Titanium&bTopTwenty=1&VARSET=prodfaq:PRODFAQ_17927,VARSET=CategoryID:1]here[/url], I was under the impression it’s free now.  You can download the DTS Connect software right from that page.  Or, is it the DD Live that actually does it and that still needs to be purchased?

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Have one in the NY area and I’ll definitely be there.

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Looking over the cases which would be similar to my Antec Fusion, I had a few thoughts.  What size fans are being used in these?  Are they quality, quiet fans, like Nexus?  Also, what are you doing for noise isolation for hard drives and to keep vibration of the case itself to a minimum?

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”phoneguyinpgh”]
I agree, if anything hide them with a flip down door.
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If I followed correctly (e6V and e7T), they already do cover them with a door.  I think the question was whether they should offer another model without the door.

I love my Antec and think it would be pretty plain on the front without the ports, even if they were concealed by a door.  Plus, if there was a door, then my keyboard receiver would require that the door be permanently open.  What do others do with their kb receivers?  Does anyone run a USB extension cable from the back to the front and hide the receiver at the front edge?

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

[quote=”rantanamo”]
As a sociologist, I love the politics and character development.  The show is really well written from an academic standpoint.
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LOL!  There’s where they went wrong then.  Americans don’t like intelligent, thought provoking shows.  They want their Jersey Shore*, dammit!

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* God, I hate that they film that in my home state.  As far as I know, none of the people on that show are actually from NJ (most are from NY) and most aren’t even Italian.  Jerseyans are nothing like this group.[/size]

[George L. Schmauch Jr.]

Are you sure that Creative cards, like the X-fi series, can’t output EAX over spdif/coax?  As I’m reading more and more, it seems like they do.

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