bobdvb

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by bobdvb 13d ago
Yup, I have a pair of CRS504, so I can learn MLAG and my three node cluster doesn't really tickle the sides of that.
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by bobdvb 13d ago
On their video Patrick points out that this is now lower than $1 per Gbps, cheaper than any of the cheapest AliExpress switches.
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by bobdvb 2mo ago
There was a black and white fantasy TV show called "Adam Adamant Lives!" from the 60s. The BBC always wanted to re-release it but the original contracts for the show were written when no one ever considered re-runs and physical re
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by bobdvb 3mo ago
What's interesting about the rise of the mega weight models is that if you look at the smaller models of the same family you see some significant improvements over time. So there's possibly some trickle down, at least some learnin
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by bobdvb 3mo ago
That's my home lab, it's ugly and I am starting to use MTP breakouts instead because those DACs get in the way so much.
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by bobdvb 3mo ago
And an extra £40~ per server is irrelevant if we're worried about an outage on £500k-£1.5m of gear and the services they provide.
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by bobdvb 4mo ago
Some network guys I know prefer fibre even within the rack, just because they don't want the weight and the obstructions in the rack. Apparently more than once the weight of the DACs and the bulk of the cable bundle has caused a proble
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by bobdvb 4mo ago
Film is a chemical medium for storage of images. Video is an electronic process for capturing images and displaying them. Before digital video there was analogue video, and analogue video was perfectly possible without digital sampling, or
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by bobdvb 4mo ago
As a broadcast technology architect I agree with you a whole lot on the broader technology statements. But as a former lecturer, I also think the promise of interactivity is dependent less on the tools than on the people. Authoring interact
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by bobdvb 5mo ago
It's definitely competing in rural areas, but Starlink does suffer from physical limitations on the number of terminals per geographic area. This is a long standing problem with cellular in urban areas. For example at Clapham Junction
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by bobdvb 5mo ago
Spectrum contention is going to be insane in D2D. Starlink already has to constrain the number of broadband accounts per locale to avoid saturation.
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by bobdvb 5mo ago
Yeah. Someone recommended Bunny to me and I looked at it previously based on that but didn't have a use case then. But as someone who regularly recommends vendors for v.big CDN contracts I'm not impressed with their attempts to do
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by bobdvb 6mo ago
Yeah, I think when people are getting hundreds, or thousands of channels cheaper from some off-brand name, or from a referral from a bloke down the pub, they know what's what. It's like buying something from the local market, thos
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by bobdvb 6mo ago
As someone in the media technology business, it's very frustrating for me that the pirate streaming industry has co-opted the name IPTV for it's offerings. But it's not the articles that are driving it, it's the pirates
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by bobdvb 6mo ago
YouTube channel DextersTechLab was looking at a piece of retro tech, an interface box for an early broadcast painting system, it acts as a kind of hub for serial tablet, "rat" and other devices. It was built on an x86 microprocess
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by bobdvb 6mo ago
A somewhere over 10 years ago a certain Linux distro company commissioned a company I worked for to make a TV specific distro. The team built something amazing, as a DVR it would have been better than anything on the market. Think people wh
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by bobdvb 6mo ago
There's an elder gentleman I talk to in my village, I'm not sure how old he is but well over 70. He worked for old IBM in the 60s. He's still doing a little coding for charities and he's now loving using AI.
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by bobdvb 7mo ago
There's very little margin in pure CDN products right now, so they're likely only making money on the value add products. Any money from CDNs is likely going back into maintenance, upgrading and growth.
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by bobdvb 8mo ago
There's a fine line, reduce quality too far and customer satisfaction drops. Some customers will have a higher tolerance to dropping quality than others, but you've got to draw the line somewhere. So you do studies, you look at th
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by bobdvb 8mo ago
It depends on which vendor they're using. It generally occurs as patterns which are slightly in the noise. Good systems pick locations where its easier to hide and turn it off when the scene would expose it. Usually when badly done inc
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by bobdvb 8mo ago
It was 1999 I think, I was doing a placement at a media company. One of the PAs was heavily pregnant, an old guy in the office said to her "My my Jane, your breasts are coming along nicely." WTF!
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by bobdvb 8mo ago
My SIL, this week(!) was told by her supervisor that if she tries to apply for another team and doesn't get that job, she'll be set back in her career progression in her team. Asshole managers are everywhere.
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by bobdvb 8mo ago
Strippers... brothels... and /hypothetically/ I could tell one story from a well known company where a sales team got in trouble for trying to expense hookers AND blow on a business trip. That's all post-Millennium
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias_%28typeface%29
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
We waste so much resources in storing/transiting data in human readable forms. Ultimately it's binary, we already use software to display it, requiring the data be in forms that are human readable just wastes resources. If the dat
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
I'll upvote you because you're mostly right. But to be fair, there is a standard that could have been used for digital video, SDI/HD-SDI, but the transceivers were expensive and it doesn't support any form of bi-directio
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
That's probably how NVidia did it. But there's very little software involved in HDMI, it's mostly hardware and a control API.
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
No, the connectors wouldn't be regulated, you're not violating any IP by buying them and there's no prohibition on any of the manufacturers selling them to unlicensed companies. At worst you can assert a patent against the de
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
I need to post this everywhere: THIS ISN'T AN IP/PATENT ISSUE! This is branding and marketing issue. Anyone can implement the spec, it doesn't need to be a cleanroom implementation. It's almost certain that you could lic
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by bobdvb 9mo ago
The spec is open to them and this isn't an IP issue, it's a branding issue.

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