Posts by James Green
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I'm damned if I could find a map showing where the CBD is.
Could I commend this link, and aggregating contiguous CBD neighbourhoods until you get something the size you like?
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Also that Paula Rebstock has been appointed to KiwiRail.
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In the 32nd year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
An Ordinance to incorporate the University of OtagoWHEREAS it is expedient to promote sound learning in the Province of Otago in the Dominion of New Zealand and with that intent to establish and incorporate a University at Dunedin in the said Province of Otago open to all classes and denominations of Her Majesty's subjects.
University of Otago Ordinance 1869, Provincial Act.
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That's rather cool. I think I might put that on my door.
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Who owns the universities?
Who chooses the vice-chancellor?Universities are bodies corporate, governed by councils, comprising a minimum of 12 members, of which the Minister appoints 4 members. The council appoints the chief executive (the chancellor of vice?). I don't know how you might define ownership, but that appears a very long leash.
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Perhaps someone should point out on Kiwiblog that National really is just Labour Lite. And that they should consider themselves lucky that Helen got an international post! </tongue in cheek>
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The spy plane idea seems silly, or at least the shaming part of it. I'd be really happy, however, if someone was to offer free infra-red photography so I could find any obvious heat leaks I've failed to plug. Why not offer it to people who want to insulate?
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Eh? Voice uses a few K of bandwidth, but it does need to be prioritised over other traffic (so that opening a web page doesn't make your call break up). The telcos are already moving to a system that will send voice up a DSL line in IP format.
That future is here now. Xnet's VFX for example. It is noticeably poorer quality than our standard landline though. And router you need to run it has built in QoS to prioritise voice. I haven't bit the bullet and ditched the landline yet however (it currently seems too convenient having pre-paid cells attached to the homeline account).
And aren't telecom moving to IP-based telephony themselves from 2012? Oh wait, they're being very vague about the timeline.
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If I felt a need to record my own rather than buy DVDs or torrent someone else's recording, I'd go the MythTV route.
I think it's working now if you have serious geek cred, but the New Zealand Freeview HD wouldn't work with for the longest time. It was to do with the complexity of the H.264 video feed (which is excellent quality, but requires more oomph to decode), and getting the hardware acceleration going on your video card (which is a lot to do with drivers &c.). In the end that meant windows & GB-PVR. It's not just Myth though, Windows Media Centre in Vista can't do it either. It does work in in Windows 7, but with no EPG beyond now/next.
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transport streams are what almost everyone records - the on-air streams are wrapped in FEC (error correction) but that's taken off before the actual data is recorded - you don't store the whole multiplex, just the audio/video pids you need - the actual TS overhead is ~1-2% (3-4 bytes/188 byte packet)
What you don't want to do is any sort of recoding, it requires enormous amounts of CPU and tends to produce crappy results.
Thanks for the clarification Paul. I'd already decided that the call between buying more storage and re-coding was pretty easy, with storage now around 20c a TB
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The Zinwell allows you to record two, and watch another live, if two of the channels are on the same feed. E.g. you can record TV3 and C4, and watch TVOne, or you can record TV2, and Maori TV, and watch TVNZ7.
In a PC with the right software, you can record multipled channels from the same mux on each tuner. So, for example, you can record TV1 and TV2 at the same time on one tuner, and watch C4 and record TV3 on another tuner. Māori TV is on the Kordia mux, so you'd need another tuner for that. I think I've managed to record 3 channels on the same tuner, but at some point there must be a bottleneck in the amount of data you're trying to pin down.