Its been a long time for me thinking the best demo of HTTP based video streaming via IIS 7.5 Media Server 2 that I have setup on my server. I hope GMA 7 is ok with it besides I’ve got this copy also on the public website YouTube.
Note: Due to Silverlight security issues on IE9 and Chrome.. You can only viewed this in Firefox 4 and later
Yup, after months and months of downloading high-def movies….
The original specs of my PC was not really feasible after all. A single movie can size from 4.4 GB (least quality I say, 720p) to 18Gb (as a super blue-ray replication,1080p) and not to mention my all-time favorite TV series like Big Bang Theory, Glee, Chuck and Outsourced (too bad cause no more second season!) which all of them are also in a 720p HD. Last week my 1 TB drive was already out of disk space and most of the other drives are also running out of space 
So I was forced to buy another drive for these things and luckily I had a lot of SATA slots left in my board. Also, to save me from another upgrade (as I estimate for another 3-4 months from this day) I needed lot of space as in lot of space. Good thing the price of computer hardware are getting down reasonably. So here it is… my new Western Digital 2 TB drive.
But I had to fix my cabling first..
After that I can re-install all of my drives again
I already collected all Western Digital desktop drive series from the Blue , Green and the high performance Black edition which originally my OS drive. But I was stumbled when I discovered having a 2 pieces of value series Blue edition with RAID O configuration was twice faster as the Black one so I decided to make it just for storage drive.
Green Edition drive is Eco Friendly and consumes less than the two editions. But its also friendly to performance degradation. Oh well, I will just use it as my Movies storage drive anyway.
With a Dual-Processor onboard the drive, this is beast! with average speed not less than 100 mb/s and notice the latency/access time its really fast. If I can buy 2 of these and make it in RAID 0 this is one hell of a drive. Too bad the price of this one was more expensive than my new 2TB drive.. can you imagine that!
The Cheapest of them all (even combining the price of the two drives) and also the most fastest of them all. No doubt this is a real deal for SSD alternatives!!! just take a look on the minimum speed of it.. never touched down the 100 mb/s mark! and the burst rate- 3.8 GB/s (that can almost transfer a DVD ISO movie per second)
Ideas are sometimes just a piece of crap.
This is my new understanding of that word though a lot of people will just bluff on it. Sometime ago, my boss told me to enforce tighter security on our access point to prevent bastards going in our internal network (by setting up a firewall to would only allow internet access and block the rest) because we don’t have any idea if someone near our office has a Cray XT5 Jaguar running dictionary attack on us (hey, we’re not doing nuclear research nor are we nuclear physicist here!) . At first I thought that WPA2/AES encryption was so difficult to compromise that this security hardening is not needed until I stumbled into this site and so this is where I found the title of the blog.
Until now I was still thinking (with a little conscience) on why our lone software tester suddenly resigned two weeks ago. I hope he didn’t take our “drinking spree debate” personal .Anyways, we were talking and exchanging ideas on how the project should be started, its infrastructure and target. For secrecy reasons I won’t make it public right now and besides it was my original idea. We spent a lot of time and a lot of beers that night while talking about it until I figured that something was not convincing for me- that’s where the debate started. After that night (or day for me because it took some of us until the next morning) I was thinking a lot about the word Idea, and on why and how these things got success and failures. For me it is because:
All I am saying was that sometimes things are easier to think but harder to do.