You could upgrade that S1 TiVo to FAR more than 120 hours if you want the dual-drive route. My S2 has a single 120 GB hard drive in it (self-upgraded) and it reports "up to 146 hours" capacity. Perhaps you were talking about recording time in your preferred quality setting.
I tend to skirt the boundaries between the secular and "good Christian" social circles, and from what I see vice knows no bounds - religion has little to nothing to do with what perticular "extra-curricular" activities a person pursues.
Perhaps it just seemed to be more the Christian crowd to you, since the popular perception is that they should be perfect. They're just people like any others.
Don't forget that many people are tech-paranoid; the sight of a capacitor is enough to induce fainting spells. I've known a good many computer-literate persons who were still unwilling to install RAM without me being there. They're (along with laptop users) the target market for these plug-in-and-go devices.
What if you don't send the diff in the first place? To me, this whole procedure implies on-line patching; but we already have "network installers" and the like for patching a machine with no Internet access.
The patch installer queries what version of software currently is installed. Then, it downloads a list of file names, sizes, and checksums to match against. It compares against what is currently installed, and either gets the serialized patches necessary to bring the installed files to current, or the full updated files in cases where the installed files are of undetermined status.
I don't think providing a back-up mechanism to distribute full files defeats the purpose at all; in fact, it covers important corner cases that cannot be dealt with in any other sane manner while still providing the benefits of file patching to the vast majority of users.
The only time I've seen UPX used in any serious fashion is in the unattended-install community for fitting more third-party software on Windows installer CDs. Similarly, stripping debug symbols from an executable is only of interest to a rather fringe group of users.
I'm not going to go so far as to say "you shouldn't be doing that" but the fact is the vast majority of users will not; those motions may be valid and reasonable, but certainly are not "normal."
I would imagine downloading the full file in such unusual circumstances would be far from voiding the benefit of binary patching seen in the majority of cases.
It isn't really possible to intelligently change part of the binary unless the whole file is what you were expecting, The only reasons the binary *wouldn't* be what you were expecting is if the end user had modified the binary, or the file is corrupted. About the only reference you'll find to an end user editing hex is when cracking or otherwise modifying an executable in a way the writer did not intend. Either way, the person providing the patch should be able to run a checksum algorithm on the installed file to verify that it is pristine, then apply the patch or re-install the complete file as needed.
Does Apache let you do that on a directory-by-directopy basis? If not, it'd be kinda bad to break MIME types on the rest of the site just for the 'warez' dir to function in a convenient manner.
Interesting way of looking at it, it may have been what they were thinking.
Side note: the "Control" key icon, if you should ever see it in a Mac app, looks like the "option/alt" icon but with two little squares - one at the bottom-left in addition to one at the top-right.
back in the Apollo days there was a design for an inflatible parachute to allow one person to return to earth wearing nothing more than a Mercury-class space suit!
I can't be the only one excited by that idea - once the whole "space tourism" thing gets more economically feasible, you'll have all the rich playboy thrill-seekers paying to go up and "space dive." Maybe in my lifetime it'll become cheap enough for regular guys like me to do it.
A GPU is much faster, but only when doing certain very specific types of operations. If you tried to write a word processor for the GeForce, it would at best run terribly slow, and at worst be an impossible task.
GPUs are not really all that powerful compared to a CPU, but they're working with a totally different set of constraints.
I'm betting that much of what you see *is* the power supply. Note the ferrites and such. It's definitely power regulation for the CPU, at the very least.
How many desks are we talking here? For an organization under 500, I can see getting away with two admins pretty easily - and that's if the Mac admins do other things too.
...but I had a Motorola V120X that showed numerous interesting behaviors, especially when it came to ringing.
My (least) favorite was when I'd answer the phone, and the conversation would be connected, but the phone would continue ringing until the phone call ended. You can bet I made sure those calls were very short.
That's the way to undertand ALL of it. It's a shame Windows isn't so conducive to such experiemnts anymore. There are a million little things that can go wrong and renter your machine nearly unusable. Back in the day, I broke our family's Macintosh LC 475 so many ways, then fixed the problem, that I got a pretty good understanding for the architecture of hte system and how everything worked together.
Well I'm sorry your drives suck. My (admittedly fast for its day) three-year-old drive "manages to maintain at least 50 MB/sec halfway through before eventually decaying to an inner-zone rate of 34.9 MB/sec" according to StorageReview.
Many of the current 7200 RPM models manage a 60-down-to-35 MB/sec gradient. Recent 10,000 RPM drives are proportinally faster. People that have the cash to buy fast DVD writers are more likely to be in posession of fast hard drives to go with, and there is no reason to limit the DVD writing technology when it is apparent many people can get a benefit.
Yet programs continue to be released that cannot be run as non-administrator. Battlefield 1942 would not run properly. (It would run, but controls did not work in-game. What's worse, run-as didn't fix the problem.) A few other modern games had similar difficulties. People are simply not going to run as an unpriviledged account most of the time then switch to run a game. They'll just make their main account admin.
Windows XP Home assumes a setup where the parents have administrator accounts and the kids have "limited user" accounts. There is a hidden "real administrator" account, but it is only accessible through safe mode.
I agree that it wasn't motivated by any high-ranking Republicans, but for a different reason. What would Kennedy gain by crying foul? He's a Senator, and by extention holds some blame for the law to begin with. If he blamed an opposing party, it would be fairly easy to make him look like a paranoid looney, not just a drunk. Not to mention what amounts to a political sissy.
The reason I think it truly could not have been engineered by someone with an axe to grind with Kennedy is the fact this very clearly shows a weakness in the system - and the last thing they want is for these "anti-terrorism" measures to be seen as is weak, ineffective, or misguided.
Exactly. Art has a message; that is all. It does not have to be a message designed to offend. In fact, much "great art" has a message that is inoffensive, and as such is accessible to the masses.
Artists that hang on the masturbatory fantasy that a message has to be shocking to be "art" hardly deserve the credit they receive. After all, the point of communication is to get a message across. Sometimes you have to shock your audience into understanding, but that is far from being the sole path to expression.
[You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, yadda yadda.]
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You could upgrade that S1 TiVo to FAR more than 120 hours if you want the dual-drive route. My S2 has a single 120 GB hard drive in it (self-upgraded) and it reports "up to 146 hours" capacity. Perhaps you were talking about recording time in your preferred quality setting.
I tend to skirt the boundaries between the secular and "good Christian" social circles, and from what I see vice knows no bounds - religion has little to nothing to do with what perticular "extra-curricular" activities a person pursues.
Perhaps it just seemed to be more the Christian crowd to you, since the popular perception is that they should be perfect. They're just people like any others.
Don't forget that many people are tech-paranoid; the sight of a capacitor is enough to induce fainting spells. I've known a good many computer-literate persons who were still unwilling to install RAM without me being there. They're (along with laptop users) the target market for these plug-in-and-go devices.
Steps 5 and 9 are not required if you're using the composite or S-Video connections, as you alluded to in step 6.
If you get a supported USB NIC for it, you can have the TiVo do all required communication through your home's Internet connection.
What if you don't send the diff in the first place? To me, this whole procedure implies on-line patching; but we already have "network installers" and the like for patching a machine with no Internet access.
The patch installer queries what version of software currently is installed. Then, it downloads a list of file names, sizes, and checksums to match against. It compares against what is currently installed, and either gets the serialized patches necessary to bring the installed files to current, or the full updated files in cases where the installed files are of undetermined status.
I don't think providing a back-up mechanism to distribute full files defeats the purpose at all; in fact, it covers important corner cases that cannot be dealt with in any other sane manner while still providing the benefits of file patching to the vast majority of users.
The only time I've seen UPX used in any serious fashion is in the unattended-install community for fitting more third-party software on Windows installer CDs. Similarly, stripping debug symbols from an executable is only of interest to a rather fringe group of users.
I'm not going to go so far as to say "you shouldn't be doing that" but the fact is the vast majority of users will not; those motions may be valid and reasonable, but certainly are not "normal."
I would imagine downloading the full file in such unusual circumstances would be far from voiding the benefit of binary patching seen in the majority of cases.
It isn't really possible to intelligently change part of the binary unless the whole file is what you were expecting,
The only reasons the binary *wouldn't* be what you were expecting is if the end user had modified the binary, or the file is corrupted. About the only reference you'll find to an end user editing hex is when cracking or otherwise modifying an executable in a way the writer did not intend. Either way, the person providing the patch should be able to run a checksum algorithm on the installed file to verify that it is pristine, then apply the patch or re-install the complete file as needed.
Does Apache let you do that on a directory-by-directopy basis? If not, it'd be kinda bad to break MIME types on the rest of the site just for the 'warez' dir to function in a convenient manner.
So how is having the computer lock on a blue screen better than having it restart? Does it mean the document is *not* lost?
The "Automatically Restart" option is certainly not a data-saving option, but it sure is good for getting you back to work in a timely fashion.
Interesting way of looking at it, it may have been what they were thinking.
Side note: the "Control" key icon, if you should ever see it in a Mac app, looks like the "option/alt" icon but with two little squares - one at the bottom-left in addition to one at the top-right.
back in the Apollo days there was a design for an inflatible parachute to allow one person to return to earth wearing nothing more than a Mercury-class space suit!
I can't be the only one excited by that idea - once the whole "space tourism" thing gets more economically feasible, you'll have all the rich playboy thrill-seekers paying to go up and "space dive." Maybe in my lifetime it'll become cheap enough for regular guys like me to do it.
A GPU is much faster, but only when doing certain very specific types of operations. If you tried to write a word processor for the GeForce, it would at best run terribly slow, and at worst be an impossible task.
GPUs are not really all that powerful compared to a CPU, but they're working with a totally different set of constraints.
I really meant it, hence the "pretty easily" in my post. One person can handle the day-to-day Mac administration in most environments.
I'm betting that much of what you see *is* the power supply. Note the ferrites and such. It's definitely power regulation for the CPU, at the very least.
How many desks are we talking here? For an organization under 500, I can see getting away with two admins pretty easily - and that's if the Mac admins do other things too.
I've seen it happen, pre-OS X.
...but I had a Motorola V120X that showed numerous interesting behaviors, especially when it came to ringing.
My (least) favorite was when I'd answer the phone, and the conversation would be connected, but the phone would continue ringing until the phone call ended. You can bet I made sure those calls were very short.
I hated that phone.
Internet Connection Sharing made its debut in Win98 Second Edition.
;)
As far as substantial system differences, WinMe added new icons. That's about all I remember.
That's the way to undertand ALL of it. It's a shame Windows isn't so conducive to such experiemnts anymore. There are a million little things that can go wrong and renter your machine nearly unusable. Back in the day, I broke our family's Macintosh LC 475 so many ways, then fixed the problem, that I got a pretty good understanding for the architecture of hte system and how everything worked together.
Well I'm sorry your drives suck. My (admittedly fast for its day) three-year-old drive "manages to maintain at least 50 MB/sec halfway through before eventually decaying to an inner-zone rate of 34.9 MB/sec" according to StorageReview.
Many of the current 7200 RPM models manage a 60-down-to-35 MB/sec gradient. Recent 10,000 RPM drives are proportinally faster. People that have the cash to buy fast DVD writers are more likely to be in posession of fast hard drives to go with, and there is no reason to limit the DVD writing technology when it is apparent many people can get a benefit.
Yet programs continue to be released that cannot be run as non-administrator. Battlefield 1942 would not run properly. (It would run, but controls did not work in-game. What's worse, run-as didn't fix the problem.) A few other modern games had similar difficulties. People are simply not going to run as an unpriviledged account most of the time then switch to run a game. They'll just make their main account admin.
Windows XP Home assumes a setup where the parents have administrator accounts and the kids have "limited user" accounts. There is a hidden "real administrator" account, but it is only accessible through safe mode.
Exactly. I sit here thinking, "Oh, it's time to let the ratties out to play! Let's break the build!"
Then, frankly, your group sucked.
Some of us were much more fortunate.
I agree that it wasn't motivated by any high-ranking Republicans, but for a different reason. What would Kennedy gain by crying foul? He's a Senator, and by extention holds some blame for the law to begin with. If he blamed an opposing party, it would be fairly easy to make him look like a paranoid looney, not just a drunk. Not to mention what amounts to a political sissy.
The reason I think it truly could not have been engineered by someone with an axe to grind with Kennedy is the fact this very clearly shows a weakness in the system - and the last thing they want is for these "anti-terrorism" measures to be seen as is weak, ineffective, or misguided.
Exactly. Art has a message; that is all. It does not have to be a message designed to offend. In fact, much "great art" has a message that is inoffensive, and as such is accessible to the masses.
Artists that hang on the masturbatory fantasy that a message has to be shocking to be "art" hardly deserve the credit they receive. After all, the point of communication is to get a message across. Sometimes you have to shock your audience into understanding, but that is far from being the sole path to expression.
[You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, yadda yadda.]