I watched a 90 minute DVD on my iBook on the bus into work this very morning. I take a 30+ mile bus journey twice a day, and the weekly fare is less than the equivalent in car-parking fees.
In most European countries a lot of people commute to work by bus, train or tram.
I live in a small market town. Our BT exchange has yet to be upgraded to ADSL. Cable has never been installed; the local council prevented this a number of years ago when the nearby large town was being fitted with cable.
As a UK user with no broadband, I've no idea how I'm going to download this.
My only chance is to take my iPod into work tomorrow (my last day for over a week) and download it to that - assuming it has been posted as a seperate download by then. In fact I'm not certain if there is enough space on my iPod to hold it - must start deleting tracks.
Funny you should mention the light bulb. Sir Hiram Maxim has a claim to not only having been the first to fly, but also patented a form of light-bulb in 1878! On July 31, 1894, Maxim's steam-powered aircraft flew around 200 feet.
Maxim was most famous for the Maxim machine gun. He also built a fairground ride known as "The Captive Flying Machine". One of these is still in use at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire, and will be celebrating its 100th birthday in 2004.
He was born in Sangersville, Maine in 1840, moving to London in the 1880s. He died in 1916.
In both cases the system became virtually unusable. I'm not on a private network so I couldn't try ssh to shut the machine down. It's as if the CD drive is sending multiple spurious interrupts back to Mac OS X. I've not tried either CD with Mac OS 9.
I have an iBook with a combined DVD/CD-RW drive, and this has problems handling CDs with mastering errors.
I had one CD that due to a pressing error had a large blob of paint on the reverse side. I inserted it without checking the underside, and then had severe problems attempting to eject the disk. I had to reboot and hold down the trackpad button to get the disk out.
I've also got an audio CD that isn't copy-protected, but has a hidden track at the start. This too appears to lock up the drive, and won't eject without a reboot or a bent paperclip.
Due to quirky differences between the NE1000 and NE2000 cards, it was possible for the card to present an incorrect MAC address which would be identical across all cards if either the driver wasn't written correctly or the specification badly cloned.
I saw this problem myself many years ago on a Banyan network. Updated card drivers resolved this.
There was undelete support in the Linux kernel.
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Sometime during the early 2.1.x development kernel series someone added code to add an undelete facility. The last x files deleted would instead get moved to a pseudo.directory and remain there until a restart or until additional files were removed.
This feature disappeared when 'dentry' support was added to the filesystem code circa 2.1.43.
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I've got a dedicated encryption card generating diagnostics in Morse code here right now!
There will be a larger report on Friday in Northallerton's weekly local newspaper, although it is likely to share the front cover with the story on the explosion at a pork-pie factory.
I'll post a link if the story appears on their site.
There's a hardware company called "nCipher" who make hardware based encryption devices. These have a single LED on the back of the card. To indicate any error conditions, the error code is flashed via Morse on this LED.
The BBC license fee also covers 5 national analogue radio stations, plus digital radio, regional stations for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and local stations for England. It's worth it alone just for that.
This is just as significant as a post stating that System 7.0.1 will run on an iBook. I got that running at the moment, using the BasiliskII emulator running under XFree86 under MacOS X. It's still emulation/simulation, though.
You can now pick up decoder units for around £100 from places like Currys and Comet. There appear to be 2 separate manufacturers making these; Pace and someone else. These only went on sale during the past month or so.
Additionally there are new televisions available with in-built DV3 digital decoders that will also pick up all free-to-air channels.
Please don't use acronyms like CYA (Cover Your Ass for those, like me, who had to look it up) without explaining them. Slashdot is a global comunity and there will be a good number of people who have no idea what it means.
My signature varies considerably whenever I buy anything with my debit card. The size of the pen, flexibility of the pen, height of the counter and even sheen of the paper influences the signature in some way.
A few years ago I had to email a number of people at one company. Most names were in the format jbloggs@company.com, so they were fairly easy to remember.
However this person's email address was 'xx' followed by the first letter of his first name, the last letter of his first name, the first letter of his surname and finally the last letter of his surname. No one else at the UK arm of this company appeared to use such a scheme.
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I watched a 90 minute DVD on my iBook on the bus into work this very morning. I take a 30+ mile bus journey twice a day, and the weekly fare is less than the equivalent in car-parking fees.
In most European countries a lot of people commute to work by bus, train or tram.
None in my area that I'm aware of. Tele2 are now business only, aren't they?
I live in a small market town. Our BT exchange has yet to be upgraded to ADSL. Cable has never been installed; the local council prevented this a number of years ago when the nearby large town was being fitted with cable.
As a UK user with no broadband, I've no idea how I'm going to download this.
My only chance is to take my iPod into work tomorrow (my last day for over a week) and download it to that - assuming it has been posted as a seperate download by then. In fact I'm not certain if there is enough space on my iPod to hold it - must start deleting tracks.
Funny you should mention the light bulb. Sir Hiram Maxim has a claim to not only having been the first to fly, but also patented a form of light-bulb in 1878! On July 31, 1894, Maxim's steam-powered aircraft flew around 200 feet.
Maxim was most famous for the Maxim machine gun. He also built a fairground ride known as "The Captive Flying Machine". One of these is still in use at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire, and will be celebrating its 100th birthday in 2004.
He was born in Sangersville, Maine in 1840, moving to London in the 1880s. He died in 1916.
In both cases the system became virtually unusable. I'm not on a private network so I couldn't try ssh to shut the machine down. It's as if the CD drive is sending multiple spurious interrupts back to Mac OS X. I've not tried either CD with Mac OS 9.
I have an iBook with a combined DVD/CD-RW drive, and this has problems handling CDs with mastering errors.
I had one CD that due to a pressing error had a large blob of paint on the reverse side. I inserted it without checking the underside, and then had severe problems attempting to eject the disk. I had to reboot and hold down the trackpad button to get the disk out.
I've also got an audio CD that isn't copy-protected, but has a hidden track at the start. This too appears to lock up the drive, and won't eject without a reboot or a bent paperclip.
Was this an NE2000 clone by any chance?
Due to quirky differences between the NE1000 and NE2000 cards, it was possible for the card to present an incorrect MAC address which would be identical across all cards if either the driver wasn't written correctly or the specification badly cloned.
I saw this problem myself many years ago on a Banyan network. Updated card drivers resolved this.
Sometime during the early 2.1.x development kernel series someone added code to add an undelete facility. The last x files deleted would instead get moved to a pseudo .directory and remain there until a restart or until additional files were removed.
This feature disappeared when 'dentry' support was added to the filesystem code circa 2.1.43.
I've got a dedicated encryption card generating diagnostics in Morse code here right now!
Not only games. There are a lot of audio applications that will not run under Classic.
There will be a larger report on Friday in Northallerton's weekly local newspaper, although it is likely to share the front cover with the story on the explosion at a pork-pie factory.
I'll post a link if the story appears on their site.
There's a hardware company called "nCipher" who make hardware based encryption devices. These have a single LED on the back of the card. To indicate any error conditions, the error code is flashed via Morse on this LED.
The BBC license fee also covers 5 national analogue radio stations, plus digital radio, regional stations for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and local stations for England. It's worth it alone just for that.
This is just as significant as a post stating that System 7.0.1 will run on an iBook. I got that running at the moment, using the BasiliskII emulator running under XFree86 under MacOS X. It's still emulation/simulation, though.
A VT-100 emulator with bolted on ANSI colour that nothing appears to support the best terminal app? Are you bonkers?
Norway is not a member of the EU, so this regulation will not apply to them.
I used to work in third-line support for a UK systems vendor. One customer constantly would say "We pay you to read the manuals for us."
You can now pick up decoder units for around £100 from places like Currys and Comet. There appear to be 2 separate manufacturers making these; Pace and someone else. These only went on sale during the past month or so.
Additionally there are new televisions available with in-built DV3 digital decoders that will also pick up all free-to-air channels.
Adds an whole new meaning to underage pr0n!
Please don't use acronyms like CYA (Cover Your Ass for those, like me, who had to look it up) without explaining them. Slashdot is a global comunity and there will be a good number of people who have no idea what it means.
My signature varies considerably whenever I buy anything with my debit card. The size of the pen, flexibility of the pen, height of the counter and even sheen of the paper influences the signature in some way.
I may have dealt with him myself! :)
A few years ago I had to email a number of people at one company. Most names were in the format jbloggs@company.com, so they were fairly easy to remember.
However this person's email address was 'xx' followed by the first letter of his first name, the last letter of his first name, the first letter of his surname and finally the last letter of his surname. No one else at the UK arm of this company appeared to use such a scheme.
I've got a SCSI-2 encryption processor here. Basically a processor for handling the generation of strong RSA keys without tying up the main CPU.
Not the whole 6 hours of the radio series, though.