Check out mini-itx.com - they have these adapters to turn an IDE connector to CF.
Basically, if you wanted to make a very very small computer that required very little power (firewall? router?) you'd use one of these with a 128M CF card.
It might be useful for these Media Center PCs, too.;) Do they USE the secondary IDE channel for anything useful?
Sorry, you're free to delete Quicktime.framework if you see fit. It is located at/System/Library/Frameworks/Quicktime.framework . Also, Mplayer OS X and Microsoft Windows Media Player works just fine on all Mac OS X boxs without using any Quicktime libraries at all.
Yeah? You can probably remove DirectShow with some hackery too. (XP Embedded probably has a module option for it.) And hey, I'm sure Mplayer and Quicktime work fine on Windows without DS in it (I *know* QT doesn't use DS, because the DS filters will not accept an MPEG with an invalid header, whereas QT will determine file information from the first frame if the header is smashed somehow)
The point was that most apps that use A/V probably use {QuickTime,DirectShow} APIs, and thus removing them will break those apps' functionality.
THAT is what I meant. Not... how the hell did you even take my comment?! QT == DirectShow for all intents and purposes. QT Player == Windows Media Player for the same reason. (Yes, QT Player can edit video and do all sorts of weird things. But how many people use it for that?)
"How your comment is modded as 'score 4, informative' is beyond me."
Only if you check "Protect content imported to my library" or something like that.
It's a really interesting option. It *sounds* like you're protecting it from corruption, but really you're just protecting it from those nasty, nasty hackers who install Kazaa and download LOTS OF MUSIC!!:(
I, for one, like being able to muck around with my files. It's called 'having control over content.'
No one said you didn't. What the OP means is that iTunes handles your file organization scheme for you, transparently, and the idea is you work with all your music files through iTunes' interface.
I'm with him - I originally had an elaborate filing system for my music, then iTunes came along and I found myself rarely touching the filesystem, so I just let iTunes handle it.
Basically all a filing system is, is a crude version of the Library feature of iTunes...
I burn it to CDR media. In MP3 format that I'll be able to play thirty years from now.
Are you sure? It's not like anything's keeping you from burning MP3-CDs with iTunes. And I'm not really sure you're going to be playing MP3s 30 years from now, I think you'll have moved on to another codec. It doesn't really matter what codec that is.
Finally, I suspect that Apple enabled some sort of hash, linked perhaps to your MAC address (or some other hardware) that would keep the key different for every single PC.
Or, if you had RTFA'd, you would KNOW, not "suspect", that the keys are linked to (among other things) your Product Activation hash key and your system disk serial number.
Those two alone are enough to track down *any* PC (running XP, obviously, but there are two other methods.)
I believe the keys are limited to 3 PCs through the DRM.
No. That is entirely an Apple thing. Apple will only *give* 3 computers their unique keys. After that, you have to "Deauthorize" a computer, which means Apple takes away that key.
Now that I think about that, an exploit occurs to me. Apple allows you to download those files that you have purchased an infinite number of times (it's even made easy by iTunes' "Advanced->Check for Purchased Music" option) - it would be pretty simple to share keys. Just authorize your computer, get the key, download all music protected by that key (I'm not actually sure if every time you download music, it's encoded BY YOUR SPECIFIC KEY, but it seems likely - which means all three systems have to download the music again) then deauthorize the computer after saving the key.
Obviously, you would only do this with people you trust with your credit card, as you have to have the password to a given Apple account to authorize your computer against it. But it would be a way around the 3-computer limit.
It's gotten me out of rm -rf, too - reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --search-empty (or something like that) will recover accidentally deleted files on ReiserFS.:)
Even Entourage will not connect to 5.x, and that IS made by Microsoft...;)
2000 or later only. Go fig. Maybe MS doesn't want to deal with 5.x's kludgy implementation again, so they don't open it (maybe they don't have documentation of it?)...still doesn't quite explain 2000+...
I was at a convention when Cheapass was just starting out; they had a booth at Norwescon, with a single business card. It had instructions for how to play a tank game using only sugar packets (and maybe the business card; I forget.)
There was a Denny's across the street. People would actually ask the waitress to hold their order while this game finished out. Others would work the food arriving into the game (plate landing on tank is instant death, or other mechanics)...
Just like in video games, quality of "graphics" doesn't matter as much as the game itself.:)
Quicktime DOES NOT SUCK. On Windows it's pretty braindamaged, because Windows already has a video API (DirectShow) - on Mac, Quicktime IS the video API.
QT's free player has a nag screen yes... and no, there is no fullscreen unless you buy Pro. (Which bothers me, but it's not a big deal: it's a very clean player, actually.) On Mac, it has a very low footprint because most of it is already loaded into the OS!
And us "mac loons" without viable alternatives? MplayerOSX seems to work well. I just don't use it because QT does almost everything I need it to. (There's a single codec it doesn't play that I have a lot of CDs with. I use mplayer for those.) I might add that if you download 3ivx, QT suddenly supports DivX, Xvid, and 3ivx; I can watch DVD rips with no problem..mov is, by the way, a container. And Sorenson is actually a good codec. By default iMovie doesn't export to anything more than 320x240, and anything more than that is too bandwidth-sucking to be offered for web download anyway. Sorenson shines at this resolution, I might add.
ObjC has a runtime? I was under the impression it compiled to native code, as ObjC is simply an OO layer grafted onto C. (And it's pretty nicely done, too, once you get used to the rather strange class syntax.)
Actually, I have this feeling that you just explained way too much. All you really needed to tell her was "If you want to play files bought from the iTMS, you need an iPod." You didn't need to add "or download the files from (insert p2p), or burn them to CD and rip them back"...
When she asked "why not?" you could have simply said "because they don't sell it in MP3 format, they sell it in a format that only the iPod plays."
One thing I've learned through years of being a geek: NOT EVERYONE WANTS AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE DO. When they ask us a question they want the SIMPLEST RESPONSE POSSIBLE. If you had answered her questions in these ways she probably would have said "Oh", bought a few songs from the iTMS and went out and bought an iPod. It's not like the thing is bad or something.:)
The Mac actually works just like Windows in this respect. Replace "DirectShow or DirectSound" with "the QT APIs" and you have the Mac way of doing this.
And amazingly, the QT API calls to play sound files, including.m4p, will allow ANY program to play an m4p file (assuming of course that your computer has rights to play that file)...
And I think there's a plugin for Winamp now to allow it to use the QT API on Windows to play these files.
Yeah, you've got a new switcher right here, and I followed exactly this chain. First got iTunes/Win, then got an iPod (nearly the same week) and quickly started looking at iBooks. This from someone who has been using PCs for 10+ years, and used to layer scorn on Macs:)
I'm very happy with my OSX now, and considering one of those shiny dual 1.8 G5s...
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Proficiency? Ranking?
Funny, I play Go online, and I notice proficiency rankings by people's names all the time. IGS, KGS, NNGS, all of them use it.
Hell, even Yahoo! has them. Why not go after them?
Check out mini-itx.com - they have these adapters to turn an IDE connector to CF.
;) Do they USE the secondary IDE channel for anything useful?
Basically, if you wanted to make a very very small computer that required very little power (firewall? router?) you'd use one of these with a 128M CF card.
It might be useful for these Media Center PCs, too.
"only a fool fights a war on two fronts.... only the prince of fools fights a war on 532 fronts"
Well, also if I try to overwrite any files or make new ones it doesn't work.
I think they may have secured it. I tried making a new text file, and nothing happened...
I'm using mount_webdav now, we'll see how that works.
The Metal pad by the same company is a lot better, but you may not be willing to spend the extra $100(or 200 if you're getting two for doubles)...
:)
Still, I plan on buying one or two in order to lose the 30 pounds again
Sorry, you're free to delete Quicktime.framework if you see fit. It is located at /System/Library/Frameworks/Quicktime.framework . Also, Mplayer OS X and Microsoft Windows Media Player works just fine on all Mac OS X boxs without using any Quicktime libraries at all.
Yeah? You can probably remove DirectShow with some hackery too. (XP Embedded probably has a module option for it.) And hey, I'm sure Mplayer and Quicktime work fine on Windows without DS in it (I *know* QT doesn't use DS, because the DS filters will not accept an MPEG with an invalid header, whereas QT will determine file information from the first frame if the header is smashed somehow)
The point was that most apps that use A/V probably use {QuickTime,DirectShow} APIs, and thus removing them will break those apps' functionality.
THAT is what I meant. Not... how the hell did you even take my comment?! QT == DirectShow for all intents and purposes. QT Player == Windows Media Player for the same reason. (Yes, QT Player can edit video and do all sorts of weird things. But how many people use it for that?)
"How your comment is modded as 'score 4, informative' is beyond me."
Your argument has one fatal flaw.
RAID is now commonly understood to mean "Redundant Array of Independent Disks".
This, because corporations will buy these $1000 SCSI disk modules. Those aren't expensive and they're not even that great capacity.
It's a term for a technology. Not a law.
Mm, last I checked, double was *more* precise than int, not less.
But using "new double(int)" could cause a memory leak since he's not declaring double*, instead he's declaring a full variable...
Only if you check "Protect content imported to my library" or something like that.
:(
It's a really interesting option. It *sounds* like you're protecting it from corruption, but really you're just protecting it from those nasty, nasty hackers who install Kazaa and download LOTS OF MUSIC!!
I, for one, like being able to muck around with my files. It's called 'having control over content.'
No one said you didn't. What the OP means is that iTunes handles your file organization scheme for you, transparently, and the idea is you work with all your music files through iTunes' interface.
I'm with him - I originally had an elaborate filing system for my music, then iTunes came along and I found myself rarely touching the filesystem, so I just let iTunes handle it.
Basically all a filing system is, is a crude version of the Library feature of iTunes...
I burn it to CDR media. In MP3 format that I'll be able to play thirty years from now.
Are you sure? It's not like anything's keeping you from burning MP3-CDs with iTunes. And I'm not really sure you're going to be playing MP3s 30 years from now, I think you'll have moved on to another codec. It doesn't really matter what codec that is.
IHBT, I'm sure, but your post annoyed me.
Try it with QuickTime.
QT is MacOS's audio/video API. You can drag the QT player to the trash just fine, but deleting QT would be a bit like deleting DirectShow.
And invariably they use Powerpoint as Photoshop, too. I've seen multi-MB .ppts because they couldn't be bothered to save as jpg...
If your Linux box happens to be running a PPC processor, perhaps. But if you're running a PPC chances are you were running MOL anyway, so yes. ;)
Fitts's Law. The larger buttons make the target far easier to acquire. Small buttons are a pain in the ass to aim for.
Or, if you had RTFA'd, you would KNOW, not "suspect", that the keys are linked to (among other things) your Product Activation hash key and your system disk serial number.
Those two alone are enough to track down *any* PC (running XP, obviously, but there are two other methods.)
No. That is entirely an Apple thing. Apple will only *give* 3 computers their unique keys. After that, you have to "Deauthorize" a computer, which means Apple takes away that key.
Now that I think about that, an exploit occurs to me. Apple allows you to download those files that you have purchased an infinite number of times (it's even made easy by iTunes' "Advanced->Check for Purchased Music" option) - it would be pretty simple to share keys. Just authorize your computer, get the key, download all music protected by that key (I'm not actually sure if every time you download music, it's encoded BY YOUR SPECIFIC KEY, but it seems likely - which means all three systems have to download the music again) then deauthorize the computer after saving the key.
Obviously, you would only do this with people you trust with your credit card, as you have to have the password to a given Apple account to authorize your computer against it. But it would be a way around the 3-computer limit.
It's gotten me out of rm -rf, too - reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --search-empty (or something like that) will recover accidentally deleted files on ReiserFS. :)
Sir, I now need a new keyboard... and nose, and can of Jolt. NICE. :)
Even Entourage will not connect to 5.x, and that IS made by Microsoft... ;)
...still doesn't quite explain 2000+...
2000 or later only. Go fig. Maybe MS doesn't want to deal with 5.x's kludgy implementation again, so they don't open it (maybe they don't have documentation of it?)
I was at a convention when Cheapass was just starting out; they had a booth at Norwescon, with a single business card. It had instructions for how to play a tank game using only sugar packets (and maybe the business card; I forget.)
:)
There was a Denny's across the street. People would actually ask the waitress to hold their order while this game finished out. Others would work the food arriving into the game (plate landing on tank is instant death, or other mechanics)...
Just like in video games, quality of "graphics" doesn't matter as much as the game itself.
Quicktime DOES NOT SUCK. On Windows it's pretty braindamaged, because Windows already has a video API (DirectShow) - on Mac, Quicktime IS the video API.
.mov is, by the way, a container. And Sorenson is actually a good codec. By default iMovie doesn't export to anything more than 320x240, and anything more than that is too bandwidth-sucking to be offered for web download anyway. Sorenson shines at this resolution, I might add.
;)
QT's free player has a nag screen yes... and no, there is no fullscreen unless you buy Pro. (Which bothers me, but it's not a big deal: it's a very clean player, actually.) On Mac, it has a very low footprint because most of it is already loaded into the OS!
And us "mac loons" without viable alternatives? MplayerOSX seems to work well. I just don't use it because QT does almost everything I need it to. (There's a single codec it doesn't play that I have a lot of CDs with. I use mplayer for those.) I might add that if you download 3ivx, QT suddenly supports DivX, Xvid, and 3ivx; I can watch DVD rips with no problem.
Read. Understand. Then post.
Oh, and Cocoa has the whole Objective C runtime
ObjC has a runtime? I was under the impression it compiled to native code, as ObjC is simply an OO layer grafted onto C. (And it's pretty nicely done, too, once you get used to the rather strange class syntax.)
Actually, I have this feeling that you just explained way too much. All you really needed to tell her was "If you want to play files bought from the iTMS, you need an iPod." You didn't need to add "or download the files from (insert p2p), or burn them to CD and rip them back"...
:)
When she asked "why not?" you could have simply said "because they don't sell it in MP3 format, they sell it in a format that only the iPod plays."
One thing I've learned through years of being a geek: NOT EVERYONE WANTS AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE DO. When they ask us a question they want the SIMPLEST RESPONSE POSSIBLE. If you had answered her questions in these ways she probably would have said "Oh", bought a few songs from the iTMS and went out and bought an iPod. It's not like the thing is bad or something.
The Mac actually works just like Windows in this respect. Replace "DirectShow or DirectSound" with "the QT APIs" and you have the Mac way of doing this.
.m4p, will allow ANY program to play an m4p file (assuming of course that your computer has rights to play that file)...
And amazingly, the QT API calls to play sound files, including
And I think there's a plugin for Winamp now to allow it to use the QT API on Windows to play these files.
Yeah, you've got a new switcher right here, and I followed exactly this chain. First got iTunes/Win, then got an iPod (nearly the same week) and quickly started looking at iBooks. This from someone who has been using PCs for 10+ years, and used to layer scorn on Macs :)
I'm very happy with my OSX now, and considering one of those shiny dual 1.8 G5s...
I just looked in that area myself; LDAPv3 is on by default. Panther came preloaded; maybe it's different if you actually go through the install...