Safer than a desktop HDD. The tiny platters don't move quite as much when jolted (edges of the platter being much closer to the axis than with desktop drives), and they tend to spin down a lot more frequently than desktop drives. Still not as "safe" as a regular ol' flash card...
Larger flash cards offer drastically diminishing return, making it harder to carry around ten or twenty of them.
MicroDrive users tend to be either desperate for storage or more careful with their cameras (as they aren't as shock-proof). (You won't see many pho/journs with a MicroDrive.)
For the existing MicroDrive users, this 4GB "hack" is a huge boon - given that many current cameras write 10-20MB photographs (in RAW format), the ability to take more than fifty photos between card changes is a bit of a nicety. This likely won't impact current flash card users, though, as the 4GBs are just as damage-prone as the 1GBs.
The seller more likely obtained it from a Creative MuVo, as the Hitachi drive in the iPod is missing some aspect of the standard IDE controller used in most CompactFlash cards and drives.
No, not at all. That part about the "MIT AI lab" was just thrown in to add a little spice, a little New-Radicals-Courtney-Love-Marilyn-Manson intrigue. You did the right thing by totally ignoring it.
For your deader, pop the hood and push the little tiny CUDA microswitch on the motherboard. Only push it once, though. A lot of "dead" power supplies are vindicated this way.
Sam: What we need is a little bit of recognition. Gollum: What's recognishin, precious? What's recognishin, eh? Sam: Rec-og-ni-tion. Honors, awards, critics in a stew. Lovely big golden awards with a nice nameplate on the bottom. Sam: Even you couldn't say no to that. Gollum: Oh yes, we could. Spoilin' nice shinies. Give it to us raw and unfinished. You keep nasty awards. Sam: You're hopeless.
I believe that the tcpdump requires root privileges.
Here's how to use it:
1. load up movie88 on your Linux machine (with properly configured RealPlayer) or another machine on the same hub - Windoze works fine for this.
2. 'order' a movie. It should show you a list of all movies that you've ordered, with a button for 300Kb/s.
3. run this script on your Linux machine.
4. Click the 300Kb/s link in your browser.
tcpdump will intercept the RealPlayer's request and pass it along to wget.
This is now what passes for news on Slashdot? Completely unsubstantiated speculations on what Microsoft may have done without any evidence of wrong doing whatsoever?
It's April First. For those not familiar, it's a day used for large-scale practical jokes. 'nuff said.
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Professional photographers? (cough, cough)
Take the Kodak DCS-Pro 14n. 15MB raw files, *40*MB tiffs. Hmm.
Safer than a desktop HDD. The tiny platters don't move quite as much when jolted (edges of the platter being much closer to the axis than with desktop drives), and they tend to spin down a lot more frequently than desktop drives. Still not as "safe" as a regular ol' flash card...
Professional photographers tend to use either:
;-)
512MB Lexar CFs, or
1GB MicroDrives.
(Or film.
Larger flash cards offer drastically diminishing return, making it harder to carry around ten or twenty of them.
MicroDrive users tend to be either desperate for storage or more careful with their cameras (as they aren't as shock-proof). (You won't see many pho/journs with a MicroDrive.)
For the existing MicroDrive users, this 4GB "hack" is a huge boon - given that many current cameras write 10-20MB photographs (in RAW format), the ability to take more than fifty photos between card changes is a bit of a nicety. This likely won't impact current flash card users, though, as the 4GBs are just as damage-prone as the 1GBs.
The seller more likely obtained it from a Creative MuVo, as the Hitachi drive in the iPod is missing some aspect of the standard IDE controller used in most CompactFlash cards and drives.
Is this "school" you speak of MIT?
No, not at all. That part about the "MIT AI lab" was just thrown in to add a little spice, a little New-Radicals-Courtney-Love-Marilyn-Manson intrigue. You did the right thing by totally ignoring it.
For your deader, pop the hood and push the little tiny CUDA microswitch on the motherboard. Only push it once, though. A lot of "dead" power supplies are vindicated this way.
Screw the RIAA - I want to see this technology used in an ID3-tagger/file-renamer. o:-)
Sam: What we need is a little bit of recognition.
Gollum: What's recognishin, precious? What's recognishin, eh?
Sam: Rec-og-ni-tion. Honors, awards, critics in a stew. Lovely big golden awards with a nice nameplate on the bottom.
Sam: Even you couldn't say no to that.
Gollum: Oh yes, we could. Spoilin' nice shinies. Give it to us raw and unfinished. You keep nasty awards.
Sam: You're hopeless.
Or perhaps 'gullible'?
Along the same lines, how about an RIAA button?
nohup 'nice --15 "find / -name \*.mp3|xargs rm"'
Your right to speak FREELY has been revoked. Your right to speak in DUPLICATE, however, is still flourishing wildly!
It's the Quadro all over again!
"No Encoding." Yeah, you've got this whole video thing down pat.
UBB and FSAA Stereo
Sweet!! Now I can read two bulletin boards at the SAME TIME!
wait, you don't already??
oh, I suppose some of you have already graduated...
It's really hard to hold a camera when you're sloshed :-(
all those little labels under the buttons get kinda funny, too. what's this little lightning bolt? "BEER". flower icon? "MORE BEER"
It uses FTP - the Fluid Transfer Protocol.
Right idea - wrong orifice
Yeah, sure, you make a legitimate complaint about Slashdot comments, but tell me, does your post have hot grits or Natalie Portman in it?
Thought not.
You're new here, aren't you?
Yes. In this millenium, we have also introduced a gyroscope-driven two-wheeled go-cart and a sophisticated clustered networking device. Now, let me show you how to work the three seashells...
The DVHS factsheet linked from that article mentions that the $2000 recorder has iLink, "but not FireWire" ports.
Isn't iLink just the Sony name for FireWire?
I believe that the tcpdump requires root privileges.
Here's how to use it:
1. load up movie88 on your Linux machine (with properly configured RealPlayer) or another machine on the same hub - Windoze works fine for this.
2. 'order' a movie. It should show you a list of all movies that you've ordered, with a button for 300Kb/s.
3. run this script on your Linux machine.
4. Click the 300Kb/s link in your browser.
tcpdump will intercept the RealPlayer's request and pass it along to wget.
Voila!
Here's an updated URL, although they've butchered the formatting - it doesn't say who's saying what, for example. http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol .jhtml&doc_id=00001611
This is now what passes for news on Slashdot? Completely unsubstantiated speculations on what Microsoft may have done without any evidence of wrong doing whatsoever?
It's April First. For those not familiar, it's a day used for large-scale practical jokes. 'nuff said.
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