The good news is that when you visit a new area, you can at least set the radio presets in your rental car to be analogous to your favorite stations from home.;-)
I'm sure many of you remember the constant rolling advertisements for other TNN programs on Start Trek: Next Generation. Better get used to it.
Wait until a major network switches over to that style of advertising. You sure as heck can't fast forward that. That's what's waiting for us when not just DVRs, but timeshifting as a whole reaches critical mass.
Sure, some DVR will try to filter that automatically, by blocking it out or shifting and stretching the rest of the image, but it would only be a matter of time before the networks have the advertisements shift location on the screen.
The reason I state timeshifting as a whole and not just DVRs is that at some point we'll have centralized DVRs on the server side of the cable companies. Suppose they set up their own DVR shop such that everything within the last two weeks are available at any time of the day. Some cable companies have that available now with a premium channel or two. Now, imagine every subscriber to one particular cable company having InfititeTivo or whatever they call it. THAT'S when well start to see the scrolling banner ad crap.
I bought an Oritron DVD player once and it barely lasted longer than the 90 day warrantee. Perhaps they model themselves after Microsoft when it comes to innovation.
Funny, I was just surfing around trying to find a more elegant way of doing tape backups on Mac OSX, I got bored and popped back to/. only to see this article.
Anybody have any good (and free, this is a personal system) suggestions for doing archives to a DDS3 drive?
And yes, the "Server" in question here is old enough such that it came with onboard SCSI.
I felt some instability in STABLE so I switched to CURRENT. 5.2 is coming down the pipe, so I figured the "we thought we nipped this but it turns out we didn't" warning in the updating file was enough to prod me over to CURRENT.
Maybe this is their secret way of getting more users to test out CURRENT?
1. If you thought it was worthwhile to send me an e-mail in the first place, then you'll probably click the respond button for the bounce message. If not, then I probably don't want to hear from you anyway.
2. If someone spoofs an e-mail to me from a spam victim, the spam victim will get an e-mail asking them to prove they're real. Fat chance of them ever doing that. Who knows? Maybe the spam victim will be so impressed with the sheer brutality of Active Spam Killer, they'll try it to.
How the heck could Active Spam Killer be left out? I used to get about 150 spams a day and now I get ZERO. No false positives, no false negatives.
It is an autoresponder that checks the sender against a whitelist and a blacklist. If a new e-mail is in neither, then it bounces back an e-mail asking for a confirmation that the sender is a human. Simple!
You don't need the fancy short ram. I stuck regular DIMMS in my Desktop Gossamer by removing the metal grating over the power supply fan. The fan is actually within the power supply, so you don't have to worry about it whacking the ram.
They'd be a lot better getting rid of megaplexes. The fact that there are 20 and 30 screen theaters these days with multiple showings concurrently for opening weekend means that more people than ever before can actually get in to see the latest movie during its opening weekend.
This is good for the studios and bad for the theaters. The reason for this is that the ticket price is divided between the studio and the theater on a sliding scale, where the vast majority of the ticket price goes to the studio for the first week's ticket sales, and then progressively less and less as the weeks drag on. There's a reason why you have to take out a second mortgage to pay for popcorn and soda, and that's because for the first week out the ticket sale is pretty much a loss leader.
The irony is that this is the fault of the theater operators who keep building bigger and bigger theaters. The only fix is to re-negotiate the scale (fat chance), or build smaller theaters (fatter chance).
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The good news is that when you visit a new area, you can at least set the radio presets in your rental car to be analogous to your favorite stations from home. ;-)
Wow, the part about ClearChannel is enough to make me never again think about getting an XM unit. That'd be like buying penicillin from a prostitute.
I'm sure many of you remember the constant rolling advertisements for other TNN programs on Start Trek: Next Generation. Better get used to it.
Wait until a major network switches over to that style of advertising. You sure as heck can't fast forward that. That's what's waiting for us when not just DVRs, but timeshifting as a whole reaches critical mass.
Sure, some DVR will try to filter that automatically, by blocking it out or shifting and stretching the rest of the image, but it would only be a matter of time before the networks have the advertisements shift location on the screen.
The reason I state timeshifting as a whole and not just DVRs is that at some point we'll have centralized DVRs on the server side of the cable companies. Suppose they set up their own DVR shop such that everything within the last two weeks are available at any time of the day. Some cable companies have that available now with a premium channel or two. Now, imagine every subscriber to one particular cable company having InfititeTivo or whatever they call it. THAT'S when well start to see the scrolling banner ad crap.
Drop Squad is cooler. 4000+ balls is a pretty good start though.
I bought an Oritron DVD player once and it barely lasted longer than the 90 day warrantee. Perhaps they model themselves after Microsoft when it comes to innovation.
The last time I compiled 5.1-CURRENT (a couple of days ago) the system paniced on boot. Maybe we should wait until 5.2...
I was actually thinking of dump/restore.
Previously on Linux I was using an Arkeia freebie demo copy, but they only make the client for OSX not the server side.
Funny, I was just surfing around trying to find a more elegant way of doing tape backups on Mac OSX, I got bored and popped back to /. only to see this article.
Anybody have any good (and free, this is a personal system) suggestions for doing archives to a DDS3 drive?
And yes, the "Server" in question here is old enough such that it came with onboard SCSI.
Wow, that's really awesome. I can't wait for Safari to have those features.
System Profiler on the Beige G3s claim to have a system bus of 67 MHz. Take THAT!!
Ever hear of Netinfo Manager? They actually provide chsh, and you can use it to pretend you're changing stuff, but it's all a lie.
Dammit, I'm using a Gossamer as a file server around here. Oh well, it isn't like 10.2.8 is going to implode when Panther arrives.
Or you could just use a Mac.
12" PB merely requires digging up a dime to pop open the battery and slipping in the card. Actually getting the OS to work with it is even easier.
I felt some instability in STABLE so I switched to CURRENT. 5.2 is coming down the pipe, so I figured the "we thought we nipped this but it turns out we didn't" warning in the updating file was enough to prod me over to CURRENT.
Maybe this is their secret way of getting more users to test out CURRENT?
I work for the Erotic Networks
Is that anything like the Psychic Friends Network?
I'd like to by FreeBSD isn't quite ready for prime time on these things yet.
I just changed my Mac over to the Quack sound so I won't get sued either.
Didn't level 7 have the burning desert where the sodomites were damned to wallow?
Uhhh I get, $30/month for 1.5Mbps/128kbps from Verizon.
1. If you thought it was worthwhile to send me an e-mail in the first place, then you'll probably click the respond button for the bounce message. If not, then I probably don't want to hear from you anyway.
2. If someone spoofs an e-mail to me from a spam victim, the spam victim will get an e-mail asking them to prove they're real. Fat chance of them ever doing that. Who knows? Maybe the spam victim will be so impressed with the sheer brutality of Active Spam Killer, they'll try it to.
How the heck could Active Spam Killer be left out? I used to get about 150 spams a day and now I get ZERO. No false positives, no false negatives.
It is an autoresponder that checks the sender against a whitelist and a blacklist. If a new e-mail is in neither, then it bounces back an e-mail asking for a confirmation that the sender is a human. Simple!
What's this "we" shit? Are you a virus writer? I'm sure as hell I'm not!
Hey Ashcroft! You might want to check this guy out!
You don't need the fancy short ram. I stuck regular DIMMS in my Desktop Gossamer by removing the metal grating over the power supply fan. The fan is actually within the power supply, so you don't have to worry about it whacking the ram.
They'd be a lot better getting rid of megaplexes. The fact that there are 20 and 30 screen theaters these days with multiple showings concurrently for opening weekend means that more people than ever before can actually get in to see the latest movie during its opening weekend.
This is good for the studios and bad for the theaters. The reason for this is that the ticket price is divided between the studio and the theater on a sliding scale, where the vast majority of the ticket price goes to the studio for the first week's ticket sales, and then progressively less and less as the weeks drag on. There's a reason why you have to take out a second mortgage to pay for popcorn and soda, and that's because for the first week out the ticket sale is pretty much a loss leader.
The irony is that this is the fault of the theater operators who keep building bigger and bigger theaters. The only fix is to re-negotiate the scale (fat chance), or build smaller theaters (fatter chance).