It's a legacy, maybe - but just try to find a command in Linux to rescan your SCSI-bus. Well, there isn't. Instead, you are supposed to echo some values into certain parts of the procfs, or run some vendor-specific script.
If that's all it was, then why has no one else been able to create an equivalent tool to Joerg's?
I use growisofs from dvd+rw-tools. It fills in the role of cdrecord very nicely.
Growisofs lets me use device names & it burns CDs & DVDs (+ and -R). It lets me continue finish what would have been a coaster, only slightly messing up the interrupted file, and I use par2 files anyway. And it lets me burn a directory directly, rather than making an iso file or, rather, using a shell script to pipe in an iso file on the fly.
It's already in Debian testing, which is reassuring. I've heard k3b already uses it.
This sounded odd to me too, because I'd heard that limiting edit access to registered users was an available configuration option. So I checked: $wgGroupPermissions does this now (1.5+), replacing $wgWhitelistEdit (1.1+).
This article offers the insane learning curve of giving a really broad overview of why you'd use a wiki, then discussing how to develop it. Typically, the builtin configuration pages or existing plugins would go in between those.
The Cartoon Network's been posting the Adult Swim shows online lately, available 24/7 rather than just Friday night like they had been. There are no commercials. It worked under mplayer for me, using, apparently, WMV9.
What might be up: Picture backing up a number of fairly similar machines (say, a group of Windows machines built from a common image), & noting duplicated files, only saving each once. You could count the space saved by a link as compression. If you have a homogeneous sample, you save lots of space & claim ridiculous compression.
Not updated in nine months? That's the same as never updated.
Windows XP SP2 came out in August 2004, IIRC. Not to say that that's perfect - but it does fix some problems, right?
For updates since then, you might check the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search; I got that from a smithii page on slipstreaming, which also includes a file to download those files, up through November, anyway. That requires Cygwin, although you could just pull the URLs out of that & fetch them all. Either way, you could download them to another computer, then burn them to a CD, then run them on your laptop before you reconnect to the net.
And the word "ninja" comes from Japanese, which lacks plurals (sort of). The correct way to talk about multiple of the assassins would be "lots of ninja attacked me". Doesn't stop me from saying "ninjas", though.
(shudder) You'd better watch out for the Grammar Ninja.
I'm noting similar responses to a recent article - A question of stability of optical media was answered by some backup techniques. To repost: I really like parchive2, but I wonder if dvdisaster is faster & allows finer-grained recovery, though.
Someone else already posted about having offline hard drives...
Someone else made a deliberately lo-fi, rough draft theme based on paper & pencil. For the background, picture white paper with blue horizontal lines. Instead of straight lines, picture a freehand line drawn in pencil. A messy, obviously handwritten font would also help.
I can't remember where I saw this; I haven't used it, but I thought I'd bookmarked it.
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I thought it was awesome.
As technology progressed, the merits of flint vs rubbing sticks for starting fires become the next flame war.
I see what you did there.
Here you go.
I prefer the smithii system, using a makefile. It's easier to examine, & it slipstreams all the updates.
Nitpick: Not knowing something is ignorance, not stupidity. Being less ignorant is just a matter of learning information.
Growisofs lets me use device names & it burns CDs & DVDs (+ and -R). It lets me continue finish what would have been a coaster, only slightly messing up the interrupted file, and I use par2 files anyway. And it lets me burn a directory directly, rather than making an iso file or, rather, using a shell script to pipe in an iso file on the fly.
It's already in Debian testing, which is reassuring. I've heard k3b already uses it.
This sounded odd to me too, because I'd heard that limiting edit access to registered users was an available configuration option. So I checked: $wgGroupPermissions does this now (1.5+), replacing $wgWhitelistEdit (1.1+).
This article offers the insane learning curve of giving a really broad overview of why you'd use a wiki, then discussing how to develop it. Typically, the builtin configuration pages or existing plugins would go in between those.
Another network's done a bit of this...
The Cartoon Network's been posting the Adult Swim shows online lately, available 24/7 rather than just Friday night like they had been. There are no commercials. It worked under mplayer for me, using, apparently, WMV9.
Bah. I piped that through bzip2 -9 twice, & got it down to 248 bytes!
If you tracked deltas within files, you could look to xdelta as a filesystem, or possibly CVS.
If you were just tracking changed files, you could look to Plan 9 filesystem or Dirvish.
What might be up: Picture backing up a number of fairly similar machines (say, a group of Windows machines built from a common image), & noting duplicated files, only saving each once. You could count the space saved by a link as compression. If you have a homogeneous sample, you save lots of space & claim ridiculous compression.
Avoid driving through Iowa. I got lost whenever I drove through it.
Every time I read those self-promoting blurbs as Windows installs, I read them as: "Windows. Sucking less than ever before."
Not updated in nine months? That's the same as never updated.
Windows XP SP2 came out in August 2004, IIRC. Not to say that that's perfect - but it does fix some problems, right?
For updates since then, you might check the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search; I got that from a smithii page on slipstreaming, which also includes a file to download those files, up through November, anyway. That requires Cygwin, although you could just pull the URLs out of that & fetch them all. Either way, you could download them to another computer, then burn them to a CD, then run them on your laptop before you reconnect to the net.
(shudder) You'd better watch out for the Grammar Ninja.
Is that one Grammar Ninja or multiple Grammar Ninja?
Yes.
And the word "ninja" comes from Japanese, which lacks plurals (sort of). The correct way to talk about multiple of the assassins would be "lots of ninja attacked me". Doesn't stop me from saying "ninjas", though.
(shudder) You'd better watch out for the Grammar Ninja.
I'm noting similar responses to a recent article - A question of stability of optical media was answered by some backup techniques. To repost: I really like parchive2, but I wonder if dvdisaster is faster & allows finer-grained recovery, though.
Someone else already posted about having offline hard drives...
Dvdisaster works best on image files? Then you can't include the recovery files on the same media, which is inconvenient.
I really like Parchive2. I do wonder if dvdisaster is faster & allows finer-grained recovery, though.
Someone else made a deliberately lo-fi, rough draft theme based on paper & pencil. For the background, picture white paper with blue horizontal lines. Instead of straight lines, picture a freehand line drawn in pencil. A messy, obviously handwritten font would also help.
I can't remember where I saw this; I haven't used it, but I thought I'd bookmarked it.
... but this one application is a good place for DRM and encryption etc.
Hang on, DRM works? Since when?
DRM in a place with lots of budding technical talent & not a lot of distributed wealth would be a great place to test the DRM.
I think NoCat is what you want. Their page mentions that it's ported to the WRT54G in a couple of different versions.
Tell us if you've tried the software mentioned in the link, such as IsoBuster, to try to read & duplicate the Muzak CD.
If you want people to try to work on this, try posting an image.
If you're not investigating this, have you considered just switching the Muzak player to play regular CDs?
This sounds sort of like when Carl Sagan got offended at an internal Apple computer codenamed "Carl Sagan" and sued; they simply gave it the new codename BHA, for "Butthead Astronomer."