Another issue is people installing Series2 standalone images on their USB-enabled DirecTiVo combination boxes so that they could run 4.0 on that platform. The installation apparently works. Any discussion of this is now forbidden on the aformentioned forum. Shutting down image providers will shut down people's ability to make the installation.
There are numerous TiVo-related topics that are verboten in the AVS Forum, or at least there were the last time I was there...that's a big part of why I haven't been there in a while. While they have info on some hacks of minor interest (like backdoor codes), DealDatabase has info on more useful stuff (like video extraction).
Unless your father had an amazing darkroom, you'll be limited to black and white prints and maybe developing slides. Color prints are very difficult. But you'll learn tons regardless.
I did some color printing in high school...it wasn't much more difficult than B&W. Once you get the color balance tweaked in, you can crank out the pix. The main difficulty you're likely to run up against is that a dichroic head is expen$ive.
The parent makes excellent points - only thing is that if you get a manual-everything camera, even with a lot of practice, quickly getting a picture is nigh impossible.
I'm not sure the auto-everything cameras are that much faster. Once you have something like a K1000 dialed in to where you think the action will be, you can get a picture from it as soon as you stab the shutter. With nearly any auto-whatever camera, the camera will spend a second or more making sure the focus, exposure, etc. are correct before it finally takes the picture. You might be able to speed things up by overriding stuff you know won't change (when taking pictures at an airshow, for instance, you can leave the focus locked at infinity), but then you're not doing things any differently than you would with an all-manual camera.
(I need to have my K1000 looked at sometime...the film-used counter resets by itself, and I think the pictures it's taking now aren't as sharp as they used to be. That last bit might be my imagination, though, or maybe it's the film processor...I should probably run some slide film through it and see how those pictures turn out. Most of my picture-taking has shifted to a Coolpix 995, but it'd be nice to have the K1000 as a backup. Besides, I have wider and longer lenses for it, as well as filters and other fun stuff.)
You have to use recv() and send() (or recvfrom()/sendto()) rather than read/write and deal with short writes correctly.
I forgot about that...but then I usually wrap send & recv in functions that make sure the correct amount of data is sent/received. A couple of conditionals (#ifdef _MSC_VER for your Win32 code) are all it'd take to make it cross-platform...you keep sending/receiving if send/recv returns a negative value and errno==EINTR (POSIX) or WSAGetLastError()==WSAEINTR (Win32). (If you use nonblocking I/O, you also want to look out for EWOULDBLOCK/WSAEWOULDBLOCK.)
Don't let the word Unix in the title fool you into thinking that you will need a separate book for Win32 platform (or Linux, for that matter). Apparently, there are differences in OS-specific function calls, but as far as protocols and implementation of specific functionality, the book would provide useful examples for Microsoft developers as well.
I have both this book and Microsoft's take on network coding. The Stevens book has been much more useful, and not just because I've needed to write Windows clients and Linux servers that interoperate. There aren't many differences between Windows Sockets and the BSD socket interface:
A socket descriptor is a SOCKET instead of an int.
You close a socket when you're done with it with closesocket() instead of close().
You call WSAStartup() before doing any socket stuff and call WSACleanup() when you're done.
WSAGetLastError() retrieves any errors that occur.
#include <winsock.h> loads all the socket-related headers you need, and you link with ws2_32.lib.
If you keep this info in mind, you can apply most of what's in the Stevens book under Win32 nearly as easily as you can under Linux/*BSD/whatever. You'll also end up with network code that's reasonably easy to port elsewhere...more so than if you go for a larger percentage of Microsoft-specific socket calls (many BSD-style calls have WSA* near-equivalents that you can use).
What about the 8cm CDRs that can fit in your wallet?
You can get DVD-Rs in the same size now. They're not cheap (CD-Rs in the same size have always been more expensive too), but they hold the same amount as two 120-mm CD-Rs in the same physical space as one 80-mm CD-R.
Also, I have some concerns about potential for data loss with DVD-R/+R media. There's simply so much data stored in a small amount of physical space that a small nick or scratch can wipe out hundreds of megs. of critical data. At least with CDR media, a scratch or nick may just cause one or two files to be unreadable.
If you don't keep your backups on your desk gathering dust and getting shuffled with your papers, they won't get scratched. Keep them in their jewel boxes, or use a sleeve or binder made for the purpose. If you handle them like you would've handled a record back in the day, they won't get scratched. If they do get a small scratch, there are disc-repair kits that work fairly well...but it'd be better to keep them from getting scratched in the first place.
The DVR-A05 isn't dual-format, either...like the DVR-105 I have, it's a DVD-R/RW drive. (At least it uses the recordable DVD standard, which the drive described in the article doesn't.)
The article didn't mention much about media compatibility...my understanding of the situation is that some of the low-cost burners coming onto the market are a bit fussy as to what media they'll accept. You might want to keep an eye on the list of burners at DVDRhelp when you're deciding what DVD burner to buy. (They also have reports on blank DVDs here.)
This dire fucking need to be anywhere in the country in under five hours is just a ludicrious symptom of the cell phone society, fed by auto and air cartels.
Let's say you decide to use your 2 weeks of vacation in one shot. Let's say you decide to go visit family/see stuff/whatever on the other side of the country. Do you want us to believe you'd be willing to waste half of your vacation cooped up inside a train? I don't believe that for a second...it's nuts. Don't presume to think you have a fscking clue what anybody needs, AC.
Sounds interesting. I have a Tungsten E with an SD/MMC card slot {126MHz OMAP processor IIRR}. Will that run such a player? Or will I have serious trouble with battery life?
The specs on that aren't too different than my Tungsten T...but more specifically, the Tungsten E is listed as a supported device. With a 256MB card, I usually get about 4 hours' worth of music at a time (give or take, depending on the bitrates). Playing all of that will run a fully-charged battery down to about 50%. I recently scored a deal on a 512MB card that should last all day, if I should ever need that much runtime.
Make sure you get a card reader if you don't already have one...it's the fastest way to load music. (I've not gotten music to load through a HotSync...I'm not even sure if that's supported.)
So, I'm sticking with AT&T but still wish someone had the ultimate phone- bluetooth, mac and the ability to use ssh without spending $500+. I don't want a camera or to even browse the web, just give me mail and shell and I'd be extremely happy.
I snagged an Ericsson T610 recently...free after rebates, with a Bluetooth headset thrown in for another $20. It works with my Palm, so there should be no reason why it wouldn't work with your Mac. The rate plan I'm on with T-Mobile includes free unlimited data on certain ports (25, 80, 110, and 143 IIRC), which would get you your mail. An extra $10 per month should enable SSH. (I might go for that myself, as I haven't figured out how to get VersaMail to read anything beyond my main inbox...mailing-list traffic gets filed separately.) As things stand now, I'm paying only $10 more per month than I was spending with AT&T, and I'm getting more than double the airtime and data for my notebook and my Palm. (Yes, the T610 has a camera...it's little more than a novelty feature. It won't exactly replace my Coolpix 995 anytime soon.)
(In the past month, the price has come down...you can now make $50 after rebates at Amazon when you get this phone.)
Took the damn thing back to their house and a whole bunch of the extended family was there, it being the holidays and all. They check out the computer and they are all, "Nice computer, only 2.6 GHZ though..." What in the hell! These people are only going to use it for email and stuff. I couldn't believe the reaction I was getting from these people!
At least the person who received the computer appreciated it though. Sorry for the rant but I was amazed at this prevalent outlook on processor speed. Has anyone else run into this?
My parents are running a hand-me-down 450-MHz K6-III. Once I got rid of the worms and spyware that got in through MSN (and switched them from MSN and IE to EarthLink and Mozilla), it got back to running at a decent enough speed for email, browsing, and some simple photo editing (with just the stuff that came with their camera, not Photoshop). I think they could use a bigger hard drive (it's just a 5.1GB 5400-rpm WD right now, and it's getting full), but it gets the job done.
There's not too much keeping-up-with-the-Joneses that I've seen...then again, I only upgraded them to their current system a couple of years ago. Before that, they were still running a P5-166 (a Packard Bell, no less) that was good enough for logging into AOHell (thank God they're no longer using that) and writing stuff in Word 95 (or was it Word 97?). At some point they'll get another of my hand-me-downs, but there's no urgent need for it.
There are fans and there are fans. Try to find a CPU fan/heatsink with a large diameter fan, they won't need to spin as fast and are therefore much quieter. I have found Arctic Cooling's Copper Silent and Slim Silent Pro are whisper quiet, especially compared to my older Zalman "Rolls-Royce Spey" CP-5000 fans. A case with room for 12cm case fans instead of the 8cm ones also helps.
Vantec's Aeroflow coolers with TMD fans are also fairly quiet...they make less noise and keep processors cooler than the retail-box coolers. I have a couple of them on a Tyan S2466N...they were a tight fit, but they improved the cooling without needing much more space. On a single-processor board, installation should be easy.
IMO, stability outweighs all other concerns. I've been putting together my own systems since the days of the 386, and in that time I've used x86 chips from AMD, NextGen, Cyrix, IBM and Intel. The one thing I've leared is that nothing beats the combination of an Intel CPU on an Intel Motherboard.
HTF did this tripe get modded insightful? The stability "argument" was debunked long ago. As long as you're not buying truly cheap-ass parts, stability is not generally going to be an issue. While I do have a pair of 500-MHz P!!!s on an N440BX running my website and mail server, I wouldn't rate it as any more or less reliable than the K6-* and Athlon systems I've built. (With two free processors and the motherboard obtained through eBay for ~$70, it was a cheap way to get into Linux SMP.) Those other systems have been built around decent motherboards and other components, and I would put any of them up against any Intel solution WRT stability or reliability.
I've had to migrate too many users who treated "c:\" as their home directory. Someone started bitching to me about not going directly to c:\ when Explorer opened, I'd be deeply tempted to go BOFH and replace her computer in the middle of the night with an 80286 running DR. DOS and Windows 2.
I think swapping it out for an Etch-a-Sketch would be better. You could even pass it off as one of "those new-fangled Tablet PCs."
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I doubt it very much. They don't give full specs, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if it has a 100MHz bus, 24X CD-ROM, and generally low-end components for everything not listed. You can get a comparable system from microtel for $330. (I'm figuring that a 1.6GHz Athlon is at least as good as a 1.7GHz Celeron.)
According to this AnandTech article on processors under $100, an Athlon XP 1600 (which actually runs somewhere near 1.4 GHz) would leave a 1.7-GHz Celeron (which will be a P4-derived product, not a P!!! derivative) so far behind that it's almost an unfair comparison. Hell, I'm typing this on an old Thunderbird-core 1.0-GHz Athlon that, between the DDR memory and AGP graphics (Radeon 7000...nothing too fancy), would probably still give that Celeron a run for the money. That a nearly three-year-old system could do that says something.
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eWorld became a little service called America Online when it merged with the c64 service, Q-Link...
AOHell goes back much further than eWorld. I think you meant to refer to something called "AppleLink Personal Edition," which was available for both Apple IIs and Macs (if that gives you more of an idea how far back it goes).
(Yes, I've tried it. It's a bit of a pain since you currently have to do each track manually, but it does work. I've had half a thought of writing something to automate it, but haven't gotten around to it yet.)
You must be new around here...it seems no Slashbot's day is complete without posting something along the lines of "Bush is teh dumb.":-| I wonder how many of them showed up for yesterday's Two Minutes Hate.
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There are numerous TiVo-related topics that are verboten in the AVS Forum, or at least there were the last time I was there...that's a big part of why I haven't been there in a while. While they have info on some hacks of minor interest (like backdoor codes), DealDatabase has info on more useful stuff (like video extraction).
It was a figure of speech, not meant to be taken literally.
I did some color printing in high school...it wasn't much more difficult than B&W. Once you get the color balance tweaked in, you can crank out the pix. The main difficulty you're likely to run up against is that a dichroic head is expen$ive.
I'm not sure the auto-everything cameras are that much faster. Once you have something like a K1000 dialed in to where you think the action will be, you can get a picture from it as soon as you stab the shutter. With nearly any auto-whatever camera, the camera will spend a second or more making sure the focus, exposure, etc. are correct before it finally takes the picture. You might be able to speed things up by overriding stuff you know won't change (when taking pictures at an airshow, for instance, you can leave the focus locked at infinity), but then you're not doing things any differently than you would with an all-manual camera.
(I need to have my K1000 looked at sometime...the film-used counter resets by itself, and I think the pictures it's taking now aren't as sharp as they used to be. That last bit might be my imagination, though, or maybe it's the film processor...I should probably run some slide film through it and see how those pictures turn out. Most of my picture-taking has shifted to a Coolpix 995, but it'd be nice to have the K1000 as a backup. Besides, I have wider and longer lenses for it, as well as filters and other fun stuff.)
Platform SDK: Windows Sockets 2: Additional Documentation
Check the last entry. :-) (Before that, they also list the three volumes of TCP/IP Illustrated.)
I forgot about that...but then I usually wrap send & recv in functions that make sure the correct amount of data is sent/received. A couple of conditionals (#ifdef _MSC_VER for your Win32 code) are all it'd take to make it cross-platform...you keep sending/receiving if send/recv returns a negative value and errno==EINTR (POSIX) or WSAGetLastError()==WSAEINTR (Win32). (If you use nonblocking I/O, you also want to look out for EWOULDBLOCK/WSAEWOULDBLOCK.)
I have both this book and Microsoft's take on network coding. The Stevens book has been much more useful, and not just because I've needed to write Windows clients and Linux servers that interoperate. There aren't many differences between Windows Sockets and the BSD socket interface:
If you keep this info in mind, you can apply most of what's in the Stevens book under Win32 nearly as easily as you can under Linux/*BSD/whatever. You'll also end up with network code that's reasonably easy to port elsewhere...more so than if you go for a larger percentage of Microsoft-specific socket calls (many BSD-style calls have WSA* near-equivalents that you can use).
The A05 is not. If you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe Pioneer. They should know, since they built the thing...
Y'know, you could've avoided that Troll mod by just providing a direct link instead of pimping an affiliate link.
Besides, TigerDirect sucks (compare their score to Newegg, for instance).
You can get DVD-Rs in the same size now. They're not cheap (CD-Rs in the same size have always been more expensive too), but they hold the same amount as two 120-mm CD-Rs in the same physical space as one 80-mm CD-R.
If you don't keep your backups on your desk gathering dust and getting shuffled with your papers, they won't get scratched. Keep them in their jewel boxes, or use a sleeve or binder made for the purpose. If you handle them like you would've handled a record back in the day, they won't get scratched. If they do get a small scratch, there are disc-repair kits that work fairly well...but it'd be better to keep them from getting scratched in the first place.
The DVR-A05 isn't dual-format, either...like the DVR-105 I have, it's a DVD-R/RW drive. (At least it uses the recordable DVD standard, which the drive described in the article doesn't.)
The article didn't mention much about media compatibility...my understanding of the situation is that some of the low-cost burners coming onto the market are a bit fussy as to what media they'll accept. You might want to keep an eye on the list of burners at DVDRhelp when you're deciding what DVD burner to buy. (They also have reports on blank DVDs here.)
Something like this...when the Californians aren't losing their shirts in the casinos, they can head up to Rancho & Carey and cam a flick. :-)
Let's say you decide to use your 2 weeks of vacation in one shot. Let's say you decide to go visit family/see stuff/whatever on the other side of the country. Do you want us to believe you'd be willing to waste half of your vacation cooped up inside a train? I don't believe that for a second...it's nuts. Don't presume to think you have a fscking clue what anybody needs, AC.
The specs on that aren't too different than my Tungsten T...but more specifically, the Tungsten E is listed as a supported device. With a 256MB card, I usually get about 4 hours' worth of music at a time (give or take, depending on the bitrates). Playing all of that will run a fully-charged battery down to about 50%. I recently scored a deal on a 512MB card that should last all day, if I should ever need that much runtime.
Make sure you get a card reader if you don't already have one...it's the fastest way to load music. (I've not gotten music to load through a HotSync...I'm not even sure if that's supported.)
I snagged an Ericsson T610 recently...free after rebates, with a Bluetooth headset thrown in for another $20. It works with my Palm, so there should be no reason why it wouldn't work with your Mac. The rate plan I'm on with T-Mobile includes free unlimited data on certain ports (25, 80, 110, and 143 IIRC), which would get you your mail. An extra $10 per month should enable SSH. (I might go for that myself, as I haven't figured out how to get VersaMail to read anything beyond my main inbox...mailing-list traffic gets filed separately.) As things stand now, I'm paying only $10 more per month than I was spending with AT&T, and I'm getting more than double the airtime and data for my notebook and my Palm. (Yes, the T610 has a camera...it's little more than a novelty feature. It won't exactly replace my Coolpix 995 anytime soon.)
(In the past month, the price has come down...you can now make $50 after rebates at Amazon when you get this phone.)
My parents are running a hand-me-down 450-MHz K6-III. Once I got rid of the worms and spyware that got in through MSN (and switched them from MSN and IE to EarthLink and Mozilla), it got back to running at a decent enough speed for email, browsing, and some simple photo editing (with just the stuff that came with their camera, not Photoshop). I think they could use a bigger hard drive (it's just a 5.1GB 5400-rpm WD right now, and it's getting full), but it gets the job done.
There's not too much keeping-up-with-the-Joneses that I've seen...then again, I only upgraded them to their current system a couple of years ago. Before that, they were still running a P5-166 (a Packard Bell, no less) that was good enough for logging into AOHell (thank God they're no longer using that) and writing stuff in Word 95 (or was it Word 97?). At some point they'll get another of my hand-me-downs, but there's no urgent need for it.
Vantec's Aeroflow coolers with TMD fans are also fairly quiet...they make less noise and keep processors cooler than the retail-box coolers. I have a couple of them on a Tyan S2466N...they were a tight fit, but they improved the cooling without needing much more space. On a single-processor board, installation should be easy.
Who let John Corse in here? Go away, RMBS shill.
HTF did this tripe get modded insightful? The stability "argument" was debunked long ago. As long as you're not buying truly cheap -ass parts, stability is not generally going to be an issue. While I do have a pair of 500-MHz P!!!s on an N440BX running my website and mail server, I wouldn't rate it as any more or less reliable than the K6-* and Athlon systems I've built. (With two free processors and the motherboard obtained through eBay for ~$70, it was a cheap way to get into Linux SMP.) Those other systems have been built around decent motherboards and other components, and I would put any of them up against any Intel solution WRT stability or reliability.
I think swapping it out for an Etch-a-Sketch would be better. You could even pass it off as one of "those new-fangled Tablet PCs."
According to this AnandTech article on processors under $100, an Athlon XP 1600 (which actually runs somewhere near 1.4 GHz) would leave a 1.7-GHz Celeron (which will be a P4-derived product, not a P!!! derivative) so far behind that it's almost an unfair comparison. Hell, I'm typing this on an old Thunderbird-core 1.0-GHz Athlon that, between the DDR memory and AGP graphics (Radeon 7000...nothing too fancy), would probably still give that Celeron a run for the money. That a nearly three-year-old system could do that says something.
AOHell goes back much further than eWorld. I think you meant to refer to something called "AppleLink Personal Edition," which was available for both Apple IIs and Macs (if that gives you more of an idea how far back it goes).
You could, of course, strip out the DRM...
(Yes, I've tried it. It's a bit of a pain since you currently have to do each track manually, but it does work. I've had half a thought of writing something to automate it, but haven't gotten around to it yet.)
You must be new around here...it seems no Slashbot's day is complete without posting something along the lines of "Bush is teh dumb." :-| I wonder how many of them showed up for yesterday's Two Minutes Hate.