I do not have access to the low level calls that the Quicktime player uses. The KP happened when the OS was duplicating a 7 gig file or performing a Save As. What it exactly does, I do not know.
As the file was being written, the KP happened and all HD spce was written over (I had 17 GB free, but not 34 GB. The KP happened when writing the second copy of the 17GB file yet only some of my system files were trashed as was the 17 GB file that was left.
You may be correct but something is allowing overwriting of important stuff.
I have gotten the gray screen of death twice on my Quad.
When capturing QuickTime video, QuickTime writes one copy of the file and then makes another. If you are capturing to a mastering codec (ie animation) minutes can become gigabytes. It is easy to fill up the internal HD in this case.
What can easily happen in this case is the file writing routines will start writing over allocated blocks. System files, even track zero. If it writes over track zero, your internal hard drive will be destroyed.
How do I know this? It happened to me twice.
The second time, I was left with a 17 GB file on my hard drive that can not be deleted by any means other than reformatting the disk. The first time it happened, the HD was borked so bad that plugging it into another Mac caused that mac to kernel panic. Apple replaced the drive but I lost everything minus my backups.
As I was told by an Apple tech, when a hd starts up the dirve itself checks the validity of track zero. If it is invalid, you have a hardware fault and this generates a kernel panic.
It appears that most anyone who created multimedia with Director and audio from Sound edit in the early 1990's has prior art for many of those "inventions"
I know I have priors from late 1995 (even demoed by Phill Shiller at that time) but that may not be early enough.
I'd always thought it "shifted" to uppercase. Never considered "shifting the case from what is selected". So by my thought, it's not logical.
Really, I was trying to point out that Caps Lock should override Shift since it is called "Caps Lock". If Shift overrides Caps Lock, then I guess it's not really Caps Lock now is it?
From your viewpoint, the behaviour is logical. It's still pretty useless though. I can't think of a case where Shift overriding a button with "Lock" in the label is desirable.
You stated "On many other systems too". Thankfully, my mac is not one of them.
What is really wrong with caps lock is that IF you hold down shift while caps is on, it lowercases everything - on windows.
While the first solution here is not to use Windows, the real problem is "why would a button named 'Caps Lock' perform a task against its very nature?"
The button should be called "Maybe Caps Lock. Maybe Not." But that would require an even larger button.
But then the poor NIGERIAN SCAMMERS will have to hold down the shift key while typing their sob stories in all caps. Hmmmm.
When someone has gone above and beyond the call to become a blight upon society, they deserve to be removed from it. - me.
These people have gone out of their way to continually evade laws for profit. They are making a mockery of our laws and attempts at enforcement. The cost in manpower and equipment to deal with this is huge.
Find them, kill them, stop the problem.
They have gone so far beyond what our legal and enforcement system is able to handle while costing "the system" loads of money and you and I continual annoyance, grief and wasted time. An example is as I'm looking for email from my parents' nursing home, 5 spams flow in. These people need to die. Simple.
Find them, kill them, stop the problem.
Happily for fans of this approach, one already did.
The file format "choice" doesn't matter. Apple will release material to play back on that machine.
I specified "on demand" several times now. All you need is to plug it into a TV, plug it into your fast download connection, pick your shows from an "on demand" service and use your remote on that show.
What is missing is a service to get the media to the box and a vast library of content.
Which is why I started this whole thread with "wait a year."
It doesn't need the internal disk capacity and I/O that you specify unless you are planning on building a media library; which is a topic I'm not addressing, but if you were, Firewire enclosures that fit right under the mini are available.
This article and movie was featured in New Scientist on 4.18.06.
Black holes collide in the best simulation yet
18:29 18 April 2006 NewScientist.com news service
Enlarge image Black holes distort space-time (yellow lines) and emit gravitational waves as they spiral towards each other (Image: Henze/NASA)
Enlarge image Simulations of the ripples in space-time produced when two black holes merge could help astronomers interpret future gravitational wave observations (Image: Henze/NASA)
The ripples in space-time created when two black holes merge have been modelled to unprecedented accuracy, according to Einstein's equations, by a powerful new computer simulation. The "waveform" signatures produced in the simulation should help researchers identify the ripples in the data from gravitational wave detectors.
Powerful gravitational waves are thought to shake the fabric of space-time when two black holes spiral towards each other and eventually merge. The waves have not yet been observed, but researchers have been trying to simulate the process on computers in order to predict the expected signal. That will help the nascent searches now in progress.
The signals, called "waveforms", are shaped by factors such as the frequency at which the two black holes orbit each other, their relative masses and their spins. But modelling the merger has proven exceptionally difficult because the process is governed by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
"People have been trying for years to follow the coalescence of two black holes where you treat general relativity exactly," comments David Merritt, an astrophysicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, US.
John Baker of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US, agrees. "Part of the complexity of simulating Einstein's equations are the equations don't come in a unique form," he told New Scientist. "You have a lot of choices to make when you approach the problem."...
Romero and American McGee driving around Dallas in Romero's yellow turbocharged ferrari testarossa.
At a stop light, Romero (long hair and all) turns to American and states, "not enough people are looking at us". Still looking, with the car at a full stop, JR revs the 600+ horsepower testarossa to redline.
Several times.
John looks around, looks back at American and states, "there, that's better."
How about this then. While working o Diakatana, his art department was making 32 MB textures and they wondered why the game was having performance problems.
The team was not supervised or given direction as to "this is what you need to do to make it work." Too much ego, not enough action.
This is like how badly you searched for music you liked before the internet and now you have more music than you can ever listen to yet you are surrounded with your favorites.
I am on the 5 DVD at a time plan from Netflix and have 122 movies in my queue.
Now if there were only enough time to watch them all.:]
Call I fielded while working at UMass Dartmouth's Library computer help desk in 1987.
Me: Hello, Academic Computer services. Caller: Um, hello, my computer doesn't work. Me: Uhh, ok, can you tell me what kind of computer you have? Is it a Mac or a PC? Caller: Um, I don't know, it's blue.
Me: Well, until I know what kind of computer you have, I really can't help you. Once you find out, you can call back and we'll be glad to help you.
"I don't know. It's blue."
Perfect. I have the manual for all blue computers right here.
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The program was the Quicktime Player and is was saving a file. Not too much out of the ordinary there, hence my analogy.
Now, I don't know the routines the QT Player was using but something is seriously amiss.
I do not have access to the low level calls that the Quicktime player uses. The KP happened when the OS was duplicating a 7 gig file or performing a Save As. What it exactly does, I do not know.
As the file was being written, the KP happened and all HD spce was written over (I had 17 GB free, but not 34 GB. The KP happened when writing the second copy of the 17GB file yet only some of my system files were trashed as was the 17 GB file that was left.
You may be correct but something is allowing overwriting of important stuff.
Yes. You are correct.
This has been a serious flaw in Unixes since I knew about it.
The OS will let your HD fill up and overwrite itself.
Many *nix flag wavers often defend this behaviour. Why they do is beyond me.
In the real world, if I over fill my gas tank, parts of my car don't start disappearing.
I have gotten the gray screen of death twice on my Quad.
When capturing QuickTime video, QuickTime writes one copy of the file and then makes another. If you are capturing to a mastering codec (ie animation) minutes can become gigabytes. It is easy to fill up the internal HD in this case.
What can easily happen in this case is the file writing routines will start writing over allocated blocks. System files, even track zero. If it writes over track zero, your internal hard drive will be destroyed.
How do I know this? It happened to me twice.
The second time, I was left with a 17 GB file on my hard drive that can not be deleted by any means other than reformatting the disk. The first time it happened, the HD was borked so bad that plugging it into another Mac caused that mac to kernel panic. Apple replaced the drive but I lost everything minus my backups.
As I was told by an Apple tech, when a hd starts up the dirve itself checks the validity of track zero. If it is invalid, you have a hardware fault and this generates a kernel panic.
This was all validated by Apple techs.
You have been warned. Hope this helps someone.
Well, well.
It appears that most anyone who created multimedia with Director and audio from Sound edit in the early 1990's has prior art for many of those "inventions"
I know I have priors from late 1995 (even demoed by Phill Shiller at that time) but that may not be early enough.
Works fine in FF on my Winblows Media box Under XP through the QT plugin.
Out of curiosity, what don't you like about external firewire drives?
It doesn't bug me if I have a drive in a mini like enclosure sitting under a mini. I don't have one BTW.
Ok, by your statement, you are correct.
But is this useful behaviour?
I'd always thought it "shifted" to uppercase. Never considered "shifting the case from what is selected". So by my thought, it's not logical.
Really, I was trying to point out that Caps Lock should override Shift since it is called "Caps Lock". If Shift overrides Caps Lock, then I guess it's not really Caps Lock now is it?
From your viewpoint, the behaviour is logical. It's still pretty useless though. I can't think of a case where Shift overriding a button with "Lock" in the label is desirable.
You stated "On many other systems too". Thankfully, my mac is not one of them.
What is really wrong with caps lock is that IF you hold down shift while caps is on, it lowercases everything - on windows.
While the first solution here is not to use Windows, the real problem is "why would a button named 'Caps Lock' perform a task against its very nature?"
The button should be called "Maybe Caps Lock. Maybe Not." But that would require an even larger button.
But then the poor NIGERIAN SCAMMERS will have to hold down the shift key while typing their sob stories in all caps. Hmmmm.
I vote to remove it.
Ya, I really wish we had a spelling checker for Slashdot and that the editors would actually spell check the articles they post.
If you're going to attempt to be viewed as a professional, it helps to be able to pass 5th grade English.
Cheers,
And to support my point, I offer this:
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/08/09/ae.shows.o
A&E programming on iTunes
Just kill them.
p ammer_killed/
When someone has gone above and beyond the call to become a blight upon society, they deserve to be removed from it. - me.
These people have gone out of their way to continually evade laws for profit. They are making a mockery of our laws and attempts at enforcement. The cost in manpower and equipment to deal with this is huge.
Find them, kill them, stop the problem.
They have gone so far beyond what our legal and enforcement system is able to handle while costing "the system" loads of money and you and I continual annoyance, grief and wasted time. An example is as I'm looking for email from my parents' nursing home, 5 spams flow in. These people need to die. Simple.
Find them, kill them, stop the problem.
Happily for fans of this approach, one already did.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/26/russian_s
The file format "choice" doesn't matter. Apple will release material to play back on that machine.
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I specified "on demand" several times now. All you need is to plug it into a TV, plug it into your fast download connection, pick your shows from an "on demand" service and use your remote on that show.
What is missing is a service to get the media to the box and a vast library of content.
Which is why I started this whole thread with "wait a year."
It doesn't need the internal disk capacity and I/O that you specify unless you are planning on building a media library; which is a topic I'm not addressing, but if you were, Firewire enclosures that fit right under the mini are available.
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=104
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ministack/
I've tested these machines for this purpose and am speaking from experience. Honestly, I don't get what you're not getting.
Cheers,
Let me spell it out then.
On Demand = till your hard disk fills up then it's "delete the oldest file"
With the speeds of download services even today, I can stream 500 KBps down
H.264 content at 720p (1280 x 720) takes 1 MBps
DVD quality MPEG 4 video (720 wide) can be at very very good quality at from 200 KBps to 400 KBps.
H.264 is even better.
The Mac Mini can play back 720p H.264 video at 30 fps.
This already works today for on demand viewing as long as you have a fast internet connection and a mac mini.
I use an old G4 Cube with dual 1.4 G G4 processors for what I described right now. The mini is a much studlier box.
Wait a year.
Apple is poised to make the Mini an on demand movie replacement for your TV.
In Silicon Valley and in SF there is a famine of hot chicks.
That and rents through the roof kinda make it a whole lot less fun to live there.
Really, you've got to make a quarter of a million a tear to afford a decent house there. That alone rules many cool people out of the equation.
You haven't secured your own network and you wonder why people are using it?
Come on. The only reason you really should not secure your network is if you want people to use it!
This was relayed to me by a friend of his. Snopes be damned, I say!
:]
Rumor has it outside the office, he was a hell of a lot of fun to hang around with. For a selfish attention whoring man-child that is.
This is new news?
...
This article and movie was featured in New Scientist on 4.18.06.
Black holes collide in the best simulation yet
18:29 18 April 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Enlarge image
Black holes distort space-time (yellow lines) and emit gravitational waves as they spiral towards each other (Image: Henze/NASA)
Enlarge image
Simulations of the ripples in space-time produced when two black holes merge could help astronomers interpret future gravitational wave observations (Image: Henze/NASA)
The ripples in space-time created when two black holes merge have been modelled to unprecedented accuracy, according to Einstein's equations, by a powerful new computer simulation. The "waveform" signatures produced in the simulation should help researchers identify the ripples in the data from gravitational wave detectors.
Powerful gravitational waves are thought to shake the fabric of space-time when two black holes spiral towards each other and eventually merge. The waves have not yet been observed, but researchers have been trying to simulate the process on computers in order to predict the expected signal. That will help the nascent searches now in progress.
The signals, called "waveforms", are shaped by factors such as the frequency at which the two black holes orbit each other, their relative masses and their spins. But modelling the merger has proven exceptionally difficult because the process is governed by Einstein's theory of general relativity.
"People have been trying for years to follow the coalescence of two black holes where you treat general relativity exactly," comments David Merritt, an astrophysicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, US.
John Baker of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, US, agrees. "Part of the complexity of simulating Einstein's equations are the equations don't come in a unique form," he told New Scientist. "You have a lot of choices to make when you approach the problem."
I wish I could find my source but my information came from an article where Romero explained what went wrong.
Heh. Good you ran in to American too. He's a great guy.
Romero and American McGee driving around Dallas in Romero's yellow turbocharged ferrari testarossa.
At a stop light, Romero (long hair and all) turns to American and states, "not enough people are looking at us". Still looking, with the car at a full stop, JR revs the 600+ horsepower testarossa to redline.
Several times.
John looks around, looks back at American and states, "there, that's better."
How about this then. While working o Diakatana, his art department was making 32 MB textures and they wondered why the game was having performance problems.
The team was not supervised or given direction as to "this is what you need to do to make it work." Too much ego, not enough action.
This is like how badly you searched for music you liked before the internet and now you have more music than you can ever listen to yet you are surrounded with your favorites.
:]
I am on the 5 DVD at a time plan from Netflix and have 122 movies in my queue.
Now if there were only enough time to watch them all.
Call I fielded while working at UMass Dartmouth's Library computer help desk in 1987.
Me: Hello, Academic Computer services.
Caller: Um, hello, my computer doesn't work.
Me: Uhh, ok, can you tell me what kind of computer you have? Is it a Mac or a PC?
Caller: Um, I don't know, it's blue.
Me: Well, until I know what kind of computer you have, I really can't help you. Once you find out, you can call back and we'll be glad to help you.
"I don't know. It's blue."
Perfect. I have the manual for all blue computers right here.
Or GWB and Crew for the same to con us into entering Iraq and relying on same for months after it's been disproven and made public?
Troll me if you want but it's been published. Also, there is large amount of exposure to "plausible deniability".
Sigh.