I'm still trying to find the right combination for backup/restore on OSX.
First off, I don't do the default OSX install. I always slice up the partition (not partition the drive, this is a *bsd type OS people!:P) as described in this article that I wrote for MacOSXHints a couple of years ago.
Then on a semi-regular basis, I will (should rather) clone everything save/Users using Carbon Copy Cloner. This would be applicable to other *nix's of making a bootable clone minus/home. Ghost for Unix perhaps?
Then all that's left to do is an incremental backup of/Users. I've thought about modifying this to include an incremental on/sw, and/usr/local, but that's being complicated. If worst came to worst, I could recompile any customizations I've done, it would just take a while.
Now, for those Mac users that know their stuff:
CCC will clone nicely to another disk. I've tried cloning to a disk image when everything minus/Users came out to be ~3GB. It takes FOREVER to complete on an external firewire drive.
WTF? Is this an issue that has been resolved in the last year? I haven't even bothered trying, but knowing that 10.4 is around the corner, and I haven't done a decent OS backup in a while bothers me. I backup/Users to DVD every once in a while, and I have an external firewire drive full of MP3's that I do optical backups of from time to time and mail them off to my brother in law in LA (I'm in St. Louis). Any better suggestions on getting a bootable OS image that is easily restored? Possible something I can dump to a DVD and mail off as I'm doing now?
Tell me, Apple (or rather article author even). You're worried about market advantage 'being measured in nanoseconds'.
I can see no case where disclosing information a week early would do irreperable harm to the company.
Sure, you could argue customers will hold off buying products if they know the next generation is around the corner, but I tell ya....you're an idiot to buy ANY Apple products directly before a MacWorld expo.
If you're going to buy, you buy directly after an upgrade. Or at least wait until the next expo comes around.
So far as the competition...sure, I suppose a Dell or an HP could counter the MacMini, or the iPod Shuffle or whatnot, but really.
I can't help but think Apple is suing over an issue of pride. They want to know who the leak is, so they're going after the person posting the information from the leak(s).
Cybercrime and The Money Machine were pretty good too, now that I think about it.
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I really wish you were wrong.
Unfortunately, you're right. What they've done is unforgivable. They destoryed the channel, and the shows the kept, save X-Play (which was already far superior to any of the gaming shows G4 already had), they mangled beyond recognition. The Screen Savers is no longer even worth watching.
I think everyone of the tetris generation has this going on when they have to load up a moving truck. Frighteningly, we tend to have pretty good skills of sizing things up and dropping them into place.
Too bad lines don't disappear at the bottom so we don't hit the top of the truck. We recently rented a 25 foot trailer, loaded it floor to ceiling, and still had to make additional trips.
That says "...if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching on magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." actually has some validity?;)
I've occassionally thought that if I concentrated hard enough, I could summon enough ki to blow away my television after a particularly stupid commercial, but it's never actually happened, no matter how loud I scream "hadouken!".:P
When I was in high school, I would work sadly long hours at Taco Hell. 16 hour long days during summer break at times. I'd work night shift, get off at say, 4 am, and go to bed.
Then dream about making Tacos.
No!!!!!!
It gets worse. Later on, right after the dot-com bust, I was working a call center at Compaq. During certain times of the day, when things were slow with nothing to do, I'd decided I wanted to get better at Perl coding. I'd sit there for hours making strides in a program I was writing, learning new modules, working on problems, etc.
Then I'd go home, and not only dream of coding in Perl, but occassionally fix my code IN MY SLEEP.
God help me. I recently figured out what was wrong with our DNS server while under the effects of anesthesia for an upper endoscopy. Yikes.
It's been a looooong time, but when I was a kid, those stupid levels with the speeder bikes....ugh! Anytime I get into traffic and start weaving through, I hear the music in my head.
Duh duh duh. Dun dun, dut, dut da da. Dut da da ut. (doo do do do do do do)....
Worse. If I hit a jam shortly after, I hear sad midi drums.
While the term may not seem correct (perceived theft) there are enough people that are circumventing the business model because they don't like what's being given them, but it fits under that description IMHO.
In time, either get it, or get out of the biz. Something is going to give.
*AA members could very well have built a superior p2p network, charged a REASONABLE amount for access, and fed the network with high quality content.
Or given the blessing to a p2p network to distribute the content on an existing one. Granted, many people would choose free over a reasonable fee, but then, if they weren't DRM'ing content, limiting how and where it could be used, much of this would be moot.
Content providers would prefer that CD's and DVD's couldn't be ripped and used as we please, but there it is. We like it that way. Rather than innovating and finding other things 'we like' and making money off it, they're finding a way to legally backlash the client base.
The argument boils down to (in my eyes) that we've had this struggle since 99 (reasonably). It's now 2005.
We're still having the same argument. Why? Because the *AA's STILL don't get it. They could have been milking this for the last 4 years. Instead, we're still fighting over the same BS, and we STILL don't have a music/content sharing app as good and feature-filled as Napster 1.0 (extended later by OpenNap). Where's my abillity to find one or two users that have the same taste in music as me and sample from their collection? Where's my way to find all this new music that I love, by finding stuff in those collections that I'd never heard? Where's my way to do that and still reward the artists?
Simple. The RIAA could care less about rewarding the artists. They want to reward themselves and their shareholders. They've made a boatload of cash on their business model, and they're not about to let it go without a fight. Whey change when you can litigate?
There is a sad level of redundancy that wasn't needed in the DMCA.
Copyright law as it was covered the copying of music just fine. What it did was give content providers a rather unfair whip to threaten people without due process. THAT'S why the DMCA is evil. It's not the feeling that I have an inalienable right to "arr matey's shiver me timbers" when it comes to music (or any media for that matter), it's that I have a right to due process, and I have pretty clear rights when it comes to copyright law.
I'm personally christian, but it's fair to say that at least most practicing religions have, for the sake of avoiding an argument of what faith is better, an 'ethical code' by which the whole believes correct behavior is. I'm not talking big controversial issues (abortion anyone?), but rather the simple things:
Lying is bad. Helping others is good. Reading Slashdot at work, bad. (oops)
What makes religion in the workplace problematic is that we're not of a mono-faith society. Bring in religion, and you're liable to get sued.:(
I kinda like the stance that the St. Louis Rams football organization takes. They encourage employees to excercise their faith. They allow individuals to organize prayer meetings and such on company premises, and actively employ those who demonstrate ethical behavior. They've been burned a few times, but overal it makes for an easy-to-root-for team.
Overall I agree with you, and once again I'm disappointed by our lawsuit-happy society (In the US anyway).
I dunno. It's kind of nice to have a place other than "Your Rights Online" to put political discussions over technology that may or may not cover 'rights' specifically.
This one in particular probably could have gone under the header "Your Rights Online", but I've seen examples of content placed there that would have been more befitting of "Politics".
I worked as a manager at a Burger King when I was 17. They had a tomato slicer that the blades were dull on. I mean REALLY dull. You'd slap a tomato on there, and ram the tomato through the blades as hard as possible, and inevitably, every time, the tomato would get stuck in the blades.
You'd have to pull the handle back, and take your fingers and push the tomato through with your bare hands. Now you tell me what happens when that tomato finally gives?
Uh huh.
Over and over this would happen. They even provided a chain-mail-like glove to wear while using it, rather than just getting a new tomato slicer. Of course, with the glove on you couldn't possibly get the tomato pushed all the way through, so you'd take the glove off and...yeah.
How often do you think that thing was properly sanitized too? Bleh. I hate tomatoes.
I disagree. JavaScript has it's place. Primarily for enforcement of how a form should be filled out.
There are other uses too. Realtime calculations in web pages. All things that could be done server side, but why waste the server side resources when it can be done client side?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm still trying to find the right combination for backup/restore on OSX.
:P) as described in this article that I wrote for MacOSXHints a couple of years ago.
/Users using /home. Ghost for Unix perhaps?
/Users. I've thought about modifying this to include an incremental on /sw, and /usr/local, but that's being complicated. If worst came to worst, I could recompile any customizations I've done, it would just take a while.
/Users came out to be ~3GB. It takes FOREVER to complete on an external firewire drive.
/Users to DVD every once in a while, and I have an external firewire drive full of MP3's that I do optical backups of from time to time and mail them off to my brother in law in LA (I'm in St. Louis). Any better suggestions on getting a bootable OS image that is easily restored? Possible something I can dump to a DVD and mail off as I'm doing now?
First off, I don't do the default OSX install. I always slice up the partition (not partition the drive, this is a *bsd type OS people!
Then on a semi-regular basis, I will (should rather) clone everything save
Carbon Copy Cloner. This would be applicable to other *nix's of making a bootable clone minus
Then all that's left to do is an incremental backup of
Now, for those Mac users that know their stuff:
CCC will clone nicely to another disk. I've tried cloning to a disk image when everything minus
WTF? Is this an issue that has been resolved in the last year? I haven't even bothered trying, but knowing that 10.4 is around the corner, and I haven't done a decent OS backup in a while bothers me. I backup
Tell me, Apple (or rather article author even). You're worried about market advantage 'being measured in nanoseconds'.
:(
I can see no case where disclosing information a week early would do irreperable harm to the company.
Sure, you could argue customers will hold off buying products if they know the next generation is around the corner, but I tell ya....you're an idiot to buy ANY Apple products directly before a MacWorld expo.
If you're going to buy, you buy directly after an upgrade. Or at least wait until the next expo comes around.
So far as the competition...sure, I suppose a Dell or an HP could counter the MacMini, or the iPod Shuffle or whatnot, but really.
I can't help but think Apple is suing over an issue of pride. They want to know who the leak is, so they're going after the person posting the information from the leak(s).
That being said: I hate lawsuits. Period.
Kate Botello
Took me a while to remember.
That same girl co-hosted Extended Play for a while too...(or was it still Gamespot TV back then? Wow...)
Cybercrime and The Money Machine were pretty good too, now that I think about it.
I really wish you were wrong.
Unfortunately, you're right. What they've done is unforgivable. They destoryed the channel, and the shows the kept, save X-Play (which was already far superior to any of the gaming shows G4 already had), they mangled beyond recognition. The Screen Savers is no longer even worth watching.
Call For Help? Gone.
Fresh Gear? Gone.
Unscrewed? Gone.
Tech Live? Gone.
I could go on and on and on. Ugh...it SUCKS.
I sincerely hope someone steps up and resurrects some of this content. It used to be some of the smallest amount of worthwhile content on TV.
Forgive him, oh lord, for he knows not what he says! :P
Moved recently? :)
:P
I think everyone of the tetris generation has this going on when they have to load up a moving truck. Frighteningly, we tend to have pretty good skills of sizing things up and dropping them into place.
Too bad lines don't disappear at the bottom so we don't hit the top of the truck. We recently rented a 25 foot trailer, loaded it floor to ceiling, and still had to make additional trips.
My wife has too much junk.
That says "...if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching on magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." actually has some validity? ;)
:P
I've occassionally thought that if I concentrated hard enough, I could summon enough ki to blow away my television after a particularly stupid commercial, but it's never actually happened, no matter how loud I scream "hadouken!".
When I was in high school, I would work sadly long hours at Taco Hell. 16 hour long days during summer break at times. I'd work night shift, get off at say, 4 am, and go to bed.
Then dream about making Tacos.
No!!!!!!
It gets worse. Later on, right after the dot-com bust, I was working a call center at Compaq. During certain times of the day, when things were slow with nothing to do, I'd decided I wanted to get better at Perl coding. I'd sit there for hours making strides in a program I was writing, learning new modules, working on problems, etc.
Then I'd go home, and not only dream of coding in Perl, but occassionally fix my code IN MY SLEEP.
God help me. I recently figured out what was wrong with our DNS server while under the effects of anesthesia for an upper endoscopy. Yikes.
It's been a looooong time, but when I was a kid, those stupid levels with the speeder bikes....ugh! Anytime I get into traffic and start weaving through, I hear the music in my head.
:P
Duh duh duh. Dun dun, dut, dut da da. Dut da da ut. (doo do do do do do do)....
Worse. If I hit a jam shortly after, I hear sad midi drums.
Boom chick, boom chick, boom chick chick chick...
developers! developers! developers! *huff* Whew! *sweat*
Of course the problem is that the mere threat of a lawsuit is enough to coerce people to pay up, even if they aren't in the wrong. :(
Um...
#define CIVIL_DISOBEDIENCE
?
While the term may not seem correct (perceived theft) there are enough people that are circumventing the business model because they don't like what's being given them, but it fits under that description IMHO.
In time, either get it, or get out of the biz. Something is going to give.
Turn left.
Turn left.
Turn left.
Makes perfect sense.
*AA members could very well have built a superior p2p network, charged a REASONABLE amount for access, and fed the network with high quality content.
Or given the blessing to a p2p network to distribute the content on an existing one. Granted, many people would choose free over a reasonable fee, but then, if they weren't DRM'ing content, limiting how and where it could be used, much of this would be moot.
Content providers would prefer that CD's and DVD's couldn't be ripped and used as we please, but there it is. We like it that way. Rather than innovating and finding other things 'we like' and making money off it, they're finding a way to legally backlash the client base.
The argument boils down to (in my eyes) that we've had this struggle since 99 (reasonably). It's now 2005.
We're still having the same argument. Why? Because the *AA's STILL don't get it. They could have been milking this for the last 4 years. Instead, we're still fighting over the same BS, and we STILL don't have a music/content sharing app as good and feature-filled as Napster 1.0 (extended later by OpenNap). Where's my abillity to find one or two users that have the same taste in music as me and sample from their collection? Where's my way to find all this new music that I love, by finding stuff in those collections that I'd never heard? Where's my way to do that and still reward the artists?
Simple. The RIAA could care less about rewarding the artists. They want to reward themselves and their shareholders. They've made a boatload of cash on their business model, and they're not about to let it go without a fight. Whey change when you can litigate?
There is a sad level of redundancy that wasn't needed in the DMCA.
Copyright law as it was covered the copying of music just fine. What it did was give content providers a rather unfair whip to threaten people without due process. THAT'S why the DMCA is evil. It's not the feeling that I have an inalienable right to "arr matey's shiver me timbers" when it comes to music (or any media for that matter), it's that I have a right to due process, and I have pretty clear rights when it comes to copyright law.
The DMCA is bad on both counts.
Amen.
:(
I'm personally christian, but it's fair to say that at least most practicing religions have, for the sake of avoiding an argument of what faith is better, an 'ethical code' by which the whole believes correct behavior is. I'm not talking big controversial issues (abortion anyone?), but rather the simple things:
Lying is bad.
Helping others is good.
Reading Slashdot at work, bad. (oops)
What makes religion in the workplace problematic is that we're not of a mono-faith society. Bring in religion, and you're liable to get sued.
I kinda like the stance that the St. Louis Rams football organization takes. They encourage employees to excercise their faith. They allow individuals to organize prayer meetings and such on company premises, and actively employ those who demonstrate ethical behavior. They've been burned a few times, but overal it makes for an easy-to-root-for team.
Overall I agree with you, and once again I'm disappointed by our lawsuit-happy society (In the US anyway).
Meh, clickbait or not, we all clicked.
I'm a subscriber, and really don't mind the content in politics. At least sometimes.
I wouldn't pay for it if I didn't like it, and if I didn't pay for it and still read, then they have every right to have advertisers.
Honestly...I think you people read far too much into some consipiracy. Content providers are out there to make money. Slashdot is a content provider.
Now the question is, who do you take issue with? Slashdot? The *AA? Who's got the more reasonable business model?
^^^ Flambait. >:)
I dunno. It's kind of nice to have a place other than "Your Rights Online" to put political discussions over technology that may or may not cover 'rights' specifically.
This one in particular probably could have gone under the header "Your Rights Online", but I've seen examples of content placed there that would have been more befitting of "Politics".
should, and should have from the beginning but(ted) out.
:\
The problem is that the DMCA screwed things up from the word go. Now the only way to fix things up is to keep bandaging them more and more...
or repeal the DMCA. Use copyright law as it was intended.
Less is more in this case. The more the government butts out, the more quickly a balance will be struck.
Amen.
espresso machines mysteriously satisfy all the Sims needs
Exactly the way it should be.
I just want to say:
:P
You suck.
Okay? My grammar is pretty good most of the time.
Nazi.
I worked as a manager at a Burger King when I was 17. They had a tomato slicer that the blades were dull on. I mean REALLY dull. You'd slap a tomato on there, and ram the tomato through the blades as hard as possible, and inevitably, every time, the tomato would get stuck in the blades.
You'd have to pull the handle back, and take your fingers and push the tomato through with your bare hands. Now you tell me what happens when that tomato finally gives?
Uh huh.
Over and over this would happen. They even provided a chain-mail-like glove to wear while using it, rather than just getting a new tomato slicer. Of course, with the glove on you couldn't possibly get the tomato pushed all the way through, so you'd take the glove off and...yeah.
How often do you think that thing was properly sanitized too? Bleh. I hate tomatoes.
I disagree. JavaScript has it's place. Primarily for enforcement of how a form should be filled out.
There are other uses too. Realtime calculations in web pages. All things that could be done server side, but why waste the server side resources when it can be done client side?