I read the first book of the series back I dunno, 15+ years ago when I was in high school. I got interested in the book from playing the game actually, as I found it to be funny. I remember not really caring for the book so much, though. I didn't "get" the humor.
Jump ahead to just a few months ago, where I picked up the audiobooks of the first and second books in the series, unabridged and both read by Douglas Adams himself. There's just something about the way Adams reads his own work that made it so much funnier. Then again, maybe it's because I don't have an imagination and/or hate the sound of my own voice when I read the paper books, even if it is only in my head.
This is a pretty crappy bug they haven't fixed yet. On Windows, try saving a web page and when the Save As... dialog asks where the file should go, try traversing a shortcut. You can't.
The questions is not nearly as silly as your hack at a solution. Since when does tarring files save space? I also would think that he'd need to make sure whatever he's burning to DVD didn't exceed the capacity of one disc, or else write something smart enough to write only what can fit on one DVD, then make some sense out of what goes on the next one, etc.
I've been using the Tivo+ trial for a couple of weeks now, and I turned off the suggestions after a few days. #1, it was recording crap I knew about but didn't care about, #2 I barely have time to watch what I want to record, nevermind MORE crap -- that's why I have the Tivo in the first place, to watch shows I don't usually have time to watch.
I like it just fine without the season passes. I can still pause live shows and record up to 3-days ahead or schedule VCR-like recording weekly/daily by time. I think it's an awesome option for someone not willing to shell out the monthly fee.
You get 3 days of guide so you can record up to three days ahead and that's it, though you CAN do VCR-like recording and record by dates or schedule weekly recordings as well, but it works just like a VCR that way.
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Why pay any fee at all? I grabbed one of the Toshiba Tivo/DVD Series2 units from EBay for about $120, which includes TiVo service, albeit "Basic" service. (Basic service doesn't allow Season Pass subscriptions but you can still record shows as normal, use the guide, pause live shows, etc.)
I agree with the hate for subscriptions. I'm a major gadget geek and have been pondering the need/want issues for satellite radio for a long while now, much longer than any other gadgety purchase. The subscription part just makes the whole deal seem sour to me, so much so that I've actually thought the $500+ lifetime (of the RADIO) subscription sounded loads better than the month-to-month subscription!
The same goes for Tivo. I was able to find a ~$100 Toshiba DVD-player/Tivo on EBay that COMES WITH Tivo BASIC service without having to pay any monthly fees. I miss out on some Tivo features, but I can still pause, rewind, record manually at will.
"I'm more concerned about why/. continues to employ this POS, michael."
Are you kidding? Lots of readers eat this kind of thing up. You read the article and disagreed with its message, so you read the coments to see if others have your point of view. Now you might post a reply to the article voicing your disagreement. Then you come back to see what people had to say about your comments, maybe posting another reply or two. The fact is, it incited interest and made people come back to "see what happens next," over and over again, which is what makes Slashdot make money afterall.
Why do they continue to employ michael? Sadly he will probably get a bonus for this.
This makes a heck of a lot more sense than the original poster's requirement of a PCIe slot on the server. Why would you need a PCIe slot on something that's just serving as a NAS and sitting in your basement?
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Jump ahead to just a few months ago, where I picked up the audiobooks of the first and second books in the series, unabridged and both read by Douglas Adams himself. There's just something about the way Adams reads his own work that made it so much funnier. Then again, maybe it's because I don't have an imagination and/or hate the sound of my own voice when I read the paper books, even if it is only in my head.
Huh, so money must really grow on trees afterall.
This is a pretty crappy bug they haven't fixed yet. On Windows, try saving a web page and when the Save As... dialog asks where the file should go, try traversing a shortcut. You can't.
"So the parrot says to the barkeep a fatal exception 0E has occurred..."
Employee 3: (to Employee 1) Man... You'll be calling your wife "Elastigirl" soon if you use that thing on her.
I dunno about you, but your use of "cross-pollination" when refering to reasons behind a single bathroom gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Any problems getting Cygwin on the drive? I read somewhere that cygwin relies on registry keys.
The questions is not nearly as silly as your hack at a solution. Since when does tarring files save space? I also would think that he'd need to make sure whatever he's burning to DVD didn't exceed the capacity of one disc, or else write something smart enough to write only what can fit on one DVD, then make some sense out of what goes on the next one, etc.
I've been using the Tivo+ trial for a couple of weeks now, and I turned off the suggestions after a few days. #1, it was recording crap I knew about but didn't care about, #2 I barely have time to watch what I want to record, nevermind MORE crap -- that's why I have the Tivo in the first place, to watch shows I don't usually have time to watch.
I like it just fine without the season passes. I can still pause live shows and record up to 3-days ahead or schedule VCR-like recording weekly/daily by time. I think it's an awesome option for someone not willing to shell out the monthly fee.
You get 3 days of guide so you can record up to three days ahead and that's it, though you CAN do VCR-like recording and record by dates or schedule weekly recordings as well, but it works just like a VCR that way.
Why pay any fee at all? I grabbed one of the Toshiba Tivo/DVD Series2 units from EBay for about $120, which includes TiVo service, albeit "Basic" service. (Basic service doesn't allow Season Pass subscriptions but you can still record shows as normal, use the guide, pause live shows, etc.)
The next Star Wars film is sure to be a hit. It's going to have the only thing missing from the previous flops: a cameo by George Lucas!
Doctor Otto Octavius would concur.
The same goes for Tivo. I was able to find a ~$100 Toshiba DVD-player/Tivo on EBay that COMES WITH Tivo BASIC service without having to pay any monthly fees. I miss out on some Tivo features, but I can still pause, rewind, record manually at will.
A collegue tole me he recently told his whining daughter that she sounded like, "a broken record." Her reply: "What's a record?"
It came back with a bunch of pr0n because of the F word...mount probably didn't help either :|"
Boatloads of shoe fettish pr0n I would guess...
Hey, don't you know security through obscurity doesn't work?
Are you kidding? Lots of readers eat this kind of thing up. You read the article and disagreed with its message, so you read the coments to see if others have your point of view. Now you might post a reply to the article voicing your disagreement. Then you come back to see what people had to say about your comments, maybe posting another reply or two. The fact is, it incited interest and made people come back to "see what happens next," over and over again, which is what makes Slashdot make money afterall.
Why do they continue to employ michael? Sadly he will probably get a bonus for this.
Heck, they wouldn't be so endangered if someone would just drop them in a lake or something.
This makes a heck of a lot more sense than the original poster's requirement of a PCIe slot on the server. Why would you need a PCIe slot on something that's just serving as a NAS and sitting in your basement?
I believe Tivo units use the XFS filesystem for storing its multimedia, which from what you say makes sense.
Hm. "Unleafed". Maybe that should be the "autumn" version. :P