At that point, isn't it safe to assume that our calculators can just draw a pair of boobs in 2-bit greyscale?
And that we've written apps that simulate what we assume bouncing would look like given our collective lack of experience outside of the pornographic realm?
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I've looked into it; I really have neither the time nor the patience to install something like that manually, and it always seems to be a rather unpleasant hack to slap it on top of FreeNAS (or something of its ilk). For how many times I've tried to put together some sort of Linux-based fileserver, I always end up wasting a ton of time and ending back where I started - an XP Pro box. It's not a solution I like, but for how much effort it takes to get it working well enough - SMB isn't ideal in my Mac-dominated network, but it at least only takes me an hour to go from blank disk to sharing all the drives at full speed with a VNC server running and no more screwing around with anything else.
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The @ sign. For whatever stupid reason, a fair number of OS X programs create files with that in the name. iPhoto and Aperture are bad culprits; it's half the reason I switched to Lightroom for my photo management. Other NTFS-disallowed characters are also a problem on occasion. Making giant dmg/sparseimage files as containers solves that issue, but then you're throwing a tremendous amount of extra data over an already often-slow connection rather than just browsing a folder.
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44MB/s would be fairly slow for a drive several years ago - 50-55MB/s was the norm I saw with any 7200RPM SATA drive. I did a quick test on my new Newegg Special 750GB/32MB Samsung disks (with stupidly dense platters) - sequential read averaged 75MB/s (up to 90MB/s) with a burst to 129MB/s, and this is on a SATA150 connection (and adding whatever CPU overhead a VNC session adds).
Still, that's indeed the only reason that I don't own a Drobo. If it had a FW800 or a native FAST Gig-E connection (most of the small NAS boxes have a crappy network chip that can't spit out data anywhere even half of Gig-E even if that's the connection speed), then I'd hop right on the bandwagon.
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You can connect multiple drives (or like me, a drive and a printer), but AFAIK you can't RAID multiple AirPort disks together.
And yes, I'd also kill for an Apple storage server. The current headless Windows box drives me nuts due to NTFS limitations, Linux (like Windows) has relatively poor AFP support, and the pre-built systems tend to under-perform with high prices. I've vaguely considered a Drobo attached to the APE, but it still suffers from USB drive performance levels even if it can handle the space without problem.
What sort of transfer performance do you see out of it? I had looked into one for the longest time, but had always heard mixed things about performance out of it (and most other 'shoebox' NAS devices, since they all have crappy processors and often a poor network chip that can't encode/decode the data fast enough).
What are your experiences with the speed of FreeNAS? The couple of times I've dabbled with it, it was unusably slow by my standards (ie, 100Kb/s over a gigabit connection); no fault of the hardware, which currently serves at speeds of 20+MB/s using the disgusting but functional standard Windows file sharing.
Your post says that common sense isn't applied in a court of law (and more often than not, that's the case). However the context of your post implies that this kind of thing would be legal were it not for those pesky courts disagreeing, though you certainly didn't suggest that everyone try it. Or that's how I read it, at least.
Yeah the Xserves are insane. I called them up asking whether I can upgrade the drives myself and they said that you have to buy at least the 80GB units to get the drive trays. A $3000 machine and it comes with one 80GB drive and two useless blanking plates (and only a single quad-core xeon to boot)? Screw that. I just pieced together an 8-core/2GB/2x80GB 1U from Dell for $1700; even if you add $1000 to that for the OS X Server Unlimited-users version, you're still $700 cheaper in specs.
I'm willing to pay a premium to get a better product that works right the first time, but Apple is REALLY milking it on the pro-oriented hardware.
Most people think that taking the battery out voids the warranty. This, of course, isn't specific to Macs, but rather to people that don't understand the terms of their warranties.
The software side of the new disk is easy - toss in the installer disc and it works its magic. Getting at the hard drive in the MBP is very much a non-trivial process (the standard MacBooks hard drives are as easy to access as anyone could reasonably expect in any laptop). Moving the data across is equally easy, provided you have another machine or a drive enclosure.
Not unless they've recently changed the Macbooks. When I had one on loan for a short while I pulled the hard drive just to see how accessible it was, and IIRC it was held in place solely by friction and the little flap thing that covers the back of the drive and the memory slots. No sleds to speak of.
I could be way off here as it was a while ago, but I know that I didn't need any Torx screwdrivers to get at it.
In this case, though, the law has it right. No matter what you're doing to break up, encrypt, hash, randomize, or distribute files, if the end-goal is to end up with a representation of copyrighted material then you're still breaking the law.
If you don't like the law, then go out there and do something about it. Trying to find a workaround for the law is just going to get the courts mad at you if you get caught. Information may want to be free, but right now it isn't (at least not the information that these kinds of things are being created for). Legitimize it, not strategize about how to avoid the problems that can come with it.
If they were sold with flat-rate data, there would be pretty much no reason to require call switching. At least in the US, the few areas that have 3G coverage have reliable signal. If you've got the bandwidth and you've got the reliability, why add in an additional point of potential failure?
I suppose something that would automatically re-route incoming cellular calls over the VOIP/data connection would be of use, but at that point you should just be giving out your VOIP number and avoid that whole problem.
I assume you're still running Tiger? I tried to install D2 on my MBP yesterday since the splash screen hadn't yet been fully revealed but got my hellish blood pumping a bit, only to find out that D2 is a classic app and Leopard hates classic (and I no longer have any easily accessible Windows boxes).
So for the love of God, someone write a 'malicious' script that installs FF3 and sets it as the default browser. Changing its icon to that damn blue e is probably a good idea too, given the nature of the tool.
Aside from the fact that most photos on facebook are blurry drunken crap, the copyright and privacy settings coming from that kind of thing would get VERY weird VERY fast. Facebook profiting from selling my photos? Nuh-uh, I don't think so. If they want to display an ad alongside them as my friends view them, I'm okay with that - it's understood as part of using the service; without at least some sort of profit sharing, that would be a big no-no. Maybe if they want to tie in SmugMug or something that I can optionally use, there would be something.
Of course, the implementation cost of that versus what they'd get out of it would make it worthless (from their perspective) anyways.
I think it's becoming part of the HTML5 spec; however, it's tremendously more complicated due to the limitless plethora of video formats. With web-oriented images, it's almost all jpegs for photos and typically pngs for graphics, with plenty of gifs around. Tiff is a very established format but never sees use in websites since the files are stupidly large, and most other formats are specific to some editing program. With video, you've got half a dozen Quicktime formats, DivX, XviD, h.264, x264, WMV, Real, and a huge number of others (many of which are pro-oriented). Never mind the play/pause/scrubbing interface (which could become yet another CSS nightmare), the much bigger file size, the audio, auto-playing, etc.
Until there's a jpeg for video, I'd say we should leave it alone. Flash is currently fulfilling that role, and all things considered does it reasonably well given the ease of implementation.
Why the hell would you pay to steal stuff? More importantly, does doing so make you a douche or just a cheap-ass (in the sense that it's still cheaper than buying or getting sued)?
That may not sound like much, but believe me, that tiny little bit of tzdata goodness has created the impression among many local geeks that this software is designed not just for office drones in some distant country, but with them in mind.
Let's be honest with ourselves here. It is.
At least if by "office drones" you meant "basement lurkers" anyways;)
What if he was 17? It's not as if he suddenly knows better at 18 than at 17. I was in... I think fifth grade when I was able to "hack" other students' accounts on our school system. This bizarre combination of logging out of Win3.11 into our DOS menu system, some sort of obscure series of commands, and then typing in the account name and no need to have a password. I never did anything with it other than feel special in being able to do so; still, even back then (age 11?) I knew that it wasn't really OK and that altering anyone else's files definitely wasn't. Granted I had a better sense of judgment than most my age, but even still he absolutely knew better at 18, and also would were he several years younger.
And Bueller didn't adjust his grades - that was David Lightman in WarGames (same actor though).
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Damn shame that Jobs-o doesn't want porn in the app store. Make it a jailbreak app and I'll hold off my upgrade.
At that point, isn't it safe to assume that our calculators can just draw a pair of boobs in 2-bit greyscale?
And that we've written apps that simulate what we assume bouncing would look like given our collective lack of experience outside of the pornographic realm?
Hmm, well then maybe my IIRC senses failed me.
I've looked into it; I really have neither the time nor the patience to install something like that manually, and it always seems to be a rather unpleasant hack to slap it on top of FreeNAS (or something of its ilk). For how many times I've tried to put together some sort of Linux-based fileserver, I always end up wasting a ton of time and ending back where I started - an XP Pro box. It's not a solution I like, but for how much effort it takes to get it working well enough - SMB isn't ideal in my Mac-dominated network, but it at least only takes me an hour to go from blank disk to sharing all the drives at full speed with a VNC server running and no more screwing around with anything else.
The @ sign. For whatever stupid reason, a fair number of OS X programs create files with that in the name. iPhoto and Aperture are bad culprits; it's half the reason I switched to Lightroom for my photo management. Other NTFS-disallowed characters are also a problem on occasion. Making giant dmg/sparseimage files as containers solves that issue, but then you're throwing a tremendous amount of extra data over an already often-slow connection rather than just browsing a folder.
44MB/s would be fairly slow for a drive several years ago - 50-55MB/s was the norm I saw with any 7200RPM SATA drive. I did a quick test on my new Newegg Special 750GB/32MB Samsung disks (with stupidly dense platters) - sequential read averaged 75MB/s (up to 90MB/s) with a burst to 129MB/s, and this is on a SATA150 connection (and adding whatever CPU overhead a VNC session adds).
Still, that's indeed the only reason that I don't own a Drobo. If it had a FW800 or a native FAST Gig-E connection (most of the small NAS boxes have a crappy network chip that can't spit out data anywhere even half of Gig-E even if that's the connection speed), then I'd hop right on the bandwagon.
You can connect multiple drives (or like me, a drive and a printer), but AFAIK you can't RAID multiple AirPort disks together.
And yes, I'd also kill for an Apple storage server. The current headless Windows box drives me nuts due to NTFS limitations, Linux (like Windows) has relatively poor AFP support, and the pre-built systems tend to under-perform with high prices. I've vaguely considered a Drobo attached to the APE, but it still suffers from USB drive performance levels even if it can handle the space without problem.
What sort of transfer performance do you see out of it? I had looked into one for the longest time, but had always heard mixed things about performance out of it (and most other 'shoebox' NAS devices, since they all have crappy processors and often a poor network chip that can't encode/decode the data fast enough).
What are your experiences with the speed of FreeNAS? The couple of times I've dabbled with it, it was unusably slow by my standards (ie, 100Kb/s over a gigabit connection); no fault of the hardware, which currently serves at speeds of 20+MB/s using the disgusting but functional standard Windows file sharing.
Your post says that common sense isn't applied in a court of law (and more often than not, that's the case). However the context of your post implies that this kind of thing would be legal were it not for those pesky courts disagreeing, though you certainly didn't suggest that everyone try it. Or that's how I read it, at least.
Yeah the Xserves are insane. I called them up asking whether I can upgrade the drives myself and they said that you have to buy at least the 80GB units to get the drive trays. A $3000 machine and it comes with one 80GB drive and two useless blanking plates (and only a single quad-core xeon to boot)? Screw that. I just pieced together an 8-core/2GB/2x80GB 1U from Dell for $1700; even if you add $1000 to that for the OS X Server Unlimited-users version, you're still $700 cheaper in specs.
I'm willing to pay a premium to get a better product that works right the first time, but Apple is REALLY milking it on the pro-oriented hardware.
Most people think that taking the battery out voids the warranty. This, of course, isn't specific to Macs, but rather to people that don't understand the terms of their warranties.
The software side of the new disk is easy - toss in the installer disc and it works its magic. Getting at the hard drive in the MBP is very much a non-trivial process (the standard MacBooks hard drives are as easy to access as anyone could reasonably expect in any laptop). Moving the data across is equally easy, provided you have another machine or a drive enclosure.
Not unless they've recently changed the Macbooks. When I had one on loan for a short while I pulled the hard drive just to see how accessible it was, and IIRC it was held in place solely by friction and the little flap thing that covers the back of the drive and the memory slots. No sleds to speak of.
I could be way off here as it was a while ago, but I know that I didn't need any Torx screwdrivers to get at it.
In this case, though, the law has it right. No matter what you're doing to break up, encrypt, hash, randomize, or distribute files, if the end-goal is to end up with a representation of copyrighted material then you're still breaking the law.
If you don't like the law, then go out there and do something about it. Trying to find a workaround for the law is just going to get the courts mad at you if you get caught. Information may want to be free, but right now it isn't (at least not the information that these kinds of things are being created for). Legitimize it, not strategize about how to avoid the problems that can come with it.
You mean when you don't sign up, right?
If they were sold with flat-rate data, there would be pretty much no reason to require call switching. At least in the US, the few areas that have 3G coverage have reliable signal. If you've got the bandwidth and you've got the reliability, why add in an additional point of potential failure?
I suppose something that would automatically re-route incoming cellular calls over the VOIP/data connection would be of use, but at that point you should just be giving out your VOIP number and avoid that whole problem.
I assume you're still running Tiger? I tried to install D2 on my MBP yesterday since the splash screen hadn't yet been fully revealed but got my hellish blood pumping a bit, only to find out that D2 is a classic app and Leopard hates classic (and I no longer have any easily accessible Windows boxes).
So for the love of God, someone write a 'malicious' script that installs FF3 and sets it as the default browser. Changing its icon to that damn blue e is probably a good idea too, given the nature of the tool.
Aside from the fact that most photos on facebook are blurry drunken crap, the copyright and privacy settings coming from that kind of thing would get VERY weird VERY fast. Facebook profiting from selling my photos? Nuh-uh, I don't think so. If they want to display an ad alongside them as my friends view them, I'm okay with that - it's understood as part of using the service; without at least some sort of profit sharing, that would be a big no-no. Maybe if they want to tie in SmugMug or something that I can optionally use, there would be something.
Of course, the implementation cost of that versus what they'd get out of it would make it worthless (from their perspective) anyways.
I think it's becoming part of the HTML5 spec; however, it's tremendously more complicated due to the limitless plethora of video formats. With web-oriented images, it's almost all jpegs for photos and typically pngs for graphics, with plenty of gifs around. Tiff is a very established format but never sees use in websites since the files are stupidly large, and most other formats are specific to some editing program. With video, you've got half a dozen Quicktime formats, DivX, XviD, h.264, x264, WMV, Real, and a huge number of others (many of which are pro-oriented). Never mind the play/pause/scrubbing interface (which could become yet another CSS nightmare), the much bigger file size, the audio, auto-playing, etc.
Until there's a jpeg for video, I'd say we should leave it alone. Flash is currently fulfilling that role, and all things considered does it reasonably well given the ease of implementation.
Why the hell would you pay to steal stuff? More importantly, does doing so make you a douche or just a cheap-ass (in the sense that it's still cheaper than buying or getting sued)?
Let's be honest with ourselves here. It is.
At least if by "office drones" you meant "basement lurkers" anyways ;)
Speaking of Paul, is it safe to assume that he was the one Republican that voted against the bill?
What if he was 17? It's not as if he suddenly knows better at 18 than at 17. I was in... I think fifth grade when I was able to "hack" other students' accounts on our school system. This bizarre combination of logging out of Win3.11 into our DOS menu system, some sort of obscure series of commands, and then typing in the account name and no need to have a password. I never did anything with it other than feel special in being able to do so; still, even back then (age 11?) I knew that it wasn't really OK and that altering anyone else's files definitely wasn't. Granted I had a better sense of judgment than most my age, but even still he absolutely knew better at 18, and also would were he several years younger.
And Bueller didn't adjust his grades - that was David Lightman in WarGames (same actor though).