I actually find full system recovery another place where TM kicks ass.
Put in your disk, wipe the drive make a new partition, and install by 'restoring from time machine'
It will make you system how it was from the minute that backup was made, almost as if nothing changed.
As mentioned, the tmutil command line utility is great for finding out exactly what is in each backup, what changed(added and removed), what kind of size diff there is between two backups, etc.
You can also incorperate an old sparsebundle into your current backup sparsebundle using tmutil.
Apple hate aside, time machine is an amazingly excellent backup system.
It backs up to a Netgear Readynas configured in RAID 5. Hourly, daily, weekly backups. I've never lost anything thanks to this great system.
In linux I try to approximate this with BackupPC.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
It is really an excellent piece of software, though no where near as refined of course. You pretty much only get daily backups though since the kernel in linux does not track filesystem changes so hourly backups would be very prohibitive.
As mentioned you need many exploits for one jailbreak, but multiple groups will not release all their own jailbreak using totally diff methods for the same ios version. There has been semi-good cooperation there in the past.
That being said I've done a stint working on wooden poles with spurs and I'd take tower work any day. Man that sucked! About half way through the first summer I felt like refusing the work since it was so painful and annoying, but then I thought of buying a hunting tree stand, hooking it onto the pole, and working on the cable amplifiers I was servicing. Was about a billion times nicer.
I'm an RF tech in Northern Canada. On a perfect day, with no wind, and warm weather, it can still be challenging. There are days at -30, 70kph winds, and you're trying to carefully point an 8 foot dish at something 50km away, it can be no picnic.
Every radio technician I know basically has his pick of locations to work. I was working in a much balmier area for the first part of my career, and when I was looking to make more money, I essentially was offered a job as soon as I could start in every city I called.
I picked the one that offered a good wage and appeared to treat their employees well.
But it can get pretty forbidding and most companies go through quite a few Junior guys before finding one that has the right mix of bravery, problem solving skill, and responsibility to be a good radio tech long term.
When you have to dress like this: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6970622485_5ebeeba3e8_z.jpg
Or like this: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6824493552_3f21a9e218_z.jpg
to climb up a 300 foot tower and work on something, you feel like you've earned the higher dollars you get paid.
A ton of the books I've been reading are self published 99c books for kindle. There are some really good ones.
Pretty much every kindle book I check is a good bit below paperback price and way under hard cover price. Maybe a different taste in books is causing different results but I was pirating books before and I search now for books on kindle store and download piles of them and actually pay!
It has not only gotten cheaper as far as I can tell, you can get books instantly right to your device. Over 3G anywhere in the world! I'd almost pay normal paperback price for that convenience.
Books on Kindle are also that easy and fast. Can browse on the device or on your computer to be sent to the device.
They also cost much less than the paper variants.
I used to pirate books on my Sony Reader, and since I got my Kindle I haven't pirated one.
TV shows are still much nicer pirated than official though. They are abhorrently expensive from Apple etc. Hulu and other similar services not available in Canada.
I could watch them hours before they air on the west coast in HD with no commercials. Blows away the official means still. Once TV shows and movies are cheap, easy, and available like E-Books and Music, I imagine piracy of those would decline as well.
I am using Spire to enable Siri on my i4 and it seems to work fine. I can use it fine while it is sitting in the dock in my truck about 4 feet from my mouth with tire, engine, and heater noise going. Not sure if it works better on a 4S but there are quite a few people using Siri on jailbroken i4's without problems.
The great grandparent up there said there is no way to restore ANY iPhone since iOS5. This isn't true. Only A5's currently can not be downgraded.
I know the point stands for A5 devices though that does suck. Finding a tethered bootrom level exploit would be nice. I'm personally sticking with my iPhone 4 until a bootrom exploit is found on the next iPhone whatever it is.
Mod parent up. 99% of jailbreaks are not based on exploits in userland through safari, they are based on USB flaws, bootrom flaws, kernel flaws, etc. They can not be remotely exploited.
I haven't read into it too much but it appears that the A5 jailbreak gets in through a hole in (the local setup of) the VPN tunnel in the OS.
Same as a real computer, once your attacker has physical access you're hooped.
Actually for any of the pre-A5 devices this is not true. They have figured out a way to save the ticket AND shsh blobs and stitch them into your firmware file so you can flash back to it any time you'd like.
A5 devices do not have any bootrom level exploits though so this is not possible. You basically have to get 5.0.1 going now before 5.1 comes out. If not you will be stuck with 5.1.
Ya if sideloading apps is the main stopper you're pretty much hooped there. You can do this with jailbroken aps (the iPhone simply uses debain apt, so you can imagine installing normal *nix things and jailbreak apps are very easy, just apt-get install) but the normal app store apps are pretty much appstore or appsync only (though appsync is close to sideloading, can install apps from itunes or from safari directly).
While you DO need to jailbreak to get the good stuff, I still think the iDevices are more geek friendly once jailbroken. The combination of apt, full bash, openssh, full gnu tools, and a massive support base really make it a pleasure to use (again, once jailbroken).
I'm curious you rooted the xoom why the opposition to jailbreaking the iphone? You're still just getting root on the device.
I'm also curious what you can do on the rooted xoom you can't do on a jailbroken idevice? I'll have to get back into Android I think. Back when the Nexus One was out I got one and I found it to be a far less capable rooted device than a Jailbroken iPhone.
No proper SSH suite (OpenSSH), no proper GNU tools (only busybox) etc etc. The excuse I got in the forums was always some BS about it being an embedded device. Once you hit 512mb of ram and 1GHz CPU's it is hardly necessary to use garbage like dropbear and busybox.
Have things improved to help make the device a full featured computer ? On the iPhone I can code compile etc whatever I want. I run samba and/or sftp for file access, I run VNC so I can work on the phone from the computer. I can plug it in via HDMI on my TV if I like to watch shows or have a bigger work surface.
I can get right into the VPN at work, full exchange support for email, and really almost anything else I want. I haven't found it very limiting at all.
Has nothing to do with pushing your machine to the limit.
Simple every day functions stutter, delay, lag, and overall are annoying due to the lower specs and lack of polish.
It may DO what you want, but you probably won't be as productive doing it or have as much fun.
If you can look past those things then a $100 android device may be the way to go. Especially since the $500-700 Android tablets suffer from similar problems just to a lesser extent.
I have a feeling that "very responsive" in your mind is different than others. I have used a tablet with idential specs basically and I considered it totally unusable. Have you used an iPad 2? Android is superior in some ways for sure but you can hardly compare them on UI.
On the iPad things are instant. Nothing stutters when you scroll, nothing "loads" other than massive apps, they just open instantly.
Want to blast through an album with 100 large pictures? It is instant. Flip around zoom, everything, instant. Not just fast, there is no perception of loading anything. The whole OS is like this. Android is not even close on those cheaper tablets.
You get a lot of value for the cheap price but don't kid yourself or others it is a similar machine.
I'm guessing you are right in that it is a trunk but it probably is not coax. It is probably a huge bundle of fibers coming in from all over.
You can see the amplifier on the smaller line there (0.625 line).
It has a bunch of directional couplers etc, and a drop for customers. But it is all on the normal line.
I just can't see it being coax because amplifiers can be put anywhere. And the only reason for thick line would be to span a huge distance without an amplifier.
Of course I'm not positive, I just do a small cable company that doesn't even use fiber nodes, but that is probably it.
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Pretty fucking much. How else you gonna get home from England? Try to get a ride on a cruise liner or cargo ship?
If it was ever not justified for other countries to detest the USA, the valid reasons sure keep cropping up.
I actually find full system recovery another place where TM kicks ass.
Put in your disk, wipe the drive make a new partition, and install by 'restoring from time machine'
It will make you system how it was from the minute that backup was made, almost as if nothing changed.
As mentioned, the tmutil command line utility is great for finding out exactly what is in each backup, what changed(added and removed), what kind of size diff there is between two backups, etc.
You can also incorperate an old sparsebundle into your current backup sparsebundle using tmutil.
Apple hate aside, time machine is an amazingly excellent backup system.
It backs up to a Netgear Readynas configured in RAID 5. Hourly, daily, weekly backups. I've never lost anything thanks to this great system.
In linux I try to approximate this with BackupPC.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
It is really an excellent piece of software, though no where near as refined of course. You pretty much only get daily backups though since the kernel in linux does not track filesystem changes so hourly backups would be very prohibitive.
As mentioned you need many exploits for one jailbreak, but multiple groups will not release all their own jailbreak using totally diff methods for the same ios version. There has been semi-good cooperation there in the past.
If that's what you say about edmonton, I live where the human equivilent of Extremophile bacteria are!
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=dawson+creek+bc&hl=en&sll=55.733805,-120.170734&sspn=0.665732,1.757812&t=v&hnear=Dawson+Creek,+Peace+River+Regional+District,+British+Columbia&z=5
Thankfully 50mbps internet is plentiful and there is no need to go driving to any border for games.
There are other options. Some colleges here in canada offer wind-farm tech as a one year course that will at least get your started.
http://www.nlc.bc.ca/programs/allprograms/windturbinemaintenancetechnician.aspx
That is in my town here in northern canada but there must be others as well.
That being said I've done a stint working on wooden poles with spurs and I'd take tower work any day. Man that sucked! About half way through the first summer I felt like refusing the work since it was so painful and annoying, but then I thought of buying a hunting tree stand, hooking it onto the pole, and working on the cable amplifiers I was servicing. Was about a billion times nicer.
I'm an RF tech in Northern Canada. On a perfect day, with no wind, and warm weather, it can still be challenging. There are days at -30, 70kph winds, and you're trying to carefully point an 8 foot dish at something 50km away, it can be no picnic.
Every radio technician I know basically has his pick of locations to work. I was working in a much balmier area for the first part of my career, and when I was looking to make more money, I essentially was offered a job as soon as I could start in every city I called.
I picked the one that offered a good wage and appeared to treat their employees well.
But it can get pretty forbidding and most companies go through quite a few Junior guys before finding one that has the right mix of bravery, problem solving skill, and responsibility to be a good radio tech long term.
When you have to dress like this:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6970622485_5ebeeba3e8_z.jpg
Or like this:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6824493552_3f21a9e218_z.jpg
to climb up a 300 foot tower and work on something, you feel like you've earned the higher dollars you get paid.
A ton of the books I've been reading are self published 99c books for kindle. There are some really good ones.
Pretty much every kindle book I check is a good bit below paperback price and way under hard cover price. Maybe a different taste in books is causing different results but I was pirating books before and I search now for books on kindle store and download piles of them and actually pay!
It has not only gotten cheaper as far as I can tell, you can get books instantly right to your device. Over 3G anywhere in the world! I'd almost pay normal paperback price for that convenience.
Books on Kindle are also that easy and fast. Can browse on the device or on your computer to be sent to the device.
They also cost much less than the paper variants.
I used to pirate books on my Sony Reader, and since I got my Kindle I haven't pirated one.
TV shows are still much nicer pirated than official though. They are abhorrently expensive from Apple etc. Hulu and other similar services not available in Canada.
I could watch them hours before they air on the west coast in HD with no commercials. Blows away the official means still. Once TV shows and movies are cheap, easy, and available like E-Books and Music, I imagine piracy of those would decline as well.
True. It seems to work okay but I don't have a 4S to compare against so not sure how much worse it is if any.
No I use a proxy online. Modmyi recently posted an article about working online servers.
I am using Spire to enable Siri on my i4 and it seems to work fine. I can use it fine while it is sitting in the dock in my truck about 4 feet from my mouth with tire, engine, and heater noise going. Not sure if it works better on a 4S but there are quite a few people using Siri on jailbroken i4's without problems.
The great grandparent up there said there is no way to restore ANY iPhone since iOS5. This isn't true. Only A5's currently can not be downgraded.
I know the point stands for A5 devices though that does suck. Finding a tethered bootrom level exploit would be nice. I'm personally sticking with my iPhone 4 until a bootrom exploit is found on the next iPhone whatever it is.
Mod parent up. 99% of jailbreaks are not based on exploits in userland through safari, they are based on USB flaws, bootrom flaws, kernel flaws, etc. They can not be remotely exploited.
I haven't read into it too much but it appears that the A5 jailbreak gets in through a hole in (the local setup of) the VPN tunnel in the OS.
Same as a real computer, once your attacker has physical access you're hooped.
As I replied before you can restore as many times as you like with pre-A5 devices like the iPhone 4, even in iOS5. Just a bit of a new procedure.
Actually for any of the pre-A5 devices this is not true. They have figured out a way to save the ticket AND shsh blobs and stitch them into your firmware file so you can flash back to it any time you'd like.
A5 devices do not have any bootrom level exploits though so this is not possible. You basically have to get 5.0.1 going now before 5.1 comes out. If not you will be stuck with 5.1.
BTW A5 devices are iPad 2 and iPhone 4S
Ya if sideloading apps is the main stopper you're pretty much hooped there. You can do this with jailbroken aps (the iPhone simply uses debain apt, so you can imagine installing normal *nix things and jailbreak apps are very easy, just apt-get install) but the normal app store apps are pretty much appstore or appsync only (though appsync is close to sideloading, can install apps from itunes or from safari directly).
While you DO need to jailbreak to get the good stuff, I still think the iDevices are more geek friendly once jailbroken. The combination of apt, full bash, openssh, full gnu tools, and a massive support base really make it a pleasure to use (again, once jailbroken).
I'm curious you rooted the xoom why the opposition to jailbreaking the iphone? You're still just getting root on the device.
I'm also curious what you can do on the rooted xoom you can't do on a jailbroken idevice? I'll have to get back into Android I think. Back when the Nexus One was out I got one and I found it to be a far less capable rooted device than a Jailbroken iPhone.
No proper SSH suite (OpenSSH), no proper GNU tools (only busybox) etc etc. The excuse I got in the forums was always some BS about it being an embedded device. Once you hit 512mb of ram and 1GHz CPU's it is hardly necessary to use garbage like dropbear and busybox.
Have things improved to help make the device a full featured computer ? On the iPhone I can code compile etc whatever I want. I run samba and/or sftp for file access, I run VNC so I can work on the phone from the computer. I can plug it in via HDMI on my TV if I like to watch shows or have a bigger work surface.
I can get right into the VPN at work, full exchange support for email, and really almost anything else I want. I haven't found it very limiting at all.
Has nothing to do with pushing your machine to the limit.
Simple every day functions stutter, delay, lag, and overall are annoying due to the lower specs and lack of polish.
It may DO what you want, but you probably won't be as productive doing it or have as much fun.
If you can look past those things then a $100 android device may be the way to go. Especially since the $500-700 Android tablets suffer from similar problems just to a lesser extent.
I have a feeling that "very responsive" in your mind is different than others. I have used a tablet with idential specs basically and I considered it totally unusable. Have you used an iPad 2? Android is superior in some ways for sure but you can hardly compare them on UI.
On the iPad things are instant. Nothing stutters when you scroll, nothing "loads" other than massive apps, they just open instantly.
Want to blast through an album with 100 large pictures? It is instant. Flip around zoom, everything, instant. Not just fast, there is no perception of loading anything. The whole OS is like this. Android is not even close on those cheaper tablets.
You get a lot of value for the cheap price but don't kid yourself or others it is a similar machine.
Not all those who wander are lost either, but this guy is both.
Windows phone ? Yuck. Major features not yet implemented. Crappy UI (IMO).
Both iOS and Android sync fine to exchange servers only.
Root your android or jealbreak your iphone and you can eliminate any of the small privacy leaks these platforms have.
Aparently Doxy is not great for kids, though in adults you are correct it seems to be the best course.
Sounds like Lyme disease unfortunately. In her case she should have received a big dose of amoxicillin pretty much immediately.
If that doesn't happen she is pretty much saddled with it forever, despite it being bacterial.
I'm guessing you are right in that it is a trunk but it probably is not coax. It is probably a huge bundle of fibers coming in from all over.
You can see the amplifier on the smaller line there (0.625 line).
It has a bunch of directional couplers etc, and a drop for customers. But it is all on the normal line.
I just can't see it being coax because amplifiers can be put anywhere. And the only reason for thick line would be to span a huge distance without an amplifier.
Of course I'm not positive, I just do a small cable company that doesn't even use fiber nodes, but that is probably it.