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DCJensen - Feb 06, 2011 4:52:51 am PST #16033 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

$150 Wall-plug Linux PC: [link]

- 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU
- 512MB RAM
- 1 MicroSD slot
- 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
- 2 USB ports
- 1 eSATA port
- Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
- Wi-Fi (802.11b and g)
- 48K/44.1 KHz audio (in and out)
- 16-bit DAC port
- 1 headphone jack
- 1 S/PDIF optical port

All in the size of a 5 port hub.

Another write up: [link]


Theodosia - Feb 06, 2011 7:03:22 am PST #16034 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

After a week or so, my Carbonite backup is at 84%. Those last 100 files or so seem to be going very slowly!


DCJensen - Feb 06, 2011 8:44:54 pm PST #16035 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Should I be thinking about a DSL router that handles IPv6?


amych - Feb 07, 2011 5:27:40 am PST #16036 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Should I be thinking about a DSL router that handles IPv6?

Not in a "you must switch on this day or you go dead" way like with digital TV, no. Thinking about it henever you would normally upgrade otherwise, yes, but since just about everything you can buy now can handle both v4 and v6, it shouldn't be something you'd even have to worry about at that point.

The major issue is for ISPs and major sites connecting to the backbone, not end users connecting to their own ISPs -- if your DSL provider is assigning IPv4 from their existing pool of addresses, they'll keep doing that, and handle the address translation at the upstream end once they actually have to in some months (if they aren't doing that already).

I wouldn't be too surprised if ISPs started saying "hey, we're going to swap out your existing box" kind of like cable companies did. But since you have a DSL provider (and therefore aren't running your own internet node on pre-2000 hardware, in which case I'd be awed but also a little confused!), it'll be pretty invisible on your end for a while yet.


DCJensen - Feb 07, 2011 6:50:56 am PST #16037 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

I think I'll upgrade when something important to me is accessible only on an ipv6-only website.

ETA: Or if there's a really good deal...


-t - Feb 07, 2011 7:45:28 am PST #16038 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

OK, I need advice.

I recently rebuilt my Mac Mini's directories using DiskWarrior. It had been in a permanent kernel panic before that. Now, should I restore to a Time Machine Backup from before the kernel panic problem started, or will that reintroduce the problem? Or do I even need to restore? I'm not sure what rebuilding the directories changed.


Lee - Feb 07, 2011 4:31:27 pm PST #16039 of 25501
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Hey, does anyone have Zooborns on their iphone/ipad? For the past week or so, it's been telling me there aren't any images to be found, but the web site seems to be updating still, and I am wondering if it's just me or the app.


sumi - Feb 08, 2011 4:40:57 am PST #16040 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!

Looks like the iphone 4 could have been international.


§ ita § - Feb 08, 2011 5:15:20 am PST #16041 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Has anyone had problems with pyTivoX? I'm sharing two folders--one on my Mac, and one on my Linux server. I have the same file in both folders, but my TiVo only sees the one on the Linux box.

I've deleted and recreated the entry for the Mac folder, changed folders, changed share type, everything. It won't see the avis unless they're, oddly enough, on the remote server.

It used to be intermittent, but it's been a solid day and I haven't been able to pick anything up--the symptom before was that it showed I had more than a page of items on the Mac, but when I paged down, it said there were no recordings, so I could never find the file I was really looking for. I deleted everything but the right file, and now it swears it's empty. I put some of the old stuff back, and it won't register.


tommyrot - Feb 08, 2011 5:21:07 am PST #16042 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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