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reddragdivaThe cheap DVD-R shop is Samrana, 74 Hoe Street, Walthamstow E17 4PG. I recommend them highly.
It's just as well the DVDs were 18p each, because I've gotten two coasters so far. Not bad media, but because:
- Mac OS X burn folders contain links to the files, not the files themselves; but the burn folder function is too dumb to understand that network drives aren't as instant as local hard disks. (It's probably just Samba on the FreeBSD 5.4 box being shitty, but it takes about fifteen seconds to start a transfer to the Mac smoothly. This is really annoying in VLC.)
- Mac OS X gets upset if you try to read a file whose name contains an umlauted U over Samba.
If a file or folder's name contains "ü" or "Ü", Mac OS X gets upset and says you don't have permission to read the file. And you then come up with an error message the exercises Apple's legendary user-friendliness to its utmost:
The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found.
(Error code -43).Could not retrieve information for "<unable to get file path>" (-43)
There's a similarly helpful message if Samba is hiccupping and it can't get the file RIGHT NOW, because maintaining a buffer is too hard, and you get a coaster.
I'm now trying what burn folders I can get to work, and making ISOs on the FreeBSD box to copy over to the Mac for burning. This takes only two hours for each one on 10Mbit Ethernet. I can't tell you how pleased I am.
Update: So, that ISO made a DVD-ROM with a readable directory structure but unreadable files. I'm now making tarballs to send over. Actually, I'm now going to bed.
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Date: 2006-02-16 10:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-16 10:52 pm (UTC)About Samrana
Date: 2006-02-20 05:19 pm (UTC)much appricated
regards
DVDMan
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-16 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-16 11:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-16 11:12 pm (UTC)(I wonder how NFS does.)
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:32 pm (UTC)Yay, accounts with the same UID across the house boxes can use NFS! Er, wait. Except OSX's idea of what UIDs its first couple of administrative accounts should have conflicted with Debian's idea of which ones it should reserve, and... yeah. Pain in the ass to set up.
That's when I fell in love with happy, happy little portable firewire drives.
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-16 11:06 pm (UTC)that's a bit poor, though. so, it doesn't do sufficient caching and it's not burnproof?
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:12 pm (UTC)The error message is really special. It's clear that Apple never expected anyone to see that message. Here's to testing.
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:26 pm (UTC)coastersCDs over the LAN. I trust servers, networks, admins and packet pixies about as far as I can throw them using my feet.How come what for you should be using umlauts? Are those pesky Vikings still speaking in Swedish Chef there?
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-16 11:44 pm (UTC)This reminds me of M$ and their two kinds of standards: standards and Microsoft standards. (I almost typed "damned standards". It would have meant the same.)
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Date: 2006-02-16 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 12:50 am (UTC)Wikitext is not hard. It's basically markup that works as tag soup.
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:58 am (UTC)I know Wikitext won't be hard. It's just a matter of taking a bit of time to familiarize (ise?) myself with it. I'll do that on the sandbox page when I get some time and am not sick.
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Date: 2006-02-18 03:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 12:18 am (UTC)I got into the habit of using Toast rather than the built-in stuff ages back when all it'd produce was HFS+. Pretty sure that's smart enough to cache stuff that comes off the network, and you could probably scam a copy and serial number easily enough if you felt motivated to do so.
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Date: 2006-02-17 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 01:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 09:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 01:22 am (UTC)Expecting NAS to satisfy realtime criteria is overly optimistic.
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Date: 2006-02-17 08:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 09:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-02-17 10:20 am (UTC)