“Drug of the week,” fan mail, Catholic priest calendars, amputee robots, heir production, rabbit robots, Belgium = PERMA-BANNED, keystroke flubbery, more.
Links:
- “Extras” (buy the DVD
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- Elizabeth (buy the DVD
- Marie Antoinette (buy the DVD
- “Living With A Robotic Rabbit From France”
- “Someone tries to sell Belgium on eBay”
- Music snippet: The Wedding Industrial Complex
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i’ll try this anonymously
you missed “Silent Running”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/
which was talked about between Extras and Elizabeth.
An external USB2 HD connected to a USB1 port will work with audio, not video. It’s just to damn slow. There are adapters but as far as i know only firewire to USB2 for use with camcorders. Install a PCI USB2 card (about $18) or if you really don’t wanna open the case get an external firewire HD.
Paul: Thanks for the shownotes help. Don’t know why I skipped over that one.
Dave: Thanks for the hard drive tip. I probably will want to put some video files on the hard drive, so it looks like I’ll be adding a USB 2.0 card. I’m also using a USB wireless card with that machine, and because of the limitations of USB 1.1, it’s only connecting at 11 Mb, which is actually OK for most things. But a speed increase there would be a bonus. I wonder why Firewire hard drives are always more expensive than USB 2.0?
Like you said on the show, most PCs don’t have firewire so there’s less demand, that makes ‘em more expensive. (according to basic economy less demand should make them cheaper but instead companies screw us over by producing less)
I always get confused with the term Mb. Is that megabit or megabyte? There’s 8 bits in a byte so if 11 Mb is megabit you’ll have to divide it by 8, that would make it 1.375 megabyte/sec. Or something like that. Not sure. whateva.
Well, a fair few laptops have firewire, but it’s probably the cost of the hardware that makes it a non-starter for some. Firewire requires “Host-Client” Hardware, not like USB2 (or USB3, which is under dev), and USB2 is now comparable to Firewire. The only reason I’d buy a Firewire HD is to fill the Firewire Port on my mac mini to free up one of the USB2 ports.
Extras is cool - but I cannot stand Ricky Gervais, I think he’s more than arrogant - he is actually like the way he acts/performs, and that kind of personality really grinds my soul.
I want one of those Nabaztags. I can even go to the local Forbidden Planet (only a short bus ride away). Link below for your uk listeners.
http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8_5111&products_id=35957
I’ve seen those Nabaztags about a year ago in France, the name means rabbit in Armenian, at least that’s what they told me. I want one that speaks with a Brooklyn accent.
Did you hear one of them “speak,” Dave? if so, what did it sound like? I’m mildly intrigued by the things, but I think I’d still like a Sony Aibo better. The Forbidden Planet link that Rowley provided says that Nabaztags can also download podcasts.
Yeah i did, it sounded like a computer generated little girl’s voice. But there were like 30 voices to choose from. The one i saw was the 1st version, Rowley’s link points to a Nabaztag/tag 2, guess that means it’s “new and improved”.
I think you should be brave, open the case and pop in an IDE hard drive. You can get IDE drives REALLY cheap. I got a 160GB drive a few months ago on NewEgg for $55 (I think I may have told you this already, anyways). For $100 on NewEgg you can get a 500GB, 7200 RPM, Internal drive.
If you’re going to go ahead and get the external drive you might later on down the road pick up a USB 2.0 add-on card. Sometimes my PC will act up and I can’t transfer my pictures to the PC directly so I have to pull the pictures off the camera with my iBook G3 which only has USB 1.1 and it takes FOREVER!
Ok. Just read prior comments. Looks like this has already been talked about. Oh well. Anyways. Great show.
Internal is probably best , but if you didnt want to open the case, go for an external Firewire HD, it’s (almost) as fast as USB2. Make sure the disk is formatted as FAT32 rather than NTFS so that your Mac can read and write to it, I’m sure you’re going to network it all.
Andy: I was actually considering the IDE upgrade first. But I’m lazy, so I decided to check out externals instead. Since it’s rather apparent that I’m going to have to crack the case no matter what, I may just go ahead and upgrade the IDE drive after all. I’ve never actually done that before, so it’ll be a learning experience. Anyway, I’d just buy a Firewire drive if they weren’t so expensive.
Rowley:Actually Firewire is a bit faster than USB2 ’cause it doesn’t hog the processor that much. And OS X has no problem reading NTFS formatted disks, at least not in a network environment.
Shawno: Stop acting like a pussy and crack the damn case already!
Dave,
Yeah I know Macs have no problem reading ntfs locally or networked - writing is an issue though.
I use a Mac Mini for all my main usage and an XP laptop for “BBC iplayer”, “4 on demand”, Radio listen again, and all my DRM ripping needs, so I can play said videos etc on the mac.
Weird, i’ve never noticed any writing ussues. I have 3 Macs and one PC that i need for work. The PC has 2 harddrives, one is shared and i can access it on any Mac, read and write. The only thing that’s a bit annoying is that Mac OS X adds little hidden files with the same name as the original files that start with a period when i copy things.
I always thought that Mac could not write to NTFS at all! - I know it was the case with my big 250gb external - I had to reformat the as FAT32. Maybe network sharing combats that. I’ll check that out tonight. I have a 30gb NTFS Partition on the laptop which I could utilise if thats the case.
I have a 70 GB external Firewire drive. Only have it hooked up to my Mac Mini. OS X says it’s formatted in “Mac OS Extended.” Don’t remember if it was plug-n-play that way, or if I had to format it when I first hooked it up. Regardless, it reads/writes just fine.
The Flash card that my mobile phone uses is formatted by the phone as FAT-32, and OS X can also read/write the card without problems (except for those pesky “hidden” files Dave mentioned above). Of course, that doesn’t answer the question about NTFS. But, I thought I’d chime in, anyway.
On NTFS: only Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther” claims support for NTFS formatted volumes as improved compatibility and reliability, not sure what that means in the real world though but “Tiger” is reported to not be able to write to NTFS.
You could install macfuse (A FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism for Mac OS X) from google though, or play it safe and stick with FAT32.
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
You can also get apps like Mediafour MacDrive to read Mac partitions on windows machines.
BTW: Linux also has problems writing to NTFS formatted drives.
Anyway this is all a moot point as we’re all waiting for the Shawnogram video of that case getting cracked
Mac OS X can’t write to NTFS directly, Microsoft never released the specs and you run the risk of dataloss if you try. But networked it works fine since the Windows machine acts as a server. On a Windows machine: Share a volume (not as easy as it sounds but there’s plenty of info on that) On a Mac: Go to Utilies->Directory Acces, activate SMB/CIFS, click on configure and add a workgroup name. Save, you’re done.
fyi
tested new ntfs share from the laptop - works a dream, so the laptop does handle the writing to ntfs.
This is my favorite show because you talk about me! (I am secretly very conceded)