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From: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 14:06 James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > > You cheeky old git. Off to the Punishment Planet with you. > > Where's that then, South London? No; that's paradise of course. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 14:08 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:26:00 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2010-03-31 18:20:00 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:07:42 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2010-03-31 17:38:31 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: >>> >>>> Mail/calendar/contacts sync to the cloud - yes, >>>> MobileMe/Google/Exchange, though needs a computer at some point to set >>>> it up. >>> >>> You can set all this up using Mobile Safari. It is awkward because of >>> the screen size, but do-able. I set up my wife's iPod Touch to sync >>> with google calendar all without using my Mac. >>> >>>> System updates - no. This will be trickier, but the iPhone/Touch >>>> already do a two-partition scheme, / for system and /var/mobile for >>>> the user stuff, so it should not be impossible. >>> >>> Like Sun's LiveUpdate? >> >> Those are effectively zone upgrades, aren't they? I haven't played >> with Solaris for about four years now so I'm a bit out of touch. > >No, it installs the new OS into a separate partition (you *did* create >a spare partition beforehand, right?) and just reboots. (Actually it >copies the current OS into the partition, then upgrades it.) Ar. Then yes, like Sun's LiveUpdate without ZFS. >With ZFS boot, LiveUpgrade is replaced with effectively ZFS clones and >snapshots. Very neat. Yum! >Shame Apple aren't using ZFS, but I guess it >might be a bit OTT on a telephone :-) Pft. What's a cloud for, if not putting snapshots on? It still annoys me that ZFS was dropped, but Time Machine is so clearly designed with ZFS in mind... Cheers - Jaimie -- I think I'm too sarcastic to believe in myself. -- Nietzsche
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 14:12 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:01:07 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >On 2010-03-31 17:46:06 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh ><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said: > >> You can't stir-fry on an Aga easily, not without overstoking it and >> baking the entire kitchen. Apart from that, there's almost nothing >> they can't do with a bit of adaptation. >> >> And for those that don't want to learn, you can get a bolt on normal >> cooker for them - http://www.aga-web.co.uk/123.htm > >Would they be safe for blind people? I use a convection oven with a >voice synthesizer in it for setting the times and heating. These are >safe enough with gloves but I can imagine burning myself with that sort >of setup that Peter's describing. Agas? Yes, I would think so - you get two to six ovens, which are at more or less fixed temperatures. You get two lid-covered hot plates, one hot and one hotter, and a warming slab. The same bits are always the same hot, and you can tell what you're going to touch by the heat radiance on your skin, so I reckon they're safer. Cheers - Jaimie -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
From: Chris Ridd on 31 Mar 2010 14:41 On 2010-03-31 19:08:58 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > It still annoys me that ZFS was dropped, but Time Machine is so > clearly designed with ZFS in mind... Nod, though the ability to delete stuff from Time Machine backups is a bit missing from ZFS+snapshots. Sort of a feature I suppose. The mac-zfs boys are making some progress in syncing up the ZFS code from Apple with the OpenSolaris code. Slow progress though... -- Chris
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 14:54
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:45:00 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) > wrote: > > >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:18:04 +0100, Graeme > >> <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> >What about power supplies? > >> > >> All Apple power supplies are 100-250V, and the plug fittings are > >> swappable. I have an *awful* lot of US fittings... > > > >The newer plug fixings for the iPhone are not swappable. they are very > >mini power supplies. > > Do we know what the iPad uses yet? one of these I suspect: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC359LL/A so you will be ok with a different table. > > I'd forgotten about those - my 3GS came with one, but I've got a small > pile of varied USB chargers and tend to use those instead. I think the iPhone one is my favourite -- Woody www.alienrat.com |