@foone I sincerely wish that this was easier to do.
Notices by Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 07:09:34 JST Denis Warburton -
Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 11:50:12 JST Denis Warburton @foone Wow - that looks like it took that hit at just the right place. Does it start-up?
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 11:39:49 JST Denis Warburton @foone YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKES
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:36:39 JST Denis Warburton I’m re-drawing the glyphs via “freehand,” since I don’t have grid lines or consistent ‘pixel’ sizes in the original character set illustration.
After a while, you internalize the designer’s approach.
Which, at one point, made me say to myself, “is that all that you [designer] did???”
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:36:39 JST Denis Warburton Replicating the work of the TeleCaption’s font designer has only increased my irritation with their work.
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 09:26:20 JST Denis Warburton @foone All we need is a 2024 version of the WD TV.
Still shocked that this turned out to be one of the best purchases that I ever made. You just point it to your share (or attached drive), and it plays it (MP4/MKV).
Dead simple, stupid reliable.
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 08:35:52 JST Denis Warburton @foone oh shit they found us
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 07:25:18 JST Denis Warburton @foone If anyone can pull this off today, it’s definitely you. :)
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 12:12:16 JST Denis Warburton This is a NEMA 5-15 outlet, found on location in an Atlanta, GA church. The red paper tape warning was left there by yours truly, after plugging a Kill-A-Watt into the outlet.
This is why I *always* test outlets on location before plugging equipment into them.
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 04:38:06 JST Denis Warburton @foone Exactly. Amazing what these folks were attempting to do in 1970 (!!).
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 04:06:50 JST Denis Warburton FCC: “WTB and OET Seek Comment on NextNav Petition for Rulemaking”
Seeking comment on NextNav Inc.’s petition, which involves reconfiguring the entire Lower 900 MHz Band for a “5G terrestrial positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) network” that “complements and backs up” U.S. GPS.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/wtb-and-oet-seek-comment-nextnav-petition-rulemaking
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 04:06:49 JST Denis Warburton As a piece of trivia:
The precursor to the 1980 Closed Captioning system was intended to provide precise timing for potential use in positioning work… and had some testing in positioning applications. (It was one of many precursors to the U.S. GPS system.)
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:38:58 JST Denis Warburton My wife in her violent, 3½” floppy years.
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 14:45:37 JST Denis Warburton — TECH QUIZ —
Back in early 2020, I burned a live CloneZilla CD, which I used on a Pentium 4 system to back up a good number of IDE hard drives.
My problem, in 2024, is that I can’t remember how to mount the damn images >>> on my Macintosh <<<.
Important Note: THIS IS A FAT-16 FILESYSTEM.
Suggestions ????
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 14:45:36 JST Denis Warburton … an error [“mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (20487)”] which suggests I probably did something wrong, and need to look into it more later… but actually resulted in the partition successfully being mounted.
Kudos to the following Ask Different contributor for # 3 :
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/331566/mounting-a-single-partition-dd-image-in-macos
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 14:45:36 JST Denis Warburton Ok, so I think I *may* have solved at least this issue.
What worked for me:
1) Using `cat` to merge the MBR, the data-after-the-MBR, and the actual sda1.dd.img file into a single .IMG file on another drive. Running `hdiutil pmap` on that image showed that it was recognized as a “PC Partition Scheme.”
2) Then running `hdiutil attach -nomount` which attached the “FDisk_partition_scheme” and “DOS_FAT_16” partitions.
3) Running `mount -o ro -t msdos` to manually create a mount point. This gave…
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 14:45:35 JST Denis Warburton With another disk image, I noted that I could simply use `hdiutil attach -nomount` with the .img file that CloneZilla produced for a FAT32 filesystem… as it showed up immediately in my device list after running that command.
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 14:45:34 JST Denis Warburton Additional fun:
Since CloneZilla creates filenames like “sdc1.dd-img.aa”, the Macintosh’s `hdiutil` refuses to accept them as valid disk images … because it’s a “.aa” file, and not a “.img” file.
Seriously.
You have to copy the file to another volume (since the source is read-only), rename it there, and then you can mount it.
Sigh….
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 08:35:55 JST Denis Warburton WaPo: “Google is an illegal monopoly, federal court rules”
‘Judgement delivers a victory to the Justice Department as it takes on a string of federal antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech.’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/05/doj-google-monopoly-trial-judgment/
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Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 08:34:32 JST Denis Warburton @foone Wow. The “AI” descriptions were bad enough. They could have stopped there.