On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:03:20PM +0100, RS wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but I find that incredible. The Mac is sold > as a machine which allows creative people to create without having to > bother with technicalities.
And a Ferrari is sold as something that will turn you into a racing god and attract members of the appropriate sex, even though it actually does neither. Please don't confuse marketing with reality :-) As far as I'm concerned a Mac is a good compromise between Unix, doing A/V playback reliably, and having commercial desktop software available. > If I search for Linux traffic management or > Windows traffic management I can see that there are programs which do that > sort of thing, but they are only needed if I want to do clever things like > running a heavily loaded server where the load has to be balanced between > processes. I have 5 programs open on my task bar and 58 processes. Windows > allocates resources between them as they demand them OS X does that too. It's just that in this rare case I know better than the OS does. Exactly the same problem would arise if I used Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris instead. It's the problem that the --bwlimit option on rsync exists to solve. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk, and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer