I want to verify an installer .dmg file’s signature. I downloaded both files
(installer and signature) from the developer’s site.
I installed gpg tools and discovered that gpg is looking for a .sig file, but
the signature file available from the developer is an .asc file.
I won’t describe the
I’m curious. I know the ToH, but “tail”?
Dave
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> ... but I’m going to reconfigure it to get the longer backup “tail” provided
> by the ToH approach.
>
> Jim
I think most people who talk about servers and HDs/SSDs are referring to
commercial internet-connected servers.
Yes, a private server will likely see a lesser degree of service/use and
storage drives can be uprated (the opposite of derated) for greater lifetime.
Dave
> I’ve been looking at
Old technology drives use magnetism to hold bits. This works for decades, or
so I’ve read. Usually the motor or bearings die before the magnetic medium
fails.
Solid State Drives use memory chips to hold bits. These “bit holders” can wear
out after a few trillion transitions (changing from 1
ove to know more about what you’re saying here. Up until I just
>> read what you wrote, I thought SSDs were the savior of HDDs.
>> Michael A. Leonetti
>> As warm as green tea
>>> 3/7/21 午後5:26、Dave Horsfall のメール:
>>> On Sat, 6 Mar 2021, Dave C via macports-users
This applies to affordable SSDs. As you say, the ones that are on par (re.
reliability) with HDDs are $pendy.
It’s something to do with an SSD’s limited number of write cycles, if I
remember...
Dave
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> Isn’t SSD a bad choice for server duty? No server farms use them, apparently
> due
Isn’t SSD a bad choice for server duty? No server farms use them, apparently
due to short lifespan.
Dave
ps://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/jvcqd0/standing_up_for_developers_youtubedl_is_back/
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> https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
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>
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>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 10:21 AM Dave C via macports-users
>> wrote:
>> The YouTube-DL github page was taken down pe
The YouTube-DL github page was taken down per DMCA request.
Before learning of this I tried to DL a video and use the -x option to extract
the audio. This failed so in ignorance I successfully updated MacPorts and when
I repeated the audio DL, this time it succeeded resulting in an audio file.
