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grahamlthompson – 1 hour ago »
Ordered a long cat5 lead to play with ITV player.
Not invested in a pair of Homeplugs yet Graham ?. Mind you don’t trip over that lead !
Sorry to see you go Bob, best of luck in your new enterprise. I hope your successor will continue with your legacy in keeping Hummy users as well informed as you have done in the past.
AVForums allows edits, Hummy.org.uk allows edits, hummy.tv allows edits. I haven’t seen any abuse of this option in any of these forums. What it does do, is allow you to correct typos and errors, add information, update download links, or temporarily remove them while updating software, etc. etc.
O.K. thanks for clearing that up Graham. It seems though that I’m now unable to edit my original post.
Admins, is this lack of an edit facility intentional, or is the edit button just hidden in some obscure place. My eyesight is not as good as it used to be.
Hmmm. I can edit this post O.K. Is there a time limit on editing older posts ?
grahamlthompson – 1 hour ago »
raydon – 3 hours ago »
grahamlthompson – 44 minutes ago »
Raydon a bit off topic but can you clear up a point of confusion.
Is it GB or Gb. I ask because b normally seems to mean bit rather than byte as in bps (bits/sec). Same confusion with respect to mbps or is it Mbps.
In the context of my post all references in to bytes (I don’t think I’ve ever seen HDD disk capacity referenced in bits. But you’re right, Bytes should be capital with a B. Please forgive my sloppy syntax
Please don’t apologise I was sincerely confused. You see both around. As you must know I come from a heavy engineering background largely involving TW. or GW ( I hope that’s right
). In future I will use B for Byte and b for bit Graham, I don’t believe for one minute you were confused. You were being pedantic for whatever reason I don’t care to imagine. I will edit the original post to clarify your confusion but I believe most readers will be able to interpret the original post without any clarification whatsoever.
grahamlthompson – 44 minutes ago »
Raydon a bit off topic but can you clear up a point of confusion.
Is it GB or Gb. I ask because b normally seems to mean bit rather than byte as in bps (bits/sec). Same confusion with respect to mbps or is it Mbps.
In the context of my post all references in to bytes (I don’t think I’ve ever seen HDD disk capacity referenced in bits. But you’re right, Bytes should be capital with a B. Please forgive my sloppy syntax
Hi Martin,
I’ve done a little research on this subject, so here’s what I’ve been able to dig up so far.
For a start, the whole issue of actual disk size has been clouded by a clever sales ploy used by HDD manufacturers.
In software terms one kilobyte is equal to 1024 bytes.
In hardware terms (as used by HDD manufacturers) one kilobyte equals only 1000 bytes.
So for one gigabyte
Binary = 1,073,741,824
Decimal = 1,000,000,000
Difference = 73,741,824
or 6.8677% less !
For a drive with stated capacity of 500GB you really get only 465.66GB.
For one terabyte it gets even worse
Binary = 1,099,511,627,776
Decimal = 1,000,000,000,000
Difference = 99,511,627,776
or 9.095% less !
For a drive with stated capacity of 1000GB you really get only 909.05GB.
Looking under the bonnet of my 500Gb HDR T2 the Linux OS reports the file system partitions as follows:
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 1011.4M 35.4M 924.7M 4% /mnt/hd1
/dev/sda2 447.6G 66.3G 358.6G 16% /mnt/hd2
/dev/sda3 9.8G 261.2M 9.1G 3% /mnt/hd3
However, From the T2’s System Menu the disk space is reported like this:
Available 373.6 Gb
Used 74.0 Gb
Reserved 72.7 Gb
You can see that ‘Available’ plus ‘Used’ space totals 447.6Gb
This ties in nicely with what Linux says is the partition size of hd2.
Partition hd1 is 1Gb and is used for EPG data.
Partition hd2 is the main media storage area for recordings. It also contains the 13.5Gb live buffer file.
Partition hd3 is 9.8Gb and is used, as far as I can tell, as a cache for Portal content.
Just where Humax get the figure of 72.7Gb Reserved I have no idea.
What I do know is that it has no bearing whatsoever on the truth.
grahamlthompson – 1 hour ago »
It looks as if new Foxsat-hdr’s have an updated loader
http://www.avforums.com/forums/14153434-post307.html
Could this be the power cut bug fixed ?
I certainly hope so. If it is a bugfix release, then why isn’t it available for download from the Humax site ?. If not a bugfix, then what is its purpose I wonder ?
son_t – 5 hours ago »
Maybe we can get Raydon to document and upload his programs here. Need to get super-admin to get a move on with the wiki area!
Will be glad to do that. I don’t mind the site hosting the files. At the same time the download counter on my 4shared account gives me valuable feedback, as I like to keep track of numbers of users. Any chance you can provide download counters here if you host the files ?
