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The best speedcubists, after years and years of hard work can only reach 17 secs on average (Marc Waterman, Ron Van Bruchem, Dan Knights, Jessica Fridrich, Katsuyuki Konishi...).

10 secs is possible only with an EXTREMELY lucky starting configuration (solving requiring about 30 moves).

Take a look at the Unofficial world records board

My best average is slightly above 20 secs, but I have the world record in the "under water" category ;-)

Gilles.

Gee, MY car burns hydrogen! What are you waiting for?

My car runs on hydrogen, which is bound by carbon so it isn't so gaseous. C8H16 or so (chemistry was a long time back). Or did you mean ``uses a fuel cell which burns H_2''? I'd like something like that too; the current technology has too many moving parts. I'm not holding my breath.

While we're talking bluesky stuff, here's something interesting: tapping the vaccuume energy. The guy's got a patent, and claims that he'll be producing commercial quantities Real Soon Now (TM).

The game was called Sentry. I remember playing it on my C-64 back in the days. If you're interested, there's a modernized port of it at http://eicart.free.fr/sentry/ for Windows. As a Linux user, I'm curious if I could get it running under Wine or WineX. I'll have to try that after when I get home tonight.

Jason,

I read your interesting experience with ECG. You were worried about your negative "S" wave and thought it might be due to some construction problem. It probably isn't. I'm no electrical engineer, but I am a medical doctor, and I was tought how the thing works.

In a basic ECG reading, there are 12 leads. Each corresponds to a different way of considering which electrode is picking up the signal, and which ones are used as a reference. 3 leads are so-called "bi-polar" and are often tagged "I, II, III". 3 leads are the so-called "augmented unipolar limb leads" and are tagged "aVR, aVL, aVF". The 6 other are the so-called "chest" leads and are often tagged "V1" to "V6". There are additional lines that go all the way to "V12", but we'll forget them for now.

The general idea is to pick up the heart's electrical vector in a vertical plane (for the bi-polar and augmented unipolar leads) in 6 evenly spaced directions. The chest leads do the same in a horizontal plane.

In a regular ECG, electrodes are placed on each wrist and on each ankles (although one ankle would be enough). If you consider a person with his arms spread out and approximately at 30 degrees elevation, and both legs together and extended, you have the image of a triangle, more or less centered around the heart.

Bipolar leads take the input from two of the leads, using the other one as a reference (I think). Thus, "I" is a horizontal vector going from left arm to right arm. "II" goes from the right arm to the legs. "III" goes from the left arm to the legs. Each lead in pink in the following diagram is parallel to one of the green lines of the triangle.

The augmented unipolar limb leads work by considering only one of the limbs, and the others as reference (? still not sur about the reference thing, though).

When you consider this, you have 12 evenly spaced recordings of the electrical activity of the heart, in a vertical pane (I, -aVR, II, aVF, III, -aVL, -I, aVR, -II, -aVF, -III, aVL).

The chest leads are simple unipolar leads that start just to the right of the sternum (V1) and are regularly spaced from just to the left of the sternum to under the left armpit (V2 to V6). They obviously give a "picture" of the heart's electrical activity in a horizontal pane.

The aspect of a lead is always roughly the same.

The aspect of the different waves depends on what perspective you are using to "see" the heart. The most prominent wave is the so-called "QRS" complex. This is actually the electrical signal that represents the loss of polarity of the heart-cells' surface in response to the stimulus. If the wave is going "towards" the electrode, the signal is positive. If it is going away from the electrode, it is negative. The signal first descends towards the tip of the heart, then heads back up a little, hence the tall R and deep S waves that are often seen, mostly on the chest leads, which are "closer" to the heart and are looking "at" the tip of the heart. Thick hearts (because of disease) cause abnormaly tall or deep R or S waves.

On the photo you provide, it you seem to have placed your electrodes in an uncommon "bipolar V1-V6". This is not a standard vector, so don't expect to see anything that resembles a real ECG. Therefore, I think there is nothing wrong with your apparatus. Try placing the red and black electrodes one on each arm and the other (green) one on the thigh. You'll probably get something much closer to the usual aspect of an ECG.

Just my 0.02 euros...

Hope this helps.

Jason,

I read your interesting experience with ECG. You were worried about your negative "S" wave and thought it might be due to some construction problem. It probably isn't. I'm no electrical engineer, but I am a medical doctor, and I was tought how the thing works.

In a basic ECG reading, there are 12 leads. Each corresponds to a different way of considering which electrode is picking up the signal, and which ones are used as a reference. 3 leads are so-called "bi-polar" and are often tagged "I, II, III". 3 leads are the so-called "augmented unipolar limb leads" and are tagged "aVR, aVL, aVF". The 6 other are the so-called "chest" leads and are often tagged "V1" to "V6". There are additional lines that go all the way to "V12", but we'll forget them for now.

The general idea is to pick up the heart's electrical vector in a vertical plane (for the bi-polar and augmented unipolar leads) in 6 evenly spaced directions. The chest leads do the same in a horizontal plane.

In a regular ECG, electrodes are placed on each wrist and on each ankles (although one ankle would be enough). If you consider a person with his arms spread out and approximately at 30 degrees elevation, and both legs together and extended, you have the image of a triangle, more or less centered around the heart.

Bipolar leads take the input from two of the leads, using the other one as a reference (I think). Thus, "I" is a horizontal vector going from left arm to right arm. "II" goes from the right arm to the legs. "III" goes from the left arm to the legs. Each lead in pink in the following diagram is parallel to one of the green lines of the triangle.

The augmented unipolar limb leads work by considering only one of the limbs, and the others as reference (? still not sur about the reference thing, though).

When you consider this, you have 12 evenly spaced recordings of the electrical activity of the heart, in a vertical pane (I, -aVR, II, aVF, III, -aVL, -I, aVR, -II, -aVF, -III, aVL).

The chest leads are simple unipolar leads that start just to the right of the sternum (V1) and are regularly spaced from just to the left of the sternum to under the left armpit (V2 to V6). They obviously give a "picture" of the heart's electrical activity in a horizontal pane.

The aspect of a lead is always roughly the same.

The aspect of the different waves depends on what perspective you are using to "see" the heart. The most prominent wave is the so-called "QRS" complex. This is actually the electrical signal that represents the loss of polarity of the heart-cells' surface in response to the stimulus. If the wave is going "towards" the electrode, the signal is positive. If it is going away from the electrode, it is negative. The signal first descends towards the tip of the heart, then heads back up a little, hence the tall R and deep S waves that are often seen, mostly on the chest leads, which are "closer" to the heart and are looking "at" the tip of the heart. Thick hearts (because of disease) cause abnormaly tall or deep R or S waves.

On the photo you provide, it you seem to have placed your electrodes in an uncommon "bipolar V1-V6". This is not a standard vector, so don't expect to see anything that resembles a real ECG. Therefore, I think there is nothing wrong with your apparatus. Try placing the red and black electrodes one on each arm and the other (green) one on the thigh. You'll probably get something much closer to the usual aspect of an ECG.

Just my 0.02 euros...

Hope this helps.

Jason,

I read your interesting experience with ECG. You were worried about your negative "S" wave and thought it might be due to some construction problem. It probably isn't. I'm no electrical engineer, but I am a medical doctor, and I was tought how the thing works.

In a basic ECG reading, there are 12 leads. Each corresponds to a different way of considering which electrode is picking up the signal, and which ones are used as a reference. 3 leads are so-called "bi-polar" and are often tagged "I, II, III". 3 leads are the so-called "augmented unipolar limb leads" and are tagged "aVR, aVL, aVF". The 6 other are the so-called "chest" leads and are often tagged "V1" to "V6". There are additional lines that go all the way to "V12", but we'll forget them for now.

The general idea is to pick up the heart's electrical vector in a vertical plane (for the bi-polar and augmented unipolar leads) in 6 evenly spaced directions. The chest leads do the same in a horizontal plane.

In a regular ECG, electrodes are placed on each wrist and on each ankles (although one ankle would be enough). If you consider a person with his arms spread out and approximately at 30 degrees elevation, and both legs together and extended, you have the image of a triangle, more or less centered around the heart.

Bipolar leads take the input from two of the leads, using the other one as a reference (I think). Thus, "I" is a horizontal vector going from left arm to right arm. "II" goes from the right arm to the legs. "III" goes from the left arm to the legs. Each lead in pink in the following diagram is parallel to one of the green lines of the triangle.

The augmented unipolar limb leads work by considering only one of the limbs, and the others as reference (? still not sur about the reference thing, though).

When you consider this, you have 12 evenly spaced recordings of the electrical activity of the heart, in a vertical pane (I, -aVR, II, aVF, III, -aVL, -I, aVR, -II, -aVF, -III, aVL).

The chest leads are simple unipolar leads that start just to the right of the sternum (V1) and are regularly spaced from just to the left of the sternum to under the left armpit (V2 to V6). They obviously give a "picture" of the heart's electrical activity in a horizontal pane.

The aspect of a lead is always roughly the same.

The aspect of the different waves depends on what perspective you are using to "see" the heart. The most prominent wave is the so-called "QRS" complex. This is actually the electrical signal that represents the loss of polarity of the heart-cells' surface in response to the stimulus. If the wave is going "towards" the electrode, the signal is positive. If it is going away from the electrode, it is negative. The signal first descends towards the tip of the heart, then heads back up a little, hence the tall R and deep S waves that are often seen, mostly on the chest leads, which are "closer" to the heart and are looking "at" the tip of the heart. Thick hearts (because of disease) cause abnormaly tall or deep R or S waves.

On the photo you provide, it you seem to have placed your electrodes in an uncommon "bipolar V1-V6". This is not a standard vector, so don't expect to see anything that resembles a real ECG. Therefore, I think there is nothing wrong with your apparatus. Try placing the red and black electrodes one on each arm and the other (green) one on the thigh. You'll probably get something much closer to the usual aspect of an ECG.

Just my 0.02 euros...

Hope this helps.

Jason,

I read your interesting experience with ECG. You were worried about your negative "S" wave and thought it might be due to some construction problem. It probably isn't. I'm no electrical engineer, but I am a medical doctor, and I was tought how the thing works.

In a basic ECG reading, there are 12 leads. Each corresponds to a different way of considering which electrode is picking up the signal, and which ones are used as a reference. 3 leads are so-called "bi-polar" and are often tagged "I, II, III". 3 leads are the so-called "augmented unipolar limb leads" and are tagged "aVR, aVL, aVF". The 6 other are the so-called "chest" leads and are often tagged "V1" to "V6". There are additional lines that go all the way to "V12", but we'll forget them for now.

The general idea is to pick up the heart's electrical vector in a vertical plane (for the bi-polar and augmented unipolar leads) in 6 evenly spaced directions. The chest leads do the same in a horizontal plane.

In a regular ECG, electrodes are placed on each wrist and on each ankles (although one ankle would be enough). If you consider a person with his arms spread out and approximately at 30 degrees elevation, and both legs together and extended, you have the image of a triangle, more or less centered around the heart.

Bipolar leads take the input from two of the leads, using the other one as a reference (I think). Thus, "I" is a horizontal vector going from left arm to right arm. "II" goes from the right arm to the legs. "III" goes from the left arm to the legs. Each lead in pink in the following diagram is parallel to one of the green lines of the triangle.

The augmented unipolar limb leads work by considering only one of the limbs, and the others as reference (? still not sur about the reference thing, though).

When you consider this, you have 12 evenly spaced recordings of the electrical activity of the heart, in a vertical pane (I, -aVR, II, aVF, III, -aVL, -I, aVR, -II, -aVF, -III, aVL).

The chest leads are simple unipolar leads that start just to the right of the sternum (V1) and are regularly spaced from just to the left of the sternum to under the left armpit (V2 to V6). They obviously give a "picture" of the heart's electrical activity in a horizontal pane.

The aspect of a lead is always roughly the same.

The aspect of the different waves depends on what perspective you are using to "see" the heart. The most prominent wave is the so-called "QRS" complex. This is actually the electrical signal that represents the loss of polarity of the heart-cells' surface in response to the stimulus. If the wave is going "towards" the electrode, the signal is positive. If it is going away from the electrode, it is negative. The signal first descends towards the tip of the heart, then heads back up a little, hence the tall R and deep S waves that are often seen, mostly on the chest leads, which are "closer" to the heart and are looking "at" the tip of the heart. Thick hearts (because of disease) cause abnormaly tall or deep R or S waves.

On the photo you provide, it you seem to have placed your electrodes in an uncommon "bipolar V1-V6". This is not a standard vector, so don't expect to see anything that resembles a real ECG. Therefore, I think there is nothing wrong with your apparatus. Try placing the red and black electrodes one on each arm and the other (green) one on the thigh. You'll probably get something much closer to the usual aspect of an ECG.

Just my 0.02 euros...

Hope this helps.

If only that stuff were true, we could be zooming about the solar system by now. Here's what NASA has to say about it though.

Maybe your old monitor can take you into space. (Here's About.com's take, a bit popsci.) I thought this was bogus until I saw This mouse flying in a lifter - including RealVideo.

Perhaps we have a workable alternative to rockets available. Rockets are a terrifically inefficient way to get, essentially, a 1 to 8 hour drive straight up. In order to do that we have to spit 100 times our mass out the back. That's a lot of commotion and expense and danger. If the tech shown here actually works, it might make the whole concept of rockets obsolete.

It seems this guy Townsend Brown patented what is now mostly called "ElectroKinetic Drive" back in the late 1950's. It was immediately ignored. But it seems to work quite well, even in a vacuum (I'm still a bit skeptical on this point - IMHO the vacuum test I saw pics of on this site was not sufficient.) Lift capability appears to be on the order of 1 gram per watt, perhaps better than that with good design.

At this point, there are almost 200 successful experimenters worldwide, flying lifters using the 'asymmetrical capacitor'. In Japan they have one over 5 meters wide, flying 15 meters in the air. (one of the photos also shows some cool sci-fi looking high voltage equipment below it.)

All of these devices so far have been powered by external high voltage sources, mostly from old PC monitors. I'm not a HW geek, but I figure if you can build a HV system that generates 15KV to 50KV, and enough continuous power to produce 2.5 or more watts per gram, you could build a completely self-sustained lifter.

Of course, I wanna be the first to do this, so I'm not gonna post it on Slashdot. No, really, I hope that lots of people start experimenting with this, and publish their results using a GPL-type approach to patents, so the major tech is bound up in open hardware licenses. This will prevent those who want to own this tech from patenting every nut and bolt and preventing us from building our own. For example, using attitude sensors and a crossover network to vary lift on different sides and maintain attitude and generate horizontal velocity.

Here and Here are some thrust calculations. The latter has a calculator to design your own. If you build one big enough for me, please give me a ride!

Also, if you follow this up, you'll find lots of interesting and downright spooky connections to UFO's, the Lockheed Stealth Blimp (what was that thing that floated over Phoenix in 1997?)

Maybe your old monitor can take you into space. (Here's About.com's take, a bit popsci.) I thought this was bogus until I saw This mouse flying in a lifter - including RealVideo.

Perhaps we have a workable alternative to rockets available. Rockets are a terrifically inefficient way to get, essentially, a 1 to 8 hour drive straight up. In order to do that we have to spit 100 times our mass out the back. That's a lot of commotion and expense and danger. If the tech shown here actually works, it might make the whole concept of rockets obsolete.

It seems this guy Townsend Brown patented what is now mostly called "ElectroKinetic Drive" back in the late 1950's. It was immediately ignored. But it seems to work quite well, even in a vacuum (I'm still a bit skeptical on this point - IMHO the vacuum test I saw pics of on this site was not sufficient.) Lift capability appears to be on the order of 1 gram per watt, perhaps better than that with good design.

At this point, there are almost 200 successful experimenters worldwide, flying lifters using the 'asymmetrical capacitor'. In Japan they have one over 5 meters wide, flying 15 meters in the air. (one of the photos also shows some cool sci-fi looking high voltage equipment below it.)

All of these devices so far have been powered by external high voltage sources, mostly from old PC monitors. I'm not a HW geek, but I figure if you can build a HV system that generates 15KV to 50KV, and enough continuous power to produce 2.5 or more watts per gram, you could build a completely self-sustained lifter.

Of course, I wanna be the first to do this, so I'm not gonna post it on Slashdot. No, really, I hope that lots of people start experimenting with this, and publish their results using a GPL-type approach to patents, so the major tech is bound up in open hardware licenses. This will prevent those who want to own this tech from patenting every nut and bolt and preventing us from building our own. For example, using attitude sensors and a crossover network to vary lift on different sides and maintain attitude and generate horizontal velocity.

Here and Here are some thrust calculations. The latter has a calculator to design your own. If you build one big enough for me, please give me a ride!

Also, if you follow this up, you'll find lots of interesting and downright spooky connections to UFO's, the Lockheed Stealth Blimp (what was that thing that floated over Phoenix in 1997?)

Maybe your old monitor can take you into space. (Here's About.com's take, a bit popsci.) I thought this was bogus until I saw This mouse flying in a lifter - including RealVideo.

Perhaps we have a workable alternative to rockets available. Rockets are a terrifically inefficient way to get, essentially, a 1 to 8 hour drive straight up. In order to do that we have to spit 100 times our mass out the back. That's a lot of commotion and expense and danger. If the tech shown here actually works, it might make the whole concept of rockets obsolete.

It seems this guy Townsend Brown patented what is now mostly called "ElectroKinetic Drive" back in the late 1950's. It was immediately ignored. But it seems to work quite well, even in a vacuum (I'm still a bit skeptical on this point - IMHO the vacuum test I saw pics of on this site was not sufficient.) Lift capability appears to be on the order of 1 gram per watt, perhaps better than that with good design.

At this point, there are almost 200 successful experimenters worldwide, flying lifters using the 'asymmetrical capacitor'. In Japan they have one over 5 meters wide, flying 15 meters in the air. (one of the photos also shows some cool sci-fi looking high voltage equipment below it.)

All of these devices so far have been powered by external high voltage sources, mostly from old PC monitors. I'm not a HW geek, but I figure if you can build a HV system that generates 15KV to 50KV, and enough continuous power to produce 2.5 or more watts per gram, you could build a completely self-sustained lifter.

Of course, I wanna be the first to do this, so I'm not gonna post it on Slashdot. No, really, I hope that lots of people start experimenting with this, and publish their results using a GPL-type approach to patents, so the major tech is bound up in open hardware licenses. This will prevent those who want to own this tech from patenting every nut and bolt and preventing us from building our own. For example, using attitude sensors and a crossover network to vary lift on different sides and maintain attitude and generate horizontal velocity.

Here and Here are some thrust calculations. The latter has a calculator to design your own. If you build one big enough for me, please give me a ride!

Also, if you follow this up, you'll find lots of interesting and downright spooky connections to UFO's, the Lockheed Stealth Blimp (what was that thing that floated over Phoenix in 1997?)

Maybe your old monitor can take you into space. (Here's About.com's take, a bit popsci.) I thought this was bogus until I saw This mouse flying in a lifter - including RealVideo.

Perhaps we have a workable alternative to rockets available. Rockets are a terrifically inefficient way to get, essentially, a 1 to 8 hour drive straight up. In order to do that we have to spit 100 times our mass out the back. That's a lot of commotion and expense and danger. If the tech shown here actually works, it might make the whole concept of rockets obsolete.

It seems this guy Townsend Brown patented what is now mostly called "ElectroKinetic Drive" back in the late 1950's. It was immediately ignored. But it seems to work quite well, even in a vacuum (I'm still a bit skeptical on this point - IMHO the vacuum test I saw pics of on this site was not sufficient.) Lift capability appears to be on the order of 1 gram per watt, perhaps better than that with good design.

At this point, there are almost 200 successful experimenters worldwide, flying lifters using the 'asymmetrical capacitor'. In Japan they have one over 5 meters wide, flying 15 meters in the air. (one of the photos also shows some cool sci-fi looking high voltage equipment below it.)

All of these devices so far have been powered by external high voltage sources, mostly from old PC monitors. I'm not a HW geek, but I figure if you can build a HV system that generates 15KV to 50KV, and enough continuous power to produce 2.5 or more watts per gram, you could build a completely self-sustained lifter.

Of course, I wanna be the first to do this, so I'm not gonna post it on Slashdot. No, really, I hope that lots of people start experimenting with this, and publish their results using a GPL-type approach to patents, so the major tech is bound up in open hardware licenses. This will prevent those who want to own this tech from patenting every nut and bolt and preventing us from building our own. For example, using attitude sensors and a crossover network to vary lift on different sides and maintain attitude and generate horizontal velocity.

Here and Here are some thrust calculations. The latter has a calculator to design your own. If you build one big enough for me, please give me a ride!

Also, if you follow this up, you'll find lots of interesting and downright spooky connections to UFO's, the Lockheed Stealth Blimp (what was that thing that floated over Phoenix in 1997?)

wonderful!!

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Free operating systems run on all the others; obviously that's the real reason GameCube is in decline. The solution is clear: Nintendo needs to release a Linux port! (A NetBSD port will appear, as if by magic, a few weeks after.)

It will be fun to run it under the gCubix GB emulator that runs on Linux.

http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html

http://daniel.glazman.free.fr/weblog/newarchive/20 03_05_04_glazblogarc.html#s93853368

http://daniel.glazman.free.fr/composer/composer++. html

--Asa

http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html

http://daniel.glazman.free.fr/weblog/newarchive/20 03_05_04_glazblogarc.html#s93853368

http://daniel.glazman.free.fr/composer/composer++. html

--Asa

Using a Minitel as an UNIX text console (in French)

Ffdshow is an easy replacement, as it's based on a Linux project, ffmpeg.

The extent of my encoding comes from recording TV or VHS tapes and throwing a few filters at them for cleanup and encoding. So I've never had a chance to become familiar with what features avisynth has. Some people over at Doom9's Linux forum have mentioned getting Avisynth running in wine.

Tmpgenc should be a pretty easy replacement. Transcode seems to be a favorite for mpeg2 encoding. There was a problem when I first started using Linux, which slowed mpeg encoding to a snails pace for a while, and I've never found a chance to get back to see how it works when fully functional. A lot of peoplel swear by it though, and it's feature list is pretty impressive. Avidemux, as well as quite a few other programs also provide mpeg1 encoding, I think through ffmpeg.

Everything in VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod except video capture should work fine under wine and that's what I used for quite a while before Avidemux appeared. The design and functionality are very similar to virtualdub, and it also includes encoding to mpeg1.

One of the two best media players for Linux, Mplayer, should be noted to have better support for matroska, in cvs, than is available for the format under windows. And these tools can be used for creation and editing of matroska files.

For capture from a tv card, I use nuppelvideo, and then use avidemux to edit and convert to a smaller format.

Why not?

There are people that like to learn languages to speak and express themselves in those languages with people from other places. That is the people that will learn portuguese, japanese, swedish or other languages with a few million speakers.

But then, there is also another bunch of people that just likes languages. I.e., knowing how they work, why they work like that ... and of course, creating new languages. That's what Tolkien did, that's what Marc Okrand did (he's the creator of Klingon), and that's what many people is doing. It has even a name, and it's conlanging (from CONstructed LANGuages). A wonderful introductory piece is at Boheme Magazine.

The official meeting place for conlangers is CONLANG, a mailing-list that has been going strong since 1991. And for links, you have conlanglinks, with many resources to know more about conlanging or about languages in general. The audience of CONLANG is very diverse, but I'd dare to say that most of them are either programmers or language-related people (teachers, linguists, etc.)

Conlanging is fun. Really :-) I'm no linguist, but conlanging is something very creative, and for me it's quite like a programming problem: you have some rules (that you create), and have to use them to express all the things that a language can express. And from the time that you express something in your own created tongue, you're hooked %-)

Anyway, I can understand that I'm quite weird and that many people consider this a loss of time. But hey, even Eric Raymond likes it. Basically, if you like RP games and science-fiction and have somewhat of a creative streak, you very well could like conlanging.

My own conlang is named Unahoban, and a quite incomplete and sometimes incoherent grammar is here.

But thank you! My plans for world domination may now proceed...

And try this one if you can view raw postscript.

I get 2Mbps/512kbps for 29.90 a month with Free in Paris. No sign-up fee, modem provided at no cost.

Interestingly, those guys, who have run on free software for year (hence the name, Free), have developed their own set-top box, AKA Freebox, which is more than just an ADSL modem: it's got 100baseTX, USB1.1, 2x phone RJ-11, one SCART and has an IR remote control.

They plan on providing digital TV and phone service through ADSL soon. Service is unrestricted, unmetered, unfiltered, static IP through DHCP, though still a bit rough around the edge at times.

It seems obvious that this classic has completely destabilized this guy! Actually, it's a great fun to spot the invaders mosaics in the streets of Paris; a friend setup a website to try and shoot'em al.

Hmm... seems my ISP is just being flaky.

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

It seems to coincide with the "end" of Netscape (perhaps the name, the company, the browser entity ?) as mentioned in some employee's blogs

There is a x86 emulator called qemu x86, which is designed for using with wine. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

DCPlaya is a fantastic MP3/Ogg/MOD player for the Dreamcast. There's no streaming support yet, but the player is open source and the author is working on a plugin API, so we could see it very soon. I use DCPlaya all the time now and I think it's the best DC MP3 player out of them all, including the commercial ones.

GAIM lets you log in to all the services Jabber lets you log into, and has had a plugin that uses GPG to encrypt your text, not the protocol.

If you want to put the pieces together, GAIM now runs under Windows. GAIM-e has provided GPG integration for GAIM on Linux for a long time and was recently ported to Windows. All you need now is the GAIM-e for Windows package and GPG for Windows. If you're not inclined to use the CLI, you can use Windows Privacy Tray, a GUI wrapper for GPG for Windows now part of Windows Privacy Tools.

GAIM
GAIM-e
GAIM-e for Windows
Windows Privacy Tools

If you're running Debian I'd add http://marillat.free.fr/ to your /etc/apt/sources.list and use the video/multimedia packages from there.

You need to have the qt6codecs package installed to view this trailer.

It's a tight vision to consider the UK as being the home of the Concorde: Concorde has been created as a cooperating project between France and the UK. It's been a difficult achievement but it was also the biggest recent proof that English people and French people can actually understand each others and do something valuable together (they would certainly benefit from doing the same thing for building Europe in the political area...).

But the first Concorde to fly was in Toulouse, France, with a French pilot which became famous for that. He took off the plane without any issue, did a loop, and grounded sooner than expected because of a heat problem.

There are two interesting things to notice about Concorde, in addition to the fact that it certainly is the most beautiful plane ever built: 1) the cooling system is using the plane's fuel! 2) the onboard computers are really really old design, with tubes instead of transistors!

A Concorde pilot also said that piloting a Concorde was exactly the same feeling as piloting a jet-fighter, that he could do exactly the same things with this plane, with hundreds passengers in the plane!

I'm sad to hear that the Concorde will stop to fly, especially without a similar plane to replace it.

There are great pictures of Concorde on:
http://benoit.rajau.free.fr/concorde.html

Anyone tried QEMU to get the remaining codecs working? :)

But Virtual Dub is Windows only

A bit of a cheat, but I used Virtual Dub via wine for quite some while after moving to linux. Recently I've found avidemux has reached a level where it can do everything I used Virtual Dub for.

That's all I can say... they've certainly packed an awful lot into this release. The JDT team, in particular, seems to be consistent about picking up some of the best features of other IDEs and editors and incorporating them into Eclipse.

If you do Java development, I'd recommend giving Eclipse a try. I've been using it for about a year now, to do plugin developent for Eclipse itself, and I'm still finding out new tricks and shortcuts to make my life easier.

If you do C/C++ development, check out the CDT project. While the current incarnation (1.0.1) of CDT is definitely usable, there's a lot of work going on to expand the capabilities of the C/C++ support and bring it up to par with the Java development tools - adding in things like incremental compilation, source navigation/browsing, refactoring, and all the other IDE goodies that Java devlopers already enjoy.

Plus - there's over 250 plugins available for Eclipse, including things like an RSS channel monitor for slashdot in your IDE.

It's very easy to install - the installer is to a lot of people the easiest to use (myself included).

I think most of the people who use or want to use Slackware is for the challenge - for the most part you generally have to edit config files yourself to administer it, or upgrade stuff. Compiling new packages yourself is done more often than using the package management system - it isn't anything like apt-get or rpm (though rpm is available and I've noticed quite a few package management tools around).

For me, it's what I've used since around 96/97 (and the red Infomagic distribution), and I'm comfortable with it :)

5. If using Linux, transcode is fairly good, but it lacks the configurability of avisynth and Virtualdub with filters. It's just not as complete a set.

For my use, avidemux has been great as a replacement for VirtualDub in Linux. I used to resort to running VirtualDub in wine, but all the filters I used have analogues in avidemux at this time.

DAR's what I use:

only 25 blank CD-R's to backup my home dir

*cough*

( yeah, OK, so I should stop trying different distros and settle on one, or two, .. alright, three, then, and I'd be able to wipe all that stuff I keep for installing-from-disk, but .. Oh, Later. )

• Agata (report gen, PHP-Gtk)
  
• DataVision (report gen, Java)
  
• SQL Databases for Linux (article, old but lotsa links)
  
• DataMiner (mining/editing frontend, PHP)
  
• DBA-Dialog (DBA tool, BASH (yes really!))
  
• DB Designer (complex-SQL-database design tool, apparently C++/Qt)
  
• Foxxess (DBA frontend, apparently C++/Fox)
  
• knoda (define, populate, report on DB's, apparently C++/Qt)
  
• Koala (similar, Python/Gtk)

if you use a Gecko browser (mozilla phoenix galeon), you can get rid of those annoying flash ads by using a special 'userContent.css'

Put that file in the chrome subdirectory of you mozilla profile, and all the flash ads on anandtech & other sites should be gone, without breaking legitimate flash usage (stupid games, awkward menus, 900kB site intros, etc.)

• 56K V92/64K ISDN pay-as-you-go dial-up is more or less 1/hour.
• There are many plans for all-inclusive 10, 20, 50 hours/month access. Free's offer is again the best deal, at 15 for 50 hours/month.

• Cable has never been very popular here, and is available only in a few selected cities. There usually are upload restrictions, and competition is not very lively in this arena.
• DSL is generally the way to go : excellent coverage mainly by France Telecom (around 80% of total population, every town with more than 5/10k people is likely to have its DSLAMs), and they are required by the equivalent of the FCC here (the ART) to allow ISPs to use the network for a fee. Free thus has a 512/128K offer for 30 with the nearly-nationwide coverage of this network, while FT's own service Wanadoo is still at 45, or 30 for 128/64
• Local loop unbundling is becoming serious, and the likes of Free or 9Telecom have started rolling out their own DSLAMs and building their own network, which has less coverage than FT's right now, but Free for instance uses it to offer a quite innovative set-top box based service that provides 1 to 3 Mbps net access, Digital TV over DSL, and 2 VoDSL phone lines, all for 30!

• Wi-Fi is popular, as everywhere else, but public hotspots are still rare
  
• Flat rate GPRS+WAP access is 6/month in addition to your mobile subscription, a little more for unrestricted GPRS+internet
  
• Japan's i-mode has been licensed by Bouygues Telecom, and uses fancy handsets, but the pricing scheme is still horrid : in addition to your mobile subscription, you pay a monthly 3 for imode access, 1 per subscription-based service, and traffic is charged 0.01/Kb
  

*ahem*
Here's a pic from one of the latest CPLs.

So yes... girls go to these events and even play Q3 :)

Get it.

Big deal, I can run a web server on my 6 year old Newton MP 2100.

Well, there have been a couple of attempts, but nothing complete...

Right now the most interesting one is a VHDL frontend for GCC called GHDL.

Also note that you need a lot more than a simulator to get it to work with this board: you need a synthesis tool that can map into the Xilinx part. The FPGA companies tend to keep their formats quite proprietary, so don't expect any open source tools for synthesis and tech mapping any time soon.... (unfortunately).

...is for Itanium to run on FreeVMS!

Read the thread here

That's why we use "unofficial" debs. Sometimes very scary, such as in Ximian. But, for mplayer this site does well.

Many of the people from the demo scene went into the game industri. E.g. people from The Silents are behind the game company iointeractive (ioi.dk) that under eidos.com released Hitman 1&2.

Anyone how can list other connections between the demo scene and the game industry?