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Re:How to get turbo browsing with free software by keeboo · 2009-06-04 07:18 · Score: 1 · on Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated

You could also try the RabbIT compressing web proxy. All this relies on having a server somewhere with a fast net connection that you can run programs on - and this is the service that Opera Software are really providing.

If you want image compression - and are able to run Linux/BSD at the server side - Ziproxy may be a better option.

Re:Is it just me... by pak9rabid · 2009-06-04 02:43 · Score: 1 · on KDE 4.2.4 Released

I wasn't aware Milkdrop was avaialble on Linux (it's a Direc3D plugin). Might you be referring to ProjectM instead?

How to get turbo browsing with free software by Ed+Avis · 2009-06-04 00:52 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Opera 10 Benchmarked and Evaluated

Back when my net connection was a 56kb/s modem, I used to make an ssh connection (with compression) to a machine at university, and then tunnel through that to the university's http proxy server. That gave a handy speed increase compared to making http requests directly over the modem link. You could also try the RabbIT compressing web proxy. All this relies on having a server somewhere with a fast net connection that you can run programs on - and this is the service that Opera Software are really providing.

Re:Q: How do you steal a stream? A: by Panseh · 2009-06-03 20:21 · Score: 1 · on Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads

Streamripper is able to save the stream, and with meta data and silence detection, split it into tracks. Works for mp3 and ogg streams.

Or you can just run Audacity and consult a programming schedule

Re:Media player vs VLC by yuna49 · 2009-06-03 14:53 · Score: 1 · on Money For Nothing and the Codecs For Free

No love for the cross-platform smplayer here, huh?

smplayer is an excellent gui front-end to mplayer. The Windows version packages a very up-to-date version of mplayer as well. On Linux machines with a recent nVidia card you can use the VDPAU driver which offloads H.264 decoding tasks to the graphics hardware.

Ubuntu users can download smplayer from the repositories, but you might want to compile mplayer from SVN. "apt-get build-dep mplayer-nogui" will get you all the devel packages you need. The daily source snapshot is available here (warning: bz2 archive).

passes an even tougher test than acid3 by bcrowell · 2009-06-03 04:21 · Score: 3, Insightful · on First Beta of Opera 10 Released

Opera passes an even tougher css test than acid3 -- unlike firefox and safari, it renders the titles of slashdot comments correctly.

Yes, that's a joke. To see what I'm talking about, use firefox or safari to navigate to the slashdot homepage, and then click on the "Read More..." link for a story in the news, science, or technology sections. (This Opera article is in the tech section, but if you have your default threshold for comments set high, like I do, you won't get any titles of comments displayed right now, simply because there aren't any highly up-moderated comments yet, so you won't get any comments displayed.) What you'll see is that the titles of stories are displayed in white on a white background.

This comment explains that it's due to a CSS bug in the stylesheets in certain sections. Here is a bug report that I did today in sourceforge. I couldn't find any earlier reports of this problem by searching on sourceforge's bug tracker, but they might exist -- this problem has been around for quite some time now. As a work-around, you can click on the story's title in the threshold form.

It would be interested to hear whether this is universally reproducible with firefox and safari, but please be very careful to follow the exact instructions above. It depends on which section the article is in, and it depends on whether or not you're getting a cached version of the story.

The fact that the slashdot crew hasn't noticed this bug on their own after such a long period of time makes me wonder how much attention they really pay to the site. (This is assuming that the bug really does occur for all firefox users.) We've had dupes and grammatical mistakes in summaries forever, but now that the firehose is handling submissions, it looks like the whole site is just on autopilot.

Re:Other sites with support exist as well by gmack · 2009-06-02 20:43 · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard

Firefox 3.5beta for Ubuntu is here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=195473&package_id=231607

Autopsy is the leading free tool for this by jschottm · 2009-06-02 07:06 · Score: 1 · on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?

I'm not a full time professional in data recovery but I am trained and certified in hard drive forensics.

I'm assuming you're talking about recovering data that is lost from corruption errors, not the drive itself dying.

There's a variety of free command line tools that are used for recovering data from corrupted hard drives that function at various levels (such as inodes), but really, unless you have training in them or need something really specific, the graphic (via web browser) frontend Autopsy is the way to go:

http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/

If I'm looking for a specific type of file, sometimes I'll use Foremost:

http://foremost.sourceforge.net/

As far as commercial software, EnCase commonly used but pricey compared to Autopsy.

http://www.guidancesoftware.com/

The key thing with either the commercial or non-commercial options is to avoid damaging the file system you're working on. This means that if you're attempting to mount the drive from a working machine that you do so read-only (if you get really into this, there are hard drive -> USB mounts that block all writes) and if possible you clone the drive into an image and work on that rather than the original. The free version to do that is dd. Be sure to use the noerror option on it to make sure that a bad sector doesn't cause the process to fail.

Also, clone the entire drive, not just the partition in case there's data that you need outside of the partition. In other words, do this:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/forensics/image.dd conv=noerror,sync

Rather than this:

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/forensics/image.dd conv=noerror,sync

Re:TRK - dd/dd_rescue/ddrescue, Restorer by visionbeyond · 2009-06-02 06:20 · Score: 1 · on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?

Well stated and correct. I've unfortunately been thrown the task (as many in the IT world get daily) more than once to recover deleted files from a employee no longer with the company, or just recover files from a damaged system or hard drive. Usually the option of paying a recovering shop $2000 - $5000 to retrieve the data isn't even a consideration for an option, although definitely preferred. First and foremost I make an exact copy of the drive using the dd utility, such as the following: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 conv=noerror,sync Then all recovery is done on the copy made, so worst case scenario and everything including the cat goes south, it's no harm - no foul, since you can just make another copy and try again. Which tool to use really depends on what type of data your trying to recover, as each program targets specific functionality. Many do just try to repair partition tables, which is generally not what you want. I've had great success using ddrescue, and is probably my preferred - again, depending on what your goal in recovery is. Another great tool is http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk (Testdisk) which works well. Others that are a little more involved to operate and setup are http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s042078/magicrescue/manpage.html (magicrescue) and http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/ (the sleuthkit) and there is some good information at http://dftt.sourceforge.net/ (http://dftt.sourceforge.net/) which might provide help and insight. No matter how you look at it though, your in for a fun ride, so best to stock up on pain killers and red bull.

Re:/. - are you listening? by Blakey+Rat · 2009-06-02 04:35 · Score: 2 · on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die

You can try filing a bug, but Slashdot never fixes bugs. Hell, few of the ones I've submitted have even been read:

And of course:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1973268&group_id=4421&atid=104421