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We play to learn. Some just need to learn to play.

I haven't heard from MP+

It's a new format developed by a German student, which is/aims to be completely patent free
I haven't tried it yet, but from what I heard it's fairly well.

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/73884/audioco der.html

And a comparison site:
http://orion.spaceports.com/~smaug/compare/

LIGO confirms that Einstein was right the same way that Radio Astronomy confirms that Maxwell was right

Well. Maxwell was confirmed right not by radio astronomy, but by a zillion other experiments. (Radio astronomy did not come into play until the mid 20th century,pioneered by Jansky.) Maxwell did not proposed a theory that was comfirmed by experiments. He proposed a theory which successfully explain a phenomenon (E&M) that was at that time cobbled together by several separate theories.

Also LIGO did not detect gravity waves yet, so it confirmed nothing. Besides, ppl are pessimistic that LIGO will actually detect anything. (It was amazing that they manage to get the project funded with a "BIG IF" probability of success.)

For crazier experiments check out : LISA which plans to fly 6 spacecraft in formation!

• VQF.com
• MPEG home site
• MPEG source
• Additional audio s/w
• Sharp VN-EZ1 camera
• MPEG-4 (audio) development tools

Video, I'm not sure. Again, MPEG-4's video layer is said to be very good, but I'd have to see some videos in that format to be convinced. QT4 is OK, but there are no (en|de)coders for it for Linux, which limits it a bit.

• VQF.com
• MPEG home site
• MPEG source
• Additional audio s/w
• Sharp VN-EZ1 camera
• MPEG-4 (audio) development tools

Video, I'm not sure. Again, MPEG-4's video layer is said to be very good, but I'd have to see some videos in that format to be convinced. QT4 is OK, but there are no (en|de)coders for it for Linux, which limits it a bit.

but MPEG, while being "open" isn't really free...check this out they won't even tell you what the licensing terms are...Though I suggest reading the Office Faq, There /is/ a need for a FREE standard..as opposed to a "OPEN" one...

http://garnix.unix-ag.u ni-hannover.de/~ingo/xf86-4.0.tar.gz
http://canadia.geecs.org/~mp3/xfre e86-4.0.tar.gz

Grass Documentation Project:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/gdp /

From Grass to ArcView:
http://www.geo g.uni-hannover.de/grass/gdp/tutorial/grass_arcview .pdf

From .e00 to GRASS:
http://www.geo g.uni-hannover.de/grass/projects/m.in.e00/welcome. html

Grass Documentation Project:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/gdp /

From Grass to ArcView:
http://www.geo g.uni-hannover.de/grass/gdp/tutorial/grass_arcview .pdf

From .e00 to GRASS:
http://www.geo g.uni-hannover.de/grass/projects/m.in.e00/welcome. html

Here are a few links for converters/strippers/buffers, etc.

http://feste.mae.cornell.edu/st reeter/md/elektor.html
http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/
http://www.fet.uni-hannover.de/ purnhage/dat/spdif.txt
and
http://members.tripod.com/~Psych/co ax-ttl-md.html

all grabbed from http://minidisc.org

I seem to have messed up the URL in the message above. For the page on the LAME encoder, go to this page.

Before we get into legal arguments, I should mention that this encoder is distributed as a patch on the ISO encoder distribution and, as such, does not violate any patents. Compilation of this code in a country that allows software patents is at your own risk, however.

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There is already work in progress to build an Open Source solution.
Examples are Speak Freely, Nautilus and Whisper.

check it out and improve it!

Further information might become available under www.linuxtelephony.com or linuxtelephony.org

so long ...

You may wish to try dfm

It's a great file manager with an OS/2-ish interface. It has Offix DnD support, so works well with WindowMaker's Dock and Clip.

>The average income in Germany is higher than in the USA.
Before taxes or after?

Both. Not to forget the better social security and health insurance.

>The TV, the telephone, the light bulb, the computer, the web and the Linux kernel were all developed in Europe.

TV, was inventd by a man named Philo Farnsworth, he was an American farmer.

Check your facts. TV was invented by Manfred von Ardenne and first presented to the world on the Funkausstellung 1931 in Berlin. See here.

Bell was obviously an American, as was Edison.

Sure, but Bell didn't invent the telephone, Phillip Reis did. And Edison didn't invent the lightbulb either, it was an engineer named G oebel who presented the first lightbulb in 1854.

Both Bell and Edison were just very successful in marketing other people's inventions, just as Microsoft is today.

Did I mention who invented the car?

Early computers were just an evolution of a chinese invention.

The first working computer was been built by Konrad Zuse, though.

The soviets did contribute much ot the war effort, But who stormed the beach at Normandy?

I do not underestimate the influence of US intervention in WWII, but you shouldn't overestimate it. After all, when the US started intervention, the Soviets had been in the war for five years, and the odds had turned to them. Who stormed Berlin?

With regards to the OS/2 WPS...check out DFM. It's not perfect, but it's damned nice! I use it in combination with Windowmaker. Quite a sweet combination. The DnD from DFM works with Windowmaker's dock and clip too.

You can find DFM at:
http://www-c.informatik. uni-hannover.de/~kaiser/dfm/dfm.html

If 5.0 can be built by mere mortals I'll make an RPM out of it, no problem. There's a nice tutorial for GRASS at

Leicester University's GRASS Seeds Tutorial

and the place where I got the binaries was the

Grass 4.2.1 Main Page

at the University of Hanover. Why? Because my boss said to... ;-)

Incidentally, getting the TclTkGrass menu interface (and building it from within Grass) is a Good Thing to do if you're a clod like me.

Today, I just bunched into somethng that outperform everything I've seen on the GUI fron: dfm. Its a icon-on-your-desktop thingy with drag-n-drop, tree views, folder vies etc. (It's Gtk-based). If this gets publicity, it'l, together with Gnome, turn a Linux box into a really userfriendly thing.