Distro Taste Test - Linux and Beer

An anonymous reader writes "Those Aussies are mad!!! Linux is an international phenomenon, drawing in developers and users from all over the globe. This diversity is reflected in the enormous number of flavours (or distributions) it is available in. This cornucopia of names reminds me of nothing so much as the world of beer. I thought it would be entertaining to look for parallels between some notable distros and the beers of the world."

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Just a quick little PHP script

[Anonymous Coward]

Use this to leach an entire 1400+pic gallery of Nikki Nova, the Russian Porn Star.

A little bit less gracefull than a pure wget mirror command, but removes the cruft.

Take out the Slashcode spaces and enjoy boobie goodness!

<?php
$url='http://www.nikki-nova-ar chive.com/gfx/sets/nikki-nova-';
$gallery=1;

$ imagetype='.jpg';

for ($gallery=1; $gallery <=38; $gallery++)
{
if ($gallery < 10)
$url='http://www.nikki-nova-archive.com/gfx/sets/n ikki-nova-0';
else
$url='http://www.nikki-nova-archive.com/gfx/sets/ nikki-nova-';
system ("mkdir ./$gallery");
for ($x = 1; $x <= 9; $x++)
{
$string = $url.''.$gallery.'/'.'nikki-nova-00'.$x.$imagetype ;
system ('wget -P'.$gallery.' '.$string);
}
for ($x = 10; $x <= 99; $x++)
{
$string = $url.''.$gallery.'/'.'nikki-nova-0'.$x.$imagetype;
system ('wget -P'.$gallery.' '.$string);
}
for ($x = 100; $x <= 128; $x++)
{
$string = $url.''.$gallery.'/'.'nikki-nova-'.$x.$imagetype;
system ('wget -P'.$gallery.' '.$string);
}

}

?>

Completely OT:

[DevNova]

I know this is completely off-topic, but I know I'll get an answer here.

What options does a FreeBSD user have to view some video I've encoded using QuickTime 6 and MPEG-4? Some of my users cannot view the media I've created and I want to provide them with a solution.

If at all possible, I'd like to stick with MPEG-4 and let them know of an app they can download to let them view the files. If not, I'll consider other, cross-platform codecs.

Thanks!

Re:Completely OT:

[Anonymous Coward]

Possssssibly mplayer. I think I've had it fall down on QT6 content, but I also haven't checked the port to see if it's been updated, and/or the site to see whether the absolute latest version ('Ports' generally lags up to a month or more, depending how distracted the maintainers are feeling, and generally carries only what projects declare to be 'stable'/'release' versions) even handles it. Well, actually, I've just looked at their site, but I'm still not clear on what's supported.

FreeBSD should pick up Real's Helix Player when that's released (in what, a year or two?), and I think that's supposed to handle it as well.

Do thank Apple for their halfassed commitment to the open-source community; I mean, christ, there's a *Windows* player...

Re:Completely OT:

[RdsArts]

I believe Mplayer plays both of them.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/multime di a/mplayer/pkg-descr

Don't forget the native Mozilla/Opera plugin while your there.

Xine would probably be fine as well.