For video editing, I don't know that IDE will cut it. Though Ultra2SCSI adapters/drives are more expensive, their thoroughput is better than IDE, and the controller card will handle almost all of the I/O, leaving the processor free to do other things.
> I'm not a hardware guy, so I have no clue if it's possible... but wouldn't you need one hell of a computer to compress live audio into mp3 format in real-time?
You probably would if you were doing a 128kbit/sec stream, but that's hardly necessary for a live voice broadcast...not to mention nobody with a modem would be able to stream it at that bitrate. 22-28kbit/sec would likely work just fine.
> When it began connecting, only to spit out repetitive strings of gibberish and then discoonect, I called tech support.
The software release we were running on our Portmaster-3s (I work for an ISP) around December had some interesting compatibility issues with the Dreamcast...you may want to find out what kind of access concentrators your ISP uses, get a hold of someone in their NOC, and ask them to upgrade their software.
Hmmm...isn't this just like the rebate offer Microsoft had a while back? X amount of rebate, but you have to sign up for Y amount of service from MSN...but because of CA law, they couldn't bind you to the service. Anyone know how similar this offer is to the MS one, in terms of legality?
> This is true, but have you actually died in a dream? I havent, I always wake up just before I do. Perhaps if you do indeed die inside of a dream you die in real life, but if its true it can't be proven...
I've died a few times in dreams, usually from being shot. They're not at all pleasant, and while a few of them have ended with me seeing my dead physical body, the others have ended with the flash of the gun in my face and that's it, blackness.
I have nothing against William Gibson as an author. I love his books. However, he REALLY needs to keep his hands off of TV and movies...Johnny Mnemonic, this X-Files episode...I don't think he realizes he can't quite pull it off. Just my own opinion, and I'm sure I'm going to get blasted by those that liked Johnny Mnemonic;)
I used to hate ergonomic keyboards, then I tried one of the Belkins at my office, and absolutely love them. The thing that's best about them IMHO is that they have tabs to raise up the front of the keyboard, thereby eliminating the weird wrist angle that Microsoft keyboards impart (this is not a flame against MS keyboards, they just don't work for my hands). Plus, these keyboards are only $25, I ordered one for myself through Egghead. Belkin part number F8E208.
I use my various net connections to keep in touch with friends during the day and plan social gatherings such as lunches, dinner plans, movie plans, and soforth. Without this connectivity to friends, I'd be at work, bouncing phone calls off of 5 or more people, trying to get lunch plans organized. And because we don't watch TV that makes us lonely? The only times I resort to the mindless drivel that is TV today is when everyone's out of town and there's nothing to do...
To hell with vinyl, what happened to the good ol' days of banging rocks together? Why, when I was your age, I use..................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...........................*snort* My cane! Bring my cane!
I've got a good stack of games that I hit for a few hours of playtime each...Wipeout XL, G-Police, Starcraft, Tiberian Sun, Fallout, Fallout 2... Unless companies start releasing both Windows and Linux binaries at or around the same time, there are just too many out there to be ported. For games, Windows will have a home on my machine. But for all things serious, that's what Linux is for:)
I was in the dorms for about a year, had the wonderful fast access (mmmm, a 10meg segment of a DS3 dedicated to only campus Internet access, switched hubs in a closet in the dorm buildings, two ports in each room....mmmm....::drool:: but I digress...) and then, thanks to CalPoly's happy mega-admissions, had to throw all but 200 of the returning students out of the dorms. The rest of the dorms were for new students only. So I and several hundred broadband junkies found ourselves in apartments...with, what's this, a MODEM?! No! Say it ain't so! I suffered along at around 40k for a few months, then heard the wonderful news...PacBell was going to bring DSL to our area! Excellent! They had me by the bandwidth balls, waiting and waiting...calling every week or two, finding out how much closer they were...then the bastards did the unthinkable. They announced that it was available...before it really was. After this wonderful rush at the announcement then the crash when I found it was false...they did it again. And then again! Couldn't this cold, heartless phone company see what they were doing to me and my fellow high-speed low-latency addicts? At long last, it came to reality. I was among the first 40 or so in town to order it. I happily signed my life away with a 1-year contract, tossed the cash at them, and got an install date...NO! Another two weeks! These sadistic bastards must really have it out for me... I got a call from my roommate on the install day, about an hour before I was expecting them to show up (I was still at work). I raced home and watched closely over the techs as they installed the splitter, hooked up the adapter box, and switched it on....I plugged myself in, hit/. first (of course) to check transfer rates...and my life was normal again. And for those that actually sat through and read this whole thing...have a lollipop.
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For video editing, I don't know that IDE will cut it. Though Ultra2SCSI adapters/drives are more expensive, their thoroughput is better than IDE, and the controller card will handle almost all of the I/O, leaving the processor free to do other things.
> I'm not a hardware guy, so I have no clue if it's possible... but wouldn't you need one hell of a computer to compress live audio into mp3 format in real-time?
You probably would if you were doing a 128kbit/sec stream, but that's hardly necessary for a live voice broadcast...not to mention nobody with a modem would be able to stream it at that bitrate. 22-28kbit/sec would likely work just fine.
> When it began connecting, only to spit out repetitive strings of gibberish and then discoonect, I called tech support.
The software release we were running on our Portmaster-3s (I work for an ISP) around December had some interesting compatibility issues with the Dreamcast...you may want to find out what kind of access concentrators your ISP uses, get a hold of someone in their NOC, and ask them to upgrade their software.
Hmmm...isn't this just like the rebate offer Microsoft had a while back? X amount of rebate, but you have to sign up for Y amount of service from MSN...but because of CA law, they couldn't bind you to the service. Anyone know how similar this offer is to the MS one, in terms of legality?
> This is true, but have you actually died in a dream? I havent, I always wake up just before I do. Perhaps if you do indeed die inside of a dream you die in real life, but if its true it can't be proven...
I've died a few times in dreams, usually from being shot. They're not at all pleasant, and while a few of them have ended with me seeing my dead physical body, the others have ended with the flash of the gun in my face and that's it, blackness.
I have nothing against William Gibson as an author. I love his books. However, he REALLY needs to keep his hands off of TV and movies...Johnny Mnemonic, this X-Files episode...I don't think he realizes he can't quite pull it off. Just my own opinion, and I'm sure I'm going to get blasted by those that liked Johnny Mnemonic ;)
I used to hate ergonomic keyboards, then I tried one of the Belkins at my office, and absolutely love them. The thing that's best about them IMHO is that they have tabs to raise up the front of the keyboard, thereby eliminating the weird wrist angle that Microsoft keyboards impart (this is not a flame against MS keyboards, they just don't work for my hands). Plus, these keyboards are only $25, I ordered one for myself through Egghead. Belkin part number F8E208.
I use my various net connections to keep in touch with friends during the day and plan social gatherings such as lunches, dinner plans, movie plans, and soforth. Without this connectivity to friends, I'd be at work, bouncing phone calls off of 5 or more people, trying to get lunch plans organized.
And because we don't watch TV that makes us lonely? The only times I resort to the mindless drivel that is TV today is when everyone's out of town and there's nothing to do...
To hell with vinyl, what happened to the good ol' days of banging rocks together? Why, when I was your age, I use..................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. ..........................*snort* My cane! Bring my cane!
I've got a good stack of games that I hit for a few hours of playtime each...Wipeout XL, G-Police, Starcraft, Tiberian Sun, Fallout, Fallout 2... Unless companies start releasing both Windows and Linux binaries at or around the same time, there are just too many out there to be ported. For games, Windows will have a home on my machine. But for all things serious, that's what Linux is for :)
I was in the dorms for about a year, had the wonderful fast access (mmmm, a 10meg segment of a DS3 dedicated to only campus Internet access, switched hubs in a closet in the dorm buildings, two ports in each room....mmmm....::drool:: but I digress...) and then, thanks to CalPoly's happy mega-admissions, had to throw all but 200 of the returning students out of the dorms. The rest of the dorms were for new students only. So I and several hundred broadband junkies found ourselves in apartments...with, what's this, a MODEM?! No! Say it ain't so! I suffered along at around 40k for a few months, then heard the wonderful news...PacBell was going to bring DSL to our area! Excellent! They had me by the bandwidth balls, waiting and waiting...calling every week or two, finding out how much closer they were...then the bastards did the unthinkable. They announced that it was available...before it really was. After this wonderful rush at the announcement then the crash when I found it was false...they did it again. And then again! Couldn't this cold, heartless phone company see what they were doing to me and my fellow high-speed low-latency addicts?
At long last, it came to reality. I was among the first 40 or so in town to order it. I happily signed my life away with a 1-year contract, tossed the cash at them, and got an install date...NO! Another two weeks! These sadistic bastards must really have it out for me...
I got a call from my roommate on the install day, about an hour before I was expecting them to show up (I was still at work). I raced home and watched closely over the techs as they installed the splitter, hooked up the adapter box, and switched it on....I plugged myself in, hit
And for those that actually sat through and read this whole thing...have a lollipop.