Xine could play it too, except their connection is sucking it down bigtime. I doubt anyone can actually watch it acceptably. (Also, Xine can stream via MMS.)
Well, if you actually knew anything of the situation Taco's speaking of - Apple or Sorenson allowing even a closed-source port of the Sorenson codec to a UNIX/Linux media player like, say, XAnim, or the now-popular Xine - then you could speak to it. They've both been asked many times, and Sorenson told Mark Podlipec (XAnim developer) and others that they were restricted, and could not allow it, by contract with Apple. Apple flatly denied this, claiming that Sorenson could do what they wished with their intellectual property, and Apple couldn't tell them what to do.
Now we find out the truth - Sorenson isn't allowed to do as they wish with their own intellectual property, as they claimed in the past, and Apple lied. No one's expecting anyone to open-source the Sorenson codec, QuickTime, or any other part of either. We just wanted to be able to play Sorenson-encoded video, and Apple didn't want to allow it.
Keep him stupid about the technology he is using and sooner or later there are going to be far more asking for help then is capable of goving it.
Except the problem isn't always a lack of information - it's people who are ignorant and really don't want to learn. What do you want the decent tech-support people (who are unfortunately few and few between, but they're out there) to do? You can't force people who don't want to learn to do it.
Ok, I think you misunderstand. I was asking what version of Windows it was that ScanDisk would check the MBR, notice it wasn't its own MBR, and try to "fix" it for the user. I've never seen that happen before. I realize now that my post was probably poorly worded. Sorry.
Did you rerun/sbin/lilo after changing the settings? The changes won't take effect until you do. If you use GRUB, on the other hand, it actually has a concept of filesystems, and reads its config file during boot - so you only have to install it once.
I've run both Windows' ScanDisk and Defrag tools on Windows systems that have been setup to dual-boot Windows and Linux, and I can safely say I've _never_ seen this problem. I did have a Win98 install completely eat itself after converting an ext2 partition to VFAT - rebooted, scandisk ran, and suddenly everything was gone. Also, I've discovered that Win98 should not auto-check partitions that fall after the 1023rd cylinder - it does much more harm than good.
Have you seen this happen? With what versions of Windows? I'd definitely like to know, just for my own information.
Ok, so Metropolis Street Rally and Project Gotham Racing are both by Sega? Their names come from the DC Comics universe, and that was used because of the DreamCast's name (DreamCast => DC)?
Yes. This is 100% offtopic. I just don't know - I currently own a PlayStation 2, and it's the first console I've owned, so I really don't know much about such things.
I know many PlayStation2 titles where the developers cared about fully-spatialized audio have a denotation on the box about dts Interactive Audio. Apparently, it's a specialized version of the DTS digital multichannel audio more suited to realtime applications.
So, if you want full spatial audio, make sure your receiver supports DTS, turn on DTS digital out, and use a digital optical out cable with your PS2.
You may be thinking of the Digital Compact Cassette format. Funnily enough, I seem to remember a raging debate some years back over whether Digital Audio Tape or Digital Compact Cassette would take over the market - and then, neither of them really got anywhere in the consumer space. (I guess DAT is still used some in the pro-audio space - and of course, as a digital data storage medium for backups.)
I take it you've never heard of a screener. It's a full version of a movie released on DVD (or VHS) commonly used for reviewing and similar purposes. Many rips (VCD rips are common, but other formats as well, of course) are from these screeners.
You could've installed Linux on it. There are several distributions with PowerPC releases (Mandrake, SuSE, Yellow Dog, Debian). I prefer Debian personally, but which ever way you went, you could've gone with Linux (and with Mac-on-Linux, run the classic Mac OS in a window, too). Just a thought.
Have you ever tried to call Microsoft customer support? Three hour wait to hear someone tell you that you should have tried the pay-per-incident service. (Not the "pay service". You pay for customer support when you buy the product. But you only get decent support if you then pay the surcharge.) Another hour to describe the problem four times to three people. And then the "help"? Frag the drive and reinstall.
And people eat this crap up. I've had the questionable joy of dealing with MS's so called "support" too, so I know what you mean. People actually consider "wipe out the whole thing and start from scratch" to be a totally acceptable solution. Shit, if every time your car failed to start correctly, you had to have the engine removed, rebuilt and reinstalled, no one would be able to afford to drive one, or they'd have so much time tied up in doing that, they'd never get around to DRIVING it.
Of course, people desperately want to believe that they're getting real value for their money by buying Microsoft products. To them I can only say: keep telling yourself that.
Microsoft and its 20,000+ employees pay $billions in taxes every year
See some other posts. Microsoft doesn't pay taxes, or at least doesn't pay much. Apparently they're sufficiently creative with the books that the Microsoft Corp. hasn't paid corporate taxes in some years now.
So their argument about taxes paid is so much hot air, if what I've heard is true.
Your problem with the CD of MP3s that your friend burned for you is probably due to the fact that Windows uses their own Joliet filesystem for having long names on CD filesystems. Apple uses an HFS filesystem on CDs, so the only thing the two (neither of which supports the RockRidge extensions, which have been around for AGES) have in common is ISO9660, which by itself only supports short names.
This might not be so hard if MS had implemented RockRidge extensions in their OSes for long names in CD filesystems. Typical NIH bullshit, so nobody's compatible with anybody. Yawn. Linux supports 'em all, and that's all I need.
I noticed that too. Unless they mean PocketPC/WinCE... but as far as I know, sync tools for CE-based palmtops aren't available for anything other than Windows. Or am I mistaken?
Because the CBDTPA (is that right?) intends to stop ANY copying, even copying which under fair use precedent would be allowable. That means NO RIPPING, for _any_ reason - even if you just want to load up you computer or MP3 jukebox for some long-play action.
Well, I don't claim to know (IANAL - duh), but the US certainly has tried hard, particularly in the case of stuff like the DMCA, to enforce its laws even outside its boundaries. As a citizen of the US, I don't think it's a good idea, if for no other reason that if we can enforce our laws outside our boundaries, others could do the same - and then trouble ensues. Who knows whose laws I'd be subject to tomorrow?
Microsoft claims (in COURT, no less) that Windows is not modular, and has also claimed many times (and it's been refuted again and again) that IE is now a necessary, unremovable part of Windows. You can't have it both ways. No one's saying Microsoft can't produce a browser. No one's even saying that they can't PROVIDE IT FOR FREE if they want! All we're saying is that if someone doesn't want it, Microsoft shouldn't be able to force the choice on anyone.
I personally bought 5 different Loki games, costing me well over $200 (not to mention trouble with Digital River - geez, they suck). I personally know many Linux users who bought Loki games - some for no other reason than hoping to see them succeed.
At least it's somewhat vindicating to see the real story behind what happened, and to find out that it wasn't (necessarily) a business _model_ problem, but an _implementation_ issue. Too bad they're gone, I liked their games. (Too bad you now _have_ to warez them if you want them.)
It'd be nice if there was a way for admins to talk to someone, and be able to have someone who's familiar with (h|cr)acking a machine try to do so if requested, without having to pay x * $1000 to get it to happen. Too bad there's all the stupid legal bullshit now that makes that so difficult.:/
Having used OpenVMS, I can definitely say it's not. However, I believe it has a sufficient subset of the POSIX APIs that the X Window System can be built on it. Maybe that's what they mean? Otherwise, it would only fall in the category of "other commercial OSes".
I have to agree with some of the other posters - the April Fools' Day jokes just weren't that funny. A few might've been funny, but Taco, beating a dead horse is BAD. After the first few, we got the idea - yeah, it's April Fools' Day. Ok, ok, we got it already.
If/. wants to be a serious news source, and actually have people pay for subscriptions though, this kind of stuff just won't fly. Do this enough times, and your subscribers will abandon you like rats from a sinking school bus. Or something.
Sorry, but when you beat people upside the head with the same joke over and over, it loses its humor after the first couple (thousand) times.
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Xine could play it too, except their connection is sucking it down bigtime. I doubt anyone can actually watch it acceptably. (Also, Xine can stream via MMS.)
Well, if you actually knew anything of the situation Taco's speaking of - Apple or Sorenson allowing even a closed-source port of the Sorenson codec to a UNIX/Linux media player like, say, XAnim, or the now-popular Xine - then you could speak to it. They've both been asked many times, and Sorenson told Mark Podlipec (XAnim developer) and others that they were restricted, and could not allow it, by contract with Apple. Apple flatly denied this, claiming that Sorenson could do what they wished with their intellectual property, and Apple couldn't tell them what to do.
Now we find out the truth - Sorenson isn't allowed to do as they wish with their own intellectual property, as they claimed in the past, and Apple lied. No one's expecting anyone to open-source the Sorenson codec, QuickTime, or any other part of either. We just wanted to be able to play Sorenson-encoded video, and Apple didn't want to allow it.
Keep him stupid about the technology he is using and sooner or later there are going to be far more asking for help then is capable of goving it.
Except the problem isn't always a lack of information - it's people who are ignorant and really don't want to learn. What do you want the decent tech-support people (who are unfortunately few and few between, but they're out there) to do? You can't force people who don't want to learn to do it.
Ok, I think you misunderstand. I was asking what version of Windows it was that ScanDisk would check the MBR, notice it wasn't its own MBR, and try to "fix" it for the user. I've never seen that happen before. I realize now that my post was probably poorly worded. Sorry.
fdisk and mkfs. :)
Did you rerun /sbin/lilo after changing the settings? The changes won't take effect until you do. If you use GRUB, on the other hand, it actually has a concept of filesystems, and reads its config file during boot - so you only have to install it once.
I've run both Windows' ScanDisk and Defrag tools on Windows systems that have been setup to dual-boot Windows and Linux, and I can safely say I've _never_ seen this problem. I did have a Win98 install completely eat itself after converting an ext2 partition to VFAT - rebooted, scandisk ran, and suddenly everything was gone. Also, I've discovered that Win98 should not auto-check partitions that fall after the 1023rd cylinder - it does much more harm than good.
Have you seen this happen? With what versions of Windows? I'd definitely like to know, just for my own information.
Ok, so Metropolis Street Rally and Project Gotham Racing are both by Sega? Their names come from the DC Comics universe, and that was used because of the DreamCast's name (DreamCast => DC)?
Yes. This is 100% offtopic. I just don't know - I currently own a PlayStation 2, and it's the first console I've owned, so I really don't know much about such things.
I know many PlayStation2 titles where the developers cared about fully-spatialized audio have a denotation on the box about dts Interactive Audio. Apparently, it's a specialized version of the DTS digital multichannel audio more suited to realtime applications.
So, if you want full spatial audio, make sure your receiver supports DTS, turn on DTS digital out, and use a digital optical out cable with your PS2.
You may be thinking of the Digital Compact Cassette format. Funnily enough, I seem to remember a raging debate some years back over whether Digital Audio Tape or Digital Compact Cassette would take over the market - and then, neither of them really got anywhere in the consumer space. (I guess DAT is still used some in the pro-audio space - and of course, as a digital data storage medium for backups.)
I take it you've never heard of a screener. It's a full version of a movie released on DVD (or VHS) commonly used for reviewing and similar purposes. Many rips (VCD rips are common, but other formats as well, of course) are from these screeners.
Voodoo5 never released? Hmm. I must be imagining that Voodoo5 5500 AGP that's in my home PC.
I think you mean the Voodoo5 6000, the one with the external power supply brick.
You could've installed Linux on it. There are several distributions with PowerPC releases (Mandrake, SuSE, Yellow Dog, Debian). I prefer Debian personally, but which ever way you went, you could've gone with Linux (and with Mac-on-Linux, run the classic Mac OS in a window, too). Just a thought.
Have you ever tried to call Microsoft customer support? Three hour wait to hear someone tell you that you should have tried the pay-per-incident service. (Not the "pay service". You pay for customer support when you buy the product. But you only get decent support if you then pay the surcharge.) Another hour to describe the problem four times to three people. And then the "help"? Frag the drive and reinstall.
And people eat this crap up. I've had the questionable joy of dealing with MS's so called "support" too, so I know what you mean. People actually consider "wipe out the whole thing and start from scratch" to be a totally acceptable solution. Shit, if every time your car failed to start correctly, you had to have the engine removed, rebuilt and reinstalled, no one would be able to afford to drive one, or they'd have so much time tied up in doing that, they'd never get around to DRIVING it.
Of course, people desperately want to believe that they're getting real value for their money by buying Microsoft products. To them I can only say: keep telling yourself that.
Microsoft and its 20,000+ employees pay $billions in taxes every year
See some other posts. Microsoft doesn't pay taxes, or at least doesn't pay much. Apparently they're sufficiently creative with the books that the Microsoft Corp. hasn't paid corporate taxes in some years now.
So their argument about taxes paid is so much hot air, if what I've heard is true.
Your problem with the CD of MP3s that your friend burned for you is probably due to the fact that Windows uses their own Joliet filesystem for having long names on CD filesystems. Apple uses an HFS filesystem on CDs, so the only thing the two (neither of which supports the RockRidge extensions, which have been around for AGES) have in common is ISO9660, which by itself only supports short names.
This might not be so hard if MS had implemented RockRidge extensions in their OSes for long names in CD filesystems. Typical NIH bullshit, so nobody's compatible with anybody. Yawn. Linux supports 'em all, and that's all I need.
I noticed that too. Unless they mean PocketPC/WinCE... but as far as I know, sync tools for CE-based palmtops aren't available for anything other than Windows. Or am I mistaken?
Because the CBDTPA (is that right?) intends to stop ANY copying, even copying which under fair use precedent would be allowable. That means NO RIPPING, for _any_ reason - even if you just want to load up you computer or MP3 jukebox for some long-play action.
Well, I don't claim to know (IANAL - duh), but the US certainly has tried hard, particularly in the case of stuff like the DMCA, to enforce its laws even outside its boundaries. As a citizen of the US, I don't think it's a good idea, if for no other reason that if we can enforce our laws outside our boundaries, others could do the same - and then trouble ensues. Who knows whose laws I'd be subject to tomorrow?
Microsoft claims (in COURT, no less) that Windows is not modular, and has also claimed many times (and it's been refuted again and again) that IE is now a necessary, unremovable part of Windows. You can't have it both ways. No one's saying Microsoft can't produce a browser. No one's even saying that they can't PROVIDE IT FOR FREE if they want! All we're saying is that if someone doesn't want it, Microsoft shouldn't be able to force the choice on anyone.
I personally bought 5 different Loki games, costing me well over $200 (not to mention trouble with Digital River - geez, they suck). I personally know many Linux users who bought Loki games - some for no other reason than hoping to see them succeed.
At least it's somewhat vindicating to see the real story behind what happened, and to find out that it wasn't (necessarily) a business _model_ problem, but an _implementation_ issue. Too bad they're gone, I liked their games. (Too bad you now _have_ to warez them if you want them.)
It'd be nice if there was a way for admins to talk to someone, and be able to have someone who's familiar with (h|cr)acking a machine try to do so if requested, without having to pay x * $1000 to get it to happen. Too bad there's all the stupid legal bullshit now that makes that so difficult. :/
Having used OpenVMS, I can definitely say it's not. However, I believe it has a sufficient subset of the POSIX APIs that the X Window System can be built on it. Maybe that's what they mean? Otherwise, it would only fall in the category of "other commercial OSes".
I'm using Moz 0.9.9 on Debian/PPC, and I'm seeing the same thing. Looks like someone crashed the party. Wonder who it was? :)
I have to agree with some of the other posters - the April Fools' Day jokes just weren't that funny. A few might've been funny, but Taco, beating a dead horse is BAD. After the first few, we got the idea - yeah, it's April Fools' Day. Ok, ok, we got it already.
/. wants to be a serious news source, and actually have people pay for subscriptions though, this kind of stuff just won't fly. Do this enough times, and your subscribers will abandon you like rats from a sinking school bus. Or something.
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Sorry, but when you beat people upside the head with the same joke over and over, it loses its humor after the first couple (thousand) times.