BitTorrent can't be completely shut down like you mentioned. Anyone can run a tracker (it's a little Python script), and from these trackers you share files. The legal ISO files Bram is sharing on his website are still working fine. MPAA/RIAA just went after the owners of trackers sharing illegal things.
Check out TorrentSpy, it lets you check on the status of files shared on a BT tracker.
I drink lots of Diet Pepsi and it has not affected my diet in any way. It is really 0 calories. Sure it may not be as healthy as pure water (which I also drink a lot of) but my goal now is weight loss not health...I'll deal with that later.:)
If you eat less than your body burns per day, you will lose weight. It is common sense. There is no magic to it and it will work for anyone unless you have some sort of disease or something.
The Hacker's Diet is the best simply because it is so simple and common-sense. I laugh at all these crazy diets because it all comes down to calorie counting. I've lost something like 24 pounds since I started eating -1000/day in January and it's honestly the easiest thing I've ever done! I've also been working up the exercise ladder. My only regret is that I didn't start it sooner. I hope to be down to my ideal weight in a few more months (I was like 50 pounds overweight). Also, the spreadsheets work fine. I am using the Excel XP version with one minor fix to Weight.xlm so it can load a file properly.
The simple steps to losing weight... works for anyone if you're willing to stick with it. Of course read Hacker's Diet first.
Find out how much you need to eat to lose 1 or 2 pounds per week. To do this go to Healthy Body Calculator and use their calculator. It is very accurate.
Get an account at NutraWatch for tracking your daily meals. Tracking your meals will become second nature and will take up about 10 seconds of your time per meal.
Exercise is optional but I would recommend trying it. I am only at rung 8 but already I feel like I am more in shape than I was before.
Track your daily weight using the spreadsheet. The trend feature is cool and keeps you sane.:)
All phones I know of have an email address. Email is about as universal as you can get, and receiving messages is free so have your servers email you all you like!
This is why websites such as ShareReactor and FileNexus exist, so people can publish the correct checksums of their known-good files for others to download without needing to search for them.
Hehe whatever you do don't say that Fox is broadcasting HD or you will be endlessly flamed! Fox is a total joke with their "high resolution" TV that is basically on par with DVD resolution.
Watch the upcoming 4 HD NFL games (all remaining AFC games on CBS and Superbowl on ABC) and compare that to Fox's NFC games if you want to see how bad Fox really is.
The name is misleading, WebGUI is an extremely easy-to-use web content management portal. Think Oracle Portal without the 3GB database, Apache Jetspeed without the XML nightmares, etc.
WebGUI is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
For my mp3's I burn CDR's for offline backup (and the occasional trip with mp3cd player). All mp3's are left on my hard drive array (LVM) so I can listen to them. If I have a drive failure (I am not running RAID but should be), it will take forever but I can at least copy back all my music from CD.
For my ~1GB (and growing) photo gallery as well as other critical system/web/development files on my home web server, I simply do an incremental backup over NFS every night to a second Linux box. This way I at least have 2 copies of the data in case one dies. I use a little bash script called BU that I found on Freshmeat to do this. You just tell it which directories you want backed up, where to put them, any regex patterns you want to exclude, and install a cron!
Current movie theaters are terrible and the quality is horrible. All 3 times I saw FOTR in the theater the picture was fuzzy and shaking slightly. The DVD playing on my 55" HDTV is a million times better. I don't even have to mention how good the HD PPV version looked. When theaters all go digital this will change, but everyone will still hate the theaters due to the massive numbers of popcorn-crunching talking teenagers.
IMHO Charlotte Church's voice is too piercing for this kind of soundtrack. The vocals in the LOTR scores are very subdued (basically soft chanting) and they feel secondary to the music (except for Gollum's Song). CC would take it way too far I think.
No, there are different vocalists featured this time around: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sheila Chandra, Ben Del Maestro, Elizabeth Fraser, Emiliana Torrini, and Hilary Summers.
I wish these stupid car adapters would play on BOTH SIDES! My car's tape deck is screwed up and only plays the B side when the weather is cold but all tape adapters only play on the A side! Anyone know of a better adapter that does this?
PS2 doesn't support HD resolutions. The Xbox does though and some newer games are supporting 720p (1280x720 at 30 or 60fps). I don't believe it can do 1080i (1920x1080) though due to video memory issues.
Uncompressed HDTV is about 1.5 Gbps, it's compressed with MPEG-2 to 19.4 Mbps which is what your digital TV receiver picks up. Although for a lot of obvious reasons most places don't bother with the uncompressed data at all and use the 19.4 MPEG2 data for all editing, storage, etc.
DVD-A and SACD both prohibit digital output for this very reason. The player and receiver have to have 6 channel analog output/input in order to use them. This is one of the frustrating parts of this for me because it means I have to buy a new receiver as well as a new DVD-A/SACD player.
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BitTorrent can't be completely shut down like you mentioned. Anyone can run a tracker (it's a little Python script), and from these trackers you share files. The legal ISO files Bram is sharing on his website are still working fine. MPAA/RIAA just went after the owners of trackers sharing illegal things. Check out TorrentSpy, it lets you check on the status of files shared on a BT tracker.
I tried to but the best internet service here is DSL and they wouldn't install a non-voice line for DSL. :( So I have to pay ~$20 for a basic line.
I drink lots of Diet Pepsi and it has not affected my diet in any way. It is really 0 calories. Sure it may not be as healthy as pure water (which I also drink a lot of) but my goal now is weight loss not health...I'll deal with that later. :)
If you eat less than your body burns per day, you will lose weight. It is common sense. There is no magic to it and it will work for anyone unless you have some sort of disease or something.
The simple steps to losing weight... works for anyone if you're willing to stick with it. Of course read Hacker's Diet first.
Find out how much you need to eat to lose 1 or 2 pounds per week. To do this go to Healthy Body Calculator and use their calculator. It is very accurate.
Get an account at NutraWatch for tracking your daily meals. Tracking your meals will become second nature and will take up about 10 seconds of your time per meal.
Exercise is optional but I would recommend trying it. I am only at rung 8 but already I feel like I am more in shape than I was before.
Track your daily weight using the spreadsheet. The trend feature is cool and keeps you sane. :)
Rinse, repeat, enjoy losing weight!
All phones I know of have an email address. Email is about as universal as you can get, and receiving messages is free so have your servers email you all you like!
Um, those bt8x8 chips are not ATSC tuners. You could upconvert a 480i analog NTSC source with DScaler but it won't look any better.
This is why websites such as ShareReactor and FileNexus exist, so people can publish the correct checksums of their known-good files for others to download without needing to search for them.
I can't remember how long ago we had to start using 11-digit dialing in the Pittsburgh area. It's not so bad once you get used to it.
Hehe whatever you do don't say that Fox is broadcasting HD or you will be endlessly flamed! Fox is a total joke with their "high resolution" TV that is basically on par with DVD resolution.
Watch the upcoming 4 HD NFL games (all remaining AFC games on CBS and Superbowl on ABC) and compare that to Fox's NFC games if you want to see how bad Fox really is.
In case anyone wants to find out more or download WebGUI while the main site is Slashdotted, here is a link to the SF.net development page.
The name is misleading, WebGUI is an extremely easy-to-use web content management portal. Think Oracle Portal without the 3GB database, Apache Jetspeed without the XML nightmares, etc.
WebGUI is indeed GPL. From docs/legal.txt:
WebGUI is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
I'm glad I decided to just rent these from Netflix instead of buying them. I was surprised to see all 3 available "Now" instead of having a huge wait!
For my mp3's I burn CDR's for offline backup (and the occasional trip with mp3cd player). All mp3's are left on my hard drive array (LVM) so I can listen to them. If I have a drive failure (I am not running RAID but should be), it will take forever but I can at least copy back all my music from CD.
For my ~1GB (and growing) photo gallery as well as other critical system/web/development files on my home web server, I simply do an incremental backup over NFS every night to a second Linux box. This way I at least have 2 copies of the data in case one dies. I use a little bash script called BU that I found on Freshmeat to do this. You just tell it which directories you want backed up, where to put them, any regex patterns you want to exclude, and install a cron!
Current movie theaters are terrible and the quality is horrible. All 3 times I saw FOTR in the theater the picture was fuzzy and shaking slightly. The DVD playing on my 55" HDTV is a million times better. I don't even have to mention how good the HD PPV version looked. When theaters all go digital this will change, but everyone will still hate the theaters due to the massive numbers of popcorn-crunching talking teenagers.
IMHO Charlotte Church's voice is too piercing for this kind of soundtrack. The vocals in the LOTR scores are very subdued (basically soft chanting) and they feel secondary to the music (except for Gollum's Song). CC would take it way too far I think.
No, there are different vocalists featured this time around: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Sheila Chandra, Ben Del Maestro, Elizabeth Fraser, Emiliana Torrini, and Hilary Summers.
Check out the soundtrack.
Yeah don't most people run Bind 9 these days? My Redhat 7.1 and 7.3 servers are both at bind-9.2.1.
I wish these stupid car adapters would play on BOTH SIDES! My car's tape deck is screwed up and only plays the B side when the weather is cold but all tape adapters only play on the A side! Anyone know of a better adapter that does this?
PS2 doesn't support HD resolutions. The Xbox does though and some newer games are supporting 720p (1280x720 at 30 or 60fps). I don't believe it can do 1080i (1920x1080) though due to video memory issues.
Uncompressed HDTV is about 1.5 Gbps, it's compressed with MPEG-2 to 19.4 Mbps which is what your digital TV receiver picks up. Although for a lot of obvious reasons most places don't bother with the uncompressed data at all and use the 19.4 MPEG2 data for all editing, storage, etc.
DVD-A and SACD both prohibit digital output for this very reason. The player and receiver have to have 6 channel analog output/input in order to use them. This is one of the frustrating parts of this for me because it means I have to buy a new receiver as well as a new DVD-A/SACD player.
Uhh it still uses the same FM frequencies so DX will still be possible. Same goes for digital TV which is just another VHF/UHF signal.
You only need 2 cd's to install unless you want to choose "Everything" during install, in which case you need 3. Discs 4 and 5 are sources.