You suggest that if your main server goes down, the distribution continues. But, don't you need a machine that keeps track of who's Torrenting so that all of the BT clients know from whom to send/receive?
In some of my recent experimentation with BT, I tried to Torrent a file, but it didn't work because the main server wasn't hosting it anymore. I had the.torrent, but I couldn't connect to the host. There may very well have been someone else out there with more of the file than I had and/or there could very well have been someone else out there with the full file that wanted to share, but I couldn't get to them because the host wasn't up.
I think the point to BT is to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the main host, rather than to eliminate the need for it to stay up all the time. So, with BT, given a large enough audience, you could theoretically host a fairly large collection of files on a smaller-than-normal upstream pipe because your clients would be utilizing their normally-unused upstream, rather than you sending data multiple times needlessly.
You should consider developing your solution using the managed Windows.NET environment! Bah, Linux is for academics and tinkerers.
I know you're joking (well, I think you're joking), but I don't think that this would be the thing to say in this case. You're putting down Linux right away, which will frighten the victim away if they can smell your FUD. Perhaps something more like:
"[Linux || Perl || FreeSoftware]? Oh, yeah, I play around with that from time to time. It's nice, but when I want to get stuff done at work, it's all.NET."
That way, you're half-complimenting them on their choice to try some Free software package. "Foo is good! But Bar+ 2000 is better!"
They'll think: "Foo is a smart move. But Bar+ 2000 is a better move!" rather than "Foo is a stupid move. Bar+ 2000 is a smart move."
half of which should actually be called the mideast or midnorth.
Thank you for saying this. Here I am in Ohio, and it's considered the Midwest. Eh!? Unless the person who called it that was looking at the map upside-down, I'm still rather confused as to why the eastern half of anything can be called "Midwest".
It works poorly with the Radeon because ATI makes shitty drivers. Get a real videocard (nvidia) and you'll appreciate the sudden disappearance of flakiness.
ATI doesn't write (many of) the drivers for XFree86. They've started to write some, but AFAIK, there are none from ATI for XFree86 for the Radeon VE. The ones I'm using are written by the DRI developers and are opensource/free software.
As for the rest of your complaint: take the beef up with application or toolkit developers. X sure seems faster than Aqua for me, even for Mozilla. Mozilla is pretty slow by itself. Also, the desktop doesn't run in double-buffered mode, so the windows don't exactly move smoothly. This is not an X problem, it's a toolkit/desktop environment problem. If KDE doesn't use XRender and Xv to render faster, it's not an X problem.
I admitted that certain programs (generally GNOME 1.2 stuff, since I don't have KDE libs or GNOME 2 libs installed) are fast, and that maybe it's just Mozilla that is slow. This seems the most likely, since they really don't have time to go trying to get it to work perfectly on a little-used platform (XFree86 as compared to Windows). I don't know where KDE comes in here. I use FVWM2, myself.
DRI (when it works; it's flakey on my Radeon VE) is fast at OpenGL stuff and playing video through the xv extension. I don't notice any change in 2D speed (window moving and such) with DRI loaded as opposed to without it loaded. I don't know about most other people, but this is what's most important to me.
However, it could just be that Mozilla's use of XFree86 is really slow. Other programs (abiword, gnumeric, dillo, netscape 4.7, xmms...) are faster.
Okay, so that wasn't too helpful. But, really, when people complain about poor performance, they aren't always talking about GL and video playback.
Or is that leap in logic a little to[sic] difficult for you?
Why, yes, it would have been; just as I'm sure it would be a stretch for many other people to immediately think "Ah, he's speaking words to me rather than letters because I can more easily distinguish them on the phone. All I need to do is consider the first letter of each word.".
I'd bet that the first time you heard someone speaking in the phonetic alphabet, you caught on right away. Or, the first time you saw someone's ham callsign you thought "Oscar 9 Lima Zulu 7", or whatever. Riight.
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliette
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu
No, it wasn't necessary for me to sit around one evening memorizing the phonetic alphabet. It did come in handy, once, when talking to IBM tech support when they read some letters off like that and I didn't have to go "huh?".
It's just trivia. You never know -- someday, someone will wonder out loud "How do barcodes work?" and you'll be able to tell them. You will probably scare them, but they will also probably refrain from wondering out loud around you ever again.
Though you'll never see this reply, what I really meant was that there's a lot of radiation that we get from the Sun. Okay, so many people here don't get much of it, but it is a fairly large source of radiation. My guess (purely unscientific) is that we receive more radiation from the Sun than we do a microwave or monitor or cell phone.
Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass...) by They Might Be Giants, Severe Tire Damage CD Run Time: 02:16 minutes
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The Sun is hot, the Sun is not a place where we could live. But here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.
We need its light. We need its heat. The sunlight that we see, the sunlight comes from our own Sun's atomic energy.
(refrain) The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The Sun is hot... The Sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas-- aluminum, copper, iron, and many others. The Sun is large... If the Sun were hollow, a million Earths would fit inside. And yet, it is only a middle-size star. The Sun is far away-- about 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small. For even when it's out of sight, the Sun shines night and day.
We need its heat, we need its light The sunlight that we see, the sunlight comes from our own Sun's atomic energy.
Scientists have found that the Sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the Sun are caused by nuclear reactions between hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and helium.
(refrain) The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
Watch out for the nuclear reactor at the center of our solar system!
Also, isn't this not really wireless electricity if it's being transmitted by radio waves? Wireless power, maybe. But then, what are Mr. Sun* and Sir Wind?
And there you go. Download until finished with your favorite web browser or http retrieval program and watch with your favorite media player which has Quicktime capabilities.
I'd just like to point out, since I was confused about this once, as well, that OGG is just a containter format and Vorbis is the audio codec. You could just as well have an ogg file with mp3 data inside.
AVI is also a container format. Thus, you'll see lots of different codecs inside. These days, some incarnation of Divx is what people put in AVIs.
Re:maybe get this on the bittorrent server?
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I'd recommend ASFRecorder when it works. That file includes a Win32 binary and the.c source which can be compiled thusly:
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You suggest that if your main server goes down, the distribution continues. But, don't you need a machine that keeps track of who's Torrenting so that all of the BT clients know from whom to send/receive?
.torrent, but I couldn't connect to the host. There may very well have been someone else out there with more of the file than I had and/or there could very well have been someone else out there with the full file that wanted to share, but I couldn't get to them because the host wasn't up.
In some of my recent experimentation with BT, I tried to Torrent a file, but it didn't work because the main server wasn't hosting it anymore. I had the
I think the point to BT is to reduce the bandwidth requirement of the main host, rather than to eliminate the need for it to stay up all the time. So, with BT, given a large enough audience, you could theoretically host a fairly large collection of files on a smaller-than-normal upstream pipe because your clients would be utilizing their normally-unused upstream, rather than you sending data multiple times needlessly.
Can anyone here explain why Phoenix/Firebird builds have never been able to run without Glibc 2.2 whereas Mozilla runs quite well on Glibc 2.1?
For God's sake, it works on Windows 95 (I think) !
Now, now, quitcherbitchin and install Winamp and be happy.
Okay, so maybe out of the box it's only supported on some Linux distros, but the way you constructed that sentence, you're not 100% correct.
You should consider developing your solution using the managed Windows .NET environment! Bah, Linux is for academics and tinkerers.
.NET."
I know you're joking (well, I think you're joking), but I don't think that this would be the thing to say in this case. You're putting down Linux right away, which will frighten the victim away if they can smell your FUD. Perhaps something more like:
"[Linux || Perl || FreeSoftware]? Oh, yeah, I play around with that from time to time. It's nice, but when I want to get stuff done at work, it's all
That way, you're half-complimenting them on their choice to try some Free software package. "Foo is good! But Bar+ 2000 is better!"
They'll think: "Foo is a smart move. But Bar+ 2000 is a better move!" rather than "Foo is a stupid move. Bar+ 2000 is a smart move."
Or maybe I'm completely wrong.
But, didn't Google originate out of Stanford? Isn't it reasonable to think that the two are still pretty friendly?
(Don't you hate it when people speak in questions? Don't you? Huh?)
Didn't The Red Balloon come from France?
half of which should actually be called the mideast or midnorth.
Thank you for saying this. Here I am in Ohio, and it's considered the Midwest. Eh!? Unless the person who called it that was looking at the map upside-down, I'm still rather confused as to why the eastern half of anything can be called "Midwest".
Heh. You need to be a little more informed.
It works poorly with the Radeon because ATI makes shitty drivers. Get a real videocard (nvidia) and you'll appreciate the sudden disappearance of flakiness.
ATI doesn't write (many of) the drivers for XFree86. They've started to write some, but AFAIK, there are none from ATI for XFree86 for the Radeon VE. The ones I'm using are written by the DRI developers and are opensource/free software.
As for the rest of your complaint: take the beef up with application or toolkit developers. X sure seems faster than Aqua for me, even for Mozilla. Mozilla is pretty slow by itself. Also, the desktop doesn't run in double-buffered mode, so the windows don't exactly move smoothly. This is not an X problem, it's a toolkit/desktop environment problem. If KDE doesn't use XRender and Xv to render faster, it's not an X problem.
I admitted that certain programs (generally GNOME 1.2 stuff, since I don't have KDE libs or GNOME 2 libs installed) are fast, and that maybe it's just Mozilla that is slow. This seems the most likely, since they really don't have time to go trying to get it to work perfectly on a little-used platform (XFree86 as compared to Windows). I don't know where KDE comes in here. I use FVWM2, myself.
Considering that prints of films from 1984 have been restored to close to their origional quality...
;-)
Hahahaha... Right. Sure.
We're all smart enough to know that anything from 1984 could never be restored to the original quality!
What next? Are you going to tell me that we had cameras back even before most of us were born!? Hahahahaha!
DRI (when it works; it's flakey on my Radeon VE) is fast at OpenGL stuff and playing video through the xv extension. I don't notice any change in 2D speed (window moving and such) with DRI loaded as opposed to without it loaded. I don't know about most other people, but this is what's most important to me.
However, it could just be that Mozilla's use of XFree86 is really slow. Other programs (abiword, gnumeric, dillo, netscape 4.7, xmms...) are faster.
Okay, so that wasn't too helpful. But, really, when people complain about poor performance, they aren't always talking about GL and video playback.
They'd need...
They'd need?! You've apparently never used a public computer before. More like "They need..."
Or is that leap in logic a little to[sic] difficult for you?
Why, yes, it would have been; just as I'm sure it would be a stretch for many other people to immediately think "Ah, he's speaking words to me rather than letters because I can more easily distinguish them on the phone. All I need to do is consider the first letter of each word.".
I'd bet that the first time you heard someone speaking in the phonetic alphabet, you caught on right away. Or, the first time you saw someone's ham callsign you thought "Oscar 9 Lima Zulu 7", or whatever. Riight.
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliette
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-Ray
Yankee
Zulu
No, it wasn't necessary for me to sit around one evening memorizing the phonetic alphabet. It did come in handy, once, when talking to IBM tech support when they read some letters off like that and I didn't have to go "huh?".
It's just trivia. You never know -- someday, someone will wonder out loud "How do barcodes work?" and you'll be able to tell them. You will probably scare them, but they will also probably refrain from wondering out loud around you ever again.
Haven't you seen The Parlor?* "Irregardless" means "without lack of regard".
*http://v8gtang.com/Vids/the_parlor_dsl.wmv (~90MB and slow)
Though you'll never see this reply, what I really meant was that there's a lot of radiation that we get from the Sun. Okay, so many people here don't get much of it, but it is a fairly large source of radiation. My guess (purely unscientific) is that we receive more radiation from the Sun than we do a microwave or monitor or cell phone.
Memepool.com
Well, uh, that's how I found it.
Why Does the Sun Shine?
(The Sun is a Mass...)
by They Might Be Giants, Severe Tire Damage CD
Run Time: 02:16 minutes
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The Sun is hot,
the Sun is not
a place where we could live.
But here on Earth
there'd be no life
without the light it gives.
We need its light.
We need its heat.
The sunlight that we see,
the sunlight comes from our own Sun's atomic energy.
(refrain)
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The Sun is hot...
The Sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas--
aluminum, copper, iron, and many others.
The Sun is large...
If the Sun were hollow, a million Earths would fit inside.
And yet, it is only a middle-size star.
The Sun is far away--
about 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.
For even when it's out of sight,
the Sun shines night and day.
We need its heat, we need its light
The sunlight that we see,
the sunlight comes from our own Sun's atomic energy.
Scientists have found that the Sun is a huge atom-smashing machine.
The heat and light of the Sun are caused by nuclear reactions between
hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and helium.
(refrain)
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas,
a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.
(end)
Lyrics blatantly stolen from here.
Watch out for the nuclear reactor at the center of our solar system!
Also, isn't this not really wireless electricity if it's being transmitted by radio waves? Wireless power, maybe. But then, what are Mr. Sun* and Sir Wind?
*A mass of incandescent gas, I know.
If you want to download streaming Windows Media, try ASFRecorder on Windows/Linux/etc.
1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8178ef01f93c6f55ecc40a5178 5e65ac332a0016d/T3-international-tlr_480.mov
1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8178ef01f93c6f55ecc40a5178 5e65ac332a0016d/T3-international-tlr_m480.mov
If it's the Quicktime video, look at the page source and look for a URL like:
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/a518c4ff1125bc/
Add an m in there:
http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/a518c4ff1125bc/
And there you go. Download until finished with your favorite web browser or http retrieval program and watch with your favorite media player which has Quicktime capabilities.
I'd just like to point out, since I was confused about this once, as well, that OGG is just a containter format and Vorbis is the audio codec. You could just as well have an ogg file with mp3 data inside.
AVI is also a container format. Thus, you'll see lots of different codecs inside. These days, some incarnation of Divx is what people put in AVIs.
I'd recommend ASFRecorder when it works. That file includes a Win32 binary and the .c source which can be compiled thusly:
e o/trailer/trailer_high.asx
o rld/underworld_teaser_trailer_high.asf
1 a1a1aaa2198c627970773d80669d84574a8d80d3cb12453c02 589f25382f668c9329e0375e8178af967e03faf187bef64d63 baedd52c02489fb72e153bf23/underworld_m480.mov/a?
gcc asfrecorder.c -o asfrecorder
And then just:
asfrecorder http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworld/vid
With mplayer it isn't quite as easy to capture streamed data:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile underworld_teaser_trailer_high.asf mms://agency2wm.fplive.net/agency/2/2/film/underw
Of course, if you're using mplayer/xine, you might find the Quicktime version a bit better:
wget http://a772.g.akamai.net/5/772/51/1373e4e8b18d05/
S'okay. Judging by your UID, you haven't been logging in here very long. It was someone's .sig at one time.
.sigs more than their nicks, though, so don't fret it.
I usually remember people's
Thanks. I was actually wanting someone to reply with the next line in the Rocky & Bullwinkle skit...
;-).
"It's a summons."
"What's a summons?"
"It means sommon's in trouble!"
But, yeah, a factual reply works, too
What's a summons?
I realize how annoying it can be to have someone nitpick your .sig, but...
Don't you mean 9.81 m/(s^2) ?
(Before you nitpick mine, google for it...)