I use Sylpheed-claws as well and I must say: it's the stuff. I used evolution for a while, but it has too many things I don't use (scheduler etc) and it doesn't have enough mail options in my view and a bit slow when you have many messages in a folder. Then I tried kmail, which is very nice, but due to a bug which seemed to only occur on my ppc based system, it was unable to open my mailbox. I wanted to try something different.
So I tried sylpheed-claws (I think it's something like the developement version of sylpheed). Many options and mailboxes, it reminds me a bit of Eudora on the pc, which is good. It gets even better with bogofilter (after some configuring)! It blocks 99% of the spam. I wouldn't want to switch to another mail client now.
It's harder though to get the "center channel" from any recording and filter the rest away. Imagine you could rip some cool drums from a song or the vocals.
Well after I searched the internet a year ago it seemed this was impossible (you can do the math and find it out yourself). However after searching more recent I found out that it's possible with Sonic Foundry or Sony Sound Forge!
process -> pan/expand -> select preset "[Sys] Normal mix of MS recording (mid = left, side = right)" and process mode "Mix Mid-Side (MS) recording to left and right channels"
I've come up with various results, usually reverb messes it up, but sometimes you get a clean drumfill or vocal. If you make music yourself it's handy to pull existing tracks apart and analyze them more careful.
I wonder how it works and if it could be incorporated in Audacity as well.
yes! well I always noticed the NTSC versions of games were a bit faster than the PAL versions (at least on the SNES). So I guess when you attempt such a record you use the NTSC version in your attempt
"One particularly unfortunate quote: "Dr. [Barry] Atkins admitted that he didn't finish Half-Life before writing about it in his 2003 book, 'More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form,' (Manchester University Press), and only later realized he was two minutes from the shocking plot reversal at the end when he stopped. 'I am very nervous that I got it wrong,' he said."
Thanks for the partial spoiler doctor-dude! I was seriously going to play Half-Life this weekend to destress. Be nervous indeed, I might need to frag something else instead now..
Leave both in, they're no competition for some of the open source players.
Both Apple quicktime and Windows mediaplayer suck very hard. Finding obscure codecs is a big pain in the ass (don't trust the looking for codec in mediaplayer - it works maybe 1 in 20 times) and when you find one yourself, it's loaded with spy- and or adware. Last time I checked on OS 10.1 I had to buy the full version (find a serial that is) in order to watch quicktime player fullscreen - great move Apple!
It's hardly competition for mplayer for example.
Both OSX and Windows can run mplayer, it's far superior to quicktime and mediaplayer and it has most codecs (even some very obscure ones) built-in.
The windows version is a bit hard to spot on the mainpage so here's a link. You might want to redirect the default for.avi/.bin/.mpg/.mpeg/etcetera to mplayer and you're done just play a little with the keys so you know where to find all the controls. It also plays the subtitles if they're in the same directory and.wmv and quicktime movies.
I think these bacteria have evolved a mechanism to allow them to be frozen easily. Antarctica is the place where they have been found, it's not like it became a freezingly cold place that froze everything overnight some millions years ago. So these bacteria evolved to survive regular freezing and unfreezing.
It would be more surprising to see a bacteria that is common in high temperature areas to do the same.
I run a studio as well, I had the same problems with win 2k, installing it pressing f6 or f8 to force it to install as a non acpi computer...
Well I run xp sp1 on the same studio system now, there are no issues anymore and you don't need to do acpi things ( see http://www.musicxp.net ), it runs perfectly now. Just be sure your soundcard has a irq of its own (perhaps you need to stick it in another slot). One more thing don't install any other crap on that computer except for the audio software. My system is really stable and runs the original SX 2.01, I've heard about people using the warez version and that one is less stable.
The main thing about running a studio computer under windows is the broad availability of software. Many vst plugins are never released on the Mac. If you were to try before buy an audio-app and you wanted too be that audio-app to be the full cracked version, instead of a demoversion, chances are that you'd find it with a p2p sharing program or whatever are much higher than if you wanted a warez-version of a mac audio-app. (neither of us would do such a thing of course)
I have a second hand 400mhz G4 powerbook. When OSX came out I tried it, but it seemed to run a bit too slow on the powerbook for me and watching a divx movie in osx was nearly impossible with quicktime.
After a week I was fed up with it. I've been running gentoo linux on a lot of x86 servers, so I decided to make it a gentooppc computer - with a GUI for the first time.
It took some effort at that time, since gentooppc was just starting, but eventually I managed it. I felt proud that it worked and it made many mac addicts give me strange but cool looks. Nowadays I run the 2.6 kernel and kde 3.2 and I must say it's perfect (only vga out is a bit of a b!tch with my graphical chipset): reliable and fast and all of the hardware is supported. I use it mainly for webbrowsing (konqueror), movies (mplayer), email (sylpheed-claws) and SSH'ing to other machines.
Only one but, if you run linux on a non x86 computer, you don't have the nice Wine things, but on the other hand you can run DOS apps with Bochs (though terribly slow on my system).
I won't swap if someone offered me a faster powerbook with OSX and I weren't allowed to reinstall my beloved linuxppc.
I remember reading a slashdot article about some Russians (it's always Russians innit? lol) that got away with stealing some source code, but hasn't this code been stolen like 2 or 3 years ago?
yeah they always call 'em Russian or Eastern European - those are the guys who did 'it'. That's just not true, people use connections/crack systems over there for that reason: they're not getting cought, no admin is going to reply on an email from the FBI if you used a computer from Kazachstan, because no-one will speak English there.
One part of me is really stomped off: I don't care about the gprs/wap setting crap on my bullshit cell phone and I could care less about the setting the channels on my tv right and looking for new channels.
But on the other hand: I've got my powerbook running gentoo (which can sometimes be a pain in the ass). And I build my own software raid5 server a few years ago, which was also a bitch to get working right with the kernel and the documentation available back then.
I think the reason for this is, I'm not that lazy a person and I'm not stupid, but when I've had my forced dose of technology to solve a problem, I really don't feel like running thru all kinds of menu's to get to solve something trivial I can live without. Oneday when someone comes around and he/she can't stand my tv's layout I'll have that person rearrange the channel list. At the moment I'm forced to watching some obscure foreign channels when I turn on the tv, aber ich kann auch noch Sachen davon lernen, nicht?
the 5 6 7 8s featured in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Ok, they're not in the top 100 in the US I suspect, but they're featured on the ost of the movie, which could be in somesort of 100.
I used to play "floor 13", here's a quote from mobygames:
"The premise of Floor 13 is rather simple. You are the Director General for a secret society that is based on the 13th floor of an office building in London. The sole purpose for its existence is to keep the current British government in power at any cost. Specifically, you must make sure that the current Prime Minister keeps ahead of his competition in the polls. You are given a target date of 20 days, at the end of which your performance will be evaluated. If the PM is ahead in the polls, your agency will be expanded and you will be better equipped to handle the (numerous) really hard missions you'll encounter. If the PM is behind you will risk a reduction in available services or (if put into a bad enough situation) your job. If you hit the target date and you still hold your job, you are assigned another 20-day countdown to reach the said objectives once again (with the same rewards/penalties as previous).
During the time between target dates, you'll have to deal with various problems, both externally and internally. You may have to save the son of the US President from terrorists, break up a drug ring controlled by someone who just received an award from the Queen, or even prevent a scientist working with the British space agency from saying their latest achievement was a total sham (shades of "Capricorn One").
The organization you control is not a benevolent one and you will have to do some rather unpleasant things to ensure the democracy runs smoothly, such as searching and looting people's homes, calling in commando units for heavy assault purposes, wire-tapping and trailing people without bothering to go through legal channels, discrediting various people through the media and infiltrating various organizations. Also, it is the only game (perhaps only save for "Shadow President" and it's sequel) where you may perform assassinations on government officials (and you do that on a regular basis to boot), and is the only game AFAIK where you can (and will) "detain" your fellow citizens and torture them for information (the torture bits can get rather graphic at times, though it's doled out through a text report). If you get too over-eager abducting and torturing various suspects, assassinate people constantly or draw too much attention to yourself in general, eventually a man named "Mr. Garcia" will come to try to help you fly out of your office window."
it's downloadable from some abandonware websites, though I forgot whichone I downloaded it from, it's still very cool to play but it's really hard, I wish there would be a modern day variant on this game.
When he's going out somewhere and bored, he starts sending messages like: "this phone has been reported stolen. your number has been registered, deliver it at the local police station" Some people look like they're thinking: "oh shit, I'm fucked"
I don't know about SIPphone, but I tried Skype and I must say you'll soon find yourself living in the best house on Easystreet if you want to try to pick up strangers from your lazy chair.
Just go to the 'Find a Friend' option, find the advanced button and search for the sex and or age of your choice in the city/country of your choice.
Et voila, the world is on your feet: there's a nice list of many nice people waiting for your chat (some even hint they like to that in their 'About' box, others hint they don't like that. Don't feel shy to contact them anyway: it's just a way to intimidate the noobs).
There are people who are helpful enough to let you know their private phone numbers from their account information. That's in case the Skype chat went wrong and you still want to contact them in another way after they banned you from contacting with Skype I guess, so it saves you the trouble of having to create a new account for that purpose.
Enjoy!;)
Well finally I must say that the sound quality of Skype is very good even when I talked to someone on a isdn modem from my broadband account it still sounded much better than a normal phone. Too bad you can't make it even better (stereo or whatever) if both parties have a rediculously fast connection.
if you have a static ip, just put your ip setting manually into the settings. using dhcp will cost you another few costly seconds you could have used doing.. doing what exactly?.. as if your linux box is booting that much anyway.
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I use Sylpheed-claws as well and I must say: it's the stuff.
I used evolution for a while, but it has too many things I don't use (scheduler etc) and it doesn't have enough mail options in my view and a bit slow when you have many messages in a folder.
Then I tried kmail, which is very nice, but due to a bug which seemed to only occur on my ppc based system, it was unable to open my mailbox. I wanted to try something different.
So I tried sylpheed-claws (I think it's something like the developement version of sylpheed). Many options and mailboxes, it reminds me a bit of Eudora on the pc, which is good.
It gets even better with bogofilter (after some configuring)! It blocks 99% of the spam. I wouldn't want to switch to another mail client now.
Here's an article about configuring bogofilter for sylpheed-claws if you like
It's harder though to get the "center channel" from any recording and filter the rest away.
Imagine you could rip some cool drums from a song or the vocals.
Well after I searched the internet a year ago it seemed this was impossible (you can do the math and find it out yourself).
However after searching more recent I found out that it's possible with Sonic Foundry or Sony Sound Forge!
process -> pan/expand -> select preset "[Sys] Normal mix of MS recording (mid = left, side = right)" and process mode "Mix Mid-Side (MS) recording to left and right channels"
I've come up with various results, usually reverb messes it up, but sometimes you get a clean drumfill or vocal. If you make music yourself it's handy to pull existing tracks apart and analyze them more careful.
I wonder how it works and if it could be incorporated in Audacity as well.
EST = GMT - 5 hours. (unless it's summertime then it's 4 hours)
so 2 p.m. EST should be 19.00h (GMT) in the UK and 20.00h in Amsterdam/Paris/Berlin (GMT+1).
yes! well I always noticed the NTSC versions of games were a bit faster than the PAL versions (at least on the SNES).
So I guess when you attempt such a record you use the NTSC version in your attempt
"One particularly unfortunate quote: "Dr. [Barry] Atkins admitted that he didn't finish Half-Life before writing about it in his 2003 book, 'More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form,' (Manchester University Press), and only later realized he was two minutes from the shocking plot reversal at the end when he stopped. 'I am very nervous that I got it wrong,' he said."
Thanks for the partial spoiler doctor-dude!
I was seriously going to play Half-Life this weekend to destress.
Be nervous indeed, I might need to frag something else instead now..
Leave both in, they're no competition for some of the open source players.
.avi/.bin/.mpg/.mpeg/etcetera to mplayer and you're done just play a little with the keys so you know where to find all the controls. It also plays the subtitles if they're in the same directory and .wmv and quicktime movies.
Both Apple quicktime and Windows mediaplayer suck very hard. Finding obscure codecs is a big pain in the ass (don't trust the looking for codec in mediaplayer - it works maybe 1 in 20 times) and when you find one yourself, it's loaded with spy- and or adware.
Last time I checked on OS 10.1 I had to buy the full version (find a serial that is) in order to watch quicktime player fullscreen - great move Apple!
It's hardly competition for mplayer for example.
Both OSX and Windows can run mplayer, it's far superior to quicktime and mediaplayer and it has most codecs (even some very obscure ones) built-in.
The windows version is a bit hard to spot on the mainpage so here's a link.
You might want to redirect the default for
I think these bacteria have evolved a mechanism to allow them to be frozen easily. Antarctica is the place where they have been found, it's not like it became a freezingly cold place that froze everything overnight some millions years ago. So these bacteria evolved to survive regular freezing and unfreezing.
It would be more surprising to see a bacteria that is common in high temperature areas to do the same.
Flash works with Qemu: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117774&hi ghlight=flash
Java works with IBM java or Blackdown java
I run a studio as well, I had the same problems with win 2k, installing it pressing f6 or f8 to force it to install as a non acpi computer...
Well I run xp sp1 on the same studio system now, there are no issues anymore and you don't need to do acpi things ( see http://www.musicxp.net ), it runs perfectly now. Just be sure your soundcard has a irq of its own (perhaps you need to stick it in another slot). One more thing don't install any other crap on that computer except for the audio software. My system is really stable and runs the original SX 2.01, I've heard about people using the warez version and that one is less stable.
The main thing about running a studio computer under windows is the broad availability of software. Many vst plugins are never released on the Mac.
If you were to try before buy an audio-app and you wanted too be that audio-app to be the full cracked version, instead of a demoversion, chances are that you'd find it with a p2p sharing program or whatever are much higher than if you wanted a warez-version of a mac audio-app. (neither of us would do such a thing of course)
I have a second hand 400mhz G4 powerbook. When OSX came out I tried it, but it seemed to run a bit too slow on the powerbook for me and watching a divx movie in osx was nearly impossible with quicktime.
After a week I was fed up with it. I've been running gentoo linux on a lot of x86 servers, so I decided to make it a gentooppc computer - with a GUI for the first time.
It took some effort at that time, since gentooppc was just starting, but eventually I managed it.
I felt proud that it worked and it made many mac addicts give me strange but cool looks.
Nowadays I run the 2.6 kernel and kde 3.2 and I must say it's perfect (only vga out is a bit of a b!tch with my graphical chipset): reliable and fast and all of the hardware is supported. I use it mainly for webbrowsing (konqueror), movies (mplayer), email (sylpheed-claws) and SSH'ing to other machines.
Only one but, if you run linux on a non x86 computer, you don't have the nice Wine things, but on the other hand you can run DOS apps with Bochs (though terribly slow on my system).
I won't swap if someone offered me a faster powerbook with OSX and I weren't allowed to reinstall my beloved linuxppc.
I remember reading a slashdot article about some Russians (it's always Russians innit? lol) that got away with stealing some source code, but hasn't this code been stolen like 2 or 3 years ago?
yeah they always call 'em Russian or Eastern European - those are the guys who did 'it'. That's just not true, people use connections/crack systems over there for that reason: they're not getting cought, no admin is going to reply on an email from the FBI if you used a computer from Kazachstan, because no-one will speak English there.
Yeah I'm a partially Technolazy person.
One part of me is really stomped off: I don't care about the gprs/wap setting crap on my bullshit cell phone and I could care less about the setting the channels on my tv right and looking for new channels.
But on the other hand: I've got my powerbook running gentoo (which can sometimes be a pain in the ass). And I build my own software raid5 server a few years ago, which was also a bitch to get working right with the kernel and the documentation available back then.
I think the reason for this is, I'm not that lazy a person and I'm not stupid, but when I've had my forced dose of technology to solve a problem, I really don't feel like running thru all kinds of menu's to get to solve something trivial I can live without. Oneday when someone comes around and he/she can't stand my tv's layout I'll have that person rearrange the channel list. At the moment I'm forced to watching some obscure foreign channels when I turn on the tv, aber ich kann auch noch Sachen davon lernen, nicht?
I used to play Civ III on my powerbook, that was before I installed gentoo on it. I think the new expansion may be out on it too.
My younger brother bought a cartridge for his GBA which allows him to upload his own roms including NES roms. This was about a year ago.
Wanted to relax for a minute and read slashdot after a heavy Front Mission 4 session and there's another robot waiting for me here!
First thing that came to my mind were: what are the stats on the arms/legs/body and if it's a somesort of repair/rescue wanzer, where's the backpack?
btw does anyone know what 'ep' stands for in fm4?
the 5 6 7 8s featured in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Ok, they're not in the top 100 in the US I suspect, but they're featured on the ost of the movie, which could be in somesort of 100.
I used to play "floor 13", here's a quote from mobygames:
"The premise of Floor 13 is rather simple. You are the Director General for a secret society that is based on the 13th floor of an office building in London. The sole purpose for its existence is to keep the current British government in power at any cost. Specifically, you must make sure that the current Prime Minister keeps ahead of his competition in the polls.
You are given a target date of 20 days, at the end of which your performance will be evaluated. If the PM is ahead in the polls, your agency will be expanded and you will be better equipped to handle the (numerous) really hard missions you'll encounter. If the PM is behind you will risk a reduction in available services or (if put into a bad enough situation) your job. If you hit the target date and you still hold your job, you are assigned another 20-day countdown to reach the said objectives once again (with the same rewards/penalties as previous).
During the time between target dates, you'll have to deal with various problems, both externally and internally. You may have to save the son of the US President from terrorists, break up a drug ring controlled by someone who just received an award from the Queen, or even prevent a scientist working with the British space agency from saying their latest achievement was a total sham (shades of "Capricorn One").
The organization you control is not a benevolent one and you will have to do some rather unpleasant things to ensure the democracy runs smoothly, such as searching and looting people's homes, calling in commando units for heavy assault purposes, wire-tapping and trailing people without bothering to go through legal channels, discrediting various people through the media and infiltrating various organizations. Also, it is the only game (perhaps only save for "Shadow President" and it's sequel) where you may perform assassinations on government officials (and you do that on a regular basis to boot), and is the only game AFAIK where you can (and will) "detain" your fellow citizens and torture them for information (the torture bits can get rather graphic at times, though it's doled out through a text report). If you get too over-eager abducting and torturing various suspects, assassinate people constantly or draw too much attention to yourself in general, eventually a man named "Mr. Garcia" will come to try to help you fly out of your office window."
it's downloadable from some abandonware websites, though I forgot whichone I downloaded it from, it's still very cool to play but it's really hard, I wish there would be a modern day variant on this game.
When he's going out somewhere and bored, he starts sending messages like: "this phone has been reported stolen. your number has been registered, deliver it at the local police station"
Some people look like they're thinking: "oh shit, I'm fucked"
I don't know about SIPphone, but I tried Skype and I must say you'll soon find yourself living in the best house on Easystreet if you want to try to pick up strangers from your lazy chair.
;)
Just go to the 'Find a Friend' option, find the advanced button and search for the sex and or age of your choice in the city/country of your choice.
Et voila, the world is on your feet: there's a nice list of many nice people waiting for your chat (some even hint they like to that in their 'About' box, others hint they don't like that. Don't feel shy to contact them anyway: it's just a way to intimidate the noobs).
There are people who are helpful enough to let you know their private phone numbers from their account information. That's in case the Skype chat went wrong and you still want to contact them in another way after they banned you from contacting with Skype I guess, so it saves you the trouble of having to create a new account for that purpose.
Enjoy!
Well finally I must say that the sound quality of Skype is very good even when I talked to someone on a isdn modem from my broadband account it still sounded much better than a normal phone. Too bad you can't make it even better (stereo or whatever) if both parties have a rediculously fast connection.
how about playing older games on a system that has hardware developed after the game iso came out?
How would the linux kernel recognise that hardware?
If they could show the same usefulness as the graphing calculators then i would consider buying one.
hey this baby can also play porn dude, so I guess it doubles in usefulness
it's not been cracked yet, right?
and version v3.0 came out today.
there's this guy on the main page that's called "version v3.0" for some perverted reason, guess he's one of the developers or something 'coming out'..
hey wait a minute isn't 78000 exactly the number of u.s. people with an active slashdot account?
if you have a static ip, just put your ip setting manually into the settings. using dhcp will cost you another few costly seconds you could have used doing.. doing what exactly?.. as if your linux box is booting that much anyway.