Of course there are, just look at the docs for LAME. One (perhaps the only in common use) of the modes of joint-stereo mp3 encoding is mid-side stereo.
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If I remember correctly, it was in Mission:Impossible, which was around 1995 or so, in the scene where the spies (sorry, can't remember names) are hanging from the air ducts in the ceiling and getting files off the top-secret, non-networked computer. (and maybe more scenes, too).
I just got a chance to try out OS/2 for the first time last week when my friend gave me a computer surplused from his work (yeah, I know, I'm slow, but I've seen nothing but Micros~1 products before I switched to Linux, so I haven't been around it). I must say, it's a nice interface, better than windows. However, there's no web browser, no tcp/ip networking, so what's the point of using it? (If I am in error, let me know, it would be truly 3l33t to surf the net from OS/2 Warp 3.0...)
In the press release, they just mentioned that they will be bundling win98, nt, and 2000 with vmware, but they didn't mention anything about price. I wonder if they'd give a bundle deal--i.e. win nt workstation 4 costs $99 separate, but only $69 with vmware, or something like that. If they were to do this I might actually go out and buy it.
On a different note, I wonder if vmware will ever fix their "bios" so that I can run win95 b under it on my k6/2 machines (no, I don't own win98, and it's NOT worth $100!).
You're mistaken. XFree86 no longer has a 32bpp mode on any graphics card--use 24. It still has the full transparency etc. etc. (Netscape isn't b/w in 24bpp anymore!), but it's 24bpp, I guess kinda like windoze w/ 8, 16, 24 bpp...
Check out Creative's open-source website. This has DXR2, AWE64, and EMU10k1 linux drivers on it. (I think the DXR2 will only play to TV-out in its present state). The world would be a better place if all companies followed creative's lead in open-sourcing drivers for their products--then the whole DeCSS fiasco could have been avoided.
I used to use Slack, back in the day when it was 3.4. The only complaint I had with it was that I virtually had to wipe the disk and start fresh for upgrading to a new version of Slack (see the upgrade.txt file in Slack if you don't believe me). I know RH 's upgrade isn't painless, but it sure is a lot easier than slack's? Will there be a way to make this easier with the next version of Slack?
Instead, half the market is trucks, which are usually much more primative in design and efficency.
Sounds like you haven't seen any new trucks lately. Features like extended cab, 3rd/4th door, etc. weren't available in trucks 10 or 20 years ago. And who's to say they're less efficient? My truck gets 25 mpg on average, which is about the average of cars today.
But it's true that cars have not advanced as far as computers--if they improved at the rate that computers have over the past 15 years, today's car would deliver 1000 hp, get 100 mpg, and cost less than $1000. Oh well, we can dream...
Remember DiVX? That evil little play-for-play disk that Circuit City and (Sony? refresh my memory....) tried to foist on us? Did we not squash it like a bug? can we not do it again? Are we men, or are we Logitech?
Logitech?? What in the world to they have to do with DIVX? I still use my 10-year old Logitech MouseMan bus mouse--3 buttons all the time without having to mess with the configuration! They always were better than M$ anyway (well, at least until the IntelliMouse {which was a dumb name, if you ask me}). </Slightly OT>
<On-topic> Of course the home recording act or whatever it's called will never prevent me from ripping my cd's--they'll stop me from doing that when they pry my PLEXTOR from my cold dead fingers... </On-topic>
Reminds me of my high school days. Except that the software only blocked port 80, so ftp / telnet etc. was free reign! And "Bess" wasn't too sharp... it blocked "http://xoom.com/", but "http://xoom.com/home/", which the first one redirects to, was not blocked... And I also could go to XOOMmail by entering "http://services.xoom.com/MemberServices/checkemai l.xihtml" --so much for blocking that! (Sorry, I couldn't figure out HoTMaiL.)
But the most blatant failure of the sw that I know is that some substitute teacher got in trouble for looking at pr0n...on playboy.com!! Seems like they'd block that of all things! Bess can go up my $*#* for all I care...
Software RAID is great for SCSI--take 4 or 5 10-year old dirt cheap scsi disks and they perform like (or better than) today's IDE drives. (Or get U2WSCSI drives, and the PCI bus becomes the limiting factor;-) ). But it's not good for IDE, because the master and the slave can't both use the channel at once, meaning you get NO speed increase whatsoever if you're using master and slave on the same channel. Moral: for RAID on IDE, you need as many channels as you have disks... not too good.
As several previous posts have pointed out, ATI's track record hasn't been that good as far as supporting open-source (and even Linux in general) goes. This could all change--take a look at Creative Labs, for example. At first they didn't even want to support linux on their Live! cards, then came a binary driver, and now an open-source cvs not only for the live! but also for their dxr2 dvd decoder.
However, I think I'll wait until I see results from ATI before buying their cards... I really like Matrox, and it seems to work better under Linux than ATI, nVidia, or 3dfx (correct me if I'm wrong!)
The link to the screenshot for Applix word is broken. In netscape it appears to have a quotation mark appended to the end of it, but on checking the source, it turns out the open-quote was omitted. Here's the correct link.
It would be nice if we'd see a word processor as full featured as word that's also free (in both senses of the word!).
Devfs just sounds pretty fscking cool! But the main reason I'm using a 2.3.xx kernel (currently 2.3.42) is that it has support for DMA on my IDE controller (ALi M1543 "Aladdin V" on Asus P5A MB), where as 2.2.xx does not. My hard drive now runs twice as fast as it previously did (according to "/sbin/hdparm -t/dev/hda").
And yes, some of the 2.3.xx kernels are more unstable--that would be those that end in odd numbers (when I tried compiling 2.3.21 there was an error in main.c !). That's why you get one that ends in an even number.
Reminds of the old r.h.f. (rec.humor.funny, for you non-useneters) usenet posts about "my cup holder broke off" tech support calls from stupid customers. Makes me want to show them the "any" key, yes, that one on the front of the case with the green light just above it...
MS-DOS Attack? Let's all use the command prompt! Down with Win95!! Oh wait, you mean DoS, not DOS!!
On result of all of this is that Universities may need to look into setting up their networks more like corporations; i.e., using firewalls to protect from outside hacking (which will make running unofficial servers a huge pain).
Most universities have already done this (at least the one I'm at), and yes, it makes sharing files with anyone off-campus a major pain.
There's a great column at winmag about the writer's woes with AOL 5. His basic opinion about AOL 5 after using it was that, with AOL, you're SOL. (Not only does it take over your connection, it tends to crash the system!)
A guy from Apple spoke to the computing society here and demonstrated the AirPort technology, and I must say, it really rocks! Surfing the web was the same as on any machine connected to the lan, and it was flawlessly streaming 30 fps (~0.5-1 MB -- that's megabytes, mind you) Quicktime videos. And this was on an iBook about 50 ft. away from the hub! (Supposed to work up to 100 ft.) He also said it's fully IEEE 802.11 compliant, so it'll work with those pcmcia cards for x86 laptops as well. Now if I just had the money to buy one!
I realize this borders on redundant, but no one has answered the questions posted previously:
WHY IS THERE NO SERVICE LIKE THIS THAT WORKS IN LINUX? (Or if there is, please give a URL!)
I've found dialpad.com to be o.k., not the best sound, but hey, it's free! And good thing Clemson saw the light; I know students here at A&M would be up in arms if the admins tried anything like that!
This post is not redundant. The internal server error and previewer problems were not mentioned by any previous poster. Nor is it off-topic--I expressed my opinions on the voting. (Now I'll probably get moderated down for flamebait)
I didn't realize the voting was still going on-- it's been how long, two weeks?
And slashdot is also having problems--the 404 mentioned in the above posts, and also for a period of about two minutes before this article appeared I'd get an "Internal Server Error" when trying to access anything on/.
And also when I try to preview this comment the previewer isn't showing my <Pgt; tags (I hope this is only a preview problem, rather than/. deciding to not like HTML posts!)
I still have one of those, but I yanked it out of my pc because it didn't serve any useful purpose and was slow as heck. Reliable as heck too, though.
But it was slower than my ATAPI ZIP-250 (1.10 MB/s vs. 1.67 MB/s)!!
But SCSI is amazingly reliable and fast. I've only ever had two scsi disks fail--one because of a power brownout, and one Conner disk (which I got a free Seagate replacement for, despite its being mfd. way back in '94). And although according to hdparm my new UDMA/33 disk is twice as fast as my 5-year old SCSI, the SCSI system feels faster (even though it's a slower processor!).
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Of course there are, just look at the docs for LAME. One (perhaps the only in common use) of the modes of joint-stereo mp3 encoding is mid-side stereo.
On a different note, I wonder if vmware will ever fix their "bios" so that I can run win95 b under it on my k6/2 machines (no, I don't own win98, and it's NOT worth $100!).
Whoops...looks like someone beat me too it... here's what I was looking for.
But on-topic, does anyone know how much this HDD costs? And more importantly, is it IDE (gasp!), SCSI (please!), or better yet, BOTH ??
I used to use Slack, back in the day when it was 3.4. The only complaint I had with it was that I virtually had to wipe the disk and start fresh for upgrading to a new version of Slack (see the upgrade.txt file in Slack if you don't believe me). I know RH 's upgrade isn't painless, but it sure is a lot easier than slack's? Will there be a way to make this easier with the next version of Slack?
Sounds like you haven't seen any new trucks lately. Features like extended cab, 3rd/4th door, etc. weren't available in trucks 10 or 20 years ago. And who's to say they're less efficient? My truck gets 25 mpg on average, which is about the average of cars today.
But it's true that cars have not advanced as far as computers--if they improved at the rate that computers have over the past 15 years, today's car would deliver 1000 hp, get 100 mpg, and cost less than $1000. Oh well, we can dream...
Logitech?? What in the world to they have to do with DIVX? I still use my 10-year old Logitech MouseMan bus mouse--3 buttons all the time without having to mess with the configuration! They always were better than M$ anyway (well, at least until the IntelliMouse {which was a dumb name, if you ask me}).
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<On-topic> Of course the home recording act or whatever it's called will never prevent me from ripping my cd's--they'll stop me from doing that when they pry my PLEXTOR from my cold dead fingers...
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But the most blatant failure of the sw that I know is that some substitute teacher got in trouble for looking at pr0n...on playboy.com!! Seems like they'd block that of all things!
Bess can go up my $*#* for all I care...
Long live SCSI!!
However, I think I'll wait until I see results from ATI before buying their cards... I really like Matrox, and it seems to work better under Linux than ATI, nVidia, or 3dfx (correct me if I'm wrong!)
It would be nice if we'd see a word processor as full featured as word that's also free (in both senses of the word!).
And yes, some of the 2.3.xx kernels are more unstable--that would be those that end in odd numbers (when I tried compiling 2.3.21 there was an error in main.c !). That's why you get one that ends in an even number.
And then there are those people who need USB...
Reminds of the old r.h.f. (rec.humor.funny, for you non-useneters) usenet posts about "my cup holder broke off" tech support calls from stupid customers. Makes me want to show them the "any" key, yes, that one on the front of the case with the green light just above it...
On result of all of this is that Universities may need to look into setting up their networks more like corporations; i.e., using firewalls to protect from outside hacking (which will make running unofficial servers a huge pain).
Most universities have already done this (at least the one I'm at), and yes, it makes sharing files with anyone off-campus a major pain.
- connecting...
- connected, waiting for reply...
- prebuffering..8kb/32kb
and it just sits there at the "prebuffering" stage. I get "504 server full" from the sync, just like yesterday.A guy from Apple spoke to the computing society here and demonstrated the AirPort technology, and I must say, it really rocks! Surfing the web was the same as on any machine connected to the lan, and it was flawlessly streaming 30 fps (~0.5-1 MB -- that's megabytes, mind you) Quicktime videos. And this was on an iBook about 50 ft. away from the hub! (Supposed to work up to 100 ft.) He also said it's fully IEEE 802.11 compliant, so it'll work with those pcmcia cards for x86 laptops as well. Now if I just had the money to buy one!
WHY IS THERE NO SERVICE LIKE THIS THAT WORKS IN LINUX? (Or if there is, please give a URL!)
I've found dialpad.com to be o.k., not the best sound, but hey, it's free! And good thing Clemson saw the light; I know students here at A&M would be up in arms if the admins tried anything like that!
This post is not redundant. The internal server error and previewer problems were not mentioned by any previous poster.
Nor is it off-topic--I expressed my opinions on the voting.
(Now I'll probably get moderated down for flamebait)
And slashdot is also having problems--the 404 mentioned in the above posts, and also for a period of about two minutes before this article appeared I'd get an "Internal Server Error" when trying to access anything on /.
And also when I try to preview this comment the previewer isn't showing my <Pgt; tags (I hope this is only a preview problem, rather than /. deciding to not like HTML posts!)
Hope Taco and Crew fix it.
But it was slower than my ATAPI ZIP-250 (1.10 MB/s vs. 1.67 MB/s)!!
But SCSI is amazingly reliable and fast. I've only ever had two scsi disks fail--one because of a power brownout, and one Conner disk (which I got a free Seagate replacement for, despite its being mfd. way back in '94). And although according to hdparm my new UDMA/33 disk is twice as fast as my 5-year old SCSI, the SCSI system feels faster (even though it's a slower processor!).