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  1. Re:Speaking of DV on The DV Rebel's Guide · · Score: 1

    MiniDv cameras are probably going to be replaced by HDV cameras, same 25Mb/s tape transport but mpeg2 encoded.
    They are HDV/DV switchable (or at least the one we have at work is; Sony Z1)
    MiniDV is okay but the sound isn't locked (1/2 frame of drift is the permissable error in the spec.)
    Trouble is that downgrading from HDV to DV can look a bit weird.

    We think that HDMI will replace IEEE1394 to harmonize equipment connectivity (not many IEEE1394 TVs around).

  2. Re:Not *full* humans rights, but see Spain... on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    hmm, and yet for 15 years I've not eaten meat or drank milk and am the picture of health, except for Chron's disease that I probably picked up from milk when I was a youngster.

    C'est la vie.

  3. Hey Jeff, say hi to Ben for me on Catching Up With Jeff Minter · · Score: 1

    I've not seen him for ages, Daglish that is.

    I owe him 100 quid too :)

    Last bloke I owed money to died so I'm hoping that's not a pattern :)

  4. Re:Not *full* humans rights, but see Spain... on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    I was wondering, who is my designer ?

    I could have sworn that omnivorism is a consequence not a goal of my evolution.

  5. Re:OpenBSD PF on Firewall Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Someone on the GSoc is hoping to do an OpenBSD 9p kernel extension. If they get it going then I'll be giving it a go (read only OpenBSD that is).

    9p abstracts loads of things away for you so you could, for instance, use postgresql as your "file system" and boot from that, I have the code to do that bit already, although it's not listed here yet.

  6. Best box ever. on 15 Truly Hideous Examples of Game Box Art · · Score: 1

    My early gaming years were littered with box art promises. They always used to put the Commodore64/Atari version screenshots on the box but never their crummy port to the BBC Micro.

    Still at least Acornsoft knew what they were doing.

    http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/Elite.jpg

  7. Re:OpenBSD PF on Firewall Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    And yet there in the first paragraph is "pfSense is a open source firewall derived from the m0n0wall operating system platform with radically different goals such as using OpenBSD's ported Packet Filter, FreeBSD 6.1 ALTQ (HFSC)".

    Either my reading comprehension sucks or that sentence says that it is running FreeBSD.

  8. Re:Opera on Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing · · Score: 1

    Tabs were introduced in Microsoft Office 97

  9. Re:That's a relief on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1


    "To remove all system restore and shadow copies except for the current restore point, click Clean Up under System Restore And Shadow Copies. When prompted to confirm that you want to delete this data, click Delete."

    If a virus wants to clean out my profile for me then it's not a very far leap to 'deltree $profile /Y; take snapshot; Clean Up Shadow Copies' thus leaving me with a snapshot of my empty profile.

  10. Re:OpenBSD PF on Firewall Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why no-one's done a bootable CD version.

    If you seriously need a diskless firewall you could buy 128Mb CF card for $10 & a cf-ide adapter for $10.

    For a bit more cash and a SOHO setup something like the VIA EPIA MII 12000 is the ideal candidate, it's got a CF slot, a PCMCIA slot and a PCI slot for your extra nic. Why people bother with WRTG54s I really don't know.

  11. Re:OpenBSD PF on Firewall Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    You have to enable SSH at install time too.

  12. That's a relief on Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling · · Score: 1

    Cool, so all I lose is all my work, phew!
    While the files I can easily replace are specifically protected from harm.

    You made that giant bug turn into a feature, well done.

  13. Re:Companies can restrict outbound port 25 connect on Fortune 1000 Companies Sending Spam, Phishing · · Score: 1

    How to make yourself look totally ignorant about the internet in one easy post.

  14. Re:Mono Is Dead Meme on De Icaza Pleads For Mono/.Net Cooperation · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Stamp out diversity! on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows · · Score: 1

    Definite as in finite, it's not that difficult.

  16. Re:Crash Testing on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1

    Where my folks live in Indi (Goa) a law was introduced to compel motorcyle riders to wear crash helmets. As helmets are expensive, some bright spark decided that fake cardboard crash helmets would be his contribution to road safety. He was right and did quite a roaring trade. The law was repealed a month or so later.

  17. $500 million on P2P File Sharing Ruining Physical Piracy Business · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck Pirates of The Carribean

    Fuck all you $10 million a movie "stars"

  18. Re:Who does microsoft execs listen to? on Scoble Bites The Hand That Fed Him · · Score: 1

    Not that I'm one to wave the MS banner but they did/do have usability labs.

    And I'm sure they didn't spend their time watching people struggle to install Dr.Dos.

  19. Re:11 types on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    There's more than one binary encoding.

    Even in BCD there are these encdoings for 2:

    2 0010 0101 0010 0110 0010

    I'm just trolling for people that think they know what they're on about and love to correct others.

    You're not one of those so have a nice day :)

  20. Re:11 types on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    As a pedant I'd like to ask how you know :

    1) That I intend my sig., to be a joke
    2) That if so, you are in on it

  21. Re:Question for slashdot on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    I don't know what class of bug they will reveal but most XSS stuff is tricky to weed out when you let users freely upload.

    See how many of these you would check for :

    http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html

  22. Re:Why is it "funny" to exploit security bugs? on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    Most of the Month of X Bug websites seen recently already did that stuff and nothing happened.

    This one : http://www.php-security.org/ was even done by an ex-member of the PHP security team because they weren't taking him seriously.

  23. Re:MySpace's Microsoft-backed infrastructure. on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    yes, I know.

    that's why I run my web browser on a dedicated machine

  24. Re:MySpace's Microsoft-backed infrastructure. on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Windows is a twisty maze of passages, all alike, all leaking information.
    Root/Administrator is a design flaw.
    All the platforms you mention have holes in them.

    And PHP is a crock, steer well clear. See http://www.php-security.org/

  25. Re:Low budget filmmaking is no more expensive in H on HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards Debut · · Score: 1

    :) perhaps I should have qualified myself and covered the corner cases.

    I'll try again :

    For a lot of low budget films, the transition to HD doesn't always add significant cost to shooting. The problems we, and the filmmakers we have contact with, are currently more likely to be in the edit suite when it comes to coping with HD. The introduction of another HDMI enabled video card is a useful addition to the equipment pool and we would welcome it in our edit suite. Plenty of the equipment we are upgrading from SD to HD uses HDMI as its HD connector, so one less cable type to think about is a something I feel is postive.