(half OT)Removing the white wall from a picture
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Get the "magic wand" tool, mark the white parts you want deleted (Shift+click to choose multiple regions), and press Ctrl+k to replace them with transparent pixels (provided you have Added Alpha Channel). GIMP will handle pixels "close" in color to the clicked pixel quite nicely; double-click the tool to set some thresholds.
Besides, we all have way too many MP3's by now to switch to any new format but MP4 (someone should hurry up with that too!)
Why not switch to OggVorbis, which is already 33% smaller than MP3 at the same quality? Plugins are available for both Winamp and XMMS. Just because you have a lot of MP3s on CD-R doesn't mean you can't start using OggVorbis today. And because it's completely Free (Lesser GPL libraries; no patents), there will be no SDMI forced on you.
The OpenNap project and the Napigator server list demonstrate that the Napster servers are anything but a single centralized point of failure. To shut down Napster, the RIAA has to shut down the Napster, OpenNap, MyNapster, PowerNap, etc. networks.
So that if I put a file in my www_docs, it'll be 644, if I put it in a directory where several people help editing web pages, then it gets 664, my personal stuff is 600, and so on.
It's possible on any filesystem that supports POSIX permissions (not FAT32). All you have to do is write a shell script to do chmod -R on the directories in question.
6. This License Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in all respects by the law of the State of California, excluding conflict of law provisions.
GNU GPL does not allow for choice of venue clauses (as was demonstrated in the Python 1.6 wrangling).
(b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters
The free software community's standard for delivering sexy images is PNG or JPEG, not GIF. GIF is "patently offensive" (U.S. Patent 4,558,302) to the free software community.
Slashdot doesn't show DoubleClick ads; Andover/OSDN (a division of VA Linux systems) does. IIRC, when Slashdot was blockstackers's baby, it used Adfu and no DoubleClick.
With DSL you have to live within about 3.5 km of the telco's switch. And most towns don't have their switches placed in such a way to cover the whole town.
Now, whether Apple will do the legwork to port the libs
The libs in question are mostly the Carbon libraries. The Carbon API is a reimplementation of the Toolbox API of MacOS 1 through 9; it's one of the things you pay $2,000 for when you buy a Macintosh® computer.
Regardless of the grammatical correctness discussed elsewhere, I'm curious as to how a codec can be incompatible with Unix. Not currently implemented for Unix, yes, but incompatible, no. It's just a stream of bytes at the end of the day -- and that's *very* compatible with Unix.
Any stream of bytes is compatible with the UNIX® components that correspond to GNU Fileutils (`chgrp', `chmod', `chown', `cp', `dd', `df', `dir', `dircolors', `du', `install', `ln', `ls', `mkdir', `mkfifo', `mknod', `mv', `rm', `rmdir', `sync', `touch', and `vdir'). On the other hand, GNU Binutils (`ar', `c++filt', `demangle', `gas', `gprof', `ld', `nlmconv', `nm', `objcopy', `objdump', `ranlib', `size', `strings', and `strip') and GNU libc are the packages that really matter for building and running programs on a GNU/Linux system, and they can't handle Win32 very well;-)
The biggest problem I've seen with how the MPEG group works is that it allows patented technologies into the standard without requiring (as the JPEG group requires) a royalty-free license from the patent owner to use the technology for implement the standard. <O ( \ XPlay Tetris On Drugs!
I would think a MacOSX version of Quicktime would be the one which they'd choose to port to Linux, since OSX is based upon FreeBSD.
Darwin, the MacOSX kernel, is based on a NetBSD layer around the Mach microkernel. That doesn't mean apps are actually written to POSIX; AFAIK, QuickTime for MacOSX is written to the Carbon API (a reimplementation of Toolbox, the Mac API, around Darwin and the new proprietary GUI stuff). And NetBSD doesn't have Carbon.
Which is identical to the format the PC Speaker accepts.
CD's are a single bit recording format
No. CDs are sampled at 44.1 KHz, 16 bits per channel.
The big question in my mind is what sort of recording time do they have? The sampling rate is 2.82 MHz
And the data rate is 2.82e6 samples/sec * 1 bit/channel * 2 channels/sample * 1 byte/8 bits = 705 KBytes/sec, which makes (assuming DVD data density of 4.7 GB/side) 1 hour and 51 minutes of play time.
You can exclude most Napster stories by going to your preferences and checking "Hide 'Music' stories". Granted, some Napster stories make it into topic: Technology, but most are in topic: Music.
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Ever since Tor Lillqvist (sp?) ported GIMP to Windows, I've never used Paint Shop Pro.
Get the "magic wand" tool, mark the white parts you want deleted (Shift+click to choose multiple regions), and press Ctrl+k to replace them with transparent pixels (provided you have Added Alpha Channel). GIMP will handle pixels "close" in color to the clicked pixel quite nicely; double-click the tool to set some thresholds.
but until everything I need can be done from where I am, I will always need telnet.
YM ssh. Telnet sends your login password in plaintext to anyone who's sniffing your connection.
Have you tried Google?
Besides, we all have way too many MP3's by now to switch to any new format but MP4 (someone should hurry up with that too!)
Why not switch to OggVorbis, which is already 33% smaller than MP3 at the same quality? Plugins are available for both Winamp and XMMS. Just because you have a lot of MP3s on CD-R doesn't mean you can't start using OggVorbis today. And because it's completely Free (Lesser GPL libraries; no patents), there will be no SDMI forced on you.
Three words: Not GPL Compatible. I'd suggest MPL/GPL disjunction (like the Gecko engine, soon) or GPL with permission to link (like libstdc++, Guile, and the GNU Ada libraries).
I see mebbe Embedded Linux, 'Official' (Linus) Linux, and Big Iron Linux as 3 forks that could happily live with each other
But marketing would have to think of a name for the embedded kernel and the big iron kernel; as Linux® is taken by 'Official' (Linus) Linux.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.The OpenNap project and the Napigator server list demonstrate that the Napster servers are anything but a single centralized point of failure. To shut down Napster, the RIAA has to shut down the Napster, OpenNap, MyNapster, PowerNap, etc. networks.
So that if I put a file in my www_docs, it'll be 644, if I put it in a directory where several people help editing web pages, then it gets 664, my personal stuff is 600, and so on.
It's possible on any filesystem that supports POSIX permissions (not FAT32). All you have to do is write a shell script to do chmod -R on the directories in question.
(b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters
The free software community's standard for delivering sexy images is PNG or JPEG, not GIF. GIF is "patently offensive" (U.S. Patent 4,558,302) to the free software community.
^X ^F: open; ^X ^S: save; ^X ^C: quit
See, it wasn't that hard.^Space: start selection; ^W: cut; Alt+W: copy; ^Y: paste
^S: search; ^H t: start a tutorial
Lego® is a registered trademark; trademarks are adjectives. It's "Lego blocks" not "legos[sic]".
Slashdot doesn't show DoubleClick ads; Andover/OSDN (a division of VA Linux systems) does. IIRC, when Slashdot was blockstackers's baby, it used Adfu and no DoubleClick.
Use DLS[sic] instead of cable modem
With DSL you have to live within about 3.5 km of the telco's switch. And most towns don't have their switches placed in such a way to cover the whole town.
They built the cable lines, why should they have to share them?
Al Gore and his DARPA friends built the Internet backbone (no really); why should they have to share it?
Now, whether Apple will do the legwork to port the libs
The libs in question are mostly the Carbon libraries. The Carbon API is a reimplementation of the Toolbox API of MacOS 1 through 9; it's one of the things you pay $2,000 for when you buy a Macintosh® computer.
Fat chance Apple will port it.
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Regardless of the grammatical correctness discussed elsewhere, I'm curious as to how a codec can be incompatible with Unix. Not currently implemented for Unix, yes, but incompatible, no. It's just a stream of bytes at the end of the day -- and that's *very* compatible with Unix.
Any stream of bytes is compatible with the UNIX® components that correspond to GNU Fileutils (`chgrp', `chmod', `chown', `cp', `dd', `df', `dir', `dircolors', `du', `install', `ln', `ls', `mkdir', `mkfifo', `mknod', `mv', `rm', `rmdir', `sync', `touch', and `vdir'). On the other hand, GNU Binutils (`ar', `c++filt', `demangle', `gas', `gprof', `ld', `nlmconv', `nm', `objcopy', `objdump', `ranlib', `size', `strings', and `strip') and GNU libc are the packages that really matter for building and running programs on a GNU/Linux system, and they can't handle Win32 very well ;-)
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The biggest problem I've seen with how the MPEG group works is that it allows patented technologies into the standard without requiring (as the JPEG group requires) a royalty-free license from the patent owner to use the technology for implement the standard.
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I would think a MacOSX version of Quicktime would be the one which they'd choose to port to Linux, since OSX is based upon FreeBSD.
Darwin, the MacOSX kernel, is based on a NetBSD layer around the Mach microkernel. That doesn't mean apps are actually written to POSIX; AFAIK, QuickTime for MacOSX is written to the Carbon API (a reimplementation of Toolbox, the Mac API, around Darwin and the new proprietary GUI stuff). And NetBSD doesn't have Carbon.
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DSD is a single bit recording format
Which is identical to the format the PC Speaker accepts.
CD's are a single bit recording format
No. CDs are sampled at 44.1 KHz, 16 bits per channel.
The big question in my mind is what sort of recording time do they have? The sampling rate is 2.82 MHz
And the data rate is 2.82e6 samples/sec * 1 bit/channel * 2 channels/sample * 1 byte/8 bits = 705 KBytes/sec, which makes (assuming DVD data density of 4.7 GB/side) 1 hour and 51 minutes of play time.
DVD-A was slated to use a varient of CSS ("CSS-2") for copy protection
Let's see... W3C releases CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). DVDCCA and MPAA release CSS (Content Scrambling System).
Then W3C releases CSS2, with positioning. DVDCCA and RIAA release their own CSS2.
Trademark dilution?Or you set up your own mail server
This won't always work: it could be against TOS, or it could simply be blocked at the firewall.
You can exclude most Napster stories by going to your preferences and checking "Hide 'Music' stories". Granted, some Napster stories make it into topic: Technology, but most are in topic: Music.
5. I am the only ISP in town that's a local call, and because I run the mail server, I have the right to block e-mail from anyone.