For me,.oggs have a lower bitrate for 'acceptable' quality. When I'm playing music on my Zaurus, I'm using my little earbuds (Sennheiser MX500) in pretty busy environments. The headphone jack of the Zaurus isn't the cleanest thing in the world, either.
When using the Zaurus, my primary concern is file size, as I only have a 128MB SD card. For serious listening at home, I've tended to stick with LAME VBR for MP3s.
Does anyone familar with this implementation have any idea how processor-heavy it is?
Using tkcPlayer on my Sharp Zaurus (which uses this library,) Ogg Vorbis playback takes up less CPU than mp3 playback (and the.oggs take up less space - it's a win-win situation.)
There's an.ipk on the ScummVM download site. http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads.php I don't know if it works with Famliar, but as long as you have SDL you're in business.
ScummVM also lets linux people run their old Lucasarts games on their boxes as well.
For me, though, the killer app is using ScummVM to run them on my Sharp Zaurus (the resolution is perfect for the old DOS games, too: 320x240 pixels when held sideways.) There are also ports for PocketPC and iPaq's Linux.
There's also a Dreamcast port, but I haven't tried that (yet!)
What you describe shouldn't be a function of the region lockout - it's a function of the language preference of the user's DVD player (which can be set by the user on all players that I have used.) The nice thing about language defaults is that it doesn't keep me from playing a German-only disc in my player with English set as the default language.
DVD regions aren't fine grained enough for this, and they absolutely prohibit playing of out-of-region content.
Okay, it's time to put on my newbie hat, so flame away.
I'm testing out my first real FreeBSD installation on a colocated server, and I'm using the ports tree for installing just about everything. I'd like to be able to keep on top of the latest security releases and pretty much make sure I stay in line with all the -RELEASE releases. The problem is, I have no idea how to do this. It seems like most examples I see for using cvsup are for -STABLE or -CURRENT. There doesn't seem to be a nice guide for doing so on the FreeBSD site or on my system.
Will the example ports-supfile, as-is, do the trick? Or should I use a different supfile?
My roommate used to work at Discovery Zone, an indoor playground/party center with things like ball pits, tunnels, etc. At the end of the tunnels are these gigantic clear half spheres made out of 1/4" thick plastic. You can see them in this photo here.
Anyway, Discovery Zone got bought out so they had to close the store. My roommate "accidentally" walked out the door with one of these gigantic bubbles. It is probably the best thing ever to sit on on the floor. Put a big pillow on the bottom and you're set for hours and hours of gaming, watching TV, or whatever.
If you actually went to a playground supply company to get one, I'd guess that they wouldn't be cheap, though...
The problem with these boards is that they aren't really any cheaper than the Tyan boards (last I checked.) I think the reasons for the high cost are the AMD 760MP/760MPX chipset and the fact that AMD processors suck a lot more juice than the P3s and Celerons that worked on the cheapie Intel dual boards.
BTW, would you know why Micron wouldn't pull a Nike and just start purchasing ram from those foreign competitors, positioning itself as a memory brand rather than manufacturer?
A 256MB stick of of ECC 2100 DDR that I bought from crucial.com (a division of Micron) actually had Samsung chips on a Samsung PCB. This is quite odd as every single other one I've gotten had Micron chips (as you would expect.)
I took a quick digital snap: http://polpo.org/tmp/micronsamsung.jpg It' s a little hard to make out as it's a bit blurry, but that's definitely a samsung logo on the sticker on the left and the chips say SAMSUNG.
I am in no way an expert in this, but at high clock speeds you have problems with large die sizes.
With longer traces on the die, capacitance between them increases. This means that the speed that you can switch these traces on and off and get a decent signal out the other end decreases greatly.
The RIAA is entitled to charge whatever the market can bear
Evidenced by the rash of P2P music "sharing," the market doesn't seem to be bearing too well. Instead of adjusting their prices to match the market, they're trying to adjust the market to match their prices.
How can using linux halve the cost of a computer lab when the cost of operating system software is typically $100 per machine or less and the cost of hardware is typically $800 or more?
On top of the operating system, add Microsoft Office (or "Works Suite" -- still not cheap,) the cost of Windows 2000 Server, CALs for each machine, and any other "educational networking" programs and you've got quite a bit of money tied up in software.
but this will probably turn out like that manned space station we were going to be using in 1980. Plans for it were drawn in what, '64?
It seems like long-term planning is the death for big plans in space. People can't seem to grasp these far-off dates. I think that's why the Apollo Moon landing program was so successful -- it had a short deadline (get it done before the decade was over.) That, and the cold war was on.
I also have a Siemens Gigaset (An older model 2415, which I got CHEAP on closeout at Staples.) It came with two standard Panasonic 600mAh AA NiCad batteries. After looking at the manual, I saw that it could take NiMH batteries. Awesome! 2-3x More capacity and no more stupid memory effect!
I got a couple 1800mAh Powerex batteries from Thomas Distributing and the phone has worked great. After weeks of on-hook/off-hook type usage, it can go for a LONG time without charging with no memory effects.
With standard AA NiMHs, you can keep a spare set sitting in the charger if you need em.
Don't forget the Sony PocketStation which came out at about the same time as the Dreamcast with its VMU. It plugged into the memory port of the PS1. It was never sold in the US, but the US version of Final Fantasy VIII had support for it (documented in the manual, even.)
Here's an article linked from the front page of the Official PlayStation Magazine web site. That's pretty durned official, isn't it? There's no word from either IGN or GameSpot, but it looks like they take the weekends off and haven't updated since Friday.
The article offers just a wee bit more information than the one linked to by Slashdot, however: "Sony's plant in Nagasaki, Japan will create the new chips, and this development is expected to nearly triple the possible yearly output of PS2 hardware." Ian
linuxrouter.org is no longer the center of "Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy" development. It's been seldom updated for several years now; the only important thing on it being the mailing list. The site even apologizes for its own lack of maintenance: Unfortunately most all of the LRP docs at this site are painfully out of date. The LRP still is the basis of most Linux floppy distros, albiet heavily modified.
Instead of linuxrouter.org, the real hotbed of development these days is the LEAF site, LEAF standing for Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall. The steinkuehler.net site you mentioned is a part of LEAF, hosting the Eiger/Dachstein distributions. Unfortunately the linuxrouter.org project doesn't point the way to LEAF. I only found out about it by following the mailing lists.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, this has to be the absolutey most assinine thing I've done on Slashdot, but I've gotta do it.
It's daylight saving time, not daylight savings time. NIST says so.
Anyway, if it were up to me, we wouldn't have daylight saving at all.
For me, .oggs have a lower bitrate for 'acceptable' quality. When I'm playing music on my Zaurus, I'm using my little earbuds (Sennheiser MX500) in pretty busy environments. The headphone jack of the Zaurus isn't the cleanest thing in the world, either.
When using the Zaurus, my primary concern is file size, as I only have a 128MB SD card. For serious listening at home, I've tended to stick with LAME VBR for MP3s.
Does anyone familar with this implementation have any idea how processor-heavy it is?
.oggs take up less space - it's a win-win situation.)
Using tkcPlayer on my Sharp Zaurus (which uses this library,) Ogg Vorbis playback takes up less CPU than mp3 playback (and the
There's an .ipk on the ScummVM download site. http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
I don't know if it works with Famliar, but as long as you have SDL you're in business.
- Ian
ScummVM also lets linux people run their old Lucasarts games on their boxes as well.
For me, though, the killer app is using ScummVM to run them on my Sharp Zaurus (the resolution is perfect for the old DOS games, too: 320x240 pixels when held sideways.) There are also ports for PocketPC and iPaq's Linux.
There's also a Dreamcast port, but I haven't tried that (yet!)
What you describe shouldn't be a function of the region lockout - it's a function of the language preference of the user's DVD player (which can be set by the user on all players that I have used.) The nice thing about language defaults is that it doesn't keep me from playing a German-only disc in my player with English set as the default language.
DVD regions aren't fine grained enough for this, and they absolutely prohibit playing of out-of-region content.
Okay, it's time to put on my newbie hat, so flame away.
I'm testing out my first real FreeBSD installation on a colocated server, and I'm using the ports tree for installing just about everything. I'd like to be able to keep on top of the latest security releases and pretty much make sure I stay in line with all the -RELEASE releases. The problem is, I have no idea how to do this. It seems like most examples I see for using cvsup are for -STABLE or -CURRENT. There doesn't seem to be a nice guide for doing so on the FreeBSD site or on my system.
Will the example ports-supfile, as-is, do the trick? Or should I use a different supfile?
Does anyone have any pointers or advice?
Mirror here:
http://kwak.polpo.org/mirror/gotapex/
I had to do some quickie html hacking but it mostly works.
From the article: Cyberpunks will be toting cheap game consoles on their utility belts this fall
Yeah, the Dreamcast is dirt cheap. The "broadband adapter" needed to hook it up to an ethernet network? Quite pricey.
My roommate used to work at Discovery Zone, an indoor playground/party center with things like ball pits, tunnels, etc. At the end of the tunnels are these gigantic clear half spheres made out of 1/4" thick plastic. You can see them in this photo here.
Anyway, Discovery Zone got bought out so they had to close the store. My roommate "accidentally" walked out the door with one of these gigantic bubbles. It is probably the best thing ever to sit on on the floor. Put a big pillow on the bottom and you're set for hours and hours of gaming, watching TV, or whatever.
If you actually went to a playground supply company to get one, I'd guess that they wouldn't be cheap, though...
Fast mirror here
This is an AP story, so it's on the usual news sites.
/ 20020710/ap_on_bi_ge/brf_junk_faxes_settlement_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap
(I'm capped, no karma whoring here, nosirree.)
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The problem with these boards is that they aren't really any cheaper than the Tyan boards (last I checked.) I think the reasons for the high cost are the AMD 760MP/760MPX chipset and the fact that AMD processors suck a lot more juice than the P3s and Celerons that worked on the cheapie Intel dual boards.
Ian
BTW, would you know why Micron wouldn't pull a Nike and just start purchasing ram from those foreign competitors, positioning itself as a memory brand rather than manufacturer?
' s a little hard to make out as it's a bit blurry, but that's definitely a samsung logo on the sticker on the left and the chips say SAMSUNG.
A 256MB stick of of ECC 2100 DDR that I bought from crucial.com (a division of Micron) actually had Samsung chips on a Samsung PCB. This is quite odd as every single other one I've gotten had Micron chips (as you would expect.)
I took a quick digital snap:
http://polpo.org/tmp/micronsamsung.jpg
It
Ian
I am in no way an expert in this, but at high clock speeds you have problems with large die sizes.
With longer traces on the die, capacitance between them increases. This means that the speed that you can switch these traces on and off and get a decent signal out the other end decreases greatly.
Ian (naiive computer engineering undergrad)
The RIAA is entitled to charge whatever the market can bear
Evidenced by the rash of P2P music "sharing," the market doesn't seem to be bearing too well. Instead of adjusting their prices to match the market, they're trying to adjust the market to match their prices.
Ian
all this was made by a redneck without a college education. hell i dont even think he had a highschool education.
Sam Walton graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1940.
Guess what school I go to.
Ian
How can using linux halve the cost of a computer lab when the cost of operating system software is typically $100 per machine or less and the cost of hardware is typically $800 or more?
On top of the operating system, add Microsoft Office (or "Works Suite" -- still not cheap,) the cost of Windows 2000 Server, CALs for each machine, and any other "educational networking" programs and you've got quite a bit of money tied up in software.
but this will probably turn out like that manned space station we were going to be using in 1980. Plans for it were drawn in what, '64?
It seems like long-term planning is the death for big plans in space. People can't seem to grasp these far-off dates. I think that's why the Apollo Moon landing program was so successful -- it had a short deadline (get it done before the decade was over.) That, and the cold war was on.
Ian
I also have a Siemens Gigaset (An older model 2415, which I got CHEAP on closeout at Staples.) It came with two standard Panasonic 600mAh AA NiCad batteries. After looking at the manual, I saw that it could take NiMH batteries. Awesome! 2-3x More capacity and no more stupid memory effect!
I got a couple 1800mAh Powerex batteries from Thomas Distributing and the phone has worked great. After weeks of on-hook/off-hook type usage, it can go for a LONG time without charging with no memory effects.
With standard AA NiMHs, you can keep a spare set sitting in the charger if you need em.
It's a freakin' cool phone, too.
Ian
I've been worried about Apple's current affinity for those little silver speakers without grilles over them.
Now they're putting them in an "education" PC. I guarantee that within a week of any of those being put in an school, the speakers will be toast.
Ian
Actually, doing a little more scouring, it looks like the PocketStation may have actually sold in the US at some point.
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but wasn't this already tried with the VMU?
Don't forget the Sony PocketStation which came out at about the same time as the Dreamcast with its VMU. It plugged into the memory port of the PS1. It was never sold in the US, but the US version of Final Fantasy VIII had support for it (documented in the manual, even.)
Ian
Here's an article linked from the front page of the Official PlayStation Magazine web site. That's pretty durned official, isn't it? There's no word from either IGN or GameSpot, but it looks like they take the weekends off and haven't updated since Friday.
The article offers just a wee bit more information than the one linked to by Slashdot, however: "Sony's plant in Nagasaki, Japan will create the new chips, and this development is expected to nearly triple the possible yearly output of PS2 hardware."
Ian
linuxrouter.org is no longer the center of "Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy" development. It's been seldom updated for several years now; the only important thing on it being the mailing list. The site even apologizes for its own lack of maintenance: Unfortunately most all of the LRP docs at this site are painfully out of date. The LRP still is the basis of most Linux floppy distros, albiet heavily modified.
Instead of linuxrouter.org, the real hotbed of development these days is the LEAF site, LEAF standing for Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall. The steinkuehler.net site you mentioned is a part of LEAF, hosting the Eiger/Dachstein distributions. Unfortunately the linuxrouter.org project doesn't point the way to LEAF. I only found out about it by following the mailing lists.
Ian