Man, I just went looking for a binary last week and was surprised to see his notice that he had taken them down. I assumed that I had just missed this from a while ago!
I decided to start using audiograbber on my NT box here at work to rip/encode CD's at night. It supports external encoders so, since I use blaseenc at home, that's the one that I went to get. Gone. Ended up finding a win32 binary somewhere else but it sucked much and I ended up finding the LAME plug-in and using that instead.
>So, what are people's preferences, and reasons for them?
Dunno, mostly because I never seem to find the time to sit down in front of my TV with the DVD player and actually watch a movie. Wife and kids pretty much monopolize it anyway (damn the guy who decided to make Barney and Pokemon available on DVD!). Plus, with young kids around, not much chance of watching that R-rated movie (got Blade Runner for my B-day).
So, off I go to my 'lab' where I have my Matrox G400 with DVD. I have multi-monitor setup so I can play the movie on the secondary screen while I work or surf. I don't usually watch a whole movie in one sitting, usually watch a while and bookmark for next time if I haven't watched the whole thing before, or just chapter-skip if I've seen it before (Terminator 2, Matrix, Alien3 are all good for this)
Ideally, I'd like to sit on my couch in front of my TV and stereo and watch a movie with a beer and pretzels, but since this doesn't happen much, I'm glad to have the option of sneaking off to my computer and
Yes, had about the same experience with my Alton/PCWare motherboard. I didn't pick out this board outright to build a machine, I kind of ended up with it (long story short - friend bought barebones and decided to abandon project).
It has a SiS 6326 on-board video (alleged to be AGP) and when I first installed Linux (forgot which distro, maybe RH5.2) with a XF86 3.2 version, no XSVGA. Lucked out that SuSE had a patched XSVGA that supported this chip and ran on my installation. But then, got lots of lines and disappearing pointers and crap until I fiddled with the XF86Config to turn some features off. It's dog slow but I use this box as a server so it's not too critical.
But to second the previous post, SiS seems to produce some crappy on-board hardware and I would be leery of any DVD hardware.
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>if you haven't seen the DVD version and all it's extras, do so.
My favorite comment in the interview stuff about the Warchowski (probably misspelled) brothers is about their directing style. Something like:
Here you have two guys trying to solve a problem with how to shoot a scene and they are talking it through and experimenting with different ideas... normally with one director this is all taking place in his head but here you get a glimpse into the process with these two guys doing it externally.
>Did anyone actually even pay attention to the storyline for Quake? Just wondering...
Funny thing was, it wasn't until I got to the end and defeated the final boss-creature that I started to scratch my head wondering what this was all about.
For me, single player was just something to do when I wasn't deathmatching. I know someone will probably flame me saying that deathmatch is stupid because it is just running around mindlessly killing everyone else. Others will flame back saying single player is just running linearly through mazes, killing monsters in your way, and collecting keys to open doors.
Personally, it's about whatever holds your interest. I like a good single-player game with an interesting plot like half-life or Jedi Knight as much as a fast-paced DM-style game of Q3A or UT. Sue me.
No, he never does. He doesn't have to. He already knows the answers to all the questions that will ever be asked, and has an opinion on every subject that will ever be posted on/.
Behold, the all-knowing, all-seeing Signal_11!
(ok moderators, now mark me down for trolling, flamebaiting or being off-topic or whatever else you like for having dared to post a comment about the beloved Signal_11!
Yes - in fact they claim an interesting demographic to potential advertisers:
Google advertisers will benefit from marketing to a web audience with these distinct demographics:
Male (65%), female (35%) High education (65% have at least a BA/BS) Professional (73%) High income (average income is $71,000) Highly technical (71% report high/very high computer skills) Online experience of 4+ years (58%) Accessing the Internet from work (48%) Using the web for work purposes (31%)
right, a better thing to say is that Google does not have any annoying graphical banner adverts (at least at present, lets hope it stays this way).
Text ads I don't mind. They show up as the first one or two results and are highlited with a lite green or lite blue background and bold text. No blinking, slow graphics. Doesn't bother me a bit. They gotta make a living and if this is how they supplement their income from their 'affiliate' program, fine with me.
In fact, since most of their users right now seem to be geeks who are likely to run junkbuster or something to filter out banners, this (using text ads) is probably the only real way to go.
Ah, yes... brings back memories. UT had their wireless division, United Telespectrum, which was spun off, acquired by Centel (another old indy telco) who was then bought by Sprint who spun off the wireless operations (once again) into 360-Communications. Makes you wonder what the h*ll was wrong with that wireless property that Sprint/UT had to get rid of it twice?!
Hey! I am/was one of the Great Unclued! I resent the implication that the internet should be the exclusive province of only those who measure up to someone else's standard of elite-ness. How dare you hang a 'white-folks only' sign on my public internet (school house/drinking fountain/public bus). Who are you or anyone else to decide who is fit to enjoy the benefits of this new "information age"?
(no, I'm only kidding. I think everyone should be forced to take an internet-competency exam before being allowed to have a dial-up account with AOL. Same with having children. "Sorry, you failed our basic parenting apitude class. You'll have to surrender your reproductive organs at the front desk.")
>the same reason that we're having this conversation on Slashdot instead of Usenet
That would be because of spammers, trolls and flamers? I'm sorry, I don't get your point either. Easy to use IA's are gonna ruin the Internet for us Geeks?
the moderation system has become an amusement park for those whi have grown tired of actually reading the articles and posting intelligent comments. Just ask Signal 11...
Hmmm... well in the case of computer hardware that becomes obsolete in two years or less, why would a manufacturer trouble themselves to build anything more than the bare minimum to keep the innards from falling out?
Have we really progressed? No.
I'd rather have the older, better built stuff anyday (well, except for the fact that the price/performace was 100 times worse). I have the tower case from my first Gateway (386, 4mb, 200 Mb drive) and it is the best computer case I've ever had. Heavy gauge steel, solid frame, ample room for extra fans a drives, everything is easy to get at. It is obviously an AT tower so I had to do a little extra searching for mobo and power supply when I went to build it into a file/print server for my home network, but god is it cool. Something about having a PII-450 with 256Mb and a bunch of SCSI drives running Deb in a case that still proudly proclaims "386/33" just seems really great to me.
When it comes to a new system, I agree. The spit an toilepaper enclosures that pass for PeeCee cases these days are sad. I helped my Dad buy a new system last year and Gateway had the best stuff from what we looked at. It is still a far cry from the cases they used to put their gear in. I guess when you UPS each and every one of your units out of South Dakaota, every pound you shave of your computers pays off big.
Now, if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself, right? The last system I built for myself I used a Supermicro SC750A. I highly recommend this case.
Yeah, but you'd be surprised what they _can_ do until the proper authority arrives.
I happened to be in O'Hare airport on my way to JFK the day there was an incident. Guy was trying to board with 3+ carry-on's and the gate clerk told him he'd have to check one. He said something like 'oh, then take this one... it's the one with the bomb in it'.
You'd think this guy was Hinckley taking a pot shot a Regan the way the airline agents grabbed him and dropped him to the floor with a wrist-lock. CPD was there in < 1 minute to cuff him and cart him off. Would love to have been in the interrogation room when he made his phone call.
"Um, boss... Hi this is Rick? You know how I was supposed to be in New York for that sales presentation today? Well, I kinda missed my flight...".
Airport security has _no_ sense of humor (can't say I blame them).
Exactly. Intel isn't going to get stock at $10/share and then just dump it for a profit -- they'll hold it. Then they'll buy some more, etc. This isn't an uncommon practice in other industries like telecom where a equipment supplier will sweeten a 'strategic alliance' with a carrier by offering to sell stock at a discount in excahange for a volume commitment by the telco. Kind of thing makes for good long-term business relationship -- once the big company owns stock in its smaller supplier, there is an incentive to continue doing business to ensure the contunies health of their inventment. This often leads to the supplier being bought out eventually.
Just hoping that it will creep up there after it makes the rounds of the likes of Wired and Feed and Salon.
>Jack Valenti's propoganda
Anyone else happen to catch this shining example of humanity on the tube the other night (God help me, but he looks like a slicked-down car salesman)? CNN headline news was running a bit about some university had done a study of G-rated movies and cone to the conclusion that there was a considerable amount of violence in some of these movies and the MPAA should consider maybe adding more information to the rating system to reflect violence in G-rated movies. (which, I don't completely agree with anyway, but...)
Valenti's response? Well, the movie rating system has been working just fine for many years and we did a poll of parents recently and 87% of them said they were moderately-satisfied to mostly-satisfied with the rating system's ability to inform them of a motion picture's content.
Translation: This is not our biggest problem right now so bugger off!
> I will not purchase Metallica because I previewed their album and found it wanting. Personally, they sound like a bunch of old guys trying to sound relevant. So yes, MP3s have hurt their sales.
Hah! At last, a reason that makes sense for Metallica's attack on Napster users!
True enough, before the availability of.mp3 on the net (and certainly before this PR blunder) I would have gone out and bought a new Metallica CD without hearing it first. After hearing the new songs on downloaded.mp3 I'll probably wait until it's in the $2.50 bin at K-mart, if I buy it at all!
I can see why they don't want anyone listening to their songs without buying the CD first!
Yeah, that's where I always used to screw up too (lilo). Once I gained a better understanding about what lilo was doing, I didn't seem to make this mistake. I used to just throw the zImage into the/boot directory and call it vmlinuz and run lilo and be done with it -- somehow I always managed to screw it up.
I started naming my kernel images with version suffix (vmlinuz-2.2.15, etc) and then editing/etc/lilo.conf to have a new and old kernel labels ('linux' and 'backup') where the new one was the vmlinuz-2.2.15 image and the old/previous one was vmlinuz-2.2.{whatever} and then run lilo. This way, if your new kernel is borked, you can still boot the 'backup' version. This seemed to always work (at least when I was using RedHat, switched to Deb in the last few months and making a kernel is a snap. make-kpkg automates the process of creating a new kernel very nicely.)
>Is my verbal agreement to not read any websites dealing with the case somehow inherently less believable than my word to not research the case at the library?
It is because the internet has the evil ability to circumvent your morals and good intentions.;) (sarcasm, for humor-impaired)
Haven't you been paying attention? This internet-thingy turns law-abiding citizens and innocent youths into soul-less shells that can no longer distinguish between right and wrong.
You don't even have to voluntarilly visit bad web sites. Just having internet access and going within 10 feet of your computer is enough for the vile internet to take over your being. Beware! Don't let your young children near this internet menace! God we can only hope the government can protect us from this unholy scourge!
I'm confused... the article says these boxes are $73K. This makes a little more sense if you figure maybe around a grand for each Xeon. What're these going to be running? Certainly not NT if 8-way is the current limitation.
I thought NUMA was a clustering method. Makes more sense to say you would be able to cluster 16 4-way boxes than to say you can buy a 64-way server.
The article says you can strap together four of these 64-way boxes to get a total of 256 processors and 256 Gb of RAM. I'm wondering now if that is right.
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Yeah, now... that wasn't my point though. I'm using a current 3.3.6 and it supports it and all but the performance is crap.
Man, I just went looking for a binary last week and was surprised to see his notice that he had taken them down. I assumed that I had just missed this from a while ago!
I decided to start using audiograbber on my NT box here at work to rip/encode CD's at night. It supports external encoders so, since I use blaseenc at home, that's the one that I went to get. Gone. Ended up finding a win32 binary somewhere else but it sucked much and I ended up finding the LAME plug-in and using that instead.
How wierd!
>So, what are people's preferences, and reasons for them?
Dunno, mostly because I never seem to find the time to sit down in front of my TV with the DVD player and actually watch a movie. Wife and kids pretty much monopolize it anyway (damn the guy who decided to make Barney and Pokemon available on DVD!). Plus, with young kids around, not much chance of watching that R-rated movie (got Blade Runner for my B-day).
So, off I go to my 'lab' where I have my Matrox G400 with DVD. I have multi-monitor setup so I can play the movie on the secondary screen while I work or surf. I don't usually watch a whole movie in one sitting, usually watch a while and bookmark for next time if I haven't watched the whole thing before, or just chapter-skip if I've seen it before (Terminator 2, Matrix, Alien3 are all good for this)
Ideally, I'd like to sit on my couch in front of my TV and stereo and watch a movie with a beer and pretzels, but since this doesn't happen much, I'm glad to have the option of sneaking off to my computer and
Yes, had about the same experience with my Alton/PCWare motherboard. I didn't pick out this board outright to build a machine, I kind of ended up with it (long story short - friend bought barebones and decided to abandon project).
It has a SiS 6326 on-board video (alleged to be AGP) and when I first installed Linux (forgot which distro, maybe RH5.2) with a XF86 3.2 version, no XSVGA. Lucked out that SuSE had a patched XSVGA that supported this chip and ran on my installation. But then, got lots of lines and disappearing pointers and crap until I fiddled with the XF86Config to turn some features off. It's dog slow but I use this box as a server so it's not too critical.
But to second the previous post, SiS seems to produce some crappy on-board hardware and I would be leery of any DVD hardware.
>if you haven't seen the DVD version and all it's extras, do so.
My favorite comment in the interview stuff about the Warchowski (probably misspelled) brothers is about their directing style. Something like:
Here you have two guys trying to solve a problem with how to shoot a scene and they are talking it through and experimenting with different ideas... normally with one director this is all taking place in his head but here you get a glimpse into the process with these two guys doing it externally.
Cool stuff.
>Did anyone actually even pay attention to the storyline for Quake? Just wondering...
Funny thing was, it wasn't until I got to the end and defeated the final boss-creature that I started to scratch my head wondering what this was all about.
For me, single player was just something to do when I wasn't deathmatching. I know someone will probably flame me saying that deathmatch is stupid because it is just running around mindlessly killing everyone else. Others will flame back saying single player is just running linearly through mazes, killing monsters in your way, and collecting keys to open doors.
Personally, it's about whatever holds your interest. I like a good single-player game with an interesting plot like half-life or Jedi Knight as much as a fast-paced DM-style game of Q3A or UT. Sue me.
No, he never does. He doesn't have to. He already knows the answers to all the questions that will ever be asked, and has an opinion on every subject that will ever be posted on /.
Behold, the all-knowing, all-seeing Signal_11!
(ok moderators, now mark me down for trolling, flamebaiting or being off-topic or whatever else you like for having dared to post a comment about the beloved Signal_11!
Yes - in fact they claim an interesting demographic to potential advertisers:
Google advertisers will benefit from marketing to a web audience with these distinct demographics:
Male (65%), female (35%)
High education (65% have at least a BA/BS)
Professional (73%)
High income (average income is $71,000)
Highly technical (71% report high/very high computer skills)
Online experience of 4+ years (58%)
Accessing the Internet from work (48%)
Using the web for work purposes (31%)
right, a better thing to say is that Google does not have any annoying graphical banner adverts (at least at present, lets hope it stays this way).
Text ads I don't mind. They show up as the first one or two results and are highlited with a lite green or lite blue background and bold text. No blinking, slow graphics. Doesn't bother me a bit. They gotta make a living and if this is how they supplement their income from their 'affiliate' program, fine with me.
In fact, since most of their users right now seem to be geeks who are likely to run junkbuster or something to filter out banners, this (using text ads) is probably the only real way to go.
Ha, yes it was!
>United Telecommunications, an old telco
Ah, yes... brings back memories. UT had their wireless division, United Telespectrum, which was spun off, acquired by Centel (another old indy telco) who was then bought by Sprint who spun off the wireless operations (once again) into 360-Communications. Makes you wonder what the h*ll was wrong with that wireless property that Sprint/UT had to get rid of it twice?!
>The Great Unclued are a mixed blessing
Hey! I am/was one of the Great Unclued! I resent the implication that the internet should be the exclusive province of only those who measure up to someone else's standard of elite-ness. How dare you hang a 'white-folks only' sign on my public internet (school house/drinking fountain/public bus). Who are you or anyone else to decide who is fit to enjoy the benefits of this new "information age"?
(no, I'm only kidding. I think everyone should be forced to take an internet-competency exam before being allowed to have a dial-up account with AOL. Same with having children. "Sorry, you failed our basic parenting apitude class. You'll have to surrender your reproductive organs at the front desk.")
>the same reason that we're having this conversation on Slashdot instead of Usenet
That would be because of spammers, trolls and flamers? I'm sorry, I don't get your point either. Easy to use IA's are gonna ruin the Internet for us Geeks?
I always thought it was a pet peeve.
:-)
Thanks for clearing that up... that always bothered me. :op
the moderation system has become an amusement park for those whi have grown tired of actually reading the articles and posting intelligent comments. Just ask Signal 11...
Hmmm... well in the case of computer hardware that becomes obsolete in two years or less, why would a manufacturer trouble themselves to build anything more than the bare minimum to keep the innards from falling out?
Have we really progressed? No.
I'd rather have the older, better built stuff anyday (well, except for the fact that the price/performace was 100 times worse). I have the tower case from my first Gateway (386, 4mb, 200 Mb drive) and it is the best computer case I've ever had. Heavy gauge steel, solid frame, ample room for extra fans a drives, everything is easy to get at. It is obviously an AT tower so I had to do a little extra searching for mobo and power supply when I went to build it into a file/print server for my home network, but god is it cool. Something about having a PII-450 with 256Mb and a bunch of SCSI drives running Deb in a case that still proudly proclaims "386/33" just seems really great to me.
When it comes to a new system, I agree. The spit an toilepaper enclosures that pass for PeeCee cases these days are sad. I helped my Dad buy a new system last year and Gateway had the best stuff from what we looked at. It is still a far cry from the cases they used to put their gear in. I guess when you UPS each and every one of your units out of South Dakaota, every pound you shave of your computers pays off big.
Now, if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself, right? The last system I built for myself I used a Supermicro SC750A. I highly recommend this case.
Yeah, but you'd be surprised what they _can_ do until the proper authority arrives.
I happened to be in O'Hare airport on my way to JFK the day there was an incident. Guy was trying to board with 3+ carry-on's and the gate clerk told him he'd have to check one. He said something like 'oh, then take this one... it's the one with the bomb in it'.
You'd think this guy was Hinckley taking a pot shot a Regan the way the airline agents grabbed him and dropped him to the floor with a wrist-lock. CPD was there in < 1 minute to cuff him and cart him off. Would love to have been in the interrogation room when he made his phone call.
"Um, boss... Hi this is Rick? You know how I was supposed to be in New York for that sales presentation today? Well, I kinda missed my flight...".
Airport security has _no_ sense of humor (can't say I blame them).
rambus is suck!
I KISS YOU!
(that'll cost me a coule karma points!)
Exactly. Intel isn't going to get stock at $10/share and then just dump it for a profit -- they'll hold it. Then they'll buy some more, etc. This isn't an uncommon practice in other industries like telecom where a equipment supplier will sweeten a 'strategic alliance' with a carrier by offering to sell stock at a discount in excahange for a volume commitment by the telco. Kind of thing makes for good long-term business relationship -- once the big company owns stock in its smaller supplier, there is an incentive to continue doing business to ensure the contunies health of their inventment. This often leads to the supplier being bought out eventually.
>Get the "other side" on ABC, NBC, CBS, etc
Just hoping that it will creep up there after it makes the rounds of the likes of Wired and Feed and Salon.
>Jack Valenti's propoganda
Anyone else happen to catch this shining example of humanity on the tube the other night (God help me, but he looks like a slicked-down car salesman)? CNN headline news was running a bit about some university had done a study of G-rated movies and cone to the conclusion that there was a considerable amount of violence in some of these movies and the MPAA should consider maybe adding more information to the rating system to reflect violence in G-rated movies. (which, I don't completely agree with anyway, but...)
Valenti's response? Well, the movie rating system has been working just fine for many years and we did a poll of parents recently and 87% of them said they were moderately-satisfied to mostly-satisfied with the rating system's ability to inform them of a motion picture's content.
Translation: This is not our biggest problem right now so bugger off!
> I will not purchase Metallica because I previewed their album and found it wanting. Personally, they sound like a bunch of old guys trying to sound relevant. So yes, MP3s have hurt their sales.
.mp3 on the net (and certainly before this PR blunder) I would have gone out and bought a new Metallica CD without hearing it first. After hearing the new songs on downloaded .mp3 I'll probably wait until it's in the $2.50 bin at K-mart, if I buy it at all!
Hah! At last, a reason that makes sense for Metallica's attack on Napster users!
True enough, before the availability of
I can see why they don't want anyone listening to their songs without buying the CD first!
I started naming my kernel images with version suffix (vmlinuz-2.2.15, etc) and then editing /etc/lilo.conf to have a new and old kernel labels ('linux' and 'backup') where the new one was the vmlinuz-2.2.15 image and the old/previous one was vmlinuz-2.2.{whatever} and then run lilo. This way, if your new kernel is borked, you can still boot the 'backup' version. This seemed to always work (at least when I was using RedHat, switched to Deb in the last few months and making a kernel is a snap. make-kpkg automates the process of creating a new kernel very nicely.)
>Is my verbal agreement to not read any websites dealing with the case somehow inherently less believable than my word to not research the case at the library?
;) (sarcasm, for humor-impaired)
It is because the internet has the evil ability to circumvent your morals and good intentions.
Haven't you been paying attention? This internet-thingy turns law-abiding citizens and innocent youths into soul-less shells that can no longer distinguish between right and wrong.
You don't even have to voluntarilly visit bad web sites. Just having internet access and going within 10 feet of your computer is enough for the vile internet to take over your being. Beware! Don't let your young children near this internet menace! God we can only hope the government can protect us from this unholy scourge!
pah!
I'm confused... the article says these boxes are $73K. This makes a little more sense if you figure maybe around a grand for each Xeon. What're these going to be running? Certainly not NT if 8-way is the current limitation.
I thought NUMA was a clustering method. Makes more sense to say you would be able to cluster 16 4-way boxes than to say you can buy a 64-way server.
The article says you can strap together four of these 64-way boxes to get a total of 256 processors and 256 Gb of RAM. I'm wondering now if that is right.