Step 4 should read "Burn all files ripped from the DVD to one or more new blank DVDs", because most movies are bigger than the 4.7 GB of space you get on a blank DVD recordable.
If you're willing to give up 5.1 audio and settle for stereo, and lose all the close captioning, menus, etc., you can sometimes get a movie onto one recordable DVD, but I haven't had much luck with that yet.
And just a reminder, that a 'full' recorded DVD is only half the size of a normal DVD movie (4.7 GB instead of 9.4 GB).
Although there is software that lets you rip DVD movies to your PC and shrink them to fit on one DVD+/-Recordable disc, you can't make direct disc-to-disc copies of your favorite movies.
I wouldn't swear to it, but it appeared to be a DOS based application which means that you could always create a Free-DOS boot disk and boot from that to update your firmware.
If you don't care about licensing issues, you can get free MS-DOS boot disks from here.
If you're a Mac user, well... then you're screwed. Just make sure you don't buy any of the new high speed (which will most likely be more expensive) DVD-RW media until they release a Mac patch.
"There's supposed to be a firmware patch to fix it, but it may be 'problematic' for users to install."
Huh? I downloaded and installed the patch last night for my DVR-104 drive, it took practically no time to perform, and I think the only possible source of confusion was the "Are you sure you want to do this? [Yes] [No]" prompt... and if you can't figure that much out, maybe you're not smart enough to operate a DVD-RW drive in the first place...
Ewwww.... spoiled milk in a device that generates heat? Yuck!!
Once at work a coworker asked for my help with a computer that wasn't responding to most keyboard presses. It was in a laboratory where stuff (mostly solids) would fall into the keyboards fairly regularly. I flipped the keyboard over only to have chunky curds of 3 day old chocolate milk dump out onto the bench top, my shirt and my lap. Turns out that one of the other coworkers had his young daughter in over the weekend, and she had spilled chocolate milk in *his* desktop keyboard, and he swapped it for the one in the lab without bothering to tell anyone.
I imagine if it had been a device that generates heat, we'd have found out about it sooner...
At the very least, I would have recommended disassembling the modem and rinsing with distilled water and *then* letting it dry out.
- Bundle up the wires in twist-ties and keep them out of the way so that they don't vibrate in the breeze from fans. It only takes a small touch to disrupt an HDD power cable. Some, but not all, also say that this will improve airflow. It will definitely make your case look tidier and make later work inside it more easy
You can also use round cables. You can find these for sale at many sites, but the cheapest place I've found by far is Harbourtown Sales. Gordon (the owner) is a great guy, he's not a real technical geek, but he knows what sells and sets very reasonable prices. He's my favorite source for obscure computer parts (i.e., replacement mouse balls).
If you order from him, tell him that "Michael who used to work for Wintergreen" sent you...
I always find it interesting that the price of games is essentially unchanged...
Wow, when was the last time you bought a game? NeverWinter Nights was $59.99 in most stores and Warcraft III was $69.99 when it launched (prices at my local BestBuy).
The corporation I work for (which is huge, BTW) still uses Office 97 and Outlook 98 on Windows 2000 as our desktop configuration.
We are currently planning to upgrade to Windows XP in the next 6 months, but the plan is for us to continue to use Office 97 as there are no compelling business reasons for us to upgrade to later versions.
Office 97 does *everything* we need it for. Period.
Visio 2000 is the only 'recent' version of any Microsoft software that we currently use.
6 years ago my father suffered a fairly serious stroke which left him without the use of his left arm, and limited use of his left leg. He either uses a wheelchair or one of those sit-down scooter things, both of which are awkward to use, and require quite a bit of help to get in or out of a vehicle. The Segway looks like it could be very beneficial for him (he can stand, but walks very slowly). I hope that they get the bugs worked out and start shipping them soon.
True Story - a guy at work has a small piece of steel embedded just above his eyelid, but below his eyebrow. It's been in there a few days and the wound isn't healing up as it should. He was working with a framing hammer and a chunk of nail or hammer head flew back at him (remember kids, always wear safety glasses!). I told him that I had some powerful magnets back in my cubicle (NIB rare earth magnets, the most fun money can buy, check here if you want some).
He held two of the magnets (product #2, see above site) up near his eyelid and that little piece of steel pulled that loose skin out about an inch! The guy yelped and immediately pulled the magnet away. Of course, a bunch of people heard the yelp and came to see what it was, and he had to repeat the stunt a few times to make everybody happy.
Tugging a visible chunk of steel is one thing, but I seriously doubt that you could pull the hemoglobin out of your body, or at least any significant portion of it, even if they did say so on ST:TNG.
I would like to announce that I am now accepting PayPal donations to hunt down this particular AC and personally driver over his Xbox with a large vehicle.
VGA (arguably the most popular monitor connection standard), however, doesn't
True, but your video card would still have to be able to handle 182,112,500 pixels regardless of what kind of monitor connection you have. I freely admit that I phrased my initial message very poorly (OK, downright stupidly), as there is no 'data' transfer between a video card and an analog monitor, but there is inside the PC between your software and your video card.
Just for the heck of it, get a stopwatch and time how long it takes to print a 600 dpi graphic to your printer.
Now to try to imagine what it would be like to wait that long for your screen to update.
Now, I know that the bus between your video and monitor is faster than the bus to the printer, but the point is that as you increase resolution you significantly increase the amount of data which significantly decreases your frame rates.
Extremely rough calculations:
200 dpi is 40,000 pixels per square inch
My 20" monitor has a 15.5" by 11.75" viewable space, or 182.125 square inches
If my system were 200 dpi it would be displaying a total of 7,285,000 pixels instead of the 1,310,720 I have it displaying now, or a factor 5.55 times as much data.
Jumping to 1000 dpi as you suggest takes us 1,000,000 pixels per square inch, which on a screen the size of my monitor would equal 182,112,500 pixels, or a factor of 138.94 times as much data.
That's a heck of a lot of pixels to be calculating and transmitting and still maintaining a non-headache inducing flicker.
Personally I'm completely willing to pay extra upfront to save money in the long run.
Sadly, though, the printer market, and ESPECIALLY the inkjet market now runs under the Gillette business plan of give away the razor and make your money on the blades. I don't think we're going to see the opportunity to reverse that any time soon.
Might I recommend that you try the new Softclix lancet device? I hate sticking my finger as much as the next guy, but if I have to, I prefer to use this model. It's not painless, I won't kid you, but it's the least painful I've found.
Islet cell transplants are reporting great success in Mexico, where teenagers with the cells transplanted into their bodies are able to live without any insulin injections.
For those that don't know, it's not the pancreas that creates insulin, it's tiny cells inside the pancreas called the Islets of Langerhans that produce insulin. These cells can be removed from recently deceased people, treated with a series of enzymes and other biochemicals to leave just the Islet cells which can be safely injected into a diabetic (usually into the liver) where they release insulin into the blood stream.
I've been hearing about thise glucowatch for the better part of 12 years now. I work in the glucose monitoring industry, and this story has been popular for years.
Every recent mention of I have seen shows that the precision is still poor, and you still need to perform daily finger-stick tests to calibrate the watch, so if you're looking to get away from sticking your finger, the glucowatch won't solve your problems.
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Well... since the correct spelling is faggots and not faggits, I would guess ignorant.
Of course, I would have guessed ignorant even if it had been spelled correctly.
I was listening to NPR this morning, and they interviewed the girl by phone, and on the phone she said that once they get it authenticated they plan to sell it at a London auction because it's "very valuable".
The story on the BBC says they intend to put it in a glass case and keep it forever.
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I recommend Wintergreen Systems and not just because I used to work for them :-)
The last 5 PCs I have built for myself have been with their parts.
Step 4 should read "Burn all files ripped from the DVD to one or more new blank DVDs", because most movies are bigger than the 4.7 GB of space you get on a blank DVD recordable.
If you're willing to give up 5.1 audio and settle for stereo, and lose all the close captioning, menus, etc., you can sometimes get a movie onto one recordable DVD, but I haven't had much luck with that yet.
Pr0n DVDs on the other hand...
And just a reminder, that a 'full' recorded DVD is only half the size of a normal DVD movie (4.7 GB instead of 9.4 GB).
Although there is software that lets you rip DVD movies to your PC and shrink them to fit on one DVD+/-Recordable disc, you can't make direct disc-to-disc copies of your favorite movies.
I wouldn't swear to it, but it appeared to be a DOS based application which means that you could always create a Free-DOS boot disk and boot from that to update your firmware.
If you don't care about licensing issues, you can get free MS-DOS boot disks from here.
If you're a Mac user, well... then you're screwed. Just make sure you don't buy any of the new high speed (which will most likely be more expensive) DVD-RW media until they release a Mac patch.
"There's supposed to be a firmware patch to fix it, but it may be 'problematic' for users to install."
Huh? I downloaded and installed the patch last night for my DVR-104 drive, it took practically no time to perform, and I think the only possible source of confusion was the "Are you sure you want to do this? [Yes] [No]" prompt... and if you can't figure that much out, maybe you're not smart enough to operate a DVD-RW drive in the first place...
Ewwww.... spoiled milk in a device that generates heat? Yuck!!
Once at work a coworker asked for my help with a computer that wasn't responding to most keyboard presses. It was in a laboratory where stuff (mostly solids) would fall into the keyboards fairly regularly. I flipped the keyboard over only to have chunky curds of 3 day old chocolate milk dump out onto the bench top, my shirt and my lap. Turns out that one of the other coworkers had his young daughter in over the weekend, and she had spilled chocolate milk in *his* desktop keyboard, and he swapped it for the one in the lab without bothering to tell anyone.
I imagine if it had been a device that generates heat, we'd have found out about it sooner...
At the very least, I would have recommended disassembling the modem and rinsing with distilled water and *then* letting it dry out.
- Bundle up the wires in twist-ties and keep them out of the way so that they don't vibrate in the breeze from fans. It only takes a small touch to disrupt an HDD power cable. Some, but not all, also say that this will improve airflow. It will definitely make your case look tidier and make later work inside it more easy
You can also use round cables. You can find these for sale at many sites, but the cheapest place I've found by far is Harbourtown Sales. Gordon (the owner) is a great guy, he's not a real technical geek, but he knows what sells and sets very reasonable prices. He's my favorite source for obscure computer parts (i.e., replacement mouse balls).
If you order from him, tell him that "Michael who used to work for Wintergreen" sent you...
I always find it interesting that the price of games is essentially unchanged...
Wow, when was the last time you bought a game? NeverWinter Nights was $59.99 in most stores and Warcraft III was $69.99 when it launched (prices at my local BestBuy).
P.Diddy has the ability to sample, and look where it got him.
Inside J Lo's pants?
I am assuming that your IT group hasn't done any stability testing
:-)
You are of course assuming that our IT group is stable enough to perform that kind of testing...
The corporation I work for (which is huge, BTW) still uses Office 97 and Outlook 98 on Windows 2000 as our desktop configuration.
We are currently planning to upgrade to Windows XP in the next 6 months, but the plan is for us to continue to use Office 97 as there are no compelling business reasons for us to upgrade to later versions.
Office 97 does *everything* we need it for. Period.
Visio 2000 is the only 'recent' version of any Microsoft software that we currently use.
6 years ago my father suffered a fairly serious stroke which left him without the use of his left arm, and limited use of his left leg. He either uses a wheelchair or one of those sit-down scooter things, both of which are awkward to use, and require quite a bit of help to get in or out of a vehicle. The Segway looks like it could be very beneficial for him (he can stand, but walks very slowly). I hope that they get the bugs worked out and start shipping them soon.
True Story - a guy at work has a small piece of steel embedded just above his eyelid, but below his eyebrow. It's been in there a few days and the wound isn't healing up as it should. He was working with a framing hammer and a chunk of nail or hammer head flew back at him (remember kids, always wear safety glasses!). I told him that I had some powerful magnets back in my cubicle (NIB rare earth magnets, the most fun money can buy, check here if you want some).
He held two of the magnets (product #2, see above site) up near his eyelid and that little piece of steel pulled that loose skin out about an inch! The guy yelped and immediately pulled the magnet away. Of course, a bunch of people heard the yelp and came to see what it was, and he had to repeat the stunt a few times to make everybody happy.
Tugging a visible chunk of steel is one thing, but I seriously doubt that you could pull the hemoglobin out of your body, or at least any significant portion of it, even if they did say so on ST:TNG.
"driver over"?
Maybe somebody should run me over and put me out of my misery...
I would like to announce that I am now accepting PayPal donations to hunt down this particular AC and personally driver over his Xbox with a large vehicle.
VGA (arguably the most popular monitor connection standard), however, doesn't
True, but your video card would still have to be able to handle 182,112,500 pixels regardless of what kind of monitor connection you have. I freely admit that I phrased my initial message very poorly (OK, downright stupidly), as there is no 'data' transfer between a video card and an analog monitor, but there is inside the PC between your software and your video card.
Just for the heck of it, get a stopwatch and time how long it takes to print a 600 dpi graphic to your printer.
Now to try to imagine what it would be like to wait that long for your screen to update.
Now, I know that the bus between your video and monitor is faster than the bus to the printer, but the point is that as you increase resolution you significantly increase the amount of data which significantly decreases your frame rates.
Extremely rough calculations:
200 dpi is 40,000 pixels per square inch
My 20" monitor has a 15.5" by 11.75" viewable space, or 182.125 square inches
If my system were 200 dpi it would be displaying a total of 7,285,000 pixels instead of the 1,310,720 I have it displaying now, or a factor 5.55 times as much data.
Jumping to 1000 dpi as you suggest takes us 1,000,000 pixels per square inch, which on a screen the size of my monitor would equal 182,112,500 pixels, or a factor of 138.94 times as much data.
That's a heck of a lot of pixels to be calculating and transmitting and still maintaining a non-headache inducing flicker.
Personally I'm completely willing to pay extra upfront to save money in the long run.
Sadly, though, the printer market, and ESPECIALLY the inkjet market now runs under the Gillette business plan of give away the razor and make your money on the blades. I don't think we're going to see the opportunity to reverse that any time soon.
Might I recommend that you try the new Softclix lancet device? I hate sticking my finger as much as the next guy, but if I have to, I prefer to use this model. It's not painless, I won't kid you, but it's the least painful I've found.
Islet cell transplants are reporting great success in Mexico, where teenagers with the cells transplanted into their bodies are able to live without any insulin injections.
For those that don't know, it's not the pancreas that creates insulin, it's tiny cells inside the pancreas called the Islets of Langerhans that produce insulin. These cells can be removed from recently deceased people, treated with a series of enzymes and other biochemicals to leave just the Islet cells which can be safely injected into a diabetic (usually into the liver) where they release insulin into the blood stream.
I've been hearing about thise glucowatch for the better part of 12 years now. I work in the glucose monitoring industry, and this story has been popular for years. Every recent mention of I have seen shows that the precision is still poor, and you still need to perform daily finger-stick tests to calibrate the watch, so if you're looking to get away from sticking your finger, the glucowatch won't solve your problems.
Well... since the correct spelling is faggots and not faggits, I would guess ignorant.
Of course, I would have guessed ignorant even if it had been spelled correctly.
Of course, sometimes people that say that stuff actually live up to their mumbled statements... as seen (or heard) here.
This guy will be lucky if he isn't sued.
Sued?
Hell, he'll be lucky if isn't branded a computer terrorist and thrown in jail for life!
I was listening to NPR this morning, and they interviewed the girl by phone, and on the phone she said that once they get it authenticated they plan to sell it at a London auction because it's "very valuable".
The story on the BBC says they intend to put it in a glass case and keep it forever.
Wonder how it will really turn out...