Sonos just launched a new product that helps keep things affordable - the $399 ZP S5. It's really all you need to get started (assuming you have a home network) -- you don't even need an iPhone/iPod Touch. You can use the free Windows or OSX controllers. Once you get hooked, though, you're going to expand to every room in your house.
It's priced to compete with Bose, but frankly, it's better sound quality, easier to user, and more versatile.
To download the software, you need to agree to the EULA.
Re:How to make another editor the default one?
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To set another editor as your default, search the HKEY_CLASSES pseudo-hive in regedit for notepad.exe (not the/p version, that's for printing). You'll find it in a few places - once for each type of file that has an action ascociated to it (txt, ini, etc). Replace it with something like
The anti-spyware product SpyCatcher 2006 (free as in beer version) will detect rootkits when they are being run. It also uses some rootkit technology to foritfy itself from spyware trying to detect anti-spyware products.
Diplomacy is IMHO the simplest, fairest, and most enjoyable board-based wargame that exists. There is also colonial diplomacy which uses the same simple ruleset with a new map.
mp3splt (http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/) is an awesome tool to split large MP3 files (audiobooks) into smaller ones and even can auto-adjust the break so it's at the nearest silent part. Alone this is a great tool: mp3splt -f -a auto -t 5.0 *.mp3
However, most audiobooks are a little slow, but with soundstretch (http://sky.prohosting.com/oparviai/soundtouch/sou ndstretch.html), you can increase the tempo without changing the pitch. The result is an audio book that you can "read" 50% faster without losing any clairity. Tune to your own tastes.
Since soundstretch only works with.wav files, you need mpg123 and lame and a perl script like the one that follows to pull the whole thing off.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Speedsplit.pl # # Use at your own risk. # # 1) convert mp3 to PCM (wav) # 2) speed up PCM file # 3) convert it to mp3 # 4) split it into 5 minute fragments (at whitespace if possible) #
The Lyra RD1071 128Meg Flash MP3 player (2003 model?) has a painfully slow FFW (5x) and the FRW doesn't even work unless you get the latest firmware patch (try explaining that to your grandmother who wants to listen to audio books). It has many other design flaws such as not remembering where in the file you were when you last stopped listening, and remembering which file was playing when the batteries fell out. All of this could be fixed in firmware by a single Indian developer working 1 month costing Thompson/RCA a huge $500.
But I have been dealing with Microsoft products for many years now and I expect to see bugs and report them. However, when you call their technical support, you get a neophyte that is only capable of reading the manual back to you. When you ask for the next level of technical support you will hear her say
"We don't have a technical support department, just a customer support", and
"We don't have an engineering department so there's nobody I can submit your feedback to", and
"The Lyra can't play audio books, just music", and
"You have an older model. Perhaps you should buy a newer one".
After writing a few emails and getting past the automated responses, I think I made it to the next level of hell because I got this response: You may write to Manager, Consumer Relations at Thomson. The mailing address is: Thomson, PO Box 1490, Durant, OK 74702-1490.
Needless to say, Thompson's LYRA products aren't iPod killers, they are Thompson killers. I know Apple tech support isn't all that great either (2 personal experiences), but at least they have a tech support.
In the end, I downloaded a bunch of free software and wrote myself a perl script to convert large MP3 files (such as audiobooks) into 5 minute segments.
Finally we can sue the moon owners for tidal flooding and we can sue the sun owner for skin cancer and overheating. I wonder what they pay in property taxes.
When I proposed, I used a puzzle ring instead of a diamond because 1) Her father is a jeweler, so no matter what I got I would have paid too much 2) It has more entertainment value than just a ring, and we both enjoy a little mental challange 3) It's fairly attractive 4) It's cheaper than a diamond
She loved it. Except that I didn't bring the instructions with me to the Cayman Islands where I proposed and it took us all week to figure it out.
You can find sellers all over the internet with a simple search for "puzzle ring". Here's one example: http://www.puzzlering.net/ (.net? What are they thinking?)
I used to work for a company that had a web filter set up, but we could get past sometimes by using the IP address instead of the website name: http://sourceforge.net/ would be rewritten as http://216.136.171.196/
I'm not sure it works with smartfilter, and I'm not sure it works with sourceforge.net, but it's worth a try. If it does work, maybe you can modify a proxy filter like junkbuster to s/sourceforge.net/216.136.171.196/g all your incoming web pages.
There is no "silver bullet" backup solution. Instead, each organization has to take into consideration their unique setting before making a decision. In my opinion, backups must be automated otherwise they get put off and forgotten until it's too late. Some organizations can tolerate lost data and time, but those are generally academic or home use.
So, you will probably have to buy hardware and software to automate backups if you want any real protection. Fortunately, the hardware for most backups is a comodity in that you can easily compare size/speed/reliability/cost stats to determine which is right for you. The backup software is a much more confusing decision because there are many products with features that make each backup product unique.
In selecting the software, it is probably best to start by looking at the products produced by the leading backup software vendor, VERITAS Software. Before you know what features you want, you need to see what features are available. Once you figure out which VERITAS product best fits your needs, you can look at competitors and compare features, support, and price. Here is how I think VERITAS markets its products:
VERITAS NetBackup - Large networked environments (i.e., 100 - 1,000,000+ computers, mixed OS (unix/mac/pc/ndmp). It does nearly everything you could want, but you pay for it.
VERITAS BackupExec - Small environments (i.e., 1-500 computers), mostly windows. Will handle most companies quite nicely and you can buy it off the shelf. There are other products that automate backups on individual computers. BackupExec can solve this need, but when you don't need all extra features, why pay for it?
VERITAS NetBackup Professional - satellite environments where computers are not permanently connected and networks are slow (i.e., laptops the dial up).
That said, I actually just back up all my important data to another hard drive at home. It's risky, but at most I just lose email and pictures of my vacations. At work, though, it's NetBackup.
On a similar train of thought, Macromedia Flash is used very frequently for distracting advertisements on pages that are difficult to ignore. Can anyone offer some suggestions as to how to disable Flash in IE6.0? These options haven't worked for me:
1) uninstalling Flash (as described by their website). It prompts to be reinstalled frequently which is more annoying than the ad itself. I get the prompts even with Enable Install On Demand turned off.
2) turning animations off (Tools->Internet Options->Advanced->MultiMedia->Play animations in web pages) doesn't do any good for non-gif animations as far as I can tell.
3) turning off third-party browser extensions (Same place as #2) also doesn't affect Flash.
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Sonos just launched a new product that helps keep things affordable - the $399 ZP S5. It's really all you need to get started (assuming you have a home network) -- you don't even need an iPhone/iPod Touch. You can use the free Windows or OSX controllers. Once you get hooked, though, you're going to expand to every room in your house.
It's priced to compete with Bose, but frankly, it's better sound quality, easier to user, and more versatile.
There is a 100% chance that life began in space.
To download the software, you need to agree to the EULA.
To set another editor as your default, search the HKEY_CLASSES pseudo-hive in regedit for notepad.exe (not the /p version, that's for printing). You'll find it in a few places - once for each type of file that has an action ascociated to it (txt, ini, etc). Replace it with something like
"C:\Program Files\Bloated Editor\emacs.exe" "%L"
The anti-spyware product SpyCatcher 2006 (free as in beer version) will detect rootkits when they are being run. It also uses some rootkit technology to foritfy itself from spyware trying to detect anti-spyware products.
I totally agree - MOD IT UP.
Diplomacy is IMHO the simplest, fairest, and most enjoyable board-based wargame that exists. There is also colonial diplomacy which uses the same simple ruleset with a new map.
Agreed. Generally the better known a college is, the more recruiters are sent to it. So, transfer to one of the top ten colleges to get your degree.
FWIW, I thought UIUC had a top notch placement program for CS.
Some vendors CAN restrict their applications to run on a limited set of ports. Veritas-NetBackup, for instance has a single port firewall option.
[disclaimer - I work for Veritas].
Since there's no "air" in space, the air force has no juristiction there.
Oops - sorry. Here's one that won't overwrite your original file. :)
r esample","22.050","${path}${tmp}/${file}_f.wav","$ {path}${tmp}/${file}.mp3");t mp}/${file}.mp3");
Dang - can't post full source thanks to the lameness filters. Try just smacking this bottom half on:
# wav -> mp3
@command = ("lame","-mm","-b","64","-q","0","--tt",$file,"--
if (system (@command))
{
print STDERR "command failed: ", join (" ",@command),"\n";
next;
}
unlink "${path}${tmp}/${file}_f.wav";
# mp3 -> split
@command = ("mp3splt","-f","-a","auto","-t","5.0","${path}${
if (system (@command))
{
print STDERR "command failed: ",join (" ",@command),"\n";
next;
}
unlink "${path}${tmp}/${file}.mp3";
map {move($_,'.')} glob("\"${path}${tmp}/\"*");
rmdir "${path}${tmp}";
}
}
mp3splt (http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/) is an awesome tool to split large MP3 files (audiobooks) into smaller ones and even can auto-adjust the break so it's at the nearest silent part. Alone this is a great tool:
.wav files, you need mpg123 and lame and a perl script like the one that follows to pull the whole thing off.
/\\ /g; ;
mp3splt -f -a auto -t 5.0 *.mp3
However, most audiobooks are a little slow, but with soundstretch (http://sky.prohosting.com/oparviai/soundtouch/sou ndstretch.html), you can increase the tempo without changing the pitch. The result is an audio book that you can "read" 50% faster without losing any clairity. Tune to your own tastes.
Since soundstretch only works with
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Speedsplit.pl
#
# Use at your own risk.
#
# 1) convert mp3 to PCM (wav)
# 2) speed up PCM file
# 3) convert it to mp3
# 4) split it into 5 minute fragments (at whitespace if possible)
#
use File::Copy;
my ($file, $glob, $path, @command, $tmp, $ext);
foreach $glob (@ARGV)
{
$glob =~ s,\\,/,g;
$glob =~ s/
@glob = glob($glob);
foreach $file (@glob)
{
next unless ($file =~ s/.(wav|mp3)$//i);
$ext = $1;
# print ("SpeedSplit: Splitting \"$file\"\n");
$file =~ s,\\,/,g;
if ($file =~ s,(.*[:/]),,)
{
$path = $1;
$path =~ s,:$,$/,;
}
else
{
$path = "./";
}
$tmp = $file;
mkdir "${path}${tmp}" || die "Cannot make directory ${path}${tmp}";
# mp3 -> wav
if ($ext eq "mp3")
{
@command = ("mpg123","-v","-w","${path}${tmp}/${file}.wav","$ {path}${file}.mp3");
if (system (@command))
{
print STDERR "command failed: ", join(" ",@command),"\n";
next;
}
}
else
{
copy ("${path}${file}.wav","${path}${tmp}/${file}.wav")
}
# wav -> increase tempo
@command = ("soundstretch","${path}${tmp}/${file}.wav","${pat h}${tmp}/${file}_f.wav","-tempo=50");
if (system (@command))
{
print STDERR "command failed: ",join (" ",@command),"\n";
next;
}
unlink "${path}${tmp}/${file}.wav";
# wav -> mp3
@command = ("lame","-mm","-b","64","-q","0","--tt",$file,"--r esample","22.050","${path}${tmp}/${file}_f.wav","$ {path}${file}.mp3");
if (system (@command))
{
print STDERR "command failed: ", join (" ",@command),"\n";
next;
}
unlink "${path}${tmp}/${file}_f.wav";
# mp3 -> split
@command = ("mp3splt","-f","-a","auto","-t","5.0","${path}${f ile}.mp3");
if (system (@command))
{
print STDERR "command failed: ",join (" ",@command),"\n";
next;
}
unlink "${path}${file}.mp3";
rmdir "${path}${tmp}";
}
}
The Lyra RD1071 128Meg Flash MP3 player (2003 model?) has a painfully slow FFW (5x) and the FRW doesn't even work unless you get the latest firmware patch (try explaining that to your grandmother who wants to listen to audio books). It has many other design flaws such as not remembering where in the file you were when you last stopped listening, and remembering which file was playing when the batteries fell out. All of this could be fixed in firmware by a single Indian developer working 1 month costing Thompson/RCA a huge $500.
But I have been dealing with Microsoft products for many years now and I expect to see bugs and report them. However, when you call their technical support, you get a neophyte that is only capable of reading the manual back to you. When you ask for the next level of technical support you will hear her say
"We don't have a technical support department, just a customer support", and
"We don't have an engineering department so there's nobody I can submit your feedback to", and
"The Lyra can't play audio books, just music", and
"You have an older model. Perhaps you should buy a newer one".
After writing a few emails and getting past the automated responses, I think I made it to the next level of hell because I got this response:
You may write to Manager, Consumer Relations at Thomson. The mailing address is: Thomson, PO Box 1490, Durant, OK 74702-1490.
Needless to say, Thompson's LYRA products aren't iPod killers, they are Thompson killers. I know Apple tech support isn't all that great either (2 personal experiences), but at least they have a tech support.
In the end, I downloaded a bunch of free software and wrote myself a perl script to convert large MP3 files (such as audiobooks) into 5 minute segments.
Any crash you can walk away from is a good crash.
Finally we can sue the moon owners for tidal flooding and we can sue the sun owner for skin cancer and overheating. I wonder what they pay in property taxes.
When I proposed, I used a puzzle ring instead of a diamond because
1) Her father is a jeweler, so no matter what I got I would have paid too much
2) It has more entertainment value than just a ring, and we both enjoy a little mental challange
3) It's fairly attractive
4) It's cheaper than a diamond
She loved it. Except that I didn't bring the instructions with me to the Cayman Islands where I proposed and it took us all week to figure it out.
You can find sellers all over the internet with a simple search for "puzzle ring". Here's one example: http://www.puzzlering.net/ (.net? What are they thinking?)
I used to work for a company that had a web filter set up, but we could get past sometimes by using the IP address instead of the website name:
http://sourceforge.net/
would be rewritten as
http://216.136.171.196/
I'm not sure it works with smartfilter, and I'm not sure it works with sourceforge.net, but it's worth a try. If it does work, maybe you can modify a proxy filter like junkbuster to s/sourceforge.net/216.136.171.196/g all your incoming web pages.
So, you will probably have to buy hardware and software to automate backups if you want any real protection. Fortunately, the hardware for most backups is a comodity in that you can easily compare size/speed/reliability/cost stats to determine which is right for you. The backup software is a much more confusing decision because there are many products with features that make each backup product unique.
In selecting the software, it is probably best to start by looking at the products produced by the leading backup software vendor, VERITAS Software. Before you know what features you want, you need to see what features are available. Once you figure out which VERITAS product best fits your needs, you can look at competitors and compare features, support, and price. Here is how I think VERITAS markets its products:
That said, I actually just back up all my important data to another hard drive at home. It's risky, but at most I just lose email and pictures of my vacations. At work, though, it's NetBackup.
On a similar train of thought, Macromedia Flash is used very frequently for distracting advertisements on pages that are difficult to ignore. Can anyone offer some suggestions as to how to disable Flash in IE6.0? These options haven't worked for me:
1) uninstalling Flash (as described by their website). It prompts to be reinstalled frequently which is more annoying than the ad itself. I get the prompts even with Enable Install On Demand turned off.
2) turning animations off (Tools->Internet Options->Advanced->MultiMedia->Play animations in web pages) doesn't do any good for non-gif animations as far as I can tell.
3) turning off third-party browser extensions (Same place as #2) also doesn't affect Flash.
I love it when under the picture of a chubby guy sticking out his belly, they write Click for a larger photo