20% of comments - can you imagine...a beowolf cluster of these?
30% of comments - actually, I'm a really really smart bloke and I know everything about everything so moderate this comment up!
35% of comments - karma whorin - come on siggy, you _know_ you're gonna post simply to collect yet more karma. What was it at last time I checked? 750? I thought so...
5% of comments - I love Microsoft, please flame me. LOOK! Here's my private "business correspondance only" email address, why don't you hit my corporate email server with a nasty DDOS just because I'm obviously a secret MSFT lover and must be stopped at all costs.
1% of comments - Really really fscking irritating statisticians who just _have_ to tell me that I can't add up...
Some Troll seems to have temporarily "borrowed" my account to post some rather OT messages (trolls), I've changed the password so hopefully that's the last we'll see of them...
"merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica" "The message is in Spanish, and the message is directed at a Spanish operator." "We believe the worm originated in Spain" Wow, that's such an amazing comment, who would have thought with _all_ that evidence that they'd managed to figure out it came from Spain!:) Yet another pointless report about some idiot that felt compelled to write a windoze exploit. Not that I mind personally - the more windoze viruses there are, the more people will get pissed off with Windoze in general... -- Jon. "You didn't look inside my anus; you didn't look everywhere"
Perhaps all SPAM except that going to Rob Malda advertising Toner?:)
I agree that it is an inconvienience, but unfortunately, news tech laws tend to ultimately back fire. As AC says, "extend old laws...not new laws".
For instance, I often post to mailing lists or individuals from a different address and modify the message headers to appear to come from another address - this is for two reasons, often:
1). There are often restrictions on which source address is accepted my the list manager.
2). I often don't want to give out the other address for various reasons.
So basically, this ida sounds good, but it could probably get twisted to throw me in jail for simply changing my mail headers if taken to the logical conclusion and I'd far rather put up with a small amount of spam, handled by "anti spam" groups rather than the government trying to introduce new laws that they don't understand.
Luckily I live in Britain where they're sometimes more sensible.
Hi all, I have been dismayed at the media's recent coverage of the "love bug" and its new varient - which is being reported on today.
In particular I have been seriously disappointed by the BBC's inappropriate coverage of the prerequisite conditions for this "virus" to operate.
1). A computer system running a recent Microsoft windows operating system is required.
2). The user must use the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client.
3). The user must have the Windows SCripting Host (WSH) installed.
This so called virus only affects a small percentage of computer users and the media needs to point this out. Microsoft have taken the wrong course of corrective action - as usual.
I have telehponed the BBC this evening with regard to this - if you are a reporter from the BBC reading this, please contact me personally for any further clarification required.
Hi, If you read through the "news" page on their site, you will notice that they do not make any reference to the name of the company that is paying them. Furthermore, they mention that they met the guys from this secret company after LWE - this could perhaps have been sometime in March. They were given funding to complete their work. This was shortly before rumours about InterVideo's LinDVD started circulating. Perhaps there is a link between the two? Perhaps not.
In any case, this deserves consideration fokes.
If you do go back and read through my orriginal submissions about LinDVD, please follow the links to the additional comments that I made which are relevent to this.
Hi, am I the only person who finds it rather "convienient" that/. suffers a major DDos attack _right_ after that Weston bloke at M$ strated making threats. You'll have to forgive my paranoia, it just seems a little well "timed".
Of course I'd never even think to imply that M$ had any involvement in this...
For those of you who haven't read about M$'s secret covert operations, read "The Microsoft File" - it was the 3rd most popular purchase at Amazon by M$ employees...
OK I see your point. However both LAME and GOGO have been mentioned on slashdot before. All you would have had to do was to search for "encoder", "MP3" or somesuch and you would have found it.
Therefore, because the above information was readily available on the site already _and_ not relevent to the discussion, it _WAS_ Off Topic.
Hi, You have missed the point of the original post. We all know that GOGO is based on LAME and indeed I have been using it for some time myself (GOGO for around a year, LAME longer). Now to get to the point: All of the original Fraunhofer ISO sample code has been removed and re-implemented from scratch. This means that LAME is no longer subject to the previous restrictions in distribution. This will filter through into GOGO (or has LAME superceeded GOGO with its optimisations now?). So:
WE ALL KNOW THAT GOGO IS THE FASTEST.
THE POINT OF THE STORY WAS NOT WHETHER TO USE LAME OR NOT - IT WAS ABOUT AN IMPORTANT CHANGE MADE TO IT.
Please, I ask that you check the story out before posting off topic crap that the moderators obviously didn't think about.
Moderators: please moderate the original comment as OT since it is not on the topic of this discussion.
Hi, Apache may not cache the resulting images, but the filesystem should. Unless they're running a braind^D^D^D^D^D^DMicrosoft system, I would strongly expect the caching to work properly and that the images _will_ really be stored in system memory - apache will ask the filesystem driver to get the images, it will fetch them from its RAM cache - everyone's happy.
Note to people: I am not any real apache user, so for all I know it could implement the filesystem driver in its source and read stuff from the raw device - this seems increadily unlikely though so I would assume that my comment above is perfectly valid - please correct me if I am wrong.
Hi, Firstly, the show is great - I've listen to every single one (including the interim updates) since geeks1. On the other hand, this show needs a few corrections. I've sent a copy of this to the/. team.
=== QUOTE ===
Hi, Some corrections for you:
You mention Xing mp3 encoder - have you tried the quality that lame offers?
(I own the Xing encoder but think lame is much better - I also have the Fr. bladeenc, etc. etc.).
N.B. Technically (legally) you should pay Fraunhoffer (I can never spell that name) for each copy of geeks downloaded IIRC...
MP3s don't sound like "shit" if you have cool software/hardware.
Don't quote me but I believe that when you log into Napster you actually log in to one of many servers hence there are more users online than you think - they say that they located the 300,000 odd users in a single weekend or something.
Rob Incorrectly talks about DeCSS:
You can copy a DVD bit by bit without DeCSS (most DVD-Rs and RWs actually have the apropos lead in area pre written to stop them from working in conventional playing drives - although there are ways around this).
At 20:45 index Rob starts talking about "ripping from DVDs" and how they are "essentially perfect copies" and how you could "ram it through some sort of MPEG compression" - DVDs use MPEG2 (an improvement on MPEG1) and thus are already encoded using a lossy compression codec - it just happens to be much better and slightly bigger than MPEG1.
DVDs aren't perfect by any means.
MP3 isn't "50 to 1 compression" more like 10:1.
Netscape is no longer under a "commercial use" restriction - for Rob's benefit, this was lifted several years ago
Can Rob Foresee the end of the universe?:)
Sorry to sound like whining, but that DVD bit was just plain wrong - cool show though. I liked the "no disassemble Potter 5"...
Can you detail the IRQ conflicts between your graphics cards and HDDs? The Graphics card will normally default to IRQ 10/11 and the HDD to 14/15 so I'm not quite sure what could be causing your troubles.
We're working on the ASCII porn - when we have our LUG meeting later today, a couple of us will co-ordinate on that one. What kind of orientation of pr0n is Kurt into? The meeting's actually on Firewalls but/. often enters the pub discussion afterwards...
1). NSI Registrar actually manages this, the "independent" part of NSI.
2). Nobody cares that NSI chose IBM over SUN as it's only one machine. You guys fuss like this machine is actually important when it's actually about as significant as my home PC. If it goes down things might become a little slower for uncached queries, but the vast majority of users won't notice any change - it's called DynamicNS for a reason fokes, stop fussing over one particular box.
3). NSI are being twerps choosing to standardise on certain stuff when in reality I'd trust (no Verisign pun intended:) the root servers that are based in universities and other educational environments more than I'd trust any closed source limited setup. Face it, those "educational" root servers are probably running BSD or Linux and are probably using the latest versions of bind without sh*te loads of other processes and probably are kept up to date. I wouldn't trust NSI further than I could throw them.
4). NSI do ___NOT___ maintain the domains for other countries. They may own the box that is A.root-servers.net but that only takes you from the "." to "com." or "uk." - the actual country dns's coupe with registrations - so NSI are trying to claim responsibility for something they know crap all about and that they don't own or run.
5). They articles are so badly written that they might as well have not been written at all.
In short:
"NSI today purchased a new box to replace A.root-servers.net, which used to be a SUN E10000 box. The "A" root server is responsible for resolving the top level '.' domain into subdomains such as.com.uk etc. and is used as a last resort when local dns caches do not have the information to hand, or it is out of date. There are many other root servers, an article was written about this, but this whole thing is fscking boring and about as interesting as me buying a new PC."
Hi, You may of course contact me personally for any advice on this issue, but I'd recommend that you get hold of the following packages:
1). Icecast 2). GoGo
Use GoGo (a free[dom] mp3 encoder which is as fast as xing's - I know, I use both) to do realtime mp3 encoding on any PII box from a mic input or whatever.
Then pipe the audio out of that process into a fifo which gets broadcast by Icecast.
I've played with this idea and I think it can work nicely. You probably want to encode the mp3 on one box and broadcast on another - otherwise you run the risk of too many hits slowing down the machine so much that the sound skips. Or simply limit the number of connections.
"mpeg2dec MMX code was checked into CVS last night. Go to www.linuxvideo.org to try it out. SSE/3dnow version isn't checked in but is mostly done. If someone knows how to schedule or otherwise optimize MMX instructions please take a look at the code."
I already did:-) It was in fact that code to which I was refering. As for the other guy above who was talking about how I could achieve the framerate I was refering to, he should have read what I said: I am using the GATOS r128 overlay stuff so my card is doing some of the work.
Hi, Yes, in fact there are DVD players available for Linux. I contacted/. a couple of months ago regarding the upcoming LinDVD software DVD player from Intervideo and they finally ran the story the other day:-)
Anyway, the LinDVD software player was demonstrated at CEBIT several months ago and people reprted that it was very good. So this is not "vaporware" but rather "betaware" in that it exists and has been demonstrated but will not be released for a couple of months. I first spoke to Intervideo about LinDVD over a month ago and they said that they would announce LinDVD soon - they did. I have no reason to assume that there won't be a release by the summer.
There are also other players being developed that I have heard of, but I am not prepared to discuss the details of these just yet - suffice it to say that there are others.
On the non-commercial front, I can get about 15-20fps using the LiViD software and have just finished using the new rage 128 stuff to watch the Matrix fullscreen on my PII. I think anyone with around a PIII-500+ should be able to watch DVDs reasonably. I have also tried the Heroine XMovie stuff, which was very very nice but not that optimised (yet) although I think it's only time before that is very good also. Futhermore, Creative labs have done a reasonalbe job with their Linux DVD stuff also.
Those of you wishing to use WINE - you're out of luck since WINE presently doesn't handle the IO calls needed to handle DVD drives, although the Xing player will load, as will the version 1.0 beta of PowerDVD. I think it's only time before you'll be able to watch DVDs using PowerDVD 1.0 under WINE (later versions do not work properly and require M$ DirectCrap anyway).
So we have:
1). LinDVD is coming out in the next couple of months - I have no pricing details yet although I am being kept informed of the details as they emerge and will tell/. - that is IF they actually bother to post what I tell them:-)
2). DeCSS is still very much relevent as we want an open source player - LinDVD is based on WinDVD, which has it's faults.
3). Other players are being released later in the year - I will not provide details.
4). WINE won't help you yet, but will very soon I think.
5). LiViD is getting there - THEY REALLY NEED MMX OPTIMISERS - if you are a super genius mmx coder I'm sure they'd really want your help.
Subject: RE: LinDVD Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:56:23 -0800 From: "Scott Marvin" To: "'Jon Masters'"
Hello Jon,
We are still approximately 3-4 weeks from releasing any information regarding LinDVD.
Regards, Scott
Scott Marvin Sales Manager InterVideo Inc. mailto:scottm@intervideo.com Office (510) 651-0888x305 Fax (510) 651-8808 Mobile (408) 781-2943
=== END ===
=== FROM Intervideo ===
Subject: RE: Hi Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:51:01 -0800 From: "kelly" To: "'Jon Masters'"
Dear Jonathan
Thank you for your e-mail. LinDVD is under consideration here, but at present time, we offer no further information, other than the fact its going to be released sometime later this year.
Regards,
Kelly Hsiao Technical Support InterVideo Inc.
=== END ===
=== FROM Slashdot ===
Subject: Re: Linux DVD Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 03:16:31 -0500 (EST) From: hemos To: Jon Masters
We've been waiting on the official release - we don't have enough to link to right now.
=== END ===
=== FROM Me To Slashdot ===
Subject: Linux DVD Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:07:10 +0000 From: Jon Masters To: hemos
Hi, I'm not being a whinner and I wouldn't normally complain that my story submission didn't get in, but this story should get on slashdot:
Intervideo, the guys who brought WinDVD are about to release a software only DVD player for Linux called LinDVD. They'll be officially making an announcement in 3-4 weeks time and the player will have similar system requirements as the windows counterpart. Now if this story isn't directly relevent to the current DVD Linux situation, I don't know what is - please tell me why it's been rejected twice? Is it becasue the DVD CCA and Forum have got to you guys and silenced you from publishing anything relating to Linux and DVD? I've run a/. search and LinDVD isn't mentioned anywhere on the site so unless I'm missing something this story is new.
Jonathan.
=== END ===
=== FROM Me To Slashdot ===
Subject: LinDVD Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:02:31 +0000 From: Jon Masters To: malda CC: hemos
Hi, I notice there's still no word about LinDVD on/. even though we know that it exists and that it is definatey being released later this year. Can you tell me what further information you want before you can announce this to the world? I think it's good not to announce this until the right moment, after all, we don't want the DVD Forum and co. to use this against the community however, I believe/. is the lesser of many evils in that you'll proably phase the announcemnt tactfully so that this doesn't become negative.
If you want further info, I can try digging for you.
Cheers, Jonathan.
=== END ===
=== FROM Me to Slashdot ===
Subject: Re: LinDVD Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:20 +0100 From: Jon Masters To: hemos
Hi, Thanks for finally mentioning LinDVD.
Jonathan.
=== END ===
Hope this helps to clarify everything and I'd love to know why/. held out so long on that story in the first place.
Hi, Well I think it's finally about time that organisations such as the MPAA accept that you cannot keep widely available information secret in this day and age.
Now not only do we have people embedding the css_descramble code in png images, DNS NS records, but they can now share such files using technologies such as Wrapster.
Actually I hope this is as positive as I believe it appears. Hopefully people will realise that our modern society is just as restrictive as it ever was, just more subtlely than it ever was before.
I will always pay to go to a concert to watch my favourite artist performing, but in the future I may not have to pay to listen to thier music - mp3s aren't CD quality, nobody complains that people record music from radio or TV broadcasts, why are they suddenly so paranoid about mp3 technology?
In a similar fashion to the open source software industry, people will adapt, companies will change and discover new revenue models. Perhaps downloading music won't be the "sin" it is now, perhaps the industry will capitalise on the format and encourage its growth to promote their artists.
Personally, I still buy all of my music on CD and encode from CD because I feel that the artists are the ones loosing out from the current situation - record companies can simply threaten and sue the little people and claim damages to recover lost renue, little of which the artists themselves will get to see.
I also feel that there are disadvantages in downloading music from the internet. "You don't know where it's been" - it could have been modified, doctored, or encoded using the poorest quality encoder available. I would welcome the music industry pushing to distribute music from artists websites in mp3 format for a small royalty.
How about a system where we download music in mp3 format and artists make money through performances, concerts, promotional material, etc?
As far as the DVD Forum and other groups/companies are concerned, this should be viewed as beneficial. Let's all be more open about everything that goes on - there will always be the odd one or two people who wish to abuse technology, and millions of us who look at the css code and think "if only they'd been more open about this, we could have made the security much stronger for them. Everyone knows how rc5 works, it doesn't make it less secure, any security system which safegaurds security through obscurity isn't secure at all.
People will always make money, although the method employed will change considerably over the course of time.
Enough random musings from me for know. It's late so none of this made any sense, I guess.
It doesn't actually say anything about copy on write technology you know! But even if it did, copy on write isn't new and has been around on UNIX for donkeys years. I'm off to phone M$ HQ in Reading (UK) and get a response on this.
Hi, Do you know what is meant by "XFCom"? The SuSE released driver has XFCom appended to its name. This means that the driver is binary only, but that the X developers have the source. The source code for an XFCom driver is always ncluded in the next version of the official X distro which inludes the driver. XFree86-3.3.6 includes the r128 driver in the svga server and also has source. I specifically am not flaming you, but please think before you post! Check what XFCom means - then you would know not to ask such questions.
As to your other comments, I completely agree - it is cool. I have an ATI AIW 128 16Mb AGP card too, so I know:-)
Slashdot Mirror
10% of comments - lameass dumb trolls.
20% of comments - can you imagine...a beowolf
cluster of these?
30% of comments - actually, I'm a really really
smart bloke and I know
everything about everything so
moderate this comment up!
35% of comments - karma whorin - come on siggy,
you _know_ you're gonna post
simply to collect yet more
karma. What was it at last time
I checked? 750? I thought so...
5% of comments - I love Microsoft, please flame
me. LOOK! Here's my private
"business correspondance only"
email address, why don't you
hit my corporate email server
with a nasty DDOS just because
I'm obviously a secret MSFT
lover and must be stopped at all
costs.
1% of comments - Really really fscking irritating
statisticians who just _have_ to
tell me that I can't add up...
--
Jon.
Some Troll seems to have temporarily "borrowed" my account to post some rather OT messages (trolls), I've changed the password so hopefully that's the last we'll see of them...
Sorry about that guys.
--
Jon.
"merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica" "The message is in Spanish, and the message is directed at a Spanish operator." "We believe the worm originated in Spain" Wow, that's such an amazing comment, who would have thought with _all_ that evidence that they'd managed to figure out it came from Spain! :) Yet another pointless report about some idiot that felt compelled to write a windoze exploit. Not that I mind personally - the more windoze viruses there are, the more people will get pissed off with Windoze in general... -- Jon. "You didn't look inside my anus; you didn't look everywhere"
Perhaps all SPAM except that going to Rob Malda advertising Toner? :)
I agree that it is an inconvienience, but unfortunately, news tech laws tend to ultimately back fire. As AC says, "extend old laws...not new laws".
For instance, I often post to mailing lists or individuals from a different address and modify the message headers to appear to come from another address - this is for two reasons, often:
1). There are often restrictions on which source address is accepted my the list manager.
2). I often don't want to give out the other address for various reasons.
So basically, this ida sounds good, but it could probably get twisted to throw me in jail for simply changing my mail headers if taken to the logical conclusion and I'd far rather put up with a small amount of spam, handled by "anti spam" groups rather than the government trying to introduce new laws that they don't understand.
Luckily I live in Britain where they're sometimes more sensible.
--
Jon.
Hi all,
I have been dismayed at the media's recent coverage of the "love bug" and its new varient - which is being reported on today.
In particular I have been seriously disappointed by the BBC's inappropriate coverage of the prerequisite conditions for this "virus" to operate.
1). A computer system running a recent Microsoft windows operating system is required.
2). The user must use the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client.
3). The user must have the Windows SCripting Host (WSH) installed.
This so called virus only affects a small percentage of computer users and the media needs to point this out. Microsoft have taken the wrong course of corrective action - as usual.
I have telehponed the BBC this evening with regard to this - if you are a reporter from the BBC reading this, please contact me personally for any further clarification required.
--
Jonathan.
Hi,
If you read through the "news" page on their site, you will notice that they do not make any reference to the name of the company that is paying them. Furthermore, they mention that they met the guys from this secret company after LWE - this could perhaps have been sometime in March. They were given funding to complete their work. This was shortly before rumours about InterVideo's LinDVD started circulating. Perhaps there is a link between the two? Perhaps not.
In any case, this deserves consideration fokes.
If you do go back and read through my orriginal submissions about LinDVD, please follow the links to the additional comments that I made which are relevent to this.
--
Jonathan.
Hi, /. suffers a major DDos attack _right_ after that Weston bloke at M$ strated making threats. You'll have to forgive my paranoia, it just seems a little well "timed".
am I the only person who finds it rather "convienient" that
Of course I'd never even think to imply that M$ had any involvement in this...
For those of you who haven't read about M$'s secret covert operations, read "The Microsoft File" - it was the 3rd most popular purchase at Amazon by M$ employees...
OK I see your point. However both LAME and GOGO have been mentioned on slashdot before. All you would have had to do was to search for "encoder", "MP3" or somesuch and you would have found it.
Therefore, because the above information was readily available on the site already _and_ not relevent to the discussion, it _WAS_ Off Topic.
--
Jonathan.
Hi,
If you want to tell M$ what you think about this, then mail them:
csfeed@microsoft.com
or for UK viewers, you might *also* mail:
2way@microsoft-contact.co.uk
If you need additional contact details do not hesitate to ask me.
--
Jonathan.
Hi,
You have missed the point of the original post. We all know that GOGO is based on LAME and indeed I have been using it for some time myself (GOGO for around a year, LAME longer). Now to get to the point: All of the original Fraunhofer ISO sample code has been removed and re-implemented from scratch. This means that LAME is no longer subject to the previous restrictions in distribution. This will filter through into GOGO (or has LAME superceeded GOGO with its optimisations now?). So:
WE ALL KNOW THAT GOGO IS THE FASTEST.
THE POINT OF THE STORY WAS NOT WHETHER TO USE LAME OR NOT - IT WAS ABOUT AN IMPORTANT CHANGE MADE TO IT.
Please, I ask that you check the story out before posting off topic crap that the moderators obviously didn't think about.
Moderators: please moderate the original comment as OT since it is not on the topic of this discussion.
--
Jonathan.
Hi,
Apache may not cache the resulting images, but the filesystem should. Unless they're running a braind^D^D^D^D^D^DMicrosoft system, I would strongly expect the caching to work properly and that the images _will_ really be stored in system memory - apache will ask the filesystem driver to get the images, it will fetch them from its RAM cache - everyone's happy.
Note to people: I am not any real apache user, so for all I know it could implement the filesystem driver in its source and read stuff from the raw device - this seems increadily unlikely though so I would assume that my comment above is perfectly valid - please correct me if I am wrong.
--
Jonathan.
but this story is very old now and has been reported on slashdot several times. Please do a search to see the other stories.
You will also find that this item has been on sale at Maplin Electronics in the UK for some time: http://www.maplin.co.uk
--
Jonathan
Hi, /. team.
:)
/. often enters the pub discussion afterwards...
Firstly, the show is great - I've listen to every single one (including the interim updates) since geeks1. On the other hand, this show needs a few corrections. I've sent a copy of this to the
=== QUOTE ===
Hi,
Some corrections for you:
You mention Xing mp3 encoder - have you tried the quality that lame
offers?
(I own the Xing encoder but think lame is much better - I also have the
Fr. bladeenc, etc. etc.).
N.B. Technically (legally) you should pay Fraunhoffer (I can never spell
that name) for each copy of geeks downloaded IIRC...
MP3s don't sound like "shit" if you have cool software/hardware.
Don't quote me but I believe that when you log into Napster you actually
log in to one of many servers hence there are more users online than you
think - they say that they located the 300,000 odd users in a single
weekend or something.
Rob Incorrectly talks about DeCSS:
You can copy a DVD bit by bit without DeCSS (most DVD-Rs and RWs
actually have the apropos lead in area pre written to stop them from
working in conventional playing drives - although there are ways around
this).
At 20:45 index Rob starts talking about "ripping from DVDs" and how they
are "essentially perfect copies" and how you could "ram it through some
sort of MPEG compression" - DVDs use MPEG2 (an improvement on MPEG1) and
thus are already encoded using a lossy compression codec - it just
happens to be much better and slightly bigger than MPEG1.
DVDs aren't perfect by any means.
MP3 isn't "50 to 1 compression" more like 10:1.
Netscape is no longer under a "commercial use" restriction - for Rob's
benefit, this was lifted several years ago
Can Rob Foresee the end of the universe?
Sorry to sound like whining, but that DVD bit was just plain wrong -
cool show though. I liked the "no disassemble Potter 5"...
Can you detail the IRQ conflicts between your graphics cards and HDDs?
The Graphics card will normally default to IRQ 10/11 and the HDD to
14/15 so I'm not quite sure what could be causing your troubles.
We're working on the ASCII porn - when we have our LUG meeting later
today, a couple of us will co-ordinate on that one. What kind of
orientation of pr0n is Kurt into? The meeting's actually on Firewalls
but
Jonathan.
=== END ===
--
Jonathan.
OK. So there were a few issues with the report.
:) the root servers that are based in universities and other educational environments more than I'd trust any closed source limited setup. Face it, those "educational" root servers are probably running BSD or Linux and are probably using the latest versions of bind without sh*te loads of other processes and probably are kept up to date. I wouldn't trust NSI further than I could throw them.
.com .uk etc. and is used as a last resort when local dns caches do not have the information to hand, or it is out of date. There are many other root servers, an article was written about this, but this whole thing is fscking boring and about as interesting as me buying a new PC."
1). NSI Registrar actually manages this, the "independent" part of NSI.
2). Nobody cares that NSI chose IBM over SUN as it's only one machine. You guys fuss like this machine is actually important when it's actually about as significant as my home PC. If it goes down things might become a little slower for uncached queries, but the vast majority of users won't notice any change - it's called DynamicNS for a reason fokes, stop fussing over one particular box.
3). NSI are being twerps choosing to standardise on certain stuff when in reality I'd trust (no Verisign pun intended
4). NSI do ___NOT___ maintain the domains for other countries. They may own the box that is A.root-servers.net but that only takes you from the "." to "com." or "uk." - the actual country dns's coupe with registrations - so NSI are trying to claim responsibility for something they know crap all about and that they don't own or run.
5). They articles are so badly written that they might as well have not been written at all.
In short:
"NSI today purchased a new box to replace A.root-servers.net, which used to be a SUN E10000 box. The "A" root server is responsible for resolving the top level '.' domain into subdomains such as
Jonathan.
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oh-go-on-spam-me-spam@easypenguin.com
Hi,
You may of course contact me personally for any advice on this issue, but I'd recommend that you get hold of the following packages:
1). Icecast
2). GoGo
Use GoGo (a free[dom] mp3 encoder which is as fast as xing's - I know, I use both) to do realtime mp3 encoding on any PII box from a mic input or whatever.
Then pipe the audio out of that process into a fifo which gets broadcast by Icecast.
I've played with this idea and I think it can work nicely. You probably want to encode the mp3 on one box and broadcast on another - otherwise you run the risk of too many hits slowing down the machine so much that the sound skips. Or simply limit the number of connections.
This will work nicely, just plan it carefully.
Jonathan.
"mpeg2dec MMX code was checked into CVS last night. Go to www.linuxvideo.org to try it out. SSE/3dnow version isn't checked in but is mostly done. If someone knows how to schedule or otherwise optimize MMX instructions please take a look at the code."
:-) It was in fact that code to which I was refering. As for the other guy above who was talking about how I could achieve the framerate I was refering to, he should have read what I said: I am using the GATOS r128 overlay stuff so my card is doing some of the work.
I already did
Cheers,
Jonathan.
Hi,
6 238&cid=87
Well, it's good to see my submission got in. I wrote some information for you all in an earlier story from today, at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/31/15
That should help to clear some things up for you.
Cheers,
Jonathan (periscope).
Hi, /. a couple of months ago regarding the upcoming LinDVD software DVD player from Intervideo and they finally ran the story the other day :-)
/. - that is IF they actually bother to post what I tell them :-)
/. search and LinDVD
/. even though we know /. is the lesser of many
/. held out so long on that story in the first place.
Yes, in fact there are DVD players available for Linux. I contacted
Anyway, the LinDVD software player was demonstrated at CEBIT several months ago and people reprted that it was very good. So this is not "vaporware" but rather "betaware" in that it exists and has been demonstrated but will not be released for a couple of months. I first spoke to Intervideo about LinDVD over a month ago and they said that they would announce LinDVD soon - they did. I have no reason to assume that there won't be a release by the summer.
There are also other players being developed that I have heard of, but I am not prepared to discuss the details of these just yet - suffice it to say that there are others.
On the non-commercial front, I can get about 15-20fps using the LiViD software and have just finished using the new rage 128 stuff to watch the Matrix fullscreen on my PII. I think anyone with around a PIII-500+ should be able to watch DVDs reasonably. I have also tried the Heroine XMovie stuff, which was very very nice but not that optimised (yet) although I think it's only time before that is very good also. Futhermore, Creative labs have done a reasonalbe job with their Linux DVD stuff also.
Those of you wishing to use WINE - you're out of luck since WINE presently doesn't handle the IO calls needed to handle DVD drives, although the Xing player will load, as will the version 1.0 beta of PowerDVD. I think it's only time before you'll be able to watch DVDs using PowerDVD 1.0 under WINE (later versions do not work properly and require M$ DirectCrap anyway).
So we have:
1). LinDVD is coming out in the next couple of months - I have no pricing details yet although I am being kept informed of the details as they emerge and will tell
2). DeCSS is still very much relevent as we want an open source player - LinDVD is based on WinDVD, which has it's faults.
3). Other players are being released later in the year - I will not provide details.
4). WINE won't help you yet, but will very soon I think.
5). LiViD is getting there - THEY REALLY NEED MMX OPTIMISERS - if you are a super genius mmx coder I'm sure they'd really want your help.
6). See below for some mails which are relevent.
Cheers,
Jonathan.
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=== FROM Intervideo ===
Subject:
RE: LinDVD
Date:
Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:56:23 -0800
From:
"Scott Marvin"
To:
"'Jon Masters'"
Hello Jon,
We are still approximately 3-4 weeks from releasing any information
regarding LinDVD.
Regards,
Scott
Scott Marvin
Sales Manager
InterVideo Inc.
mailto:scottm@intervideo.com
Office (510) 651-0888x305
Fax (510) 651-8808
Mobile (408) 781-2943
=== END ===
=== FROM Intervideo ===
Subject:
RE: Hi
Date:
Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:51:01 -0800
From:
"kelly"
To:
"'Jon Masters'"
Dear Jonathan
Thank you for your e-mail. LinDVD is under consideration here, but at
present time, we offer no further information, other than the fact its going
to be released sometime later this year.
Regards,
Kelly Hsiao
Technical Support
InterVideo Inc.
=== END ===
=== FROM Slashdot ===
Subject:
Re: Linux DVD
Date:
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 03:16:31 -0500 (EST)
From:
hemos
To:
Jon Masters
We've been waiting on the official release - we don't have enough to link
to right now.
=== END ===
=== FROM Me To Slashdot ===
Subject:
Linux DVD
Date:
Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:07:10 +0000
From:
Jon Masters
To:
hemos
Hi,
I'm not being a whinner and I wouldn't normally complain that my story
submission didn't get in, but this story should get on slashdot:
Intervideo, the guys who brought WinDVD are about to release a software
only DVD player for Linux called LinDVD. They'll be officially making an
announcement in 3-4 weeks time and the player will have similar system
requirements as the windows counterpart. Now if this story isn't
directly relevent to the current DVD Linux situation, I don't know what
is - please tell me why it's been rejected twice? Is it becasue the DVD
CCA and Forum have got to you guys and silenced you from publishing
anything relating to Linux and DVD? I've run a
isn't mentioned anywhere on the site so unless I'm missing something
this story is new.
Jonathan.
=== END ===
=== FROM Me To Slashdot ===
Subject:
LinDVD
Date:
Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:02:31 +0000
From:
Jon Masters
To:
malda
CC:
hemos
Hi,
I notice there's still no word about LinDVD on
that it exists and that it is definatey being released later this year.
Can you tell me what further information you want before you can
announce this to the world? I think it's good not to announce this until
the right moment, after all, we don't want the DVD Forum and co. to use
this against the community however, I believe
evils in that you'll proably phase the announcemnt tactfully so that
this doesn't become negative.
If you want further info, I can try digging for you.
Cheers,
Jonathan.
=== END ===
=== FROM Me to Slashdot ===
Subject:
Re: LinDVD
Date:
Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:20 +0100
From:
Jon Masters
To:
hemos
Hi,
Thanks for finally mentioning LinDVD.
Jonathan.
=== END ===
Hope this helps to clarify everything and I'd love to know why
Jonathan
Absolutely not. I start counting from zero, in same way that all the systems I use do.
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Hi,
Well I think it's finally about time that organisations such as the MPAA accept that you cannot keep widely available information secret in this day and age.
Now not only do we have people embedding the css_descramble code in png images, DNS NS records, but they can now share such files using technologies such as Wrapster.
Actually I hope this is as positive as I believe it appears. Hopefully people will realise that our modern society is just as restrictive as it ever was, just more subtlely than it ever was before.
I will always pay to go to a concert to watch my favourite artist performing, but in the future I may not have to pay to listen to thier music - mp3s aren't CD quality, nobody complains that people record music from radio or TV broadcasts, why are they suddenly so paranoid about mp3 technology?
In a similar fashion to the open source software industry, people will adapt, companies will change and discover new revenue models. Perhaps downloading music won't be the "sin" it is now, perhaps the industry will capitalise on the format and encourage its growth to promote their artists.
Personally, I still buy all of my music on CD and encode from CD because I feel that the artists are the ones loosing out from the current situation - record companies can simply threaten and sue the little people and claim damages to recover lost renue, little of which the artists themselves will get to see.
I also feel that there are disadvantages in downloading music from the internet. "You don't know where it's been" - it could have been modified, doctored, or encoded using the poorest quality encoder available. I would welcome the music industry pushing to distribute music from artists websites in mp3 format for a small royalty.
How about a system where we download music in mp3 format and artists make money through performances, concerts, promotional material, etc?
As far as the DVD Forum and other groups/companies are concerned, this should be viewed as beneficial. Let's all be more open about everything that goes on - there will always be the odd one or two people who wish to abuse technology, and millions of us who look at the css code and think "if only they'd been more open about this, we could have made the security much stronger for them. Everyone knows how rc5 works, it doesn't make it less secure, any security system which safegaurds security through obscurity isn't secure at all.
People will always make money, although the method employed will change considerably over the course of time.
Enough random musings from me for know. It's late so none of this made any sense, I guess.
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periscope
slashdot-contact@easypenguin.co.uk
IIRC, someone has patented the method for delivering pizza by using a certain type of telephone ordering system.
--
Jonathan
Great, :-)
I'm going to try to build a super Dual Athlon 1GHz PC in the summer vaction so several of these will go nicely
By the way, IBM said:
"A single drive can now store the equivalent of up to 18 DVD movies in MPEG3 format"
That's funny since MPEG3 doesn't exist.
Jonathan.
I've telephoned the UK HQ and I have an official response coming soon. I think I did a good job at beating down any arguments that they gave to me.
Jonathan.
It doesn't actually say anything about copy on write technology you know! But even if it did, copy on write isn't new and has been around on UNIX for donkeys years. I'm off to phone M$ HQ in Reading (UK) and get a response on this.
Jonathan
Hi,
:-)
Do you know what is meant by "XFCom"? The SuSE released driver has XFCom appended to its name. This means that the driver is binary only, but that the X developers have the source. The source code for an XFCom driver is always ncluded in the next version of the official X distro which inludes the driver. XFree86-3.3.6 includes the r128 driver in the svga server and also has source. I specifically am not flaming you, but please think before you post! Check what XFCom means - then you would know not to ask such questions.
As to your other comments, I completely agree - it is cool. I have an ATI AIW 128 16Mb AGP card too, so I know
Cheers,
Jonathan.