It got slashdotted before I could check them out, does anyone have a mirror or a torrent?
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Fedora Core 3 for sure. It's the most popular and there is an apt server for FC3 that is the most up to date.
I'd get 2 250's and save yourself the $50.
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I used a PVR-350 but then discovered that it sucks for playing DVD's and other things that aren't MPEG-2 format (like if you transcode to divx). They're basically unwatchable, playing at about 5fps.
I used: Pundit-R 2.4ghz celeron (overkill, but was cheaper than the 2.0 and 2.2's at my local store!?) PVR-350 (but would recommend the PVR-250 and the onboard tv out instead) 160gb hard drive, but should have gone with a bigger one. Dual layer DVD burner, but that's not necessary, a DVD-ROM would be fine. My two tips for this are to make sure you get one that the case is compatible with for the eject button, and can handle being vertical. 512mb RAM but that's overkill too, but I'm running a webserver, frontend, backend, VNC session, etc.
Ya, I posted about this on the mythtv mailing list a few days back. Look for my email address harford@gmail.com in the archives.
Totally changes the way you watch TV
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MythTV 0.17 Released
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I just got my MythTV system running 2 weeks ago. I'm still running 0.16 but it's still great.
I'm using a Pundit-R that sits beside my TV, and it uses a 802.11b wireless card to get programming data.
Since I've been using it for 2 weeks, it's totally changed the way the wife and I watch TV. We never miss an episode of our favourite shows, and never watch commercials.
The commercial marking function is like magic, it looks for blank frames in the data stream and flags that as a commercial. I'd say it gets it right 80% of the time, 15% of the time it will include the station ID clip, and 5% it will grab an extra commercial, but I'll just hit forward on the remote to skip it.
My favourite part is using it to watch a new show that's 'almost' live. I'll set it to record the show, but then start watching it 5-10 minutes after it's started. When I get to the commercials I skip over them, and by the end of the show I'll have hopefully synced up perfectly with the real time stream.
Q: To follow up on that, piracy has even negatively affected your family, correct?
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
Why didn't dad do something about it being such a crappy movie? I wasted a whole day's worth of bandwidth for it.:)
Don't waste your money on a performance chip unless you are going to have someone come, hook up a scantool to your car, and burn one based on the results.
Hypertech makes it hard to read their chips, but the bottom line is that the ECM needs to read it, and you'll be able to get to the data eventually.
This is all F-body specific, but you'll get an idea of what they're doing:
Stage 1: Lower fan turn on temperatures.
Stage 2: Advance timing in the upper rpms.
It's a waste of money, and may in fact hurt performance if it's advancing timing too much, since the ECM may detect knock and retard the timing worse than stock.
www.diy-efi.org is a great source of information on GM vehicles. The guys there have reverse engineered many GM ecms and distribute their work for free.
Right now I'm working on a GPL'd bin editor, and once that's done I'll be working on a PROM burner that works in Linux.
Oh, I should add a link to www.moates.net as well, since he makes lots of cool stuff like PROM emulators and USB programmers. Craig's gonna kill me...
many people find that shoving a rather large stick with nails in it shoved up the bum of said marketers a very effective way of advertising their dislike of popups. although 99 out of a 100 marketers disagree, I condone this practice.
Boy will my girlfriend be happy when I finally get rid of that old flux capacitor I have sitting around. I recently upgraded to a 2.42 gigawatts flux capacitor for my time travels. Thats twice as good as the original! The old one has been rendered useless.
That's impossible! Slashdotters don't have girlfriends!
Why not? It could scan what you are typing about to a friend and display relevant text ads in a sidebar.
Ie:
1) What are you doing tonight? 2) I dunno, I was thinking about seeing a movie. Want to come with me? 1) Sure, want to go see Shrek 2? - At this point a text ad comes up in the sidebar with local movie listings.
I've been using gmail for about a week now and I've found that their ads are surprisingly relevant to my conversations. One time, someone mentioned 'Miss Manners' in an email and an ad came up to buy a copy. I think they'll get a lot of click-throughs on their email this way, and it could be extended to an IM concept.
I recently started playing poker with some friends, and what I find fascinating is the mix of the math skills and people skills that you need to be a good poker player.
The math skills are definitely my strong point, but getting together face to face to play poker gives a geek a way to practice reading body language in an environment where it is perfectly acceptable to stare at a person to figure out what they are thinking. I've never been able to do a quick read on a person's body language, but I play with guys that do, and I hope I'm learning from them.
Many many years ago when I was twenty three, I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had hair of red. My father fell in love with her, And soon the two were wed. This made my dad my son-in-law And changed my very life. My daughter was my mother, For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse, Although it brought me joy, I soon became the father Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became A brother-in-law to dad. And so became my uncle, Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, Then that also made him brother To the widow's grown-up daughter Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son, Who kept them on the run. And he became my grandson, For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother And it makes me blue. Because, although she is my wife, She's my grandmother, too.
If my wife is my grandmother, Then I am her grandchild. And every time I think of it, It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become The strangest case you ever saw. As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!
Slashdot Mirror
It got slashdotted before I could check them out, does anyone have a mirror or a torrent?
Fedora Core 3 for sure. It's the most popular and there is an apt server for FC3 that is the most up to date.
I'd get 2 250's and save yourself the $50.
I used a PVR-350 but then discovered that it sucks for playing DVD's and other things that aren't MPEG-2 format (like if you transcode to divx). They're basically unwatchable, playing at about 5fps.
I used:
Pundit-R
2.4ghz celeron (overkill, but was cheaper than the 2.0 and 2.2's at my local store!?)
PVR-350 (but would recommend the PVR-250 and the onboard tv out instead)
160gb hard drive, but should have gone with a bigger one.
Dual layer DVD burner, but that's not necessary, a DVD-ROM would be fine. My two tips for this are to make sure you get one that the case is compatible with for the eject button, and can handle being vertical.
512mb RAM but that's overkill too, but I'm running a webserver, frontend, backend, VNC session, etc.
Ya, I posted about this on the mythtv mailing list a few days back. Look for my email address harford@gmail.com in the archives.
I just got my MythTV system running 2 weeks ago. I'm still running 0.16 but it's still great.
I'm using a Pundit-R that sits beside my TV, and it uses a 802.11b wireless card to get programming data.
Since I've been using it for 2 weeks, it's totally changed the way the wife and I watch TV. We never miss an episode of our favourite shows, and never watch commercials.
The commercial marking function is like magic, it looks for blank frames in the data stream and flags that as a commercial. I'd say it gets it right 80% of the time, 15% of the time it will include the station ID clip, and 5% it will grab an extra commercial, but I'll just hit forward on the remote to skip it.
My favourite part is using it to watch a new show that's 'almost' live. I'll set it to record the show, but then start watching it 5-10 minutes after it's started. When I get to the commercials I skip over them, and by the end of the show I'll have hopefully synced up perfectly with the real time stream.
Lol, that picture changes when you reload the page. :)
Are they African or European?
Q: To follow up on that, piracy has even negatively affected your family, correct?
:)
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
Why didn't dad do something about it being such a crappy movie? I wasted a whole day's worth of bandwidth for it.
Ever play UT2004?
GamesThatUseVorbis
I blogged about this today since I figured some /.'ers would be interested.
Drop me a line if you're moving to Vancouver.
Don't waste your money on a performance chip unless you are going to have someone come, hook up a scantool to your car, and burn one based on the results.
Hypertech makes it hard to read their chips, but the bottom line is that the ECM needs to read it, and you'll be able to get to the data eventually.
This is all F-body specific, but you'll get an idea of what they're doing:
Stage 1: Lower fan turn on temperatures.
Stage 2: Advance timing in the upper rpms.
It's a waste of money, and may in fact hurt performance if it's advancing timing too much, since the ECM may detect knock and retard the timing worse than stock.
www.diy-efi.org is a great source of information on GM vehicles. The guys there have reverse engineered many GM ecms and distribute their work for free.
Right now I'm working on a GPL'd bin editor, and once that's done I'll be working on a PROM burner that works in Linux.
Oh, I should add a link to www.moates.net as well, since he makes lots of cool stuff like PROM emulators and USB programmers. Craig's gonna kill me...
Many boat engines have 24V alternators as well, Detroit Diesels, etc.
I think Spamicide would be appropriate.
:)
Millions of those little guys swimming in the net trying to get into your Inbox.
many people find that shoving a rather large stick with nails in it shoved up the bum of said marketers a very effective way of advertising their dislike of popups. although 99 out of a 100 marketers disagree, I condone this practice.
The goatse guy is in marketing?
Boy will my girlfriend be happy when I finally get rid of that old flux capacitor I have sitting around. I recently upgraded to a 2.42 gigawatts flux capacitor for my time travels. Thats twice as good as the original! The old one has been rendered useless.
That's impossible! Slashdotters don't have girlfriends!
Why not? It could scan what you are typing about to a friend and display relevant text ads in a sidebar.
Ie:
1) What are you doing tonight?
2) I dunno, I was thinking about seeing a movie. Want to come with me?
1) Sure, want to go see Shrek 2? - At this point a text ad comes up in the sidebar with local movie listings.
I've been using gmail for about a week now and I've found that their ads are surprisingly relevant to my conversations. One time, someone mentioned 'Miss Manners' in an email and an ad came up to buy a copy. I think they'll get a lot of click-throughs on their email this way, and it could be extended to an IM concept.
Any way to have a unix-like symlink behaviour natively to Windows?
is stored on a 40GB CF card, which stays around my neck, when I am creamated - it goes with me.
:-P
Is that when your body is rendered into artificial dairy creamer?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q= ecmguy&btnG=Search
There was a very respected GM ecm hacker that posted a lot of information on the Engine Control Modules (ie computers) that run GM vehicles.
He passed away, and now that information is almost lost, as he was hosting it on yahoo and geocities, and the accounts have since expired.
Some people have mirrored it, but it's getting hard to find.
Not only does he run out of money, he gets a slashdotting too. :(
I recently started playing poker with some friends, and what I find fascinating is the mix of the math skills and people skills that you need to be a good poker player.
The math skills are definitely my strong point, but getting together face to face to play poker gives a geek a way to practice reading body language in an environment where it is perfectly acceptable to stare at a person to figure out what they are thinking. I've never been able to do a quick read on a person's body language, but I play with guys that do, and I hope I'm learning from them.
Spelling nazi sez:
Ephemeral, not empherial.
Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother, too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!
- from The Stupids, 1996
Try LabWindows/CVI. It's their C compiler/IDE for Virtual Instruments, and it's quite nice to use.