I've been doing this since 1998 and have had only one bounced cheque, and this was from a supposed friend. Maybe it helps that I'm rather large and look a bit like a biker.
I think someone at Microsoft has been reading Slashdot, I have two computers running XP and they both recently downloaded a bunch of updates. It asked me to reboot, but I was in the middle of doing something else. During the next reboot it asked if it could install the patches before shutting down. To me this was almost as painless as using Synaptic on Debian to do any updates. Without the need to reboot of course.
This has to be one of the stupidest comments I've seen here for a long time. EZTree was just a bittorrent tracker site, the files in question lived on their users computers.
It more than likely is a problem with cold solder connections on the main circuit board. It can be a very tedious job, but you'll end up saving yourself about $60.00 if you do it yourself. Just remember to unplug the TV.
Might as well mod this as redundant. Every time there is a kernel release somebody asks why is this here? You don't have to read it, if you are not interested in kernel releases
I didn't see anybody complain about the minor OS upgrade that Microsoft released last week.
There are lot of people that come to this site that are interested in kernel releases, and you do know that Slashdot was primarily a linux site when it first started
I am running crappy hardware, ECS MB with Duron CPU, SIS chipset, MSI wlan, Soundblaster PCI 128, 512MB generic ram and 40GB hdd. I installed SP2 about three weeks ago and it installed just fine and I was really happy with it. The reason i reinstalled is that this is a dual boot machine running WinXP and Knoppix. My windows partition was gettng to small so I wanted to enlarge the partition to 15GB meaning it was eaier to do a new install. BTW the MSI PC45G works great with the WinXP driver under Knoppix
I'm posting this from a debian based distibution that does include the Nvidia drivers, auto-detected and setup my CD-RW, printer setup is easier than in Windows and usb was truly plug n' play.
You have to remember that most newbies are more then likely coming from Windows, and as we all Windows users generally do not rtfm, so you can throw that suggestion out too.
I used a combination of gramofile, (you can find it on freshmeat) to convert my Lp's to.wav files, it also can find and separate the tracks and filter out the pops and ticks. For the two albums that it couldn't serparate the tracks I used ecawave to cut the.wav's into separate files. I then used a program called encoder to convert the.wav's to.mp3's.
To actually record the Lp's I used an old Mitsubishi stereo system with a turntable that my aunt gave me. I used a cable from the cassette monitor out on the amplifier to the line input on my SB PCI128.
This was all done on an old PII 266Mhz running Debian with 96MB of ram.
Actually most vcr's these days set the clock automagically. The vcr tunes it self to the local PBS affiliate, which them sends a time signal to the vcr. The only thing you have to do is set it for daylight savings if the area you live in uses it
I can't say for sure, but subjectively, the picture quality on a beta machine is much better then a comparable vhs machine. Right now I have a Sony beta vcr on my workbench, and even at BIII speed, the quality of the picture is far better than vhs at SP. Comparing the picture quality between Phantom Menace (which is supposed to be manufactured to THX specs) and a ten year old home made copy of Fantasia, the beta tape is by far better quality.
As far as mechanics are concerned, the beta machines are way more complicated then a comparable vhs machine. If I recall correctly, in the early eighties when there was still competiton between beta and vhs, we sold beta machines for about $100.00 more than a comaparable vhs vcr.
The real problem with beta was that there where never the same amount of titles available as ther was for vhs, especially porn.
I haven't read the whole thread yet, but I think everyone here is missing what DVD encrytion is all about. IIRC the movie studio's don't give a damn whether you copy thier product or not. The idea behind encrypting the data is so that you can't make an exact duplicate of the movie. You can copy the thing as much as you want. The movie producers problem is that with the ability to digitally copy almost anything there is no degradation, a 20th generation copy is just as good as the 1st generation copy. With DVD we now have the ability to have almost the same experience at home as we do in the theater. This is not a copy protection issue, but rather a picture quality issue. If anyone has read the copyright notice at the start of the movie,instead of fast forwarding through it, you'll note that you can copy the movie for your own usage as much as you want, as long as it is not for financial gain.
So just to state the obvious, copy to your hearts content, just don't expect the same quality as the origional
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I've been doing this since 1998 and have had only one bounced cheque, and this was from a supposed friend. Maybe it helps that I'm rather large and look a bit like a biker.
I think someone at Microsoft has been reading Slashdot, I have two computers running XP and they both recently downloaded a bunch of updates. It asked me to reboot, but I was in the middle of doing something else. During the next reboot it asked if it could install the patches before shutting down. To me this was almost as painless as using Synaptic on Debian to do any updates. Without the need to reboot of course.
I take it you don't get Space then. Firefly is on every Thursday night at 8:00PM PDT. Check it out.
This has to be one of the stupidest comments I've seen here for a long time. EZTree was just a bittorrent tracker site, the files in question lived on their users computers.
It more than likely is a problem with cold solder connections on the main circuit board. It can be a very tedious job, but you'll end up saving yourself about $60.00 if you do it yourself. Just remember to unplug the TV.
Might as well mod this as redundant. Every time there is a kernel release somebody asks why is this here? You don't have to read it, if you are not interested in kernel releases
I didn't see anybody complain about the minor OS upgrade that Microsoft released last week.
There are lot of people that come to this site that are interested in kernel releases, and you do know that Slashdot was primarily a linux site when it first started
I am running crappy hardware, ECS MB with Duron CPU, SIS chipset, MSI wlan, Soundblaster PCI 128, 512MB generic ram and 40GB hdd. I installed SP2 about three weeks ago and it installed just fine and I was really happy with it. The reason i reinstalled is that this is a dual boot machine running WinXP and Knoppix. My windows partition was gettng to small so I wanted to enlarge the partition to 15GB meaning it was eaier to do a new install. BTW the MSI PC45G works great with the WinXP driver under Knoppix
I tried to install SP2 on a clean install this past weekend and it completely hosed my XP installation
I'm posting this from a debian based distibution that does include the Nvidia drivers, auto-detected and setup my CD-RW, printer setup is easier than in Windows and usb was truly plug n' play.
You have to remember that most newbies are more then likely coming from Windows, and as we all Windows users generally do not rtfm, so you can throw that suggestion out too.
I used a combination of gramofile, (you can find it on freshmeat) to convert my Lp's to .wav files, it also can find and separate the tracks and filter out the pops and ticks. For the two albums that it couldn't serparate the tracks I used ecawave to cut the .wav's into separate files. I then used a program called encoder to convert the .wav's to .mp3's.
To actually record the Lp's I used an old Mitsubishi stereo system with a turntable that my aunt gave me. I used a cable from the cassette monitor out on the amplifier to the line input on my SB PCI128.
This was all done on an old PII 266Mhz running Debian with 96MB of ram.
Actually most vcr's these days set the clock automagically. The vcr tunes it self to the local PBS affiliate, which them sends a time signal to the vcr. The only thing you have to do is set it for daylight savings if the area you live in uses it
I can't say for sure, but subjectively, the picture quality on a beta machine is much better then a comparable vhs machine. Right now I have a Sony beta vcr on my workbench, and even at BIII speed, the quality of the picture is far better than vhs at SP. Comparing the picture quality between Phantom Menace (which is supposed to be manufactured to THX specs) and a ten year old home made copy of Fantasia, the beta tape is by far better quality.
As far as mechanics are concerned, the beta machines are way more complicated then a comparable vhs machine. If I recall correctly, in the early eighties when there was still competiton between beta and vhs, we sold beta machines for about $100.00 more than a comaparable vhs vcr.
The real problem with beta was that there where never the same amount of titles available as ther was for vhs, especially porn.
I haven't read the whole thread yet, but I think everyone here is missing what DVD encrytion is all about. IIRC the movie studio's don't give a damn whether you copy thier product or not. The idea behind encrypting the data is so that you can't make an exact duplicate of the movie. You can copy the thing as much as you want. The movie producers problem is that with the ability to digitally copy almost anything there is no degradation, a 20th generation copy is just as good as the 1st generation copy. With DVD we now have the ability to have almost the same experience at home as we do in the theater. This is not a copy protection issue, but rather a picture quality issue. If anyone has read the copyright notice at the start of the movie,instead of fast forwarding through it, you'll note that you can copy the movie for your own usage as much as you want, as long as it is not for financial gain.
So just to state the obvious, copy to your hearts content, just don't expect the same quality as the origional