I'd just like to point at that they *are* releasing their
source - just grab their CVS! I've been using it for some
time now, and it is seeing improvements now and then.
I was going to post about r3mix.net myself - it's definitely
a good way to do it. Here's my 'hiq' script that I use with my 'rip' script to encode my own CDs:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $2 ]; then
lame -V1 -b128 -h -mj -q1 $1 $2
fi
For those who jump at people's throat for using joint
stereo, you should know that all it means is to make
both channels a pointer to the same audio frame when
the sound is exactly the same in both left and right
channels.
This sounds very good on my Cambridge Soundworks
speakers. For encoding to my RIO, I usually just
encode some MP3s to a lower bitrate - the earbuds
are so crap it doesn't make any difference. This
script is handy for low-quality encoding to Rio:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $2 ]; then
lame --mp3input -b64 -h -mj -q1 $1 $2
fi
I have not tried Ogg - I'm not sure if it has the same
sort of variable bitrate options, joint stereo, high-
quality special voodoo etc. I'm happy with Lame.
Nice of the lads to port WinAmp, and actually use
proper GUI tools - as far as I could tell, it used Gtk+.
But as far as I could tell, there was also a timer to make
sure we couldn't see much of it before it crashed:P
Anyway, I would stick to XMMS as I'm actually happy
with it - it plays sound, music, movies, and whatever
else these crazy plugins do. I think I'll make a picture
viewer for it (with slideshow options) just to not have
to mess with even more programs;)
>Ah yes, the good old bootblock viruses.. I even
>remember a bootblock virus detector/cleaner too.
>I grew up on Amigas, amusingly enough to most I
>assume. Bootblocks were great for lots of things.
>I forget how big they were.. first 512 bytes of
>the disk?
1024 bytes (two blocks), actually;)
I learned 680x0 assembler from disassembling these
beauties. Started with the S.C.A. virus
("Something wonderful has happened..."), then went
on to other bootblock viruses and antivirus tools.
There was even a viruskiller that hooked into the
memory like a virus, except it got priority over
everything. Never managed to decode that thing:(
Here's an interesting link to a site dedicated
to MP3-encoding:
http://r3mix.net
(Cut and paste, as I post with plain old text)
In short, LAME is considered a pretty good encoder.
When using certain VBR options, it's possibly to
get the music so close it fools stereophiles,
or so it claims. All my CDs are encoded with the
recommended options: lame -V1 -b128 -h -mj -q1
This has been listened to carefully by two half-
deaf cynics (me and a mate), and we find it good.
Try it; you might find it a tad better than the
plain 160kbps encoding some swear by.
VBR *will* make a difference, and joint stereo
will save space.
(Side note:Many mistake joint stereo for something
else; in MP3-encoding it means that when both the
left and right signals are equal, only one is
saved. Definitely a good idea.)
The X11 libraries have an option to put an image
in the border or the title bar. Just look up the
manpages and documentation on a nearby unix-
workalike computer.
They used DECT because it is more standard in
Norway, or so I parsed it from the article.
It will be sold separately outside Scandinavia,
and they're working on getting 802.11 in potential
US-versions. The article *did* mention a Californian office...
This thing could be neat, and if the motherboard
in the unit supported higher frequencies, I'd go
for a Transmeta Crusoe whenever these mythical
beast are available.
VAXman spewed: >There is NO obscure music on Napster - only > teenybopper music. Actually, there *is* obscure music. What do *you* consider obscure, if not Dr.Demento's collection of insane songs, including Kinko the Kid-loving Clown? Or Ren & Stimpy's "Don't whiz on the electric fence"? Or some real music, like Funker Vogt, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, VNV Nation, Hawkwind and Blue Man Group?
Neither of the above are available in the shops around Dublin, so *I* label these artists as 'obscure'. But that's only my opinion.
>Baldur's gate suffered from too many >crippling flaws to come near diablo as far >as my experience went. I've played through That may be so, but Diablo is more of an action hack & slash game with adventure elements, while Baldur's Gate is actually trying to be an adventure game, with story and plot and all that new-fangled nonsense game-reviewers are so fond of;)
No matter how backwards the Norwegian government is, they treat minors different from adults.
The only problem is the equipment which the gov. will hold on to, and do nothing with. They have absolutely NO clue when it comes to computers; in the kiddiporn cases, they grabbed printers, games and everything else that couldn't possibly be useful in any way whatsoever. There have been other cases, with people I know...
You might be interested in some source from the Dxr2 project at opensource.creative.com. There's one BrookTree chip in the Dxr2 which is usually disabled when playing DVD on Linux:)
(The usual comment is "Please turn this on if you want to avoid pirating your dvds";)
What, worms can actually *win* over someone? The way I've seen it, the mindworms reduce the hitpoints of the defending unit by a miniscule percentage, then die. Quickly. If you design the right units, psi units won't have a chance;)
Alpha Centauri (and Alien Crossfire) are serious addictions. If you haven't spent money on the now-reduced Linux versions, I suggest you go get the Loki port when it's out. I've lost most of my xmas vacation to AC+AX. But I had the flu, anyway.
I'm using the Dxr2in Linux myself. The player makes a call to one function in the driver to turn Macrovision OFF right at the beginning:)
Re:And the point of this being...?
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Yay! Another one who understood it! Thanks, Freedent, I was seriously starting to fear Slashdot was overrun by people with no hacking spirit.
To the rest of you: It's for *fun* not for profit, dammit! If you could use stuff from this to make LILO cooler and more useful, maybe we could shut people up?;)
(What happened to that idea somebody had about making a free BIOS replacement for Linux/*BSD* boxes?)
It seems like I'll have to read Salon on a regular basis now; good writing and interesting material. And it's about something we all should care about. Aaahh...
(And guys 'n gals - stop flaming eachother every time there is mention of the three-letter acronym described as open sores!)
OK, I have the most original reason: The serial port on my Amiga stopped working. I ran out and got some hardware nobody was using, installed an 850MB harddrive and Slackware. Didn't really take too many hours setting it up properly, either:) (I even got it reading the Amiga filesystem after my first kernel compile!)
I suspect Bob has been reincarnated already; there is a setting in IE5 to allow completion of just about anything you type in little boxes. And that includes passwords. Of course it defaults to 'on'.
Re:annoying, but almost necessary now
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I think you could do it quite easily: Put the raw iso image of each distribution on the DVD, and mount the ones you need. Should work without any pain whatsoever.
The nice people at cdmediaworld.com can give some pointers to at least ripping the trailers. By pure coincidence, these very same instructions could work on some movies, too;)
I am using Linux, but will start using Be when I get me another harddrive - I'd like to see Photogenics ported to both, of course, but would I then have to buy two licenses? Or would it be possible to get a license to use many versions of it on one computer?
Slashdot Mirror
I'd just like to point at that they *are* releasing their
v sroot/winex login
v sroot/winex co wine
source - just grab their CVS! I've been using it for some
time now, and it is seeing improvements now and then.
Try:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/c
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/c
I was going to post about r3mix.net myself - it's definitely
a good way to do it. Here's my 'hiq' script that I use with my 'rip' script to encode my own CDs:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $2 ]; then
lame -V1 -b128 -h -mj -q1 $1 $2
fi
For those who jump at people's throat for using joint
stereo, you should know that all it means is to make
both channels a pointer to the same audio frame when
the sound is exactly the same in both left and right
channels.
This sounds very good on my Cambridge Soundworks
speakers. For encoding to my RIO, I usually just
encode some MP3s to a lower bitrate - the earbuds
are so crap it doesn't make any difference. This
script is handy for low-quality encoding to Rio:
#!/bin/bash
if [ $2 ]; then
lame --mp3input -b64 -h -mj -q1 $1 $2
fi
I have not tried Ogg - I'm not sure if it has the same
sort of variable bitrate options, joint stereo, high-
quality special voodoo etc. I'm happy with Lame.
Nice of the lads to port WinAmp, and actually use :P
;)
proper GUI tools - as far as I could tell, it used Gtk+.
But as far as I could tell, there was also a timer to make
sure we couldn't see much of it before it crashed
Anyway, I would stick to XMMS as I'm actually happy
with it - it plays sound, music, movies, and whatever
else these crazy plugins do. I think I'll make a picture
viewer for it (with slideshow options) just to not have
to mess with even more programs
>Ah yes, the good old bootblock viruses .. I even
;)
:(
>remember a bootblock virus detector/cleaner too.
>I grew up on Amigas, amusingly enough to most I
>assume. Bootblocks were great for lots of things.
>I forget how big they were.. first 512 bytes of
>the disk?
1024 bytes (two blocks), actually
I learned 680x0 assembler from disassembling these
beauties. Started with the S.C.A. virus
("Something wonderful has happened..."), then went
on to other bootblock viruses and antivirus tools.
There was even a viruskiller that hooked into the
memory like a virus, except it got priority over
everything. Never managed to decode that thing
Here's an interesting link to a site dedicated
to MP3-encoding:
http://r3mix.net
(Cut and paste, as I post with plain old text)
In short, LAME is considered a pretty good encoder.
When using certain VBR options, it's possibly to
get the music so close it fools stereophiles,
or so it claims. All my CDs are encoded with the
recommended options: lame -V1 -b128 -h -mj -q1
This has been listened to carefully by two half-
deaf cynics (me and a mate), and we find it good.
Try it; you might find it a tad better than the
plain 160kbps encoding some swear by.
VBR *will* make a difference, and joint stereo
will save space.
(Side note:Many mistake joint stereo for something
else; in MP3-encoding it means that when both the
left and right signals are equal, only one is
saved. Definitely a good idea.)
The X11 libraries have an option to put an image
in the border or the title bar. Just look up the
manpages and documentation on a nearby unix-
workalike computer.
They used DECT because it is more standard in
;)
Norway, or so I parsed it from the article.
It will be sold separately outside Scandinavia,
and they're working on getting 802.11 in potential
US-versions. The article *did* mention a Californian office...
This thing could be neat, and if the motherboard
in the unit supported higher frequencies, I'd go
for a Transmeta Crusoe whenever these mythical
beast are available.
Time to visit ma as an excuse to buy a new toy
VAXman spewed:
>There is NO obscure music on Napster - only
> teenybopper music.
Actually, there *is* obscure music. What do *you*
consider obscure, if not Dr.Demento's collection
of insane songs, including Kinko the Kid-loving
Clown? Or Ren & Stimpy's "Don't whiz on the
electric fence"? Or some real music, like Funker
Vogt, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, VNV Nation,
Hawkwind and Blue Man Group?
Neither of the above are available in the shops
around Dublin, so *I* label these artists as
'obscure'. But that's only my opinion.
>Baldur's gate suffered from too many ;)
>crippling flaws to come near diablo as far
>as my experience went. I've played through
That may be so, but Diablo is more of an
action hack & slash game with adventure
elements, while Baldur's Gate is actually
trying to be an adventure game, with story
and plot and all that new-fangled nonsense
game-reviewers are so fond of
You're comparing two different fruits.
2-4 seems like a nice tabsize for me; I change it
;)
on occasion, depending on language, really.
In shell scripts, you typically end up with tons
of indentation (and not to mention Lisp...)
C, on the other hand, is recommended to have no
more than three levels of indentation; divide it
up into sub-procedures as much as you can.
And Gnu code...yes, I agree with those who say
it should be indented six feet below
No matter how backwards the Norwegian government
is, they treat minors different from adults.
The only problem is the equipment which the gov.
will hold on to, and do nothing with. They have
absolutely NO clue when it comes to computers;
in the kiddiporn cases, they grabbed printers,
games and everything else that couldn't possibly
be useful in any way whatsoever. There have been
other cases, with people I know...
You might be interested in some source from the :)
;)
Dxr2 project at opensource.creative.com.
There's one BrookTree chip in the Dxr2 which is
usually disabled when playing DVD on Linux
(The usual comment is "Please turn this on if you
want to avoid pirating your dvds"
What, worms can actually *win* over someone? ;)
The way I've seen it, the mindworms reduce the
hitpoints of the defending unit by a miniscule
percentage, then die. Quickly. If you design the
right units, psi units won't have a chance
Alpha Centauri (and Alien Crossfire) are serious
addictions. If you haven't spent money on the
now-reduced Linux versions, I suggest you go get
the Loki port when it's out. I've lost most of
my xmas vacation to AC+AX. But I had the flu,
anyway.
I'm using the Dxr2in Linux myself. The player :)
makes a call to one function in the driver to
turn Macrovision OFF right at the beginning
Yay! Another one who understood it!
;)
Thanks, Freedent, I was seriously starting to
fear Slashdot was overrun by people with no
hacking spirit.
To the rest of you:
It's for *fun* not for profit, dammit! If you
could use stuff from this to make LILO cooler
and more useful, maybe we could shut people up?
(What happened to that idea somebody had about
making a free BIOS replacement for Linux/*BSD*
boxes?)
Here's me doing my Keeanu impression: Whoah.
It seems like I'll have to read Salon on a
regular basis now; good writing and interesting
material. And it's about something we all should
care about. Aaahh...
(And guys 'n gals - stop flaming eachother every
time there is mention of the three-letter acronym
described as open sores!)
This means my most important tools will be :)
better - gcc and snes9x
Mmm...well-financed compiler development...
OK, I have the most original reason: The serial :)
port on my Amiga stopped working. I ran out and
got some hardware nobody was using, installed an
850MB harddrive and Slackware. Didn't really take
too many hours setting it up properly, either
(I even got it reading the Amiga filesystem after
my first kernel compile!)
I suspect Bob has been reincarnated already; there
is a setting in IE5 to allow completion of just
about anything you type in little boxes. And that
includes passwords. Of course it defaults to 'on'.
I think you could do it quite easily:
Put the raw iso image of each distribution on the
DVD, and mount the ones you need. Should work
without any pain whatsoever.
It would be a best-seller, if they could make a
;)
generic bootdisk that started the respective
installer programs for the distribution you want.
One problem: Who gets to be on the top of the
list?
The nice people at cdmediaworld.com can give some ;)
pointers to at least ripping the trailers.
By pure coincidence, these very same instructions
could work on some movies, too
I think you should consider open-sourcing Ng, Paul! ;)
I would definitely have use for parts of it.
Maybe it could be used in an unholy union with SDL?
I am using Linux, but will start using Be when
I get me another harddrive - I'd like to see
Photogenics ported to both, of course, but would
I then have to buy two licenses? Or would it be
possible to get a license to use many versions of
it on one computer?