It's the stable implementation on the 2.4 kernel series. It also works for 2.6. There's a detailed howto...
Use the latest version, I've had no problems with it. Basically, try with a small system partition and , if posible two swap partitions, one of them larger that your RAM. You could use the mandrake partition manager to get some space back from XP and install this. OR Partition magic, if you have that available to you.
install a basic system with almost no apps, but the gcc compiler, XFree86 server, sound drivers, net card, etc. Try this thing, and if it works, THEN you can install apps over it or maybe reinstall with a bigger partition. If it doesn't work, just scrap it and wait for it on distro. Even if useful, I reckon we all have better things to do than fight our OS's:)
anyway, backups are GOOD for you, specially if by mistake you manage to wipe out your partition table:)
I have a Compaq Evo N160, and it also lacks APM in the BIOS... is an ACPI only box... (ok, lapbox!)
with kernel 2.4 the only trick is to pass pci=noacpi in grub (or lilo) to the kernel, and I'm as happy as can I be: software suspend, proper shutdown, speedstep, battery monitoring....
Using 2.4.22 as it comes in mdk9.2, but it worked fine in the mdk9.1 kernels (2.4.21 I think?). Should be no problem with recent distributions, on compiling your kernel...
with kernel 2.6, no nasty kernel switches !!! Now if only the atmelwan and vmware drivers compiled...
Seiko makes a similar product, although it requires a reader at the top of the page you use, you can use any kind of paper, so it's less expensive in the long term. It uses USB to connect to a computer or it can send the data via infrared to a palm or pocketpc
-You can get new firmware that corrects said bugs.
-You can get surround out, is in the Speakers Setup sub-menu
-MP3, ok, some research woud have helped you. It works flawlessly as long as the minimum bitrate is 64kbps (lame -v 1 -b 64 -F).
I use it for region 1,2 and 4 discs with no problem. Did I mention it does Pal-NTSC conversion in the player too???
I read that recipe too... hilarious !!! My experience is only with the KFC style popcorn (not so bad imho). Although I wouldn't mind trying this on my neighbor's oven:
"Oops!!! sorry!!! the chicken was supossed to become as huge as a turkey!!! not explode like this!!!"
I have an AIW that I can use for input... but when I only watch tv, I would like to turn off the not-so-quiet PC, and get the signal from my VCR. So, this device is good for me too.
But I can't find it!!!
Not in ebay, not in yahoo, not in amazon... heck, I even found a review here,but the company they link to, Aimslab Inc seems to have banished... and they were the manufacturers!!! Maybe they didn't sell enough of those?:-)
So, before you fork the money, make sure you can actually get the thing... and tell me where you found it:-)
Is the pcmcia port able to use lan or wireless cards or what??? Although firewire looks sweet, now I would REALLY have a pretext to buy a mini-DV camera too! Wheee!!
That's the best thing about the Mine that I liked... forget USB, do your transfers over ethernet. That, and Terapin is getting ready their SDK for the linux kernel inside... Hopefully Archos could do something like that, let's say, we add support for Ogg Vorbis on this thing??? Hopefully it will have a generic CPU and not a bunch on dedicated chips that we can't mess with.
I'm expecting mine to arrive actually... although I plan to use it more to free space on my digicam memory cards on the go, instead of waiting until I get to my PC.
One thing to note is that battery lasts only 3-4 hours... and that's 4 AA's !!!
So, not much use as a "on the go" mp3 player, but rather as a storage device...
In Mandrake 8.1 the ntfs driver is included, but not mounted automatically. I added it manually to fstab, but read only... it seems it's kind of flaky for writes...
check the man page for mount, for the options applicable to it...
And what about guys like me, who check./ from work, using w2k???
At home is linux all the way (tnx to the gatos proj for ati aiw drivers!), but not everyone has the option to switch at work (Yes, I develop sw for windows...)
4.75G is basically a single layer one sided disc... most DVD's out there these days are actually double layer... most movies are between 5G and 7.5G depending on extra tracks, etc...
BUT... You might select what audio/video streams you want to copy, reduce the total size and fit it in a DVD-R most of the time... but it would loose the authoring made on the original DVD (menu's and all that)... and you will need an authoring tool to make a simple menu for you stripped down mpeg-2 file.
Haven't seen a free authoring tool yet... they either run from cheap/simple to expen$ive/full authoring.
I've only used a trial version of dvdit, quite simple to use though...
The space station has, among its objectives, to develop *in space* the technology necesary to carry on bigger missions, like... going to Mars. Although Mir has been of great help, we still need to figure out how to send humans on a 3-4(?) year long trip to our red neighbor.
Also, the space ship would be assembled there... or at least, we can make eperiments to determine which components/materials to use on it.
It's a great step, although it's just the beginning:-)
Most likely it's because the mp3 is played using the EQ settings in your player, and the ripped wav is not.
For me, mp3's are a reasonable way to have my 600+ cd collection available wherever I go... and some of them I bought after hearing the lousy-quality-mp3-but-hey-this-song-is-great! files
wow... a rediscovered kind of First Post (literally)!
If this theory is true, apendicitis (sp?) would be one heck of a migraine;-)
It's very unlikely though... our brain is very well protected from external factors of most kinds. On the contrary, our guts are very close to huge sources of infection, and not strongly protected.
My guess is that we have to be very carefull with all the shit that goes trough there, so, it's highly monitored to raise the alarms asap if needed.
It was precisely Schumacher's treatment of the franchise what made it bad. Sadly, it made a bad name in Hollywood for comics-based movies (meaning not megabuck$ for the studios).
Hopefully, X-Men will not only be a good comic movie, but also a good movie. I read an interview with the director (Cinescape??), and seems like he is trying to have a decent film under his name.
As for the outcast innuendos in the article, hey, it's a comic and it is also entertainment. Doesn't hurt to have a sub-theme, but I don't think it's going to have a strong gay connotation, nor the sub-story should be taken too seriously in any case.
I would guess that if they don't have your version of the cd, basically you are screwed:-)
They *must* base their info in number of tracks, duration, offset, etc...
Which sucks, because many american cd's now include multimedia tracks instead of bonus songs like their foreign counterparts. IF I want to buy a video, I will. IF I buy a cd, I want music (the more tracks the better). Is this to difficult?
So, either the record execs don't have a clue, or I'm not in their target demographic. Or both:-)
About the Shuttle, I would say that not everything is so bad, there are many scientific experiments that can only be done in zero gravity, and the shuttle provides this capability (for long enough periods of time to, say, cultivate crystals or bacteria).
Yes, there are some projects that aren't useful or required at all (like, did we need a teacher in space? the fact that she died had a strong influence on the public opinion - not to excuse the mistakes made, ok?), but as long as NASA is a public institution it NEEDS the aproval of taxpayers to run.
That's the important ingredient: citizens that understand science, and are willing to invest on it, with *appropiate* expectations. It would help not only NASA, but many other fields as well.
For those who have kids: Please, get involved (REALLY involved) in their education, and make them understand the importance of research. They may not want to do research themselves, but they'll understand how it works, and how to ensure that research money is well used.
mmhh... guess I broadened the discussion too much.
I think he was refering to programmer-years of development.
Even if Linux is younger, by having more people developing it, using it and giving feedback, the end result is that Linux is much more mature at this stage.
That may change if the developers and users get tired of Linux (or from the companies that step in the development process:-)).
I have to completely agree with you. I don't care how many notes can you see, copy, read on the web, or get inside your brain trough osmosis, memorizing facts is not the best way to learn for all disciplines.
I'm explicitly leaving aside those carrers where the context is very important, like law and accounting, there yuo have to read and memorize a *lot* of stuff before you can start thinking how to solve a problem.
Understanding the abstractions involved in your clases is much more important, because in the end, almost everything that you memorized is not going to give you the most compeling competitive advantage in the workplace: Being up to date, learning to learn, show that you can do/know/have/understand something that is patricular and distinct. Have you noticed that for most of the companies, and after your first job, nobody cares where you studied?
If you want to "learn" by using someone elses notes, sorry pal, you are NOT getting the skills you need to work. Be my guest, I hope I don't find you as a coworker.
To summarize: I support the profesors on this, for me is the same as suporting *real* education instead of note-taking monkeys.
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It's the stable implementation on the 2.4 kernel series. It also works for 2.6. There's a detailed howto...
Use the latest version, I've had no problems with it. Basically, try with a small system partition and , if posible two swap partitions, one of them larger that your RAM. You could use the mandrake partition manager to get some space back from XP and install this. OR Partition magic, if you have that available to you.
install a basic system with almost no apps, but the gcc compiler, XFree86 server, sound drivers, net card, etc. Try this thing, and if it works, THEN you can install apps over it or maybe reinstall with a bigger partition. If it doesn't work, just scrap it and wait for it on distro. Even if useful, I reckon we all have better things to do than fight our OS's
anyway, backups are GOOD for you, specially if by mistake you manage to wipe out your partition table
I have a Compaq Evo N160, and it also lacks APM in the BIOS... is an ACPI only box... (ok, lapbox!)
with kernel 2.4 the only trick is to pass pci=noacpi in grub (or lilo) to the kernel, and I'm as happy as can I be: software suspend, proper shutdown, speedstep, battery monitoring....
Using 2.4.22 as it comes in mdk9.2, but it worked fine in the mdk9.1 kernels (2.4.21 I think?). Should be no problem with recent distributions, on compiling your kernel...
with kernel 2.6, no nasty kernel switches !!! Now if only the atmelwan and vmware drivers compiled...
Should give a try.
man, it's been long since I laughed so hard...
:)
very hilarious sh**
My stupid VB-only coworkers are missing all the fun, poor bastards...
here is the company info about it
I got it to take class notes and it works great. The only bad thing is having to re-position the clip after you write on each page...
MOD THIS UP!!!
Hey, I played THAT game... it was certainly one of my favorites.
:-)
I can't remember any other party game that was as much fun... even playing alone.
Ok... back to Super Monkey Ball
Can't see much of a trouble with that myself, but it was tempting to say it. Anyway
Congratulations for you both !!!
Most probably is a ripper with VCD format ouput.
-You can get new firmware that corrects said bugs.
-You can get surround out, is in the Speakers Setup sub-menu
-MP3, ok, some research woud have helped you. It works flawlessly as long as the minimum bitrate is 64kbps (lame -v 1 -b 64 -F).
I use it for region 1,2 and 4 discs with no problem. Did I mention it does Pal-NTSC conversion in the player too???
so... not a bachelor anymore...
I demote you from geek, to geek traitor !!!!
:-)
I read that recipe too... hilarious !!! My experience is only with the KFC style popcorn (not so bad imho). Although I wouldn't mind trying this on my neighbor's oven:
"Oops!!! sorry!!! the chicken was supossed to become as huge as a turkey!!! not explode like this!!!"
But I can't find it!!!
Not in ebay, not in yahoo, not in amazon... heck, I even found a review here,but the company they link to, Aimslab Inc seems to have banished... and they were the manufacturers!!! Maybe they didn't sell enough of those? :-)
So, before you fork the money, make sure you can actually get the thing... and tell me where you found it :-)
And... no, I don't have an "real" TV :-)
I just bought the Terapin Mine... now this??
Is the pcmcia port able to use lan or wireless cards or what??? Although firewire looks sweet, now I would REALLY have a pretext to buy a mini-DV camera too! Wheee!!
That's the best thing about the Mine that I liked... forget USB, do your transfers over ethernet. That, and Terapin is getting ready their SDK for the linux kernel inside... Hopefully Archos could do something like that, let's say, we add support for Ogg Vorbis on this thing??? Hopefully it will have a generic CPU and not a bunch on dedicated chips that we can't mess with.
I'm expecting mine to arrive actually... although I plan to use it more to free space on my digicam memory cards on the go, instead of waiting until I get to my PC.
One thing to note is that battery lasts only 3-4 hours... and that's 4 AA's !!!
So, not much use as a "on the go" mp3 player, but rather as a storage device...
In Mandrake 8.1 the ntfs driver is included, but not mounted automatically. I added it manually to fstab, but read only... it seems it's kind of flaky for writes...
check the man page for mount, for the options applicable to it...
Gerry
And what about guys like me, who check ./ from work, using w2k???
At home is linux all the way (tnx to the gatos proj for ati aiw drivers!), but not everyone has the option to switch at work (Yes, I develop sw for windows...)
Gerry
Basically, yes....
4.75G is basically a single layer one sided disc... most DVD's out there these days are actually double layer... most movies are between 5G and 7.5G depending on extra tracks, etc...
BUT... You might select what audio/video streams you want to copy, reduce the total size and fit it in a DVD-R most of the time... but it would loose the authoring made on the original DVD (menu's and all that)... and you will need an authoring tool to make a simple menu for you stripped down mpeg-2 file.
Haven't seen a free authoring tool yet... they either run from cheap/simple to expen$ive/full authoring.
I've only used a trial version of dvdit, quite simple to use though...
The space station has, among its objectives, to develop *in space* the technology necesary to carry on bigger missions, like... going to Mars. Although Mir has been of great help, we still need to figure out how to send humans on a 3-4(?) year long trip to our red neighbor.
:-)
Also, the space ship would be assembled there... or at least, we can make eperiments to determine which components/materials to use on it.
It's a great step, although it's just the beginning
Most likely it's because the mp3 is played using the EQ settings in your player, and the ripped wav is not.
For me, mp3's are a reasonable way to have my 600+ cd collection available wherever I go... and some of them I bought after hearing the lousy-quality-mp3-but-hey-this-song-is-great! files
wow... a rediscovered kind of First Post (literally)!
;-)
If this theory is true, apendicitis (sp?) would be one heck of a migraine
It's very unlikely though... our brain is very well protected from external factors of most kinds. On the contrary, our guts are very close to huge sources of infection, and not strongly protected.
My guess is that we have to be very carefull with all the shit that goes trough there, so, it's highly monitored to raise the alarms asap if needed.
It was precisely Schumacher's treatment of the franchise what made it bad. Sadly, it made a bad name in Hollywood for comics-based movies (meaning not megabuck$ for the studios).
Hopefully, X-Men will not only be a good comic movie, but also a good movie. I read an interview with the director (Cinescape??), and seems like he is trying to have a decent film under his name.
As for the outcast innuendos in the article, hey, it's a comic and it is also entertainment. Doesn't hurt to have a sub-theme, but I don't think it's going to have a strong gay connotation, nor the sub-story should be taken too seriously in any case.
I would guess that if they don't have your version of the cd, basically you are screwed :-)
:-)
They *must* base their info in number of tracks, duration, offset, etc...
Which sucks, because many american cd's now include multimedia tracks instead of bonus songs like their foreign counterparts. IF I want to buy a video, I will. IF I buy a cd, I want music (the more tracks the better). Is this to difficult?
So, either the record execs don't have a clue, or I'm not in their target demographic. Or both
Abwh
About the Shuttle, I would say that not everything is so bad, there are many scientific experiments that can only be done in zero gravity, and the shuttle provides this capability (for long enough periods of time to, say, cultivate crystals or bacteria).
Yes, there are some projects that aren't useful or required at all (like, did we need a teacher in space? the fact that she died had a strong influence on the public opinion - not to excuse the mistakes made, ok?), but as long as NASA is a public institution it NEEDS the aproval of taxpayers to run.
That's the important ingredient: citizens that understand science, and are willing to invest on it, with *appropiate* expectations. It would help not only NASA, but many other fields as well.
For those who have kids: Please, get involved (REALLY involved) in their education, and make them understand the importance of research. They may not want to do research themselves, but they'll understand how it works, and how to ensure that research money is well used.
mmhh... guess I broadened the discussion too much.
Abwh
I think he was refering to programmer-years of development.
:-)).
Even if Linux is younger, by having more people developing it, using it and giving feedback, the end result is that Linux is much more mature at this stage.
That may change if the developers and users get tired of Linux (or from the companies that step in the development process
Gerardo
I have to completely agree with you. I don't care how many notes can you see, copy, read on the web, or get inside your brain trough osmosis, memorizing facts is not the best way to learn for all disciplines.
I'm explicitly leaving aside those carrers where the context is very important, like law and accounting, there yuo have to read and memorize a *lot* of stuff before you can start thinking how to solve a problem.
Understanding the abstractions involved in your clases is much more important, because in the end, almost everything that you memorized is not going to give you the most compeling competitive advantage in the workplace: Being up to date, learning to learn, show that you can do/know/have/understand something that is patricular and distinct. Have you noticed that for most of the companies, and after your first job, nobody cares where you studied?
If you want to "learn" by using someone elses notes, sorry pal, you are NOT getting the skills you need to work. Be my guest, I hope I don't find you as a coworker.
To summarize: I support the profesors on this, for me is the same as suporting *real* education instead of note-taking monkeys.