If you're having trouble playing them on the legit side, why not just rip them? Besides the moral issues, you could burn and watch then destroy the copy.....
2 options: Ripit4me (in conjunction with dvddecrypter) or dvdfab decrypter....
I have a quick Q for you- how quiet is this puppy? ( the evo v1.1) - I'd be concerned with the thing being a little loud to offset the heat of the bulb. While we're on this subject too, how much power is consumed by this projector? This would directly relate to heat given off, which would probably be more than a few lcd panels...
Also, since the res is 16:9 - and low at that, I wouldn't have a use for it in a panel display setting. Maybe for something like a conference room or showing movies, but with the poster's requirement like, say run a video in one zone while showing a powerpoint presentation in another one) I would guess that a higher resolution would be required for multiple displayed items at one time.
* stay away from loud concerts, parties, dance halls
I play drums (with myself, I'm so lonely) - it gets amazingly loud in a short period of time if you have no earplugs in. In addition, I've been to concerts where my ears physically start hurting. I end up going home at that point.
I just bought 2 more sets of these since I lost my first set. Me and the wife are going to a concert in a few weeks and I want to be prepared. These plugs help you hear the full frequency range of hearing, just 20db less. In contrast, most ear plugs really squash the highs out....
If the 5 volts that is being supplied to the DAC is "dirty" due to all of the noise within the PC environment, your output will be dirty as well. It's not just about the way the signal gets transferred into the analog domain; it's also about how clean the input signal is to begin with.
I've always purchased PCI sound cards based on the fact that they should sound better than most on-board solutions. I've been right most of the time, other than that cheapo mad-dog 5.1 card I bought... it was worse. Turtle Beach has been good to me, even though they don't seem to have the same gusto they had in the past for sound card manufacturing....
I would love to invest in a blu-ray or HD-DVD player. In fact, in looking at a recent one-call mag or some such, I see that there are "entry-level" HD-DVD players available for $399.
hmmm.
I still don't think that $399 is affordable enough, at least not for me. I didn't have a DVD player until they were around the $100 mark. The other thing I've noticed is that the Blu-Ray players are still expensive - or at least more expensive than the HD-DVD.
So what gives on the pricing? Average joes will not like to pick one up if they can't get into the 100$ market....
I've found you can stop the "Automatic Updates" service and not get the message to "reboot" all the darn time. Of course, then you can reboot at your leisure. This does not disable the service, just stops it for your current session.
Or, start-run a "net stop wuauserv". Once you hit enter, it'll stop the service via a command prompt. For some reason, that's simpler for me.
I was recently thinking about this within my world of Roadrunner service in Columbus Ohio, from a usage standpoint. I had downloaded a few Linux distros, and started getting some stuff from EA Link (patches, games etc.) Command and Conquer 3 was scheduled to be released, and I hesitated to pull the trigger.
4GB download.
I don't know why; I normally just like getting things through the internet rather than having to travel to a store and what not. But I didn't want to be flagged as a top user or give them any reason to take away the service. In hindsight, I saved some money because the Target about 2000 yards from my house had the game for 42.88 the day of the release (online price = 49.99) So I guess I'm just as interested as you are from a locality standpoint - anyone else in Columbus OH want to chime in?
This obviously doesn't help external entities trying to reach hosts that sit in your DMZ on a failed connection,
Routing protocols (namely BGP) should provide assistance with this. In fact, BGP could also handle the outbound traffic unless you have a specific reason to route to a specific destination; even then, you could specify metrics to do that and let the routing protocol take care of fail-over....
I've recently converted my second workstation at home to Linux - as well as am dual booting my laptop between winXP and Ubuntu.
If someone came out with an amarok on windows I would simply be overjoyed! My main system is a gaming system, and runs XP solely because of those games. I can't dual boot it - I think there's an issue with the Creative X-Fi not being supported via Linux yet, so I couldn't use amarok anyways...
I thought about this as well; however, if you think about it - this paint could really help in certain areas.
Let's say you have a need for wireless in a data center. Most data centers I've been to have 0 windows - windows just aren't energy efficient enough to have in a data center; in addition, if someone wanted in from the outside, they'd just smash a window. Those servers would start to look like gold to a thief.....
Anyways, any secured area that you might want a specific network on wireless could have 0 (or faraday caged) windows within the room. I'm sure if it's a wireless security issue, this paint can be a huge help. It probably wouldn't help much on your house, for example.
Let's take wireless in a corporation, for example. There's a great value-add to having wireless in places like conference rooms - and as I've found in my work, even in the cube-realm. I can take my laptop into any office and stay connected. It's so nice that I've given up use of a PDA for the first time in 6 years or so, and no more need to sync.
Anyways, from my experience the corporation knows about the flaws in wireless and would love to be able to ensure that there is an almost 0 chance of someone getting on the network unauthorized. This paint would help with this. However, would it subvert someone from grabbing the signal with a laptop and a basic WiFi card? I'm betting so. Would it help someone on the building top of the neighboring business with a yagi pointed at the building? Maybe not... but then again, that's what we place other safeguards in place for (WPA with authentications; centralized AAA, paging on "odd" attempts to connect)
In the end, it's all about diminishing returns. If you want to go the complete extra mile (as someone like the Government would) - you'd take any precaution to make sure that no one outside the specific area would be able to connect at all. You would have a specific team who would do a security audit and try to break in. For a standard company, you'd probably attempt to tie everything back to one place and use higher encryption with AAA. That's my experience, anyways.
But the state doesn't have personal tax. So if you actually lived in the state of Washington it would be a good deal. This was even noted in the/. summary: It should be noted, though, that Washington state does not collect personal income tax, and hence relies on state sales tax for 53.1% of its revenues."
Tip: Don't buy anything in Washington if you don't live there:)
If you think it MIGHT be your hardware, look into that. Seriously. It's possible (I'd give it 60/40) that it's your hardware or something outside of the OS's control. I once (back in the day) installed ECC memory into a box that clearly was non-ECC. That was an interesting couple of days before I realized why things were crashing inconsistently....
Run Memtest - heck, it's right on your Ubuntu boot cd! If that shows no errors for a pass or two, find something that's CPU intensive and run it for a while (sorry, don't know what you'd run in Linux to do this...) Or open up your box and make sure the heatsink is (mounted) on the processor properly etc.
Granted, there are always exceptions, but whenever I see a car that is around 20 years old I expect the following:
1. To be able to smell gas/oil burning/other nastiness from the exhaust. 2. Sometimes loud due to no exhaust left. 3. Rusting metal. Given, doesn't exactly affect the performance of the car, but if the sheet metal is starting to rust..... 4. Holes in the metal. 5. (not as often) SQUEEEEEEE either from the worn belt or worn brakes.
Now, that may be partly due to where I live, but I would say 90% of the older than 15 years cars all have those traits. If I had to hazard a guess, they're not in very decent mechanical shape, but they get people around, so they're still in use. A far cry from "perfectly functional" - unless perfectly functional means they can get you there, albeit probably not the safest.... and let's get to the real root of this - most people (again, there are exclusions) that drive the cars that are this old really don't have the money to keep up with them properly anyways. Hell, I own a 78 Cougar and it's amazing me at how much money it costs me to retrofit just the mechanicals - that's not counting the bodywork!!!
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If you're having trouble playing them on the legit side, why not just rip them? Besides the moral issues, you could burn and watch then destroy the copy.....
2 options: Ripit4me (in conjunction with dvddecrypter) or dvdfab decrypter....
*ahem*verified on Stranger Than Fiction*ahem*
I have a quick Q for you- how quiet is this puppy? ( the evo v1.1) - I'd be concerned with the thing being a little loud to offset the heat of the bulb. While we're on this subject too, how much power is consumed by this projector? This would directly relate to heat given off, which would probably be more than a few lcd panels...
Also, since the res is 16:9 - and low at that, I wouldn't have a use for it in a panel display setting. Maybe for something like a conference room or showing movies, but with the poster's requirement like, say run a video in one zone while showing a powerpoint presentation in another one) I would guess that a higher resolution would be required for multiple displayed items at one time.
Any further thoughts?
* stay away from loud concerts, parties, dance halls
I play drums (with myself, I'm so lonely) - it gets amazingly loud in a short period of time if you have no earplugs in. In addition, I've been to concerts where my ears physically start hurting. I end up going home at that point.
I've got a new solution though:
Etymotic Research ER20BP
I just bought 2 more sets of these since I lost my first set. Me and the wife are going to a concert in a few weeks and I want to be prepared. These plugs help you hear the full frequency range of hearing, just 20db less. In contrast, most ear plugs really squash the highs out....
If the 5 volts that is being supplied to the DAC is "dirty" due to all of the noise within the PC environment, your output will be dirty as well. It's not just about the way the signal gets transferred into the analog domain; it's also about how clean the input signal is to begin with.
I've always purchased PCI sound cards based on the fact that they should sound better than most on-board solutions. I've been right most of the time, other than that cheapo mad-dog 5.1 card I bought... it was worse. Turtle Beach has been good to me, even though they don't seem to have the same gusto they had in the past for sound card manufacturing....
I would love to invest in a blu-ray or HD-DVD player. In fact, in looking at a recent one-call mag or some such, I see that there are "entry-level" HD-DVD players available for $399.
hmmm.
I still don't think that $399 is affordable enough, at least not for me. I didn't have a DVD player until they were around the $100 mark. The other thing I've noticed is that the Blu-Ray players are still expensive - or at least more expensive than the HD-DVD.
So what gives on the pricing? Average joes will not like to pick one up if they can't get into the 100$ market....
I've found you can stop the "Automatic Updates" service and not get the message to "reboot" all the darn time. Of course, then you can reboot at your leisure. This does not disable the service, just stops it for your current session.
Or, start-run a "net stop wuauserv". Once you hit enter, it'll stop the service via a command prompt. For some reason, that's simpler for me.
NObody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Oh wait...
Are you trying to say he/she works at Radio Shack?
Oh wait, that'd be giving blank stares.... nevermind.
Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject -- so you know you are getting the best possible information.
So you watch The Office too?
I was recently thinking about this within my world of Roadrunner service in Columbus Ohio, from a usage standpoint. I had downloaded a few Linux distros, and started getting some stuff from EA Link (patches, games etc.) Command and Conquer 3 was scheduled to be released, and I hesitated to pull the trigger.
4GB download.
I don't know why; I normally just like getting things through the internet rather than having to travel to a store and what not. But I didn't want to be flagged as a top user or give them any reason to take away the service. In hindsight, I saved some money because the Target about 2000 yards from my house had the game for 42.88 the day of the release (online price = 49.99) So I guess I'm just as interested as you are from a locality standpoint - anyone else in Columbus OH want to chime in?
This obviously doesn't help external entities trying to reach hosts that sit in your DMZ on a failed connection,
Routing protocols (namely BGP) should provide assistance with this. In fact, BGP could also handle the outbound traffic unless you have a specific reason to route to a specific destination; even then, you could specify metrics to do that and let the routing protocol take care of fail-over....
Odd. My fresh install of Ubuntu with amarok and the .flac decoder works just fine????
I've recently converted my second workstation at home to Linux - as well as am dual booting my laptop between winXP and Ubuntu.
If someone came out with an amarok on windows I would simply be overjoyed! My main system is a gaming system, and runs XP solely because of those games. I can't dual boot it - I think there's an issue with the Creative X-Fi not being supported via Linux yet, so I couldn't use amarok anyways...
You don't need a pen to demand something be done. You may need a soapbox, though....
So if Verizon and Qwest start fighting about the internet, we could call it a cripplefight?
Has to be better than the usual Olympic Game titles, which have been categorically awful.
All I have to say is
TRACK AND FIELD MUTHA F'er...
It's the only "olympic" button masher you'll ever need!
Hopefully you're not browsing slashdot on business critical or production systems, otherwise I'd call you nasty names.
giggedy giggedy!
I thought about this as well; however, if you think about it - this paint could really help in certain areas.
Let's say you have a need for wireless in a data center. Most data centers I've been to have 0 windows - windows just aren't energy efficient enough to have in a data center; in addition, if someone wanted in from the outside, they'd just smash a window. Those servers would start to look like gold to a thief.....
Anyways, any secured area that you might want a specific network on wireless could have 0 (or faraday caged) windows within the room. I'm sure if it's a wireless security issue, this paint can be a huge help. It probably wouldn't help much on your house, for example.
But now you're talking diminishing returns.
Let's take wireless in a corporation, for example. There's a great value-add to having wireless in places like conference rooms - and as I've found in my work, even in the cube-realm. I can take my laptop into any office and stay connected. It's so nice that I've given up use of a PDA for the first time in 6 years or so, and no more need to sync.
Anyways, from my experience the corporation knows about the flaws in wireless and would love to be able to ensure that there is an almost 0 chance of someone getting on the network unauthorized. This paint would help with this. However, would it subvert someone from grabbing the signal with a laptop and a basic WiFi card? I'm betting so. Would it help someone on the building top of the neighboring business with a yagi pointed at the building? Maybe not... but then again, that's what we place other safeguards in place for (WPA with authentications; centralized AAA, paging on "odd" attempts to connect)
In the end, it's all about diminishing returns. If you want to go the complete extra mile (as someone like the Government would) - you'd take any precaution to make sure that no one outside the specific area would be able to connect at all. You would have a specific team who would do a security audit and try to break in. For a standard company, you'd probably attempt to tie everything back to one place and use higher encryption with AAA. That's my experience, anyways.
"If y=3x and 3x=12 then what does y equal?"
3x?
LOL
But the state doesn't have personal tax. So if you actually lived in the state of Washington it would be a good deal. This was even noted in the /. summary: It should be noted, though, that Washington state does not collect personal income tax, and hence relies on state sales tax for 53.1% of its revenues."
:)
Tip: Don't buy anything in Washington if you don't live there
Come on.
If you think it MIGHT be your hardware, look into that. Seriously. It's possible (I'd give it 60/40) that it's your hardware or something outside of the OS's control. I once (back in the day) installed ECC memory into a box that clearly was non-ECC. That was an interesting couple of days before I realized why things were crashing inconsistently....
Run Memtest - heck, it's right on your Ubuntu boot cd! If that shows no errors for a pass or two, find something that's CPU intensive and run it for a while (sorry, don't know what you'd run in Linux to do this...) Or open up your box and make sure the heatsink is (mounted) on the processor properly etc.
Obviously you've never worked on an older car.
Granted, there are always exceptions, but whenever I see a car that is around 20 years old I expect the following:
1. To be able to smell gas/oil burning/other nastiness from the exhaust.
2. Sometimes loud due to no exhaust left.
3. Rusting metal. Given, doesn't exactly affect the performance of the car, but if the sheet metal is starting to rust.....
4. Holes in the metal.
5. (not as often) SQUEEEEEEE either from the worn belt or worn brakes.
Now, that may be partly due to where I live, but I would say 90% of the older than 15 years cars all have those traits. If I had to hazard a guess, they're not in very decent mechanical shape, but they get people around, so they're still in use. A far cry from "perfectly functional" - unless perfectly functional means they can get you there, albeit probably not the safest.... and let's get to the real root of this - most people (again, there are exclusions) that drive the cars that are this old really don't have the money to keep up with them properly anyways. Hell, I own a 78 Cougar and it's amazing me at how much money it costs me to retrofit just the mechanicals - that's not counting the bodywork!!!
You are aware that the article you linked to is about the same guy/company, right? :)