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  1. Old and not related to gamespy on Multi-vendor Game Server (GameSpy) DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    First of all, this have nothing to do with game spy, it is related to the servers.

    Secondly, this is old news. I first saw it described in May 1998:

    http://lists.insecure.org/lists/bugtraq/1998/May /0 182.html

    Thats 5 years ago.

    Mads Bondo Dydensborg

    P.S. There are no spaces in that url, I think /. is doing something weird here.

  2. Re:That was the *old* Danish government on Danish Goal: 50% of Electricity from Wind · · Score: 1

    The new goverment stink wrt the environment. Sigh. Hopefully people will learn.

    Yearh, I know this comment is not very constructive, but if you are a Dane and happen to use your head, you will know I am right.

    Mads Bondo Dydensborg

  3. Some observations, Cinelerra, Kino, other tools on Two Steps Forward for Linux Multimedia · · Score: 5, Informative

    About cinelerra: As I understand it, the author of broadcast 2000 (which is the same as cinelerra) had an agreement with a company that packaged broadcast 2000 and sold it with support. At some point it appears someone threathened to sue the author, and he withdrew the project.

    You can still find the sources to broadcast 2000 on the internet (I even think it is part of the cinelerra sources) and there is also a patch floating around that adds ogg vorbis and openDivx support to it.

    Its about a month since I last checked out Cinelerra. At that point it was rather complicated to build - the makefile has errors that will allow the build process to fail but will make it appear to the user that it went OK. When built, it does work, but it is limited in its supports of Video encodings, which is a shame. The DV import module crashed for me, which means that I would have to convert all my DV streams to MPEG2 or MOV format, which is not so great. If you wish, however, the mjpegtools can be used for this.

    Cinelerra has a number of transitions etc, which is great. However, a month ago, there were many glitches, and in general the program did not seem stable.

    Several people mentioned MainActor. This program works well (for me) and the demo edition will work for as long as you wish, although it will print "MainActor" on any frame rendered by the program. (Read: If you do not manipulate the individual frames, you can actually edit all that you want, but transitions will have the stamp and so on). It does cost money though, and is not OSS. MainActor also have support for text effects, titles and so on. (Which I have not seen on any other Video editor for Linux).

    If you are taking up video editing on Linux and you have a DV camera, you should definitively check out Kino. (at sourceforge). Disclaimer: I recently got cvs write access to kino. Kino is build for DV editing, and will keep the DV metainformation, etc, while editing. It has a nice interface - both menus, toolbars and vi style keyboard shotcuts. But, there are currently no support for transitions, titles, or anything like that. Kino cvs, which currently depends on libdv cvs, contains a module called "dvscript" that can be used to create some simple transitions, as well as streams from pngs, etc. I believe it is the plan to eventually integrate this functionality into kino proper.

    If you are taking up editing, but mostly with analog video, you shold consider buying an analog to DV converter (An external box that works with Linux costs about $199 + a firewire card). In any case you also want the mjpegtools (sourceforge) to be able to work with captured streams, remove noise, constructs streams that can be used for videoDC's etc. Mjpegtools also support some hardware accelerated capture cards and jpeg compressors.

    Kino can export a playlist to a format the mjpegtools can read, which means that it is easy to create e.g. mpeg2 or DivX streams from your DV input.

    For your VideoCD creation needs, check out vcdimager.org.

    Mads Bondo Dydensborg

  4. Re:Whoa, doesn't the US protect its citizens ? on Loki Aftermath Looks Bad · · Score: 1

    Denmark is a bit like Canada plus any company employing people are required to pay a (small) premium to a common fond. This fond then, in turn, handles payments to employes from bankrupt companies, iff there are no money left to pay the employes. Employee payment have top priority.

  5. That is not an error on Borland C++ For Linux · · Score: 1

    Really, the internal representations differ. No big deal. In reality, you should never use == with floats.

  6. Re:and they're still auctioning UMTS in europe... on 2.5G Services Start Trial Run In Seattle · · Score: 1
    Yo, they are talking about _testing_ _GPRS_ - we have had working GPRS for some time here in Denmark (my boss have had a working GPRS phone for a while, the tests were probably conducted years ago).

    And, 1MB is about $2.5 (kr 25) - which is still way to expensive.

    The US is way behind Europ in wireless stuff. Not the other way around.

  7. Use it for mail signatures on Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl A DMCA Violation? · · Score: 1

    Its short enough to fit in a signature. Sort of. I have added it to my list of signatures anyway.

  8. Denmark is a nice place to live on Is The U.S. No Longer The Choice For Freedom? · · Score: 1

    I enjoy it here. Though, I like snow a lot, so I would like to live in Sweden or Norway. My wife does not like the Swedish and Norwegian languages though.

    It is very hard to get a handgun in Denmark though, and we do pay a high tax. However, we (in general) feel that the benefits we enjoy are worth it.

    Scandinavia is nice. Come visit sometime.

  9. Re:What we need is a killer mascot on Gamespy on Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    What about TuxRacer, TuxKart and Tux - A Quest for Herring?

    All sourceforge.