I know nothing about tcp/ip, but my electronics and basic are pretty good...
You'll need 3 analog dials 3 triacs a parrelel port.
i'll just provide a link with some pertanent info. Basically wire up the triacs to the voltmeters (to isolate and backflow current from the VU meter's coils) and the other end to any data line on the parrellel port. Strobe the data line till your VU meters needle is pointing where you want it to go.
How often do I see the salespeople and Exec crying because they're laptops hard drive fell apart after being dropped because the careless twits were swinging their shiny new $2k+ around now that they were "freed from wires"
Wan wireless would be cool if the people that actually had an application for it either got approval or they could justify wireless's cost, but it usually ends up in the hands of marketdroids or MBA's.
Basically i'm asking, what will the price on this be?
I've seen about 4 replies like yours of people that know this rhyme. Shame my parent got modded down.
Anyways, here's an emule link, i'm listening to the whole set now, awesome stuff. ed2k://|file|Gil.Scott-Heron-The.revolutio n.will.n ot.be.televised.rar|87025468|1BC5E61D226207D3334FE 26332B182DE|/
The worse part is, he didn't even read that I was "paraphrasing" what I heard on the radio, and I found the original and submitted it too! (Although there was no remark about robbing liquor stores in the original)
Odd, i'm white (sicilian family) yet I sympathize with the original poets writings enough to let them move me to sway my view.
Black, white, or green in mars case doesn't really matter. What matters is what moves you more than anything.
I wish I could post the audio that I heard on the radio. If you heard the bongo drums laying down a beat while he maintains rythm with his voice, I think this poem would have moved you.
I'm going to google that guys name, just to read more about him. If I find an audio link want me to put it up?
We still need sattelites for communications yes? Anyways, I did a quick search and replace to tell you how I feel about this BULLSHIT going on in the middle east.
George Bush in Iraq By GIL-SCOTT HERON
A rat done bit my sister Nell with George Bush in Iraq. Her face and arms began to swell and George Bush's in Iraq. I can't pay no doctor bills but George Bush's in Iraq. Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while George Bush's in Iraq.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz George Bush's in Iraq. No hot water, no toilets, no lights but George Bush's in Iraq. I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz George Bush's in Iraq? I was already givin' him fifty a week but now George Bush's in Iraq.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check, The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin' up, And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with George Bush in Iraq. Her face and arms began to swell but George Bush's in Iraq. Was all that money I made last year for George Bush in Iraq? How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! George Bush's in Iraq.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of George Bush in Iraq. I think I'll send these doctor bills airmail special.... to George Bush in Iraq.
So, basically, you're just against human space exploration?
No not entirely. I just think that we should focus on space during economic booms and by private industry. The goverment should be there for the people In GWB's case though it's a move to swing votes. He shouldn't use money from my already post recession reduced paycheck to fund a mars mission, especially when he's using a sizeable portion of it now to fund this stupid ass WMD/Terror hunt. It's fruitless, yay we got Saddam when he had his guard down because the U.N. was inspecting him, but still no WMD's or Osama.
Stuff like wars and standard of living, that's something you should count on being taxed for. Anything else should be a choice I exercise by purchasing stock in a pubically traded company. If I want space, I would invest in Boing or Grumman.
Sorry to reply to my own comment, but I found the original.
Whitey on the Moon By GIL-SCOTT HERON
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon. No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon. I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon? I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check, The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin' up, And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon. Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon? How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon. I think I'll send these doctor bills airmail special.... to Whitey on the moon.
I'm sorry if this sounds trollish, but I think we really need to focus on stuff down here on the earth (like those WMD's) before we send anyone out into space.
The other day I was listening to some public radio when I heard this song being played called "Whitey on the moon" I think it was written during the 60s, who knows though. The lyrics went something like this.
Here I am standing in a welfare line and whitey's on the moon My kids are starving, that's why they're crying Cause whitey's on the moon The goverment takes taxes from my check To send whitey to the moon If I can't work from a broken neck Whitey will still be on the moon I'm still living in a ghetto project slum And whitey's on the moon. Should I rob a liquor store with a gun? While whitey's on the moon.
Basically, it was a song from an angry black man. It was funny and entertaining to listen too, but it brings up a very valid point.
USA right now is still suffering from a financial downfall. The last thing we should be thinking about doing is sending our money up in a rocket.
The screws with the big threads attatch peices of case together, hard drives to the case, and component cards to the case... The finer threaded screw attatch the motherboard to the case, as well as 5 1/4" drives.
I didn't have to read the article for that.. Sorry.
I recently built a crappy little search engine for the karaoke bar I work at. (Our stuff runs all on PC) anyways the search engine was a simple PII333 64 megs of ram, running IIS and activeperl. It searches a text file database using a little perl script.
For the most part, when I put it in I thought it was fairly secure, and I also thought that the bar patrons wouldn't destroy it either. I came back one day after putting it in and noticed THE FUCKING ENTER KEY WAS PEELED OFF!
Jesus... What kind of lamer asshole did that?
Anyways, I could see this as the main reason cybercafe's would HAVE to use videocamera's in thier shops. Here I am crying about 1 enter key ripped off the keyboard, when those cybercafe's probably lose 10-20 enter keys a week. They probably have to maintain an inventory of enter keys just to keep up with the theft that occurs.
God, I wish I had it on tape, just so I could rip off the arm of the guy that ripped off my enter key and beat them with it.
So if you use phone sex hotlines you deserve to have your money stolen? If you use a dating service do you deserve the same thing?
There's a big difference between someone making a phone call to jerk themselves off, and someone making a phone call to find a life partner to jerk them off.
I personally think the former is a bigger loser than the latter.
I was just in the San Jose Mayors office yesterday. (I'm revamping one of the councilmembers websites) Even in the capitol of silicon valley, the IT is sooo outdated you would not want to be there.
The councilmembers assistant I was working with had a very old dell. I think it was a PII 400mhz. It was definetly running NT4.0 and the video driver was borked (16 color display yay!) I took a few minutes to fix it because I was there.
Thing is, EVERYONE there was running NT4.0. I think even the IIS servers hosting the cities web sites runs on NT4.0.
Maybe that's why our mayor had a stroke the other day. He was thinking about how M$ was going to EOL NT4 and the costs of licensing win2k. Maybe someone should tell him about these newfangled free operating systems.
But all jokes aside, if you do want to work for the.gov I really recomend coming in as a contractor unless you like working with outdated technology.
Ok IANAPG (I am not a programming god) So maybe I don't know wtf i'm talking about...
Anyways..
alt.binaries.sounds.karaoke..
SYSNOPSIS
I've been getting into karaoke on the PC for the last year or so. I'm going to explain it for the benifit of the folks that don't know what im talking about.
Karaoke has a special format called CDG. It's some weird kind of subcode in the audio data that can be read by compatible CD drives. The CDG data is used to display the lyrics on screen, sort of like a 320x240 BMP slide show, but with 64 pallete cyclable colors.
They subcoded it so you could put a CD in a normal player and still get sound (without the lyrics/pictures)
Well fast forward to 10 years past CDG creation. Some clever people figured out how to not just rip the audio data, but the CDG data as well. In order to play MP3+G karaoke you need 2 things, a.mp3 file and a.cdg file.
Unfortunatly the CDG files are very large. Mostly it's just redundant data, so zipping it results in very nice compression. To make it easier on your fat table, you put the.mp3 and.cdg into 1.zip file.
So basically, there's all these karaoke zip files being created with 2 or 3 different versions of zip, all incompatible with one another.
I wrote a crappy, lame, yes lame, really fucking lame VB bastardization for unzipping these files to a temp directory, and cue'ing the.mp3 file into winamp. I used the infozip static DLL and hacked away at the VB source project. I made something ugly that works well.
Until I run into those zip compatibilty errors. My winamp ends up with "Pkzip 2.1 file, PKzip 2.0 support only" showing up in it's playlist instead of the karaoke song I was hoping for.
Anyways, I just wanted to make a on topic post, and the only thing I can say about it other than explaining my situation is to say "THIS IS ANNOYING AS HELL!" Why can't the 2 zip giants get along?
Not when my come home from work stress release is playing quake3 with my bosses face skinned over all the models. The extra traffic across the backbones is going to make my ping go to hell!!!
*disclaimer* I work for myself and I really play counterstrike.
It's neat because we get to have AVS behind the lyrics. You used to have to buy an expensive JSUB unit if you wanted to "bluescreen" anything behind a CDG song.
We've been using the system for the last year or so. Customer response has been excellent. No more skipping or garbled words. No more confusion looking for songs. It just all runs perfectly.
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From your post, I surmise that you have taken part in a less than peaceful protest of some sort, or have been at ground zero of a riot or bar brawl?
;D
No just a really kinky wife
there was this tiny thing called the integrated circuit, built because we couldn't put vacuum tubes in orbit.
Why not?? If space is a vacuum, and the tubes contain a vacuum, wouldn't the pressure be equal on both sides of the glass?
Anyways that's not why they invented the IC, Moore invented it while working at intel for use in HP calculators or something like that.
I'm not a security expert, but voting on the internet strikes me as being about as secure as locking up your bicycle with twist-ties.
I've been in twist ties handcuffs before and I can assure you they are VERY SECURE.
I know nothing about tcp/ip, but my electronics and basic are pretty good...
You'll need
3 analog dials
3 triacs
a parrelel port.
i'll just provide a link with some pertanent info. Basically wire up the triacs to the voltmeters (to isolate and backflow current from the VU meter's coils) and the other end to any data line on the parrellel port. Strobe the data line till your VU meters needle is pointing where you want it to go.
How often do I see the salespeople and Exec crying because they're laptops hard drive fell apart after being dropped because the careless twits were swinging their shiny new $2k+ around now that they were "freed from wires"
Wan wireless would be cool if the people that actually had an application for it either got approval or they could justify wireless's cost, but it usually ends up in the hands of marketdroids or MBA's.
Basically i'm asking, what will the price on this be?
"I live in a 4 storey building, and pretty much everyone in this building is into gaming and computers.
Is there a vacancy? I want to live there!
Note to fat USians
Just thought I would point out, the correct term is "Americans" not USians.
I've seen about 4 replies like yours of people that know this rhyme. Shame my parent got modded down.
o n.will.n ot.be.televised.rar|87025468|1BC5E61D226207D3334FE 26332B182DE|/
Anyways, here's an emule link, i'm listening to the whole set now, awesome stuff.
ed2k://|file|Gil.Scott-Heron-The.revoluti
The worse part is, he didn't even read that I was "paraphrasing" what I heard on the radio, and I found the original and submitted it too! (Although there was no remark about robbing liquor stores in the original)
I'm black, but I don't agree.
Odd, i'm white (sicilian family) yet I sympathize with the original poets writings enough to let them move me to sway my view.
Black, white, or green in mars case doesn't really matter. What matters is what moves you more than anything.
I wish I could post the audio that I heard on the radio. If you heard the bongo drums laying down a beat while he maintains rythm with his voice, I think this poem would have moved you.
I'm going to google that guys name, just to read more about him. If I find an audio link want me to put it up?
We still need sattelites for communications yes? Anyways, I did a quick search and replace to tell you how I feel about this BULLSHIT going on in the middle east.
George Bush in Iraq
By GIL-SCOTT HERON
A rat done bit my sister Nell with George Bush in Iraq.
Her face and arms began to swell and George Bush's in Iraq.
I can't pay no doctor bills but George Bush's in Iraq.
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while George Bush's in Iraq.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz George Bush's in Iraq.
No hot water, no toilets, no lights but George Bush's in Iraq.
I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz George Bush's in Iraq?
I was already givin' him fifty a week but now George Bush's in Iraq.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with George Bush in Iraq.
Her face and arms began to swell but George Bush's in Iraq.
Was all that money I made last year for George Bush in Iraq?
How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! George Bush's in Iraq.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of George Bush in Iraq.
I think I'll send these doctor bills
airmail special....
to George Bush in Iraq.
So, basically, you're just against human space exploration?
No not entirely. I just think that we should focus on space during economic booms and by private industry. The goverment should be there for the people In GWB's case though it's a move to swing votes. He shouldn't use money from my already post recession reduced paycheck to fund a mars mission, especially when he's using a sizeable portion of it now to fund this stupid ass WMD/Terror hunt. It's fruitless, yay we got Saddam when he had his guard down because the U.N. was inspecting him, but still no WMD's or Osama.
Stuff like wars and standard of living, that's something you should count on being taxed for. Anything else should be a choice I exercise by purchasing stock in a pubically traded company. If I want space, I would invest in Boing or Grumman.
Sorry to reply to my own comment, but I found the original.
Whitey on the Moon
By GIL-SCOTT HERON
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon.
I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon.
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon.
The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon.
No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon.
I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon?
I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon.
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
And as if all that shit wasn't enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon.
Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon.
Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon?
How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon.
Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon.
I think I'll send these doctor bills
airmail special....
to Whitey on the moon.
I'm sorry if this sounds trollish, but I think we really need to focus on stuff down here on the earth (like those WMD's) before we send anyone out into space.
The other day I was listening to some public radio when I heard this song being played called "Whitey on the moon" I think it was written during the 60s, who knows though. The lyrics went something like this.
Here I am standing in a welfare line
and whitey's on the moon
My kids are starving, that's why they're crying
Cause whitey's on the moon
The goverment takes taxes from my check
To send whitey to the moon
If I can't work from a broken neck
Whitey will still be on the moon
I'm still living in a ghetto project slum
And whitey's on the moon.
Should I rob a liquor store with a gun?
While whitey's on the moon.
Basically, it was a song from an angry black man. It was funny and entertaining to listen too, but it brings up a very valid point.
USA right now is still suffering from a financial downfall. The last thing we should be thinking about doing is sending our money up in a rocket.
The screws with the big threads attatch peices of case together, hard drives to the case, and component cards to the case... The finer threaded screw attatch the motherboard to the case, as well as 5 1/4" drives.
I didn't have to read the article for that.. Sorry.
If this wasn't my thread and I hadn't already commented on this story you'd get a +1 informative right now.
You don't work at XO Karaoke in Toronto, do you? Because if you do, you're right, it *is* crappy.
Nah I work at *plug warning* 7 Bamboo in San Jose California.
I recently built a crappy little search engine for the karaoke bar I work at. (Our stuff runs all on PC) anyways the search engine was a simple PII333 64 megs of ram, running IIS and activeperl. It searches a text file database using a little perl script.
For the most part, when I put it in I thought it was fairly secure, and I also thought that the bar patrons wouldn't destroy it either. I came back one day after putting it in and noticed THE FUCKING ENTER KEY WAS PEELED OFF!
Jesus... What kind of lamer asshole did that?
Anyways, I could see this as the main reason cybercafe's would HAVE to use videocamera's in thier shops. Here I am crying about 1 enter key ripped off the keyboard, when those cybercafe's probably lose 10-20 enter keys a week. They probably have to maintain an inventory of enter keys just to keep up with the theft that occurs.
God, I wish I had it on tape, just so I could rip off the arm of the guy that ripped off my enter key and beat them with it.
So if you use phone sex hotlines you deserve to have your money stolen? If you use a dating service do you deserve the same thing?
There's a big difference between someone making a phone call to jerk themselves off, and someone making a phone call to find a life partner to jerk them off.
I personally think the former is a bigger loser than the latter.
I was just in the San Jose Mayors office yesterday. (I'm revamping one of the councilmembers websites) Even in the capitol of silicon valley, the IT is sooo outdated you would not want to be there.
.gov I really recomend coming in as a contractor unless you like working with outdated technology.
The councilmembers assistant I was working with had a very old dell. I think it was a PII 400mhz. It was definetly running NT4.0 and the video driver was borked (16 color display yay!) I took a few minutes to fix it because I was there.
Thing is, EVERYONE there was running NT4.0. I think even the IIS servers hosting the cities web sites runs on NT4.0.
Maybe that's why our mayor had a stroke the other day. He was thinking about how M$ was going to EOL NT4 and the costs of licensing win2k. Maybe someone should tell him about these newfangled free operating systems.
But all jokes aside, if you do want to work for the
Ok IANAPG (I am not a programming god) So maybe I don't know wtf i'm talking about...
.mp3 file and a .cdg file.
.mp3 and .cdg into 1 .zip file.
.mp3 file into winamp. I used the infozip static DLL and hacked away at the VB source project. I made something ugly that works well.
Anyways..
alt.binaries.sounds.karaoke..
SYSNOPSIS
I've been getting into karaoke on the PC for the last year or so. I'm going to explain it for the benifit of the folks that don't know what im talking about.
Karaoke has a special format called CDG. It's some weird kind of subcode in the audio data that can be read by compatible CD drives. The CDG data is used to display the lyrics on screen, sort of like a 320x240 BMP slide show, but with 64 pallete cyclable colors.
They subcoded it so you could put a CD in a normal player and still get sound (without the lyrics/pictures)
Well fast forward to 10 years past CDG creation. Some clever people figured out how to not just rip the audio data, but the CDG data as well. In order to play MP3+G karaoke you need 2 things, a
Unfortunatly the CDG files are very large. Mostly it's just redundant data, so zipping it results in very nice compression. To make it easier on your fat table, you put the
So basically, there's all these karaoke zip files being created with 2 or 3 different versions of zip, all incompatible with one another.
I wrote a crappy, lame, yes lame, really fucking lame VB bastardization for unzipping these files to a temp directory, and cue'ing the
Until I run into those zip compatibilty errors. My winamp ends up with "Pkzip 2.1 file, PKzip 2.0 support only" showing up in it's playlist instead of the karaoke song I was hoping for.
Anyways, I just wanted to make a on topic post, and the only thing I can say about it other than explaining my situation is to say "THIS IS ANNOYING AS HELL!" Why can't the 2 zip giants get along?
Finally, a worthwhile virus!!
Not when my come home from work stress release is playing quake3 with my bosses face skinned over all the models. The extra traffic across the backbones is going to make my ping go to hell!!!
*disclaimer*
I work for myself and I really play counterstrike.
But can it rap?
:P
I might actually hear some talent at my job for once
I always thought that linux assimilating windows was better than windows assimilating linux.
Thanks to the efforts of Justin Frankel, and Yannick Heneault the Karaoke bar I work at on the weekends was able to convert it's aging karaoke CDG collection to MP3+G's.
It's neat because we get to have AVS behind the lyrics. You used to have to buy an expensive JSUB unit if you wanted to "bluescreen" anything behind a CDG song.
We've been using the system for the last year or so. Customer response has been excellent. No more skipping or garbled words. No more confusion looking for songs. It just all runs perfectly.