Huh? Don't you mean not at the STAGE to compete with them? and that's simply because its at version 1.0. Quark didn't look anything like it does today at 1.0.
Don't make an ass of yourself just because your license plate reads |QU4RK RLS|
Any new open source DTP app is a good thing, lets just give it a couple versions before we say:
Most of the suggestions here require ~$500 DVD burners, expensive capture hardware or locating ancient uber-vhs decks which probably aren't that easy to find service for.
I suggest an mid range used PC ~500mhz, coupled with a cd-burner and a $90 CDN TV Tuner card. I use the ATI TV Wonder PCI, which can be found for much less on Ebay... either way nearly every Tuner card i've come across is supported by BTTV, although I've had small luck with Gatos which is designed for ATI All-In-Wonder cards.
So for software, we're looking at: Linux (i use Debian with 2.4.18) Compile BTTV and TV Tuner support in your kernel or modules if needed Nuppelvideo - great *ZERO* frame dropping capture software which will result in huge, quality, 640x480, raw, stereo clips. Transcode which will convert your Nuppelvideo files into any format you choose, I prefer DivX 5, which squashes your clips down to size suitable for 700mb discs. No DVD needed.
If you're still wondering why we're using a TV tuner card, it's that fact that almost all of them have S-Video/Composite/Stero inputs, so you can capture from most sources... incl. VHS, Beta, whatever.
The quality is great IMHO, for the small amount of $$ and the ease of transfer once you have a handle on the software. There are load of resources out there, much of the DVD ripping FAQs mirror all the audio/video sync/editing info you'll need to master this process.
To top it all off, if you use an avi file format, like DivX uses, you can use VirtualDub, free software that allows you to chop up clips, join them and fix repair/mix audio features on your clips. Just make sure you choose Direct Stream Copy so the clips are "spliced" (very quick) and not processed (hours zzzzzzzz).
All of this with free software, a few bucks, your old computer... does it get any better?
You obviously have little experience with overclocking. Read this while you try to pry your foot out of your mouth.
Listen and learn: SAFETY - 90% of the new mobos have thermistors which allow you to monitor the heat of your CPU. If the processor runs reasonably cool (32c-55c) your OC system will last as long as any "retail clocked" processor, ie: indefinitely.
POTENTIAL - Processor manufacturers already know many of the chips the make can be clocked (with stability) at a higher speed than they're sold. They downclock the processors to meet the various price points which are always needed in the market. Once Intel/AMD refines a particular die, they'd be hard pressed to make a chip that can only run at their lowest speed offering. In a sense, Intel/AMD has created a product far superior than the advertised offering. This is a dated fact.
NOISE - Most overclockers love big, loud, fan/heatsink combos. It does help reach that "high end" clock, but most overclocks don't need anything other than your standard, retail AMD/Intel boxed heatsinks. Yes it will run a bit hotter than retail, no it won't be loud or fry your board. I'm talking about fairly large overclocks here, say 1.83ghz Athlon 2500 -> 2.1ghz!
If you actually had *any* experience overclocking modern processors, most of these points would be painfully apparent.
BF1942 is the fabled Counterstrike Killer. Valve has rested on its laurels too long, TF2's "fake" preview and subsequent vapor trail has left a void in confidence for Valve among gamers.
Mark my words, HL2 will flop. Doom ]|[ will destroy it for singleplayer, BF1942 has already killed it for multiplayer.
With a few major differences. Most modern Athlons (and p4s) can be overclocked 200mhz+ with the STOCK AMD heatsink, even using the crappy thermal tape.
If there was a switch in an old honda Jalopy that gave you an extra 25hp, for free, wouldn't you switch it?
And don't give me the "system will fry", "only last a year before burning out" myth, I've overclocked hundreds of systems since the P1 days and have NEVER experienced a OC related mobo/cpu death, EVER. Yes a CPU fan can fail, but you will still get the same toasty smell with a unclocked Athlon.
I don't think overclocking is "half assed", "dangerous" or "cheap", it's pure common sense if you know what you're doing.
I was actually thinking about building a P4 box for my next main machine and looking forward to the quiet whirr of a stock Intel heatsink. After 3 years of Delta Fans on Athys, I thought a P4 was a great idea for silence and overclocking. And what does Intel do? They bend all the OCers over and kick us squarely in the nuts.
I have an older technology that fits nicely alongside Intels anti-overclocking technology, it's proprietary and only works with geeks, OCers and effects all systems we build, its called anti-Intel-purchasing technology and I suggest we all use it religiously.
Despite Jean Cretien's (our Prime Minister) decision not to support our US brothers and our commonwealth brothers in Britian and Australia, a large percentage of Canadians think we _should_ be fighting along side our allies in the Iraqi war.
12 years is more than enough time for diplomacy. Go get em boyz! Hopefully our PM will come around and realize we have a duty to our allies and world security.
If Canada does join the war, please confirm your targets pilots! Friendly fire sucks.
Don't get me started on Teamfortess, at least Brian is doing what he wants, not selling out to Valve and banishing TF to a carbonite slab hanging over Jabba.
A buddy of mine, after getting severly aggrivated when he was blue-screened during a competition Quake match, carefully ripped out all the cables in the back of his case, picked the entire PC up by the his two Voodoo 2 SLI pass thru cables, carried it out to the yard, spun twice and lanched the entire rig 25 feet into my backyard (he's my neighbour too).
The entire case was bent, cards popped out, I could have sworn he cracked the mobo. After about 5 minutes of picking grass out of the drive bays and popping the cards back in the slots... it worked, perfectly!
The big brother argument (municipalities cannot control digital content) by private telcos is pure drivel. If big brother (CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.) really wants to monitor your usage they'll walk into your ISP with a carnivore system and log your activity.
Everyone knows how cheap fiber and net access REALLY are... Cents per gig.. or pehaps fractions of cents. Consumer net access is currently overpriced, overhyped and slow. If local Hydro can provide cheap, fast internet to everyone with power, let them!
Perhaps it is because people's lives hang in the balance when they interact with the products and structures designed by science/engineering students.
I know you were supposing but...no. Just as many scientists/engineers are working on evironmentally destructive industrial technology, weapons, harmful Union Carbide byproducts for personal use, etc.etc. then are working on bridges, emergency systems, roads and otherwise saving the world.
Engineers/scientists are not destined saviours and their lives and work are no more important than your average hardworking arts major.
Just ask any Iraqi chemical engineer how many pablum formulas they've worked on this year!;)
Way to go GameSpy, yet another ounce of proof of a useless service for idjits.
Sorry? Yes, I'd be the first to bash Gamespy for their heavyhanded marketing approaches and Microsoftesque software pushing... but... they merely supply a tool that uses a service built into just about every FPS on the planet. This is an extremely useful service that's essential to find buddies, favourite maps and most importantly, the lowest pinging servers. Even "open" server browsers such as the All Seeing Eye use the same service as Gamespy3D/GamespyArcade and are equally susceptible to the same vulnerability.
Yes it's time to rethink client/server game querying, but not the time to bash M$, Gamespy or any other corporate scapegoat.
And to think Carmack didn't think about this years ago.... Shudder.
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it is in NO PLACE to compete with them
Huh? Don't you mean not at the STAGE to compete with them? and that's simply because its at version 1.0. Quark didn't look anything like it does today at 1.0.
Don't make an ass of yourself just because your license plate reads |QU4RK RLS|
Any new open source DTP app is a good thing, lets just give it a couple versions before we say:
"You have NO PLACE, BEGONE! Fly you fools!"
I think any frequent user of Outlook learned to despise the side navbar.
Any "frequent" user would know to:
1. Right Click Navbar
2. Select Hide Outlook Bar
Sometimes even Linux users need to RTFM, the one from Microsoft.
"Then again, I though the first Matrix was pedestrian. Maybe my standards are too high."
Maybe you're just a stuck up asshole with a short guy/small penis complex?
Do ya think?
Most of the suggestions here require ~$500 DVD burners, expensive capture hardware or locating ancient uber-vhs decks which probably aren't that easy to find service for.
I suggest an mid range used PC ~500mhz, coupled with a cd-burner and a $90 CDN TV Tuner card. I use the ATI TV Wonder PCI, which can be found for much less on Ebay... either way nearly every Tuner card i've come across is supported by BTTV, although I've had small luck with Gatos which is designed for ATI All-In-Wonder cards.
So for software, we're looking at:
Linux (i use Debian with 2.4.18)
Compile BTTV and TV Tuner support in your kernel or modules if needed
Nuppelvideo - great *ZERO* frame dropping capture software which will result in huge, quality, 640x480, raw, stereo clips.
Transcode which will convert your Nuppelvideo files into any format you choose, I prefer DivX 5, which squashes your clips down to size suitable for 700mb discs. No DVD needed.
If you're still wondering why we're using a TV tuner card, it's that fact that almost all of them have S-Video/Composite/Stero inputs, so you can capture from most sources... incl. VHS, Beta, whatever.
The quality is great IMHO, for the small amount of $$ and the ease of transfer once you have a handle on the software. There are load of resources out there, much of the DVD ripping FAQs mirror all the audio/video sync/editing info you'll need to master this process.
To top it all off, if you use an avi file format, like DivX uses, you can use VirtualDub, free software that allows you to chop up clips, join them and fix repair/mix audio features on your clips. Just make sure you choose Direct Stream Copy so the clips are "spliced" (very quick) and not processed (hours zzzzzzzz).
All of this with free software, a few bucks, your old computer... does it get any better?
You obviously have little experience with overclocking. Read this while you try to pry your foot out of your mouth.
Listen and learn:
SAFETY - 90% of the new mobos have thermistors which allow you to monitor the heat of your CPU. If the processor runs reasonably cool (32c-55c) your OC system will last as long as any "retail clocked" processor, ie: indefinitely.
POTENTIAL - Processor manufacturers already know many of the chips the make can be clocked (with stability) at a higher speed than they're sold. They downclock the processors to meet the various price points which are always needed in the market. Once Intel/AMD refines a particular die, they'd be hard pressed to make a chip that can only run at their lowest speed offering. In a sense, Intel/AMD has created a product far superior than the advertised offering. This is a dated fact.
NOISE - Most overclockers love big, loud, fan/heatsink combos. It does help reach that "high end" clock, but most overclocks don't need anything other than your standard, retail AMD/Intel boxed heatsinks. Yes it will run a bit hotter than retail, no it won't be loud or fry your board. I'm talking about fairly large overclocks here, say 1.83ghz Athlon 2500 -> 2.1ghz!
If you actually had *any* experience overclocking modern processors, most of these points would be painfully apparent.
This just in:
28.8 modems are 50% faster than 14.4 modems
Is this news? Do anyone take DSL heads/providers seriously?
Repeat after me: Cable is faster than DSL except for 5% of fringe cases which are located overloaded nodes maintained by slacker ISPs.
BF1942 is the fabled Counterstrike Killer. Valve has rested on its laurels too long, TF2's "fake" preview and subsequent vapor trail has left a void in confidence for Valve among gamers.
Mark my words, HL2 will flop. Doom ]|[ will destroy it for singleplayer, BF1942 has already killed it for multiplayer.
Hello? This hack still requires 007. It's a good thing timothy is reading the stories he posts.
is like ricing out a $6,000 used Honda jalopy
With a few major differences. Most modern Athlons (and p4s) can be overclocked 200mhz+ with the STOCK AMD heatsink, even using the crappy thermal tape.
If there was a switch in an old honda Jalopy that gave you an extra 25hp, for free, wouldn't you switch it?
And don't give me the "system will fry", "only last a year before burning out" myth, I've overclocked hundreds of systems since the P1 days and have NEVER experienced a OC related mobo/cpu death, EVER. Yes a CPU fan can fail, but you will still get the same toasty smell with a unclocked Athlon.
I don't think overclocking is "half assed", "dangerous" or "cheap", it's pure common sense if you know what you're doing.
I only meant it as a matter of priciple.
While AMD unlocks its mutipliers, Intel beats it's chest about anti-overclocking.
This issue is the reason we have two middle fingers. Hold them high and proud.
I was actually thinking about building a P4 box for my next main machine and looking forward to the quiet whirr of a stock Intel heatsink. After 3 years of Delta Fans on Athys, I thought a P4 was a great idea for silence and overclocking. And what does Intel do? They bend all the OCers over and kick us squarely in the nuts.
I have an older technology that fits nicely alongside Intels anti-overclocking technology, it's proprietary and only works with geeks, OCers and effects all systems we build, its called anti-Intel-purchasing technology and I suggest we all use it religiously.
Despite Jean Cretien's (our Prime Minister) decision not to support our US brothers and our commonwealth brothers in Britian and Australia, a large percentage of Canadians think we _should_ be fighting along side our allies in the Iraqi war.
12 years is more than enough time for diplomacy. Go get em boyz! Hopefully our PM will come around and realize we have a duty to our allies and world security.
If Canada does join the war, please confirm your targets pilots! Friendly fire sucks.
How the great have fallen.
Don't get me started on Teamfortess, at least Brian is doing what he wants, not selling out to Valve and banishing TF to a carbonite slab hanging over Jabba.
Yes I'm a geek and so are you!
A buddy of mine, after getting severly aggrivated when he was blue-screened during a competition Quake match, carefully ripped out all the cables in the back of his case, picked the entire PC up by the his two Voodoo 2 SLI pass thru cables, carried it out to the yard, spun twice and lanched the entire rig 25 feet into my backyard (he's my neighbour too).
The entire case was bent, cards popped out, I could have sworn he cracked the mobo. After about 5 minutes of picking grass out of the drive bays and popping the cards back in the slots... it worked, perfectly!
The big brother argument (municipalities cannot control digital content) by private telcos is pure drivel. If big brother (CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.) really wants to monitor your usage they'll walk into your ISP with a carnivore system and log your activity.
Everyone knows how cheap fiber and net access REALLY are... Cents per gig.. or pehaps fractions of cents. Consumer net access is currently overpriced, overhyped and slow. If local Hydro can provide cheap, fast internet to everyone with power, let them!
Perhaps it is because people's lives hang in the balance when they interact with the products and structures designed by science/engineering students.
;)
I know you were supposing but...no. Just as many scientists/engineers are working on evironmentally destructive industrial technology, weapons, harmful Union Carbide byproducts for personal use, etc.etc. then are working on bridges, emergency systems, roads and otherwise saving the world.
Engineers/scientists are not destined saviours and their lives and work are no more important than your average hardworking arts major.
Just ask any Iraqi chemical engineer how many pablum formulas they've worked on this year!
Way to go GameSpy, yet another ounce of proof of a useless service for idjits.
Sorry? Yes, I'd be the first to bash Gamespy for their heavyhanded marketing approaches and Microsoftesque software pushing... but... they merely supply a tool that uses a service built into just about every FPS on the planet. This is an extremely useful service that's essential to find buddies, favourite maps and most importantly, the lowest pinging servers. Even "open" server browsers such as the All Seeing Eye use the same service as Gamespy3D/GamespyArcade and are equally susceptible to the same vulnerability.
Yes it's time to rethink client/server game querying, but not the time to bash M$, Gamespy or any other corporate scapegoat.
And to think Carmack didn't think about this years ago.... Shudder.
15%? Sounds like British VAT.
Close... Ontario, Canada.
GST+PST=15%
It may be inevitable that products purchased on the net will be taxed someday.
I pay 15% on everything I buy on the net. Where are you living? Kuwait?
Why doesn't the author list any examples? WTF is an essay with no cited examples/references?
Crap.
"He was a skater elf,
he shot arrows from his belt,
he was that pimp named Legolas"
New Linux Kernel 2.6 Has Lower TCO Then 2.4 in 12 Year Study
Frank Torvalds reports on long term TCO of just-released kernel
Hey Taco! Guess what?
The site is about as professional as a 12 year old making a clan site using frontpage.
I'm off to Newsforge.
This is something for an electrician, someone that does this stuff for a living
./ readers are.
Err, wrong. Try electrical/computer engineer, as many of the
Eletricians don't wire Cat5 for a living and the few that do rarely understand its electrical characteristics.
This is not a new trailer. It was even annouced on Slashdot over 2 moths ago.
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