So, in this format I can't record digital tapes. Boo hoo.
I would like to record game sessions and demos to tape with video-out and such. My most recent project was recording of 3DMark 2000, 2001 and XL-R8R demo modes to VideoCD format. I tried to use Camtasia and such, but that didn't work - I'd need multiple processors and hard disks or something =) So, to the tape with video-out it goes, and comes back somewhat crappy but tolerable.
SVHS recorders are a bit expensive... so I was somewhat thrilled to hear of a "consumer-grade" digital tape.
But what damn use is it if I can't record stuff to tape as digital, then dump it to the PC?
(And before you answer: They don't sell too many (affordable) PVRs here yet. =)
I recently got a copy of Amiga Forever 5.0, and I tried out WinUAE with that. I also installed AmigaOS 3.9 to it and it worked just fine. Even when I am not really a big Amiga fan (more of a foamy-mouthed Commodore 64 user =) I must say I'm really impressed... With the JIT stuff and the bsdsockets, it worked fast and supported network. A real, hardware C64 can do ISDN (with proper RS232 buffering, of course), but now I have an emulated Amiga that does DSL =)
Of this stuff, I have to say I'm impressed, too - no need to boot to some other OS to run another, which means some more stability - UAE 0.8 isn't 100% stable yet. Very nifty.
(And I think Amiga hardware was pretty nice, but PC got ahead of it at last (after so many years!) when they ditched ISA bus and got USB input devices.)
I need to get the JIT + bsdsockets for *NIX UAE soon. Too bad the fullscreen modes in X11 UAE often suck - DGA, with its r00t requirement, means trouble. Anyone working on a SDL port?
I use GNOME for only what I have to... it was installed as the only window manager on the webserver that I administer before it came to me, and for what I use it for, it works just fine. I've heard stories from past coworkers that upgrading or replacing a window manager is quite complicated, and if not done exactly right can cause major problems.
(GNOME on the web server? most people I know don't run X11 on a web server =)
Actually, changing the desktop environment or window manager isn't that hard - I've upgraded and changed window managers several times with no problems.
That been said, 2.0 probably isn't worth getting now - it's alpha. And, you know, having - back in the day - lived with the 0.x alphas of GNOME, I don't want to see the Pain again =)
(Though I have to admit 0.20 was better than 1.0 in many respects, but it has got better since. Just don't try to use the bundled session management system with Window Maker in Debian.)
now be a good one and go back to kuro5hin where everybody spells america with a 'k'.
Not everybody... I spell it with 'c' (normally), and only as 'k' if they've done something stupid. This is often said with Russian accent. As an example, the phrase "silly Amerikans!".
Do not worry - so far, 'c' spelling (or so-called acceptable variants) have been in more use.
Aww, I think (from linguistic point of view) they're only interested in words with "rayon" preceded by a 'k-like' consonant. Krayon counts, Qrayon would, Xrayon (debatably) and perharps even Hrayon (with hard 'h').
With other variants of the word they probably wouldn't have a case (the lawyer who did this case may be an idiot, but he probably doesn't still want to get laughed out of the court =)
To me, the key issue here is that the sound-generating circuits get out of the RF-wise nightmarish environment inside a computer case.
And to me too! I hope this thing won't have any extra background hiss. I have had a couple of sound cards with very very low (SB Live!) or almost non-existent (Aureal Vortex2) background hiss, but this thing will probably eliminate most of the noise.
Then, there's the question of features and whether or not the USB bus has enough bandwidth for really serious noisemaking (I guess it has)...
Actually/dev/null or/dev/zero aren't really that cool for compression, since they only output zero bits. (Likewise/dev/full gives only zeros when read.)
Is there a/dev/one or something like that that would output 11111111 (255 decimal)? That might be a bit cooler...
3 items the article mentioned were games that have been in development for quite a while. Why is a 4 year development cycle a problem? What is wrong with "When it's done"?
There's nothing wrong with marketing with "When it's done". Last year I bought three games that had looooong development times: Max Payne, Operation Flashpoint and Black & White. All three were IMHO worth waiting for (though I have to admit I heard of OpF only shortly before the actual release).
But I think all of these were marketed with "When It's Done" and had realistic release dates when the time of the release drew near.
The problem is mostly with games and other products that have definite release dates that slip and slip and slip.
To handle this sort of thing, don't tell the "estimates" of release to the marketing department... =)
Sorry, but this isn't true unless you're buying the special Audio CD-Rs not generic blank media. Many(most?) home audio recording equipment will only support the Audio CD-Rs. There is no tax for the computer CD-Rs...
IIRC (which isn't much) in Finland we pay the tax for both types of recordable media - slightly less for non-"Audio" CD-Rs, of course.
Because, it's possible to make audio CDs on the non-"Audio" CD-Rs, and at least my player plays them just fine. (Also, one could argue that it's possible to burn computer-playable music files on the non-Audio CD-Rs.)
In fact, I have one box of "Audio" CD-Rs here on which I have written stuff and heard a bunch of some strange rattle when playing them, while the sound is crystal clear on non-"Audio" CD-Rs... =)
(Looks like my burner is having problems writing audio on blue-tinted CD-Rs...)
HTTP headers exist for explicitly requesting access to a resource in a certain language (though I dont know of any site that actually makes use of them)
Well, here are some examples: Debian's page comes up in user-specified language (Finnish, in my case), and another example would be Freenet site (Hey wow, they now have a Finnish version of the site too! Cool... =)
Your buddy list is stored server side, so you can not easily move to another server. If your sever goes down you'll have to recreate your entire buddly list on a new server if you want access.
Then get a client that can import and export user lists (I know Gabber knows how to do that)...
By 1988 you would pretty much get laughed at if you were still running a C-64 machine.
Uh... I was under the impression that C64 has been in constant use by people who really loved them... I don't know, I've been using C64 constantly for a looooong time - and last summer I bought another one of them (pictures!)
And people in demoscene still make really cool demos for C64! Recently I watched through some of the demos from Assembly parties of recent years... I have one word: wow. =)
Yeah, by early 1990s the games couldn't quite beat the games that appeared on, say, Amiga - but I still use C64 for the games that were produced before those times. Those are classics, dammit.
And sometimes the PC folks can't make better games, even when they have vastly faster graphics and processor and more memory. Shame on them... =)
And they still haven't made a cooler sound synth chip than the good ol' SID...
...about this guy's sexuality sorted out. How the hell am I supposed to make an intelligent decision about open source GUIs and themes without this information?
Yeah, if Sendmail would not be somewhat hard to configure, I'd use it instead of Postfix. Then I'd have less software in the computer written by those straight people... at least they should wash hands before coding - every time I send E-mail from my own machine I momentarily think of cars and beer and TV and bowling and stuff. Ack! Don't force me to use software that makes me lose Kinsey points! I never know when they come back!
Well, seriously - who cares. =) I don't pick my programs based on author's sexual orientation - I have more important things to worry about when making that decision.
I would hardly call WindowMaker "feature-depleted". You know, before I used WM, I used fvwm2. Yes, FVWM 2.x. And much to my surprise, this 0.5x (which it was at the time) was much cooler and better window manager than FVWM2. (No uebercustomizable outlook, but it was simple, just as fast, and at least the configuration was about million times easier, plus theme support was *much* more mature...)
I don't care about the program's version number, as long as it works. =)
Obviously you've never built mplayer... or used Slackware 3.2 where I needed to build everything interesting from source if I didn't want to use year-old stuff. You kids have Stow to manage/usr/local, back in the day we needed to spend a day to nuke something installed to/usr/local - and we liked it! =)
You know, the fact that I can just say "apt-get install whatever" to get my favorite software is a Good Thing. Don't get me wrong - I just wished to say that I hate duplicate work, installing pre-alpha-grade development libraries, and working with package source dependencies.
Zillions of people out there download, build and install mplayer from source - while downloading prebuilt binaries would be much nicer and more convinient for everyone.
I know, Real Men build the whole system from scratch. Those people are real artists. Now, would you please get me a distribution aimed for mortals?
You know, if Linux video software would come as Debian packages, I would be really happy. Currently, if I want anything with avifile or something, I need to compile it myself - and I don't want to mess with the source because avifile API isn't exactly solid yet and source that compiled yesterday doesn't work today. Linux video support Isn't Here, dammit.
The mplayer author seems to be aware of the Marillat's unofficial.debs... and now whines that people are violating his "thou shalt not distribute Binaries" lisence.
I don't want to compile the package myself. I want binaries.
Source-only distribution is fine, as long as you let somebody make the pre-built binaries available so that we lazy bastards can use the program. I know I can compile mplayer if I'm positively motivated, but I know my mother couldn't.
This is why I'm considering using VideoLanClient instead of mplayer - at least it's under GPL and I'm able to get "official" Debian packages for it.
Too bad it seems a really cumbersome process to get that watch... have these guys never heard of PayPal?
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Heh, now you know what we kreditkardless un-amerikan web surfers feel like when we come to your amazing web sites. The amerikan sites have... limited ways to get your produkts and international money transfer is often the only way. No wonder the "new ekonomy" is failing - many people forget it is not enough to be the country's best, you have to be the world's best.
Kash on delivery! Now that is the way to order thingks from the internet.
More vodka! We just found out a site of which the amerikans will need to share our pain with.
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Freenet is nifty and all, but it lacks a few important things: content control for synchronous updates or deletions, an HTTP gateway, and so on.
I started using Freenet about... oh, 6 months ago, and all this time it has had a perfectly working HTTP gateway (FProxy) that allows viewing Freenet content in web browser and insertion of stuff - and it's bundled with the main distribution... Yep, I use Freenet mostly to read Content of Evil (that isn't visible for some reason right now - flaky insert?...)
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Actually, Ogg Vorbis has been openly documented and could very well become a standard. (Could anyone submit it to, say, ECMA?)
But it's still - unfortunately - far from being a de facto standard, except among the people who really like it, like me =)
So, in this format I can't record digital tapes. Boo hoo.
I would like to record game sessions and demos to tape with video-out and such. My most recent project was recording of 3DMark 2000, 2001 and XL-R8R demo modes to VideoCD format. I tried to use Camtasia and such, but that didn't work - I'd need multiple processors and hard disks or something =) So, to the tape with video-out it goes, and comes back somewhat crappy but tolerable.
SVHS recorders are a bit expensive... so I was somewhat thrilled to hear of a "consumer-grade" digital tape.
But what damn use is it if I can't record stuff to tape as digital, then dump it to the PC?
(And before you answer: They don't sell too many (affordable) PVRs here yet. =)
I recently got a copy of Amiga Forever 5.0, and I tried out WinUAE with that. I also installed AmigaOS 3.9 to it and it worked just fine. Even when I am not really a big Amiga fan (more of a foamy-mouthed Commodore 64 user =) I must say I'm really impressed... With the JIT stuff and the bsdsockets, it worked fast and supported network. A real, hardware C64 can do ISDN (with proper RS232 buffering, of course), but now I have an emulated Amiga that does DSL =)
(Screenshots? 1 2 3)
Of this stuff, I have to say I'm impressed, too - no need to boot to some other OS to run another, which means some more stability - UAE 0.8 isn't 100% stable yet. Very nifty.
(And I think Amiga hardware was pretty nice, but PC got ahead of it at last (after so many years!) when they ditched ISA bus and got USB input devices.)
I need to get the JIT + bsdsockets for *NIX UAE soon. Too bad the fullscreen modes in X11 UAE often suck - DGA, with its r00t requirement, means trouble. Anyone working on a SDL port?
By the way, one of the reasons why I got GRUB instead of LILO was that it *gasp* had this cool boot menu! Colors and everything, way before LILO =)
Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster all use the FastTrack P2P stack - basically, same program, different UI.
(GNOME on the web server? most people I know don't run X11 on a web server =)
Actually, changing the desktop environment or window manager isn't that hard - I've upgraded and changed window managers several times with no problems.
That been said, 2.0 probably isn't worth getting now - it's alpha. And, you know, having - back in the day - lived with the 0.x alphas of GNOME, I don't want to see the Pain again =)
(Though I have to admit 0.20 was better than 1.0 in many respects, but it has got better since. Just don't try to use the bundled session management system with Window Maker in Debian.)
Not everybody... I spell it with 'c' (normally), and only as 'k' if they've done something stupid. This is often said with Russian accent. As an example, the phrase "silly Amerikans!".
Do not worry - so far, 'c' spelling (or so-called acceptable variants) have been in more use.
=)
No, we need more precision with that. We need at least "bad humor", "cliches", "stupid", "unimaginative" and "mediocre" flags.
...and for news broadcasts, "depressing".
Aww, I think (from linguistic point of view) they're only interested in words with "rayon" preceded by a 'k-like' consonant. Krayon counts, Qrayon would, Xrayon (debatably) and perharps even Hrayon (with hard 'h').
With other variants of the word they probably wouldn't have a case (the lawyer who did this case may be an idiot, but he probably doesn't still want to get laughed out of the court =)
And to me too! I hope this thing won't have any extra background hiss. I have had a couple of sound cards with very very low (SB Live!) or almost non-existent (Aureal Vortex2) background hiss, but this thing will probably eliminate most of the noise.
Then, there's the question of features and whether or not the USB bus has enough bandwidth for really serious noisemaking (I guess it has)...
Actually /dev/null or /dev/zero aren't really that cool for compression, since they only output zero bits. (Likewise /dev/full gives only zeros when read.)
Is there a /dev/one or something like that that would output 11111111 (255 decimal)? That might be a bit cooler...
There's nothing wrong with marketing with "When it's done". Last year I bought three games that had looooong development times: Max Payne, Operation Flashpoint and Black & White. All three were IMHO worth waiting for (though I have to admit I heard of OpF only shortly before the actual release).
But I think all of these were marketed with "When It's Done" and had realistic release dates when the time of the release drew near.
The problem is mostly with games and other products that have definite release dates that slip and slip and slip.
To handle this sort of thing, don't tell the "estimates" of release to the marketing department... =)
IIRC (which isn't much) in Finland we pay the tax for both types of recordable media - slightly less for non-"Audio" CD-Rs, of course.
Because, it's possible to make audio CDs on the non-"Audio" CD-Rs, and at least my player plays them just fine. (Also, one could argue that it's possible to burn computer-playable music files on the non-Audio CD-Rs.)
In fact, I have one box of "Audio" CD-Rs here on which I have written stuff and heard a bunch of some strange rattle when playing them, while the sound is crystal clear on non-"Audio" CD-Rs... =)
(Looks like my burner is having problems writing audio on blue-tinted CD-Rs...)
Well, here are some examples: Debian's page comes up in user-specified language (Finnish, in my case), and another example would be Freenet site (Hey wow, they now have a Finnish version of the site too! Cool... =)
Then get a client that can import and export user lists (I know Gabber knows how to do that)...
And people in demoscene still make really cool demos for C64! Recently I watched through some of the demos from Assembly parties of recent years... I have one word: wow. =)
Yeah, by early 1990s the games couldn't quite beat the games that appeared on, say, Amiga - but I still use C64 for the games that were produced before those times. Those are classics, dammit.
And sometimes the PC folks can't make better games, even when they have vastly faster graphics and processor and more memory. Shame on them... =)
And they still haven't made a cooler sound synth chip than the good ol' SID...
You mean these pictures of Linus? =) (linus*.gif in that directory)
Yeah, if Sendmail would not be somewhat hard to configure, I'd use it instead of Postfix. Then I'd have less software in the computer written by those straight people... at least they should wash hands before coding - every time I send E-mail from my own machine I momentarily think of cars and beer and TV and bowling and stuff. Ack! Don't force me to use software that makes me lose Kinsey points! I never know when they come back!
Well, seriously - who cares. =) I don't pick my programs based on author's sexual orientation - I have more important things to worry about when making that decision.
Uh, some apps will compress the XML workfiles they produce. (Dia does this too, I think.)
These things use gzip... just zcat the file to see those tag things.
What's this major obsession over 1.0 releases?
I would hardly call WindowMaker "feature-depleted". You know, before I used WM, I used fvwm2. Yes, FVWM 2.x. And much to my surprise, this 0.5x (which it was at the time) was much cooler and better window manager than FVWM2. (No uebercustomizable outlook, but it was simple, just as fast, and at least the configuration was about million times easier, plus theme support was *much* more mature...)
I don't care about the program's version number, as long as it works. =)
Obviously you've never built mplayer... or used Slackware 3.2 where I needed to build everything interesting from source if I didn't want to use year-old stuff. You kids have Stow to manage /usr/local, back in the day we needed to spend a day to nuke something installed to /usr/local - and we liked it! =)
You know, the fact that I can just say "apt-get install whatever" to get my favorite software is a Good Thing. Don't get me wrong - I just wished to say that I hate duplicate work, installing pre-alpha-grade development libraries, and working with package source dependencies.
Zillions of people out there download, build and install mplayer from source - while downloading prebuilt binaries would be much nicer and more convinient for everyone.
I know, Real Men build the whole system from scratch. Those people are real artists. Now, would you please get me a distribution aimed for mortals?
You know, if Linux video software would come as Debian packages, I would be really happy. Currently, if I want anything with avifile or something, I need to compile it myself - and I don't want to mess with the source because avifile API isn't exactly solid yet and source that compiled yesterday doesn't work today. Linux video support Isn't Here, dammit.
The mplayer author seems to be aware of the Marillat's unofficial .debs... and now whines that people are violating his "thou shalt not distribute Binaries" lisence.
I don't want to compile the package myself. I want binaries.
Source-only distribution is fine, as long as you let somebody make the pre-built binaries available so that we lazy bastards can use the program. I know I can compile mplayer if I'm positively motivated, but I know my mother couldn't.
This is why I'm considering using VideoLanClient instead of mplayer - at least it's under GPL and I'm able to get "official" Debian packages for it.
><accent>
Heh, now you know what we kreditkardless un-amerikan web surfers feel like when we come to your amazing web sites. The amerikan sites have... limited ways to get your produkts and international money transfer is often the only way. No wonder the "new ekonomy" is failing - many people forget it is not enough to be the country's best, you have to be the world's best.
Kash on delivery! Now that is the way to order thingks from the internet.
More vodka! We just found out a site of which the amerikans will need to share our pain with.
</accent>
I started using Freenet about... oh, 6 months ago, and all this time it has had a perfectly working HTTP gateway (FProxy) that allows viewing Freenet content in web browser and insertion of stuff - and it's bundled with the main distribution... Yep, I use Freenet mostly to read Content of Evil (that isn't visible for some reason right now - flaky insert?...)
Especially when they actually are using GIMP in the film industry =)
"Rig and wire removal..." hmm, maybe Matrix postproduction folks could try this =)