Well, I don't have any AAC files. I just downloaded one song in MPEG-4 AAC from allofmp3.com and tested it -- it didn't even find it, no matter what extension it had.
As for AMR, I know it works, because I used GEM's voice recorder in this format. Only I don't have anything on Linux to play it, so I switched recording to MP3. Takes more space, but I can simply copy that to the computer and edit or type it there.
Check out Diva GEM, I recently bought this one for my wife's birthday.
It's as small as cigarette lighter, it has MMC/SD slot supporting even 1GB cards (I tested myself). It also has FM radio, plays AAC/MP3/GSM-AMR/WAV and can record from radio or buil-in mic -- works as a voice recorder too. You can upload/download files from the card via reader, or directly from this device via USB 1.1 (read ~600KB/s, write ~300).
It works from exchangeable li-ion battery over 10h and you can recharge it from (included) USB and wallplug charger.
More expensive models have built-in Bluetooth which enables it to work as a headset for BT-enabled phone -- GEM automagically stops music and receives call.
I bought the model without BT and with only 32M internal flash (plus the MMC/SD slot) for ~$140, Kingston SD 512M card for about $100. Works like a charm.
I recently witnessed real life tests at huge GSM operator of some SMS-center related system. Single PC computer with app written in C++ is able to do 300 sms/sec. Java implemented sytem doing the same on exactly 10 outregously expensive computers was doing 100sms/sec. And I don't even have to explain how much such java system costs alone...
So the c++ version developped inhouse still runs the show...;)
Too often I've seen overly complicated systems implemented in java, where c/c++ or python/ruby would have done the job faster, cheaper and less resource-hungry.
Yeah, sure, advertising companies are paying for sports events. Perheaps even for training of the sportsmen?
Couple of years ago there was quite a scandal, when Polsat (commercial TV in Poland) absurdely expensive exclusive rights for FIFA World Cup and decided they will air the coverage only on their encrypted, subscription-only digital satelite platform. They imagined World Cup as a huge drive to sell subscriptions.
Among the arguments why this is bad was one fact: in football (or should I say soccer?) over 50% of money for the clubs comes from public, one way or another, advertisers give much less money, and only for best sportsmen at the peak of their career. I've been told that in other sports (the ones that are on Olympics, I guess) public/adv funds are more like 70/30 or even higher.
So, who pays the bill for this event...?
To finish the story, state owned public television secured the transmissions by some kind of mandatory licensing.
As far as I remember, I only installed mozilla-tabextensions from debian/unstable via apt-get and configured it to force popups to tabs. I don't know, if this is one extension, or several packed into one.deb
Too bad it doesn't work with my Firefox. I've got popups forced to tabs and it looks kinda funny: whole browser window, inside tab's render area. I don't know anyone who would fall for this.
As long as it is "free" and "market". Having bunch of huge corporations buying politicians from left and right in order to stop competition and preserve the status quo can only hinder any innovation, progress etc.
In some countries (like Poland) when you add your income tax, sales tax, social security, insurance etc the same service costs twice more if you buy it than when company buys it.
I know, that if you oppose you give yourself slightly bigger chance of being sucked.
But if you don't, what's gonna be next? Drive your boss in you car, bring your own customers, your own computer to work in the office? And for secretary too?
Yes, but Britannica's 85,000 articles are credible and verified for accuracy, while some of Wikipedia's content should be questionned.
Verified by whom? As all generalisations, this one is also not true;)
When it comes to some controversial topics, Britannica gives usually only one theory, presented as a god-given truth. Sometimes it isn't even the most agreed upon theory among scientists of the relevant field.
I haven't used B. for a long time, since it started to charge for access. Last time I did, it showed ``Arian inviasion'' as the only theory of indo-european language apearing in India.
Wikipedia on the other hand shows other theories, even some very unorthodox ones from Indian nationalists. But it clearly states that ``Arian inviasion'' isn't highly regarded at least since the fifties.
Same goes for ``balto-slavic theory'', breaking of Enigma before WW2 etc
Catch all ``unusual'' packets on your firewall and log them. Lots of data and interesting things to do in order to find patterns in this aparent chaos.
I use iptables for this, but I'm sure you can do this with all the rest. You could even (as an excersize) try to log it directly to database. I just occasionally scan logs left by syslog-ng.
I don't know if this is the first human w/o muscle-inhibiting protein.
I once saw a program on Discovery about the guy whos muscles grew indefinitelly, even w/o any physical activity. He had to have them removed surgically from time to time.
I'm not sure if that was the same condition, but I don't think I'd like to have it.
It's not over yet. There are higher level courts in Germany and EU, aren't there? I bet they won't see German books as important enough cultural good to exempt them from EU free market.
One of the programs in ffmpeg package is dedicated to streaming video over the net. And the sources can be static files or different video sources, such as tuner cards.
It's/. so I'm too lazy to look at the article, but from the story I should point one thing:
As little as we know about alleged Atlantis, one thing is sure from Plato's tales -- Atlantis was beyond the Pilars of Hercules (Gibraltar Strait). So anything on the Atlantic, Pacific or Indian Ocean is a good candidate, whether it is in Amercia, Asia or Antarctic.
Anything on Mediterranean Sea, or Black Sea is NOTbeyond the Pilars of Hercules.
There's even more reasons not to go to the cinema.
The last theatre I was in, had air conditioning set too low. This plus all the shit living in not cleaned regularly air conditioning gear gave me and my wife worst flu for the last couple of years.
The cinema gear in most ``mass market'' theatres is poorly managed and generally in poor condition. Missing speaker from surround set, noises and cracks in audio, badly focussed picture. Add to this that if you go to the theatre on the impulse basis and buy the tickets before the show you have to watch it from third row, far left or right. This way my 20" TV and slightly better than usual 4+1 computer speakers give me better experience. When I buy video projector, it will be much better than usual cinema conditions.
Fscking ads! Last time ads and previews were literally over 20min. This is fscking ridiculous, I've alread paid for the ticket and it wasn't cheap either. When you count this amount of advertising as money spent for wathing it equal the price of the ticket it is 20pln for ticket and 20pln in watched, targetted advertising -- 40pln. It's $10 for a movie, $20 when I go with wife. Forget renting, we can buy ``Top 10'' DVD for this money and watch it till our heart's content. That's half a DVD per movie if you don't count the commercials but for me the inconvenience of watching this crap is worth even more than what I paid for the movie.
First time I did it in mp3, later in vorbis. So there's no way I'm gonna do it again. Besides, there are vorbis hardware players on the market, which can't be said about MPC.
I accidently did the same on 64M production server of my customer (dns, gw, email). It didn't work perfectly, once in a couple of weeks some named subprocess died leaving the rest inoperable, but they were heavily conditioned by windows they use to reboot machine when something doesn't work.
I've noticed it only after installing snmpd on all customers' machines managed by me and running snmpdf on all of them -- one machine was standing out with swap total 0, used 0;) It was working this way for almost three years.
Just the other day I was thinking about "Massively Multiprocessor" ARM computer. It came to me after reading about cluster of VIA low-power computers.
So, ARM are even lower power, they are designed quite correctly from the ground up[1] and the only thing that's missing is FPU. But the computer with 100 ARM CPUs would run faster than any ix86 today and probably would consume less power than the latest P4/K7/K8.
Give me for 64 proc (*4 cores per proc, so 256 proc) Linux machine anytime;)
Robert
[1] Anyone who knows internals of today ix86 processor from any vendor knows what a mess is it in order to use today's technology with ancient ISA like ix86.
I use it on palm m500, like it and thank you very much for this decent piece of software;)
I've read almost all Niven books this way, lots of other sci-fi and fantasy and I just don't want to go back to paper books anymore. And 128MB MMC holds hundreds of books -- try to take them on paper on vacation;)
I've got only one question/suggestion: will it ever support reading normal.txt/.txt.gz directly from the card? It shouldn't be that difficult? After all, txt is the easiest thing to read() (definitelly easier than TEXt or zTXT) and IIRC gzip can be decompressed by zlib, which you use anyway.
They're out of production, so you can buy them really cheap (300eur in Germany, 200eur in Poland). It's Windows CE on ARM 200MHz, but you can easily flash it with Linux (OPIE or GPE; Opera on Opie in 800x600 is just awesome).
It's around A5 size, quite light and has 800x600 screen. There is PCMCIA slot (for compact flash and/or wifi, or even pcmcia hdd) and it works >4hrs on a single charge.
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Well, I don't have any AAC files. I just downloaded one song in MPEG-4 AAC from allofmp3.com and tested it -- it didn't even find it, no matter what extension it had.
As for AMR, I know it works, because I used GEM's voice recorder in this format. Only I don't have anything on Linux to play it, so I switched recording to MP3. Takes more space, but I can simply copy that to the computer and edit or type it there.
Robert
Can you read?
It's 600/300 KB/s. USB 1.1 (so called full speed USB) is 12Mb/s and USB 2.0 (or high speed USB) is 480Mb/s, while firewire is 400Mb/s.
That's kilobyte, megabit, megabit and megabit.
Robert
Check out Diva GEM, I recently bought this one for my wife's birthday.
It's as small as cigarette lighter, it has MMC/SD slot supporting even 1GB cards (I tested myself). It also has FM radio, plays AAC/MP3/GSM-AMR/WAV and can record from radio or buil-in mic -- works as a voice recorder too. You can upload/download files from the card via reader, or directly from this device via USB 1.1 (read ~600KB/s, write ~300).
It works from exchangeable li-ion battery over 10h and you can recharge it from (included) USB and wallplug charger.
More expensive models have built-in Bluetooth which enables it to work as a headset for BT-enabled phone -- GEM automagically stops music and receives call.
I bought the model without BT and with only 32M internal flash (plus the MMC/SD slot) for ~$140, Kingston SD 512M card for about $100. Works like a charm.
Robert
Java is abused as a server-side language...
;)
I recently witnessed real life tests at huge GSM operator of some SMS-center related system. Single PC computer with app written in C++ is able to do 300 sms/sec. Java implemented sytem doing the same on exactly 10 outregously expensive computers was doing 100sms/sec. And I don't even have to explain how much such java system costs alone...
So the c++ version developped inhouse still runs the show...
Too often I've seen overly complicated systems implemented in java, where c/c++ or python/ruby would have done the job faster, cheaper and less resource-hungry.
Robert
Yeah, sure, advertising companies are paying for sports events. Perheaps even for training of the sportsmen?
Couple of years ago there was quite a scandal, when Polsat (commercial TV in Poland) absurdely expensive exclusive rights for FIFA World Cup and decided they will air the coverage only on their encrypted, subscription-only digital satelite platform. They imagined World Cup as a huge drive to sell subscriptions.
Among the arguments why this is bad was one fact: in football (or should I say soccer?) over 50% of money for the clubs comes from public, one way or another, advertisers give much less money, and only for best sportsmen at the peak of their career. I've been told that in other sports (the ones that are on Olympics, I guess) public/adv funds are more like 70/30 or even higher.
So, who pays the bill for this event...?
To finish the story, state owned public television secured the transmissions by some kind of mandatory licensing.
Robert
As far as I remember, I only installed mozilla-tabextensions from debian/unstable via apt-get and configured it to force popups to tabs. I don't know, if this is one extension, or several packed into one .deb
Robert
Too bad it doesn't work with my Firefox. I've got popups forced to tabs and it looks kinda funny: whole browser window, inside tab's render area. I don't know anyone who would fall for this.
Robert
As long as it is "free" and "market". Having bunch of huge corporations buying politicians from left and right in order to stop competition and preserve the status quo can only hinder any innovation, progress etc.
Robert
In some countries (like Poland) when you add your income tax, sales tax, social security, insurance etc the same service costs twice more if you buy it than when company buys it.
I know, that if you oppose you give yourself slightly bigger chance of being sucked.
But if you don't, what's gonna be next? Drive your boss in you car, bring your own customers, your own computer to work in the office? And for secretary too?
Robert
Yes, but Britannica's 85,000 articles are credible and verified for accuracy, while some of Wikipedia's content should be questionned.
;)
Verified by whom? As all generalisations, this one is also not true
When it comes to some controversial topics, Britannica gives usually only one theory, presented as a god-given truth. Sometimes it isn't even the most agreed upon theory among scientists of the relevant field.
I haven't used B. for a long time, since it started to charge for access. Last time I did, it showed ``Arian inviasion'' as the only theory of indo-european language apearing in India.
Wikipedia on the other hand shows other theories, even some very unorthodox ones from Indian nationalists. But it clearly states that ``Arian inviasion'' isn't highly regarded at least since the fifties.
Same goes for ``balto-slavic theory'', breaking of Enigma before WW2 etc
Go, look for yourself.
Robert
Catch all ``unusual'' packets on your firewall and log them. Lots of data and interesting things to do in order to find patterns in this aparent chaos.
I use iptables for this, but I'm sure you can do this with all the rest. You could even (as an excersize) try to log it directly to database. I just occasionally scan logs left by syslog-ng.
Robert
I don't know if this is the first human w/o muscle-inhibiting protein.
I once saw a program on Discovery about the guy whos muscles grew indefinitelly, even w/o any physical activity. He had to have them removed surgically from time to time.
I'm not sure if that was the same condition, but I don't think I'd like to have it.
Robert
It's not over yet. There are higher level courts in Germany and EU, aren't there? I bet they won't see German books as important enough cultural good to exempt them from EU free market.
One of the programs in ffmpeg package is dedicated to streaming video over the net. And the sources can be static files or different video sources, such as tuner cards.
It's /. so I'm too lazy to look at the article, but from the story I should point one thing:
As little as we know about alleged Atlantis, one thing is sure from Plato's tales -- Atlantis was beyond the Pilars of Hercules (Gibraltar Strait). So anything on the Atlantic, Pacific or Indian Ocean is a good candidate, whether it is in Amercia, Asia or Antarctic.
Anything on Mediterranean Sea, or Black Sea is NOT beyond the Pilars of Hercules.
Robert
Robert
Er... excuse me but if someone sends an email to me by mistake I will do whatever the fuck I like with it, thank you very much! :P
Even more so. In some countries (at least in Poland) letter (as in paper mail) belongs to recipient, copyright or not.
Robert
Me and my friends have beed doing this with tv series published on DVD -- one season at a time (that's about 22*40min).
;)
That's a challenge for real tough guys
Robert
There's no way I'm gona recode my music again! ;)
First time I did it in mp3, later in vorbis. So there's no way I'm gonna do it again. Besides, there are vorbis hardware players on the market, which can't be said about MPC.
Robert
I accidently did the same on 64M production server of my customer (dns, gw, email). It didn't work perfectly, once in a couple of weeks some named subprocess died leaving the rest inoperable, but they were heavily conditioned by windows they use to reboot machine when something doesn't work.
;) It was working this way for almost three years.
I've noticed it only after installing snmpd on all customers' machines managed by me and running snmpdf on all of them -- one machine was standing out with swap total 0, used 0
Robert
Just the other day I was thinking about "Massively Multiprocessor" ARM computer. It came to me after reading about cluster of VIA low-power computers.
;)
So, ARM are even lower power, they are designed quite correctly from the ground up[1] and the only thing that's missing is FPU. But the computer with 100 ARM CPUs would run faster than any ix86 today and probably would consume less power than the latest P4/K7/K8.
Give me for 64 proc (*4 cores per proc, so 256 proc) Linux machine anytime
Robert
[1] Anyone who knows internals of today ix86 processor from any vendor knows what a mess is it in order to use today's technology with ancient ISA like ix86.
[*] DVDs are 4700MB, not 4.7GB (4812MB)
Actually no. DVDs are 4700 mln bytes, which is around 4472MB AFAIR.
Robert
PS Well, most DVDs I use are 4,706,000,000 bytes or so.
I use it on palm m500, like it and thank you very much for this decent piece of software ;)
;)
.txt/.txt.gz directly from the card? It shouldn't be that difficult? After all, txt is the easiest thing to read() (definitelly easier than TEXt or zTXT) and IIRC gzip can be decompressed by zlib, which you use anyway.
I've read almost all Niven books this way, lots of other sci-fi and fantasy and I just don't want to go back to paper books anymore. And 128MB MMC holds hundreds of books -- try to take them on paper on vacation
I've got only one question/suggestion: will it ever support reading normal
Robert
Try Siemens Simpad.
They're out of production, so you can buy them really cheap (300eur in Germany, 200eur in Poland). It's Windows CE on ARM 200MHz, but you can easily flash it with Linux (OPIE or GPE; Opera on Opie in 800x600 is just awesome).
It's around A5 size, quite light and has 800x600 screen. There is PCMCIA slot (for compact flash and/or wifi, or even pcmcia hdd) and it works >4hrs on a single charge.
You can start your journey at http://www.opensimpad.org/
Robert