I don't understand though, most people case mod to make things smaller/nicer.
He managed to take an already huge XBox and turn it into something even bigger.
Why not just put a normal PC inside that case then? Heh.
AAC has nothing to do with DRM. You are saying just because it supports DRM, it should not be used? Like it or not, within next few years you won't be able to pickup a player which DOESN'T support DRM. And no, your "current players" won't be able to interface with newer stuff, exactly because of DRM. So badmouthing AAC, (which is by the way a fine audio codec, which scales well from low bitrate to high bitrate professional broadcasting) just because of DRM is pretty stupid.
And MPEG4 is not a "codec", its a collection of intellectual property which covers advanced audio and video compression/encoding techniques.
Is it really necessary? I mean, once you install a "server" operating system using a generic kernel, then go and recompile the kernel to include support for whatever hardware you have in your server. What exactly is the purpose of hardware detection in this case? You won't be using X11, USB, or any of that stuff that needs to be "detected" on a server, and by installing Linux in the first place you accept the responsibility that you know what you are doing.
According to this post on avsforum, there is clearly a market for such exact device.
It would capture Component Out from a HDTV set/tuner, and real-time encode it to MPEG2, sending the result back as a ts stream over firewire. With fairly low-cost MPEG2 HD encoders available now, such devices could easily "remove" the broadcast flag.
Yes, i understand that this is not the original signal (its going to go through a D/A -> A/D conversion, but still, would you rather have nothing at all or this?
HDTV has always been a "slow moving" process. Stations were given a frequency range to use for HD, and given a requirement of something like broadcast at least 30+ hours of HD content.
But nobody cared. STB's required to receive it back then (and still) too expensive for casual home user. Sales of analog TVs still outnumber those of HDTV-capable TV sets.
And now, they are going to make it even more difficult for people to enjoy this new-and-expensive technology? If anything, to increase HDTV adoption they should make the units cheaper, and allow people to do more with this new technology than they could do with their old analog equipment.
For new technology like this to catch on, people need incentives to use it, not more limitations compared to old technology. If I was in the market for a HDTV set now, I wouldn't buy it if I found out that my use of it would be restricted to only watching it, and not being allowed to timeshift/record what I wanted.
Oh, and on the topic of copy protection, the copy protection, the bits these people are talking about are most likely the DTCP_descriptor bits, described in detail at http://www.dtcp.com/data/info_dtcp_v1_12_20010711. pdf from your friends at DTLA - The group which digital/HDTV people will learn to hate real soon now. In short, it talks about adding a special descriptor to the mpeg2ts streams which deals with things like copyonce/copymany/copynever, and also things like retention, how long a show can exist in recorded format on a DVR/PVR unit.
Retention_State_Indicator Retention Time 000 Forever 001 1 week 010 2 days 011 1 day 100 12 hours 101 6 hours 110 3 hours 111 90 minutes ^ yes, sometimes they won't even let you have it for more than 90 minutes:(
At this place you can buy what looks like a USB2 to 4 IDE controller adapter. What you don't see at the manufacturer's site is that this board fits into a standard ATX power case, takes standard ATX power supply, so you can easily make a cool 4 200 or 300 or whatever HDD external case. As you can see Here, that board being mounted into a case, where you can hook up the hdds, using the case's power supply, etc.
Too bad its USB2, and too bad each IDE controller only supports one device, otherwise this would make for a killer 8-device controller...
They are usually part of the mainboard. Or as a full-length PCI card that contains things like audioboard, firewire, etc on the backplane, and 2 pcmcia slots at the front of the case. keep in mind, all these machines are custom-made Sis/Via/shittychipset motherboards and not any kind of standard shape.
You can pickup a rear-opening cardbus PCI card adapter for about $50-$100 if you look around though.
I don't know about new PCs in U.S., but in japan just about any brand-name PC (Fujitsu/NEC/Sony/etc) comes with at least one or most of the time 2 cardbus pcmcia slots on the case. They are usually advertised as slots for digital camera memory cards etc, to save you from buying a usb/whatever adapter for the same purpose. But they are normal cardbus slots, so you can put in your scsi cards, 1394 adapters, etc. So yes, I'd say its pretty much standard to have them in desktop PCs.
Bitch and moan all you like, but can you hot-plug a usb mouse in a laptop running XFree and be able to use it immediately without quitting/restarting XFree and/or editing XF86Config? Thought so.
Link to non-flash and much more informative page-
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here.
The flash intro linked in the article doesnt even provide any specifications.
Is this: "creation" of a rich japanese individual who claims was buddah in his "previous life"..
"Membership" in that "cult" requires purchase/reading of at least 10 books written by this "individual", each book being fairly expensive, not something you'd call pocket change, anyhow.
Main focuses of this "religious cult" are on "research of happiness", which is just bullshit excuse for "suck in as many members while taking all their money" kind of thing.
Because japanese people in general are quite gullible, the group has been able to attract huge numbers of "members" who are required to buy more books, materials, and visit the churches built by the cult in order to generate more money for Ookawa Ryuho, ths cult's founder.
Is how much do the refills cost? Surely, 100ml or whatever of methanol is going to last you for 10 hours, but what do you do then? You can't regenerate it, so you go shopping for a refill?
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> I sort of agree, installing using the CPAN tool is pretty easy. But, I maintain some custom install RedHat CDs that need some PMs not installed by RedHat. I have the user install them using the MCPAN tool, but it sure would be easier just adding them to the list of RPMS for anaconda to install at system creation time.
Yep, since you are already creating custom install cds, I assume you have the knowledge to roll these modules into RPMs yourself. This "script" he uses is using another script (cpanflute2) to actually create RPMs, what's stopping you from using THAT script to make 5-10 custom RPMs for your install CD instead of this guy wasting bandwidth every day downloading "newest" modules?
NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255 is one of those "non-routable private IP address spaces".
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some of futurecrew members formed remedy entertainment, (and did titles such as Death Rally and Max Payne - and now working on Max Payne 2), and they are also related to 3DMark 2001 (MadOnion) and 3DMark 2003 (Now under the name of FutureMark).
So yeah, they went right back to writing cool demos that push the limits of current hardware:)
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is that a old-world mac? If it is, you may need to boot to MacOS first and use BootX. Otherwise your 300mhz machine runs at about 10mhz and you can literally see the screen redraw each line.
Slashdot Mirror
here.
I don't understand though, most people case mod to make things smaller/nicer.
He managed to take an already huge XBox and turn it into something even bigger.
Why not just put a normal PC inside that case then? Heh.
AAC has nothing to do with DRM. You are saying just because it supports DRM, it should not be used? Like it or not, within next few years you won't be able to pickup a player which DOESN'T support DRM.
And no, your "current players" won't be able to interface with newer stuff, exactly because of DRM. So badmouthing AAC, (which is by the way a fine audio codec, which scales well from low bitrate to high bitrate professional broadcasting) just because of DRM is pretty stupid.
And MPEG4 is not a "codec", its a collection of intellectual property which covers advanced audio and video compression/encoding techniques.
Is it really necessary?
I mean, once you install a "server" operating system using a generic kernel, then go and recompile the kernel to include support for whatever hardware you have in your server.
What exactly is the purpose of hardware detection in this case? You won't be using X11, USB, or any of that stuff that needs to be "detected" on a server, and by installing Linux in the first place you accept the responsibility that you know what you are doing.
Or is this no longer the case?
This was covered LONG time ago. Here, for example. Old, old news. 03:00 AM Oct. 16, 2000 PT - the date.
According to this post on avsforum, there is clearly a market for such exact device. It would capture Component Out from a HDTV set/tuner, and real-time encode it to MPEG2, sending the result back as a ts stream over firewire. With fairly low-cost MPEG2 HD encoders available now, such devices could easily "remove" the broadcast flag.
Yes, i understand that this is not the original signal (its going to go through a D/A -> A/D conversion, but still, would you rather have nothing at all or this?
One word: hahaha.
One link: http://pepper.idge.net/whatswrong/mo/
Please, move along.
HDTV has always been a "slow moving" process. Stations were given a frequency range to use for HD, and given a requirement of something like broadcast at least 30+ hours of HD content.
. pdf from your friends at DTLA - The group which digital/HDTV people will learn to hate real soon now. In short, it talks about adding a special descriptor to the mpeg2ts streams which deals with things like copyonce/copymany/copynever, and also things like retention, how long a show can exist in recorded format on a DVR/PVR unit.
:(
But nobody cared. STB's required to receive it back then (and still) too expensive for casual home user. Sales of analog TVs still outnumber those of HDTV-capable TV sets.
And now, they are going to make it even more difficult for people to enjoy this new-and-expensive technology? If anything, to increase HDTV adoption they should make the units cheaper, and allow people to do more with this new technology than they could do with their old analog equipment.
For new technology like this to catch on, people need incentives to use it, not more limitations compared to old technology. If I was in the market for a HDTV set now, I wouldn't buy it if I found out that my use of it would be restricted to only watching it, and not being allowed to timeshift/record what I wanted.
Oh, and on the topic of copy protection, the copy protection, the bits these people are talking about are most likely the DTCP_descriptor bits, described in detail at http://www.dtcp.com/data/info_dtcp_v1_12_20010711
Retention_State_Indicator Retention Time
000 Forever
001 1 week
010 2 days
011 1 day
100 12 hours
101 6 hours
110 3 hours
111 90 minutes
^ yes, sometimes they won't even let you have it for more than 90 minutes
That is assuming the toaster would still be http-reacheable when it "breaks".
Last I checked, when a toaster is toasted, there isnt much left to repair.
At this place you can buy what looks like a USB2 to 4 IDE controller adapter. What you don't see at the manufacturer's site is that this board fits into a standard ATX power case, takes standard ATX power supply, so you can easily make a cool 4 200 or 300 or whatever HDD external case. As you can see Here, that board being mounted into a case, where you can hook up the hdds, using the case's power supply, etc. Too bad its USB2, and too bad each IDE controller only supports one device, otherwise this would make for a killer 8-device controller...
They are usually part of the mainboard.
Or as a full-length PCI card that contains things like audioboard, firewire, etc on the backplane, and 2 pcmcia slots at the front of the case.
keep in mind, all these machines are custom-made Sis/Via/shittychipset motherboards and not any kind of standard shape.
You can pickup a rear-opening cardbus PCI card adapter for about $50-$100 if you look around though.
I don't know about new PCs in U.S., but in japan just about any brand-name PC (Fujitsu/NEC/Sony/etc) comes with at least one or most of the time 2 cardbus pcmcia slots on the case. They are usually advertised as slots for digital camera memory cards etc, to save you from buying a usb/whatever adapter for the same purpose. But they are normal cardbus slots, so you can put in your scsi cards, 1394 adapters, etc. So yes, I'd say its pretty much standard to have them in desktop PCs.
> Shit, USB barely even works as intended on most OSes
You mean, like Linux? I personally have absolutely no problem with USB devices on Windows XP Professional.
Bitch and moan all you like, but can you hot-plug a usb mouse in a laptop running XFree and be able to use it immediately without quitting/restarting XFree and/or editing XF86Config? Thought so.
here. The flash intro linked in the article doesnt even provide any specifications.
Is this: "creation" of a rich japanese individual who claims was buddah in his "previous life"..
"Membership" in that "cult" requires purchase/reading of at least 10 books written by this "individual", each book being fairly expensive, not something you'd call pocket change, anyhow.
Main focuses of this "religious cult" are on "research of happiness", which is just bullshit excuse for "suck in as many members while taking all their money" kind of thing.
Because japanese people in general are quite gullible, the group has been able to attract huge numbers of "members" who are required to buy more books, materials, and visit the churches built by the cult in order to generate more money for Ookawa Ryuho, ths cult's founder.
And you thought scientology was bad...
Is how much do the refills cost? Surely, 100ml or whatever of methanol is going to last you for 10 hours, but what do you do then?
You can't regenerate it, so you go shopping for a refill?
as can be clearly seen from this microsoft image:
l over_4.gif
http://www.microsoft.com/Office/clippy/images/rol
(official site here)
And you know of any such programs?
Links please?
I've setup a mirror for the source at http://43.244.87.231/cle266.tgz
Be nice to it, and check the original site after slashdot effect goes away.
I'm looking for actual, real-world experiences, and how the people of Slashdot deal with this issue on a day-to-day basis.
:)
See, you are suggesting that people reading slashdot actually have a life, or know how to deal with it
> I sort of agree, installing using the CPAN tool is pretty easy. But, I maintain some custom install RedHat CDs that need some PMs not installed by RedHat. I have the user install them using the MCPAN tool, but it sure would be easier just adding them to the list of RPMS for anaconda to install at system creation time.
Yep, since you are already creating custom install cds, I assume you have the knowledge to roll these modules into RPMs yourself. This "script" he uses is using another script (cpanflute2) to actually create RPMs, what's stopping you from using THAT script to make 5-10 custom RPMs for your install CD instead of this guy wasting bandwidth every day downloading "newest" modules?
perl -MCPAN -e 'install SomePerlModule'?
It would get compiled for your system, warning you and/or downloading all the required dependencies.
NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
is one of those "non-routable private IP address spaces".
RTFRFC
some of futurecrew members formed remedy entertainment, (and did titles such as Death Rally and Max Payne - and now working on Max Payne 2), and they are also related to 3DMark 2001 (MadOnion) and 3DMark 2003 (Now under the name of FutureMark).
:)
So yeah, they went right back to writing cool demos that push the limits of current hardware
try this place:
t hreadid=269141.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&
Requires an Apple laptop/desktop, firewire cable, OSX 10.2+, some C++ skills, and a large hard disk.
is that a old-world mac?
If it is, you may need to boot to MacOS first and use BootX.
Otherwise your 300mhz machine runs at about 10mhz and you can literally see the screen redraw each line.