Handbrake is good, but in my experience it has some drawbacks. The crop detection is not robust. Try ripping a movie like "the usual suspects" that has almost all black opening credits and you'll get something like an 80x80 file. It also doesn't support some of the more esoteric quality options and video filters like mencoder.
I used to use handbrake for an easy solution, but I've spent the past year or so slowly creating a sh script that works using a combination of lsdvd, awk, sed, mplayer and mencoder that will basically transcode anything you throw at it. Then you either rip straight from your dvd or an ISO.
If you check the mencoder-users mailing list you can find several of those type scripts out there.
But word is still incredibly stupid about many things. Ironically enough, I have spent this entire week going over an operating manual trying to reformat it for an ISO audit.
Word has no problems breaking a table across a page where it leaves ONE row at the bottom of a page, then duplicates that header row at the top of the next.
The sectioning was driving me batty, and so easy to screw up.
There was no way to "lock in" a style. Somehow I had lines that were formatted as "Heading 3", but were NOT formatted like heading 3. So, choosing "Heading 3" from the dropdown did what... UPDATED the "Heading 3" style instead of CHANGING the text I selected to "Heading 3", wtf.
Then I had somehow a rogue invisible figure that was throwing off the numbering of all my other figures. Even with all characters revealed, I could not find the ghost number. Ended up having to delete all the captions from all figures and re-create them for the numbers to work out properly.
It's just so maddening to have to deal with Word because they have to be in a format that everyone is comfortable with editing. Every 5 minutes I'm thinking "I wouldn't have THIS problem with LaTeX!".
There is a great 3-part documentary titled "Diamond Road" put together by SBS (Australian I think?). You can find some torrents for it via mvgroup. They go into some of the geopolitical/economic issues around diamond trade, including some of the Canadian mines.
I'm not sure if this is what the OP is referring to, but the HDA audio spec includes a "jack sense" ability so that you can tell what kind of device is plugged in and remap the output through different pins to send audio to that port, even though it is not the default configuration. I'm not sure how many devices actually implement the reconfiguring, but my laptop doesn't seem to allow it (or I couldn't figure out how to do it). However, it is not voltage that is measured, but rather changes in impedance.
I helped develop the HDA driver for FreeBSD, and there is a lot of functionality that seems to be largely unused. I wouldn't be surprised if "Vista ready devices" were required to have a more complete implementation.
I've designed and operated distillation columns, so I think I know a little about how they work. I'd want to know a lot more about their "low-temperature distillation" before trusting anything it produced. There is almost no way that this version is more efficient than mass produced ethanol, especially considering that transporting the sugar is moving at least 5x the mass. They have to be cutting corners somewhere.
No, the article says it is some kind of "membrane distillation", that uses "extremely fine filters to separate water from alcohol". If it was simply distillation, you'd never be able to break the azeotrope and get your ethanol pure enough anyway.
I'd be worried about other water-soluble impurities making it across their filtration system. What kind of contaminants are in that low-budget sugar? Ethanol isn't the smallest molecule in the world, and I can see at a minimum metallic ions and chlorides easily passing through. Do you really want chloride deposits building up in your engine? One "failure" caused by a bad tank of ethanol could cost you a lot.
I would have switched to something more lightweight like Xfce, but no other clipboard manager will do what klipper does. Namely, forcibly sync both clipboards. My laptop doesn't have a 3rd mouse button and that is how I work around it.
How can an iPod be #1 overall but not win in any of the other categories... That doesn't seem mathematically possible unless they are just plain wrong or terribly out of sync.
A calorie is what? "The energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree celcius." In other words, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.
Your argument about cardboard is ridiculous. It isn't food. When we refer to the calorie content of something in the context of animals, we mean how much energy is available to extract through digestion.
In controlling his "calories", a diabetic isn't so much controlling weight as he's controlling blood sugar. He is worried about what the complex molecules he eats are metabolized into. Simple sugars that flood into the bloodstream are bad. The amino acids and
The same number of calories of steak don't end up as exactly the same thing as chocolate. If it did, we could subsist entirely on chocolate (or steak). Regardless of the form of the (digestible) food, it can and will end up as stored fat. Proteins and carbohydrates are MUCH harder to convert into fat, and your body will try to avoid doing it, but if you have them in your bloodstream they WILL be turned into fat. It's that simple.
Here, I've found you some reading material. No written homework assignments for today:
Don't believe the anecdotal stories you hear. People only tend to trumpet their successes.
And, oh yes, I should mention that several years ago I lost over 30 lbs by dieting through the only way that truly works - counting calories with a food scale, calorie content book and a paper pad. The end result was a lifestyle change, when I realized how many calories foods really had in them. Minor fluctuations aside, I have kept every pound of that weight off for over 3 years and I never feel like I have to deny myself anything.
Buy a NICE digital scale and weigh yourself every day. Don't flip out over a 2-lb variation from one day to the next. DO flip out if you gain 5 lbs.
Talk of fad diets, special calories, metabolism, genetic disorders, eating cardboard, all that is ridiculous.
If I did it, anyone can do it, because I love being lazy and I still did it.
You are the idiot. I had a good laugh with my sister, who was a practicing registered dietician for nearly 10 years, about it and her response was "I just stopped arguing with the stupid fat people, because they will never accept that they are eating too much".
And if you actually believe that "most people excrete a significant portion of the calories that they consume if they aren't needed", you are a total moron. Do you think your body has a counter that tracks how many calories it needs vs the current amount consumed? Or some kind of calorie queue? No. Your digestive tract does what it evolved to do: break down the food into something that can be absorbed into the bloodstream and transported to cells for use. This does not include re-absorbing "unused" energy for excretion. Sorry. It doesn't work that way. Until the drug companies come up with some miracle drug that prevents you from absorbing these materials, you will remain wrong (and when they do, you will probably be shitting liquid). Prove otherwise with some with scientific literature.
I'll be waiting with baited breath for the references proving any of your points. But I doubt you'll come up with anything. You probably also think that ancient earth cultures had energy weapons, doomsday devices, spaceflight and advanced holistic medicine far more effective than ours.
All that aside, if the MBR is all that was corrupted, the only thing that does is stop you from booting the drive. If the partition table was messed up, you'll have to fix it as well. I'd bet that the drive manager in XP can do both of those.
I don't know why you say zfs under FreeBSD is flaky... I've been running a zfs root on my laptop, and my media server has a zpool root and a 2.5TB raidz for my media files for some time. The only panics were in the first couple hours while I figured out exactly where to tweak the settings to. Since then, nada.
That would be part of the "energy used" portion. I can't believe people are arguing with this... Whatever you eat minus whatever heat you produce, sweat or shit out, cry, bleed, ejaculate, shed, clip, cut, shave off or any other loss of energy or mass equals energy stored. 3500 food calories (kilocalories for physicists, because some nerd is going to claim that your entire statement must be untrue because "calories" are really "kilocalories"!@#$) equals one pound of fat. I would be willing to bet my life that the differences in metabolism efficiency between individuals is so small as to amount to a negligible amount of calories when compared to the shocking differences in calorie consumption of big fat people.
Why do big fat people eat more? Because it takes far more calories to maintain their lard asses at their current weight. A guy who can eat 2500 calories and maintain his weight would lose weight if he ate 2500 calories and was 100 lbs heavier.
Yes there is. When you make a statement, all I have to do is point out one instance where your statement is wrong to show that it is not correct, or at least completely correct.
Great, and when you come up with one that can't be explained please post it... Because he's right.
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I don't think that's a very fair characterization. According to PJD, who ported it to FreeBSD::
http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/43.en.html
See page 15 of the presentation. He calls it "highly portable". Perhaps it's the linux internals which are not modular enough!
Splicing AVIs: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -forceidx -o spliced.avi file1.avi file2.avi ... filen.avi
Handbrake is good, but in my experience it has some drawbacks. The crop detection is not robust. Try ripping a movie like "the usual suspects" that has almost all black opening credits and you'll get something like an 80x80 file. It also doesn't support some of the more esoteric quality options and video filters like mencoder.
I used to use handbrake for an easy solution, but I've spent the past year or so slowly creating a sh script that works using a combination of lsdvd, awk, sed, mplayer and mencoder that will basically transcode anything you throw at it. Then you either rip straight from your dvd or an ISO.
If you check the mencoder-users mailing list you can find several of those type scripts out there.
But word is still incredibly stupid about many things. Ironically enough, I have spent this entire week going over an operating manual trying to reformat it for an ISO audit.
Word has no problems breaking a table across a page where it leaves ONE row at the bottom of a page, then duplicates that header row at the top of the next.
The sectioning was driving me batty, and so easy to screw up.
There was no way to "lock in" a style. Somehow I had lines that were formatted as "Heading 3", but were NOT formatted like heading 3. So, choosing "Heading 3" from the dropdown did what... UPDATED the "Heading 3" style instead of CHANGING the text I selected to "Heading 3", wtf.
Then I had somehow a rogue invisible figure that was throwing off the numbering of all my other figures. Even with all characters revealed, I could not find the ghost number. Ended up having to delete all the captions from all figures and re-create them for the numbers to work out properly.
It's just so maddening to have to deal with Word because they have to be in a format that everyone is comfortable with editing. Every 5 minutes I'm thinking "I wouldn't have THIS problem with LaTeX!".
You might be confusing him with iGor, inventor of the iNet.
Watch out for the man with the golden gun...
There is a great 3-part documentary titled "Diamond Road" put together by SBS (Australian I think?). You can find some torrents for it via mvgroup. They go into some of the geopolitical/economic issues around diamond trade, including some of the Canadian mines.
Even better, write a script that looks for the good old "RING" text coming down a serial port and automagically mutes the audio. Problem solved.
I'm not sure if this is what the OP is referring to, but the HDA audio spec includes a "jack sense" ability so that you can tell what kind of device is plugged in and remap the output through different pins to send audio to that port, even though it is not the default configuration. I'm not sure how many devices actually implement the reconfiguring, but my laptop doesn't seem to allow it (or I couldn't figure out how to do it). However, it is not voltage that is measured, but rather changes in impedance.
I helped develop the HDA driver for FreeBSD, and there is a lot of functionality that seems to be largely unused. I wouldn't be surprised if "Vista ready devices" were required to have a more complete implementation.
I've designed and operated distillation columns, so I think I know a little about how they work. I'd want to know a lot more about their "low-temperature distillation" before trusting anything it produced. There is almost no way that this version is more efficient than mass produced ethanol, especially considering that transporting the sugar is moving at least 5x the mass. They have to be cutting corners somewhere.
No, the article says it is some kind of "membrane distillation", that uses "extremely fine filters to separate water from alcohol". If it was simply distillation, you'd never be able to break the azeotrope and get your ethanol pure enough anyway.
I'd be worried about other water-soluble impurities making it across their filtration system. What kind of contaminants are in that low-budget sugar? Ethanol isn't the smallest molecule in the world, and I can see at a minimum metallic ions and chlorides easily passing through. Do you really want chloride deposits building up in your engine? One "failure" caused by a bad tank of ethanol could cost you a lot.
candidate->votes++;
Ridiculous. An engineering student with a TI calculator. HAH! Probably some math major.
I would have switched to something more lightweight like Xfce, but no other clipboard manager will do what klipper does. Namely, forcibly sync both clipboards. My laptop doesn't have a 3rd mouse button and that is how I work around it.
How can an iPod be #1 overall but not win in any of the other categories... That doesn't seem mathematically possible unless they are just plain wrong or terribly out of sync.
A calorie is what? "The energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water 1 degree celcius." In other words, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.
Your argument about cardboard is ridiculous. It isn't food. When we refer to the calorie content of something in the context of animals, we mean how much energy is available to extract through digestion.
In controlling his "calories", a diabetic isn't so much controlling weight as he's controlling blood sugar. He is worried about what the complex molecules he eats are metabolized into. Simple sugars that flood into the bloodstream are bad. The amino acids and
The same number of calories of steak don't end up as exactly the same thing as chocolate. If it did, we could subsist entirely on chocolate (or steak). Regardless of the form of the (digestible) food, it can and will end up as stored fat. Proteins and carbohydrates are MUCH harder to convert into fat, and your body will try to avoid doing it, but if you have them in your bloodstream they WILL be turned into fat. It's that simple.
Here, I've found you some reading material. No written homework assignments for today:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/index.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/fat-cell.htm
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food.htm
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metabolism/WT00006
Don't believe the anecdotal stories you hear. People only tend to trumpet their successes.
And, oh yes, I should mention that several years ago I lost over 30 lbs by dieting through the only way that truly works - counting calories with a food scale, calorie content book and a paper pad. The end result was a lifestyle change, when I realized how many calories foods really had in them. Minor fluctuations aside, I have kept every pound of that weight off for over 3 years and I never feel like I have to deny myself anything.
Buy a NICE digital scale and weigh yourself every day. Don't flip out over a 2-lb variation from one day to the next. DO flip out if you gain 5 lbs.
Talk of fad diets, special calories, metabolism, genetic disorders, eating cardboard, all that is ridiculous.
If I did it, anyone can do it, because I love being lazy and I still did it.
You are the idiot. I had a good laugh with my sister, who was a practicing registered dietician for nearly 10 years, about it and her response was "I just stopped arguing with the stupid fat people, because they will never accept that they are eating too much".
And if you actually believe that "most people excrete a significant portion of the calories that they consume if they aren't needed", you are a total moron. Do you think your body has a counter that tracks how many calories it needs vs the current amount consumed? Or some kind of calorie queue? No. Your digestive tract does what it evolved to do: break down the food into something that can be absorbed into the bloodstream and transported to cells for use. This does not include re-absorbing "unused" energy for excretion. Sorry. It doesn't work that way. Until the drug companies come up with some miracle drug that prevents you from absorbing these materials, you will remain wrong (and when they do, you will probably be shitting liquid). Prove otherwise with some with scientific literature.
I'll be waiting with baited breath for the references proving any of your points. But I doubt you'll come up with anything. You probably also think that ancient earth cultures had energy weapons, doomsday devices, spaceflight and advanced holistic medicine far more effective than ours.
Shrug... You've probably already done the research but I'd have to say just buy some more RAM :)
FreeBSD, to simply "clear" the MBR:
/dev/ad0
/dev/ad0
fdisk -B
To clear the MBR and reset partition table:
fdisk -Bi
All that aside, if the MBR is all that was corrupted, the only thing that does is stop you from booting the drive. If the partition table was messed up, you'll have to fix it as well. I'd bet that the drive manager in XP can do both of those.
For another $100 you can get something like this.
RAID does not increase MTBF, but it does both increase the MTTDL and decrease the BER.
I don't know why you say zfs under FreeBSD is flaky... I've been running a zfs root on my laptop, and my media server has a zpool root and a 2.5TB raidz for my media files for some time. The only panics were in the first couple hours while I figured out exactly where to tweak the settings to. Since then, nada.
That would be part of the "energy used" portion. I can't believe people are arguing with this... Whatever you eat minus whatever heat you produce, sweat or shit out, cry, bleed, ejaculate, shed, clip, cut, shave off or any other loss of energy or mass equals energy stored. 3500 food calories (kilocalories for physicists, because some nerd is going to claim that your entire statement must be untrue because "calories" are really "kilocalories"!@#$) equals one pound of fat. I would be willing to bet my life that the differences in metabolism efficiency between individuals is so small as to amount to a negligible amount of calories when compared to the shocking differences in calorie consumption of big fat people.
Why do big fat people eat more? Because it takes far more calories to maintain their lard asses at their current weight. A guy who can eat 2500 calories and maintain his weight would lose weight if he ate 2500 calories and was 100 lbs heavier.
Great, and when you come up with one that can't be explained please post it... Because he's right.