Heh. When Speakable Items came back in Mac OS 9, I was working at Apple. I ran into a training lab and yelled "COMPUTER! SHUT DOWN!" from the back of the room several times and managed to utterly ruin a training session.
Ahhh, so this is why you used the past tense when referring to your employment at Apple, then?
I knew him years ago too. I made it to the city science fair in grade 6 and ended up in the same display room as him. While the rest of us had projects on battery life and growing mold, his was on linear equations and matrices. In grade 6. Always knew he'd go far...
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> I don't believe any regex featurs are going to help you. If you use s///, you're just way to > naive. You should step away from programming - go play quake or something like that.
What an unbelievably arrogant statement! I'm really happy for you that you were *born* with an ingrained knowledge of regular expression syntax, but some people might actually have to *learn* how to use them.
Perhaps instead of casually dismissing any would-be Perl-er from learning the language since they can't grok s/// yet, how about explaining *why* using it for HTML tags is (in your opinion) a bad idea.
By the way, for some circumstances where you know you'll be parsing a web page in a certain format, s/// can work just fine thank you very much (my success with it proves that).
DVD-ROM drives have been supported under Linux for a while now (since they first appeared?) as really big CD drives. Note that I said drives - though we can read DVD-ROM and DVD-Video media, Linux software doesn't exist yet to playback DVD-Video movies under Linux.
This driver is for a DVD-RAM drive, a rewriteable DVD format. I guess the driver handles the writing part of the process.
Unfortunately, I have to agree that I've found 6.0 to be problematic. 5.2 was rock solid for me, but even with a clean install of 6.0 (freshly formatted hard drive) the parallel port Zip driver wouldn't work on my system - it gave some errors about unresolved symbols. A quick recompile of the kernel fixed the problem, but I feel I shouldn't have had to do that just to get it working.
I still have some problems with Gnome pausing for 10-20 seconds on startup/shutdown that I haven't tracked down yet. I'm sure it's some config thing, but I don't like having to hunt down problems on a base install that I haven't hacked at all.
My final solution to all this: I'm trying my freshly burned copy of Mandrake tonight.
Yeah, you're right, when I looked back on that post it did come up sounding like nonsense. Chalk it up to 2 hours of sleep over a 27 hour period. Unfortunately sobody so far has shown an interest in writing software DVD decoders for Linux. I guess the point I should have made is that it won't show up as an open source project, we're relying on a commercial company somewhere to pick up the idea.
This seems like a good idea, but how many people really watch movies on their PC? Or have their PC close enough to their TV to be able to play the movies out to the TV? It seems more of a novelty to me for anyone but space-constrained college students with expensive new computers.
Heh, falling 100% into that demographic, it's hard for me to make an unbiased argument against that statement. In fact, I agree heartily; to any of my friends who have real jobs/incomes I've always recommended getting a standalone DVD player if they're interested in the movies.
I doubt there'd be a big enough market to justify it. I think the switch to software decoding under Windows was largely because most people don't want to spend even fifty or a hundred extra bucks for a decoder card they're not going to get much use out of.
I agree, especially with the horsepower in today's modern machines. I think the issue (brought up by Hemos in the post) is that the decryption algorithms are *very* propriatary, and a GPL software-only decoder is completely out of the question. Would people accept a commercial, binary-only software decoder? Generally, in the Linux community the answer to this is NO!
You're right, hardware decoding itself isn't a new concept, but LINUX support for the hardware sure is! All the boards released so far have been Win or Mac only.
Does linux partially support DVD, perhaps only supporting reading the disks and not the video decoding stuff?
Bingo. My Panasonic SR-8583 DVD-ROM is detected as an ATAPI CD-ROM drive and I can read files from it just fine. I just wish we could get some kind of software player off the ground, since my PII-400 with ATI Rage Pro (which has partial DVD acceleration) is MORE than enough horsepower for full software only decoding, even under slow ol' Winbloat.
Erm, sorry, but I was out Red Hat 6.0 hunting just a couple of days ago when every ftp site on the planet that mirrors Red Hat was getting smashed, and the too many users error I got from ftp.cdrom.com said 3500.
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> I want to play Space Invaders while I rock out to
> 70's supergroup Foreigner.
No no no...don't you mean listen to your all-Rush mix tape?
Ahhh, so this is why you used the past tense when referring to your employment at Apple, then?
I knew him years ago too. I made it to the city science fair in grade 6 and ended up in the same display room as him. While the rest of us had projects on battery life and growing mold, his was on linear equations and matrices. In grade 6. Always knew he'd go far...
> I don't believe any regex featurs are going to help you. If you use s///, you're just way to
> naive. You should step away from programming - go play quake or something like that.
What an unbelievably arrogant statement! I'm really happy for you that you were *born* with an ingrained knowledge of regular expression syntax, but some people might actually have to *learn* how to use them.
Perhaps instead of casually dismissing any would-be Perl-er from learning the language since they can't grok s/// yet, how about explaining *why* using it for HTML tags is (in your opinion) a bad idea.
By the way, for some circumstances where you know you'll be parsing a web page in a certain format, s/// can work just fine thank you very much (my success with it proves that).
Sheesh.
DVD-ROM drives have been supported under Linux for a while now (since they first appeared?) as really big CD drives. Note that I said drives - though we can read DVD-ROM and DVD-Video media, Linux software doesn't exist yet to playback DVD-Video movies under Linux.
This driver is for a DVD-RAM drive, a rewriteable DVD format. I guess the driver handles the writing part of the process.
N = Nippon = Japan
I think the point the original author was trying to make is:
Japan = small/cramped living spaces = people will appreciate the small size of this thing.
Unfortunately, I have to agree that I've found 6.0 to be problematic. 5.2 was rock solid for me, but even with a clean install of 6.0 (freshly formatted hard drive) the parallel port Zip driver wouldn't work on my system - it gave some errors about unresolved symbols. A quick recompile of the kernel fixed the problem, but I feel I shouldn't have had to do that just to get it working.
I still have some problems with Gnome pausing for 10-20 seconds on startup/shutdown that I haven't tracked down yet. I'm sure it's some config thing, but I don't like having to hunt down problems on a base install that I haven't hacked at all.
My final solution to all this: I'm trying my freshly burned copy of Mandrake tonight.
Yeah, you're right, when I looked back on that post it did come up sounding like nonsense. Chalk it up to 2 hours of sleep over a 27 hour period. Unfortunately sobody so far has shown an interest in writing software DVD decoders for Linux. I guess the point I should have made is that it won't show up as an open source project, we're relying on a commercial company somewhere to pick up the idea.
Sorry 'bout the stupidity there.
Heh, falling 100% into that demographic, it's hard for me to make an unbiased argument against that statement. In fact, I agree heartily; to any of my friends who have real jobs/incomes I've always recommended getting a standalone DVD player if they're interested in the movies.
I doubt there'd be a big enough market to justify it. I think the switch to software decoding under Windows was largely because most people don't want to spend even fifty or a hundred extra bucks for a decoder card they're not going to get much use out of.
I agree, especially with the horsepower in today's modern machines. I think the issue (brought up by Hemos in the post) is that the decryption algorithms are *very* propriatary, and a GPL software-only decoder is completely out of the question. Would people accept a commercial, binary-only software decoder? Generally, in the Linux community the answer to this is NO!
You're right, hardware decoding itself isn't a new concept, but LINUX support for the hardware sure is! All the boards released so far have been Win or Mac only.
Bingo. My Panasonic SR-8583 DVD-ROM is detected as an ATAPI CD-ROM drive and I can read files from it just fine. I just wish we could get some kind of software player off the ground, since my PII-400 with ATI Rage Pro (which has partial DVD acceleration) is MORE than enough horsepower for full software only decoding, even under slow ol' Winbloat.
XAnim, great animation viewer that it is, doesn't handle QuickTime VR, just QuickTime video. The VR pics are a whole different file format/concept.
Erm, sorry, but I was out Red Hat 6.0 hunting just a couple of days ago when every ftp site on the planet that mirrors Red Hat was getting smashed, and the too many users error I got from ftp.cdrom.com said 3500.