Take a look at MainActor for Linux. Also available for windows. I tried both briefly. The Linux version ran slowly while the Windows version was unusably slow. HOWEVER Bear in mind that my 'test' consisted of draggin a 45-minute long 350MB mpeg-1 video to the editor in the hopes of snipping out the bits I wanted. The interface and tools look good, but not AS good as Premier, but the poor thing pretty much up and died on me. I was also running the latest version and not the last known stable build, so definately try this out for yourself. I'm suprised not to have heard of these folks before this on slashdot. I'd submit it as a story, but what's the use as everything I've ever sent has gotten soundly rejected, and the only reward for getting a story 'accepted' is a slight increase in status in the glazed eyes of my fellow Slashdotters. Fsck that! The Linux download for this is free, as is the Windows version (for now). It looks promising and ran without a hitch on my SuSE 6.whatever box. They also have a great web-chat thing for submitting bugs and asking questions. A for effort, I say. If you're looking to use small clips to make short animations, this could be your free ticket to ride. For non-firewire analog video capture, I HIGHLY reccomend the Dazzle DVC. MPEG-1 for $250 that connects through your USB port and DOESN'T DROP A FRAME. The included uLead Video Studio edit package is an absolute waste, but can be used to upgrade to their Pro version which is on par with Premier, and can cope with MPEG-1 / 2 out of the box. Premier is nice but SLOW and perversely buggy, even with updates.
Alone, that is. Why so serious? Do you think that anyone in their right mind is going to this event for anything more or less than a good time? You like Quake, you like Linux, but you're too cool to hang out with others for an afternoon who feel likewise? No comprendes! Whose the poseur here?
Perhaps it's just a kooky excuse to show off and have a bit of fun. No. It must have some weird and mysterious socio-political undertones. Then again, wait--
First, a note to say that I *highly* disagree with the moderator consensus relegating your post to mere 'flamebait'. It's a jury of our peers, tho', and we can't expect to agree all the time. Bad moderation happens, as we see here. Fact of/. life. For the record, overall, I think moderation works pretty well.
That said, I disagree with your post for the simple reason that this is an interesting and important issue, and it's good to have it a bit further in the public eye. I care about such things, but I'm not a full-time administrator, so I don't (yet) peruse the specialist forums. Your annoyance is understandable, but I still disagree.
The 'CLUE of prevention' you speak of is valid at the local level. At the global level things aren't so clear. You, as a fully functional human being, have untold potential to wreak havoc upon your neighbors. Should they kill you now to prevent that possibility?
If you are free to block them, how can you say they can't block you?
It's not that they can't, because clearly they can. It's that they shouldn't. They have attained a position of significant repspectability (fairly wide-spread use) with their service, this separates them from the common user or isp. Users trust them to provide even-handed and consistent service, just like we trust our local police not to shoot someone in the knee caps for saying "Fuck you" to an officer.
When such brutality does occur, as we all know it does from time to time, the Police must be taken to task for weilding state-level power on a personal basis.
ORBS has successfully become a sort of 'Police' of the Internet. If they aren't grown-up enough to handle the responsibility in an enlightened manner, they will be replaced, and rightfully so.
I think (hope) that such things are growing pains, and that as they come to realize that their new-found influence comes with certain responsibilities. . .
Also try PLIP to install through the parallel port. I share the cdrom drive on my desktop system via NFS, and install from there. I forget, tho', if SWare allows NFS installs. Nowadays it's even easier, actually, as I now do it through a pcmcia network card, which the install floppy can detect. I run SuSE, tho', so YMMV.
All joking aside, this, in my opinion, is a classic breakthrough in which a 'silly' idea or thought-experiment leads to a minor or perhaps major revolution. The idea of wide, rolled surface for data storage is phenominal. The amount of surface area is MUCH larger than that of a cd-rom or any other flat spining surface, and the amount of movement necessary for a given read is greatly lessened. The idea of three dimensional storage is a tad beyond me, but I can see the potential and it's very exciting.
Before you laugh this off as funny ("it's tape! Huh huh! That's stoopid!") read the page and check out what they're doing. This is big stuff!
It tries to be realistic, but whenever the science gets in the way of Hollywood, Hollywood wins.
They're hoping to pander to an audience whose willingness to swallow pseudo/non-science has been nurtured by several years of X-Files.
Scully's tits...arousal...insert Alien/Cattle-mutilator/Conspiracy meme...tits...ahhh!...Scully's emits seamingly reasonable 'scientific' assumptions to explain the strange event...tits...Mulder mocks her for 'ignoring' the 'obvious' 'Truth' that is 'out there'...tits...Mulder's right again...look at that ass...when will Scully learn to stop thinking and accept that whatever the California New Age Police say is true is true?...nice crotch shot, even with clothes on...ooh! Leather!
Most religious leaders (more like pigs) see the internet as the work of the devil -- a source of pornographic materials.
What they fear, of course, is not the porno. They're probably eating that up quicker than the rest of you. It's the uncontrollably broad perspective that is immediately available on the 'net which would (will) threaten their hold on the minds of citizens, and threaten their ability to manipulate people with their fearsome admonitions.
ALL religions abhor freedom of information, for their 'truths' very quickly sound inane in the company of saner views.
Here in the US we're working to outlaw the use of the words sushi, pasta, canapes and every word that ends in '-tion'. The English language is on the verge of extinction (whoops)
With Perl, kids are more likely to experience success in making programs that do interesting and useful things, within the first week or so. Try to do that with C or C++! On the downside, you're point about poor programming practice is good. The fact that there are 'better' (more structured) languages available as well is true, but Perl has the widespread use (real world examples) and pop-culture appeal that is more likely to capture and hold a kids interest, which I take as a point in Perl's favour.
True. It's not about the right to cheat OR the right to fix bugs OR the right to tattoo the source code to your ass cheeks.
It's about freely distributable source-code. Period. End of story. No bickering, no "well what are you going to do with it?" no "gimme your name and address first" no "well okay, but you can't do this, this or that". Just freely available source. It's THAT simple.
If your bothered by the fact that yes, Virginia, folks can cheat with your code, then find another way. If you're bright and clever enough to code this stuff, then surely you can find some way to make it your own.
To profit from the GPL you must ADHERE to it. No exceptions.
I play using the typical 'he-man' skins in quake, but I like to wear an old gingham dress while doing so. It's comfortable and doesn't make me look fat. The blousy sleeves make for some rapid mouse-handling as well, and help show off all my tattoos and piercings.
Early models will have the clunky 'star trek' flat screen video that will get attention from curiosity seekers and technophiles but ultimately, as you say, prove to be more of an annoyance and power drain than anything else.
Given that, I think that the video display will quickly evolve into a flexible goose-necky thing that sprouts out of the handset so as to be easily positioned near your eye. It might double as a camera to broadcast your picture, but there will probably also be a jack for an external, extreemly lightweight 'lapel' video cam, that you will see clipped to the visors of hats and whatnot.
The idea of video/phones, once it arrives in some commonly usable form, will remain in demand, but will evolve to embrace the desire for privacy and low power requirements.
I think the solution will lie more in miniturization and optimization on the pc end than it will increased life and power on the battery end. When a tiny, fiber optic display can be projected on to the retina or onto a pair of glasses, and when we have pentium-level power in a calculator-sized package, we'll have portable/wearable computing that will match or, more likely exceed today's hopes and expectations.
I refuse to buy another Space Shuttle for personal use until they make the switch. Thanks for saying what was undoubtedly on all our minds. You are a courageous spokesperson for the indominatable Linux revolution. I salute you.
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Take a look at MainActor for Linux. Also available for windows. I tried both briefly. The Linux version ran slowly while the Windows version was unusably slow. HOWEVER Bear in mind that my 'test' consisted of draggin a 45-minute long 350MB mpeg-1 video to the editor in the hopes of snipping out the bits I wanted. The interface and tools look good, but not AS good as Premier, but the poor thing pretty much up and died on me. I was also running the latest version and not the last known stable build, so definately try this out for yourself. I'm suprised not to have heard of these folks before this on slashdot. I'd submit it as a story, but what's the use as everything I've ever sent has gotten soundly rejected, and the only reward for getting a story 'accepted' is a slight increase in status in the glazed eyes of my fellow Slashdotters. Fsck that! The Linux download for this is free, as is the Windows version (for now). It looks promising and ran without a hitch on my SuSE 6.whatever box. They also have a great web-chat thing for submitting bugs and asking questions. A for effort, I say. If you're looking to use small clips to make short animations, this could be your free ticket to ride. For non-firewire analog video capture, I HIGHLY reccomend the Dazzle DVC. MPEG-1 for $250 that connects through your USB port and DOESN'T DROP A FRAME. The included uLead Video Studio edit package is an absolute waste, but can be used to upgrade to their Pro version which is on par with Premier, and can cope with MPEG-1 / 2 out of the box. Premier is nice but SLOW and perversely buggy, even with updates.
...says that demons can possess anything with a brain. Apparently that now includes computers. According to the Georgia clergyman...
Ahh. That would explain why I've never seen a Georgia clergyman possed by demons.
Alone, that is. Why so serious? Do you think that anyone in their right mind is going to this event for anything more or less than a good time? You like Quake, you like Linux, but you're too cool to hang out with others for an afternoon who feel likewise? No comprendes! Whose the poseur here?
Perhaps it's just a kooky excuse to show off and have a bit of fun. No. It must have some weird and mysterious socio-political undertones. Then again, wait--
Remember the Undertones? Great band!
The Blue Line smells like peepee.
Brilliant post, doomed to the slush-pile.
Oh well!
First, a note to say that I *highly* disagree with the moderator consensus relegating your post to mere 'flamebait'. It's a jury of our peers, tho', and we can't expect to agree all the time. Bad moderation happens, as we see here. Fact of /. life. For the record, overall, I think moderation works pretty well.
That said, I disagree with your post for the simple reason that this is an interesting and important issue, and it's good to have it a bit further in the public eye. I care about such things, but I'm not a full-time administrator, so I don't (yet) peruse the specialist forums. Your annoyance is understandable, but I still disagree.
Respectfully,
skent
The 'CLUE of prevention' you speak of is valid at the local level. At the global level things aren't so clear. You, as a fully functional human being, have untold potential to wreak havoc upon your neighbors. Should they kill you now to prevent that possibility?
If you are free to block them,
how can you say they can't block you?
It's not that they can't, because clearly they can. It's that they shouldn't. They have attained a position of significant repspectability (fairly wide-spread use) with their service, this separates them from the common user or isp. Users trust them to provide even-handed and consistent service, just like we trust our local police not to shoot someone in the knee caps for saying "Fuck you" to an officer.
When such brutality does occur, as we all know it does from time to time, the Police must be taken to task for weilding state-level power on a personal basis.
ORBS has successfully become a sort of 'Police' of the Internet. If they aren't grown-up enough to handle the responsibility in an enlightened manner, they will be replaced, and rightfully so.
I think (hope) that such things are growing pains, and that as they come to realize that their new-found influence comes with certain responsibilities.
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With some great 'Try at Home at Your Own Risk' experiments! Click here.
Check here and scroll down or search for "auditd".
Also try PLIP to install through the parallel port. I share the cdrom drive on my desktop system via NFS, and install from there. I forget, tho', if SWare allows NFS installs. Nowadays it's even easier, actually, as I now do it through a pcmcia network card, which the install floppy can detect. I run SuSE, tho', so YMMV.
All joking aside, this, in my opinion, is a classic breakthrough in which a 'silly' idea or thought-experiment leads to a minor or perhaps major revolution. The idea of wide, rolled surface for data storage is phenominal. The amount of surface area is MUCH larger than that of a cd-rom or any other flat spining surface, and the amount of movement necessary for a given read is greatly lessened. The idea of three dimensional storage is a tad beyond me, but I can see the potential and it's very exciting.
Before you laugh this off as funny ("it's tape! Huh huh! That's stoopid!") read the page and check out what they're doing. This is big stuff!
With some very sticky implications...
DOH!
It tries to be realistic, but whenever the science gets in the way of Hollywood, Hollywood wins.
They're hoping to pander to an audience whose willingness to swallow pseudo/non-science has been nurtured by several years of X-Files.
Scully's tits...arousal...insert Alien/Cattle-mutilator/Conspiracy meme...tits...ahhh!...Scully's emits seamingly reasonable 'scientific' assumptions to explain the strange event...tits...Mulder mocks her for 'ignoring' the 'obvious' 'Truth' that is 'out there'...tits...Mulder's right again...look at that ass...when will Scully learn to stop thinking and accept that whatever the California New Age Police say is true is true?...nice crotch shot, even with clothes on...ooh! Leather!
Take two m$m's 'n call me in the morning.
Most religious leaders (more like pigs) see the internet as the work of the devil -- a source of pornographic materials.
What they fear, of course, is not the porno. They're probably eating that up quicker than the rest of you. It's the uncontrollably broad perspective that is immediately available on the 'net which would (will) threaten their hold on the minds of citizens, and threaten their ability to manipulate people with their fearsome admonitions.
ALL religions abhor freedom of information, for their 'truths' very quickly sound inane in the company of saner views.
Good luck to your friends back home!
Ah yes, the French and their Lingua Paranoia...
Here in the US we're working to outlaw the use of the words sushi, pasta, canapes and every word that ends in '-tion'. The English language is on the verge of extinction (whoops)
With Perl, kids are more likely to experience success in making programs that do interesting and useful things, within the first week or so. Try to do that with C or C++! On the downside, you're point about poor programming practice is good. The fact that there are 'better' (more structured) languages available as well is true, but Perl has the widespread use (real world examples) and pop-culture appeal that is more likely to capture and hold a kids interest, which I take as a point in Perl's favour.
I imagine you could just telnet/ssh in via ethernet, and get a command-line that way.
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WTF? It's not about the right to cheat.
True. It's not about the right to cheat OR the right to fix bugs OR the right to tattoo the source code to your ass cheeks.
It's about freely distributable source-code. Period. End of story. No bickering, no "well what are you going to do with it?" no "gimme your name and address first" no "well okay, but you can't do this, this or that". Just freely available source. It's THAT simple.
If your bothered by the fact that yes, Virginia, folks can cheat with your code, then find another way. If you're bright and clever enough to code this stuff, then surely you can find some way to make it your own.
To profit from the GPL you must ADHERE to it. No exceptions.
I play using the typical 'he-man' skins in quake, but I like to wear an old gingham dress while doing so. It's comfortable and doesn't make me look fat. The blousy sleeves make for some rapid mouse-handling as well, and help show off all my tattoos and piercings.
Early models will have the clunky 'star trek' flat screen video that will get attention from curiosity seekers and technophiles but ultimately, as you say, prove to be more of an annoyance and power drain than anything else.
Given that, I think that the video display will quickly evolve into a flexible goose-necky thing that sprouts out of the handset so as to be easily positioned near your eye. It might double as a camera to broadcast your picture, but there will probably also be a jack for an external, extreemly lightweight 'lapel' video cam, that you will see clipped to the visors of hats and whatnot.
The idea of video/phones, once it arrives in some commonly usable form, will remain in demand, but will evolve to embrace the desire for privacy and low power requirements.
I think the solution will lie more in miniturization and optimization on the pc end than it will increased life and power on the battery end. When a tiny, fiber optic display can be projected on to the retina or onto a pair of glasses, and when we have pentium-level power in a calculator-sized package, we'll have portable/wearable computing that will match or, more likely exceed today's hopes and expectations.
I refuse to buy another Space Shuttle for personal use until they make the switch. Thanks for saying what was undoubtedly on all our minds. You are a courageous spokesperson for the indominatable Linux revolution. I salute you.
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> else you'd be headed for Hell
Where does the bible say that ?
Right after the part where Jesus goes into the massage parlor and smashes all the TV sets with a 9-iron.