What are the main differences in the types of yeast used for making bread, versus the types of yeast used for making beer? Could someone, for example, take a beer yeast culture and make a decent sourdough from it?
I could be talking out my ass on this, but I suspect that baking yeast is optimized for production of gas (to make bread rise) while brewing yeast is optimized for producing alcohol (for obvious reasons:-) ). All yeasts produce both carbon dioxide and ethanol to some extent. In breadmaking, you want the carbon dioxide and don't care about the ethanol. In brewing, it's the other way around. (Almost...bottle-conditioned beer (nearly all homebrew, and some commercially-produced beers such as Rare Vos and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) uses the carbon dioxide for carbonation.)
At least, I think I remember reading something along those lines in my homebrew books...
Prego has some pasta sauces for baking...you can make baked ziti without boiling the pasta first. IIRC, you dump the pasta, a jar of sauce, and a jar full of water into a baking dish, stir, cover, and throw into the oven. After a while, you uncover, stir, top with cheese, and let it bake some more. It's good stuff, and you only get one dish dirty (instead of also getting a pot dirty).
This is one of the big reasons I canceled cable and continue to refuse to get a satellite system--I don't want a box, with another remote (that would make 5 total) and a barrier to recording one program while I watch another.
Hmm...my TiVo is perfectly capable of controlling the digital-cable box I obtained recently. Watching TV now is no different (other than the increased number of channels) than it was when the coax went straight into the TiVo: go into Now Showing, find something interesting, and start playing.
The box came with a remote, but the only thing for which it's possibly needed is to order PPV (and you can do that over the phone or through the cable company's website). Channel changing is a little bit slower, but since I almost never watch live TV, that's no big deal. I still have the coax running straight into a couple of VCRs, too, so I could have up to three programs (one digital, two analog) recording at once if that should become necessary.
(I swiped the batteries from the cable-box remote yesterday. They now power the thermostat in my homebrew fermentation fridge. The ability to make beer any time of the year without cranking the A/C down to ridiculously low temperatures will be nice.:-) )
If it's going to "shatter the earth", is the preparation evacuating the planet? If that's its only application, why use it? Can it be used against other planets? If so, and you simply MUST test it, why not Mercury, or better yet, a potentially-threatening asteroid? I can personally see no need to EVER shatter the earth.
If you're going to test it on another planet, it'd better be a planet in another star system. We all know from TWOK what happens when a nearby planet blows up...
(so you can literally remove a hard drive from one computer and place it in another and BeOS won't give two shits),
Assuming power down first? Windows doesn't care either.:P With hotswappable drives, HDs can be hotswapped to.
You can get away with that with Win9x (it'll redetect all hardware, reboot, and let you get on with life), but WinNT and Win2K will throw a shit-fit if the systems aren't identical (or nearly identical). I suspect that WinXP is even worse (by design, instead of by accident).
I haven't dealt with Apple's tech support, but their warranty package has kept me from buying their hardware. The base warranty is pretty skimpy, and the outrageously priced AppleCare plan is painfully restrictive about what it covers.
FWIW, the warranties on my IIe and Imagewriter were only 90 days...so far, they've run without problems for 17 years.:-)
People keep bringing up this lame DVD player because it's hackable. Whoopie! The damn thing STILL can't play half my DVD's properly without freezing and screwing up at branches (I've tried several of them too, so it wasn't just a defective unit)
That's odd...I've never had problems with mine acting strangely with any DVD I've thrown at it. Then again, I did upgrade the firmware on it a while back (had to remove the karaoke chip and solder in a few replacements for the new ROM to work). Given that you're reading/., that shouldn't be beyond your capabilities.
Even before the upgrade, though, I had no problems. (I should probably upgrade it again to a version that handles RCE discs automatically...for now, pressing PBC OFF twice bypasses RCE. It also works against FBI warnings. I don't know how it'd fare against Di$ney's ads as I don't buy their stuff.)
No bother, just put the code where the free world can read it, but satisfying the American governments need to protect its citizens from themselves and go on laughing up our sleeves about how the Bush administration loves to suck corporate cock.
Given that the DMCA got passed into law on Bill Clinton's watch (and it's also worth mentioning that the regulatory climate that made the financial implosions Enron, Global Crossing et al. possible developed on his watch), I would submit that it is Clinton and his cronies who tended to go down on every fatcat who came along. Then again, if you were an American and not some smug, smarmy European with an inferiority complex, you would've known this already.
Firewire works in a beautiful way. USB sometimes still hangs machines.
...and when it doesn't hang them, USB slows them down to a crawl.
You can have my FireWire hard drive and webcams after you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. (They only get used with x86 boxen under Win2K and Linux...the only Apple machines I have are three Apple IIs (IIGS, IIe, and II+) and a Quadra 610. It goes without saying that FireWire devices don't work too well with those machines.:-) )
Actually, if you're using windows you can use directx / directshow to access a firewire DV camera.
So virtualdub could've implemented support for streaming video to and from a DV camera.
VirtualDub doesn't use DirectShow for video capture; it uses VfW. Rewriting it to use DirectShow for capture would be a significant undertaking. (DirectX is a cast-iron bitch to deal with. I use DirectShow with some videoconferencing software I wrote (to capture from different webcams), and it took me a good long time to get it running right). I think the only place where VirtualDub uses DirectX is for displaying video, and even then it's optional (Options | Enable DirectDraw acceleration is unchecked by default).
What's really amazing is how the parent post got modded down as flamebait. WTF? Here's some real flamebait for you: the crack-whore moderator responsible for that should be taken out back and shot. The gene pool needs some chlorine.
But what value is this, really? Think about it. TiVo viewers (along with ReplayTV viewers) DON'T WATCH COMMERCIALS. Why else would you own one of these machines?
Um...while skipping commercials is nice, I was doing the same thing with my VCRs. Killing ads really didn't enter into the decision to buy a TiVo. The main reason I bought my TiVo is that it makes timeshifting much simpler. You don't have to juggle the programs you want to record between multiple devices, you don't have to worry about running out of tape, etc. It also does a better job of finding what's on when and finding interesting stuff than the average VCR.
(It also helps that I can rip video from my TiVo, edit out the ads on my computer, and burn the result to SVCD for archival purposes. SVCDs take up less space and deliver better image quality than VHS.)
Let us not forget the Microsoft stopped Dr. DOS with Win 3.11 by a deliberate incompatiabliity.
I never used Win3.1 on a home system, but Novell shipped out a DR DOS 6 update shortly after Win3.1 became available. I still have the disks someplace. Microsoft might've tried to break compatibility (a la "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run"), but it didn't do too good a job of that.
you set up an e-mail address with an e-mail provider which is very popular, and you set yourself up for spam.
Well, hmmm, my wife uses Yahoo mail for her "anonymous mail" and never gets spam, although the ads are annoying. So, if Yahoo can manage to filter out spam, why can't Hotmail?
You must not have the option enabled where Hotmail will only accept mail for you from addresses you specify...set their "junk mail filter" to "exclusive" and the only mail you'll get is from addresses you specify and from Hotmail itself. Since switching to that, I've not seen any spam arrive at Hotmail (not that I use it much since I run my own mail server nowadays).
Agreed, the SVCD spec allows VBR. But most SVCDs that I've seen actually use CBR, or at least don't use VBR to a large enough extent to justify two passes.
Maybe they were produced with a crummy encoder. I get pretty decent quality with the methods outlined here (it's aimed at transcoding TiVo video to SVCD, but the encoding part should cover any source material).
the reason for not using the disk has less to do with the space required, and more to do with speed. writing a large chunk of data to a disk (ripping the dvd and writing it to the disk) and reading a large chunk of data from a disk (enconding the stuff on the hard drive) is just plain inefficient. especially when you can eliminating alot of disk io.
Video encoding isn't an I/O-bound process, however. On a 1.0-GHz Athlon with DDR memory, encoding ~45 minutes of film-rate NTSC video with TMPGEnc to a form suitable for SVCD mastering takes about 11 hours with the quality settings I use (10-bit DC-component precision, highest-quality motion search, 2-pass VBR, etc.) About the only part of the process that might be I/O-bound is resampling and normalizing audio, and that takes just a few minutes. Inverse telecine, while faster than MPEG-2 encoding, also is mostly CPU-bound. If you could pipe from the DVD-ROM drive to the editor to the encoder, you'd see minimal improvement (if any) in encoding time. In fact, I suspect it would actually be slower.
(This doesn't even take into consideration that most of my encoding is of video from my TiVo, and that I need both inverse telecine and nonlinear editing capabilities to prepare a recorded TV show for archiving to SVCD. NLE is handled by Avisynth working on frameserved MPEG video from the TiVo, but inverse telecine is done by VirtualDub. You can't frameserve from VirtualDub if you want it to do inverse telecine...the output will still be 29.97 fps instead of the desired 23.976 fps.)
I recently encountered a problem that I was not able to scan a photograph in at the resolution that I wanted to because I did not have enough free space on my drive. . . .
A mere 13Gigs was free, heh.
Um...I have a ScanJet 5470C that delivers 2400 dpi optical resolution. A letter-size scan in 24-bit color at 2400 dpi only takes about 1.5 GB. Given that most photos are smaller and don't need to be scanned at that resolution (about the only time you really need 2400 dpi is when you're scanning negatives and slides), how is it that you'd need more than 13 GB to store a scan?
(If you're going beyond your scanner's optical resolution, you're wasting time and disk space. Nearly everybody advertises a "9600-dpi" scanner nowadays, but no flatbed scanner that I've ever heard of can deliver anything even close to that. (Maybe some ultra-high-end model that might be used in the printing industry or something like that, but certainly not anything that you'd pull off a store shelf. FWIW, a letter-size scan @ 9600 dpi would take about 24 GB...but with currently-available scanners, 94% or more of the information in the image would be redundant.)
Why did I get rid of it? Because the WD 80 GB model was only $100 after rebate. And now that I have all this space, guess how much of it I use? 8 GB. This is after I loaded every conceivable thing I had (and every option available in each program. Yep, Street Atlas no longer needs a CD to run.
You must not do any video editing. My home machine has 165 GB installed (120 of it in RAID-0), and a significant chunk of that is usually filled. One "60-minute" TV show at 480x480 23.976 fps, with CD-quality audio and with the ads cut out (bringing the length down to about 45 minutes), takes about 20 GB when compressed with Huffyuv. I only keep that file around long enough to crunch it down to a 790-MB MPEG-2 that I can burn to SVCD, but just a few shows will take up a significant amount of space while they're waiting to be compressed.
I can't wait until they accidentally attack Microsoft or IBM, or better yet, a hacker group. They can expect some major retaliation, legal or not. Maybe we can just contact their ISP and tell them to shut out the MPAA dnd RIAA.
If you're using Linux 2.4, you can configure iptables to cloak your site. Determine what netblocks the ??AAs are using and use something like this to drop inbound traffic:
iptables -A INPUT -s x.y.z.0/24 -j DROP
While they might still be able to chew up bandwidth by dumping a ton of bogus traffic on you, it's not too likely they'd do that without determining that you have moviez and/or mp3z on your system. Your machine won't respond to their pings...if they're smart, they'll assume that your system is offline and not bother. I suppose a search in $P2P_SOFTWARE would still list the files you're carrying, but their attempts to download from you would also be unsuccessful. If they're smart, they'll assume that it's old data that's still cached somewhere and move on.
(Note that I'm assuming a certain minimal level of intelligence on the part of the ??AAs. This may or may not be a valid assumption. Whether the assumption is valid is an exercise left to the reader.)
The only thing they changed is that they check if the ZIP code is valid. If it's 99999, then they refuse. Change it to a valid ZIP and it works.
Still doesn't work, with several known valid ZIP codes tested under both Mozilla and IE. The previously-posted account (slashd0rk) doesn't work either. Their site always bitches that your session is no longer valid.
(I could plug in the username and password that I set up there years ago, but I've been using the random login generator lately out of principle.:-) )
Call me crazy, but didn't they already have this 'technology' about 60 years ago? Every episode of M*A*S*H has either Radar or Klinger cranking up a radio before calling Sparky.
That was probably a field phone, not a radio. The crank would've rung the phone at the other end of the line.
And by 'they', I do specifically mean Motorola. Wasn't their start in making walkie-talkie's and other military communications equipment like this wind-up radio?
Their first product was a battery eliminator to enable a radio to run on AC instead of the three batteries (filament, plate, and bias) they previously needed. After that, they got into car radios, which is where they got their name.
With piezo electrics, you can put them in gloves so that you have to beat someone up to be able to use your phone. Soon we'll have extremely hostile mobile phone users....
Given the dirty look (at a minimum) that you get when you ask some jerkoff to quit yakking on his phone so you can watch the movie, how is this any different than the way things are now?
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95% of all statistics are made up. :-)
I could be talking out my ass on this, but I suspect that baking yeast is optimized for production of gas (to make bread rise) while brewing yeast is optimized for producing alcohol (for obvious reasons :-) ). All yeasts produce both carbon dioxide and ethanol to some extent. In breadmaking, you want the carbon dioxide and don't care about the ethanol. In brewing, it's the other way around. (Almost...bottle-conditioned beer (nearly all homebrew, and some commercially-produced beers such as Rare Vos and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) uses the carbon dioxide for carbonation.)
At least, I think I remember reading something along those lines in my homebrew books...
Prego has some pasta sauces for baking...you can make baked ziti without boiling the pasta first. IIRC, you dump the pasta, a jar of sauce, and a jar full of water into a baking dish, stir, cover, and throw into the oven. After a while, you uncover, stir, top with cheese, and let it bake some more. It's good stuff, and you only get one dish dirty (instead of also getting a pot dirty).
Hmm...my TiVo is perfectly capable of controlling the digital-cable box I obtained recently. Watching TV now is no different (other than the increased number of channels) than it was when the coax went straight into the TiVo: go into Now Showing, find something interesting, and start playing.
The box came with a remote, but the only thing for which it's possibly needed is to order PPV (and you can do that over the phone or through the cable company's website). Channel changing is a little bit slower, but since I almost never watch live TV, that's no big deal. I still have the coax running straight into a couple of VCRs, too, so I could have up to three programs (one digital, two analog) recording at once if that should become necessary.
(I swiped the batteries from the cable-box remote yesterday. They now power the thermostat in my homebrew fermentation fridge. The ability to make beer any time of the year without cranking the A/C down to ridiculously low temperatures will be nice. :-) )
If you're going to test it on another planet, it'd better be a planet in another star system. We all know from TWOK what happens when a nearby planet blows up...
You can get away with that with Win9x (it'll redetect all hardware, reboot, and let you get on with life), but WinNT and Win2K will throw a shit-fit if the systems aren't identical (or nearly identical). I suspect that WinXP is even worse (by design, instead of by accident).
FWIW, the warranties on my IIe and Imagewriter were only 90 days...so far, they've run without problems for 17 years. :-)
That's odd...I've never had problems with mine acting strangely with any DVD I've thrown at it. Then again, I did upgrade the firmware on it a while back (had to remove the karaoke chip and solder in a few replacements for the new ROM to work). Given that you're reading /., that shouldn't be beyond your capabilities.
Even before the upgrade, though, I had no problems. (I should probably upgrade it again to a version that handles RCE discs automatically...for now, pressing PBC OFF twice bypasses RCE. It also works against FBI warnings. I don't know how it'd fare against Di$ney's ads as I don't buy their stuff.)
Given that the DMCA got passed into law on Bill Clinton's watch (and it's also worth mentioning that the regulatory climate that made the financial implosions Enron, Global Crossing et al. possible developed on his watch), I would submit that it is Clinton and his cronies who tended to go down on every fatcat who came along. Then again, if you were an American and not some smug, smarmy European with an inferiority complex, you would've known this already.
You can have my FireWire hard drive and webcams after you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. (They only get used with x86 boxen under Win2K and Linux...the only Apple machines I have are three Apple IIs (IIGS, IIe, and II+) and a Quadra 610. It goes without saying that FireWire devices don't work too well with those machines. :-) )
VirtualDub doesn't use DirectShow for video capture; it uses VfW. Rewriting it to use DirectShow for capture would be a significant undertaking. (DirectX is a cast-iron bitch to deal with. I use DirectShow with some videoconferencing software I wrote (to capture from different webcams), and it took me a good long time to get it running right). I think the only place where VirtualDub uses DirectX is for displaying video, and even then it's optional (Options | Enable DirectDraw acceleration is unchecked by default).
What's really amazing is how the parent post got modded down as flamebait. WTF? Here's some real flamebait for you: the crack-whore moderator responsible for that should be taken out back and shot. The gene pool needs some chlorine.
Um...while skipping commercials is nice, I was doing the same thing with my VCRs. Killing ads really didn't enter into the decision to buy a TiVo. The main reason I bought my TiVo is that it makes timeshifting much simpler. You don't have to juggle the programs you want to record between multiple devices, you don't have to worry about running out of tape, etc. It also does a better job of finding what's on when and finding interesting stuff than the average VCR.
(It also helps that I can rip video from my TiVo, edit out the ads on my computer, and burn the result to SVCD for archival purposes. SVCDs take up less space and deliver better image quality than VHS.)
Actually, if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, and therefore is a witch.
I never used Win3.1 on a home system, but Novell shipped out a DR DOS 6 update shortly after Win3.1 became available. I still have the disks someplace. Microsoft might've tried to break compatibility (a la "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run"), but it didn't do too good a job of that.
WTF? Where did you hear about this? A quick check with Google turned up nothing...are you sure you're not propagating an April Fool's joke?
You must not have the option enabled where Hotmail will only accept mail for you from addresses you specify...set their "junk mail filter" to "exclusive" and the only mail you'll get is from addresses you specify and from Hotmail itself. Since switching to that, I've not seen any spam arrive at Hotmail (not that I use it much since I run my own mail server nowadays).
Maybe they were produced with a crummy encoder. I get pretty decent quality with the methods outlined here (it's aimed at transcoding TiVo video to SVCD, but the encoding part should cover any source material).
Video encoding isn't an I/O-bound process, however. On a 1.0-GHz Athlon with DDR memory, encoding ~45 minutes of film-rate NTSC video with TMPGEnc to a form suitable for SVCD mastering takes about 11 hours with the quality settings I use (10-bit DC-component precision, highest-quality motion search, 2-pass VBR, etc.) About the only part of the process that might be I/O-bound is resampling and normalizing audio, and that takes just a few minutes. Inverse telecine, while faster than MPEG-2 encoding, also is mostly CPU-bound. If you could pipe from the DVD-ROM drive to the editor to the encoder, you'd see minimal improvement (if any) in encoding time. In fact, I suspect it would actually be slower.
(This doesn't even take into consideration that most of my encoding is of video from my TiVo, and that I need both inverse telecine and nonlinear editing capabilities to prepare a recorded TV show for archiving to SVCD. NLE is handled by Avisynth working on frameserved MPEG video from the TiVo, but inverse telecine is done by VirtualDub. You can't frameserve from VirtualDub if you want it to do inverse telecine...the output will still be 29.97 fps instead of the desired 23.976 fps.)
Um...I have a ScanJet 5470C that delivers 2400 dpi optical resolution. A letter-size scan in 24-bit color at 2400 dpi only takes about 1.5 GB. Given that most photos are smaller and don't need to be scanned at that resolution (about the only time you really need 2400 dpi is when you're scanning negatives and slides), how is it that you'd need more than 13 GB to store a scan?
(If you're going beyond your scanner's optical resolution, you're wasting time and disk space. Nearly everybody advertises a "9600-dpi" scanner nowadays, but no flatbed scanner that I've ever heard of can deliver anything even close to that. (Maybe some ultra-high-end model that might be used in the printing industry or something like that, but certainly not anything that you'd pull off a store shelf. FWIW, a letter-size scan @ 9600 dpi would take about 24 GB...but with currently-available scanners, 94% or more of the information in the image would be redundant.)
You must not do any video editing. My home machine has 165 GB installed (120 of it in RAID-0), and a significant chunk of that is usually filled. One "60-minute" TV show at 480x480 23.976 fps, with CD-quality audio and with the ads cut out (bringing the length down to about 45 minutes), takes about 20 GB when compressed with Huffyuv. I only keep that file around long enough to crunch it down to a 790-MB MPEG-2 that I can burn to SVCD, but just a few shows will take up a significant amount of space while they're waiting to be compressed.
If you're using Linux 2.4, you can configure iptables to cloak your site. Determine what netblocks the ??AAs are using and use something like this to drop inbound traffic:
iptables -A INPUT -s x.y.z.0/24 -j DROP
While they might still be able to chew up bandwidth by dumping a ton of bogus traffic on you, it's not too likely they'd do that without determining that you have moviez and/or mp3z on your system. Your machine won't respond to their pings...if they're smart, they'll assume that your system is offline and not bother. I suppose a search in $P2P_SOFTWARE would still list the files you're carrying, but their attempts to download from you would also be unsuccessful. If they're smart, they'll assume that it's old data that's still cached somewhere and move on.
(Note that I'm assuming a certain minimal level of intelligence on the part of the ??AAs. This may or may not be a valid assumption. Whether the assumption is valid is an exercise left to the reader.)
Still doesn't work, with several known valid ZIP codes tested under both Mozilla and IE. The previously-posted account (slashd0rk) doesn't work either. Their site always bitches that your session is no longer valid.
(I could plug in the username and password that I set up there years ago, but I've been using the random login generator lately out of principle. :-) )
That was probably a field phone, not a radio. The crank would've rung the phone at the other end of the line.
http://www.motorola.com/content/1,1037,115-110,00. html
Their first product was a battery eliminator to enable a radio to run on AC instead of the three batteries (filament, plate, and bias) they previously needed. After that, they got into car radios, which is where they got their name.
Given the dirty look (at a minimum) that you get when you ask some jerkoff to quit yakking on his phone so you can watch the movie, how is this any different than the way things are now?