The devices used to "Strip" macrovision were around before macrovison. They are simply RCA - to Coax connectors called RF Modulators you can buy them for $10 at Radio Shack.
RF modulators will introduce signal degradation of their own (it's why when I recently snagged a TI-99/4A, I built a cable for it to pipe the composite video straight into a TV instead of using the RF modulator that came with it).
There are other devices that take composite video in and spit out Macrovision-free composite video. They used to sell for $40 or so and ran off a 9-volt battery for about a year. Radio-Electronics magazine even published plans for such a device back in 1988 or so, so a trip to the nearest library ought to turn up those plans. (You could also search Google and find all sorts of newer devices that do the same thing with composite and/or S-video.)
Bob Smith is the vice president of CD sales at Unknown And Barely Surviving Record Company. When Napster hits, he's out of a job. His family has no food in their stomach. Rent is unpaid. His somewhat-luxurious lifestyle is diminished to living in the slums of some cheap neighborhood.
Okay, the above is an extreme example. But, the same thing can happen to TV now if it all goes free. Tons and tons of people spend money on advertising with TV, for example. I'm sure people will have patches/progs to avoid this advertising. And what about TV set sales? They'll plummet. Hey, who needs cable? You can just get stuff off the 'net.
Under that logic, we should've been worried about the manufacturers of carriages and whips when the automobile came on the scene. How about all the people who ground away at lengthy calculations to produce mathematical tables and such whose jobs were eliminated by computers?
The entertainment business will either adapt to change or fall by the wayside.
Note that the program only lets you rip into Windows Media Format...
It would be a much more interesting product if it would let you rip to a more open format, perhaps letting you burn VCDs.
I haven't tried this yet as my TiVo spits out MPEG-2, but this page at VCDHelp says TMPGEnc will accept Windows Media as input. This page describes transcoding to MPEG-2 for burning to SVCD; if for some strange reason you want to use VCD (which uses MPEG-1) instead of SVCD, try this page.
When I broke the screen on my palm (customer abuse), I called Palm and asked if they had a replace/exchange/repair type policy. They did. For 100 bucks, I got a refurbished palm shipped to me, then I shipped my broken one back to them. Very resonable policy for a portable electronic device.
3Com accidentally sent me a Palm III to replace a PalmPilot Pro under that $100 replacement deal a few years ago (fell off my bike on the way to class and landed on my Palm...I thought I had lost my notes, but it worked well enough to sync everything out). I called to let them know of their error...they said I could keep it or, if I really wanted, I could send it back in and they'd send a PalmPilot Pro. Guess which option I took.:-)
I had broken my Clie screen (customer abuse) and called to see if they had a replace/exchange/repair type policy. They didn't. They were less than useless. Unfortunately, I had tied myself too much to their memory stick, so I had to get another Clie - but I picked up the cheapest one instead of trying to get some extra whiz-bang features.
A Sony car stereo that I bought a couple of years ago conked out after a few months. It was purchased as new old stock and I had a receipt for it (it was an older shaft-type unit with a reasonably decent feature set...you try to find something better than a $20 parts-store radio that'll fit a '77 Olds without hacking the dash to bits). I took it to a local repair shop for what I figured would be an in-warranty repair. To make a long story short, even with the dated receipt, Sony wouldn't honor its own warranty.
I won't be buying other Sony PDAs in the future.
If I were you, I wouldn't buy anything Sony. They might've made decent stuff in the past (my dad has an open-reel tape deck that's almost as old as I am that still works AFAIK), but Sony seems to be more about image and style than functionality or making a product that'll hold up to at least normal use.
I recommend a couple Taco Bell cheap burrito-like items stuffed in one's back pockets, then covered with a coat. Just remember: don't sit down 'til you remove them, and know that it's very messy to eat burritos in the dark:)
You forgot to mention that Taco Hell is nasty. Del Taco's much better.:-)
Using the Morpheus program, they found a way of getting a random list of people using the service.
Search for something with Morpheus and it'll come back with a list of hosts that have it. If it communicates with those hosts directly, you can get their IPs with netstat -n.
They could then obtain details of the content of a user's hard drive and make copies of any file.
Morpheus has an option within the program that does this...you can select one of the search results and tell Morpheus to go looking for whatever else that user has shared. You can download any available file through the Morpheus interface or from the HTTP server that the remote Morpheus puts up on port 1214.
"We're not sure what it is that makes some Morpheus members vulnerable to this," said one, who asked to remain anonymous.
How about "some dumbshit's stupid enough to tell Morpheus to share C:\ and everything underneath it"?
The story is either a hoax or is FUD of some sort. You wouldn't think the Beeb would screw up this badly, but nobody's perfect.
I tried that against a machine running Morpheus, and the only files that were listed were files in directories that I had told Morpheus to share. IOW, the only files made available via HTTP are the same files made available via FastTrack's protocol. Would someone like to explain to me how this constitutes a security hole? IIRC, this feature of Morpheus is documented (don't recall if it can be switched off).
FWIW, the machine running Morpheus is behind a firewall...HTTP access to it gets blocked anyway. (The little bit of testing I did was from another machine on the LAN.)
that for a bunch of recipes created by a group of people, for whom following exacting measurements, rules, tolerances, etc.is like breathing air, these recipes are a bit... lax in standards?
After cooking for a while, you usually come to the realization that exact measurements aren't as essential for most things (the main exception to this rule is baked goods, which can turn out significantly worse with not much variation in the amount of flour or liquids used). You eventually get a feel for how much oregano to add to spaghetti sauce, or how much chili powder to add to chili.
(The latter often ends up being a fair bit more than your mom probably used. Some 13 or 14 years ago on a Boy Scout camping trip, I dumped in most of an eight-ounce (or so) container of chili powder. That stuff was hot...most of the other kids had a tough time with it, but we had a Korean kid in our troop who thought it was great! An ounce or two in a 3-quart batch is what I normally use, now that I know better.)
Actually, the video quality of TiVo in it's "normal" quality is pretty bad. Very visible compression artifacts. My cheap VCR kicks its ass. To get decent quality, you have to crank TiVo up to a setting that eats up disk space quickly.
It's a good thing that upgrading the disk space is so cheap. I started with 14 GB, but added another 30 within a month or two. On the 20" TV I was using before, most programs recorded fine at high quality. (Best quality gets used for stuff like Enterprise that I save to SVCD, while medium quality is sufficient for talking-head programs such as Fox News Sunday.)
The artifacts are a bit more obvious on the 27" TV I just bought, though...maybe it's the result of now being able to use S-video out on the TiVo instead of composite out. Time to grab a bigger drive to make recording everything at best quality feasible...it should be possible to replace the two drives with a single 120-GB drive and end up with more recording time at best quality than I currently have at high quality.
Basic quality, BTW, sucks eggs...is that what you meant by "normal quality?" It's barely usable for talking-head news shows, and you can forget about using it for anything with even a little action.
I'm beginning to prefer Yahoo! webmail over using local clients. I can access it whereever there is a web browswer and it's always in one place.
I can download and run PuTTY through the computer's browser or (if the computer supports it) I can plug in my DiskOnKey and run PuTTY off of that. With that going, I can then log into my computer and use mutt to read my mail. With GPG installed, I can sign and/or encrypt outgoing mail and validate and/or decrypt incoming mail. Mailing lists are automatically dumped into their own directories, while other classes of mail (HTML mail and mail from known spammers, mainly) gets bounced. Try doing that with Hotmail or other webmail services.
I'd ditch the landline completely, but I have two TiVos that depend on it.:(
TiVoNET takes care of that problem, and gets you some added capabilities as well.
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That definitely wouldn't make any sense -- buying new G4s to build one of these; however, a lot of universities have everything from old Centris Macs ('member those?)
Pooch won't run on those, however, because it requires MacOS 9 or later. Those versions of MacOS won't run on 68K Macs. A Beowulf might be doable under one of the 68K Linux distros (only one that comes to mind is Debian)...but I've found Linux to be almost unbearably slow on my Quadra 610. (Linux probably has been nowhere near as optimized as MacOS, which has (or had) large amounts of hand-coded 68K assembly in it.)
If the cow is eating grass or other other plants that we cannot eat, and the land used is incapable of supporting crops then this waste is acceptable. But meat animals are being fed soybeans and corn.
What's the problem with that when we're producing more of that stuff than we can use? Even after feeding cattle, hogs, etc. with this stuff, we still end up growing more of it than we can use.
True...used to have something with the exact numbers on it, but the tape speed is faster when recording NTSC than when recording PAL or SECAM.
so you wouldn't get the full 5 hours in standard play, but I'm not sure if your "extended-play" option is more than double...
EP gives 3x the recording time...a T-160 yields 8 hours of recording time, while a T-200 gives you 10 hours (they do 2:40 and 3:20 in SP). Last time I checked, T-200 was the longest length available here (haven't bought blank tape in a while as I rip video from my TiVo and burn it to SVCD nowadays).
if things in Australia are like they are in the US, Blockbuster still charges a premium for DVD rental over VHS rental
Since when did they start doing that? Last time I checked, they charge the same for both. (Then again, I can't remember when I last rented a tape...even before I had something that would play DVDs, I didn't rent tapes much.)
(BTW, whoever modded the parent post as flamebait needs to lay off the crack pipe and look up the definition of flamebait.)
You mean Impala SS (that sweet 260hp V8 model that was killed to make room to produce more SUV's).
No. I mean the Chevy Caprice, the B-body.
There was also a B-body Impala; I think it was only available in '96 (maybe '95 too). Same body and frame as the Caprice, but with more power and more of a sportscar look-and-feel. The original poster isn't referring to the present wrong-wheel-drive Impala. (Wrong-wheel drive is Evil, and I suspect is the reason trucks and SUVs sell so well nowadays.)
Ahh the memories! You haven't lived until you've tried to set up a two-node board and a FidoNet mailer under DESQview 386.;)
I ran such a setup for many years with TriBBS, until I finally switched to PCBoard and OS/2 3.0... Everything was much smoother under OS/2 -- no more random lock-ups and slowdowns!
Well, my old BBS had only one line, but I ran it under DESQview on top of DR DOS 6 on a 286 and then on a 386SX. It never so much as hiccuped (except when the power supply started acting up). I went through a couple of BBS packages before settling on Maximus for the BBS itself and Opus for connecting to Fight-O-Net. Both were free (as in beer) and fairly customizable. With DESQview, I could have the BBS up while I read messages through an offline reader or transferred files to/from my Apple II.
DESQview ruled. OS/2 was pretty decent (snagged a free copy of v3.0 at Fall Comdex '94), but IBM succeeded at snatching failure from the jaws of victory.
Well, OS X certainly can sleep (both OS X and Classic go to sleep), putting to sleep also all processes. As to hibernating the Classic environment, I don't know how useful that would really be in the long run.
I don't know how directly comparable this example might be, but I used to use VMware (under Linux) to suspend Win98 when I didn't need it. If I needed to do something under Win98 (like browse the web), VMware would load up Win98 where I last left it. It saved the minute or so of waiting for the VM to POST and load Win98.
(If VMware provided better support for DirectX, I might not have needed to switch my home workstation from Linux to Win2K. It's been more than a year since I checked, though, so things might've improved.)
Just wondering about the technically proper grammar.
As we don't use accents in English...
...except for words that English ripped from other languages (such as piñata or über...or résumé). BTW, the correct spelling is "résumé." Some people leave out the accents, but I suspect they do that because they can't figure out how to enter them on a keyboard that doesn't have the appropriate characters on it already.
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Finally one of the great minds is back in action. I wonder if this new project will be contributed to by apple?
Given that the last Apple product in which Woz had any input (AFAIK) was the now-fifteen-year-old IIGS, probably not.
...or maybe it's something else (bandwidth?), but it looks like they're slashdotted.
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Has AppleWorks been around longer than Microsoft Office?
AppleWorks has been around since (IIRC) 1985. What Apple is now calling AppleWorks started life as ClarisWorks, but I don't know when ClarisWorks first appeared. The first versions of Word and Excel appeared on the Mac sometime in the mid-80s, but I don't think they were bundled together as Office until later.
Most sources usually credit AppleWorks as being the first integrated-software package. (If you want to get really nitpicky, though, the first would be III EZ Pieces, a package for the Apple III that mutated into AppleWorks when it became clear that the III was going nowhere in the marketplace.)
Really how hard would it be for Microsoft include a couple of kernels each optimized for the processor its running on(Maybe they do this and I just don't know it? Please reply and let me know:)).
Given that NT shipped with single-processor and multiprocessor kernels, I wouldn't think it'd be hard at all for kernels to be shipped that are optimized for different processors or groups of processors.
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RF modulators will introduce signal degradation of their own (it's why when I recently snagged a TI-99/4A, I built a cable for it to pipe the composite video straight into a TV instead of using the RF modulator that came with it).
There are other devices that take composite video in and spit out Macrovision-free composite video. They used to sell for $40 or so and ran off a 9-volt battery for about a year. Radio-Electronics magazine even published plans for such a device back in 1988 or so, so a trip to the nearest library ought to turn up those plans. (You could also search Google and find all sorts of newer devices that do the same thing with composite and/or S-video.)
Under that logic, we should've been worried about the manufacturers of carriages and whips when the automobile came on the scene. How about all the people who ground away at lengthy calculations to produce mathematical tables and such whose jobs were eliminated by computers?
The entertainment business will either adapt to change or fall by the wayside.
I haven't tried this yet as my TiVo spits out MPEG-2, but this page at VCDHelp says TMPGEnc will accept Windows Media as input. This page describes transcoding to MPEG-2 for burning to SVCD; if for some strange reason you want to use VCD (which uses MPEG-1) instead of SVCD, try this page.
3Com accidentally sent me a Palm III to replace a PalmPilot Pro under that $100 replacement deal a few years ago (fell off my bike on the way to class and landed on my Palm...I thought I had lost my notes, but it worked well enough to sync everything out). I called to let them know of their error...they said I could keep it or, if I really wanted, I could send it back in and they'd send a PalmPilot Pro. Guess which option I took. :-)
A Sony car stereo that I bought a couple of years ago conked out after a few months. It was purchased as new old stock and I had a receipt for it (it was an older shaft-type unit with a reasonably decent feature set...you try to find something better than a $20 parts-store radio that'll fit a '77 Olds without hacking the dash to bits). I took it to a local repair shop for what I figured would be an in-warranty repair. To make a long story short, even with the dated receipt, Sony wouldn't honor its own warranty.
If I were you, I wouldn't buy anything Sony. They might've made decent stuff in the past (my dad has an open-reel tape deck that's almost as old as I am that still works AFAIK), but Sony seems to be more about image and style than functionality or making a product that'll hold up to at least normal use.
You forgot to mention that Taco Hell is nasty. Del Taco's much better. :-)
Search for something with Morpheus and it'll come back with a list of hosts that have it. If it communicates with those hosts directly, you can get their IPs with netstat -n.
Morpheus has an option within the program that does this...you can select one of the search results and tell Morpheus to go looking for whatever else that user has shared. You can download any available file through the Morpheus interface or from the HTTP server that the remote Morpheus puts up on port 1214.
How about "some dumbshit's stupid enough to tell Morpheus to share C:\ and everything underneath it"?
The story is either a hoax or is FUD of some sort. You wouldn't think the Beeb would screw up this badly, but nobody's perfect.
I tried that against a machine running Morpheus, and the only files that were listed were files in directories that I had told Morpheus to share. IOW, the only files made available via HTTP are the same files made available via FastTrack's protocol. Would someone like to explain to me how this constitutes a security hole? IIRC, this feature of Morpheus is documented (don't recall if it can be switched off).
FWIW, the machine running Morpheus is behind a firewall...HTTP access to it gets blocked anyway. (The little bit of testing I did was from another machine on the LAN.)
After cooking for a while, you usually come to the realization that exact measurements aren't as essential for most things (the main exception to this rule is baked goods, which can turn out significantly worse with not much variation in the amount of flour or liquids used). You eventually get a feel for how much oregano to add to spaghetti sauce, or how much chili powder to add to chili.
(The latter often ends up being a fair bit more than your mom probably used. Some 13 or 14 years ago on a Boy Scout camping trip, I dumped in most of an eight-ounce (or so) container of chili powder. That stuff was hot...most of the other kids had a tough time with it, but we had a Korean kid in our troop who thought it was great! An ounce or two in a 3-quart batch is what I normally use, now that I know better.)
It's a good thing that upgrading the disk space is so cheap. I started with 14 GB, but added another 30 within a month or two. On the 20" TV I was using before, most programs recorded fine at high quality. (Best quality gets used for stuff like Enterprise that I save to SVCD, while medium quality is sufficient for talking-head programs such as Fox News Sunday.)
The artifacts are a bit more obvious on the 27" TV I just bought, though...maybe it's the result of now being able to use S-video out on the TiVo instead of composite out. Time to grab a bigger drive to make recording everything at best quality feasible...it should be possible to replace the two drives with a single 120-GB drive and end up with more recording time at best quality than I currently have at high quality.
Basic quality, BTW, sucks eggs...is that what you meant by "normal quality?" It's barely usable for talking-head news shows, and you can forget about using it for anything with even a little action.
I can download and run PuTTY through the computer's browser or (if the computer supports it) I can plug in my DiskOnKey and run PuTTY off of that. With that going, I can then log into my computer and use mutt to read my mail. With GPG installed, I can sign and/or encrypt outgoing mail and validate and/or decrypt incoming mail. Mailing lists are automatically dumped into their own directories, while other classes of mail (HTML mail and mail from known spammers, mainly) gets bounced. Try doing that with Hotmail or other webmail services.
TiVoNET takes care of that problem, and gets you some added capabilities as well.
Pooch won't run on those, however, because it requires MacOS 9 or later. Those versions of MacOS won't run on 68K Macs. A Beowulf might be doable under one of the 68K Linux distros (only one that comes to mind is Debian)...but I've found Linux to be almost unbearably slow on my Quadra 610. (Linux probably has been nowhere near as optimized as MacOS, which has (or had) large amounts of hand-coded 68K assembly in it.)
What's the problem with that when we're producing more of that stuff than we can use? Even after feeding cattle, hogs, etc. with this stuff, we still end up growing more of it than we can use.
Vegetables are what food eats. :-)
True...used to have something with the exact numbers on it, but the tape speed is faster when recording NTSC than when recording PAL or SECAM.
EP gives 3x the recording time...a T-160 yields 8 hours of recording time, while a T-200 gives you 10 hours (they do 2:40 and 3:20 in SP). Last time I checked, T-200 was the longest length available here (haven't bought blank tape in a while as I rip video from my TiVo and burn it to SVCD nowadays).
Since when did they start doing that? Last time I checked, they charge the same for both. (Then again, I can't remember when I last rented a tape...even before I had something that would play DVDs, I didn't rent tapes much.)
(BTW, whoever modded the parent post as flamebait needs to lay off the crack pipe and look up the definition of flamebait.)
There was also a B-body Impala; I think it was only available in '96 (maybe '95 too). Same body and frame as the Caprice, but with more power and more of a sportscar look-and-feel. The original poster isn't referring to the present wrong-wheel-drive Impala. (Wrong-wheel drive is Evil, and I suspect is the reason trucks and SUVs sell so well nowadays.)
He is getting his hearing back...not 100%, but enough to be usable.
Well, my old BBS had only one line, but I ran it under DESQview on top of DR DOS 6 on a 286 and then on a 386SX. It never so much as hiccuped (except when the power supply started acting up). I went through a couple of BBS packages before settling on Maximus for the BBS itself and Opus for connecting to Fight-O-Net. Both were free (as in beer) and fairly customizable. With DESQview, I could have the BBS up while I read messages through an offline reader or transferred files to/from my Apple II.
DESQview ruled. OS/2 was pretty decent (snagged a free copy of v3.0 at Fall Comdex '94), but IBM succeeded at snatching failure from the jaws of victory.
I don't know how directly comparable this example might be, but I used to use VMware (under Linux) to suspend Win98 when I didn't need it. If I needed to do something under Win98 (like browse the web), VMware would load up Win98 where I last left it. It saved the minute or so of waiting for the VM to POST and load Win98.
(If VMware provided better support for DirectX, I might not have needed to switch my home workstation from Linux to Win2K. It's been more than a year since I checked, though, so things might've improved.)
Given that the last Apple product in which Woz had any input (AFAIK) was the now-fifteen-year-old IIGS, probably not.
...or maybe it's something else (bandwidth?), but it looks like they're slashdotted.
AppleWorks has been around since (IIRC) 1985. What Apple is now calling AppleWorks started life as ClarisWorks, but I don't know when ClarisWorks first appeared. The first versions of Word and Excel appeared on the Mac sometime in the mid-80s, but I don't think they were bundled together as Office until later.
Most sources usually credit AppleWorks as being the first integrated-software package. (If you want to get really nitpicky, though, the first would be III EZ Pieces, a package for the Apple III that mutated into AppleWorks when it became clear that the III was going nowhere in the marketplace.)
(FWIW, AppleWorks ran mostly at a reasonable speed even at 1 MHz. MS Office it most definitely wasn't.)