for fear of reprisal towards them/him, but TVTool works just fine for disabling Macrovision with NVIDIA cards. At least with the GF3 in my HTPC machine I get no complaints from any DVD player software with TVTool's Macrovision disable option turned on. And I've been updating its drivers with every official release up until 53.03, just got lazy with the post-53.03 releases cuz everything works.
To do so requires special writing capability in the drive itself, you not only need to be able to control the regular user data, you also need to be able to control all the bits that get generated in addition to regular user data. All the bits that are involved with the error correction, etc. This is why you don't see Yamaha type 'tattoos' with just any old drive, because Yamaha so far is the only manufacturer that gave you that much control over the drive. Without such deep control, I don't know how easy it would be to get your desired image, considering you normally have control over much less than half of how many bits are actually contained on a CD. I vaguely recall doing the math one day to see how many raw bits are on a CD, and I think it adds up to around 2GB of raw data to store your 700MB of user data. Very vaguely. Figures may be off, but it is in that ridiculous ballpark. And I'm not in the mood to go digging through specs. Basically, 2048 bytes of your data first goes to 2352 bytes, maybe another step here, and then every 8 bits gets translated to 14 bits encoded on the disc. Even just the 2048->2352 and 8->14 steps gives you almost 1407MB raw data for 700MB of user data.
considering the scale of the regular data they write with the laser, one would assume that the resolution of the image possible would be well beyond something someone would reasonably use. I guess it's a matter of how restrictive they'll make the process, really.
I don't know that I'd pay $5 or $10 more per 50 or 100 spindle for it though. I imagine you wouldn't necessarily use one for every burn either, though. Definitely got that novelty factor. The premium for the feature in the drive is very attractive. Hopefully it's well thought out and there's no chance of bleed-through while making the label to threaten the data. Although perhaps the regular reflective layer itself would be enough.
the machine I use as my PVR box is still used actively by the significant other, as well as visitors, and consequently will always be a windows box. So that's one strike against MythTV for me. With BTV and a PVR250, and the subsequent 1% CPU usage while recording, the machine still gets used for everything from email to counterstrike while still recording any shows we've set to record. I never gave MythTV a chance for various reasons, but the fact that it would no longer be a functioning windows box for its other uses was a big no go factor.
If you are using anything but a hardware mpeg encoder you may not be too happy with its performance. The software mpeg encoder they used isn't that great. The output looks much worse than captures done with, say, virtualdub. Doesn't look like it even comes from the same card. But if you don't mind spending a few bucks (I hear they've been on sale a lot lately for $99US) on a Hauppauge PVR-250 hardware mpeg encoder card I think you'll be very happy with BTV. The encoder it has is definitely its weak point.
BTV is PVS actually, v3.4 brought the name change to BeyondTV. After the recording finishes it scans the audio and video looking for coinciding silence and black screens. It works pretty well for me, depends on your signal quality I would imagine. Some report it doesn't work very well for them at all. I've no complaints.
there's at least one person on the BTV forums that is using a p2-400 or p2-450 in conjunction with a Hauppauge PVR-250 hardware mpeg2 encoder card for recording with. Naturally a faster PC will chew through some of the optional work a lot quicker, but a fairly old machine can still do fine if you have a hardware encoder card. I bought this software because it was the only one with Canadian TV listings, but came to find out it has a wealth of cool features. I love it. I personally have an XP 1700+ in mine, and it takes about 40 minutes to scan a one hour episode for commercial breaks, or SmartChapters as it calls them. And IIRC it takes about 45 minutes to convert the 8Mbps mpeg2 data to 1GB/hour divx. The next version will sport multiple tuner support, so you can record two things at once or watch a live broadcast while recording something else. That'll be nice, I'll be buying a second, if not a third, PVR-250 just to make it a little nicer to use. When v3.5 comes I doubt the thing will ever not be in BTV mode.
there is an amazing amount of people who are continually pissed off at being ripped off by game developers delivering games that are beaten in ~5 hours, most notably FPS games. You pay $75, and then comes the weekend and you have time to play it, and you beat it in two sittings. WTF? Gimme my money back, thief.
but it doesn't work, because of all the other tell-tale signs it still gets flagged as spam and dealt with as such. No matter how much "real english" stuff gets tagged on, none of that stuff looks like "real email" stuff and it still has all the spam stuff anyways.
there are more parts to an email than just the subject line or the message body that still give away emails as spam. So even if random punctuation circumvents the spotting of something as specific as "viagra" by changing it to "v..1.,a,g.r,,a" or something similar it doesn't matter much. There are so many other hints that it's basically meaningless to do this, they still get caught because of those other clues. I'm still amazed at how well my bayesian filter of choice, popfile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile does with all my email needs. Filtering out spam, sorting out other emails into work, family, and a handful of other 'buckets' to get everything going where I'd like it to go. Spammers are indeed trying out different ideas all the time, but next to nothing ever gets through. And when something does manage to slip by on a rare occasion, well, you just made popfile that much better at catching the rest of the crap anyways. shrug. Been a long time (since I found popfile) since spam was even the slightest concern to me. There are quite a few different bayesian-based filtering methods out there, definitely a good idea to check at least one of them out. Popfile's a good choice, especially if you'd like to sort things besides spam too.
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair...Hell, even noticed that on ER I think, heh. It's in the freakin' intro for a Motley Crue album for that matter.
I find this a little uninteresting, sounds have been reused all the time in all sorts of places. Can't count how many video games have used the same dragon sound, which I think I first noticed in Doom as a sound for one of the Doom monsters.
I got disconnected for a week by Shaw, not once but twice! I also got the "we don't limit how many hours a month you can connect" argument. I was told that we were only allowed to download 5gigs a month and only 1.5gigs a month of uploading. I went on to explain to them that simply playing counter-strike for 2 hours a night would put me over that limit. I also went on to explain how I could more than quadruple a 1.5gig limit on a freakin' 28.8 modem. I also went on to explain how they never advertised unlimited hours. They went on to explain how they don't give a rat's ass and my service would be turned back on in a week. As soon as I could actually switch to Telus, I did. It was a long waiting period before they actually fired up service in my town though, was a horrible wait. Shaw sucks. The Terayon-based network they use sucks. Pings in games with Telus are dramatically lower, averaging 20ms compared to way over 50ms with Shaw. (Yes, I notice the difference in some games.) Shaw had dropped their upstream bandwidth from 100KB/s to 50KB/s during my stay with them. Telus is at 64KB/s upstream right now, so that's higher than Shaw was when I left them. Downstream's capped at a slower rate than I could get with Shaw, but it's still plenty fast. Glad I switched from day one.
I believe what it says is this: If you have a problem with your linux app under virtualpc, then you go to your linux vendor for support. And if your linux vendor in turn finds that the problem is due to some bug with virtualpc, that is, the same thing does not occur when running linux natively on a pc and so is due to a problem with virtualpc only, then the vendor can submit a bug report to MS about virtualpc and MS with work with the linux vendor to fix the problem. In other words, you are out of luck unless you get support from your linux vendor and in turn your linux vendor is entitled to virtualpc support from MS.
well, I've got the 5.2 updater if you wish to email me at phuncky at telus dot net. (Hopeful in not getting an onslaught of spam after posting my email on slashdot, haha)
I keep one browser open to windowsupdate all the time, constantly refreshing, so I never miss an update. Why, sometimes, I even get truncated downloads because the upload on their end hasn't finished to the server yet!
Main Entry: 1mouse
Pronunciation: 'maus
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural mice/'mIs/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mus; akin to Old High German mus mouse, Latin mus, Greek mys mouse, muscle
Date: before 12th century
1 : any of numerous small rodents (as of the genus Mus) with pointed snout, rather small ears, elongated body, and slender tail
2 : a timid person
3 : a dark-colored swelling caused by a blow; specifically : BLACK EYE
4 : a small mobile manual device that controls movement of the cursor and selection of functions on a computer display
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yeah
for fear of reprisal towards them/him, but TVTool works just fine for disabling Macrovision with NVIDIA cards. At least with the GF3 in my HTPC machine I get no complaints from any DVD player software with TVTool's Macrovision disable option turned on. And I've been updating its drivers with every official release up until 53.03, just got lazy with the post-53.03 releases cuz everything works.
http://cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004fs-e.html
http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/pc-ch/min/contac ts/index_e.cfm
Itanium has it, so Intel deserves the mention. *shrug*
To do so requires special writing capability in the drive itself, you not only need to be able to control the regular user data, you also need to be able to control all the bits that get generated in addition to regular user data. All the bits that are involved with the error correction, etc. This is why you don't see Yamaha type 'tattoos' with just any old drive, because Yamaha so far is the only manufacturer that gave you that much control over the drive. Without such deep control, I don't know how easy it would be to get your desired image, considering you normally have control over much less than half of how many bits are actually contained on a CD. I vaguely recall doing the math one day to see how many raw bits are on a CD, and I think it adds up to around 2GB of raw data to store your 700MB of user data. Very vaguely. Figures may be off, but it is in that ridiculous ballpark. And I'm not in the mood to go digging through specs. Basically, 2048 bytes of your data first goes to 2352 bytes, maybe another step here, and then every 8 bits gets translated to 14 bits encoded on the disc. Even just the 2048->2352 and 8->14 steps gives you almost 1407MB raw data for 700MB of user data.
considering the scale of the regular data they write with the laser, one would assume that the resolution of the image possible would be well beyond something someone would reasonably use. I guess it's a matter of how restrictive they'll make the process, really.
I don't know that I'd pay $5 or $10 more per 50 or 100 spindle for it though. I imagine you wouldn't necessarily use one for every burn either, though. Definitely got that novelty factor. The premium for the feature in the drive is very attractive. Hopefully it's well thought out and there's no chance of bleed-through while making the label to threaten the data. Although perhaps the regular reflective layer itself would be enough.
the machine I use as my PVR box is still used actively by the significant other, as well as visitors, and consequently will always be a windows box. So that's one strike against MythTV for me. With BTV and a PVR250, and the subsequent 1% CPU usage while recording, the machine still gets used for everything from email to counterstrike while still recording any shows we've set to record. I never gave MythTV a chance for various reasons, but the fact that it would no longer be a functioning windows box for its other uses was a big no go factor.
If you are using anything but a hardware mpeg encoder you may not be too happy with its performance. The software mpeg encoder they used isn't that great. The output looks much worse than captures done with, say, virtualdub. Doesn't look like it even comes from the same card. But if you don't mind spending a few bucks (I hear they've been on sale a lot lately for $99US) on a Hauppauge PVR-250 hardware mpeg encoder card I think you'll be very happy with BTV. The encoder it has is definitely its weak point.
BTV is PVS actually, v3.4 brought the name change to BeyondTV. After the recording finishes it scans the audio and video looking for coinciding silence and black screens. It works pretty well for me, depends on your signal quality I would imagine. Some report it doesn't work very well for them at all. I've no complaints.
there's at least one person on the BTV forums that is using a p2-400 or p2-450 in conjunction with a Hauppauge PVR-250 hardware mpeg2 encoder card for recording with. Naturally a faster PC will chew through some of the optional work a lot quicker, but a fairly old machine can still do fine if you have a hardware encoder card. I bought this software because it was the only one with Canadian TV listings, but came to find out it has a wealth of cool features. I love it. I personally have an XP 1700+ in mine, and it takes about 40 minutes to scan a one hour episode for commercial breaks, or SmartChapters as it calls them. And IIRC it takes about 45 minutes to convert the 8Mbps mpeg2 data to 1GB/hour divx. The next version will sport multiple tuner support, so you can record two things at once or watch a live broadcast while recording something else. That'll be nice, I'll be buying a second, if not a third, PVR-250 just to make it a little nicer to use. When v3.5 comes I doubt the thing will ever not be in BTV mode.
there is an amazing amount of people who are continually pissed off at being ripped off by game developers delivering games that are beaten in ~5 hours, most notably FPS games. You pay $75, and then comes the weekend and you have time to play it, and you beat it in two sittings. WTF? Gimme my money back, thief.
some freakin' kid's gonna run on and hit all the buttons and jump off before the doors close
http://www.9xmedia.com/pages-Build_a_system/X-Top- --5over5.html
but it doesn't work, because of all the other tell-tale signs it still gets flagged as spam and dealt with as such. No matter how much "real english" stuff gets tagged on, none of that stuff looks like "real email" stuff and it still has all the spam stuff anyways.
there are more parts to an email than just the subject line or the message body that still give away emails as spam. So even if random punctuation circumvents the spotting of something as specific as "viagra" by changing it to "v..1.,a,g.r,,a" or something similar it doesn't matter much. There are so many other hints that it's basically meaningless to do this, they still get caught because of those other clues. I'm still amazed at how well my bayesian filter of choice, popfile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile does with all my email needs. Filtering out spam, sorting out other emails into work, family, and a handful of other 'buckets' to get everything going where I'd like it to go. Spammers are indeed trying out different ideas all the time, but next to nothing ever gets through. And when something does manage to slip by on a rare occasion, well, you just made popfile that much better at catching the rest of the crap anyways. shrug. Been a long time (since I found popfile) since spam was even the slightest concern to me. There are quite a few different bayesian-based filtering methods out there, definitely a good idea to check at least one of them out. Popfile's a good choice, especially if you'd like to sort things besides spam too.
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair...Hell, even noticed that on ER I think, heh. It's in the freakin' intro for a Motley Crue album for that matter. I find this a little uninteresting, sounds have been reused all the time in all sorts of places. Can't count how many video games have used the same dragon sound, which I think I first noticed in Doom as a sound for one of the Doom monsters.
I got disconnected for a week by Shaw, not once but twice! I also got the "we don't limit how many hours a month you can connect" argument. I was told that we were only allowed to download 5gigs a month and only 1.5gigs a month of uploading. I went on to explain to them that simply playing counter-strike for 2 hours a night would put me over that limit. I also went on to explain how I could more than quadruple a 1.5gig limit on a freakin' 28.8 modem. I also went on to explain how they never advertised unlimited hours. They went on to explain how they don't give a rat's ass and my service would be turned back on in a week. As soon as I could actually switch to Telus, I did. It was a long waiting period before they actually fired up service in my town though, was a horrible wait. Shaw sucks. The Terayon-based network they use sucks. Pings in games with Telus are dramatically lower, averaging 20ms compared to way over 50ms with Shaw. (Yes, I notice the difference in some games.) Shaw had dropped their upstream bandwidth from 100KB/s to 50KB/s during my stay with them. Telus is at 64KB/s upstream right now, so that's higher than Shaw was when I left them. Downstream's capped at a slower rate than I could get with Shaw, but it's still plenty fast. Glad I switched from day one.
yes, yes it will, ran it on a 486-133 myself, but min. reqs stated a P60, IIRC
quake runs on pentium ONE machines, what are you on?
I believe what it says is this: If you have a problem with your linux app under virtualpc, then you go to your linux vendor for support. And if your linux vendor in turn finds that the problem is due to some bug with virtualpc, that is, the same thing does not occur when running linux natively on a pc and so is due to a problem with virtualpc only, then the vendor can submit a bug report to MS about virtualpc and MS with work with the linux vendor to fix the problem. In other words, you are out of luck unless you get support from your linux vendor and in turn your linux vendor is entitled to virtualpc support from MS.
well, I've got the 5.2 updater if you wish to email me at phuncky at telus dot net. (Hopeful in not getting an onslaught of spam after posting my email on slashdot, haha)
I keep one browser open to windowsupdate all the time, constantly refreshing, so I never miss an update. Why, sometimes, I even get truncated downloads because the upload on their end hasn't finished to the server yet!
Main Entry: 1mouse Pronunciation: 'maus Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural mice /'mIs/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mus; akin to Old High German mus mouse, Latin mus, Greek mys mouse, muscle
Date: before 12th century
1 : any of numerous small rodents (as of the genus Mus) with pointed snout, rather small ears, elongated body, and slender tail
2 : a timid person
3 : a dark-colored swelling caused by a blow; specifically : BLACK EYE
4 : a small mobile manual device that controls movement of the cursor and selection of functions on a computer display