A bit of a cheat, but I used Virtual Dub via wine for quite some while after moving to linux. Recently I've found avidemux has reached a level where it can do everything I used Virtual Dub for.
5. If using Linux, transcode is fairly good, but it lacks the configurability of avisynth and Virtualdub with filters. It's just not as complete a set.
For my use, avidemux has been great as a replacement for VirtualDub in Linux. I used to resort to running VirtualDub in wine, but all the filters I used have analogues in avidemux at this time.
While by no means am I suggesting this as anything but anecdotal evidence, I've been quite pleased with some capturing I've been doing in Linux. There's so many changes, OS, drivers, codec, file format, that I can't really point at any one thing as the reason my captures have been so good in Linux, compared to windows. But I've found myself able to capture with higher resolutions, better audio quality, and amazingly less processor load than when I was using windows. In Linux I'm using nuppelvideo for the capture, and in windows ati's capture utility for the tv wonder.
Imagine if MS sold Office for Linux... they'd have the single largest share of the Linux software market!
Possibly... I have a hard time thinking that they'd get a large amount of people using Linux to buy it. I've had to flee enough Linux sites that became infested with "M$ sux! LOLOLOL!!1" folks to think they'd have an uphill battle. Personally I think they'd have a hard time keeping up with even the far cheeper sales of wineX subscriptions, or other fairly cheap software.
Orbit in fact is the main reason I switched to phoenix. I really like orbit, and I really like my gtk theme. With phoenix I can have both while with mozilla I'd have to choose the netscape theme to get the gtk look going alongside it.
Now I buy lottery tickets. The fantasies are better. And more likely.
I always figured the person standing ahead of me in line scratching off lottery tickets, while I strugle to not drop my armload of groceries, somehow was getting off on it.
You mean for text boxes? I just gave konqueror another try after upgrading to kde 3.1 final from the rcs, and was thrilled to find konqueror had this ability added. I'd been hoping for this feature to appear in mozilla for quite some time, and while I'd rather be using it or phoenix, I'm thrilled to see this feature anywhere on an x86 platform!
Sure, as long as emulators are factored in, and legality isn't considered that important. The ipaq snes port can run snes rpgs at a reasonable speed, and is one of the main reasons I've been able to get through some of the fan translated games. It's pretty nice to be able to have one on hand if I'm stuck unexpectedly waiting for someone. As far as games actually made for the pda, I don't have any idea. 2D RPGS are my main preference, and it's a pretty ignored genre by American developers. The nes, master system, game gear emulators are great though!
I gave Konqueror a shot after upgrading to kde 3.1, and that got me to take a look at everything else out there as well. I have to admit, the Opera 7 beta very nearly won out as my main browser. I really liked how the tabs seemed more ingrained in the browser than those in konq or mozilla. And as you mentioned, the theme is extremely nice. Blatant aqua rip offs get me running away, but a well done interface inspired by it gets me running to the program in question. And that one is a particularly nice example of one that is extremely well done.
It lost out for me though this morning, when I noticed konqueror can do spellchecks in web text forms. Yes, my spelling is bad enough to let this be a killer feature for me. Though after giving the spellcheck a try here, Opera may have won me back for now. Apparently it can't remember what words I'd prefer it add to the dictionary, which is getting annoying after even this first experience.
So, what are the qualities that anime fans think raise it up as a great thing?
Japan in general seems to have a greater tolerance for creativity and continuity in sci-fi than most of the English speaking public. It's nice being able to watch a series I like with no fears that it'll be canceled for a zaney reality show because too many of the viewers missed having the big red reset button pushed after each episode. I also like animated sci-fi in general more than live action, if the latter is going to resort to nose putty aliens. For some reason an animated alien dosn't jar my suspension of disbelief as much as a cheap forehead alien of the night.
That said, I also should say that I don't like the idea of generalising to such a high degree. I own quite a few anime series, but I don't consider myself an "anime fan" any more than I consider myself a "American TV fan". Both catagories are so broad as to make any statement like that pretty much meaningless. I'm a fan of science fiction stories which have interesting characters and a progressive storyline, and I really don't much care what video medium or country delivers them to me.
That's really weird. The combined problem with mounting times and font import makes me wonder if your windows install might be in the process of dying, and mandrake not knowing what to make of what it finds there. I've had mandrake on a couple machines, and none have ever needed more than a second or three to mount anything. I suppose it could also be supermount coughing a dying breath with 9.0, but I keep hearing it's problems were fixed with 9.1, so I suppose that's somewhat unlikley to be the cause.
You might want to try booting with knoppix a try, just to see if it shares the same problems with mounting.
Obviously he forgot that one. The one that says that the survival of the human species comes before the first three laws.
I rather like the twist Chalker put on a similar rule in his rings of the master series. The master computer concluded humans would eventually destroy the species if allowed to remain under their own direction, and so threw most of humanty back into pretechnological versions of their history, or threw them onto alien planets.
Many of the elitists do just a good job at giving opensource a bad name.
While I believe most people would agree with this, I think the trouble comes in when one attempts to define just what an elitist is in this context. I've been called an elitist a few times in the past, for saying people who aren't comfortable with computers shouldn't have to use Linux if they're more comfortable with windows. In the sense that my comment places people into different catagories based on skill, I can see how it could be interpreted as elitist. But personally I don't place myself in the same catagory as someone, for example, who thought someone who didn't know much about computers should be forced to use windows as the best choice for them.
A lot of so called "elitists" are also out there tutoring people, burning cds of open source software - windows or otherwise, and trying to show people the options. What I'm trying to say, is that we have to be careful about not generalising too much. One persons elitist could be a humanitarian when everything they do is seen in context.
Wait till they see me in my pneumatic hardsuit with the built in atmospheric controls and health monitoring.
That's nothing! After watching the starfighters on mst3k, I'm traumatised to the point where I shall build...a poopy suit of my very own! Fire throwing cosplayers, bah, you can swim in pools with a poopy suit! Heck, I could swim in puddles of people jello with the raw power of a poopy suit!
The tax rate applied to your order will generally be the combined state and local rate for the address where your order was shipped.
I wish they would have phrased that better. When I read the article, I took the sentence to mean it would be the rate for the location the item was shipped from, not to. Looking at it again, I think you have the correct interpretation. As someone else living in a no sales tax area, I certainly hope that is the case! I've only lived in Montana for about a year, but I've really come to apreciate not paying sales tax.
Personally, I wouldn't include DivX on a list of viable formats to encode with on Linux. 5.0.3 was recently released on windows, and Linux is still on an alpha release of 5.0.1, with no 'pro' version available. I'd be more annoyed though if I wasn't getting better results anyway with xvid or the mpeg4 encoding from libavcodec than DivX 5.0.2 under wine.
A couple weeks back my curiosity finally got the better of me, and I burned an iso of the latest knoppix release. It was hard to believe that this was the same operating system that I'd had to strugle so hard to install not so many years back. Time consuming note taking in preperation for the first experience with Linux had been replaced with simply opening the cd door!
One simple step and a fuller desktop than the default windows quickly loaded up. Open office documents, play mp3s, divx or even some games, all within minutes of putting the CD in. I think someone nervous about computers would actually have an easier time with this stystem than any of the windows flavors. Configuration tools were about the only thing really lacking, and KDE seems to be moving to including beefed up tools anyway. When KDE 3.1 comes with knoppix, and with a few font changes, I really think it will have surpassed windows for user friendliness to those with little computer experience. With a a little tool for automated hard drive installs, I'd almost start handing this thing out to people at christmas.
When did you try it? I doubt it'd be very impressive on todays hardware, but back in the day on my 200mhz, 32mb memory, 3gb hard drive powered computer it blew windows 95 and 98 out of the water in terms of speed. If I ever wanted to try and make that computer useful as a desktop machine again, BeOS would be my first choice for the OS.
Users who want to view the latest video disk format will have to go to best buy to get the needed player to do so.
On the other hand, my dvd player can only make use of s/vcd while a pc with open sourced software can get the same quality at half the size with xvid/ogg vorbis.
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My paranoid mind is imagining that I'm the only human on /. and that all the other posts are automatically generated by Slashcode.
How does that make you feel about generated by Slashcode?
Jay Jay the Jet Plane
It'd be interesting if Jay and Silent Bob ever made it in there accedently.
But Virtual Dub is Windows only
A bit of a cheat, but I used Virtual Dub via wine for quite some while after moving to linux. Recently I've found avidemux has reached a level where it can do everything I used Virtual Dub for.
They did, but it regenerated. In hindsight, it was realized that a torch would have worked better.
5. If using Linux, transcode is fairly good, but it lacks the configurability of avisynth and Virtualdub with filters. It's just not as complete a set.
For my use, avidemux has been great as a replacement for VirtualDub in Linux. I used to resort to running VirtualDub in wine, but all the filters I used have analogues in avidemux at this time.
While by no means am I suggesting this as anything but anecdotal evidence, I've been quite pleased with some capturing I've been doing in Linux. There's so many changes, OS, drivers, codec, file format, that I can't really point at any one thing as the reason my captures have been so good in Linux, compared to windows. But I've found myself able to capture with higher resolutions, better audio quality, and amazingly less processor load than when I was using windows. In Linux I'm using nuppelvideo for the capture, and in windows ati's capture utility for the tv wonder.
Imagine if MS sold Office for Linux... they'd have the single largest share of the Linux software market!
Possibly... I have a hard time thinking that they'd get a large amount of people using Linux to buy it. I've had to flee enough Linux sites that became infested with "M$ sux! LOLOLOL!!1" folks to think they'd have an uphill battle. Personally I think they'd have a hard time keeping up with even the far cheeper sales of wineX subscriptions, or other fairly cheap software.
Orbit in fact is the main reason I switched to phoenix. I really like orbit, and I really like my gtk theme. With phoenix I can have both while with mozilla I'd have to choose the netscape theme to get the gtk look going alongside it.
Why would you install Apt4RPM on Mandrake? Did you even try using URPMI?
The reason I would, if not using either on the command line, is that I find synaptic far more user friendly than rpmdrake.
Now I buy lottery tickets. The fantasies are better. And more likely.
I always figured the person standing ahead of me in line scratching off lottery tickets, while I strugle to not drop my armload of groceries, somehow was getting off on it.
But what about an inline spell-checker?
You mean for text boxes? I just gave konqueror another try after upgrading to kde 3.1 final from the rcs, and was thrilled to find konqueror had this ability added. I'd been hoping for this feature to appear in mozilla for quite some time, and while I'd rather be using it or phoenix, I'm thrilled to see this feature anywhere on an x86 platform!
You respawn in windows, scary!
Sure, as long as emulators are factored in, and legality isn't considered that important. The ipaq snes port can run snes rpgs at a reasonable speed, and is one of the main reasons I've been able to get through some of the fan translated games. It's pretty nice to be able to have one on hand if I'm stuck unexpectedly waiting for someone. As far as games actually made for the pda, I don't have any idea. 2D RPGS are my main preference, and it's a pretty ignored genre by American developers. The nes, master system, game gear emulators are great though!
but it was 7 that made me drop Mozilla.
I gave Konqueror a shot after upgrading to kde 3.1, and that got me to take a look at everything else out there as well. I have to admit, the Opera 7 beta very nearly won out as my main browser. I really liked how the tabs seemed more ingrained in the browser than those in konq or mozilla. And as you mentioned, the theme is extremely nice. Blatant aqua rip offs get me running away, but a well done interface inspired by it gets me running to the program in question. And that one is a particularly nice example of one that is extremely well done.
It lost out for me though this morning, when I noticed konqueror can do spellchecks in web text forms. Yes, my spelling is bad enough to let this be a killer feature for me. Though after giving the spellcheck a try here, Opera may have won me back for now. Apparently it can't remember what words I'd prefer it add to the dictionary, which is getting annoying after even this first experience.
So, what are the qualities that anime fans think raise it up as a great thing?
Japan in general seems to have a greater tolerance for creativity and continuity in sci-fi than most of the English speaking public. It's nice being able to watch a series I like with no fears that it'll be canceled for a zaney reality show because too many of the viewers missed having the big red reset button pushed after each episode. I also like animated sci-fi in general more than live action, if the latter is going to resort to nose putty aliens. For some reason an animated alien dosn't jar my suspension of disbelief as much as a cheap forehead alien of the night.
That said, I also should say that I don't like the idea of generalising to such a high degree. I own quite a few anime series, but I don't consider myself an "anime fan" any more than I consider myself a "American TV fan". Both catagories are so broad as to make any statement like that pretty much meaningless. I'm a fan of science fiction stories which have interesting characters and a progressive storyline, and I really don't much care what video medium or country delivers them to me.
That's really weird. The combined problem with mounting times and font import makes me wonder if your windows install might be in the process of dying, and mandrake not knowing what to make of what it finds there. I've had mandrake on a couple machines, and none have ever needed more than a second or three to mount anything. I suppose it could also be supermount coughing a dying breath with 9.0, but I keep hearing it's problems were fixed with 9.1, so I suppose that's somewhat unlikley to be the cause.
You might want to try booting with knoppix a try, just to see if it shares the same problems with mounting.
Obviously he forgot that one. The one that says that the survival of the human species comes before the first three laws.
I rather like the twist Chalker put on a similar rule in his rings of the master series. The master computer concluded humans would eventually destroy the species if allowed to remain under their own direction, and so threw most of humanty back into pretechnological versions of their history, or threw them onto alien planets.
The OSS folks will never stoop to their level
I would have agreed more strongly if I hadn't seen several "M$" comments before reading this one.
Many of the elitists do just a good job at giving opensource a bad name.
While I believe most people would agree with this, I think the trouble comes in when one attempts to define just what an elitist is in this context. I've been called an elitist a few times in the past, for saying people who aren't comfortable with computers shouldn't have to use Linux if they're more comfortable with windows. In the sense that my comment places people into different catagories based on skill, I can see how it could be interpreted as elitist. But personally I don't place myself in the same catagory as someone, for example, who thought someone who didn't know much about computers should be forced to use windows as the best choice for them.
A lot of so called "elitists" are also out there tutoring people, burning cds of open source software - windows or otherwise, and trying to show people the options. What I'm trying to say, is that we have to be careful about not generalising too much. One persons elitist could be a humanitarian when everything they do is seen in context.
Wait till they see me in my pneumatic hardsuit with the built in atmospheric controls and health monitoring.
That's nothing! After watching the starfighters on mst3k, I'm traumatised to the point where I shall build...a poopy suit of my very own! Fire throwing cosplayers, bah, you can swim in pools with a poopy suit! Heck, I could swim in puddles of people jello with the raw power of a poopy suit!
The tax rate applied to your order will generally be the combined state and local rate for the address where your order was shipped.
I wish they would have phrased that better. When I read the article, I took the sentence to mean it would be the rate for the location the item was shipped from, not to. Looking at it again, I think you have the correct interpretation. As someone else living in a no sales tax area, I certainly hope that is the case! I've only lived in Montana for about a year, but I've really come to apreciate not paying sales tax.
With the existance of DivX
Personally, I wouldn't include DivX on a list of viable formats to encode with on Linux. 5.0.3 was recently released on windows, and Linux is still on an alpha release of 5.0.1, with no 'pro' version available. I'd be more annoyed though if I wasn't getting better results anyway with xvid or the mpeg4 encoding from libavcodec than DivX 5.0.2 under wine.
A couple weeks back my curiosity finally got the better of me, and I burned an iso of the latest knoppix release. It was hard to believe that this was the same operating system that I'd had to strugle so hard to install not so many years back. Time consuming note taking in preperation for the first experience with Linux had been replaced with simply opening the cd door!
One simple step and a fuller desktop than the default windows quickly loaded up. Open office documents, play mp3s, divx or even some games, all within minutes of putting the CD in. I think someone nervous about computers would actually have an easier time with this stystem than any of the windows flavors. Configuration tools were about the only thing really lacking, and KDE seems to be moving to including beefed up tools anyway. When KDE 3.1 comes with knoppix, and with a few font changes, I really think it will have surpassed windows for user friendliness to those with little computer experience. With a a little tool for automated hard drive installs, I'd almost start handing this thing out to people at christmas.
When did you try it? I doubt it'd be very impressive on todays hardware, but back in the day on my 200mhz, 32mb memory, 3gb hard drive powered computer it blew windows 95 and 98 out of the water in terms of speed. If I ever wanted to try and make that computer useful as a desktop machine again, BeOS would be my first choice for the OS.
Users who want to view the latest video disk format will have to go to best buy to get the needed player to do so.
On the other hand, my dvd player can only make use of s/vcd while a pc with open sourced software can get the same quality at half the size with xvid/ogg vorbis.