I have a razr v3 from cingular, and by DL'ing some interesting apps from the interweb I can do lots of neat things using the "special" cable which I happen to have laying around (usb-usb is special?).
I adjusted the gain table to increase the volume and installed some games, themes, and ringtones no problem. The v3 doesn't come with a calculator so I installed a java RPN calculator I found online. I can also apparently enable some disabled features such as clublights and so on.
Maybe cingular didn't have it locked down too hard, or maybe I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, or maybe I just found the right program. But I'm definitely doing more than the "motorola phone tools" does, which by the way did not come with the phone from cingular but apparently does elsewhere.
Conversely, I have a cheap-o LG phone from verizon. I don't think it can DO ANYTHING anyway. The options are very limited with that thing as far as I know. It works fine as a phone though. Sometimes that's better.
Here are two posts I made to www.ubuntuforums.org, telling the story about why I don't use linux yet:
I went through the same thing myself a few months ago. (see below the steps to get ubuntu installed and dual head video working) I wasn't 100% legit on my software and wanted to be. I went with ubuntu, and endured much pain and many late nights getting my system "just like it was with windows". That means dual screens, firewire, video editing, graphics, sound, all of it. I did all that.
I captured video via kino and edited it in cinelerra.
Cinelerra is "powerful" which people will say. Powerful like strapping a corvette motor to a lawn mower. It might get you down the block, but I wouldn't want to drive it to work everyday. (Editing in kino is, to me, a mystery - I couldn't figure it out.)
Basically it was the most painful editing experience I ever had. I use vegas video, I have since 3.0. I had trouble importing the video kino got for me. I got the hang of editing in cinelerra, mostly, eventually, but it was painstaking and tedious. I had trouble rendering it. Then, I had to render to AVI and convert it to mpeg VIA COMMAND LINE! Come on, people. I'm a geek, but I wouldn't brag about having to do it that way.
I got the job done though. One huge problem in cinelerra is putting text onto the screen. It does credits, but even after extensive digging into the docs there is no "text tool".
I found main concept "mainactor" which is a commercial open source video editing package. Aha, I said. It works with windows, linux, etc etc. I tried it. It is nice. Check it out. It's the same people as the mainactor mpeg codecs.
It comes in a RPM or a deb. The RPM was stable in ubuntu using the "alien" command. But some menus were just plain missing. The.deb, which SHOULD work fine in Ubuntu, had all the menus but was unstable. If it was stable, I would have paid MONEY for it and still be using ubuntu to this day. Maybe there is a recompile one could do for ubuntu.
So after about a month of pain, and my wife putting up with the late nights with this "linux" mistress, she quietly approached me and said it wasn't working.
I agreed, and went onto newegg.com and ordered windows xp, vegas 6.0 (with dvd) some ram, a new hard drive, and now I am happily using all legit software and it "just works".
Now, if someone would come on here and say "do this, do that and then this, and you can use vegas 6.0 seamlessly and 100% foolproof on linux, well, I'd think about dapper. I haven't heard that vegas works on wine yet.
Linux __is there__, I tell you. You can do _ALL_ the same things as windows*. Eye candy interface. Codecs. Web. Firewire. Sound. TONS AND TONS of free, powerful software. USB flash drives, plug 'em in. ubuntu rocks, seriously. I really like it and I miss it. I grabbed the system sounds and put them into windows XP, I liked it so much. So don't think I'm bashing anything.
But right now there isn't any video editing software that is on par with vegas video or it's peers. Video editing is now my business. I can't play around, and for goodness sakes, I can't use cinelerra!
*almost all
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Ok this post is for all the other newbies out there, to help spread a LITTLE knowledge.
First of all, I'm not a total linux newbie, I have installed redhat 5.10, mandrake 9, 10, etc, but never installed a distro that had everything I wanted, etc. I always go back to windows real quick.
I have:
AthlonXP 2500
ATI Radeon 9600 AGP dual head
Nforce2 motherboard
SATA 37gig 10kRPM
PATA 120 gig
This time, I was very determined to switch from windows completely. Here is a list of my steps: (1,2,3 etc are main steps, a,b,c are sub-steps or additional info)
1) research. I found that ubuntu was the best distro, followed by (IMO) mepis.
2) More reseach. I required the following things to WORK:
a. ATI dualview for video editing
b. Firewire
c. Easy install of non-typical apps such as cinelerra
d. DV video capture
3) Get the live CD's - ubuntu, kubuntu, mepis
a. ubuntu community is the BEST
4) Test out live c
Let's not forget that at some point it stops being about economics. Sure, it may be cheaper to obtain a ripped copy of the movie than pay for a DRM'ed disc, but there is also a value to having a copy of the movie that isn't DRM'ed, correct? Not to mention that the hard core pirates out there do it on principle alone, not for any monetary motivation.
(Just being philosophical about it, not saying it's "right" or "wrong", "smart" or "stupid")
Yes, but lawyers pick the jury! Think about it! They don't WANT intelligent people on the jury. They want people who will choose in their favor. The defense and plaintiff sides both have to agree on who is on the jury. So, yes, the lawyers are the problem.
I agree with you 100%, I lived for 2.5 years in Fort Myers, and went for 6 days w/o power in August after hurricane Charley. Talk about miserable. We had to put our 1 y/o in a tub of water outside to keep her cool. And my wife was pregnant with #2!
Georgia seems worse, partly because I think the gulf breeze keeps FM somewhat sane temp-wise. Georgia is probably just as hot but less air moving. I don't know, I never lived there just visited Savanna once in the heat of summer - you could cut the air with a knife.
My main point is this - There were people who lived in the south before air conditioning. How did they do it? I know it wasn't WIDELY settled, the population boom came after the invention of A/C, but there were people. Were they just more hearty? Got used to it? Adapted, blood thinned out (happens)?
Yeah, those 4 items are good, but "Joe" is STILL skating on thin ice unless he adds a 5th item - a clue.
The other user who, I've noticed, rapidly messes up a computer even with the above 4 things installed is "average teen with half a clue" who is somewhat aware they should not install bad things, but assumes that if it is something that all their friends install, or something they feel they just gotta install, then it can't hurt them.
"It was pretty cool. I'd love to know how far that could be taken."
I'm not saying that Jean Claude's movies Kickboxer and Bloodsport are documentaries, but I would wager that the blind fighting parts portrayed in those movies are significantly more fact than fiction. IOW, I think it can be taken pretty far.
Here's something to ponder - the capabilities of human vision and the interpretation of what we see, all the amazing things we take for granted like driving a car in bad weather, doing 3D cad, flying fighter jets, whatever. The brain's processing power that interprets visual information so impressively is also available for the ears as well - and the nose, and touch, what about taste? It involves training, don't you think? Blind people do braille pretty well, and identify people by their footsteps, and so on. The amazing feats are available through practice, but no-one does it because we don't have to. hmmm....
based on my college experiences, there are two scents that college students become very adept at tracking - beer and cigarettes. Well, make that three - beer, cigarettes, and pizza. And hearing, too - the Pssshh of a can of beer opening is very distinctive, much different than a soda.
That's right, and you could build it yourself. The beauty of CW is that it has no electronics overhead. It is a code, but it uses the wetware to "encode and decode" the message. I learned morse code at 5 wpm to get my novice ticket more than 15 years ago, but I never went further than tech because at the time I wasn't all that keen on learning more code. Now, I might go ahead and get higher licenses since it's "just theory." But the question remains, in my opinion, no matter how much you appreciate, respect, or understand ham radio: is there a point to getting a higher class license?
Many/.'ers do the geeky stuff at work and at home are monopolized by things like kids, mowing, fixing things, (sleep?)
Many don't spend TOO much time doing cool stuff like that on their own time, let alone at work. Tell us you have a website so we can be inspired further?
Is it possible to COPY a dongle? Say a company wanted to be as legit as possible, but also wanted to avoid the very expensive (lost time and cost to replace) prospect of losing a dongle, having a backup copy would be nice. Say a tech travels and has a dongled software package, keeping a backup copy at the home office would be nice. I guess that defeats the purpose of having ONE dongle for ONE seat.
Eh. I guess a crack is a suitable backup in a pinch.
I have a dongled copy of RSLogix. It hasn't been a problem yet.
I bought an inspiron 6400 laptop from dell for my work laptop. It has a core duo, 1 gig ram, 256 megs radeon x1400 video, glossy screen, etc. $1200 bucks. Come on. That is a killer price and this is a killer laptop because it's a killer proc. I have always PREFERRED AMD, and during the whole RDRAM mess and after they were the only thing that made sense for YEARS. Now... If I had to build a new box... *sigh* it would be a dual core intel. But the thing is AMD likely has a duo killer in the pipeline (pun intended) and it's only a matter of time. Right? Right?
"But you're right, there are major differences underneath. I was comparing the final product to the other OSs I regularly use, and I just don't see it being something that'll be worth upwards of $75 to switch to."
ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner, folks!
"Um, we are not in highschool. "
I went to my 5 year class reunion about 8 years ago. It became evident that some people never left. I will try to make it to my 15 year, and I bet there will still be people there who, in many ways, never left. They look the same (less hair), act the same, do the same things, live in the same area, and haven't done anything meaningful or memorable SINCE high school.
So, my point is, why be surprised that you come across grown adults who act like they are still in high school? Generally it is fear that holds them back, and if a TSA official sees someone make a non-compliant non-submissive comment, and they are by nature afraid at the core, they will likely overreact in a way they internally justify as appropriate.
"Why can't someone develop a commercially available NLE that kicks A$$ on Linux - screw the OSS stuff - gimme a stable and viable NLE alternative and I would happily pay for it. If FCP can be ported to Intel MAC, surely someone can port their NLE App to Linux - they would have the total market - port it to run on Ubuntu and all would be right in this world as far as I'm concerned."
X2
+1 insightful if I had points right now. That is the ONE reason I'm not on ubuntu right now for my home system. Everything else was there...
A flying car would likely be traveling at 150 mph or more, which makes the high-rises sneak up on you a lot faster than the speed you drive near them at on the ground - probably 35 mph average in your downtown traffic.
The toughest part of flying though isn't the dodging of mid-air obstacles, or getting to where you want to go. The biggest problem is landing, followed by taking off. Computer power makes unflyable planes fly easily for the trained pilots, but I haven't heard much about making the planes land automatically (aside from ILS) - is "autoland" available yet?
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I have a razr v3 from cingular, and by DL'ing some interesting apps from the interweb I can do lots of neat things using the "special" cable which I happen to have laying around (usb-usb is special?).
I adjusted the gain table to increase the volume and installed some games, themes, and ringtones no problem. The v3 doesn't come with a calculator so I installed a java RPN calculator I found online. I can also apparently enable some disabled features such as clublights and so on.
Maybe cingular didn't have it locked down too hard, or maybe I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, or maybe I just found the right program. But I'm definitely doing more than the "motorola phone tools" does, which by the way did not come with the phone from cingular but apparently does elsewhere.
Conversely, I have a cheap-o LG phone from verizon. I don't think it can DO ANYTHING anyway. The options are very limited with that thing as far as I know. It works fine as a phone though. Sometimes that's better.
Here are two posts I made to www.ubuntuforums.org, telling the story about why I don't use linux yet:
.deb, which SHOULD work fine in Ubuntu, had all the menus but was unstable. If it was stable, I would have paid MONEY for it and still be using ubuntu to this day. Maybe there is a recompile one could do for ubuntu.
So after about a month of pain, and my wife putting up with the late nights with this "linux" mistress, she quietly approached me and said it wasn't working.
I agreed, and went onto newegg.com and ordered windows xp, vegas 6.0 (with dvd) some ram, a new hard drive, and now I am happily using all legit software and it "just works".
Now, if someone would come on here and say "do this, do that and then this, and you can use vegas 6.0 seamlessly and 100% foolproof on linux, well, I'd think about dapper. I haven't heard that vegas works on wine yet.
Linux __is there__, I tell you. You can do _ALL_ the same things as windows*. Eye candy interface. Codecs. Web. Firewire. Sound. TONS AND TONS of free, powerful software. USB flash drives, plug 'em in. ubuntu rocks, seriously. I really like it and I miss it. I grabbed the system sounds and put them into windows XP, I liked it so much. So don't think I'm bashing anything.
But right now there isn't any video editing software that is on par with vegas video or it's peers. Video editing is now my business. I can't play around, and for goodness sakes, I can't use cinelerra!
*almost all
I went through the same thing myself a few months ago. (see below the steps to get ubuntu installed and dual head video working) I wasn't 100% legit on my software and wanted to be. I went with ubuntu, and endured much pain and many late nights getting my system "just like it was with windows". That means dual screens, firewire, video editing, graphics, sound, all of it. I did all that. I captured video via kino and edited it in cinelerra. Cinelerra is "powerful" which people will say. Powerful like strapping a corvette motor to a lawn mower. It might get you down the block, but I wouldn't want to drive it to work everyday. (Editing in kino is, to me, a mystery - I couldn't figure it out.) Basically it was the most painful editing experience I ever had. I use vegas video, I have since 3.0. I had trouble importing the video kino got for me. I got the hang of editing in cinelerra, mostly, eventually, but it was painstaking and tedious. I had trouble rendering it. Then, I had to render to AVI and convert it to mpeg VIA COMMAND LINE! Come on, people. I'm a geek, but I wouldn't brag about having to do it that way. I got the job done though. One huge problem in cinelerra is putting text onto the screen. It does credits, but even after extensive digging into the docs there is no "text tool". I found main concept "mainactor" which is a commercial open source video editing package. Aha, I said. It works with windows, linux, etc etc. I tried it. It is nice. Check it out. It's the same people as the mainactor mpeg codecs. It comes in a RPM or a deb. The RPM was stable in ubuntu using the "alien" command. But some menus were just plain missing. The
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Ok this post is for all the other newbies out there, to help spread a LITTLE knowledge. First of all, I'm not a total linux newbie, I have installed redhat 5.10, mandrake 9, 10, etc, but never installed a distro that had everything I wanted, etc. I always go back to windows real quick. I have: AthlonXP 2500 ATI Radeon 9600 AGP dual head Nforce2 motherboard SATA 37gig 10kRPM PATA 120 gig This time, I was very determined to switch from windows completely. Here is a list of my steps: (1,2,3 etc are main steps, a,b,c are sub-steps or additional info) 1) research. I found that ubuntu was the best distro, followed by (IMO) mepis. 2) More reseach. I required the following things to WORK: a. ATI dualview for video editing b. Firewire c. Easy install of non-typical apps such as cinelerra d. DV video capture 3) Get the live CD's - ubuntu, kubuntu, mepis a. ubuntu community is the BEST 4) Test out live c
Especially the free ones. Either "as in beer" or "as in speech". Liberally.
Ah, yes, but 50% of people are above average at wise choice making...
Let's not forget that at some point it stops being about economics. Sure, it may be cheaper to obtain a ripped copy of the movie than pay for a DRM'ed disc, but there is also a value to having a copy of the movie that isn't DRM'ed, correct? Not to mention that the hard core pirates out there do it on principle alone, not for any monetary motivation.
(Just being philosophical about it, not saying it's "right" or "wrong", "smart" or "stupid")
Yes, but lawyers pick the jury! Think about it! They don't WANT intelligent people on the jury. They want people who will choose in their favor. The defense and plaintiff sides both have to agree on who is on the jury. So, yes, the lawyers are the problem.
These laptops can be had with raid...
http://www.pctorque.com/sager-laptops.php
"Which would have been great, if the basic operating principle weren't one that could have been debunked by a sharp high school student."
It's ok, that was the "new" part...
I agree with you 100%, I lived for 2.5 years in Fort Myers, and went for 6 days w/o power in August after hurricane Charley. Talk about miserable. We had to put our 1 y/o in a tub of water outside to keep her cool. And my wife was pregnant with #2!
Georgia seems worse, partly because I think the gulf breeze keeps FM somewhat sane temp-wise. Georgia is probably just as hot but less air moving. I don't know, I never lived there just visited Savanna once in the heat of summer - you could cut the air with a knife.
My main point is this - There were people who lived in the south before air conditioning. How did they do it? I know it wasn't WIDELY settled, the population boom came after the invention of A/C, but there were people. Were they just more hearty? Got used to it? Adapted, blood thinned out (happens)?
Yeah, those 4 items are good, but "Joe" is STILL skating on thin ice unless he adds a 5th item - a clue.
The other user who, I've noticed, rapidly messes up a computer even with the above 4 things installed is "average teen with half a clue" who is somewhat aware they should not install bad things, but assumes that if it is something that all their friends install, or something they feel they just gotta install, then it can't hurt them.
Simon Travaglia, is that you?
"It was pretty cool. I'd love to know how far that could be taken."
I'm not saying that Jean Claude's movies Kickboxer and Bloodsport are documentaries, but I would wager that the blind fighting parts portrayed in those movies are significantly more fact than fiction. IOW, I think it can be taken pretty far.
Here's something to ponder - the capabilities of human vision and the interpretation of what we see, all the amazing things we take for granted like driving a car in bad weather, doing 3D cad, flying fighter jets, whatever. The brain's processing power that interprets visual information so impressively is also available for the ears as well - and the nose, and touch, what about taste? It involves training, don't you think? Blind people do braille pretty well, and identify people by their footsteps, and so on. The amazing feats are available through practice, but no-one does it because we don't have to. hmmm....
based on my college experiences, there are two scents that college students become very adept at tracking - beer and cigarettes. Well, make that three - beer, cigarettes, and pizza. And hearing, too - the Pssshh of a can of beer opening is very distinctive, much different than a soda.
That's right, and you could build it yourself. The beauty of CW is that it has no electronics overhead. It is a code, but it uses the wetware to "encode and decode" the message. I learned morse code at 5 wpm to get my novice ticket more than 15 years ago, but I never went further than tech because at the time I wasn't all that keen on learning more code. Now, I might go ahead and get higher licenses since it's "just theory." But the question remains, in my opinion, no matter how much you appreciate, respect, or understand ham radio: is there a point to getting a higher class license?
Yes, x2. What are you working on now?
/.'ers do the geeky stuff at work and at home are monopolized by things like kids, mowing, fixing things, (sleep?)
Many
Many don't spend TOO much time doing cool stuff like that on their own time, let alone at work. Tell us you have a website so we can be inspired further?
To the media, this smells like a Y2k kind of "bug" and that makes it "interesting".
That's just too good - where's my mod points?
Let's hear it for dongle cracks!
Is it possible to COPY a dongle? Say a company wanted to be as legit as possible, but also wanted to avoid the very expensive (lost time and cost to replace) prospect of losing a dongle, having a backup copy would be nice. Say a tech travels and has a dongled software package, keeping a backup copy at the home office would be nice. I guess that defeats the purpose of having ONE dongle for ONE seat.
Eh. I guess a crack is a suitable backup in a pinch.
I have a dongled copy of RSLogix. It hasn't been a problem yet.
nah, it was in july.
I bought an inspiron 6400 laptop from dell for my work laptop. It has a core duo, 1 gig ram, 256 megs radeon x1400 video, glossy screen, etc. $1200 bucks. Come on. That is a killer price and this is a killer laptop because it's a killer proc. I have always PREFERRED AMD, and during the whole RDRAM mess and after they were the only thing that made sense for YEARS. Now... If I had to build a new box ... *sigh* it would be a dual core intel. But the thing is AMD likely has a duo killer in the pipeline (pun intended) and it's only a matter of time. Right? Right?
"But you're right, there are major differences underneath. I was comparing the final product to the other OSs I regularly use, and I just don't see it being something that'll be worth upwards of $75 to switch to."
ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner, folks!
"Um, we are not in highschool. " I went to my 5 year class reunion about 8 years ago. It became evident that some people never left. I will try to make it to my 15 year, and I bet there will still be people there who, in many ways, never left. They look the same (less hair), act the same, do the same things, live in the same area, and haven't done anything meaningful or memorable SINCE high school.
So, my point is, why be surprised that you come across grown adults who act like they are still in high school? Generally it is fear that holds them back, and if a TSA official sees someone make a non-compliant non-submissive comment, and they are by nature afraid at the core, they will likely overreact in a way they internally justify as appropriate.
fed ex - you put yourself in a box?
"Why can't someone develop a commercially available NLE that kicks A$$ on Linux - screw the OSS stuff - gimme a stable and viable NLE alternative and I would happily pay for it. If FCP can be ported to Intel MAC, surely someone can port their NLE App to Linux - they would have the total market - port it to run on Ubuntu and all would be right in this world as far as I'm concerned."
X2
+1 insightful if I had points right now. That is the ONE reason I'm not on ubuntu right now for my home system. Everything else was there...
A flying car would likely be traveling at 150 mph or more, which makes the high-rises sneak up on you a lot faster than the speed you drive near them at on the ground - probably 35 mph average in your downtown traffic.
The toughest part of flying though isn't the dodging of mid-air obstacles, or getting to where you want to go. The biggest problem is landing, followed by taking off. Computer power makes unflyable planes fly easily for the trained pilots, but I haven't heard much about making the planes land automatically (aside from ILS) - is "autoland" available yet?