This is NOT about disabling MSN Messenger in order to give AIM sopme kind of advantage, which you seem to think.
This is about disabling the Microsoft Messenger Service, which is a system daemon used to pop up a little window on Windows clients over the LAN. We use it to tell domain members if we're going to have to restart samba or something. It is an entirely seperate entity to MSN Messenger.
I know the two are easily confused but... please... RTFA!
Been making OGM's for a while now (I was so damned impressed with them I re-rendered al of my DVD's into OGM's rather than AVI's).
BTW, OGM isn't just for Vorbis and XviD, it's a container format which can hold any number of streams, and has suport for much more stuff than AVI has - like you say, multiple audio and sub streams, DVD chapters, etc etc. It kicks ass, and works out of the box with my build of Xine and mPlayer, and with a bit of codec-fiddling in Media Player Classic.
If there's any movie encoders out there, give OGM's a whirl. I'm not sure how you render them in Linux (bah), I'm using VirtualDubMod for my encodes.
Hmm, whilst I don't usually like to be the token anti-ms-paranoiac, I'd say it makes more sense that they're doing the "tie into a specific platform" thing, a la iTunes/AMS.
Site is a bit arsey, so I can't say for certain that there's any "official MS corporate blah", but I wouldn't be surprised. It just seems to be a lame attempt to say "Apple people can use the AMS, but all you Windows users HAVE to use us!".
Now when MSN buys the rights to advertise $matrix_product they can legitimately claim MSN search is the Oracle, controlled by evil machinistic overlords hell bent on subverting the will of innocent computer users.;^)
Minor quibble, but I was under the impression that the latest P4's (3 GHz+) had more heat output than their equivalent Athlons...? I could be wrong (can't find a comparison chart), and it's a while since I was in the market for a new CPU.
True, in the corporate universe, I can't see any of the big businesses jumping ten feet in the air every time a new rev of an open source codec comes out. IMO the big comms and content providers are always going to stick with WMV, Real, QT, etc.
On the personal level though, things are much different. Sounds trollish I know, but I think that an awful lot of codec takeup by end users is driven by P2P. This isn't so prevalent with ogg vorbis, but the amount of XviD's out there (some even in OGM format rather than AVI) is colossal. I use it for all of my DVD rips (and no, I don't share them, I just a) like to have them available on any box in the house and b) it's fun).
So I think if it's good enough, we'll see an awful lot of Theora in the horrible grey area of online movies, but I really can't see the corps jumping ship for it for quite some time. It's a shame, but a great many corps seem to be caught in the inertia of proprietary standards, as the parent noted.
For the most part I'd agree with you, but there's an awful lot of book that use (amongst other non-ASCII things) images.
It's for things like this why I think the format should either be based on a PDF-ish format, or a halfway house with an XML based layout. But IMO plain old plain text is not a complete solution.
What's even worse is that I've heard that your computer has some sort of address itself (an "imp" address or something), and with it hackers can begin attacking my computer!
Thankfully though my comp has just flashed up an error message now and is installing some software for me to get rid of this "ip" addr#^$%!#}NO CARRIER
Hello, this is Hilary Rosen. We have detected the presence of a rogue Linux command in one of your posts. Prepare to die.
On a more serious note, don't you think that the "naming" of these legislators means they think they're actually doing a good thing, and aren't afraid of being ridiculed as idiots...?
Just to sate the bleeding obvious, it seems the corps and the gov seem to be rather more brazen (desperate?) about this whole piracy/linux thing.
As much as I'd love to see these people removed from power, in the current climate (namely large media/corporartion backing), they're simply too well resourced.
How did it go again? He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.
No shit. I work as a general techie/sysadmin for a bunch of people, and one day one of our clients asked us to search the internet archives of a particular user so the boss could have decent evidence to get away with firing him. Nothing at all to do with the fact that his recruitment agency wanted their fee from this particular boss.
So, we do our search, find a truckload of webpages about their profession, hotmails, travel agents and job vacancies (ha!). Nothing damning at all, so the boss goes off in a huff knowing he'll have to invent some other excuse.
As a result of this, we made a script that will copy a load of "relevant" stuff into the internet cache, and delete all the old stuff (after we've checked it, obvisously). We don't go snooping on purpose, but if we ever discovered anything highly illegal a la child pron, we'd be legally and morally obliged to go straight to the police.
Argh, here I go with another "Actually, Opera..." post...
Opera has functionality similar to this (though IIRC it's not configurable)... to search google for "foo" you type "g foo" into the addy bar, and away you go. There's loads of them in there (delve into the preferences to see a complete listing).
But I have to say, Firebird/Phoenix has been gradually supplanting my beloved Opera for quite a while now... here's hoping!
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Uh, isn't using the GPU to render the UI the same concept as Quartz Extreme on MacOSX?
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This is NOT about disabling MSN Messenger in order to give AIM sopme kind of advantage, which you seem to think.
This is about disabling the Microsoft Messenger Service, which is a system daemon used to pop up a little window on Windows clients over the LAN. We use it to tell domain members if we're going to have to restart samba or something. It is an entirely seperate entity to MSN Messenger.
I know the two are easily confused but... please... RTFA!
Been making OGM's for a while now (I was so damned impressed with them I re-rendered al of my DVD's into OGM's rather than AVI's).
BTW, OGM isn't just for Vorbis and XviD, it's a container format which can hold any number of streams, and has suport for much more stuff than AVI has - like you say, multiple audio and sub streams, DVD chapters, etc etc. It kicks ass, and works out of the box with my build of Xine and mPlayer, and with a bit of codec-fiddling in Media Player Classic.
If there's any movie encoders out there, give OGM's a whirl. I'm not sure how you render them in Linux (bah), I'm using VirtualDubMod for my encodes.
Wow! For once my sig seems relavent...!
For voice streaming, Speex is your codec.
http://speex.org/
Another child of Xiph, excellent compression of voices.
And for low bitrate music, I still find ogg vorbis to be the most superior.
Hmm, whilst I don't usually like to be the token anti-ms-paranoiac, I'd say it makes more sense that they're doing the "tie into a specific platform" thing, a la iTunes/AMS.
Site is a bit arsey, so I can't say for certain that there's any "official MS corporate blah", but I wouldn't be surprised. It just seems to be a lame attempt to say "Apple people can use the AMS, but all you Windows users HAVE to use us!".
Umm, works fine in Opera 7.11 ident as Opera, not tried Moz yet...
Damn it.
I've just spent all my money on an SMP system so that I can really utilise all this "stolen code"
Wahey!
;^)
Now when MSN buys the rights to advertise $matrix_product they can legitimately claim MSN search is the Oracle, controlled by evil machinistic overlords hell bent on subverting the will of innocent computer users.
The story in comic form, hohoho.
http://www.arie.org/doh/#1
Welcome to Slashdot ;)
Minor quibble, but I was under the impression that the latest P4's (3 GHz+) had more heat output than their equivalent Athlons...? I could be wrong (can't find a comparison chart), and it's a while since I was in the market for a new CPU.
It depends on the "they" part.
True, in the corporate universe, I can't see any of the big businesses jumping ten feet in the air every time a new rev of an open source codec comes out. IMO the big comms and content providers are always going to stick with WMV, Real, QT, etc.
On the personal level though, things are much different. Sounds trollish I know, but I think that an awful lot of codec takeup by end users is driven by P2P. This isn't so prevalent with ogg vorbis, but the amount of XviD's out there (some even in OGM format rather than AVI) is colossal. I use it for all of my DVD rips (and no, I don't share them, I just a) like to have them available on any box in the house and b) it's fun).
So I think if it's good enough, we'll see an awful lot of Theora in the horrible grey area of online movies, but I really can't see the corps jumping ship for it for quite some time. It's a shame, but a great many corps seem to be caught in the inertia of proprietary standards, as the parent noted.
I'm sure if Microsoft could nicotine to a product, they would.
So that's where the brown stains come from...
For the most part I'd agree with you, but there's an awful lot of book that use (amongst other non-ASCII things) images.
It's for things like this why I think the format should either be based on a PDF-ish format, or a halfway house with an XML based layout. But IMO plain old plain text is not a complete solution.
What's even worse is that I've heard that your computer has some sort of address itself (an "imp" address or something), and with it hackers can begin attacking my computer!
Thankfully though my comp has just flashed up an error message now and is installing some software for me to get rid of this "ip" addr#^$%!#}NO CARRIER
The problem is that all those tools have many legitimate uses.
Despoite being wrong IMO (and most of yours too I imagine), DeCSS is still seen by the masses as being solely for the purposes of theft.
"Up to now the RIAA/MPAA/Microsoft /etc"...
Hello, this is Hilary Rosen. We have detected the presence of a rogue Linux command in one of your posts. Prepare to die.
On a more serious note, don't you think that the "naming" of these legislators means they think they're actually doing a good thing, and aren't afraid of being ridiculed as idiots...?
Just to sate the bleeding obvious, it seems the corps and the gov seem to be rather more brazen (desperate?) about this whole piracy/linux thing.
As much as I'd love to see these people removed from power, in the current climate (namely large media/corporartion backing), they're simply too well resourced.
How did it go again? He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.
No shit. I work as a general techie/sysadmin for a bunch of people, and one day one of our clients asked us to search the internet archives of a particular user so the boss could have decent evidence to get away with firing him. Nothing at all to do with the fact that his recruitment agency wanted their fee from this particular boss.
So, we do our search, find a truckload of webpages about their profession, hotmails, travel agents and job vacancies (ha!). Nothing damning at all, so the boss goes off in a huff knowing he'll have to invent some other excuse.
As a result of this, we made a script that will copy a load of "relevant" stuff into the internet cache, and delete all the old stuff (after we've checked it, obvisously). We don't go snooping on purpose, but if we ever discovered anything highly illegal a la child pron, we'd be legally and morally obliged to go straight to the police.
Argh, here I go with another "Actually, Opera..." post...
Opera has functionality similar to this (though IIRC it's not configurable)... to search google for "foo" you type "g foo" into the addy bar, and away you go. There's loads of them in there (delve into the preferences to see a complete listing).
But I have to say, Firebird/Phoenix has been gradually supplanting my beloved Opera for quite a while now... here's hoping!
With any luck, the 419ers'll start selling door to door as well. Then they'd actually have to give you the untold millions then and there, right?
Cos obvisouly, no-one is greedy or gullible enough to fall victim to the 419ers these days...
Chances are, if the virus writer is any cop, he'll be able to reconfigure the virus remotely and get it to send to a different account.
At least, that's what I would do...
Are there any AV vendors out there with fixes for this yet? I didn't see any in the article.