Re:Tools, Dialogs, Filters: where to look?
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GIMP 2.2 Released
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Thanks for that! I've been trying to map zoom in back to = where it used to be in GIMP 2.0 from +. I knew GIMP ought to be able to do the above but it wasn't - I assumed it was a bug!
I have it in 192kbit/s MP2 format digital all the way! (Which is how it is transmitted in to your digital TV STB)
This is courtesy of MythTV and Freeview DVB-t. Unfortunately Mythtv doesn't really understand radio stations so you have to record it with some video too. I chose the video of bid-up-tv as its really low bitrate! MythTV is set to record it whenever it comes on too...
I then demuxed the mpeg stream and extracted the 192k MP2. Its very good quality (equivalent to 128k MP3 I'm sure) and playable in all MP3 players that I've tried.
I tried lame --r3mix --mp3input to convert it but it only became 6 MB shorter (out of 38 MB) so I didn't think that the additional lossy coding step was worth while.
Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car
You mean our daughters will spend all weekend looking after them, and spend all their pocket money on books about them etc...
Can't see it myself, floppy disks just don't have that cute appeal;-)
Very intersesting page! From the page is an explanation of why Blunket is so far away from the cluster...
Why is Tony Blair and his cabinet so far away from the rest of his party?
I suspect it's because they mostly show up to votes which tend to be on contentious issues when many MPs are rebelling. This gives them a higher than expected dissimilarity measure than if they turned up to all the non-contentious votes when there was no rebellion. They show up during these contentious issues in order to encourage their MPs to vote the way they want; the rebellions could have been larger had they not shown up.
The impression that they are pulling their party away from its centre of gravity, in the way that the leaders of the other parties are not, is probably correct.
Good books but more to come?
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Broken Angels
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I enjoyed both Altered Carbon and Broken Angels very much. The Science Fiction was hard enough to keep my attention and I did enjoy the detective style of the books.
However I feel the author is painting a bigger canvas than these two books. If you read both the books together you can see interesting themes developing (as one poster said the Martians, but I don't want to drop any spoilers).
I'm hoping for much more out of a series of related books - thats always my favourite when the series adds up to more than the sum of its parts!
WiFi on your phone/PDA is the obvious next step, but I never thought it would happen because WiFi threatens all the major revenue earning modes of the mobile phone companies.
The threats are VOIP and IM. It doesn't look like this phone supports VOIP natively, but there is plenty of code which does on that platform. IM threatens the insanely lucrative SMS revenue and the major users of SMS (ie teenagers) are already using IM.
I guess since T-Mobile have a big stake in WiFi access points they can afford to produce a product like this, unlike their competitors which don't and can't. We'll see!
... It rocks! I've used it for the christmas card list for the last two years and address stickers (from me and to someone else) etc.
Its small and neat and does just enough - perfectly in tune with the Unix philosophy IMHO. I hope the developers resist the urge to bloat it up into openoffice;-)
The developers have added all the features I wanted without me even asking too! (Images, sideways text etc).
The only hiccup I've had with it during an upgrade (forgotten the version numbers) when all the fonts changed in my saved labels. That was slightly annoying but easy to fix.
It sure beats doing this the manual way (with very carefully lined up pages in a WP/DTP)!
I took some similar pictures using a quite similar lashup (using a small 'scope rather than binoculars). I sent them to the BBC News web site and they published one of them!
We do exactly this in our main product (a control and monitoring system). It is about 300k lines almost evenly matched between C and C++. Portability was a major concern in its design - we've already had to port it from an obsolete platform!
We compile using gcc for unix (linux mostly) and Windows using mingw. We cross compile everything from linux and this all works from one Makefile. Recently we even managed to get the NullSoft NSIS installer working under Wine so we can make the install package under linux too.
Once we got all this ironed out we don't really have to worry which platform we are working on - "it all just works". Any developer can compile for every platform too.
We split the design into a server part and a client part. The server part doesn't do anything fancy but the client part of course interfaces with the user. We had flirtations with wxWindows [*]and GTK[*] as cross platform GUIs but in the end we decided to use SDL. SDL is very simple but it really works excellently - our application looks identical down to the last pixel on Windows and Linux. Of course we had to write our own windowing system but that is what C++ is for isn't it;-)
[*] In our experience GTK doesn't work very well under windows, wxWindows is just too different on Windows/Unix and we couldn't (then) afford the licence fee for QT for commercial products. SDL seemed just the answer for us.
Geo::IP is a rather cool module which returns you the country of any IP address.
We use it for fraud checking and accurately analysing web logs.
The homepage is here and here is a quote from it:-
Geo-IP enables you to easily lookup countries by IP addresses, even when Reverse DNS entries don't exist. It uses the Berkeley Database to store the lookup table, and an easy to use Perl API to access the data.
...on the page in the story. It isn't obviously a link, but if you go to the customisation screen it obviously is.
You get this BTW
Microsoft® Windows® 95 Microsoft® Windows® 98 Microsoft® Windows® NT Microsoft® Windows® NT® Server Microsoft® BackOffice Small Business Server Microsoft® BackOffice® Small Business Server 4.5
Between now and December 2000 my prediction is that we will all be sick of "The best/worst/top X {whatever} of the 20th Century". The media hype is beginning now - I just hate to think what it is going to be like in a few months time!
Of course there is the 2000 vs 2001 'millenium' argument also. When 2000 has passed the media will doubtless proclaim that 2001 is the real millenium and treat us to another dose of the '2nd millenium rerun' syndrome;-)
Actually I think the tax proposed was per byte not really per email. Emails are probably 1% of total Internet traffic (the rest being porn, mp3 and warez of course;-)
If $70E9 was the total with a tax of 1 cent per 100 x 10kbytes = 1 cent per Mbyte. Therefore the article implies a total number of Mbytes transmitted over the internet of 7E12 which is 5.6E19 bits per year or 1.7E12 bits per second, lets say about 11,000 155 Mbit links running continously.
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Thanks for that! I've been trying to map zoom in back to = where it used to be in GIMP 2.0 from +. I knew GIMP ought to be able to do the above but it wasn't - I assumed it was a bug!
This is courtesy of MythTV and Freeview DVB-t. Unfortunately Mythtv doesn't really understand radio stations so you have to record it with some video too. I chose the video of bid-up-tv as its really low bitrate! MythTV is set to record it whenever it comes on too...
I then demuxed the mpeg stream and extracted the 192k MP2. Its very good quality (equivalent to 128k MP3 I'm sure) and playable in all MP3 players that I've tried.
I tried lame --r3mix --mp3input to convert it but it only became 6 MB shorter (out of 38 MB) so I didn't think that the additional lossy coding step was worth while.
You mean our daughters will spend all weekend looking after them, and spend all their pocket money on books about them etc...
Can't see it myself, floppy disks just don't have that cute appeal ;-)
Why is Tony Blair and his cabinet so far away from the rest of his party?
I suspect it's because they mostly show up to votes which tend to be on contentious issues when many MPs are rebelling. This gives them a higher than expected dissimilarity measure than if they turned up to all the non-contentious votes when there was no rebellion. They show up during these contentious issues in order to encourage their MPs to vote the way they want; the rebellions could have been larger had they not shown up.
The impression that they are pulling their party away from its centre of gravity, in the way that the leaders of the other parties are not, is probably correct.
I enjoyed both Altered Carbon and Broken Angels very much. The Science Fiction was hard enough to keep my attention and I did enjoy the detective style of the books.
However I feel the author is painting a bigger canvas than these two books. If you read both the books together you can see interesting themes developing (as one poster said the Martians, but I don't want to drop any spoilers).
I'm hoping for much more out of a series of related books - thats always my favourite when the series adds up to more than the sum of its parts!
WiFi on your phone/PDA is the obvious next step, but I never thought it would happen because WiFi threatens all the major revenue earning modes of the mobile phone companies.
The threats are VOIP and IM. It doesn't look like this phone supports VOIP natively, but there is plenty of code which does on that platform. IM threatens the insanely lucrative SMS revenue and the major users of SMS (ie teenagers) are already using IM.
I guess since T-Mobile have a big stake in WiFi access points they can afford to produce a product like this, unlike their competitors which don't and can't. We'll see!
... It rocks! I've used it for the christmas card list for the last two years and address stickers (from me and to someone else) etc.
;-)
;-)
Its small and neat and does just enough - perfectly in tune with the Unix philosophy IMHO. I hope the developers resist the urge to bloat it up into openoffice
The developers have added all the features I wanted without me even asking too! (Images, sideways text etc).
The only hiccup I've had with it during an upgrade (forgotten the version numbers) when all the fonts changed in my saved labels. That was slightly annoying but easy to fix.
It sure beats doing this the manual way (with very carefully lined up pages in a WP/DTP)!
Top program - 5 stars
See the 4th image in the news in pictures section
My image is also appearing on the front page (about 50% of the time)
The spectacle of the transit and that made my day ;-)
Actually it is 92**8 not 92*8 which is 5132188731375616, ie just over 52 bits which - probably good enough...
We do exactly this in our main product (a control and monitoring system). It is about 300k lines almost evenly matched between C and C++. Portability was a major concern in its design - we've already had to port it from an obsolete platform!
;-)
We compile using gcc for unix (linux mostly) and Windows using mingw. We cross compile everything from linux and this all works from one Makefile. Recently we even managed to get the NullSoft NSIS installer working under Wine so we can make the install package under linux too.
Once we got all this ironed out we don't really have to worry which platform we are working on - "it all just works". Any developer can compile for every platform too.
We split the design into a server part and a client part. The server part doesn't do anything fancy but the client part of course interfaces with the user. We had flirtations with wxWindows [*]and GTK[*] as cross platform GUIs but in the end we decided to use SDL. SDL is very simple but it really works excellently - our application looks identical down to the last pixel on Windows and Linux. Of course we had to write our own windowing system but that is what C++ is for isn't it
[*] In our experience GTK doesn't work very well under windows, wxWindows is just too different on Windows/Unix and we couldn't (then) afford the licence fee for QT for commercial products. SDL seemed just the answer for us.
We use it for fraud checking and accurately analysing web logs.
The homepage is here and here is a quote from it :-
Geo-IP enables you to easily lookup countries by IP addresses, even when Reverse DNS entries don't exist. It uses the Berkeley Database to store the lookup table, and an easy to use Perl API to access the data.
...on the page in the story. It isn't obviously a link, but if you go to the customisation screen it obviously is.
You get this BTW
Microsoft® Windows® 95
Microsoft® Windows® 98
Microsoft® Windows® NT
Microsoft® Windows® NT® Server
Microsoft® BackOffice Small Business Server
Microsoft® BackOffice® Small Business Server 4.5
;-)
Actually it isn't! In frequency land 1000 Mhz is
exactly 1 Ghz. It is only in computer land that we get the 1024 (2^10) multiplier.
Well, this isn't quite true... anyone who has ordered a 2 Mbit leased line knows they are getting a 2048000 bit/s connection ;-)
Between now and December 2000 my prediction is
;-)
that we will all be sick of "The best/worst/top X {whatever} of the 20th Century". The media hype is beginning now - I just hate to think what it is going to be like in a few months time!
Of course there is the 2000 vs 2001 'millenium' argument also. When 2000 has passed the media will doubtless proclaim that 2001 is the real millenium and treat us to another dose of the '2nd millenium rerun' syndrome
Actually I think the tax proposed was per byte not really per email. Emails are probably 1% of total Internet traffic (the rest being porn, mp3 and warez of course ;-)
If $70E9 was the total with a tax of 1 cent per 100 x 10kbytes = 1 cent per Mbyte. Therefore the article implies a total number of Mbytes transmitted over the internet of 7E12 which is 5.6E19 bits per year or 1.7E12 bits per second, lets say about 11,000 155 Mbit links running continously.
Doesn't sound too far out...