That really sucks, but I've never run into that problem and I've had this setup going for several months now (got the mini as soon as the hdmi ones were released). I'd guess it's your TV+receiver combo then - I don't have any problems with my Kuro and Pioneer something or other receiver (the mini plugs into the receiver, the receiver goes to the TV).
If you can afford it, get one of the new Mac Minis and install Plex. The new version that came out yesterday is incredibly slick. It'll do all you want.
I'm an iRiver user, so I don't really know the differences between what rockbox offers on the iPod vs the iRiver, but here are some of the enhancements that made me go rockbox and never go back:
1) Gameboy emulator. Simply download a rom and execute it on your unit, and voila, instant gameboy game. 2) As was stated before, instantaneous bootup, as well as loads of other little features like changing the font used, etc. and the main one that attracted me to rockbox: 3) Enhanced recording support. On the iRiver firmware, for some reason there was a 750mb filesize limit on the files you'd create while recording with it. So, when recording to wav it would only record for 75 minutes at a time (at which time you'd have to start recording again which would take about 10 seconds to actually start). Now, I'm an avid show taper, and have completely switched from DAT to the iRiver for recording shows. Rockbox completely does away with this stupid limitation, and increases it up to the fat32 filesize limit of 2gb. So, now I can record for over 3 hours straight. Also, recently peakmeters were added (and in the iRiver firmware you can't even control the input level when using line in, only for mic in). There's also pre-recording, which uses a circular buffer (of a length you specify) when you open the recording screen. So, I set it to 30 seconds, and once the band gets on stage I hit record, and it includes the last 30 seconds, so I don't have to guess when to start recording. Now, I don't know if there's even recording support for the ipod, although I've heard it might be possible through the headphone jack? If so, it would definitely be worth it to switch to Rockbox.
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If the band say it's ok, the copyright is owned by the taper. Ok, maybe not the taper, but the record label has no jurisdiction over a completely amateur recording of a live concert. At least, luckily for me all the bands I tape are totally cool with it, and I've never gotten harassed by a label for spreading my shows around.
Did you even read the review? The "conversations" part of gmail is worth it enough to switch. Plus, with it's weird stylesheets thing it is a HELL of a lot faster than any other webmail system I've used (viewing source just shows a bunch of weird javascript, no html.) They really did a great job designing the UI - I have a feeling you'd be singing a different tune if you actually used it.
I disagree. It's pretty well known that that's how fellowship started out. You can tell by the second half of the book it gets alot darker, but in the beginning it's very lighthearted just like the hobbit. And didn't Tolkein start writing it before he saw all the things he saw in WWI? That could explain the change...
I wasn't talking about actual technical problems - I've had my series 1 for over 2 years now and have had no problems with it - i can only think of once or twice that it didn't record the program it was supposed to (other than the occasional time the cable company shows something else, but the tivo worked fine.) I've hacked it up quite a bit, with a turbonet card and a second hard drive, and have had no problems with cooling.
I was referring to all the competition these other services are cropping up, including the do it yourself options with capture cards and the free guide download stuff..
There was an article in the local paper this morning about the troubles tivo has been having, what with all the cable & dish companies offering PVR's... I wonder how long it'll be til my lifetime tivo service is worthless:(
that was my first computer as well. it had a 5.25" floppy drive, two cartridge drives, and 128k of ram. i even remember getting a sidecar addition to up the ram to a whopping 640k!!
Actually, in the movie when they first started getting the signal, when one of the characters asked which system it was from, and the reply was vega, he said something like "that's impossible! vega's full of cosmic debris, they'd get clobbered!" "not if they destroyed it with their <sarcasm>laser blasters</sarcasm>".
So, if this article proves to be true, Carl Sagan wasn't THAT correct.
good question, another thing i forgot to mention - i read that the limit is 75 minutes, which is ok for your average show but occasionally they go alot longer than that.
another thing i forgot to mention is the remote that comes with the iriver. it's seriously badass - it actually has an LED that is backlit like the main display, and you can do anything with the remote that you can do with the main unit - just stash the unit in your backpack with the remote clipped to your shirt or whatever. and did i mention it looks really freakin cool, too?
ckimyt,
just tried your test, and there is no seamless transfer...there's a one to one and a half second pause as it switches to the next track. hopefully they'll fix this with a firmware update, but as of now it has no gapless.
I came awfully close to getting the 20gb rio karma, then considered getting an ipod, until i found out about the iRiver iHP-120. I chose this because it has the features I really wanted out of an portable mp3 player. First, it's the same size as an ipod 20gb (a few milimeters bigger, but that's nothin), and while the joystick/button design for navigation isn't quite as intuitive (or cool) as the ipod's, it's definitely usable, and from what I've seen from the Rio, probably alot better. It's also black, which I prefer to the ipod's white.
Now, moving on from usability issues and looks, it has some other features that I just couldn't pass up. First, it has an internal mic that can make voice recordings. Secondly, it also has line in and line out ports, that work as optical OR analog. For recording via the input, you can choose to record via an external mic, line in, or optical in. The external mic is a hell of alot hotter than line in, by the way. For all this recording, you can record to wav (optical does 48khz while the rest do 44), or to mp3 that is encoded on the fly, at bitrates ranging from 40kpbs to 320. This sold it for me, as I am an avid show taper (with a pair of clip on mic's and a sony DAT), and this will be fun to play with - I plan to do a double recording sometime to do a comparison of quality between the DAT and iHP-120, but I've already done a test recording at a show and it didnt sound bad at all. My only gripe would have to be that there doesn't appear to be a way to control the level of the line-in, but you CAN adjust the level of the external mic, just not while you are recording. Also, it doesnt show levels so you won't know if it's redlining until you actually listen to it. I'm hoping they might fix this in a firmware update but I'm not very hopeful, although from what my test showed, it might not even be needed.
Anyways, just wanted to chime in, I too think the karma is rather ugly, and the slightly bigger size of the iHP-120 is not a deterrant at all. I guess the only one would be the price - it's around $355 or so, a bit more than the karma but with the extra features, I think it's worth it. It does play OGG's, by the way, and transferring files is painless with USB as the unit shows up as another hard drive connected to your system - you can easily use it as a portable hard drive if you want. There's more reviews around the net if you look, for more indepth information.
I posted some feedback, and this is what I got in response (mine wasnt vitriolic or anything, like that one guy's) from the Lead Accounts Support:
This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas:
GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing Cdkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.
But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco Cdkeys and had published hacks on other game Cdkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question.
When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers.
Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create Cdkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.
Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affects gamers.
I agree. It doesn't really matter whether or not the students & the eff win the case or not - what matters is that if the newsmedia who so far have ignored this (just like they pretty much ignored all the evidence of the tampering in florida in 2000) decide to take notice, hopefully we won't be seeing diebold machines being used when it comes time to oust bush next year.
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That really sucks, but I've never run into that problem and I've had this setup going for several months now (got the mini as soon as the hdmi ones were released). I'd guess it's your TV+receiver combo then - I don't have any problems with my Kuro and Pioneer something or other receiver (the mini plugs into the receiver, the receiver goes to the TV).
If you can afford it, get one of the new Mac Minis and install Plex. The new version that came out yesterday is incredibly slick. It'll do all you want.
I'm an iRiver user, so I don't really know the differences between what rockbox offers on the iPod vs the iRiver, but here are some of the enhancements that made me go rockbox and never go back:
1) Gameboy emulator. Simply download a rom and execute it on your unit, and voila, instant gameboy game.
2) As was stated before, instantaneous bootup, as well as loads of other little features like changing the font used, etc.
and the main one that attracted me to rockbox:
3) Enhanced recording support. On the iRiver firmware, for some reason there was a 750mb filesize limit on the files you'd create while recording with it. So, when recording to wav it would only record for 75 minutes at a time (at which time you'd have to start recording again which would take about 10 seconds to actually start). Now, I'm an avid show taper, and have completely switched from DAT to the iRiver for recording shows. Rockbox completely does away with this stupid limitation, and increases it up to the fat32 filesize limit of 2gb. So, now I can record for over 3 hours straight. Also, recently peakmeters were added (and in the iRiver firmware you can't even control the input level when using line in, only for mic in). There's also pre-recording, which uses a circular buffer (of a length you specify) when you open the recording screen. So, I set it to 30 seconds, and once the band gets on stage I hit record, and it includes the last 30 seconds, so I don't have to guess when to start recording. Now, I don't know if there's even recording support for the ipod, although I've heard it might be possible through the headphone jack? If so, it would definitely be worth it to switch to Rockbox.
If the band say it's ok, the copyright is owned by the taper. Ok, maybe not the taper, but the record label has no jurisdiction over a completely amateur recording of a live concert. At least, luckily for me all the bands I tape are totally cool with it, and I've never gotten harassed by a label for spreading my shows around.
Run Azureus in a virtual X session via VNC. 24/7 Bittorrent - works like a charm.
Did you even read the review? The "conversations" part of gmail is worth it enough to switch. Plus, with it's weird stylesheets thing it is a HELL of a lot faster than any other webmail system I've used (viewing source just shows a bunch of weird javascript, no html.) They really did a great job designing the UI - I have a feeling you'd be singing a different tune if you actually used it.
If by brought to justice you mean being blown to smithereens, I can't agree with you more.
I disagree. It's pretty well known that that's how fellowship started out. You can tell by the second half of the book it gets alot darker, but in the beginning it's very lighthearted just like the hobbit. And didn't Tolkein start writing it before he saw all the things he saw in WWI? That could explain the change...
I wasn't talking about actual technical problems - I've had my series 1 for over 2 years now and have had no problems with it - i can only think of once or twice that it didn't record the program it was supposed to (other than the occasional time the cable company shows something else, but the tivo worked fine.) I've hacked it up quite a bit, with a turbonet card and a second hard drive, and have had no problems with cooling.
I was referring to all the competition these other services are cropping up, including the do it yourself options with capture cards and the free guide download stuff..
There was an article in the local paper this morning about the troubles tivo has been having, what with all the cable & dish companies offering PVR's... I wonder how long it'll be til my lifetime tivo service is worthless :(
SCO, are you listening?
that was my first computer as well. it had a 5.25" floppy drive, two cartridge drives, and 128k of ram. i even remember getting a sidecar addition to up the ram to a whopping 640k!!
Q: How many indie kids does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW???
I have that joke on vinyl
Actually, in the movie when they first started getting the signal, when one of the characters asked which system it was from, and the reply was vega, he said something like "that's impossible! vega's full of cosmic debris, they'd get clobbered!" "not if they destroyed it with their <sarcasm>laser blasters</sarcasm>".
So, if this article proves to be true, Carl Sagan wasn't THAT correct.
good question, another thing i forgot to mention - i read that the limit is 75 minutes, which is ok for your average show but occasionally they go alot longer than that.
another thing i forgot to mention is the remote that comes with the iriver. it's seriously badass - it actually has an LED that is backlit like the main display, and you can do anything with the remote that you can do with the main unit - just stash the unit in your backpack with the remote clipped to your shirt or whatever. and did i mention it looks really freakin cool, too?
ckimyt, just tried your test, and there is no seamless transfer...there's a one to one and a half second pause as it switches to the next track. hopefully they'll fix this with a firmware update, but as of now it has no gapless.
Another thing about the iriver 20gb is that it has about 16 hours of battery life...
Now, moving on from usability issues and looks, it has some other features that I just couldn't pass up. First, it has an internal mic that can make voice recordings. Secondly, it also has line in and line out ports, that work as optical OR analog. For recording via the input, you can choose to record via an external mic, line in, or optical in. The external mic is a hell of alot hotter than line in, by the way. For all this recording, you can record to wav (optical does 48khz while the rest do 44), or to mp3 that is encoded on the fly, at bitrates ranging from 40kpbs to 320. This sold it for me, as I am an avid show taper (with a pair of clip on mic's and a sony DAT), and this will be fun to play with - I plan to do a double recording sometime to do a comparison of quality between the DAT and iHP-120, but I've already done a test recording at a show and it didnt sound bad at all. My only gripe would have to be that there doesn't appear to be a way to control the level of the line-in, but you CAN adjust the level of the external mic, just not while you are recording. Also, it doesnt show levels so you won't know if it's redlining until you actually listen to it. I'm hoping they might fix this in a firmware update but I'm not very hopeful, although from what my test showed, it might not even be needed.
Anyways, just wanted to chime in, I too think the karma is rather ugly, and the slightly bigger size of the iHP-120 is not a deterrant at all. I guess the only one would be the price - it's around $355 or so, a bit more than the karma but with the extra features, I think it's worth it. It does play OGG's, by the way, and transferring files is painless with USB as the unit shows up as another hard drive connected to your system - you can easily use it as a portable hard drive if you want. There's more reviews around the net if you look, for more indepth information.
Too bad our sun isn't the right size/density to become a black whole. More like it'll end up a dwarf of some kind.
Michio Kaku's Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension is a really fascinating introduction into some of the theoretical physics that looks promising to develop a grand unified theory.
oops, didn't see that it was already posted..my bad
I posted some feedback, and this is what I got in response (mine wasnt vitriolic or anything, like that one guy's) from the Lead Accounts Support:
This is from our Chairman and Founder Mark Surfas:
GameSpy welcomes any and all help finding genuine bugs and security breaches on our servers. What we don't welcome are people publishing security hacks that have the potential to hurt our products. GameSpy products are supposed to be about having fun, but hacks and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks take the fun out of it. It doesn't simply hurt GameSpy; it hurts every person playing games with our products.
What this person did was more than reverse engineer two of our products, RogerWilco and GameSpy3D-he was describing our backend services and publishing Cdkey generation information without letting us know. At first we welcomed his bug alerts. We responded to him immediately and thanked him for his bug research, as we do with everyone who contacts us with bug information. We even sent him a thank you letter, which we have on file.
But then we found out he was also publishing how to brute force our RogerWilco Cdkeys and had published hacks on other game Cdkeys as well. He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way ethical security researchers operate. It was at this point that we stopped our communication with him and asked him to remove the materials in question.
When we were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a "consulting fee" to fix the hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their servers.
Let me repeat-we welcome any bug alerts and will fix any and all security breaches that come to our attention. We find and fix nearly all of them before any external sources find them. It's all about playing games and having fun, people! That's why we do what we do! However, we won't pay "consulting fees" to people who create Cdkey hacks of our proprietary software, then post the results if we don't pay them.
Gamers trust us. We have to protect them from any and all attacks on our network that affects gamers.
Mark Surfas
Chairman & Founder
GameSpy
I agree. It doesn't really matter whether or not the students & the eff win the case or not - what matters is that if the newsmedia who so far have ignored this (just like they pretty much ignored all the evidence of the tampering in florida in 2000) decide to take notice, hopefully we won't be seeing diebold machines being used when it comes time to oust bush next year.
"they're not (yet) suing the people in question, but intend to allow them to settle out of court, first."
is that legal? can you say extortion?
extortion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-storshn)
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1. The act or an instance of extorting.
2. Illegal use of one's official position or powers to obtain property, funds, or patronage.