If the video is choppy try making sure you enable xv support. And if takes that long to respond on your 3700+ processor then I am glad I havent wasted any cash on one as it works fine under my somewhat old 1800+ AMD (running emerge synced gentoo - with no real tweaking by me required).
Seriously - these both sound like issues with your local setup. Try grabbing the latest version of the player from the helix community site and see if that helps.
I also prefer to use xine when I can but I have found a few clips which wont play properly even though they are old RM8 or whatever. I also seem to remember that xine will not work with the latest RM10 codecs although I havent tried this for a while as for me everything works fine and I have no desire to change that.
Have you ever heard the expression "The old ones are the best"?
I was more inclined to mod your post down rather than his as I found the joke moderately amusing. Mind you, I'm not a Mac user and I think anyone who has money to burn on over priced hardware should have the piss taken out of them.
I have to admit I dont use Helix at all. But I am very grateful to the developers as until the helix project came of age the Real Player for Linux was crap and not updated very often. Maybe if you think it could be improved you should join the project and help out? Isnt that what open source is all about?
On the subject of vlc why does everyone keep carping on about this load of crap. I seem to remember installing it ages ago and found it a buggy peice of crap which didnt even have a gui interface.
If anyone actually wants a decent player which can be made to playback anything except the latest RM clips use Xine. And I would have said this even before someone posted a comment here saying it can now play back sorenson QT clips too (I havent tried this yet though).
I have a windows version of RealPlayer installed which comes with no spyware, no annoying crap in the system tray and it only pops up when I try and play a RealPlayer clip.
If you people cant set it up to do the same please stop posting on a discussion board for geeks as you are obviously an idiot. I would tell you what I did to get to this state, but the steps involved were so trivial I did not commit them to memory.
On another note, isnt RealPlayer (Helixplayer) now partly open source developed with only the latest Real codecs being proprietary.
Why do you say realplayer doesnt affect you because you run linux?
I vastly prefer Realplayer over Quicktime because they distribute a decent linux client. Without Realplayer more content would probably be in that shitty QT sorenson (or whatever) format which I cant play.
It amazes me that even MS content (Non-DRM) can be played back under linux but all the latest Quicktime encoded stuff is Apple / MS only.
Disclaimer - If someone knows of a way to playback sorenson content under linux without resorting to wine running Quicktime please let me know.
In fact I'd estimate that at least 90% of people are scum
People who say things like that are usually just trying to justify to themselves why THEY act like scum.
On the other hand, if you are basing that on your selection of friends / aquaintances then you need to find nicer people to hang out with. Most of the world is actually filled with people just trying to do their best and not harm / hurt others around them. I would suggest you go out and try and find some of them to befriend and hopefully it will improve your outlook and make you a happier person.
It just another case of the yankees not wanting to follow any sort of international standard.
Incidentally most of the rest of the world uses dd/mm/yy because it is european calendar system and everywhere in europe uses that format, so where the US got mm/dd/yy from in the firstplace is another question I would like to know the answer to.
BTW, I have a lot of respect for the Army as I have a lot of friends on active duty, and almost became a soldier myself. Still, I couldn't pass up a chance to make a military joke)
No doubt they are all busy helping repress the freedom fighters in the Iraq and making it part of the American Empire.
PS - You dont need to make military jokes, the military are a joke.
And how sad does that make you for coming back and using it over and over again?
If slashdot is that crap (in your opinion) and you STILL cant find anything better to do try jumping off a tall building and put yourself out of your misery.
I am writing this from someone elses unsecured wifi. I pick it up in MY bedroom, why shouldn't I use it?
I have already checked they dont use a metered ISP, and my bandwidth use is fairly low intensity (No filesharing whatsoever, very few downloads, occasional internet gaming late at night)
But basically I feel even if it was an encrypted link I could hack from my bedroom it would be fair game. If you dont like it, RF shield your flat.
And if someone redirected all my traffic to kittenwar my bandwidth use would go up because the pictures are so cute and I had to give my cat away when I left my previous flat.
I just checked out the memory footprint (using taskmanager) of IE and Firefox while looking at the same page.
I closed both before I did this and then opened them both to the same page (slashdot).
They both (iexplore.exe and firefox.exe) seemed to hover around 20 meg memory but explorer.exe was using another 12 meg so I dont trust ie to not be overspilling into this.
I know this is far from scientific but I would love to know the basis for calling firefox memory hungry as I never have any problems with it, even on this work machine with only 512 meg RAM.
Incidentally if I had more memory I LIKE programs to use it for caching (web pages, images, etc) if it is free. Surely thats just making most efficient use of available resources.
And it is easier to cut pollution from relatively few centralized sources than it is from hundreds of millions of cars.
Reduce polution you mean, not cut it out altogether. If you burn carbon you generate carbon dioxide. If you cant understand this you need to post on a different forum as this one is for people with at least half a brain.
And that is why the entire way american culture works will have to change when the oil runs out in the next 50 years or so. There is quite simply no way to carry on when we have to start generating the energy to drive around hugely innefficient SUV's (or any car for single person transportation).
Even if it was cost effective to produce the batteries in these quantities cheaply the cost of generating the electricity to charge them would require a huge investment in nuclear power plants and a corresponding huge increase in nuclear waste.
Basically, when the oil runs out (however soon or far off that is) we are screwed without some major technological advancements between now and then.
What moron marked this as informative? I am an ASP developer and I still have to be careful about users entering SQL injection attacks into password boxes.
I have now learn't my lesson in this regard, but one of my sites has been done in the past.
were referring to another security research co who did something similar and then refused to share it. This story is about someone not liking that they wont share, going a little bit further than they did and then putting it on a website and enabling it to the full.
I looked at the previous (Websense) story on friday or whenever but found it a little annoying that there was nothing to back up the article. This time someone has actually posted a working link to a project and source code.
even running as a normal luser, a program can hide from that user.
Yes, but the program cannot make itself run automatically at bootup as this would require changing files which are owned by root So basically it will die at next reboot. It might be able to start when that same user logs in, but this can be fixed by forcing all config changes to come from root (Admin or whatever)
It also means that if I scan for this software as root there isnt a thing it can do to avoid detection.
Although this is written with my linux hat on I also happen to develop software for windows and can see no reason that the same principles cannot be applied to windows.
Apart from one, it would cost MS a fortune to rewrite office, and they would lose the edge which office has over the competition (all the private hooks into the OS it uses which they dont publicise to other developers)
Thought I would throw in my two cents as a user of gentoo since 1.4 (I think this might be 4 or 5 years).
Firstly, if you use gentoo for any period of time, you should be compiling your own kernel. The knowledge of how to do this quickly and easily is something most linux users dont need to ever aquire (I didnt in the 2 or 3 years I ran Redhat, Mandrake, Caldera and Slackware).
In reply to what you were saying about unexpected conflicts due to USE flags, I have to say that things seems to have improved greatly. Or more likely is that with 4 years experience I now understand how they work properly. I know that when I encountered similar issues, at least some of them were cause by human error (mine).
But in comparison to how many time I used to trash my Redhat installation by knackering the rpm database with dependancies compilied from source (hance not in the rpm database) or when it simply died (database became unreadable and corrupt) there is no competition, Gentoo wins hands down.
But the real advantage of Gentoo is keeping your whole system right on the bleeding edge but still working. The packages that make it into the portage repository and get marked as stable are usually far more up to date than any other distribution. And Gentoo makes it very easy to update an existing system to that bleeding edge, even via the command line (emerge -u world).
Now I am sure all of this is possible with other distributions, but it isnt as straightforward, or as well documented (Gentoo seems to have the best docs of any distribution I have ever seen).
The only critisism I have of gentoo at the moment is the stupid graphical installer they have just started using for new systems. But I am sure this will improve in future, the current release is the first one to use it.
"Ever try getting copying retrieving 100 MB of data in SQL Server, or any other database for that matter? It takes much longer than accessing the data from a plain old file system"
This speed difference is probably due to any number of reasons, two of which I can (be bothered to) quote below:
1) SQL Server is an application, not part of the underlying OS so will have a lower priority.
2) Your own piss poor database design.
The second point just got me thinking as to why WinFS may have just fallen by the wayside. I design relational databases for a living and I have seen so many examples of working developers who write great code, but just are not very good at seeing how data SHOULD be stored in a RDB.
They add 8 million indexes to a table that gets updated 300 times a second. They add multiple indexes which cover the same fields initially. They dont use lookup tables. ever. They create a database where each table has 300 columns and most of the columns are empty for most of the records. They have absolutely no idea what normalisation means.
And these people are developers. Now give these tools to an average user and see what they do.
I can pretty much guarantee that they will make the whole OS grind to a halt as the filesystem becomes so slow even the swapfile wont work (remember, this is windows so the swapfile doesnt go a seperate partition for some reason). I wouldnt be too surprised if WinFS was removed simply because it would make the OS slower for 90% of the people who use it. Maybe the reason to leave it in SQL server only is that these are the only people who should be trusted to use the new features properly.
A load of people seem to be talking about this jump from win 3.11 to win 95 (yes - there was a version of windows 3 after 3.1).
The point that everyone seems to be missing is that win 95 did not actually represent a major change. The changes to do with makeing memory management a 32 process and actually making the most of hardware it was running on were gradually added to win95 after it had shipped. This gave us win95 SR2 and SR2.5. From what I remember it was win95 sr2 that actually added the decent bits.
This always seems to be how MS work anyway. They dont mind releasing service packs that will rewrite the core OS from the ground up, thus causing loads of previous stable programs to stop working (Nero and WinXP SP2).
Can anyone out there remember why win 3.11 was released? (not windows for workgroups 3.11)
From what I recall it was specifically to break OS2 warp compatibility.
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If the video is choppy try making sure you enable xv support. And if takes that long to respond on your 3700+ processor then I am glad I havent wasted any cash on one as it works fine under my somewhat old 1800+ AMD (running emerge synced gentoo - with no real tweaking by me required).
Seriously - these both sound like issues with your local setup. Try grabbing the latest version of the player from the helix community site and see if that helps.
I also prefer to use xine when I can but I have found a few clips which wont play properly even though they are old RM8 or whatever. I also seem to remember that xine will not work with the latest RM10 codecs although I havent tried this for a while as for me everything works fine and I have no desire to change that.
Have you ever heard the expression "The old ones are the best"?
I was more inclined to mod your post down rather than his as I found the joke moderately amusing. Mind you, I'm not a Mac user and I think anyone who has money to burn on over priced hardware should have the piss taken out of them.
I have to admit I dont use Helix at all. But I am very grateful to the developers as until the helix project came of age the Real Player for Linux was crap and not updated very often. Maybe if you think it could be improved you should join the project and help out? Isnt that what open source is all about?
On the subject of vlc why does everyone keep carping on about this load of crap. I seem to remember installing it ages ago and found it a buggy peice of crap which didnt even have a gui interface.
If anyone actually wants a decent player which can be made to playback anything except the latest RM clips use Xine. And I would have said this even before someone posted a comment here saying it can now play back sorenson QT clips too (I havent tried this yet though).
I have a windows version of RealPlayer installed which comes with no spyware, no annoying crap in the system tray and it only pops up when I try and play a RealPlayer clip.
If you people cant set it up to do the same please stop posting on a discussion board for geeks as you are obviously an idiot.
I would tell you what I did to get to this state, but the steps involved were so trivial I did not commit them to memory.
On another note, isnt RealPlayer (Helixplayer) now partly open source developed with only the latest Real codecs being proprietary.
Have a look round this site to learn more -
http://helixcommunity.org/
Why do you say realplayer doesnt affect you because you run linux?
I vastly prefer Realplayer over Quicktime because they distribute a decent linux client.
Without Realplayer more content would probably be in that shitty QT sorenson (or whatever) format which I cant play.
It amazes me that even MS content (Non-DRM) can be played back under linux but all the latest Quicktime encoded stuff is Apple / MS only.
Disclaimer -
If someone knows of a way to playback sorenson content under linux without resorting to wine running Quicktime please let me know.
In fact I'd estimate that at least 90% of people are scum
People who say things like that are usually just trying to justify to themselves why THEY act like scum.
On the other hand, if you are basing that on your selection of friends / aquaintances then you need to find nicer people to hang out with. Most of the world is actually filled with people just trying to do their best and not harm / hurt others around them. I would suggest you go out and try and find some of them to befriend and hopefully it will improve your outlook and make you a happier person.
It just another case of the yankees not wanting to follow any sort of international standard.
Incidentally most of the rest of the world uses dd/mm/yy because it is european calendar system and everywhere in europe uses that format, so where the US got mm/dd/yy from in the firstplace is another question I would like to know the answer to.
BTW, I have a lot of respect for the Army as I have a lot of friends on active duty, and almost became a soldier myself. Still, I couldn't pass up a chance to make a military joke)
No doubt they are all busy helping repress the freedom fighters in the Iraq and making it part of the American Empire.
PS - You dont need to make military jokes, the military are a joke.
And how sad does that make you for coming back and using it over and over again?
If slashdot is that crap (in your opinion) and you STILL cant find anything better to do try jumping off a tall building and put yourself out of your misery.
This is my apartment were talking about too.
I am writing this from someone elses unsecured wifi. I pick it up in MY bedroom, why shouldn't I use it?
I have already checked they dont use a metered ISP, and my bandwidth use is fairly low intensity (No filesharing whatsoever, very few downloads, occasional internet gaming late at night)
But basically I feel even if it was an encrypted link I could hack from my bedroom it would be fair game. If you dont like it, RF shield your flat.
And if someone redirected all my traffic to kittenwar my bandwidth use would go up because the pictures are so cute and I had to give my cat away when I left my previous flat.
I just checked out the memory footprint (using taskmanager) of IE and Firefox while looking at the same page.
I closed both before I did this and then opened them both to the same page (slashdot).
They both (iexplore.exe and firefox.exe) seemed to hover around 20 meg memory but explorer.exe was using another 12 meg so I dont trust ie to not be overspilling into this.
I know this is far from scientific but I would love to know the basis for calling firefox memory hungry as I never have any problems with it, even on this work machine with only 512 meg RAM.
Incidentally if I had more memory I LIKE programs to use it for caching (web pages, images, etc) if it is free. Surely thats just making most efficient use of available resources.
Actually we in the west build most of the best pointy sticks and then just sell them to various dodgy countries to do with as they please.
However that little quantity of waste that is generated will still be toxic in several thousand years.
That is more the problem. Basically it will still be toxic until we can find a way of launching it at the sun with 100% success rate.
And it is easier to cut pollution from relatively few centralized sources than it is from hundreds of millions of cars.
Reduce polution you mean, not cut it out altogether. If you burn carbon you generate carbon dioxide. If you cant understand this you need to post on a different forum as this one is for people with at least half a brain.
Nice post.
And that is why the entire way american culture works will have to change when the oil runs out in the next 50 years or so. There is quite simply no way to carry on when we have to start generating the energy to drive around hugely innefficient SUV's (or any car for single person transportation).
Even if it was cost effective to produce the batteries in these quantities cheaply the cost of generating the electricity to charge them would require a huge investment in nuclear power plants and a corresponding huge increase in nuclear waste.
Basically, when the oil runs out (however soon or far off that is) we are screwed without some major technological advancements between now and then.
The ability to spell and the ability to write decent code do not go hand in hand.
I used to work for a company where one of the coders was an English graduate (Hi Phil), and boy did he create some illogical shit.
What moron marked this as informative? I am an ASP developer and I still have to be careful about users entering SQL injection attacks into password boxes.
I have now learn't my lesson in this regard, but one of my sites has been done in the past.
Actually, no it isnt. Although morons who dont read the full article might thinks it was.
2 53240 and http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/131 220)
The previous stories
(http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/1
were referring to another security research co who did something similar and then refused to share it.
This story is about someone not liking that they wont share, going a little bit further than they did and then putting it on a website and enabling it to the full.
I looked at the previous (Websense) story on friday or whenever but found it a little annoying that there was nothing to back up the article. This time someone has actually posted a working link to a project and source code.
even running as a normal luser, a program can hide from that user.
Yes, but the program cannot make itself run automatically at bootup as this would require changing files which are owned by root
So basically it will die at next reboot. It might be able to start when that same user logs in, but this can be fixed by forcing all config changes to come from root (Admin or whatever)
It also means that if I scan for this software as root there isnt a thing it can do to avoid detection.
Although this is written with my linux hat on I also happen to develop software for windows and can see no reason that the same principles cannot be applied to windows.
Apart from one, it would cost MS a fortune to rewrite office, and they would lose the edge which office has over the competition (all the private hooks into the OS it uses which they dont publicise to other developers)
Thought I would throw in my two cents as a user of gentoo since 1.4 (I think this might be 4 or 5 years).
Firstly, if you use gentoo for any period of time, you should be compiling your own kernel. The knowledge of how to do this quickly and easily is something most linux users dont need to ever aquire (I didnt in the 2 or 3 years I ran Redhat, Mandrake, Caldera and Slackware).
In reply to what you were saying about unexpected conflicts due to USE flags, I have to say that things seems to have improved greatly. Or more likely is that with 4 years experience I now understand how they work properly. I know that when I encountered similar issues, at least some of them were cause by human error (mine).
But in comparison to how many time I used to trash my Redhat installation by knackering the rpm database with dependancies compilied from source (hance not in the rpm database) or when it simply died (database became unreadable and corrupt) there is no competition, Gentoo wins hands down.
But the real advantage of Gentoo is keeping your whole system right on the bleeding edge but still working. The packages that make it into the portage repository and get marked as stable are usually far more up to date than any other distribution. And Gentoo makes it very easy to update an existing system to that bleeding edge, even via the command line (emerge -u world).
Now I am sure all of this is possible with other distributions, but it isnt as straightforward, or as well documented (Gentoo seems to have the best docs of any distribution I have ever seen).
The only critisism I have of gentoo at the moment is the stupid graphical installer they have just started using for new systems. But I am sure this will improve in future, the current release is the first one to use it.
Start changing it everywhere.
I'll see you back here next month when your finished.
"Ever try getting copying retrieving 100 MB of data in SQL Server, or any other database for that matter? It takes much longer than accessing the data from a plain old file system"
This speed difference is probably due to any number of reasons, two of which I can (be bothered to) quote below:
1) SQL Server is an application, not part of the underlying OS so will have a lower priority.
2) Your own piss poor database design.
The second point just got me thinking as to why WinFS may have just fallen by the wayside. I design relational databases for a living and I have seen so many examples of working developers who write great code, but just are not very good at seeing how data SHOULD be stored in a RDB.
They add 8 million indexes to a table that gets updated 300 times a second.
They add multiple indexes which cover the same fields initially.
They dont use lookup tables. ever.
They create a database where each table has 300 columns and most of the columns are empty for most of the records.
They have absolutely no idea what normalisation means.
And these people are developers. Now give these tools to an average user and see what they do.
I can pretty much guarantee that they will make the whole OS grind to a halt as the filesystem becomes so slow even the swapfile wont work (remember, this is windows so the swapfile doesnt go a seperate partition for some reason). I wouldnt be too surprised if WinFS was removed simply because it would make the OS slower for 90% of the people who use it. Maybe the reason to leave it in SQL server only is that these are the only people who should be trusted to use the new features properly.
"I had the good fortune of meeting a lot of them in San Diego last April"
Ahhhh, it finally makes sense, hes been hypnotised into believing all the hype. (or bribed with too much free booze on corporate credit cards)
A load of people seem to be talking about this jump from win 3.11 to win 95 (yes - there was a version of windows 3 after 3.1).
The point that everyone seems to be missing is that win 95 did not actually represent a major change. The changes to do with makeing memory management a 32 process and actually making the most of hardware it was running on were gradually added to win95 after it had shipped. This gave us win95 SR2 and SR2.5. From what I remember it was win95 sr2 that actually added the decent bits.
This always seems to be how MS work anyway. They dont mind releasing service packs that will rewrite the core OS from the ground up, thus causing loads of previous stable programs to stop working (Nero and WinXP SP2).
Can anyone out there remember why win 3.11 was released? (not windows for workgroups 3.11)
From what I recall it was specifically to break OS2 warp compatibility.
It's called university.