Or maybe something less radical, setup a peer to peer VPN among your close circle of file-swapping buddies and keep it hush-hush. Face it people, the RIAA does NOT want you to listen to their music. When will you get it through your damned heads? Stop listening to that crap!
Honestly though, what kind of stupid industry is this where you're expected to buy a CD without being able to sample the songs first to make sure you like them? If you buy it and open it then you can't even take it back if you don't like it. If I'm going to be labeled a god damn "consumer" then I expect some rights as such. Why isn't there a 30-day money back guarentee law for software, movies, CDs and other "intellectual property"?
So please tell me I am wrong and that everybody else is getting 25-30 frames captured with nice video and sound (preferrably with real-time encoding or an embedded encoding unit before data is streamed to disk to avoid frame skipping) and I might consider giving it another try.
I don't know about Linux, but I'm just using the crappy Avermedia software that came with my $50 capture/tuner card and I can record mpeg-2 video on the fly with my AMD Athlon 1.4GHz box using less than 50% of the cpu time under Windows2000. It doesn't have any hardware encoding support so it's all software. I can also playback another movie at the same time I'm recording without a problem. If you can't do this then perhaps you don't have DMA set on your hard drive? Did you check it using hdparm -t? Many times it defaults to PIO mode in which case you'd be using tons of processor time and get only 5MB/sec instead of 45MB/sec. Maybe not your problem, but something to check.
Now, my problem is, the avermedia software sucks rocks and locks up from time to time, misses scheduled recordings, and has no program guide support. It's just a digital VCR not a PVR. I'd LOVE to use the Via Eden boards with a nice silent set-top box style case as a PVR if there was a hardware mpeg encoder that worked with Linux!!
Some companies (Coca-Cola, Nike, etc) might be interested in building long-term brand awareness, but for most this is a losing proposition
Why does Coca-Cola and Nike even bother to advertise at ALL anymore? If you don't know about Coke and Nike tennis shoes then you are living in some backwoods cabin in Arkansas. We get it already for christ's sake! STOP ADVERTISING! Yes yes, Coke is the blood of Jesus and Nike is made from the leather skin of the lord. We shall consume more of these products. Just STOP ADVERTISING ALREADY!
On Linux.. Mozilla and Phoenix are the way to go.. though on OS X, Safari is a really nice browser.
Naw, on OS X Camino is really nice. Apple is smoking crack by putting that stupid mid-1990's style Java brushed metal theme on all their apps. It looks ridiculously crappy. Are they that tired of Aqua already? Why not just make it easily themeable and let people decide how they want the app to look? Afterall, most Mac users are artsy people and generally much more creative and intelligent than PC dullards.
The new 4.0 software upgrade will support wireless USB ethernet devices. The (cough) $99 HomeMedia option will allow streaming MP3s and pictures to be sent from your PC, and will allow sharing of programs between multiple TiVos in the house. The first upgrade costs $99, the upgrades for additional TiVos are $49 each.
Doesn't the ReplayTV already do all that for free? Why do you have to pay $99 to upgrade a TiVo to support something as simple as playing mp3's from a PC? Let me guess, you need Windows software to stream it to the TiVo right? I'm glad I waited on the ReplayTV too! That just cements my decision to just build a Linux-based custom PVR, maybe using MythTV. Ahhh, Debian GNU/Linux in the living room. I just need to make it quiet enough and find a decent case so the wife doesn't kill me.
Ok. This is getting silly now... I'd really rather not have to try and guess which articles are the real ones.
You must be new here. They're all jokes on April 1st... or are they?;-) Yes, it gets tired and annoying throughout the day after about 3 hours of these stories, but hey, it's only one day a year. Just think of it as reading the Weekly World News for a day.
I think someone working at, say, CMM level 2 or 3 is clearly using engineering principles. However, it *is* true that the same job can be done by a high school kid, and I'm not at all convinced CMM is a good thing.
Does CMM stand for Code Making Monkey? I'm serious, what does CMM stand for?
Probably for the same reason they have this silly Red Hat network setup. I guess there's probably some other way to keep your system upgraded, but when I use their up2date tool it wants to login as some user to their RHN. Unfortunately I must administer one of these stupid Red Hat boxes and am cursed with it, otherwise I would've wiped it and used Debian which has a much more elegant package manager and upgrade system.
In news stories, why is the leader of Iraq so often named just by his first name -- Saddam? I've yet to see a story in which the president is referred to as George.
No, they call him Dubya or W for short. Saddam isn't exactly a common name in American media so it's safe to say Saddam == Saddam Hussein usually. George can be any number of people, but if they said "Bush" you can infer it's the President.
It is hump day...time to patch my Windows Boxes again... Crap...what is Thursday gonna bring!
Thursday, time to patch the SunRPC holes in Solaris. I WAS about to implement a central NFS server for our workstations, but Sun has so many problems with their RPC implementation resulting in root exploits I think I'll have to look for something else.
ogg?
wep?
pc link to a mac or a linux?
can we have more than one on a network?
any no is a show stopper for me.
Face it, Ogg Vorbis is dead as disco. You're a statistic and irrelevent. MP3 support is the only thing 99% of the people want. Philips isn't going to waste their time with satisfying a tiny percentage of uber-geeks who demand some oddball encoding format when everyone else uses MP3. I'm sure they'd rather spend their research dollars adding Windows Media audio support and Real Player support before they even considered Ogg. Don't you guys realize whining about it only makes them laugh harder? If you want an Ogg player or a DivX viewer or some other machine to hypnotize and control your cat then build your own out of a Linux box like everyone else.
Besides, who'd want to live in a drafty old castle anyway? My wood house may not be standing in 100 years, but it's more cozy than some huge mansion. Oh who am I kidding, I'd kill for a huge castle made of stone.:-(
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Since you brought it up, how much money DOES Hollywood and the recording industry bring in every year compared to the computer industry/software companies? Hollywood and the record companies seem to be the ones pushing for severe restrictions curtailing our computing equipment.. is it a case of David pushing Goliath around?
Reminds me of Nutscrape Enterprise Edition. Oh well. If Red Hat can dupe idiots into paying $2500 for free software then more power to them. Hell, Sun still thinks it can charge $15,000 for a high end desktop system that's slower than a low end Intel based desktop system. Whatever floats their boat. I think I'll just keep using Debian.:-)
Well, I think I'll just forward them the link, because if I talk to them in real life then they'd realize I wasn't 6'2" with a boy builder's body.
Geppeto? Is that you? It's me, Pinocchio!! I'm trapped in a whale and all I have is a laptop with 802.11b access. I think I'm near a Starbucks or McDonalds somewhere close to shore. Please send help!
I wonder if the new network still uses plain tired old IPv4 or if they're implementing it using IPv6? Someone needs to cut off IPv4 or give a deadline for migration to IPv6 or nobody is ever going to change. It's just too much of a migration headache unless someone says the old net will be shut off. Who better to do that than the government that mandated we must all move to HDTV for no benefit to the citizens?
In other news, SCO is dying. The last dying gasp of an irrelevent company with an inferior product. Buy the rights to a patent in the hopes of turning a profit seems shady to me. Patents should dissolve at the sale of a business.
Hmmm, I've been thinking about the shuttle disaster too much lately. LOC==loss of crew.:-( I guess here it means lines of code though. I suppose since they're measuring this in the amount of hours of DVD quality video they can transfer per minute the MPAA goons will crawl out of the woodwork and want to shut down Internet2 now for potentially being used to violate the DMCA. Why else would you need to transfer so much data so fast across the continent and ocean other than to copy the latest release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding to your P2P pals in Athens? Those damn network researchers are the worst offenders when it comes to developing methods to assist in copyright circumvention. If everyone had 56K modems we wouldn't have rampant piracy.
What is it with humans and our silly fascination with stealing things? Why can't people just leave other people's shit alone? In a capitalist society if you don't respect other people's property then the system will never work. What they need to start doing is chopping off body parts when they catch these thieves instead of throwing them in jail for a few years so that they can perfect their art by swapping stories with other thieves doing the same thing. Maybe thieves will think twice after you chop off a hand or a foot.
It's GSM.:-( Why doesn't S-E start making nice phones like this for CDMA networks? I recently switched from AT&T to Sprint because they have unlimited "Vision" plans for $10/month which is nice. AT&T Wireless used to give me Pocketnet (CDPD) for free, but I hear they're shutting off that network at the end of the year so I switched.
I would've bought this phone in an instant simply for the Bluetooth compatibility and how easy it is to sync to my Mac with iSync. Alas, AT&T's 3G (ok 2.5G?) data rates are astronomical IMHO. I'm not going to pay outrageous fees per megabyte when there are alternatives. $2.99 for mmode and you pay $.02 per K all the way up to $19.99 for a whopping 8 MB with 6/10ths of a cent per K over that. I use more than that just checking my e-mail with my laptop plugged into my Sprint phone on the road. I can't seem the find a decent GSM provider with good coverage and flat rate data access. Maybe I need to move to Europe.:-)
Well, I haven't used qmail, but Postfix is braindead simple to replace sendmail with. You just type make install and it'll overwrite the sendmail binaries and masquerade as it. Hell, my solaris startup scripts still call/usr/lib/sendmail but postfix just starts up instead. I haven't bothered to create an init script for it yet. Plus it's easy to chroot and relatively simple to configure.
Again, I haven't used qmail so it could be equally simple. I haven't had much luck with DJB's other tools like the inetd replacement though or his tinydns. It works fine for awhile and then just starts hanging. It's enough to keep me using BIND 9.x. Someday I'll have to mess around with it and see what's up since I know tons of people use it so it's probably my fscked up system.;-)
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Honestly though, what kind of stupid industry is this where you're expected to buy a CD without being able to sample the songs first to make sure you like them? If you buy it and open it then you can't even take it back if you don't like it. If I'm going to be labeled a god damn "consumer" then I expect some rights as such. Why isn't there a 30-day money back guarentee law for software, movies, CDs and other "intellectual property"?
I don't know about Linux, but I'm just using the crappy Avermedia software that came with my $50 capture/tuner card and I can record mpeg-2 video on the fly with my AMD Athlon 1.4GHz box using less than 50% of the cpu time under Windows2000. It doesn't have any hardware encoding support so it's all software. I can also playback another movie at the same time I'm recording without a problem. If you can't do this then perhaps you don't have DMA set on your hard drive? Did you check it using hdparm -t? Many times it defaults to PIO mode in which case you'd be using tons of processor time and get only 5MB/sec instead of 45MB/sec. Maybe not your problem, but something to check.
Now, my problem is, the avermedia software sucks rocks and locks up from time to time, misses scheduled recordings, and has no program guide support. It's just a digital VCR not a PVR. I'd LOVE to use the Via Eden boards with a nice silent set-top box style case as a PVR if there was a hardware mpeg encoder that worked with Linux!!
Why does Coca-Cola and Nike even bother to advertise at ALL anymore? If you don't know about Coke and Nike tennis shoes then you are living in some backwoods cabin in Arkansas. We get it already for christ's sake! STOP ADVERTISING! Yes yes, Coke is the blood of Jesus and Nike is made from the leather skin of the lord. We shall consume more of these products. Just STOP ADVERTISING ALREADY!
Naw, on OS X Camino is really nice. Apple is smoking crack by putting that stupid mid-1990's style Java brushed metal theme on all their apps. It looks ridiculously crappy. Are they that tired of Aqua already? Why not just make it easily themeable and let people decide how they want the app to look? Afterall, most Mac users are artsy people and generally much more creative and intelligent than PC dullards.
Doesn't the ReplayTV already do all that for free? Why do you have to pay $99 to upgrade a TiVo to support something as simple as playing mp3's from a PC? Let me guess, you need Windows software to stream it to the TiVo right? I'm glad I waited on the ReplayTV too! That just cements my decision to just build a Linux-based custom PVR, maybe using MythTV. Ahhh, Debian GNU/Linux in the living room. I just need to make it quiet enough and find a decent case so the wife doesn't kill me.
WTF are you talking about? SATAN must ALWAYS set the evil bit. If you are a sysadmin you should be using SAINT which sets the bit to 0. Duh.
You must be new here. They're all jokes on April 1st... or are they? ;-) Yes, it gets tired and annoying throughout the day after about 3 hours of these stories, but hey, it's only one day a year. Just think of it as reading the Weekly World News for a day.
Does CMM stand for Code Making Monkey? I'm serious, what does CMM stand for?
ISS is Internet Security Systems, Inc.. They produce RealSecure, Internet Scanner, System Scanner, etc.
Probably for the same reason they have this silly Red Hat network setup. I guess there's probably some other way to keep your system upgraded, but when I use their up2date tool it wants to login as some user to their RHN. Unfortunately I must administer one of these stupid Red Hat boxes and am cursed with it, otherwise I would've wiped it and used Debian which has a much more elegant package manager and upgrade system.
Unfortunately, knowing Sun, the new desktop computer will be $15,000 and require a separate OS license and yearly maintenance contract.
No, they call him Dubya or W for short. Saddam isn't exactly a common name in American media so it's safe to say Saddam == Saddam Hussein usually. George can be any number of people, but if they said "Bush" you can infer it's the President.
Thursday, time to patch the SunRPC holes in Solaris. I WAS about to implement a central NFS server for our workstations, but Sun has so many problems with their RPC implementation resulting in root exploits I think I'll have to look for something else.
Face it, Ogg Vorbis is dead as disco. You're a statistic and irrelevent. MP3 support is the only thing 99% of the people want. Philips isn't going to waste their time with satisfying a tiny percentage of uber-geeks who demand some oddball encoding format when everyone else uses MP3. I'm sure they'd rather spend their research dollars adding Windows Media audio support and Real Player support before they even considered Ogg. Don't you guys realize whining about it only makes them laugh harder? If you want an Ogg player or a DivX viewer or some other machine to hypnotize and control your cat then build your own out of a Linux box like everyone else.
Besides, who'd want to live in a drafty old castle anyway? My wood house may not be standing in 100 years, but it's more cozy than some huge mansion. Oh who am I kidding, I'd kill for a huge castle made of stone. :-(
Since you brought it up, how much money DOES Hollywood and the recording industry bring in every year compared to the computer industry/software companies? Hollywood and the record companies seem to be the ones pushing for severe restrictions curtailing our computing equipment.. is it a case of David pushing Goliath around?
Reminds me of Nutscrape Enterprise Edition. Oh well. If Red Hat can dupe idiots into paying $2500 for free software then more power to them. Hell, Sun still thinks it can charge $15,000 for a high end desktop system that's slower than a low end Intel based desktop system. Whatever floats their boat. I think I'll just keep using Debian. :-)
Geppeto? Is that you? It's me, Pinocchio!! I'm trapped in a whale and all I have is a laptop with 802.11b access. I think I'm near a Starbucks or McDonalds somewhere close to shore. Please send help!
I wonder if the new network still uses plain tired old IPv4 or if they're implementing it using IPv6? Someone needs to cut off IPv4 or give a deadline for migration to IPv6 or nobody is ever going to change. It's just too much of a migration headache unless someone says the old net will be shut off. Who better to do that than the government that mandated we must all move to HDTV for no benefit to the citizens?
If you can't repost the material with the approval of the copyright holder, whose approval do you have to get? SCO?
In other news, SCO is dying. The last dying gasp of an irrelevent company with an inferior product. Buy the rights to a patent in the hopes of turning a profit seems shady to me. Patents should dissolve at the sale of a business.
Hmmm, I've been thinking about the shuttle disaster too much lately. LOC==loss of crew. :-( I guess here it means lines of code though. I suppose since they're measuring this in the amount of hours of DVD quality video they can transfer per minute the MPAA goons will crawl out of the woodwork and want to shut down Internet2 now for potentially being used to violate the DMCA. Why else would you need to transfer so much data so fast across the continent and ocean other than to copy the latest release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding to your P2P pals in Athens? Those damn network researchers are the worst offenders when it comes to developing methods to assist in copyright circumvention. If everyone had 56K modems we wouldn't have rampant piracy.
What is it with humans and our silly fascination with stealing things? Why can't people just leave other people's shit alone? In a capitalist society if you don't respect other people's property then the system will never work. What they need to start doing is chopping off body parts when they catch these thieves instead of throwing them in jail for a few years so that they can perfect their art by swapping stories with other thieves doing the same thing. Maybe thieves will think twice after you chop off a hand or a foot.
I would've bought this phone in an instant simply for the Bluetooth compatibility and how easy it is to sync to my Mac with iSync. Alas, AT&T's 3G (ok 2.5G?) data rates are astronomical IMHO. I'm not going to pay outrageous fees per megabyte when there are alternatives. $2.99 for mmode and you pay $.02 per K all the way up to $19.99 for a whopping 8 MB with 6/10ths of a cent per K over that. I use more than that just checking my e-mail with my laptop plugged into my Sprint phone on the road. I can't seem the find a decent GSM provider with good coverage and flat rate data access. Maybe I need to move to Europe. :-)
Again, I haven't used qmail so it could be equally simple. I haven't had much luck with DJB's other tools like the inetd replacement though or his tinydns. It works fine for awhile and then just starts hanging. It's enough to keep me using BIND 9.x. Someday I'll have to mess around with it and see what's up since I know tons of people use it so it's probably my fscked up system. ;-)