Windows XP SP2 is supposed to have Mira technology which from what I've read sounds like the terminal service server on Windows Server 2003 where you can have up to two simultanious connections as well as the localhost controlling the machine. This is for those LCD displays that you can undock and use on the couch wirelessly, part thin client, part tablet pc. I've been waiting for this feature for that exact reason. Whenever my girlfriend calls me needing tech support she likes me to use VNC rather than Remote Desktop as she can see what I'm doing and hopefully learn from it.
If you are running Windows XP you can open TCP port 3389, or forward it to your machine from your router, and connect to it remotely using remote desktop (Terminal Services). The client can be found here . If you are using another OS or would rather use something more free try VNC. Personally I like Tight-VNC as it offers the ability to add jpeg compression.
I often use either of these to check my Bit Torrent downloads from work. Once you start using it you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Sometimes I find myself VNC'ing into a computer in the other room on my network at home just because sometimes I'm *that* lazy.
Shareaza wants to be the Gaim or Trillian of P2P, however they only support open-spec networks like edonkey, gnutella, and bit-torrent. From the FAQ on their Wiki
Will you add support for Kazaa?
Short answer: No.
Long Answer: Kazaa's network, known as FastTrack, is a closed network and requires hefty licensing fees to have access to. Shareaza is a non-profit/free project and thus can not pay for access to another network. If Shareaza reverse-engineered the network protocol, then it could be shut down because that is illegal.
Basically, Shareaza could either pay thousands upon thousands of dollars a month to connect to FastTrack, or use it illegally and live with the high possibility of being sued by the operators of FastTrack for even more money.
However if it can keep all of my bit torrent downloads in 1 easy to manage window with universal bandwidth management it may be worth it for just that.
Sounds like the vomit comet. Your post interested me so I've been reading WikiPedia's article on weightlessness, Microgravity, the Vomit Comet and more. Check it out here
Weightlessness is not due to an increased distance to the earth: the acceleration due to gravity at a height of, for example, 100 km is only 3% less than at the surface of the earth.
Weightlessness means a zero g-force: acceleration is equal to gravity.
Is it just me or at the 5:00 point does it looks like he started speeding like a bat out of hell?
i've done this myself and I offer these tips
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I did this with my Canon ZR80 and got some good results using Vegas 4. I offer these suggestions to anyone who wants to try this themselves:
Do not move the camera. Use a tripod. If you cant rig up a full size tripod in the passenger seat check best buy or similar stores for tiny desktop tripods. They work well when seated on the dash as long as you have something to keep them in place (duct tape).
Cut out moments in post when your vehicle is not moving. I forgot to do this once and my video came to a 3 second hault as I reached an intersection. Needless to say it distracted from the video greatly and was truly annoying. Just trim it out so that it looks like you ran the red light or something and the video will continue to flow. This tip also goes for bumps or swerves as they look terrible at high speed.
Do not add a blur effect in post production, or atleast not the ones that come with Vegas. They seriously distract from the video. If you need that light-speed look I suggest duplicating the video layer, moving the top one forward 2 or 3 frames and changing its opacity to 50%. This will create a cool effect especially when passing cars and changing lanes
If you are going to mount the camera inside the car (which I highly suggest) make sure:
A. Your windshield is clean
B. Its not raining. I did this once with the windshield wipers on and it looked horrible
C. Your state and county stickers are not in the picture. If the camera does move it will be much more noticable if there is a static image on the video.
If you are going to tape more than an hour of driving you may want to setup a laptop on an inverter hooked up to the camera with firewire set to take an image every X seconds. You can then drag all of these into your favoriate post video production software but in my experiences you dont get as smooth an image unless you overlap the images with opacity fades and by that time its become one helluva project
Tip for vegas: You can increase the velocity encelope up to 300% but thats not a whole lot. Do this alone with shortening the clip while holding down the CTRL key will allow for up to 12x the speed without the need to reencode.
If you need to speed up the video faster than what your post video production software can do you can always render the video no or low compression, import the now rendered video and do it again. lather, rinse, repeat.
And always:
Mix it to good techno if thats your cup of tea
I'm interested in hearing what other tips video enthusiast slashdoters have come up with. Please share.
As always I apologize for the bad spelling and horrible formatting, I'm rushing to get to sleep
BTW: This also works well for filming Ballroom Dancing. It looks hillarious and cool at the same time. Try overlaying multiple segments of the dance at different oppacities and adding a black and white or sepiatone filter and playing witht the white balance for a great ghostly look.
As for the keyboard and mouse, I use a Logitech cordless mouse and keyboard which does the job nicely. I keep the mouse on the coffee table and the keyboard in one of the drawers. The only tricky part is keeping the RF receiver on the computer far enough away from the components in your home theater as the cord on the unit is not very long.
I also have a 4 port USB hub running to a spot under the couch that allows me to quickly connect or disconnect things like USB Thumb Drives or USB Gamepads. I use the gamepads for many of the games on the system like GTA Vice City and MAME. Specifically I like the Gravis Gamepad Pro (BB $15, Nice mapping software), the Nyko AirFlo PC (BB $20, Dual Analog sticks, Air Flow technology), and if you can find it the GF USB Control Pad (BB $10, Dual Analog sticks). All of the gamepads work well with Girder and the games I use them for. Sometimes it is nice to have 3 or 4 different gamepads for N64 Emulators because it is easier to know which gamepad you are configuring. Before I had 4 Gravis Gamepad Pro's which was a pain because I had to label them 1 - 4 but windows would not allow me to change their names.
Of course VNC is a must but aside from that if you get your bindings tight in girder you can do almost anything with MyHTPC and a good remote.
Getting a bad tomato is not my concern when it comes to online grocery shopping. I'm sure I'll get fine produce if they want to keep me as a customer and being a geek I really dont buy that much produce anyway (my food comes in frozen boxes).
I'm mainly concerned about not getting exactly what you want. I remember trying an online grocery ordering system at Farm Fresh where you could order online and pickup at the store. I thought I would give it a try until I found that that if the store is out of brand A wiggetpuffs they would substitute it with their own brand X wiggetpuggs, or not put it in the order all together. That alone is enough to keep me from trying the service.
Has anyone else had any experiences with not getting what you wanted?
I had Cable from Cox for the longest time and it was starting to feel kinda slow once my roommate discovered the beautiful world of bit torrent. Our upstream was capped at 32KB/s and it was starting to become a problem. We looked into business grade cable but that was way out of budget. Our next move was to look into getting DSL on top of the Cable modem and bond them at the router. I looked around on Verizon's website and saw that they offered pretty good bandwidth for a reasonable price, but there were several inconsistancies on their website, sometimes referring to bandwidth in bits per second, sometimes in bytes per second.
I call to order and asked the tech about the actual speed. I was mainly interested in upstream which was 128KB/s, or so I was told. I asked if the "B" was lower or upper case and was told it was all uppercase. I wasnt sure if the guy I was talking to knew what he was saying so I posed a question: "if I can upload at 128KB/s and a 1MB file is 1024KB, how long would it take to upload 1MB of data?". The guy did the math and said it would take about 8 seconds to upload that much data, give or take depending on other conditions. I asked for his tech number, name, and office. Then I told asked him if he was sure it was 128 kilobytes per second or 128 kiloBITS ber second. He told me that its not uncommon for people to confuse bits and bytes as they are different pronounciations of the same thing. I just about laughed my ass off but sinnce the first month would be free i decided to give it a try.
The DSL modem came but it wasnt until a month later that the line went active. I tested the bandwidth and low and behold the guy *was* and idiot (or was i for giving it a shot), and the upstream was crap. I called and complained but they wouldnt drop the charge for the second month. At about that time I canceled my land line all together.
Moral of the story: tele-tech's will tell you whatever they can to get you to buy the service, and if it looks too good to be true (like HalfLife2.zip 1.4GB on torrent in May 2004) it is.
The whole oil thing is just a big scam. Here me out, I've got proof.
You see, one day while driving back from a LUG^H^H^H my girlfriends place on I-64 my gas light came on. I knew I had about 20 miles before I ran out, and I if I booked I could make it home without having to refill in the middle of the night at some creepy gas station in the country. I figured I'd give it a shot and play gas tank roulette. I tripped the meeter and started watching the miles.
Well, it was pretty late and I was starting to get tired to I popped in a Gloria Est^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H KoRn CD to keep me awake and started letting the rythm get me. It wasnt until 5 miles past my exit that I realized my mistake. I looked down at my console and my gas light had turned off. Thats weird I thought. There was another exit I could take about 3 miles from my location and I could back track through town to get to my apartment. By the time I got close to my apartment I had driven almost 40 miles. The next day I woke up late for work and without thinking I got in my car and began the 25 mile commute to work. An entire day went by before I remembered that I needed gas. By then I had clocked in almost 100 miles and still my car wasnt thirsty. That was 3 years ago, and I've long since stopped counting how many times the meter tripped back over to zero. I laugh as my friends pay $2 at the pump while I whizz past in my god-mode oldsmobile.
Dont believe me? Next time you see the feed-me light come on ignore it and find out for yourself. Its a huge conspiricy I tell you. Fight the Man! Dont buy gasoline, drive 80 MPH down the freeway with your top down and windows up with the AC running. Drink 5 tall cups of coffee a day at starbucks knowing that you're still saving money not buying gas. Wash behind your ears and run linux... in the shower.
It is one year away, but is it too late to save Episode III?"
from the nope dept.
Ahh you slashdot editors! Which one is it?
PEOPLE SPAM IS BAD
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And during the Fourth of July weekend, 20th Century Fox plans to have several people in the video T-shirts walking around malls, movie theaters, beaches, festivals and other venues packed with people to promote the film in the top 10 markets.
I thought door-to-door-salesmen-SPAM was bad
I thought telemarketer-SPAM was bad
I thought fax-marketer-SPAM was bad
I thought SMS-when-you-walk-by-starbucks-SPAM was bad
I thought popups-SPAM was bad
I thought SPAM-SPAM was bad
I thought LCD-billboard-SPAM was bad
PEOPLE-SPAM is BAD
Next time I go to a concert can I get a filter for my eyes, preferably an open source one?
Also it describes one of the highlights of the movie: 'A thrilling lightsabre clash between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while surfing on lava.'
But the question on everyones mind is, will Obi jump the lava shark?
I'm usually not one to reply to my own post but I've seen here way too many posts that basicly say "It is amateur because you are not being paid", while this rule does not explain this anomaly.
If I were to spend 10 years learning and praticing ballroom dancing would I not become a professional ballroom dancer?
I dont get it. I mean, I understand the concept of "Amateur Radio", and "Amateur Rocketry" right, but theres got to be a point when your mad scientest project gets out of the garage and into, say, space, and all of the sudden like pair of twin torpedos slaming into the death star your Amateur project gets a slashdotting and its pro.
Hell, I can go pro by buying an $8,000 digital SLR camera, why is it that shooting a home brew satelite into space is amateur? (j/k)
Its not like some homies duct taped an 8-track to an upside down trash can and stuck some dinomite under it, right? Please, for the love of god, come up with a better classification than this!#!
Hell, even in soviet russia amateur rockets launch you. Come on, you know you were thinking it too
Flying cars, yippie
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NextFest
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In one vision of the future, the world will have flying cars, coats that make people "transparent,'' digital cameras that translate foreign signs and robots that can attend classes for sick children.
The exhibits include the Moller Skycar, a four-passenger vehicle from Moller International of Davis. The Jetsons-style craft is small enough to drive on the ground, but can take off vertically and fly as fast as 380 mph
They're still promising me the flying car, spiffy.
Type half your password. Then type some random garbage. Use the mouse to select the random garbage and then type over it with the second half of your password.
This would also work for evading a keylogger. You can make it as simple or as complex as you want.
Phrase coined by Thomas Kuhn in his famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn's idea is that scientific progress occurs, not by slow incremental accumulation alone, but also by occasional "revolutions," in which "an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one" (Kuhn, p. 92) - a paradigm shift. It refers to a group of people, or even a whole society, undergoing a change of world view, as for example from believing the earth was flat to believing the earth is round, or believing the sun and stars revolve around earth vs. the earth revolving around the sun. Biblical scholarship is often assumed to have undergone a paradigm shift from a diachronic to a synchronic worldview.
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Windows XP SP2 is supposed to have Mira technology which from what I've read sounds like the terminal service server on Windows Server 2003 where you can have up to two simultanious connections as well as the localhost controlling the machine. This is for those LCD displays that you can undock and use on the couch wirelessly, part thin client, part tablet pc. I've been waiting for this feature for that exact reason. Whenever my girlfriend calls me needing tech support she likes me to use VNC rather than Remote Desktop as she can see what I'm doing and hopefully learn from it.
If you are running Windows XP you can open TCP port 3389, or forward it to your machine from your router, and connect to it remotely using remote desktop (Terminal Services). The client can be found here . If you are using another OS or would rather use something more free try VNC. Personally I like Tight-VNC as it offers the ability to add jpeg compression.
I often use either of these to check my Bit Torrent downloads from work. Once you start using it you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Sometimes I find myself VNC'ing into a computer in the other room on my network at home just because sometimes I'm *that* lazy.
Shareaza wants to be the Gaim or Trillian of P2P, however they only support open-spec networks like edonkey, gnutella, and bit-torrent. From the FAQ on their Wiki
However if it can keep all of my bit torrent downloads in 1 easy to manage window with universal bandwidth management it may be worth it for just that.
Sounds like the vomit comet. Your post interested me so I've been reading WikiPedia's article on weightlessness, Microgravity, the Vomit Comet and more. Check it out here
Weightlessness is not due to an increased distance to the earth: the acceleration due to gravity at a height of, for example, 100 km is only 3% less than at the surface of the earth.
Weightlessness means a zero g-force: acceleration is equal to gravity.
California 7A88404, That was me!
3:39 seconds in
Is it just me or at the 5:00 point does it looks like he started speeding like a bat out of hell?
Do not move the camera. Use a tripod. If you cant rig up a full size tripod in the passenger seat check best buy or similar stores for tiny desktop tripods. They work well when seated on the dash as long as you have something to keep them in place (duct tape).
Cut out moments in post when your vehicle is not moving. I forgot to do this once and my video came to a 3 second hault as I reached an intersection. Needless to say it distracted from the video greatly and was truly annoying. Just trim it out so that it looks like you ran the red light or something and the video will continue to flow. This tip also goes for bumps or swerves as they look terrible at high speed.
Do not add a blur effect in post production, or atleast not the ones that come with Vegas. They seriously distract from the video. If you need that light-speed look I suggest duplicating the video layer, moving the top one forward 2 or 3 frames and changing its opacity to 50%. This will create a cool effect especially when passing cars and changing lanes
If you are going to mount the camera inside the car (which I highly suggest) make sure:
A. Your windshield is clean
B. Its not raining. I did this once with the windshield wipers on and it looked horrible
C. Your state and county stickers are not in the picture. If the camera does move it will be much more noticable if there is a static image on the video.
If you are going to tape more than an hour of driving you may want to setup a laptop on an inverter hooked up to the camera with firewire set to take an image every X seconds. You can then drag all of these into your favoriate post video production software but in my experiences you dont get as smooth an image unless you overlap the images with opacity fades and by that time its become one helluva project
Tip for vegas: You can increase the velocity encelope up to 300% but thats not a whole lot. Do this alone with shortening the clip while holding down the CTRL key will allow for up to 12x the speed without the need to reencode.
If you need to speed up the video faster than what your post video production software can do you can always render the video no or low compression, import the now rendered video and do it again. lather, rinse, repeat.
And always:
Mix it to good techno if thats your cup of tea
I'm interested in hearing what other tips video enthusiast slashdoters have come up with. Please share.
As always I apologize for the bad spelling and horrible formatting, I'm rushing to get to sleep
BTW: This also works well for filming Ballroom Dancing. It looks hillarious and cool at the same time. Try overlaying multiple segments of the dance at different oppacities and adding a black and white or sepiatone filter and playing witht the white balance for a great ghostly look.
Anti-Trust incase anyone is wondering
Pretty bad hacker movie, but not as bad as The Net.
I suggest feeding the worm writers to these worms.
Nothing like a worm with a bazooka
I also use Girder and an ATI Remote Wonder for my HTPC setup. The ATI remote came bundled with a Radeon 7500 All In Wonder and they work flawlessly together. The MyHTPC software also works wonders. There is an ATI Remote Wonder plugin available for MyHTPC too.
As for the keyboard and mouse, I use a Logitech cordless mouse and keyboard which does the job nicely. I keep the mouse on the coffee table and the keyboard in one of the drawers. The only tricky part is keeping the RF receiver on the computer far enough away from the components in your home theater as the cord on the unit is not very long.
I also have a 4 port USB hub running to a spot under the couch that allows me to quickly connect or disconnect things like USB Thumb Drives or USB Gamepads. I use the gamepads for many of the games on the system like GTA Vice City and MAME. Specifically I like the Gravis Gamepad Pro (BB $15, Nice mapping software), the Nyko AirFlo PC (BB $20, Dual Analog sticks, Air Flow technology), and if you can find it the GF USB Control Pad (BB $10, Dual Analog sticks). All of the gamepads work well with Girder and the games I use them for. Sometimes it is nice to have 3 or 4 different gamepads for N64 Emulators because it is easier to know which gamepad you are configuring. Before I had 4 Gravis Gamepad Pro's which was a pain because I had to label them 1 - 4 but windows would not allow me to change their names.
Of course VNC is a must but aside from that if you get your bindings tight in girder you can do almost anything with MyHTPC and a good remote.
Getting a bad tomato is not my concern when it comes to online grocery shopping. I'm sure I'll get fine produce if they want to keep me as a customer and being a geek I really dont buy that much produce anyway (my food comes in frozen boxes).
I'm mainly concerned about not getting exactly what you want. I remember trying an online grocery ordering system at Farm Fresh where you could order online and pickup at the store. I thought I would give it a try until I found that that if the store is out of brand A wiggetpuffs they would substitute it with their own brand X wiggetpuggs, or not put it in the order all together. That alone is enough to keep me from trying the service.
Has anyone else had any experiences with not getting what you wanted?
I had Cable from Cox for the longest time and it was starting to feel kinda slow once my roommate discovered the beautiful world of bit torrent. Our upstream was capped at 32KB/s and it was starting to become a problem. We looked into business grade cable but that was way out of budget. Our next move was to look into getting DSL on top of the Cable modem and bond them at the router. I looked around on Verizon's website and saw that they offered pretty good bandwidth for a reasonable price, but there were several inconsistancies on their website, sometimes referring to bandwidth in bits per second, sometimes in bytes per second.
I call to order and asked the tech about the actual speed. I was mainly interested in upstream which was 128KB/s, or so I was told. I asked if the "B" was lower or upper case and was told it was all uppercase. I wasnt sure if the guy I was talking to knew what he was saying so I posed a question: "if I can upload at 128KB/s and a 1MB file is 1024KB, how long would it take to upload 1MB of data?". The guy did the math and said it would take about 8 seconds to upload that much data, give or take depending on other conditions. I asked for his tech number, name, and office. Then I told asked him if he was sure it was 128 kilobytes per second or 128 kiloBITS ber second. He told me that its not uncommon for people to confuse bits and bytes as they are different pronounciations of the same thing. I just about laughed my ass off but sinnce the first month would be free i decided to give it a try.
The DSL modem came but it wasnt until a month later that the line went active. I tested the bandwidth and low and behold the guy *was* and idiot (or was i for giving it a shot), and the upstream was crap. I called and complained but they wouldnt drop the charge for the second month. At about that time I canceled my land line all together.
Moral of the story: tele-tech's will tell you whatever they can to get you to buy the service, and if it looks too good to be true (like HalfLife2.zip 1.4GB on torrent in May 2004) it is.
The whole oil thing is just a big scam. Here me out, I've got proof.
You see, one day while driving back from a LUG^H^H^H my girlfriends place on I-64 my gas light came on. I knew I had about 20 miles before I ran out, and I if I booked I could make it home without having to refill in the middle of the night at some creepy gas station in the country. I figured I'd give it a shot and play gas tank roulette. I tripped the meeter and started watching the miles.
Well, it was pretty late and I was starting to get tired to I popped in a Gloria Est^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H KoRn CD to keep me awake and started letting the rythm get me. It wasnt until 5 miles past my exit that I realized my mistake. I looked down at my console and my gas light had turned off. Thats weird I thought. There was another exit I could take about 3 miles from my location and I could back track through town to get to my apartment. By the time I got close to my apartment I had driven almost 40 miles. The next day I woke up late for work and without thinking I got in my car and began the 25 mile commute to work. An entire day went by before I remembered that I needed gas. By then I had clocked in almost 100 miles and still my car wasnt thirsty. That was 3 years ago, and I've long since stopped counting how many times the meter tripped back over to zero. I laugh as my friends pay $2 at the pump while I whizz past in my god-mode oldsmobile.
Dont believe me? Next time you see the feed-me light come on ignore it and find out for yourself. Its a huge conspiricy I tell you. Fight the Man! Dont buy gasoline, drive 80 MPH down the freeway with your top down and windows up with the AC running. Drink 5 tall cups of coffee a day at starbucks knowing that you're still saving money not buying gas. Wash behind your ears and run linux... in the shower.
Let that be a lesson to all of you.
Something. Posing. As. Mail.
Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved?
It is one year away, but is it too late to save Episode III?"
from the nope dept.
Ahh you slashdot editors! Which one is it?
I thought door-to-door-salesmen-SPAM was bad
I thought telemarketer-SPAM was bad
I thought fax-marketer-SPAM was bad
I thought SMS-when-you-walk-by-starbucks-SPAM was bad
I thought popups-SPAM was bad
I thought SPAM-SPAM was bad
I thought LCD-billboard-SPAM was bad
PEOPLE-SPAM is BAD
Next time I go to a concert can I get a filter for my eyes, preferably an open source one?
guerilla marketers should live in the zoo
Also it describes one of the highlights of the movie: 'A thrilling lightsabre clash between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while surfing on lava.'
But the question on everyones mind is, will Obi jump the lava shark?
I'm usually not one to reply to my own post but I've seen here way too many posts that basicly say "It is amateur because you are not being paid", while this rule does not explain this anomaly.
If I were to spend 10 years learning and praticing ballroom dancing would I not become a professional ballroom dancer?
I dont get it. I mean, I understand the concept of "Amateur Radio", and "Amateur Rocketry" right, but theres got to be a point when your mad scientest project gets out of the garage and into, say, space, and all of the sudden like pair of twin torpedos slaming into the death star your Amateur project gets a slashdotting and its pro.
Hell, I can go pro by buying an $8,000 digital SLR camera, why is it that shooting a home brew satelite into space is amateur? (j/k)
Its not like some homies duct taped an 8-track to an upside down trash can and stuck some dinomite under it, right? Please, for the love of god, come up with a better classification than this!#!
Hell, even in soviet russia amateur rockets launch you.
Come on, you know you were thinking it too
In one vision of the future, the world will have flying cars, coats that make people "transparent,'' digital cameras that translate foreign signs and robots that can attend classes for sick children.
The exhibits include the Moller Skycar, a four-passenger vehicle from Moller International of Davis. The Jetsons-style craft is small enough to drive on the ground, but can take off vertically and fly as fast as 380 mph
They're still promising me the flying car, spiffy.
This thing is actually pretty cool:
http://www.moller.com/
the M400 Skycar can cruise comfortably at 350+ MPH and achieve up to 28 miles per gallon. Awesome.
http://www.moller.com/skycar/
Lets just get it out of the way
F) CowboyNeal
Should have let them kill eachother, would have been Darwin at its finest
If someone sliced through fiber networks it would be profoundly annoying, but nobody would die.
If I dont refresh slashdot at least once every 3 hours I WILL die.
Type half your password. Then type some random garbage. Use the mouse to select the random garbage and then type over it with the second half of your password.
This would also work for evading a keylogger. You can make it as simple or as complex as you want.
Thoughts?
So your saying the only way to be cool is to not give a shit either way. doesnt sound very spiffy, whats your opinion?