Been running Bio-diesel for a year now (on a 2005 VW Passat TDI)
Here are some facts to enhance the discussion:
Fact: In most places commercially produced BD (BioDiesel) runs about the same price as DD (Dino Diesel).
Fact: BD is wildly available, specially on main interstate hwys where a trucker can fill up for the next 800 miles. Also if you don't find BD available, just fill-up with DD until you have a chance to drop by the next BD friendly pump. (you can mix&match with no issues)
Fact: BD is a powerfull solvent. That said, most diesel vehicles produced after the late 90's can use BD with out any worry of "melting their hoses".. The main problem you might find by switching to BD is that it will clean your gas tank from all the previously DD deposits on your tank, so you might have to change your fuel filter.
Fact:(?) As far as I understand, the only by-product of producing BD is ~ 10% of glycerin, which is readly purchased by the cosmetics industry..
Finally.. I regularly get 40 miles per gallon on a fun, fast & very fine looking german coupe.. with significant pollution reduction and no war required ! what else can you ask?
If you want to read an acurate (straight from the horses mouth) description of what the law is supposed to do for the peruvian people, read peruvian congresman Villanueva's response to Microsofts objection to the Law.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peru vian_opensource_nightmare/
There are many other important points that favour open software current state, open formats are just one of the key ones.
The law just passed is the latest adjustment to a series of laws with the objectives that I mention (Open-nes of the software and fiscal responsability)
If you look at the last paragraph of TFA , you can read:
"El proyecto aprobado resume las iniciativas legislativas 1609, 2344, 3030, 7389, 8251 y 9026 que tienen el mismo propósito a favor del software libre."
Nowhere in the law it says that you may not use a propietary software. (As long as they are willing to give you the source code for examination, your document formats are "open" and you dont force us to buy special hardware to make the software work )
The law tittle is : Ley de neutralidad tecnologia en la contrataciones de licencias y servicios informáticos
Badly translated reads : Law for the technological *NEUTRALITY* on the contracts and services of information systems.
Neutral = Nobody is being favoured here.
If your software, meets the conditions of "openen-nes" & fiscal responsability we don't care who made it.
Further more (From the freaking article) :
"El proyecto aprobado resume las iniciativas legislativas 1609, 2344, 3030, 7389, 8251 y 9026 que tienen el mismo propósito a favor del software libre.
"
Which basically says: The digest you are reading is a just a small amendment to a legislative action that has been 3+ years on the making.
You can paint it anyway you want to, but the true "spirit" of the law is to protect access to the public data. anything wrong with that ?
I stand by my original comment: willingly or unwillingly , you are spreading misinformation.
The Peruvian congress is just guaranteen that Peruvians have free and unrestricted access to their information. (i.e. no propietary formats)
Microsoft (or any other company for that matter) is welcome to compete for the market by supporting open formats.
Now that this is clear, to counteract the mis-information your comment may spread, please say outloud 100 times: "This Law Has Nothing To Do With Microsoft"
The law is not to compete with MSoft , the law is to have an open format. Something that will allow Peruvians free access to documents *we* (I am Peruvian) are entrusting our goverment to saveguard for us.
If Msoft or any other company wishes to offer their products/services in Peru, all they need is to suport open formats.
By your comments you demonstrate that Msoft FUD machinery is working, as only they present this subject as a competition between Open Vs Msoft.
Hope this clears it for you.
Re:Editing? What about capturing video?
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If you want to capture composite video, then you need a video capture card (independant of linux)
You can use Video4linux to capture and record video from a variety of video-in cards, TV tuners and others.
If you are using a DV camera, you should have no problem using firewire + dvgrab to capture into DV
(I do both all the time )
If your camera has dv-out, firewire or any other way to create a dv, you are done.
You can also use any of the video4linux drivers, but the quality is not as good.
Lots of people run cinelerra on smaller machines. I would say that anything above 1.5ghz + 500megs of ram would do...
I use a 2.2ghz + 1gig ram, and it does fine
Dear Slashdot crowd..
As the mantainer of the cinelerra manual wiki, which runs out of my home cable connection on a P400mhz 64 meg machine...
Please, please, please be gentle..
look at : http://www.electrolux.com/node442.asp
Had one of those at home when I was a kid, and I think they still sell them.
You could do the solar radiation trick.. but they are very picky about having a steady heat source (day and night)
Electricity itself does not makes the ice, it is the gases being compressed and decompressed on opposite chambers that transers the heat from one side to the other , (leaving the inside cold and the outside hot)
So, you could (been done before) attach a bicycle to the pump, and do the pumping by pedaling, or even easier, most non-electricity places in the world use kerosine run fridges... basically generating ice from fire:)
The basic idea is this: You heat an amonia solution to its boiling point on a sealed container with. it aquires great pressure, then let it escapes tru a pinhole into a radiator. when the amonia gas expands, it actually consumes heat, (produces cold)
the trick, is to have the radiator inside the icebox, and the pump on the outside.
You can do this with any gas.. amonia solution, just happens to be better at it..
Yes, the world *is* messed up. Yes, the media plays the "feeling" button to sell us crap. Do that means that I should not help someone who inspires me and others ?
We can't solve *all* the problems on the world, but we *can* put our small grain of sand to make a dream reality.
BTW, helping on this one cause, does NOT mean that I can't be active on many others.
By your logic, we should stop helping any non life-and-dead cause (like collaborating to open source projects) and focus 100% to "world tragedies" only.
If what you want is ogg + linux support..
The Neuros is way bettre, cheaper, nicer..
ogg, java file manager, open source firmware plus line in WAV & MP3 recording and FM transmiter included..
Can't beat it..
This sounds like the classic "Tall" story from someone trying to impress you by pretending that just because he was out of the USA for a couple of weeks.. Now he thinks he's Rambo (tm)
IMHO your buddy gave you a lot of bulldroppings and you eat them straight..
Have you been there ? no? ohh.. I thought so...
I've been to over there many, many times, and it's no more risky than your average 7-11 on a good day.
Do you have any idea how many thousands of turist go to S. America e-v-e-r-y month ?
Do you really think they all carry "ex-Ranger" security with them ?
For god sake.. most of them are nice senior citizens in really tack outfits..
ever heard of on of them being captured,killed,kidnapped etc ? ? no? oh.. I thought so..
C'mon.. use your head..
Submit your resume to any of those and watch tons of junk mail show up in your mail box. The worst part is that it was mostly re-finance, meake money fast and "easy-loans" junk!
I seriously believe there are companies posting fake jobs just to farm info out of the resumes.
(ie. Predators looking for unemployed people in need of money)
You got'a love it! when anyone else looks at files they should not be looking at, it is "criminal hacking" when they look at the same stuff it is called "glitch":)))
If you are interested on viewing your computer media via TV you should look at hauppage's MediaMVP it goes for abot $80 bucks, the box's OS runs linux ( http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-6466_7-30543929.html )
After asking hauppage about linux support I got this response:
- - - - - -
Dear mynamehere
Thanks for your note.
The MediaMVP currently requires a WindowsXP or Windows2000 system. Even
though our MediaMVP product development was done under Linux, the "server"
part of the system is currently only running with Windows.
There have been a ton of requests for Linux servers, and our engineers are
seeing what we can do to support a Linux server. When we do, we will post a
free update on our website.
Ken Plotkin
Hauppauge
- - - - - - - - - -
Personally I would buy a couple of them in a sec if it supported linux (where all my media is located)...
The point here is that if we let'em know that there is a demand for linux drivers/software they *will* make them.. (hopefully before xmas)
So, if you have interest on this kind of a device for linux, send them a nice email at sales@hauppauge.com
FYI
I've seen camera rotations done with 7 single camera shots and a morph program...
(Tutorial at: http://www.nccinema.ch/esfx11.html)
It is a lot of work but the result looks pretty good to me if you ask.
For your flying scenes, Just get a decent pulley, 500 lb wire, a full harnes and 3 big guys to pull it. Later just use cinepaint (ex film gimp) to wipe out the wire.. (frame by frame!)
I've done it on home movies of my kids and it works!
Still, the movie was pretty cool stuff..
Kudos to y'all
Slashdot Mirror
Been running Bio-diesel for a year now (on a 2005 VW Passat TDI)
Here are some facts to enhance the discussion:
Fact: In most places commercially produced BD (BioDiesel) runs about the same price as DD (Dino Diesel).
Fact: BD is wildly available, specially on main interstate hwys where a trucker can fill up for the next 800 miles. Also if you don't find BD available, just fill-up with DD until you have a chance to drop by the next BD friendly pump. (you can mix&match with no issues)
Fact: BD is a powerfull solvent. That said, most diesel vehicles produced after the late 90's can use BD with out any worry of "melting their hoses".. The main problem you might find by switching to BD is that it will clean your gas tank from all the previously DD deposits on your tank, so you might have to change your fuel filter.
Fact:(?) As far as I understand, the only by-product of producing BD is ~ 10% of glycerin, which is readly purchased by the cosmetics industry..
Finally.. I regularly get 40 miles per gallon on a fun, fast & very fine looking german coupe.. with significant pollution reduction and no war required ! what else can you ask?
If you want to read an acurate (straight from the horses mouth) description of what the law is supposed to do for the peruvian people, read peruvian congresman Villanueva's response to Microsofts objection to the Law. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peru vian_opensource_nightmare/
There are many other important points that favour open software current state, open formats are just one of the key ones.
The law just passed is the latest adjustment to a series of laws with the objectives that I mention (Open-nes of the software and fiscal responsability)
If you look at the last paragraph of TFA , you can read:
"El proyecto aprobado resume las iniciativas legislativas 1609, 2344, 3030, 7389, 8251 y 9026 que tienen el mismo propósito a favor del software libre."
Nowhere in the law it says that you may not use a propietary software. (As long as they are willing to give you the source code for examination, your document formats are "open" and you dont force us to buy special hardware to make the software work )
Why is this so hard to understand ?
Then You should RTFL = Read the freaking law :
The law tittle is : Ley de neutralidad tecnologia en la contrataciones de licencias y servicios informáticos
Badly translated reads : Law for the technological *NEUTRALITY* on the contracts and services of information systems.
Neutral = Nobody is being favoured here.
If your software, meets the conditions of "openen-nes" & fiscal responsability we don't care who made it.
Further more (From the freaking article) :
"El proyecto aprobado resume las iniciativas legislativas 1609, 2344, 3030, 7389, 8251 y 9026 que tienen el mismo propósito a favor del software libre. "
Which basically says: The digest you are reading is a just a small amendment to a legislative action that has been 3+ years on the making.
You can paint it anyway you want to, but the true "spirit" of the law is to protect access to the public data. anything wrong with that ?
I stand by my original comment: willingly or unwillingly , you are spreading misinformation.
Willing or unwillingly you are spreading FUD.
The Peruvian congress is just guaranteen that Peruvians have free and unrestricted access to their information. (i.e. no propietary formats)
Microsoft (or any other company for that matter) is welcome to compete for the market by supporting open formats.
Now that this is clear, to counteract the mis-information your comment may spread, please say outloud 100 times: "This Law Has Nothing To Do With Microsoft"
The law is not to compete with MSoft , the law is to have an open format. Something that will allow Peruvians free access to documents *we* (I am Peruvian) are entrusting our goverment to saveguard for us. If Msoft or any other company wishes to offer their products/services in Peru, all they need is to suport open formats. By your comments you demonstrate that Msoft FUD machinery is working, as only they present this subject as a competition between Open Vs Msoft. Hope this clears it for you.
I can give you $1500 to $2500 reasons why ...
If you want to capture composite video, then you need a video capture card (independant of linux) You can use Video4linux to capture and record video from a variety of video-in cards, TV tuners and others. If you are using a DV camera, you should have no problem using firewire + dvgrab to capture into DV (I do both all the time )
If your camera has dv-out, firewire or any other way to create a dv, you are done. You can also use any of the video4linux drivers, but the quality is not as good.
Lots of people run cinelerra on smaller machines. I would say that anything above 1.5ghz + 500megs of ram would do ...
I use a 2.2ghz + 1gig ram, and it does fine
Yes it does.
Dear Slashdot crowd.. As the mantainer of the cinelerra manual wiki, which runs out of my home cable connection on a P400mhz 64 meg machine ...
Please, please, please be gentle..
It is a close circuit.. the condensed amonia drops to the bottom of the pan, where it is heated again and so on ..
Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Refrigerator
look at : http://www.electrolux.com/node442.asp Had one of those at home when I was a kid, and I think they still sell them. You could do the solar radiation trick.. but they are very picky about having a steady heat source (day and night)
Electricity itself does not makes the ice, it is the gases being compressed and decompressed on opposite chambers that transers the heat from one side to the other , (leaving the inside cold and the outside hot) So, you could (been done before) attach a bicycle to the pump, and do the pumping by pedaling, or even easier, most non-electricity places in the world use kerosine run fridges... basically generating ice from fire :)
The basic idea is this: You heat an amonia solution to its boiling point on a sealed container with. it aquires great pressure, then let it escapes tru a pinhole into a radiator. when the amonia gas expands, it actually consumes heat, (produces cold)
the trick, is to have the radiator inside the icebox, and the pump on the outside.
You can do this with any gas.. amonia solution, just happens to be better at it ..
C'mon...
Yes, the world *is* messed up. Yes, the media plays the "feeling" button to sell us crap. Do that means that I should not help someone who inspires me and others ?
We can't solve *all* the problems on the world, but we *can* put our small grain of sand to make a dream reality.
BTW, helping on this one cause, does NOT mean that I can't be active on many others.
By your logic, we should stop helping any non life-and-dead cause (like collaborating to open source projects) and focus 100% to "world tragedies" only.
A beach is made from many grains of sand.
Hear Hear! They should set up a Paypal Donation site for this. BTW, I *will* be sending a check.
For SyncManager software on Linux I use NDBM which runs on java .. works great.
http://neurosdbm.sourceforge.net/
have fun.
If what you want is ogg + linux support.. The Neuros is way bettre, cheaper, nicer ..
ogg, java file manager, open source firmware plus line in WAV & MP3 recording and FM transmiter included..
Can't beat it ..
This sounds like the classic "Tall" story from someone trying to impress you by pretending that just because he was out of the USA for a couple of weeks .. Now he thinks he's Rambo (tm)
IMHO your buddy gave you a lot of bulldroppings and you eat them straight ..
Have you been there ? no? ohh.. I thought so...
I've been to over there many, many times, and it's no more risky than your average 7-11 on a good day.
Do you have any idea how many thousands of turist go to S. America e-v-e-r-y month ?
Do you really think they all carry "ex-Ranger" security with them ?
For god sake.. most of them are nice senior citizens in really tack outfits..
ever heard of on of them being captured,killed,kidnapped etc ? ? no? oh.. I thought so..
C'mon .. use your head..
Submit your resume to any of those and watch tons of junk mail show up in your mail box. The worst part is that it was mostly re-finance, meake money fast and "easy-loans" junk! I seriously believe there are companies posting fake jobs just to farm info out of the resumes. (ie. Predators looking for unemployed people in need of money)
You got'a love it! when anyone else looks at files they should not be looking at, it is "criminal hacking" when they look at the same stuff it is called "glitch" :)))
If you are interested on viewing your computer media via TV you should look at hauppage's MediaMVP it goes for abot $80 bucks, the box's OS runs linux ( http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-6466_7-30543929.html )
After asking hauppage about linux support I got this response:
- - - - - -
Dear mynamehere
Thanks for your note.
The MediaMVP currently requires a WindowsXP or Windows2000 system. Even though our MediaMVP product development was done under Linux, the "server" part of the system is currently only running with Windows.
There have been a ton of requests for Linux servers, and our engineers are seeing what we can do to support a Linux server. When we do, we will post a free update on our website.
Ken Plotkin
Hauppauge
- - - - - - - - - -
Personally I would buy a couple of them in a sec if it supported linux (where all my media is located)... The point here is that if we let'em know that there is a demand for linux drivers/software they *will* make them.. (hopefully before xmas) So, if you have interest on this kind of a device for linux, send them a nice email at sales@hauppauge.com
FYI I've seen camera rotations done with 7 single camera shots and a morph program...
(Tutorial at: http://www.nccinema.ch/esfx11.html)
It is a lot of work but the result looks pretty good to me if you ask. For your flying scenes, Just get a decent pulley, 500 lb wire, a full harnes and 3 big guys to pull it. Later just use cinepaint (ex film gimp) to wipe out the wire.. (frame by frame!) I've done it on home movies of my kids and it works! Still, the movie was pretty cool stuff..
Kudos to y'all