divx and xvid are slightly modified version of mp4. (reference - "Methods described in MPEG-4 part 2 (MPEG-4 SP/ASP) are used by codecs such as DivX, Xvid, Nero Digital, 3ivx and by Quicktime 6, and methods described in MPEG-4 part 10 (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264) are used by the x264 codec, by Nero Digital AVC, by Quicktime 7, and by next-gen DVD formats like HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.").
You should check out VLC player for a fast good playback experience. Quicktime is what most people try to use to play mp4 files, and, yes its a little slow on most computers.
Divx isnt the only file type that DVD players play. Most dvd players that play divx also play mp4. check your manual.
Plus the normal and High Profile settings work fine on my ps3.
I was surprised when this happened, but I can appreciate that, ultimately, it's a legacy format. Apparently, the AVI implementation is very convoluted to keep up with new features. Here's a selected quote from their release blog: "It does not support modern container features like chapters, muxed-in subtitles, variable framerate video, or out of order frame display....The code has not been actively maintained since 2005. Keeping it in the library while implementing new features means a very convoluted data pipeline, full of conditionals that make the code more difficult to read and maintain, and make output harder to predict. As such, it is now gone. It is not coming back, and good riddance." (sadly there didnt seem to be a permalink to the whole article - here's the current news page).
As such, I've moved on and figured out which flavor of mpeg-4 works best for me; and I'm happier with the improved picture quality as a result.
You could piggyback on Opera Mini (I have no idea what their eula says, Im not a lawyer, etc). They claim to compress web content by 90% on their backend before the output is redirected to your phone (or PC, in this case).
hopefully this wont date me much, but this reminds me of tape bias, the high-frequency signal applied to the magnetic frequencies used to record tapes (oh it did have unintended consequences).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias
First thing I would do would be to understand that most people are unhappy with the powers given to the president during these last eight years. I would immediately begin to ask congress for a new checks and balances constitutional amendment.
In my small server room that I inherited, I was sitting working one day at the terminal when I heard a drip-drip-drip. I looked up to see a warped ceiling panel and water dripping down.
I was a little terrified but I got up on a ladder, removed the ceiling tile, and found the evaporation bucket the size of the server room itself. Some fool had put the drain for this large (200 Gallon) tray at the lip of the tray instead of the bottom. Thus 200 gallons, a 'youre fired' amount of water was hanging over my servers at all times.
It took myself and another engineer hours to siphon all of the water out into large plastic tanks using a garden hose. That's when the building maintenance people hit me with this gem: "We can't fix it. But we'll put an alarm up there to go and empty it when its full". A ladder and broom to tap the bucket are now standard issue for that room. Lame...
What the? He crammed math/physics studying into one year, and then he wants to go to law school? Can someone please tell him that the LSAT (law school placment exam) is the only grad. entrance exam that DOESN'T doesn't include a math section. I guess that's the definition of exploring... trying something completely different.
They had their feelers out for Half Life movie scripts... and they've all sucked. Which is probably a good thing, as I'd rather have no movie than a crppy half life movie.
Source:
The Beatles will never be on ITMS because of Apple Computer's doing. Apple Records have been sueing Apple Computers for the last few years under trademark law (?). From what I gather, Apple Computers wins as long as they don't create 'confusion' amongst the consumers. Apple Computers selling the The Beatles or any other artist on the old Apple Records roster would give the record label enough legal ground to sue Apple Computers into the stone age. I'm sure Steve Jobs loves The Beatles (don't we all), but I'll be surprised if they ever do end up on ITMS for these legal reasons.
-steve
Hmm... they tried this piecemeal supercomputer at my university (university of san francisco). From what I understood, they accepted a lot of low-spec computers that actually caused more problems than they served to compute.
http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
Can anyone confirm on my specific point?
Rule of thumb for the real world. The judicial system has no sympathy for hackers, and most businesses have good law firms on retainer just for reasons like this. They don't want to toy around. If they think you're up to something, all they have to do is gather some 'evidence' and convince the DA to press charges. And don't forget civil suits. If you portscan (I know this is pathetic) crashes their server, and they make a four- or five- figures per minute, they can sue you in civil court. If you don't believe me, ask the grannies that are settling out of court with the RIAA, or talk to anyone familiar with the SCO case. Sad but true. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, either figure out a way to be less threatened (run a portscanner from some 'axis of evil' country), cover your tracks I suppose, or don't do it. Or at least practic on yourself. It's a better learning experience to see both sides of an attack, for all you future sysadmins.
No that's webbrowsing. When you nmap, you are initiating a TCP connection. If someone thinks so, you are intruding. Its the same premise that stores work on. If it's business hours, and you walk in the front door, any judge will side with you that you are not trespassing as you have been INVITED on the premise. However, if you start poking at the windows with a stick, and one of them opens and it isn't business hours (i.e. you haven't been invited), you are trespassing and liable. *** It's a wonderful analogy. You see I have to make everything an analogy to dumb it down. But the essence stands. If you portscan someone, you've giving them probable cause for search-and-seizure unless you have a legal document/contract to hide behind (and for those of you working in the real world know that contracts are still sometimes flimsy). Good luck working in the real world.
Of course there's no perfect analogy. There's not much in the world like portscanning. But your analogies err on the conservative side (the karate example is more like asking "do you have nmap?" not actually using nessus or some tool like that). Attacking is subjective, and even if you think you are appropriately connecting to a server, you don't own it and you don't have free control over it. It's hardware and bandwidth that's owned by someone else and they decide appropriate usage, not you. Sure I think there's very little wrong with this whole portscanner issue since anyone who wants to learn can do so without a class, but case law is awfully considerate toward server owners who are inept and leave their servers open. *** You can argue me all you want, but just try nmaping fbi.gov and then you can explain it to the FBI and the courts when they knock on your door.
I can see where you would see that there's no illegality here. But there's one point that you're missing. Think of it this way. Attempted Murder is a felony even if you don't succeed. Assault is the attempt to hit someone. Assault and Battery means that you successfully hit somone, and it carries a heavier penalty. A closer analogy would be if a thief entered your house, and you caught the thief without any actual theft taking place.
The difference between a vuln. scan and an attack is if you query the host beforehand and get approval. Dicey dicey.
Steve
Synthesize drugs eh? This Bittorrent stuff is really quality programming. Pure 100% uncut programming.
Colombian Cartels (and Canadian Pot Tunnelers) wring their hand with joy.
From his homepage:
I build systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes.
Slashdot Mirror
divx and xvid are slightly modified version of mp4. (reference - "Methods described in MPEG-4 part 2 (MPEG-4 SP/ASP) are used by codecs such as DivX, Xvid, Nero Digital, 3ivx and by Quicktime 6, and methods described in MPEG-4 part 10 (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264) are used by the x264 codec, by Nero Digital AVC, by Quicktime 7, and by next-gen DVD formats like HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.").
You should check out VLC player for a fast good playback experience. Quicktime is what most people try to use to play mp4 files, and, yes its a little slow on most computers.
Divx isnt the only file type that DVD players play. Most dvd players that play divx also play mp4. check your manual. Plus the normal and High Profile settings work fine on my ps3.
I was surprised when this happened, but I can appreciate that, ultimately, it's a legacy format. Apparently, the AVI implementation is very convoluted to keep up with new features. Here's a selected quote from their release blog: "It does not support modern container features like chapters, muxed-in subtitles, variable framerate video, or out of order frame display....The code has not been actively maintained since 2005. Keeping it in the library while implementing new features means a very convoluted data pipeline, full of conditionals that make the code more difficult to read and maintain, and make output harder to predict. As such, it is now gone. It is not coming back, and good riddance." (sadly there didnt seem to be a permalink to the whole article - here's the current news page).
As such, I've moved on and figured out which flavor of mpeg-4 works best for me; and I'm happier with the improved picture quality as a result.
Download Opera Mini and the Microemulator
http://www.operamini.com/download/pc/generic/generic_advanced_midp_2/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30014&package_id=21993&release_id=587061
You could also try uninstalling Flash is generally pretty easy. Zipping all your attachments etc
Oh and stop reading pages like Slashdot. Its all just nonsense anyways. ;-)
hopefully this wont date me much, but this reminds me of tape bias, the high-frequency signal applied to the magnetic frequencies used to record tapes (oh it did have unintended consequences). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_bias
First thing I would do would be to understand that most people are unhappy with the powers given to the president during these last eight years. I would immediately begin to ask congress for a new checks and balances constitutional amendment.
In my small server room that I inherited, I was sitting working one day at the terminal when I heard a drip-drip-drip. I looked up to see a warped ceiling panel and water dripping down.
I was a little terrified but I got up on a ladder, removed the ceiling tile, and found the evaporation bucket the size of the server room itself. Some fool had put the drain for this large (200 Gallon) tray at the lip of the tray instead of the bottom. Thus 200 gallons, a 'youre fired' amount of water was hanging over my servers at all times.
It took myself and another engineer hours to siphon all of the water out into large plastic tanks using a garden hose. That's when the building maintenance people hit me with this gem: "We can't fix it. But we'll put an alarm up there to go and empty it when its full". A ladder and broom to tap the bucket are now standard issue for that room. Lame...
I thought Guiness breweries made the Guiness Book of World Records, not a doctor or doctors (headline needs re-editing)
What the? He crammed math/physics studying into one year, and then he wants to go to law school?
Can someone please tell him that the LSAT (law school placment exam) is the only grad. entrance exam that DOESN'T doesn't include a math section. I guess that's the definition of exploring... trying something completely different.
They had their feelers out for Half Life movie scripts... and they've all sucked. Which is probably a good thing, as I'd rather have no movie than a crppy half life movie. Source:
Whatever happened to the Longhorn / Vista 'Red Screen of Death'?4 15335.aspx
Red is so much scarier.
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/05/07/
mirror for the lazy:6 04b34dc63bb/index.html
http://mirrordot.org/stories/3627c5be2ac21048d6da
The Beatles will never be on ITMS because of Apple Computer's doing. Apple Records have been sueing Apple Computers for the last few years under trademark law (?). From what I gather, Apple Computers wins as long as they don't create 'confusion' amongst the consumers. Apple Computers selling the The Beatles or any other artist on the old Apple Records roster would give the record label enough legal ground to sue Apple Computers into the stone age. I'm sure Steve Jobs loves The Beatles (don't we all), but I'll be surprised if they ever do end up on ITMS for these legal reasons. -steve
CmdrTaco
ME
Richard Patrick (from the band Filter)
Sid Vicious (sex pistols' late bassist)
John Wilkes Booth (oddly enough)
and sadly:
Rick Santorum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSn2igZtuPA Steve
http://cdn.sfgate.com/gate/av/movies/2006/04/30/j
but can hajinet survive a slashdotting? Let my download accelerator GO! Steve
Hmm... they tried this piecemeal supercomputer at my university (university of san francisco). From what I understood, they accepted a lot of low-spec computers that actually caused more problems than they served to compute. http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/ Can anyone confirm on my specific point?
Rule of thumb for the real world. The judicial system has no sympathy for hackers, and most businesses have good law firms on retainer just for reasons like this. They don't want to toy around. If they think you're up to something, all they have to do is gather some 'evidence' and convince the DA to press charges. And don't forget civil suits. If you portscan (I know this is pathetic) crashes their server, and they make a four- or five- figures per minute, they can sue you in civil court. If you don't believe me, ask the grannies that are settling out of court with the RIAA, or talk to anyone familiar with the SCO case. Sad but true. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, either figure out a way to be less threatened (run a portscanner from some 'axis of evil' country), cover your tracks I suppose, or don't do it. Or at least practic on yourself. It's a better learning experience to see both sides of an attack, for all you future sysadmins.
No that's webbrowsing. When you nmap, you are initiating a TCP connection. If someone thinks so, you are intruding. Its the same premise that stores work on. If it's business hours, and you walk in the front door, any judge will side with you that you are not trespassing as you have been INVITED on the premise. However, if you start poking at the windows with a stick, and one of them opens and it isn't business hours (i.e. you haven't been invited), you are trespassing and liable. *** It's a wonderful analogy. You see I have to make everything an analogy to dumb it down. But the essence stands. If you portscan someone, you've giving them probable cause for search-and-seizure unless you have a legal document/contract to hide behind (and for those of you working in the real world know that contracts are still sometimes flimsy). Good luck working in the real world.
And, oh yeah, yer pretty fly. Maybe even superfly. I can't measure you're fly-ness from here. (flame war here I come).
Of course there's no perfect analogy. There's not much in the world like portscanning. But your analogies err on the conservative side (the karate example is more like asking "do you have nmap?" not actually using nessus or some tool like that). Attacking is subjective, and even if you think you are appropriately connecting to a server, you don't own it and you don't have free control over it. It's hardware and bandwidth that's owned by someone else and they decide appropriate usage, not you. Sure I think there's very little wrong with this whole portscanner issue since anyone who wants to learn can do so without a class, but case law is awfully considerate toward server owners who are inept and leave their servers open. *** You can argue me all you want, but just try nmaping fbi.gov and then you can explain it to the FBI and the courts when they knock on your door.
I can see where you would see that there's no illegality here. But there's one point that you're missing. Think of it this way. Attempted Murder is a felony even if you don't succeed. Assault is the attempt to hit someone. Assault and Battery means that you successfully hit somone, and it carries a heavier penalty. A closer analogy would be if a thief entered your house, and you caught the thief without any actual theft taking place. The difference between a vuln. scan and an attack is if you query the host beforehand and get approval. Dicey dicey. Steve
Yeah but Microsoft and Sony aren't the best of friends.
Remember xbox360 vs. playstation 3? I'm sure m$ is all too happy to be the hero over Sony.
Synthesize drugs eh? This Bittorrent stuff is really quality programming. Pure 100% uncut programming. Colombian Cartels (and Canadian Pot Tunnelers) wring their hand with joy. From his homepage: I build systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes.