I do. I've probably saved hundreds of dollars dumping movies to mp4 rather than to DVD. I'm pretty sure my iPod has already payed for itself.
The iPod makes a handy anti-boredom device on business flights.
Also, the last hotel I stayed in in Edmonton had AV connectors on the TV. I watched the entire "Man With No Name" trilogy last week.
"Broadcasting" directly from an iPod to a TV with no need to bring a stack of DVD's or a personal laptop is extremely handy.
I agree 100%. I bought a 20in iMac about a month before the release of boot camp and kept my old windows (p3 900 mHz) box around simply to play Chuzzles.
The company I work for mandates XP for some of the e.Learning courses we have to take on our own time.
Boot Camp has enabled me to migrate the six or so games I play to "XP Mode" on my new iMac, take corporate e.Learning and also released my old windows-only hardware to allow a full Ubuntu Dapper install for testing purposes.
I've got the best of three worlds now. I can enter the alt world and pop Chuzzles to my hearts content while still being able to do all the stuff I actually enjoy in OS X. I can keep the linux toys on another pc.
I think Boot Camp is fantastic.
Boot Camp actually convinced me to run out and buy an XP Pro disc because I finally had the hardware to run the OS.
If you're not smart enough to read a map and realize you probably shouldn't go down roads with big boulders and cliffs then don't blame it on a GPS... It's 100% user error.
I routinely use GPS waypoint tracking while I'm fishing and 4X4ing.
I then import that data into Google Earth/KML.
Only once have I ever ended up with a KML file I'd actually give someone to use for fishing.
Normally, I end up with results worthy of usage for getting rid of your enemies.
Oh sure... Just go down that goat track for fifteen clicks and then turn left at the old stump.
Trust me, it's totally safe! The GPS knows exactly where you are!
While using XP, I visited the "Live Safety Center" site linked from the information page you provided. I was running Firefox and promptly got a "Whoops" (you're not a MS whore) error.
Quite professional. Whoops? Microsoft Beta products frighten me.
So, I returned with IE. Strangely enough, the page rendered properly in Firefox but had some broken images in IE. I installed the active-x scanner anyway. (Yikes!)
Once you install the control you obtain two modes of scanning, Virus only and a Full scan. I was curious, so I chose the full scan mode.
"Features" provided by the full scan:
Virus Scan
Disk Cleanup Scan
Disk Fragmentation Scan
Open Ports Scan
Computer Information
The virus scanner took an eternity and searched EVERYTHING on the hard drive. The tool scanned a lot of dumb files and really seemed to bog down on folders with lots of zip files. (i.e. merged Mame roms.) There are no options to exclude directories.
My computer became useless during the process and I got bored of staring at the extremely slow progress bar. So, I went and played Resident Evil 4 for a while. Even after finishing chapters 3 and 4, the virus scan still wasn't complete.
After the scan completed, the program gave me a report telling me no viruses were found, I had 912 KB of temp files (all in downloaded program files and temporary internet files) and 21% and 6% fragmented hard drives.
The scanner also told me I had no ports open to the internet. I don't know how or what is actually checked here because a 'netstat -a' showed me listening on lots of ports due to utorrent, miranda and firefox.
I then checked all the boxes to allow the app to remove the temp files and defrag my hard drive(s). Again, my computer became next to impossible to use due to an overloaded hard drive. More RE4 was required.
Hours later, everthing was complete. All in all, the "Live Safety Center" didn't really provide me any gains as I'm using non-MS solutions for security purposes. (freeav, sygate, adaware, ss&d)
I would only recommend this tool for complete neophytes. The app provides a small level of security to be added to XP in a basic whack-a-mole process. (Quick, call all your relatives!)
The only good thing that came out of this whole process for me were the defragmented drives. I'm somewhat absent-minded when it comes to defrag and only do so when I can't stand the file hunting anymore.
I do have to admit that I'm slighhtly mortified by an active-x control with full admin rights on my box. It was really easy to allow this program to run. No wonder people get infected so easily.
You forgot the two most important: Firefox and Thunderbird.
Pick an alternate e-mail client. All my friends were going down in flames and I was saying: "Worm? What worm? Spam? What spam? MUAHAHAHA!"
I used to use Pegasus for e-mail at home before Thunderbird was available. Outlook is a major bone of contention for me. I use it at work and I've always hated the program.
The XP "nt loader" STILL doesn't play nice. I just split a drive with partition magic and installed Breezy Badger after already installing XP.
50M grub/boot partition at start of drive. XP boots. Can't find "autochk." Restart. Ad nauseum. It took about an hour of fucking around with partition flags and grub settings to get both OS-es to boot from the hard drive properly.
I don't blame Microsoft for this one, mind you... I can easily point the finger at PopCap. My wife loves (read:is addicted to) Chuzzles and Dynomite. XP has to stay.
I forgot to take my cell phone out of my pocket while I was fly fishing about a year ago. During a cast the phone hopped out of my jacket and went for a swim for about 5 minutes.
When I realised what had happened I retrieved the phone from the water and removed the cover and battery immediately. I put the phone parts on the front seat of my car and went back to fishing.
By the time I was done the phone was dry and ready to reassemble. It worked fine then and has worked ever since.
The 3595 is just a plain vanilla cell phone with no camera, mp3 player, etc. It's the best cell phone I've ever owned.
This chip would be an amazing benefit towards the physical modeling of sound propagation environments. Processor lag in time-based audio effects could be almost eliminated. This would be fantastic for audio processing!
Since I'm at work and can't check I'm just assuming from the url and your subject that this site is a porn torrent tracker. The good news for you is that the MPAA and the porn houses aren't *cringe* in bed together. *bah dump ching*
I love Buzz and use it for a guitar processor. I totally agree that Buzz is an amazing piece of free software.
However, I find the whole "hard drive crash" thing awful convenient. Remember, Oskari was the guy who was "dumb" enough to develop without backups and then have a "convenient" hard drive crash shortly before Buzz plugin support appeared in Fruityloops. http://www.flstudio.com/
Shortly after the crash we saw the appearance of XS-1 and BuzzVST as well. Hmmmmmmm.
Personally, this "crash" looks like a few cards up the sleeve and a personal marketing move. Oh well, for the most part mod scenesters are complete asshats so who could blame Oskari for turning his back on them?
Here's hoping some Buzz clones can pick up the torch someday...
Commonsound Collective (see 4MS section) has a line of DIY stompbox effects you can build in the privacy of your mad scientist laboratory.
4MS specifies electrical junction boxes as chassis since they are cheap and durable. I've always found them a bit too tall so I use dead hard drives for the chassis instead.
They do require a bit of grinding but the RF shielding seems to be far superior to junction boxes.
I recently pulled an old SCSI drive out of one of 3 dead DG Aviions I have (which make fantastic speaker stands, by the way) and have it all cleaned out to make a Noise Swash.
The rate device feature has existed in Logitech drivers for at least three years now. I have an old Logitech First/Wheel Mouse at work and when I push down on the wheel the pointer turns into a large circle with an up/down arrow. Dragging the mouse up or down scrolls content at a variable rate of speed. This is basically the same function as what you are describing built into the driver for Win2K and probably easy to implement elsewhere. Granted, this doesn't work in console sessions... but you DID say document.
... so good in fact that people literally don't feel the road at all, they'll shy away from it. There's just something weird about driving and not being able to feel the road under you...
I completely agree with you here.
I'm pretty sure that if I had these cool new landspeeder-y shocks installed on my Golf last weekend I would have died in a firey ball of flames after careening off of the Crows Nest Pass down into the rocky bed of the Similkameen River.
The sky decided to open up on me just as I was rounding a curve at 70kph. The speed, sudden rain, and the old oil on the road all came together in a glorious moment of "Oh Fuck."
I don't think I would have felt the slippage of the front right tire if my car hadn't been swaying to the outside in the classic knee-dip we all know so well from convensional suspension technologies.
A simple steering correction into the slide and slight application of braking was all it took to get sticky again and gain control of the vehicle.
No amount of smooth suspension is going to help you when you lose control of your vehicle and there's nothing to grab onto because your tire didn't smush and/or donut under increased and/or decreased weight and try to stick it's little teeth back into the road.
Then again... all the Type-Ricers will HAVE to have these... so maybe these SHOULD be rushed to market ASAP. Still... Until I can bullseye womp rats with my T-16 I'd rather have rally shocks instead.
I totally agree. This is one of the main reasons I went with Rogers AT&T for my contract. Their bottom of the line entry phone is a Nokia 3595 which is perhaps the best cell phone I've ever owned.
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3595
Intuitive menu system... simple operation... BEJEWELED... and no dogforsaken camera.
Oh wait. I take it all back. In the time it took me to write my previous post the traffic got all fucked just like in real life. The max delay is already up to 106.66 and climbing.
Slashdot Mirror
That is an excellent table. Thank you.
I do. I've probably saved hundreds of dollars dumping movies to mp4 rather than to DVD. I'm pretty sure my iPod has already payed for itself. The iPod makes a handy anti-boredom device on business flights. Also, the last hotel I stayed in in Edmonton had AV connectors on the TV. I watched the entire "Man With No Name" trilogy last week. "Broadcasting" directly from an iPod to a TV with no need to bring a stack of DVD's or a personal laptop is extremely handy.
Picture this...
So I walkskes inskta Cockbuster Video with me 60 gigske iPod Video, arrrrrrgh!
Thenske, I'ze whipzes it out on the counter, gug gug gug gug.
"Arrr, Matey! Loads me up with "God of War!"
ARRRRG! Even a pirate can change his flags.
I think BBV, etc., will just have to change their distribution model in order to stay afloat on the high seas.
I agree 100%. I bought a 20in iMac about a month before the release of boot camp and kept my old windows (p3 900 mHz) box around simply to play Chuzzles.
The company I work for mandates XP for some of the e.Learning courses we have to take on our own time.
Boot Camp has enabled me to migrate the six or so games I play to "XP Mode" on my new iMac, take corporate e.Learning and also released my old windows-only hardware to allow a full Ubuntu Dapper install for testing purposes.
I've got the best of three worlds now. I can enter the alt world and pop Chuzzles to my hearts content while still being able to do all the stuff I actually enjoy in OS X. I can keep the linux toys on another pc.
I think Boot Camp is fantastic.
Boot Camp actually convinced me to run out and buy an XP Pro disc because I finally had the hardware to run the OS.
If you're not smart enough to read a map and realize you probably shouldn't go down roads with big boulders and cliffs then don't blame it on a GPS... It's 100% user error.
I routinely use GPS waypoint tracking while I'm fishing and 4X4ing.
I then import that data into Google Earth/KML.
Only once have I ever ended up with a KML file I'd actually give someone to use for fishing.
Normally, I end up with results worthy of usage for getting rid of your enemies.
Oh sure... Just go down that goat track for fifteen clicks and then turn left at the old stump.
Trust me, it's totally safe! The GPS knows exactly where you are!
HA!
While using XP, I visited the "Live Safety Center" site linked from the information page you provided. I was running Firefox and promptly got a "Whoops" (you're not a MS whore) error.
Quite professional. Whoops? Microsoft Beta products frighten me.
So, I returned with IE. Strangely enough, the page rendered properly in Firefox but had some broken images in IE. I installed the active-x scanner anyway. (Yikes!)
Once you install the control you obtain two modes of scanning, Virus only and a Full scan. I was curious, so I chose the full scan mode.
"Features" provided by the full scan:
The virus scanner took an eternity and searched EVERYTHING on the hard drive. The tool scanned a lot of dumb files and really seemed to bog down on folders with lots of zip files. (i.e. merged Mame roms.) There are no options to exclude directories.
My computer became useless during the process and I got bored of staring at the extremely slow progress bar. So, I went and played Resident Evil 4 for a while. Even after finishing chapters 3 and 4, the virus scan still wasn't complete.
After the scan completed, the program gave me a report telling me no viruses were found, I had 912 KB of temp files (all in downloaded program files and temporary internet files) and 21% and 6% fragmented hard drives.
The scanner also told me I had no ports open to the internet. I don't know how or what is actually checked here because a 'netstat -a' showed me listening on lots of ports due to utorrent, miranda and firefox.
I then checked all the boxes to allow the app to remove the temp files and defrag my hard drive(s). Again, my computer became next to impossible to use due to an overloaded hard drive. More RE4 was required.
Hours later, everthing was complete. All in all, the "Live Safety Center" didn't really provide me any gains as I'm using non-MS solutions for security purposes. (freeav, sygate, adaware, ss&d)
I would only recommend this tool for complete neophytes. The app provides a small level of security to be added to XP in a basic whack-a-mole process. (Quick, call all your relatives!)
The only good thing that came out of this whole process for me were the defragmented drives. I'm somewhat absent-minded when it comes to defrag and only do so when I can't stand the file hunting anymore.
I do have to admit that I'm slighhtly mortified by an active-x control with full admin rights on my box. It was really easy to allow this program to run. No wonder people get infected so easily.
You forgot the two most important: Firefox and Thunderbird.
Pick an alternate e-mail client. All my friends were going down in flames and I was saying: "Worm? What worm? Spam? What spam? MUAHAHAHA!"
I used to use Pegasus for e-mail at home before Thunderbird was available. Outlook is a major bone of contention for me. I use it at work and I've always hated the program.
Also, Zonelabs sucks! Change that firewall to Sygate Personal firewall and you've got a deal: http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
I've always been partial to AntiVir PE: http://freeav.com/
Your other recommendations look a lot like the list I send to people when they ask how to protect their pc...
Sygate Personal, AntiVir, Adaware, SS&D, Javacools, grc.com's muskateers... And when you get sick of installing all that crap: Ubuntu.
The XP "nt loader" STILL doesn't play nice. I just split a drive with partition magic and installed Breezy Badger after already installing XP.
/boot partition at start of drive. XP boots. Can't find "autochk." Restart. Ad nauseum. It took about an hour of fucking around with partition flags and grub settings to get both OS-es to boot from the hard drive properly.
50M grub
I don't blame Microsoft for this one, mind you... I can easily point the finger at PopCap. My wife loves (read:is addicted to) Chuzzles and Dynomite. XP has to stay.
For example, that the union is claiming a strike, and Telus a lockout.
You're mistaken, it's the other way around. My sandwich board reads:
Telecommunications Workers Union
LOCKED OUT
Oh, I see. Instruments! Until you clarified things I was really confused as to how you were getting music out of a Java CSS parser.
This is sort of similar to the concept of spam vampire...
http://www.hillscapital.com/antispam/
Yes, this works great for the Nokia 3595: http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3595
I forgot to take my cell phone out of my pocket while I was fly fishing about a year ago. During a cast the phone hopped out of my jacket and went for a swim for about 5 minutes.
When I realised what had happened I retrieved the phone from the water and removed the cover and battery immediately. I put the phone parts on the front seat of my car and went back to fishing.
By the time I was done the phone was dry and ready to reassemble. It worked fine then and has worked ever since.
The 3595 is just a plain vanilla cell phone with no camera, mp3 player, etc. It's the best cell phone I've ever owned.
This chip would be an amazing benefit towards the physical modeling of sound propagation environments. Processor lag in time-based audio effects could be almost eliminated. This would be fantastic for audio processing!
I hate ATRAC. Especially so since it requires transcoding (read: making shitty sounding music even shittier) of mp3's to play.
ATRAC took so long to transcode and make cd's for my CD-based Sony player that I gave up on the unit as an mp3 player.
(I would like to listen to my music now... not in a week. I guess I'm supposed to plan ahead.)
About a year ago I discovered that the player could read UDF-formatted mp3 cd's.
So, without using any of Sony's "garbage ass" software I now have the features I *thought* I would get when I was buying the player.
It would have been nice to have information in the manual that would have told me I could use UDF discs.
Undocumented features that I can hack and use is one thing... Not natively supporting mp3 is not just assinine... It's unconscionable.
Since I'm at work and can't check I'm just assuming from the url and your subject that this site is a porn torrent tracker. The good news for you is that the MPAA and the porn houses aren't *cringe* in bed together. *bah dump ching*
Wasn't there an idiotic TCO sheet running around the internet a while back?
And your Konqueror reply is relevant how? Linux flogging? Doh!
Gotta love those finnish hackers.
I assume you mean Oskari Tammelin?
I love Buzz and use it for a guitar processor. I totally agree that Buzz is an amazing piece of free software.
However, I find the whole "hard drive crash" thing awful convenient. Remember, Oskari was the guy who was "dumb" enough to develop without backups and then have a "convenient" hard drive crash shortly before Buzz plugin support appeared in Fruityloops. http://www.flstudio.com/
Shortly after the crash we saw the appearance of XS-1 and BuzzVST as well. Hmmmmmmm.
Personally, this "crash" looks like a few cards up the sleeve and a personal marketing move. Oh well, for the most part mod scenesters are complete asshats so who could blame Oskari for turning his back on them?
Here's hoping some Buzz clones can pick up the torch someday...
http://buzzle.spr.at/
http://buzztard.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/venomtwist/
http://neuro.snusnu.at/muwiki/index.php/Cockslap
Br(++#)STX as in Walt Brown.
http://commonsound.com/
A bunch of whacked out guitar effects you can build in your home using printed out templates glued to cardboard. The ultimate DIY electronics project.
Commonsound Collective (see 4MS section) has a line of DIY stompbox effects you can build in the privacy of your mad scientist laboratory.
4MS specifies electrical junction boxes as chassis since they are cheap and durable. I've always found them a bit too tall so I use dead hard drives for the chassis instead.
They do require a bit of grinding but the RF shielding seems to be far superior to junction boxes.
I recently pulled an old SCSI drive out of one of 3 dead DG Aviions I have (which make fantastic speaker stands, by the way) and have it all cleaned out to make a Noise Swash.
Noise Swash info
The rate device feature has existed in Logitech drivers for at least three years now. I have an old Logitech First/Wheel Mouse at work and when I push down on the wheel the pointer turns into a large circle with an up/down arrow. Dragging the mouse up or down scrolls content at a variable rate of speed. This is basically the same function as what you are describing built into the driver for Win2K and probably easy to implement elsewhere. Granted, this doesn't work in console sessions... but you DID say document.
I completely agree with you here.
I'm pretty sure that if I had these cool new landspeeder-y shocks installed on my Golf last weekend I would have died in a firey ball of flames after careening off of the Crows Nest Pass down into the rocky bed of the Similkameen River.
The sky decided to open up on me just as I was rounding a curve at 70kph. The speed, sudden rain, and the old oil on the road all came together in a glorious moment of "Oh Fuck."
I don't think I would have felt the slippage of the front right tire if my car hadn't been swaying to the outside in the classic knee-dip we all know so well from convensional suspension technologies.
A simple steering correction into the slide and slight application of braking was all it took to get sticky again and gain control of the vehicle.
No amount of smooth suspension is going to help you when you lose control of your vehicle and there's nothing to grab onto because your tire didn't smush and/or donut under increased and/or decreased weight and try to stick it's little teeth back into the road.
Then again... all the Type-Ricers will HAVE to have these... so maybe these SHOULD be rushed to market ASAP. Still... Until I can bullseye womp rats with my T-16 I'd rather have rally shocks instead.
I totally agree. This is one of the main reasons I went with Rogers AT&T for my contract. Their bottom of the line entry phone is a Nokia 3595 which is perhaps the best cell phone I've ever owned. http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3595 Intuitive menu system... simple operation... BEJEWELED... and no dogforsaken camera.
Oh wait. I take it all back. In the time it took me to write my previous post the traffic got all fucked just like in real life. The max delay is already up to 106.66 and climbing.