Thanks for the note. Yes, the projector definetly broke up a couple of films. Another problem (in addition to the fragility) is the fungus, which has caused some parts of the film to fuzz out. Now we've stored them in ziplock bags, which should slow down the deterioration a bit.
Any idea if the fuzzed out portions are retrievable?
My father has an old Super 8mm home projector lying around, with a bunch of home movies, which are lying around catching fungus. For nostalgia's sake, we still sit around once/twice a year and watch the old old movies projected on the 1.5x1.5 meter screen.
He desperately wants to convert them to digital format, because they're really fragile. Any pointers, one how to go about this in a cost-effective manner?
We've tried the brute-force method of re-filming the projected video off the wall, but it's *very* lossy. Some of the rare stores that do it charge anything from $5.00 per foot of film and up, which will cost a *lot* of money for the 200 odd reels lying around.
Not exactly on topic, but any pointers to do it at home (I am willing to shell out upto $1000, if I need to buy a kit or something) will be *most* welcome.
I don't have anything to add here. Just wanted to say that the Salt Lake article was the *best* one I read about this whole fiasco ever. Printed out 5 copies and handed them over to colleagues who were asking me about the "SCO thing" they'd seen in the news lately.
Brought tears to my eyes...it really did. Kudos to the journalist, Bruce, Linus and the Choate guy for telling it like it really is.
Some may say this article is biased in favor of Linux, but I guess it IS hard to be unbiased against the devil.
A technician hired by the new judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, apparently made a mistake that allowed anyone to access newly created accounts on a Judiciary Committee server shared by both parties -- even though the accounts were supposed to restrict access only to those with the right password.
That's about all the article says about the "glitch" that occurred, presumably due to human error.
At first I thought the account was probably M$ Windows related, since it is would be harder with Linux/UNIX to "accidentally" create accounts which were accessible to anybody.
But then, the technician could have done anything stupid like assigning the easily guessable password across to all accounts. Or who knows, maybe they were using a database system or other software which created accounts on top of the OS.
A little more information about the OS/software in use would certainly shed more light on who was actually responsible for the glitch...instead of blaming it outright on the technician.
Main Entry: dingleberry
Pronunciation: 'di[ng]-g&l-"ber-E
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1955 : a piece of dried fecal matter clinging to the hair around the anus
Source: Merriam Webster
It's good to know people are already working on IPv8.
Now's as good a time to start drawing up the drafts as any.
Straight From the duke's mouth...
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Incase you were wondering about the projected timeline for duke nukem forever; from their website:
There is no release date set, we are not taking pre-orders for the game. End of story.
Once we begin taking pre-orders, believe us, you'll know about it.:)
The release date of this game is "When it's done". Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some game news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.
The suit alleges the hidden genes can threaten human and animal health if the biotech fish are released and consumed by other fish that eventually are eaten by humans.
because I've been doing a bit of reading on the Mad Cow disease lately. The disease, has a dormant time of a few years in cows (it can go unnoticed for about 10 years), and for an equivalent period in humans as the CJD disease. As a result, it's possible that a large number of humans contracted the disease about a decade ago, due to a cow which got it about two decades ago. There's speculation that some older people being misdiagnosed with other debilitating brain disorders, are actually CJD patients.
Mad cow disease is originally believed to have been caused as a result of feeding beef/other meat products to cows. After the US passed a law saying that cows could not be fed food based on beef, lawyers found a way around it (no time to dig up link right now): they started feeding beef products to chicken and chicken based products to beef.
My point is: using genetically altered food, and generally exploiting nature in unnatural ways has been found to result in long-term genetic and other problems for humans (can anybody tell me how the first case of AIDS is believed to have occurred). Putting genetically modified fish in the food-chain is not a good idea, unless it's *very* strictly controlled to make sure the fish aren't eaten by other animals.
Paul Davies, who has written several very accessible books on physics and cosmology, proposes an interesting way to get a manned mission to Mars - leave them there.
I nominate Darryl McBride and Billy Goats for the mission.
this big unknown "thing" is a laptop on two wheels that doubles up as a scooter. the big feature of this new design is that it warns the user that the battery is running down by throwing the user onto the street and crashing the harddisk.
"Now imagine Billy-boy using Linux (maybe just to give it a test-run) and talking publicly about it. "
note the words in parenthesis (just to give it a test run) as in use it personally. it is *very* old news that M$ uses other OS's in R&D. Heck, how would they come up with Windows services for UNIX without using them?! See y'day's/. story, incase you missed it. no time to dig it up.
A Sony Electronics Inc. Vaio, Japanese edition. It's a handheld PC that has a 4-GB hard disk, 64 MB of RAM and a Pentium MMX 266-MHz processor. It weighs in at just 2.6 pounds and runs both Linux and Windows. "It's cute as hell." Oh, and it has a built-in camera.
Now imagine Billy-boy using Linux (maybe just to give it a test-run) and talking publicly about it. That would never happen because of the expected PR backlash.
Linus, on the other hand can be as frank as he wants to, without an axe hanging over his head.
Interesting, though nothing earth-shattering. Open-source also supports Freedom.
I RTFA, but couldn't find any mention of feedback travelling back to the brain, like our normal limbs do.
Looks to me like the main form of feedback that the action has been completed would be in the form of audio and visual signals.
Ofcourse, wiring information into the brain so that it can understand it would be *much* more difficult than interpreting information from the brain and translating it into signals that feed into devices we already understand.
If feedback to the brain can really be made to work, that would open up huge possibilities for misuse -- you could make a person believe anything you wanted to, just by writing a virus/malicious code to send the right signals to the brain.
In the letter titled: "Letter to Linux Customers" and SCO's lawsuit against IBM" from SCO to Novell (and other Linux customers), Daryll says:
"Similar to analogous efforts underway in the music industry, we are prepared to take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing voilation of our intellectual property or other rights."
And in response to the specific piece Jack Messman says in his response:
"In your letter, you analogize SCO's campaign against the Linux community to that of the record industry against major corporations whose servers contained downloaded music files. There are crucial differences between the two campaigns. The record industry has provided specific information to back up its allegation, while SCO steadfastly refuses to do so. In its allegation letter, the record industry provides evidence of allegedly infringing activity that is specific to the targeted company. This offers the company real notice of the activity, sufficient information to evaluate the allegation, and an opportunity to stop the activity if it determines the allegation is true. If SCO wants to compare its actions to that of the record industry, it should follow the example set by that industry and present specific evidence of the alleged infringement."
At the very least, read this entire response from Novell to SCO regarding it's letter to Linux customers. Jack has pretty much voiced *all* the concerns that the Slashdot community has come up with in a direct letter to Daryll.
it is in the zero to seven age range that Lego has its niche.
it's quite possibly the most exhilarating period of a guy's life. have chicks come and pull your cheeks and exclaim how cute you are, suck on titties all you want, play with cool lego blocks without anybody complaining how childish it is...to name a few perks.
it's been well said: you spend the first few minutes of your life trying to get out, and the rest of your life trying to get back in.
We read Slashdot here at Real, especially when the subject of our company or technology comes up, so we know some of you may not have liked recent versions of our player.
Looks like Real has woken up and found itself losing battle against two major OS manufacturers, who will stop at nothing to promote their own streaming technology with their OS. Real may be trying to hold it's own against Windows/Mplayer and Mac/QT by promoting Realplayer on Linux by pandering to the Linux community.
Sorry this was moderated Offtopic dude....I think your post was SPOT ON. Hoped to metamod this moderation Unfair, but your post wasn't in the 10 assigned to me.
We got him...yeah...sure...that's all the "liberal media" tells us, while there's no mention of shit like this.
The article references this advisory page in the Microsoft Knowledgebase which was presumably added after the author contacted "Magnus" at Microsoft Security.
The page is titled: "Overview of Office Features That Are Intended to Enable Collaboration and That Are Not Intended to Increase Security", and reeks of hindsight. Microsoft notes that these features were never intended to increase security, but were designed to encourage collaboration.
But on the other hand, they also say:
"Information About Strong Passwords
To reduce the chances of someone guessing your password, use only strong passwords.
For a password to be a strong password, it should meet all the following criteria:
* Be at least seven characters long. Longer passwords are more secure.
"...etc.
Why would users be encouraged to use strong passwords, not easily guessed by malicious users etc, when they were just intended to avoid accidental modifications? The document is clearly a lame attempt my M$ to coverup a serious vulnerability by suggesting that the feature was not designed to provide security. However, I bet they would not have hesitated to tout it as a "security feature" in Microsoft Word, had the vulnerability not been found.
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I never thought of that as a possible problem. No wonder the conversion is lossy. Excellent links, btw
Thanks for all the responses to my question guys...really appreciate it.
Any idea if the fuzzed out portions are retrievable?
Again, appreciate the pointers.
He desperately wants to convert them to digital format, because they're really fragile. Any pointers, one how to go about this in a cost-effective manner?
We've tried the brute-force method of re-filming the projected video off the wall, but it's *very* lossy. Some of the rare stores that do it charge anything from $5.00 per foot of film and up, which will cost a *lot* of money for the 200 odd reels lying around.
Not exactly on topic, but any pointers to do it at home (I am willing to shell out upto $1000, if I need to buy a kit or something) will be *most* welcome.
Thanks!
Good luck Taco. Hope you bash SCO's ass in your Q/A session.
Brought tears to my eyes...it really did. Kudos to the journalist, Bruce, Linus and the Choate guy for telling it like it really is.
Some may say this article is biased in favor of Linux, but I guess it IS hard to be unbiased against the devil.
That's about all the article says about the "glitch" that occurred, presumably due to human error. At first I thought the account was probably M$ Windows related, since it is would be harder with Linux/UNIX to "accidentally" create accounts which were accessible to anybody.
But then, the technician could have done anything stupid like assigning the easily guessable password across to all accounts. Or who knows, maybe they were using a database system or other software which created accounts on top of the OS.
A little more information about the OS/software in use would certainly shed more light on who was actually responsible for the glitch...instead of blaming it outright on the technician.
Pronunciation: 'di[ng]-g&l-"ber-E
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1955
: a piece of dried fecal matter clinging to the hair around the anus
Source: Merriam Webster
Some things are just not worth knowing.
Now's as good a time to start drawing up the drafts as any.
Once we begin taking pre-orders, believe us, you'll know about it. :)
The release date of this game is "When it's done". Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some game news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.
because I've been doing a bit of reading on the Mad Cow disease lately. The disease, has a dormant time of a few years in cows (it can go unnoticed for about 10 years), and for an equivalent period in humans as the CJD disease. As a result, it's possible that a large number of humans contracted the disease about a decade ago, due to a cow which got it about two decades ago. There's speculation that some older people being misdiagnosed with other debilitating brain disorders, are actually CJD patients.
Mad cow disease is originally believed to have been caused as a result of feeding beef/other meat products to cows. After the US passed a law saying that cows could not be fed food based on beef, lawyers found a way around it (no time to dig up link right now): they started feeding beef products to chicken and chicken based products to beef.
My point is: using genetically altered food, and generally exploiting nature in unnatural ways has been found to result in long-term genetic and other problems for humans (can anybody tell me how the first case of AIDS is believed to have occurred). Putting genetically modified fish in the food-chain is not a good idea, unless it's *very* strictly controlled to make sure the fish aren't eaten by other animals.
Wonder why the poster/editors didn't backlink to it.
I nominate Darryl McBride and Billy Goats for the mission.
this big unknown "thing" is a laptop on two wheels that doubles up as a scooter. the big feature of this new design is that it warns the user that the battery is running down by throwing the user onto the street and crashing the harddisk.
it'll look something like this
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"Now imagine Billy-boy using Linux (maybe just to give it a test-run) and talking publicly about it. "
note the words in parenthesis (just to give it a test run) as in use it personally. it is *very* old news that M$ uses other OS's in R&D. Heck, how would they come up with Windows services for UNIX without using them?! See y'day's /. story, incase you missed it. no time to dig it up.
I meant *personal* use. Hope it is clear now.
What's his latest toy?
A Sony Electronics Inc. Vaio, Japanese edition. It's a handheld PC that has a 4-GB hard disk, 64 MB of RAM and a Pentium MMX 266-MHz processor. It weighs in at just 2.6 pounds and runs both Linux and Windows. "It's cute as hell." Oh, and it has a built-in camera.
Now imagine Billy-boy using Linux (maybe just to give it a test-run) and talking publicly about it. That would never happen because of the expected PR backlash.
Linus, on the other hand can be as frank as he wants to, without an axe hanging over his head.
Interesting, though nothing earth-shattering. Open-source also supports Freedom.
processing = following preprogrammed algorithm thinking = devising one's own algorithms to solve problems
ofcourse "do computers think" is a holy war all by itself.
Looks to me like the main form of feedback that the action has been completed would be in the form of audio and visual signals.
Ofcourse, wiring information into the brain so that it can understand it would be *much* more difficult than interpreting information from the brain and translating it into signals that feed into devices we already understand.
If feedback to the brain can really be made to work, that would open up huge possibilities for misuse -- you could make a person believe anything you wanted to, just by writing a virus/malicious code to send the right signals to the brain.
Just some food for thought.
"Similar to analogous efforts underway in the music industry, we are prepared to take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing voilation of our intellectual property or other rights."
And in response to the specific piece Jack Messman says in his response:
"In your letter, you analogize SCO's campaign against the Linux community to that of the record industry against major corporations whose servers contained downloaded music files. There are crucial differences between the two campaigns. The record industry has provided specific information to back up its allegation, while SCO steadfastly refuses to do so. In its allegation letter, the record industry provides evidence of allegedly infringing activity that is specific to the targeted company. This offers the company real notice of the activity, sufficient information to evaluate the allegation, and an opportunity to stop the activity if it determines the allegation is true. If SCO wants to compare its actions to that of the record industry, it should follow the example set by that industry and present specific evidence of the alleged infringement."
At the very least, read this entire response from Novell to SCO regarding it's letter to Linux customers. Jack has pretty much voiced *all* the concerns that the Slashdot community has come up with in a direct letter to Daryll.
Why license SCO's Intellectual Property?
1. Customers are requesting it
2. Increase shareholder value through existing IP
3. Strengthen Linux by licensing value-add IP
4. Increase UNIX application use on Linux
1 and 2 are what SCO's aiming for. I have NO idea, how their proposition will even remotely achieve 3 and 4. That's pure bullshit and FUD.
it's quite possibly the most exhilarating period of a guy's life. have chicks come and pull your cheeks and exclaim how cute you are, suck on titties all you want, play with cool lego blocks without anybody complaining how childish it is...to name a few perks.
it's been well said: you spend the first few minutes of your life trying to get out, and the rest of your life trying to get back in.
Wag dogs the tail?
Looks like Real has woken up and found itself losing battle against two major OS manufacturers, who will stop at nothing to promote their own streaming technology with their OS. Real may be trying to hold it's own against Windows/Mplayer and Mac/QT by promoting Realplayer on Linux by pandering to the Linux community.
We got him...yeah...sure...that's all the "liberal media" tells us, while there's no mention of shit like this.
The page is titled: "Overview of Office Features That Are Intended to Enable Collaboration and That Are Not Intended to Increase Security", and reeks of hindsight. Microsoft notes that these features were never intended to increase security, but were designed to encourage collaboration.
But on the other hand, they also say:
"Information About Strong Passwords To reduce the chances of someone guessing your password, use only strong passwords.
For a password to be a strong password, it should meet all the following criteria:
* Be at least seven characters long. Longer passwords are more secure.
"...etc.
Why would users be encouraged to use strong passwords, not easily guessed by malicious users etc, when they were just intended to avoid accidental modifications? The document is clearly a lame attempt my M$ to coverup a serious vulnerability by suggesting that the feature was not designed to provide security. However, I bet they would not have hesitated to tout it as a "security feature" in Microsoft Word, had the vulnerability not been found.