Just compress to MPEG-2 as you capture it then DivX it, modern processors can do realtime MPEG-2 compression and most people have enough hard drive space to hold a MPEG-2 video temporarily until they can DivX it and burn it to CD.
I don't know about your card, but on my Hercules 3D Prophet II it automatically goes to tv on boot if there's no monitor plugged in, and tv is plugged in. From then it's just like a monitor that looks really ugly and does 800x600 max res.
I've heard about that, I'm actually still on a dialup because cable isnt offerend here yet, but it will be in a matter of days.
The only problem is getting a Samsung cable modem..
At least this year's big crazy every-kid-must-have, selling-for-2000%-its-actual-value gift is something moderately interesting, and not glorified stuffed animal.
It seems that hype and corporate control over the masses has reached a point that we are going to have something that people are going to go completely crazy over each year, so this year it might as well be the PS2.
Well, I live in Canada, so the DCMA doesn't apply to me, but I still think that its completely absurd that a law like that could even get to the parlament, let alone be passed.
A couple of years ago, one of my friends was taking a class in Java programming, we had a final assignment where we were supposed to form groups and write a program of our choice (our teracher had to approve the program idea first, of course).
My friend and his group decided they would make a final-fantasy style RPG, after working for about 40-50 (hes not the quickest coder in the world) hours, my friend had a working overwold engine, where he could walk around and it looked pretty good. He had the compiled.class files on his account at the school, but all the source code files were on his hard drive at home. His hard drive crashed, it was completely unreadable, he thought he had lost all his work and would have to start over from scratch, then one the members of his group found a java de-compiler, they used it on the program, and it managed to perfectly reproduce the code, saving him from hours of re-coding the project. Under the DCMA this de-compiler would be considered illegal because it can be used to circumvent the protection compiled code provides, and it can be considered a tool for reverse-engineering.
This was the postal service, and it was definetly duty, I had to go to the post office to pick it up, and they charged it on the spot before they would give me my package.
A year or 2 ago, I ordered a few RedHat 6.2 CD's from www.lsl.com, I live in Canada, and when they arrived, I was charged $30 duty on them, the assesed value of the CD's was $220 a piece, even I only paid $2 each for them. This is not a new thing, they have been doing it for awhile here...
Yeah, wine working well would NOT be appreciated, but I dont think theres really any legal action they can take, and changing dll's too much will break compatilibity with old windows software, so if wine does start to work well, they have a problem.
(the past several releases have tended to crash X more than work on my system, so I think they will be ok for a little while longer)
Why would MS care about people running windows under plex86/VMware, let alone try to break it. Whether someone runs windows in an emulated machine, or real machine, Micorsoft still (theoretically) gets the money for the license, to run windows under VMware/plex86 legally, you have to legally have a copy of windows to install in the VMware/plex86 emulated machine. Actually, come to think of it they probably *like* VMware and plex86, it makes people who would run linux only buy windows licenses.
Why would MS care about people running windows under plex86/VMware, let alone try to break it. Whether someone runs windows in an emulated machine, or real machine, Micorsoft still (theoretically) gets the money for the license, to run windows under VMware/plex86 legally, you have to legally have a copy of windows to install in the VMware/plex86 emulated machine.
I used to get lots in my mouse too, but when i got the 3M Precise Mousing surface, it stopped, I think it somehow traps the dirt, anyway you might want to try one if the mouse lint is really pissing you off.
BTW: I get lots of lint in my keyboard too.
Does anyone know what the situation is in Canada with DeCSS, is the governement standing up to the US and ignoring this whole MPAA lawsuit, or is it letting the US push them around?
Not quite, they MAY run the same speed or the perl will run slower, all the perl is doing is executing the C code to do that (the perl interperter itself is a C program), and with a lot more overhead, the interperter has to initilaize, read the file, parse it, execute the code and then preduce the output, the C program would do it all direct. C is a lower-level language, it takes more code but the code will usually be faster, same with ASM, its usually faster than C but it takes HUGE amounts of code, which is why its rarely used these days, except for hardware drivers) The thing thats faster in perl is the development time, a perl program may take 2 hours while the same program in C a couple of days.
Thats a BAD way to think, no matter how fast your CPU is, you should still try to code as efficiently as possible, otherwise all that extra speed will be worthless, if your $5000 1ghz CPU running "modern" apps and a $200 P233 running "older" software both get the same performance, whats the reason to pay more for a faster CPU. (ok, I cant resist the temptation, sounds like NT vs linux)
That's been done for years, It's common practice for search engines to sell off words to the highest bidder, and when someone searches for that word, it comes up with the highest bidder first, this method is less blatant, but it still amounts to the same thing.
Maybe so, but pretty much all companies that sell linux CD's like that are US-based, and none of them ship for canada for less than the product costs, $5.00US is DAMN good compaired to what alot charge (last time, i ordered form LSL, and shipping was $10, but I didn't mind as the CD's themselves were free.
I dont think that's a new idea, I have been doing things that way for years, anyway. Its a pretty basic concept, making basically a GUI abstration layer to seperate your code from the GUI code. An even better way to do this would to put your widget drawing routines into libraries that can be dynamically loaded so you can have an application that can work on any toolkit without recompiling and without having to always have both tookits installed. With this method, your program could be made to work fairly easily with any new standards that come out too, just make new GUI "drivers". The only problem with this method is that you would probably have to rewrite a fair bit of code for each toolkit, but for full integration into both KDE and GNOME, thats pretty much inevitable anyway.
A lot of 3D games that use multiple renderers do something like this, Quake II is a good example, you ahve your quake II binary + a few libraries for different renderers, reg_soft.so for software rendering, ref_gl.so for Mesa/OGL rendering, ref_3dfxgl.so for 3DFX OpenGL rendering (links to Glide), and ref_glx.so for Mesa/OGL under X instead of SVGAlib.
I am in quebec, and i just ordered from cheapbytes, I ordered 3 copies of the CD and it totaled $10.61US the shipping is actually very resonable, $5.00US, to canada.
I live in Canada, and I have tried many various ISPs around here. I am currently on accglobal.net which runs BSD internally, and only officially support Windows, but when I signed up, I jsut asked for the DNS servers and phone number over the phone so I could set it up in Linux, they happily gave it to me, I even told tme not to bother sending me their software cd, and they had no problem with that. Videotron, the cable modem service in my area also does not officially support Linux, but I phoned asking about it, and the guy I talked to actually said that he runs Linux at home, and it works fine. The only reason why I am not cable right now is they have a quota in my area, and i dont think i could handle having a download or upload quota (6gb/month for download, 1gb/month upload). I have also set up several other ISPs in Linux for frinds of mine, and i have never encountered an ISP that linux did not eventually work fine with (one local ISP took some prodding because they use some funky login scripts)
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Turn off java and javascript, Netscape hadn't crashed in weeks when I stopped using it and switched over to Mozilla (which rarely crashes nowadays)
Just compress to MPEG-2 as you capture it then DivX it, modern processors can do realtime MPEG-2 compression and most people have enough hard drive space to hold a MPEG-2 video temporarily until they can DivX it and burn it to CD.
I don't know about your card, but on my Hercules 3D Prophet II it automatically goes to tv on boot if there's no monitor plugged in, and tv is plugged in. From then it's just like a monitor that looks really ugly and does 800x600 max res.
I've heard about that, I'm actually still on a dialup because cable isnt offerend here yet, but it will be in a matter of days. The only problem is getting a Samsung cable modem..
At least this year's big crazy every-kid-must-have, selling-for-2000%-its-actual-value gift is something moderately interesting, and not glorified stuffed animal.
It seems that hype and corporate control over the masses has reached a point that we are going to have something that people are going to go completely crazy over each year, so this year it might as well be the PS2.
it's not in your video card, its in the DVD player, i have a tnt2u too (or did) and tv-out worked great, until i wanted to play a dvd
Well, I live in Canada, so the DCMA doesn't apply to me, but I still think that its completely absurd that a law like that could even get to the parlament, let alone be passed.
.class files on his account at the school, but all the source code files were on his hard drive at home. His hard drive crashed, it was completely unreadable, he thought he had lost all his work and would have to start over from scratch, then one the members of his group found a java de-compiler, they used it on the program, and it managed to perfectly reproduce the code, saving him from hours of re-coding the project. Under the DCMA this de-compiler would be considered illegal because it can be used to circumvent the protection compiled code provides, and it can be considered a tool for reverse-engineering.
A couple of years ago, one of my friends was taking a class in Java programming, we had a final assignment where we were supposed to form groups and write a program of our choice (our teracher had to approve the program idea first, of course).
My friend and his group decided they would make a final-fantasy style RPG, after working for about 40-50 (hes not the quickest coder in the world) hours, my friend had a working overwold engine, where he could walk around and it looked pretty good. He had the compiled
This was the postal service, and it was definetly duty, I had to go to the post office to pick it up, and they charged it on the spot before they would give me my package.
Maybe they will finally force videotron to take off the stupid quotas that they force on all teir cable users (6gb down, 1gb up)
A year or 2 ago, I ordered a few RedHat 6.2 CD's from www.lsl.com, I live in Canada, and when they arrived, I was charged $30 duty on them, the assesed value of the CD's was $220 a piece, even I only paid $2 each for them. This is not a new thing, they have been doing it for awhile here...
Yeah, wine working well would NOT be appreciated, but I dont think theres really any legal action they can take, and changing dll's too much will break compatilibity with old windows software, so if wine does start to work well, they have a problem. (the past several releases have tended to crash X more than work on my system, so I think they will be ok for a little while longer)
Why would MS care about people running windows under plex86/VMware, let alone try to break it. Whether someone runs windows in an emulated machine, or real machine, Micorsoft still (theoretically) gets the money for the license, to run windows under VMware/plex86 legally, you have to legally have a copy of windows to install in the VMware/plex86 emulated machine. Actually, come to think of it they probably *like* VMware and plex86, it makes people who would run linux only buy windows licenses.
Why would MS care about people running windows under plex86/VMware, let alone try to break it. Whether someone runs windows in an emulated machine, or real machine, Micorsoft still (theoretically) gets the money for the license, to run windows under VMware/plex86 legally, you have to legally have a copy of windows to install in the VMware/plex86 emulated machine.
I used to get lots in my mouse too, but when i got the 3M Precise Mousing surface, it stopped, I think it somehow traps the dirt, anyway you might want to try one if the mouse lint is really pissing you off. BTW: I get lots of lint in my keyboard too.
Does anyone know what the situation is in Canada with DeCSS, is the governement standing up to the US and ignoring this whole MPAA lawsuit, or is it letting the US push them around?
Isn't there a version of Eudora for mac?
Not quite, they MAY run the same speed or the perl will run slower, all the perl is doing is executing the C code to do that (the perl interperter itself is a C program), and with a lot more overhead, the interperter has to initilaize, read the file, parse it, execute the code and then preduce the output, the C program would do it all direct. C is a lower-level language, it takes more code but the code will usually be faster, same with ASM, its usually faster than C but it takes HUGE amounts of code, which is why its rarely used these days, except for hardware drivers) The thing thats faster in perl is the development time, a perl program may take 2 hours while the same program in C a couple of days.
Thats a BAD way to think, no matter how fast your CPU is, you should still try to code as efficiently as possible, otherwise all that extra speed will be worthless, if your $5000 1ghz CPU running "modern" apps and a $200 P233 running "older" software both get the same performance, whats the reason to pay more for a faster CPU. (ok, I cant resist the temptation, sounds like NT vs linux)
That's been done for years, It's common practice for search engines to sell off words to the highest bidder, and when someone searches for that word, it comes up with the highest bidder first, this method is less blatant, but it still amounts to the same thing.
Maybe so, but pretty much all companies that sell linux CD's like that are US-based, and none of them ship for canada for less than the product costs, $5.00US is DAMN good compaired to what alot charge (last time, i ordered form LSL, and shipping was $10, but I didn't mind as the CD's themselves were free.
I dont think that's a new idea, I have been doing things that way for years, anyway. Its a pretty basic concept, making basically a GUI abstration layer to seperate your code from the GUI code. An even better way to do this would to put your widget drawing routines into libraries that can be dynamically loaded so you can have an application that can work on any toolkit without recompiling and without having to always have both tookits installed. With this method, your program could be made to work fairly easily with any new standards that come out too, just make new GUI "drivers". The only problem with this method is that you would probably have to rewrite a fair bit of code for each toolkit, but for full integration into both KDE and GNOME, thats pretty much inevitable anyway.
A lot of 3D games that use multiple renderers do something like this, Quake II is a good example, you ahve your quake II binary + a few libraries for different renderers, reg_soft.so for software rendering, ref_gl.so for Mesa/OGL rendering, ref_3dfxgl.so for 3DFX OpenGL rendering (links to Glide), and ref_glx.so for Mesa/OGL under X instead of SVGAlib.
I am in quebec, and i just ordered from cheapbytes, I ordered 3 copies of the CD and it totaled $10.61US the shipping is actually very resonable, $5.00US, to canada.
I live in Canada, and I have tried many various ISPs around here. I am currently on accglobal.net which runs BSD internally, and only officially support Windows, but when I signed up, I jsut asked for the DNS servers and phone number over the phone so I could set it up in Linux, they happily gave it to me, I even told tme not to bother sending me their software cd, and they had no problem with that. Videotron, the cable modem service in my area also does not officially support Linux, but I phoned asking about it, and the guy I talked to actually said that he runs Linux at home, and it works fine. The only reason why I am not cable right now is they have a quota in my area, and i dont think i could handle having a download or upload quota (6gb/month for download, 1gb/month upload). I have also set up several other ISPs in Linux for frinds of mine, and i have never encountered an ISP that linux did not eventually work fine with (one local ISP took some prodding because they use some funky login scripts)
I am consistently surprised that gaim still works with all these client-blocking things that AOL keeps putting on their servers.
I have been using bladeenc for quite awhile now, and the sound quality is great, and it is the fastest encoder available on any platform.