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  1. Microsoft SharedView on FOSS Multicast Document Sharing? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One more alternative you can look at: SharedView. It works over the firewall unlike several other apps.

  2. Re:Where is the windows codec. on Dirac 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Took me a while to figure I needed to use YUV input.
    Unfortunately, it looks like Dirac is no match for x264. :(
    Even VC-1 beats Dirac.

  3. Re:Where is the windows codec. on Dirac 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I downloaded the code from sourceforge and compiled the code using Visual Studio 2008.
    Looks like the encoder is distributed in source format only. I could not locate any pre-built binaries.

    I am having trouble figuring out what the command-line parameters mean from the README supplied in the source tarball.
    This certainly needs better documentation for non technical users.

    The samples certainly look impressive. I will try to compare it against my current favorite encoder -- x264 -- over the weekend.

  4. Re:And this is why Ford and Chevy are... on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    Given that Ford has already sold its luxury brands Jaguar & Land Rover to Tata an Indian company,
    who knows what you say might come true.

  5. Re:Well on Questioning Google's Privacy Reform · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I didn't see any mention of random bits being changed in the article.

  6. Re:Good Marketing on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just installed iTunes 8 and happened to peak at the offending driver's import/exports.
    Its written uses the kernel mode driver framework and not the user-mode framework.
    BTW, User mode driver framework is available on XP too.

  7. Re:Sigh. on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 1

    Its most likely the buggy Apple drivers which are causing crashes not iTunes itself.
    The buggy drivers must be running in kernel mode.

  8. Re:Don't you dare blame the GPU/Printer companies! on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 4, Informative

    hardly gave them any time

    Manufacturers had more than full year before the release date.
    But some manufacturers (Creative comes to mind) didn't ship proper Vista drivers for an additional eight months after Vista Business Final was released.
     

  9. Overhyped game on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 1

    I only liked the first stage of the game which lasts about 10 minutes. After the first stage it goes downhill.
    You cannot make any creature modifications past the second stage.
    For its price the game is not worth buying.
    I going to play the first stage a few more times and just uninstall it. Spore is not a keeper.

  10. Re:There have been proposals on India Joins Nuclear Market · · Score: 1

    Funny! Considering that India was offered a seat in the security council but the then Prime Minter Nehru declined and suggest that the offer should go to China!

  11. Re:IE7 can do it too on IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker · · Score: 1

    Not automatically. You need to manually add items.

  12. Re:mod_rewrite on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? · · Score: 1

    I wrote a mod_rewrite equivalent for my company when they were using IIS 5/ IIS 6.
    Now that they have migrated to IIS 7, the filter is not needed anymore.
    mod_rewrite functionality is being achieved by using a few lines of script.

  13. Re:Obligatory. . . on Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates · · Score: 1

    3. Garner more publicity -- Release an expose that the band released its own album on P2P and blamed pirates.

  14. Re:It doesn't spider itself on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Try it without safesearch. Seems to work.

  15. Re:x264 and avisynth on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    So x264 has finally become deterministic?
    i.e. Differents runs with multiple threads create the output file?

  16. Re:x264 and avisynth on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    Thats not correct. The admin-rights are only needed to update Megui. Video encode works fine without admin permissions.
    You can install MeGUI in a non-standard location like c:\tools\megui and not require admin permissions to update.

  17. Re:x264 and avisynth on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    Yeah x264 is great. There is a slight quality degradation (albeit you have to look really hard to visually determine the difference) if you use multiple threads.
    I once used a batch file to encode several gigs of my family vacation MJPEG videos to H.264 using x264 in a single background thread over a period of 10 days.
    With some heavy-duty post processing (for noise removal etc) it encoded about a 1 GB source/day. There was no perf. degradation with my other apps (games, email etc.) on account of the video encode.

  18. Would have been even better on Computer Optional For AOC's New HD Display · · Score: 1

    if it was a IPS panel and not a TN Panel :(

  19. Re:ISPs better prepare on Kodak Unveils 50MP CCD Image Sensor · · Score: 1

    Or just install a product like Windows Live Desktop Mail -- it automatically resizes and has a easy GUI option to reduce the file-size if required.

  20. Re:The W3C? Glacial? on W3C's Role In the Growth of a Proprietary Web · · Score: 0

    CSS2 is still in the works. The final version has still not been published.

  21. Re:lactation on Platypus Genome Decoded · · Score: 1

    I don't believe a Dolphin fish suckles its fingerlings.

  22. Re:Yahoo!'s fight seems to have paid off ... on Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer · · Score: 1

    Yahoo's stock price was up on Friday because Microsoft was expected to raise the offer (which they subsequently did).
    Come Monday, I expect Yahoo to drop below $20.
    So much for not pissing off sharholders.

  23. Re:Ballistic trajectory? on Soyuz Ballistic Re-entry 300 Miles Off Course · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article also says
    "He said the crew missed the target because they changed their landing plan at the last minute without telling mission control."

    So most likely it was not a steering malfunction.

  24. Re:Turning off UAC doesn't require UAC confirmatio on Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not true.
    I can disable UAC using regedit, using msconfig, gpedict.msc, User Account applet. Each and every method raises a UAC consent prompt.

  25. Re:Doesn't Vista have a new driver model? on NVIDIA Performance On Linux, Solaris, & Vista · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its an OpenGL test. The perf. difference between OpenGL and DirectX Nvidia implementations has always very large -- even in Windows XP.