This can be done on any machine running at least a recent internet explorer. Go to windows update, and click on 'Personalize Windows Update', then simply check the 'Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog under See Also'. After that you have a new link leading to Windows Update Catalog. From there, click 'Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems', select Windows 98 from the list, then hit search. Now add every item to your download basket and download everything.
...when you have alternatives that beat the device on all fronts?
The Fujitsu P1000 is lighter, smaller in all dimensions, has a larger screen, higher resulution, twice the memory, significantly more storage space (hard drive instead of 32mb flash), comparable battery life, also a touch screen, and it's even cheaper to boot too. Oh, and it runs Windows 2000 or XP instead of CE.NET, or potentially your alternative OS of choice if you spend enough effort in it.
Re:If you'd bothered looking on Mandrake's website
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Just about now?
With a bit of luck, you would be in the nick of time to watch the last few megabytes of your download slow down, stall, and then eventually get a timeout due to a slashdotting.
Marantz, certainly a big-name manufacturer, has a new model, the DV8400.
Admittantly expensive (roughly $1500), this player does have a HDCP copy-protected DVI out (the same type of copy-protected DVI output you will find that every DVD player will have), but this is disabled on all models currently. Marantz is promising to publish the unlock code (likely a series of buttons to push on the remote control) in due time.
The reason is explained on the above-mentioned page:
"This output is not currently activated from the factory - We are awaiting approval from the DVD working group (Legal issues regarding copyrights, etc). When approval is granted, we will post the code to activate this feature on our website. Please feel free to call us with any questions."
It seems that Marantz, not wanting to endanger their DVD license, are awaiting approval for this. I wonder if someone has leaked this code out into the public yet.
Aside of this it is rather hard to even find this player currently, just like the Bravo, since it is rather new. The price is not too bad considering that someone that wants a HDCP DVI output on their DVD player likely already has an expensive HDTV or similar tv or projector that is solidly in the 'expensive' budget class. The cheaper TVs simply do not have an appropriate DVI input anyway.
If you are concerned with the weight of your notebook, you should consider looking at Fujitsu's P series products.
That, and the primary advantage (certainly true for the non-intel, crusoe cpu models) aside of weight is their low heat output. If heat, size, weight and price are primary concerns, these are great machines.
Their smallest is the P1000, which weighs a mere 2.5 pounds, including a heavy duty battery that will last you 5 hours of real use.
Their medium model is the P2000, which also has an optical drive, is a tad larger, and weighs a mere 3.4 pounds with a battery that lasts you 2,5 hours of normal use (not counting optical drive use), or add 0.3 pounds for the diferrence in weight for the similar 5-hour battery.
Lastly, they have a faster model with an intel cpu, the P5000. This model has a somewhat lower battery life, more speed, and weighs 3.85 pounds with a high-capacity battery (default on that model).
Prices are low as well. The P1000 starts at $1200, the P2000 starts at $1400, and the intel-based P5000 starts at $1500.
To look at some user experiences, go to this forum.
I personally own a P1000 and am very comfortable with carrying it around with me all the time, with the low weight.
The Fujitsu P2000 laptop does indeed come equipped with a firewire port, as well as USB2, as can be observed in the specifications page which is linked from the very url mentioned in the parent post.
Also, here is a very good user discussion forum concerning the P2000 laptop, which actually has a seperate forum for the linux users, so you can check up on what you can expect: http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/
On a sidenote, I can say that Fijutsu will *not* ship any laptop without the windows license. In fact, when you send in the system for repair and they need to replace the hard drive (which contains the repair image), you have to pay for a new license.
Actually, these were more than likely intended to be processed and burned onto a CD in VCD format. (Video CD). This format has a different sector size, and actually hold up to ~750Mb of MPEG1 data.
If a gigabit network card can supply a data stream of roughly 125 megabytes per second, and the pci bus is able to sustain 133 megabytes per second...
You are still forgetting that this data of 125 megabytes goes off the PCI bus, is processed by the CPU (the OS handles network and disk I/O), then goes back onto the PCI bus towards either another network card perhaps, or the storage controller, either IDE or SCSI, which rest on the very same PCI bus.
So your 133 megabytes/second is actually shared, so even without calculating in the overhead that exists, the maximum speed possible is half of that, which would amount to 66,5 megabytes/second.
You simply need a 64bit and/or 66mhz PCI bus to take *full* advantage of a gigabit card, but it is almost always faster than a 100megabit card.
That means that you will open "click me!" links by merely looking at them...
I'm sure that the banner code + Internet Explorer will develop that type of behaviour:)
The best source for anime dvds on the net afaik
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is Anime on DVD You really should check there, it's got every dvd that's released and upcoming reviewed, discussed and rated.
some interesting anime dvds that I consider top of my list of dvd anime other than those you listed are:
Ghost in the Shell, has amazing visuals, a good storyline, but most importantly, this disc contains the most impressive 5.1 surround soundtrack among all anime. If you have an AC3 amp, get this. Sol Bianca, is quite possibly visually the best anime ever to grace DVD. It was completely created with computers, and show no flaws that you notice with conversions from non-digital sources to DVD masters that other releases suffer. Stunning!
Get those two at least, and check all the reviews on that site to get other things that you like...
It should be obvious to everyone that Alex de Joode has no interest at all in putting up a web server on this domain name, seen to the fact that the web site just contains 2 links.
It should however be noted that a domain name is much more than just something to reach a web site on.
When you try to connect to the ftp port of the openssh.org domain you get the following welcome message: Welcome to the ZEDZ.NL mirror This site is co-located at the TERENA Offices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We have setup a partial mirror of the content available @ftp.zedz.net (F.K.A. ftp.replay.com) mailto:adejoode@zedz.net for more info
He is obviously mirroring the ftp site here.
Also there are other uses for a domain name, one would be a fancy email address, which is very understandable.
Another common use of domain names is for reverse lookups, which look fancy on IRC. This is ofcourse something that is a total waste of domain and IP space, but can still be implemented by owning just a subdomain of the domain. (i.e. the part needed for the vhost)
I see a lot of posts here saying that the K7 athlon would be a better choice, but the fact is that you can build an intel system that outperforms a amd athlon system almost 2 to 1.
Athlon motherboards currently do NOT support SMP (more than 1 cpu on the motherboard). And the spec sheet clearly specifies "CPUs (2)".
The amd athlon is at 700Mhz right now, and intels run at 733, and at these speeds such an atlon cannot be much more that 5% or 10% faster than the intel. Obviously 2 intel cpu's will outperform any athlon system in such a case.
The performance gain you see there cannot be compared to a switch from intel p3 to athlon, because the k6-2 is simply much slower than any intel cpu to begin with...
He quotes using 2 CPU's in the system, and currently there are no motherboards out that support this. (I don't even think they have a chipset for it yet) so basically any intel system will outperform K7 because you can just use more CPU's
Digital projection can be better than traditional film projection, but obviously not with the TI projection system and certainly not using sattelite downloads for the movie data. The movie data will most likely have to be transported on a reliable medium, such as the tapes that are used for data backup. The largest available backup tape today is 50Gb native and can transfer 6Mbyte/sec, with a 100Gb,12Mbyte/sec version on the way, which could easily be modified for realtime movie playback.
For example the current dvd mpeg2 technology is 720x480 at 10mbit/sec resulting in about 4500Mbyte per hour of data. A theatre quality movie would have to be encoded at a resolution of at least 1920x1080 of which the reference bitrate is 80Mbit/sec, resulting in about 35Gb/hour of data.
For theatre like quality that would ofcourse have to be an even higher resulution and remember that this is all stil at the default 24fps. So for something like 2500x1500 resolution with 48fps you would need a bitrate of about 200Mbit/sec, resulting in about 87GB per hour of movie data, which means that a 2.5 hour movie can be stored on 5 50Gb tapes or if 100Gb tapes would exist on 3 of those, which is perfectly acceptable.
Also the review only mentions equipment costs, but I don't think that traditional film is that cheap, while these tapes are.
And ofcourse having digital film at such a resolution and framerate WOULD be far superior to any analog or film solution.
Ofcourse equipment for this would be even more expensive, so we probably won't see high quality digital theatre anytime soon...
Try those 2 commandline options for the highest possible quality. -qual 9 sets it to encode as good as it can -bw 22050 sets the frequency bandwidth higher most encoders have a lower frequency cut-off, but this setting ensures full bandwith (it's the highest setting)
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A "Mega Advanced Super Premium" LCD that defies, delivers and is unprecedented, all in the first small paragraph.
I wouldn't want to be in a buzzword drinking game where a sharp marking droid was reading out this press release...
This can be done on any machine running at least a recent internet explorer.
Go to windows update, and click on 'Personalize Windows Update', then simply check the 'Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog under See Also'.
After that you have a new link leading to Windows Update Catalog.
From there, click 'Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems', select Windows 98 from the list, then hit search.
Now add every item to your download basket and download everything.
Are these high-speed or full-speed modems?
The Fujitsu P1000 is lighter, smaller in all dimensions, has a larger screen, higher resulution, twice the memory, significantly more storage space (hard drive instead of 32mb flash), comparable battery life, also a touch screen, and it's even cheaper to boot too. Oh, and it runs Windows 2000 or XP instead of CE.NET, or potentially your alternative OS of choice if you spend enough effort in it.
Just about now?
With a bit of luck, you would be in the nick of time to watch the last few megabytes of your download slow down, stall, and then eventually get a timeout due to a slashdotting.
Admittantly expensive (roughly $1500), this player does have a HDCP copy-protected DVI out (the same type of copy-protected DVI output you will find that every DVD player will have), but this is disabled on all models currently. Marantz is promising to publish the unlock code (likely a series of buttons to push on the remote control) in due time.
The reason is explained on the above-mentioned page:
"This output is not currently activated from the factory - We are awaiting approval from the DVD working group (Legal issues regarding copyrights, etc). When approval is granted, we will post the code to activate this feature on our website. Please feel free to call us with any questions."
It seems that Marantz, not wanting to endanger their DVD license, are awaiting approval for this. I wonder if someone has leaked this code out into the public yet.
Aside of this it is rather hard to even find this player currently, just like the Bravo, since it is rather new. The price is not too bad considering that someone that wants a HDCP DVI output on their DVD player likely already has an expensive HDTV or similar tv or projector that is solidly in the 'expensive' budget class. The cheaper TVs simply do not have an appropriate DVI input anyway.
That, and the primary advantage (certainly true for the non-intel, crusoe cpu models) aside of weight is their low heat output. If heat, size, weight and price are primary concerns, these are great machines.
Their smallest is the P1000, which weighs a mere 2.5 pounds, including a heavy duty battery that will last you 5 hours of real use.
Their medium model is the P2000, which also has an optical drive, is a tad larger, and weighs a mere 3.4 pounds with a battery that lasts you 2,5 hours of normal use (not counting optical drive use), or add 0.3 pounds for the diferrence in weight for the similar 5-hour battery.
Lastly, they have a faster model with an intel cpu, the P5000. This model has a somewhat lower battery life, more speed, and weighs 3.85 pounds with a high-capacity battery (default on that model).
Prices are low as well. The P1000 starts at $1200, the P2000 starts at $1400, and the intel-based P5000 starts at $1500.
To look at some user experiences, go to this forum.
I personally own a P1000 and am very comfortable with carrying it around with me all the time, with the low weight.
Here's a direct link.
Also, here is a very good user discussion forum concerning the P2000 laptop, which actually has a seperate forum for the linux users, so you can check up on what you can expect:
http://www.leog.net/fujp_forum/
On a sidenote, I can say that Fijutsu will *not* ship any laptop without the windows license. In fact, when you send in the system for repair and they need to replace the hard drive (which contains the repair image), you have to pay for a new license.
Actually, these were more than likely intended to be processed and burned onto a CD in VCD format. (Video CD). This format has a different sector size, and actually hold up to ~750Mb of MPEG1 data.
If a gigabit network card can supply a data stream of roughly 125 megabytes per second, and the pci bus is able to sustain 133 megabytes per second...
You are still forgetting that this data of 125 megabytes goes off the PCI bus, is processed by the CPU (the OS handles network and disk I/O), then goes back onto the PCI bus towards either another network card perhaps, or the storage controller, either IDE or SCSI, which rest on the very same PCI bus.
So your 133 megabytes/second is actually shared, so even without calculating in the overhead that exists, the maximum speed possible is half of that, which would amount to 66,5 megabytes/second.
You simply need a 64bit and/or 66mhz PCI bus to take *full* advantage of a gigabit card, but it is almost always faster than a 100megabit card.
That means that you will open "click me!" links by merely looking at them...
:)
I'm sure that the banner code + Internet Explorer will develop that type of behaviour
You really should check there, it's got every dvd that's released and upcoming reviewed, discussed and rated.
some interesting anime dvds that I consider top of my list of dvd anime other than those you listed are:
Ghost in the Shell, has amazing visuals, a good storyline, but most importantly, this disc contains the most impressive 5.1 surround soundtrack among all anime. If you have an AC3 amp, get this.
Sol Bianca, is quite possibly visually the best anime ever to grace DVD. It was completely created with computers, and show no flaws that you notice with conversions from non-digital sources to DVD masters that other releases suffer. Stunning!
Get those two at least, and check all the reviews on that site to get other things that you like...
It should be obvious to everyone that Alex de Joode has no interest at all in putting up a web server on this domain name, seen to the fact that the web site just contains 2 links.
.NL mirror
It should however be noted that a domain name is much more than just something to reach a web site on.
When you try to connect to the ftp port of the openssh.org domain you get the following welcome message:
Welcome to the ZEDZ
This site is co-located at the TERENA Offices, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
We have setup a partial mirror of the content available @ftp.zedz.net (F.K.A. ftp.replay.com)
mailto:adejoode@zedz.net for more info
He is obviously mirroring the ftp site here.
Also there are other uses for a domain name, one would be a fancy email address, which is very understandable.
Another common use of domain names is for reverse lookups, which look fancy on IRC.
This is ofcourse something that is a total waste of domain and IP space, but can still be implemented by owning just a subdomain of the domain. (i.e. the part needed for the vhost)
I see a lot of posts here saying that the K7 athlon would be a better choice, but the fact is that you can build an intel system that outperforms a amd athlon system almost 2 to 1.
Athlon motherboards currently do NOT support SMP (more than 1 cpu on the motherboard).
And the spec sheet clearly specifies "CPUs (2)".
The amd athlon is at 700Mhz right now, and intels run at 733, and at these speeds such an atlon cannot be much more that 5% or 10% faster than the intel.
Obviously 2 intel cpu's will outperform any athlon system in such a case.
The performance gain you see there cannot be compared to a switch from intel p3 to athlon, because the k6-2 is simply much slower than any intel cpu to begin with...
He quotes using 2 CPU's in the system, and currently there are no motherboards out that support this.
(I don't even think they have a chipset for it yet)
so basically any intel system will outperform K7 because you can just use more CPU's
Digital projection can be better than traditional film projection, but obviously not with the TI projection system and certainly not using sattelite downloads for the movie data.
The movie data will most likely have to be transported on a reliable medium, such as the tapes that are used for data backup.
The largest available backup tape today is 50Gb native and can transfer 6Mbyte/sec, with a 100Gb,12Mbyte/sec version on the way, which could easily be modified for realtime movie playback.
For example the current dvd mpeg2 technology is 720x480 at 10mbit/sec resulting in about 4500Mbyte per hour of data.
A theatre quality movie would have to be encoded at a resolution of at least 1920x1080 of which the reference bitrate is 80Mbit/sec, resulting in about 35Gb/hour of data.
For theatre like quality that would ofcourse have to be an even higher resulution and remember that this is all stil at the default 24fps.
So for something like 2500x1500 resolution with 48fps you would need a bitrate of about 200Mbit/sec, resulting in about 87GB per hour of movie data, which means that a 2.5 hour movie can be stored on 5 50Gb tapes or if 100Gb tapes would exist on 3 of those, which is perfectly acceptable.
Also the review only mentions equipment costs, but I don't think that traditional film is that cheap, while these tapes are.
And ofcourse having digital film at such a resolution and framerate WOULD be far superior to any analog or film solution.
Ofcourse equipment for this would be even more expensive, so we probably won't see high quality digital theatre anytime soon...
mp3enc -qual 9 -bw 22050
Try those 2 commandline options for the highest possible quality.
-qual 9 sets it to encode as good as it can
-bw 22050 sets the frequency bandwidth higher
most encoders have a lower frequency cut-off, but this setting ensures full bandwith (it's the highest setting)