As far as I know, it doesn't at all. Cinelerra seems to have a different purpose than professional video editing, (as I had noted a few months ago by looking at their site and documentation).
For example, the very first thing done in editing is batch capturing the footage. Well, it doesn't look like Cinelerra supports that. From this relevant part of the manual:
Because of the high cost of developing frame-accurate deck control mechanisms, the only use of batches now is recording different programs during different times of day
Sounds completely unrelated to the standard batch capturing, and seems to be more related to PVR type use or something.
As someone familiar with professional film/video editing, I actually always wished there would be a Linux alternative to Avid and FCP, but haven't seen any yet.
And I always wondered if Cinelerra could be of any use in a professional editing environment. Maybe for some special effects? Or some special format conversions? I don't know, and if someone has seen a use for it alongside Avid/FCP, it would be interesting to know.
Is Cinelerra a useful tool to add to an Avid or FCP editing room?
I just hope that, like other Logitech mice which come with a driver CD full of useless crap, they will also work with a plain/generic mouse driver. Throwing the CD in the trash is always the first thing I do when opening a new mouse's packaging. I guess the only people who install that stuff are the users who think it's actually needed and never tried without.
And as someone else said: I already have over 100 buttons right in front of me, under my fingers; I don't want 10 more on an accessory!
this worm somehow has enough permissions to delete other worms in %SYSTEM%, but I, as an Administrator, don't.
Usually, when I could not kill a task, it was because another one was watching it, and restarting it if it was killed. Rebooting in safe mode and removing the tasks from the registry (HKLM/..../Run) worked.
Microsoft: please, for the love of god, implement KILL -9. Without a reboot. Thanks.
I also prefer ps and kill to the Task manager, but that is just personal preference and cosmetics. In such a case it wouldn't make a difference. In Unix too, if inittab keeps re-spawning a process, kill -9 doesn't help until inittab is fixed.
Well, this article is mostly a reproduction of a judge's opinion in a garbage-can-search case, and it is an excellent read. The judge appears to have let off some (insightful) steam.
What a stupid article. The title is silly (love an OS? is it wrong?)! The article is completely empty of any information whatsoever. I wonder how this made it to a/. story. Do the editors feel guilty that the site hosts many anti-MS stories and comments?
I don't love Microsoft. I do like Windows XP as a desktop OS, and use it. It's a great OS (at last). There are many other MS products I can't stand (Word, Outlook,...).
At the same time, all the servers I install are Linux, and even though I use XP as my main desktop, I recommend Macs to home users who just want a computer for Internet access and home use, and who don't happen to specifically need Windows.
You can use/the right|your preferred/ tool for the job and appreciate it's strenghts and weeknesses without having to invest it with emotions and ethics like Love or bad/wrong.
I admit I don'tknow anything about Gnome, but seeing a reference to Apple System 7 doesn't really sound very exciting, and doesn't quite make me want to give it a closer look.
Your comment makes me think you have no idea what a window manager does.
Neither do I, really.
I always wondered, and would very much like to find a good and simple explanation of these things.
What are exactly all these pieces, and what are the relations between the OS, X (are there alternatives to X on Linux?), GTK/QT/other?, Gnome/KDE/others?, Window managers, "Desktop environments", etc.
If someone knows a good page giving an overview of all this, that would be nice. And how this architecture is comparable to or different from the ways Windows and Mac manage the GUI, would be interesting too.
I'm really missing a broad understanding of this subject.
Unfortunately, the Dvorak keyboard seems completely useless for typing anything other than English.
There don't seem to be variants for (all the other) languages which use accents, and not even an "International" variant with dead accent keys like the "US International" or a few other English variants.
So, unless you write exclusively in English and correspond exclusively with people having English names, and never need to mention some foreigner's name like Muñez or François, it seems not to be worth the hassle.
Guess what - they're still finding (some major) new sources of oil.
But "Overall, worldwide oil discoveries have been declining steadily for the past 40 years" and "Annual consumption has exceeded new discoveries every year since the early 1980s". (http://www.energybulletin.net/3168.html)
I wouldn't count much on new discoveries.
They're also developing technology to extract previously-unextractable oil (oil sands, oil shale, etc.)
This may provide some expensive oil, but not much. It eventually has a natural limit: when you need more energy to extract the oil than the energy you will get from the extracted oil.
This sounds like very bad news for Opera. As I understand it, Opera's business was mainly to sell a browser to manufacturers of Internet enabled devices, of which the most important one seems phones, of which the most important manufacturer is probably Nokia.
Sure, they also sell the browser to regular users (and I have happily paid for it 2 or 3 times), and they also have an advertisement-supported version, but I guess the main revenue was expected to come from companies like Nokia.
Even though I now mostly use Firefox, I would be very sad if Opera eventually disappeared.
I had a look at the site. What is it that is new and/or interesting in this? I went to the "golden eggs" page, which is supposed to list the most interesting commands. What I see there falls into one of 2 categories:
- a complicated way of executing a normal shell command (di ("Domain (WHOIS) Information using coolwhois.com") seems to do exactly the same as a modern whois, ipinfo-url looks like a a lame version of host, etc.),
I have been using Perl for years to do simple command line scripts to extract information from web sites. From foreign exchange rates, to looking up owners/addresses of incoming phone numbers, or abreviated weather forecasts or train schedules.
I began when my old laptop took too long to start a web browser. But even though I now always have a web browser window open, typing "xchange 1432 EUR" is still much faster and simpler than navigating to the appropriate web site and filling in forms.
I'm actually surprised to see such an idea posted here as news. I thought that anybody who knows some scripting has always been doing this sort of thing.
Of course, Perl is ideal for this sort of thing, with regular expressions and all the CPAN modules (LWP::Simple, and dozens of others more specialized).
I don't agree that map24 is good. It's cluttered, complicated, requires Java, and you cannot copy the link in the address bar.
For Switzerland, there is map.search.ch which is great (and with a simplicity which reminds very much of Google). I don't know for other European countries.
The craftsmen making the movies spend months filming it on 35 mm. film or sometimes HD video cameras, working very hard so it looks and sounds really good on huge screens in theaters.
But apparently, 73% of the people don't give a shit about picture quality. They are happy with the crappy 720 by 576 pixels (and only 720 by 480 and wrong colors with NTSC), on their tiny TV. (And even HDTV is far from the resolution of a good film print).
Of course, at such miserable resolutions, there is no way to convey any emotion with any sort of wide shots, landscapes and such. So it's close-ups and permanent muzak to keep the interest of the viewer...
They must be the same people who don't even notice when the picture is completely deformed because their setup is wrong on their 16/9 TV, or the TV station forgot to de-anamorphose the picture before sending, or whatever. Of course, in a related field, people listen to music on their computer speakers in 128 kb mp3, and call it "CD quality".
If these are really such an overwhelming majority, how depressing for anybody trying to produce quality pictures (or sounds).
if you need to do any kind of transactions... while you're abroad, definitely bring your computer. Doing serious transactions on a public workstation is about the same as writing your PIN on your bank card and leaving it stashed near your favorite ATM so you don't have to carry it in your wallet.
If that is really so for you, you should change your bank immediately!
Do you seriously mean that you can do bank transactions with nothing more than a username and a password?
I have never seen something like that, but I guess it does exist, or I wouldn't get all these silly phishing emails.
On the bank sites that I know, one still uses the first system I had seen: you need a contract number (different from your bank account number) and a password, and a number that can only be used once, taken from a printed list sent by registered mail. (And it does have to be the next number in the list, not just unused number).
With the other, you also need a contract number, and then a card which you put into some sort of calculator/card-reader. You don't give your password to the bank site, but to the card reader with your card in it. The web page then gives you a number, which you enter into the card reader, which displays a one-time password which you enter into the site. Does it sound annoying? Well, it is. But you get used to doing the operation quickly, and it definitely defeats key-loggers.
Anyway, if you need to design strategies to keep your bank account safe, then it's hopeless. Either cancel your online banking contract or get another bank.
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As far as I know, it doesn't at all. Cinelerra seems to have a different purpose than professional video editing, (as I had noted a few months ago by looking at their site and documentation).
For example, the very first thing done in editing is batch capturing the footage. Well, it doesn't look like Cinelerra supports that. From this relevant part of the manual:
Sounds completely unrelated to the standard batch capturing, and seems to be more related to PVR type use or something.
As someone familiar with professional film/video editing, I actually always wished there would be a Linux alternative to Avid and FCP, but haven't seen any yet.
And I always wondered if Cinelerra could be of any use in a professional editing environment. Maybe for some special effects? Or some special format conversions? I don't know, and if someone has seen a use for it alongside Avid/FCP, it would be interesting to know.
Is Cinelerra a useful tool to add to an Avid or FCP editing room?
I just hope that, like other Logitech mice which come with a driver CD full of useless crap, they will also work with a plain/generic mouse driver. Throwing the CD in the trash is always the first thing I do when opening a new mouse's packaging. I guess the only people who install that stuff are the users who think it's actually needed and never tried without.
And as someone else said: I already have over 100 buttons right in front of me, under my fingers; I don't want 10 more on an accessory!
Aren't people supposed to have had measels as kids and be done with it?
Or was that virus spreading among the developers of their next OS: Bob II, which is to follow Vista?
When I read "paradigm shift" in the very first paragraph, my bullshit sensor sound such a loud alarm that it's hard to continue reading...
this worm somehow has enough permissions to delete other worms in %SYSTEM%, but I, as an Administrator, don't.
Usually, when I could not kill a task, it was because another one was watching it, and restarting it if it was killed. Rebooting in safe mode and removing the tasks from the registry (HKLM/..../Run) worked.
Microsoft: please, for the love of god, implement KILL -9. Without a reboot. Thanks.
I also prefer ps and kill to the Task manager, but that is just personal preference and cosmetics. In such a case it wouldn't make a difference. In Unix too, if inittab keeps re-spawning a process, kill -9 doesn't help until inittab is fixed.
it will make it almost impossible for most companies to even acknowledge that the Games are happening
So we will not hear about these games?
That is good news for me. Maybe this time we'll be able to continue with our lives without being constantly invaded by this Olympics craziness...
I followed the Rackspace link, and ended up reading a seamingly unrelated article: Montana Supreme Court justice warns Orwell's 1984 has arrived.
Well, this article is mostly a reproduction of a judge's opinion in a garbage-can-search case, and it is an excellent read. The judge appears to have let off some (insightful) steam.
Read it.
What a stupid article. The title is silly (love an OS? is it wrong?)! The article is completely empty of any information whatsoever. I wonder how this made it to a /. story. Do the editors feel guilty that the site hosts many anti-MS stories and comments?
...).
/the right|your preferred/ tool for the job and appreciate it's strenghts and weeknesses without having to invest it with emotions and ethics like Love or bad/wrong.
I don't love Microsoft. I do like Windows XP as a desktop OS, and use it. It's a great OS (at last). There are many other MS products I can't stand (Word, Outlook,
At the same time, all the servers I install are Linux, and even though I use XP as my main desktop, I recommend Macs to home users who just want a computer for Internet access and home use, and who don't happen to specifically need Windows.
You can use
I admit I don'tknow anything about Gnome, but seeing a reference to Apple System 7 doesn't really sound very exciting, and doesn't quite make me want to give it a closer look.
Maybe some details could coinvince me?
Your comment makes me think you have no idea what a window manager does.
Neither do I, really.
I always wondered, and would very much like to find a good and simple explanation of these things.
What are exactly all these pieces, and what are the relations between the OS, X (are there alternatives to X on Linux?), GTK/QT/other?, Gnome/KDE/others?, Window managers, "Desktop environments", etc.
If someone knows a good page giving an overview of all this, that would be nice. And how this architecture is comparable to or different from the ways Windows and Mac manage the GUI, would be interesting too.
I'm really missing a broad understanding of this subject.
Unfortunately, the Dvorak keyboard seems completely useless for typing anything other than English.
There don't seem to be variants for (all the other) languages which use accents, and not even an "International" variant with dead accent keys like the "US International" or a few other English variants.
So, unless you write exclusively in English and correspond exclusively with people having English names, and never need to mention some foreigner's name like Muñez or François, it seems not to be worth the hassle.
I have only QWERTZ, no QWERTY, you insensitive clod...
People just bitched because they don't know how to forward a frickin port on a frickin router.
Most people I know don't know what the hell a router or a port is. (And not being English-speaking, many wouldn't understand "frickin" either).
Actually it is far more profitable for them to use the spammers for organ harvesting.
Only if spammers actually use the products they advertise, and if these products actually do work as advertised.
Microsoft is the Marquis de Sade of the technology world.
This is an insult. The Marquis de Sade was an aristocrat and a significant writer. How can you compare him with some commercial company?
Guess what - they're still finding (some major) new sources of oil.
But "Overall, worldwide oil discoveries have been declining steadily for the past 40 years" and "Annual consumption has exceeded new discoveries every year since the early 1980s". (http://www.energybulletin.net/3168.html)
I wouldn't count much on new discoveries.
They're also developing technology to extract previously-unextractable oil (oil sands, oil shale, etc.)
This may provide some expensive oil, but not much. It eventually has a natural limit: when you need more energy to extract the oil than the energy you will get from the extracted oil.
I don't know about the NASA data sets, but they could certainly save a few petabytes by stripping the stupid HTML part of all Outlook emails...
This sounds like very bad news for Opera. As I understand it, Opera's business was mainly to sell a browser to manufacturers of Internet enabled devices, of which the most important one seems phones, of which the most important manufacturer is probably Nokia.
Sure, they also sell the browser to regular users (and I have happily paid for it 2 or 3 times), and they also have an advertisement-supported version, but I guess the main revenue was expected to come from companies like Nokia.
Even though I now mostly use Firefox, I would be very sad if Opera eventually disappeared.
I had a look at the site. What is it that is new and/or interesting in this? I went to the "golden eggs" page, which is supposed to list the most interesting commands. What I see there falls into one of 2 categories:
- a complicated way of executing a normal shell command (di ("Domain (WHOIS) Information using coolwhois.com") seems to do exactly the same as a modern whois, ipinfo-url looks like a a lame version of host, etc.),
or
- it does the same as adding a search engine to your Firefox search bar.
Have I missed something?
I have been using Perl for years to do simple command line scripts to extract information from web sites. From foreign exchange rates, to looking up owners/addresses of incoming phone numbers, or abreviated weather forecasts or train schedules.
I began when my old laptop took too long to start a web browser. But even though I now always have a web browser window open, typing "xchange 1432 EUR" is still much faster and simpler than navigating to the appropriate web site and filling in forms.
I'm actually surprised to see such an idea posted here as news. I thought that anybody who knows some scripting has always been doing this sort of thing.
Of course, Perl is ideal for this sort of thing, with regular expressions and all the CPAN modules (LWP::Simple, and dozens of others more specialized).
I don't agree that map24 is good. It's cluttered, complicated, requires Java, and you cannot copy the link in the address bar.
For Switzerland, there is map.search.ch which is great (and with a simplicity which reminds very much of Google). I don't know for other European countries.
The craftsmen making the movies spend months filming it on 35 mm. film or sometimes HD video cameras, working very hard so it looks and sounds really good on huge screens in theaters.
But apparently, 73% of the people don't give a shit about picture quality. They are happy with the crappy 720 by 576 pixels (and only 720 by 480 and wrong colors with NTSC), on their tiny TV. (And even HDTV is far from the resolution of a good film print).
Of course, at such miserable resolutions, there is no way to convey any emotion with any sort of wide shots, landscapes and such. So it's close-ups and permanent muzak to keep the interest of the viewer...
They must be the same people who don't even notice when the picture is completely deformed because their setup is wrong on their 16/9 TV, or the TV station forgot to de-anamorphose the picture before sending, or whatever. Of course, in a related field, people listen to music on their computer speakers in 128 kb mp3, and call it "CD quality".
If these are really such an overwhelming majority, how depressing for anybody trying to produce quality pictures (or sounds).
This type of system is uncommon, if not completely unavailable in the U.S
It's the only system available in the main Swiss bank, and others use it too, I think.
More details mentioned previously.
Advice: cancel online banking or find a bank with decent online banking.
if you need to do any kind of transactions ... while you're abroad, definitely bring your computer. Doing serious transactions on a public workstation is about the same as writing your PIN on your bank card and leaving it stashed near your favorite ATM so you don't have to carry it in your wallet.
If that is really so for you, you should change your bank immediately!
Do you seriously mean that you can do bank transactions with nothing more than a username and a password?
I have never seen something like that, but I guess it does exist, or I wouldn't get all these silly phishing emails.
On the bank sites that I know, one still uses the first system I had seen: you need a contract number (different from your bank account number) and a password, and a number that can only be used once, taken from a printed list sent by registered mail. (And it does have to be the next number in the list, not just unused number).
With the other, you also need a contract number, and then a card which you put into some sort of calculator/card-reader. You don't give your password to the bank site, but to the card reader with your card in it. The web page then gives you a number, which you enter into the card reader, which displays a one-time password which you enter into the site. Does it sound annoying? Well, it is. But you get used to doing the operation quickly, and it definitely defeats key-loggers.
Anyway, if you need to design strategies to keep your bank account safe, then it's hopeless. Either cancel your online banking contract or get another bank.