In a hotel in France, they wanted over $20 for 24h. WiFi aceess. Guess what? I said no thanks and used my modem to get my mail. That cost me about $1 for the hotel-overcharged local phone call.
But a hotel with free WiFi will get me renting their room.
And if I go into a cafe, I will choose one with free WiFi over the other one next door.
WiFi enabling a place like a cafe costs almost nothing. If they want to charge for the access, it costs much more to set up. That makes no sense. If I was a cafe or restaurant owner, I wouldn't hesitate a minute: buy a $100 (or less) access point, a router or firewall if it's not already there, hook it up to my existing ADSL or cable line, and let it be used for free and attract customers.
I ignored that part on purpose. Capturing from the DV is done through Firewire. Recording TV? He doesn't even have a TV, so he may not really be interested in recording it.
There are only 2 (serious) editing programs: Avid and Final Cut Pro.
Avid runs on PC and Mac. Final Cut Pro only runs on Mac so Apple can sell the hardware (they bought the project from Macromedia, killed the Windows version and made the Mac version into Final Cut Pro).
While I'm not a Mac fan, video editing is certainly the area in which a Mac is perfectly suitable for the job. Besides, since Apple's interest is in selling hardware, FCP can easily be copied. That is not the case with Avid which needs a hardware dongle.
A second hand old Sony Trinitron TV would probably be cheaper than a video card. And a lot less hassle choosing, installing, getting drivers, configuring,...
It will also probably give you a bigger image than your computer monitor, and a much better picture if your monitor is a flat panel display.
Unless the space the TV would take up is a problem where you live, it's probably your best bet.
And if you want to edit the stuff you shoot with your DV, you need at least one more monitor anyway, to see what you are doing.
Well, now that I have written that last sentence, I see a problem: If you shoot DV, you will want to shoot it 16:9, because it's a nicer format. But a second hand 16:9 Sony Trinitron will be hard to find for cheap...
And IF it does find life will mankind for the next millenium be taught at School that it was the Brits that proved its existance?
I don't know for the British but I can guarantee you that the French will teach in school that the first whatever was a Frenchman. In their haste, they might even claim the first Martian was Frenchman.
Funny how the Reuters UK article considers this a British failure (the title is "Major Setback for Britain's Mars Probe Mission"), when in fact it is a European Space Agency mission (with American involvement too, i think).
The article mentions plans to develop 220V. versions. That seems to imply they cannot make adapters taking any voltage between 90 and 240 volts, like the current notebook adapters.
In other words, it would be a big step backwards if you need to carry around two adapters with your notebook!
Or can these be made universal like the current standard adapters?
science classes only. No Law School, literature class will focus on scientific texts and technical writing, and history will be the history of science
Good luck, but I'm afraid your Island will be terribly boring. No litterature? No music either I guess?
But maybe you will enjoy the company of some Talibans looking for a new place...:-)
Besides, "no history" sounds frightening. Of course, it seems we do NOT learn from history, after all, but we definitely shouldn't abandon any hope. Some day maybe we WILL learn from history.
Because I do it on an old P200. Encoding is very slow, and when I rip I usually want the WAV files fast (for a custom CD, or just for a playlist to use right now). The encoding can wait.
Also, I now encode on my new P4 notebook, but still want to rip on the old P200 which has a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM.
How did it come to pass that mp3 ripper's don't pull this data from the CD?
The rippers do pull it. But ripping is not encoding.
I rip to WAV and get the data in the file name. If/when I later batch-encode to mp3 (with lame), there is no tag. I may add it later with yet a different tool.
Windows Media player, etc. all show me data for the CD I am listening to
It may have improved, but it used to show completely wrong data from god knows where. It was not querying freedb or cddb which had the correct data, but some other broken database. It was amazing.
The slashes go "the wrong way" [...] because the switch syntax was copied from CPM [...]. CPM in turn copied it from DEC's PDP operating systems [...]
Reminds me of the the famous story about the origins of the US railroad gauge:
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches...an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built U.S. railroads. Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did "they" use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on the old long-distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long-distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in wheel spacing.
The U.S. standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. And bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you're handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you'll be right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.
Now an additional irony to the story...
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major space shuttle design feature--of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system--was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass....and you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important.
Through P2P searches, I came across an artist I didn't know before (Maria Dolores Pradera). Downloaded many songs, then decided I wanted to buy one or two CDs.
My reasons were:
1. Get the quality (whatever some teenager listening to the latest hit on $10 computer speakers tells you, even at 256kbs, MP3 is NOT "CD quality"; listen to it on a good stereo, and you will definitely hear the diference).
2. To give money to the artist instead of indirectly giving it to my ISP. (even if there is not much left for the artist after the rest of the industry has tken their part).
3. To avoid the hassle getting, checking, ID3ing, renaming, moving, whatevering the MP3.
Well, I went to a big store in Geneva, Switzerland (FNAC).
- The vendor had never heard of the artist - Searching in his database, after quite a long time, he came up with 1 or 2 records - He could have ordered them, but I would have to wait a week or 2 until he gets them - Of course, since he didn't have anything, I couldn't listen to make my choice.
Well, I'm still listening to my MP3s. Maybe I'll get a record from Amazon next time I have to order something there...
And it's even translated into English. So here it goes, from this page:
'Would you like a drink first?' asked Colin. 'I've finished my pianocktail and we could try it out.'
'Does it really work?' asked Chick.
'Of course it does. I had a hard job perfecting it, but the finished result is beyond my wildest dreams. When I played the Black and Tan Fantasy I got a really fantastic concoction.'
'How does it work?' asked Chick.
'For each note,' said Colin, 'there's a corresponding drink - either a wine, spirit, liqueur or fruit juice. The loud pedal puts in egg flip and the soft pedal adds ice. For soda you play a cadenza in F sharp. The quantities depend on how long a note is held - you get the sixteenth of a measure for a hemidemisemiquaver; a whole measure for a black note; and four measures for a semibreve. When you play a slow tune, then tone comes into control too to prevent the amounts growing too large and the drink getting too big for a cocktail - but the alcoholic content remains unchanged. And, depending on the length of the tune, you can, if you like, vary the measures used, reducing them, say, to a hundredth in order to get a drink taking advantage of all the harmonics, by means of an adjustment on the side.'
'It's a bit complicated,' said Chick.
'The whole thing is controlled by electrical contacts and relays. I won't go into all the technicalities because you know all about them anyway. And, besides, the piano itself really works.'
'It's wonderful,' said Chick.
'Only one thing still worries me,' said Colin, 'and that's the loud pedal and the egg flip. I had to put in a special gear system because if you play something too hot, lumps of omelette fall into the glass, and they're rather hard to swallow. I've still got a little bit of modification to do there. But it's all right if you're careful. And for a dash of fresh cream, you add a chord in G major.'
'I'm going to try an improvisation on Loveless Love,' said Chick. 'That should be crazy.'
'It's still in the junk room that I use as my workshop,' said Colin, 'because the guard plates aren't screwed down yet. Come in there with me. I'll set it for two cocktails of about seventy-five milligallons each to start with.'
Chick sat at the piano. When he'd reached the end of the tune a section of the front panel came down with a sharp click and a row of glasses appeared. Two of them were brimming with an appetizing mixture.
'You scared me,' said Colin. 'You played a wrong note once. Luckily it was only in the harmonization.'
'You don't mean to say that that comes into it too?' said Chick.
'Not always,' said Colin. 'That would make it too elaborate. So we just give it a few passing acknowledgements. Now drink up-and we'll go and eat.'
This other page has a different translation, and other interesting stuff about it all.
NTFS is certainly very well protected, since there is no full independant implementation, even though it would be very usefull. The latest trend for NTFS support on Linux is to use the native Windows driver through a wrapper (see recent/. article).
Anyway, the success of FAT is due to its simplicity. It doesn't support much, but seems to be very lightweight and easy to implement.
So is there an equivalent? Ext3 or ReiserFS, like NTFS, are probably far too sophisticated for memory sticks in portable devices and the like.
Ext2? Is it supported on Mac OS X? Is there an easy to install driver for Windows machines? (about 2 years ago, it was neither easy to install nor reliable on WinNT)
What else would there be?
In Linux, 'mount' lists lots of supported filesystems. Would one of these be a good candidate?
He appears to have said: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
An interesting note at the bottom of the article says that "It remains illegal for any South Koreans to email their northern neighbors without government permission.".
That sounds actually pretty good for the North Koreans, when you consider the quantity of spam coming out of South Korea.
Too bad it isn't illegal to spam my country. Or has the spam I get been granted a "government permission"?
Bitch at MS for suggesting a non-standard.tld for private domains.
I do like bitching at MS, but this is not a good occasion.
Yes, I discovered yesterday that MS suggest.local for SBS. Why not? It's a perfectly natural choice for an internal domain. That's why I had choosen it many years ago, like many other netadmins. If MS does the same I have no objection. It is perfectly valid and doesn't break anything.
There is nothing "non-standard" in using.local as a local tld and it is widely used.
The way Apple uses it does break valid existng TCP/IP functionality.
Apple's simply following the Zeroconf RFC, which specifies.local
I can also write an RFC, not listen to the objections, and follow my own RFC whatever the consequences. It wouldn't make my RFC a valid Internet standard.
This could have been just a little glitch in OS X. But the way they treated it, they appear to be just as arrogant as MS.
I know, that's what I currently do for the caller-id and name lookup stuff.
The messages are easy to send. The question is (as usual) the content, and the recipient.
Send all incoming emails to some script which parses it to find the recipient (not always in To: or even Cc:), finding the corresponding user account (not necessarily the same as the address),etc.
Nothing difficult, but a bit too much work I will probably do to please the users, while feeling it is just a useless gadget.
Before misleadingly filling your comment with "IETF", maybe you should read a few IETF documents and join their working groups yourself.
I will gladly admit that mDNS doesn't have to be crap in itself, and may be cool, but Apple's proposed implementation is NOTgoing through the IETF standards process.
And Apple IS hijacking the.local tld, and not only did the IETF never recommended that it be reserved for Apple's Rendezvous, but in fact, had "concerns about multicast storms resulting from site-wide mDNS usage, as well as concerns about cache pollution" (among others).
What they eventually adopted in the standards track is LLMNR.
LLMNR also doesn't require suddenly taking over a widely used tld.
Also: "Rendezvous is an individual submission that is not a work item of any IETF working group, and is currently not an IETF standard. While it is possible for an individual submission to become an IETF standard, this is unlikely in this case because an existing WG (DNSEXT) is already working on a competing protocol (LLMNR), which has just completed DNSEXT WG last call."
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That's from an article on the site of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics which was published a few weeks ago. It also has several links to more information.
This has already been discussed on /.
But maybe I could get even better karma by reposting my old comments into this new thread?
In a hotel in France, they wanted over $20 for 24h. WiFi aceess. Guess what? I said no thanks and used my modem to get my mail. That cost me about $1 for the hotel-overcharged local phone call.
But a hotel with free WiFi will get me renting their room.
And if I go into a cafe, I will choose one with free WiFi over the other one next door.
WiFi enabling a place like a cafe costs almost nothing. If they want to charge for the access, it costs much more to set up. That makes no sense. If I was a cafe or restaurant owner, I wouldn't hesitate a minute: buy a $100 (or less) access point, a router or firewall if it's not already there, hook it up to my existing ADSL or cable line, and let it be used for free and attract customers.
please note the capture req. in the orginal post
I ignored that part on purpose. Capturing from the DV is done through Firewire.
Recording TV? He doesn't even have a TV, so he may not really be interested in recording it.
PC for creating a video. Nothing is better
That is definitely wrong.
There are only 2 (serious) editing programs: Avid and Final Cut Pro.
Avid runs on PC and Mac. Final Cut Pro only runs on Mac so Apple can sell the hardware (they bought the project from Macromedia, killed the Windows version and made the Mac version into Final Cut Pro).
While I'm not a Mac fan, video editing is certainly the area in which a Mac is perfectly suitable for the job. Besides, since Apple's interest is in selling hardware, FCP can easily be copied. That is not the case with Avid which needs a hardware dongle.
A second hand old Sony Trinitron TV would probably be cheaper than a video card. And a lot less hassle choosing, installing, getting drivers, configuring, ...
It will also probably give you a bigger image than your computer monitor, and a much better picture if your monitor is a flat panel display.
Unless the space the TV would take up is a problem where you live, it's probably your best bet.
And if you want to edit the stuff you shoot with your DV, you need at least one more monitor anyway, to see what you are doing.
Well, now that I have written that last sentence, I see a problem: If you shoot DV, you will want to shoot it 16:9, because it's a nicer format. But a second hand 16:9 Sony Trinitron will be hard to find for cheap...
And IF it does find life will mankind for the next millenium be taught at School that it was the Brits that proved its existance?
I don't know for the British but I can guarantee you that the French will teach in school that the first whatever was a Frenchman. In their haste, they might even claim the first Martian was Frenchman.
All my outlets are 110V
:-)
So you are in one of the rare countries with the old cumbersome 110V., and apparently never went out into the world
Funny how the Reuters UK article considers this a British failure (the title is "Major Setback for Britain's Mars Probe Mission"), when in fact it is a European Space Agency mission (with American involvement too, i think).
The article mentions plans to develop 220V. versions. That seems to imply they cannot make adapters taking any voltage between 90 and 240 volts, like the current notebook adapters.
In other words, it would be a big step backwards if you need to carry around two adapters with your notebook!
Or can these be made universal like the current standard adapters?
science classes only. No Law School, literature class will focus on scientific texts and technical writing, and history will be the history of science
:-)
Good luck, but I'm afraid your Island will be terribly boring. No litterature? No music either I guess?
But maybe you will enjoy the company of some Talibans looking for a new place...
Besides, "no history" sounds frightening. Of course, it seems we do NOT learn from history, after all, but we definitely shouldn't abandon any hope. Some day maybe we WILL learn from history.
And that is what the BBC article says.
But Reuters and other sources write:
So, as usual, some journalists are wrong. How do we choose which to believe?
Maybe someone has a Canadian source? (their favors are not mentioned in these reports)
Why do it in two steps
Because I do it on an old P200. Encoding is very slow, and when I rip I usually want the WAV files fast (for a custom CD, or just for a playlist to use right now). The encoding can wait.
Also, I now encode on my new P4 notebook, but still want to rip on the old P200 which has a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM.
I wrote "reminds me of that story...". Of course, all stories aren't true :-)
Thanks for the links anyway.
How did it come to pass that mp3 ripper's don't pull this data from the CD?
The rippers do pull it. But ripping is not encoding.
I rip to WAV and get the data in the file name. If/when I later batch-encode to mp3 (with lame), there is no tag. I may add it later with yet a different tool.
Windows Media player, etc. all show me data for the CD I am listening to
It may have improved, but it used to show completely wrong data from god knows where. It was not querying freedb or cddb which had the correct data, but some other broken database. It was amazing.
Reminds me of the the famous story about the origins of the US railroad gauge:
Through P2P searches, I came across an artist I didn't know before (Maria Dolores Pradera). Downloaded many songs, then decided I wanted to buy one or two CDs.
My reasons were:
1. Get the quality (whatever some teenager listening to the latest hit on $10 computer speakers tells you, even at 256kbs, MP3 is NOT "CD quality"; listen to it on a good stereo, and you will definitely hear the diference).
2. To give money to the artist instead of indirectly giving it to my ISP. (even if there is not much left for the artist after the rest of the industry has tken their part).
3. To avoid the hassle getting, checking, ID3ing, renaming, moving, whatevering the MP3.
Well, I went to a big store in Geneva, Switzerland (FNAC).
- The vendor had never heard of the artist
- Searching in his database, after quite a long time, he came up with 1 or 2 records
- He could have ordered them, but I would have to wait a week or 2 until he gets them
- Of course, since he didn't have anything, I couldn't listen to make my choice.
Well, I'm still listening to my MP3s. Maybe I'll get a record from Amazon next time I have to order something there...
And it's even translated into English. So here it goes, from this page:
This other page has a different translation, and other interesting stuff about it all.
Boris Vian, in the opening chapter of Foam of the daze (L'Ecume des jours), offers a much more elegant solution to fulfill the same purpose.
Wouldn't someone have a link to to an English version of the text?
I'll try to find one later today, or just copy the French version. Stay tuned...
other file systems. is NTFS similarly protected?
/. article).
NTFS is certainly very well protected, since there is no full independant implementation, even though it would be very usefull. The latest trend for NTFS support on Linux is to use the native Windows driver through a wrapper (see recent
Anyway, the success of FAT is due to its simplicity. It doesn't support much, but seems to be very lightweight and easy to implement.
So is there an equivalent? Ext3 or ReiserFS, like NTFS, are probably far too sophisticated for memory sticks in portable devices and the like.
Ext2?
Is it supported on Mac OS X?
Is there an easy to install driver for Windows machines? (about 2 years ago, it was neither easy to install nor reliable on WinNT)
What else would there be?
In Linux, 'mount' lists lots of supported filesystems. Would one of these be a good candidate?
adfs, affs, coda, coherent, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, minix, ncpfs, qnx4, romfs, sysv, udf, ufs, umsdos, xenix, xiafs.
Maybe iso9660? Or one of the others which I don't know?
He appears to have said: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Or was it about something else?
At any rate, this got him this years Foot in Mouth award.
And yes, it's just so slightly off-topic. But hell, I couln't resist.
BTW, his runner-up was Governator, who thinks that "gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman".
An interesting note at the bottom of the article says that "It remains illegal for any South Koreans to email their northern neighbors without government permission.".
That sounds actually pretty good for the North Koreans, when you consider the quantity of spam coming out of South Korea.
Too bad it isn't illegal to spam my country. Or has the spam I get been granted a "government permission"?
Bitch at MS for suggesting a non-standard .tld for private domains.
.local for SBS. Why not? It's a perfectly natural choice for an internal domain. That's why I had choosen it many years ago, like many other netadmins. If MS does the same I have no objection. It is perfectly valid and doesn't break anything.
.local as a local tld and it is widely used.
.local
I do like bitching at MS, but this is not a good occasion.
Yes, I discovered yesterday that MS suggest
There is nothing "non-standard" in using
The way Apple uses it does break valid existng TCP/IP functionality.
Apple's simply following the Zeroconf RFC, which specifies
I can also write an RFC, not listen to the objections, and follow my own RFC whatever the consequences. It wouldn't make my RFC a valid Internet standard.
This could have been just a little glitch in OS X. But the way they treated it, they appear to be just as arrogant as MS.
I know, that's what I currently do for the caller-id and name lookup stuff.
The messages are easy to send. The question is (as usual) the content, and the recipient.
Send all incoming emails to some script which parses it to find the recipient (not always in To: or even Cc:), finding the corresponding user account (not necessarily the same as the address),etc.
Nothing difficult, but a bit too much work I will probably do to please the users, while feeling it is just a useless gadget.
Before misleadingly filling your comment with "IETF", maybe you should read a few IETF documents and join their working groups yourself.
.local tld, and not only did the IETF never recommended that it be reserved for Apple's Rendezvous, but in fact, had "concerns about multicast storms resulting from site-wide mDNS usage, as well as concerns about cache pollution" (among others).
I will gladly admit that mDNS doesn't have to be crap in itself, and may be cool, but Apple's proposed implementation is NOT going through the IETF standards process.
And Apple IS hijacking the
What they eventually adopted in the standards track is LLMNR.
LLMNR also doesn't require suddenly taking over a widely used tld.
Also: "Rendezvous is an individual submission that is not a work item of any IETF working group, and is currently not an IETF standard. While it is possible for an individual submission to become an IETF standard, this is unlikely in this case because an existing WG (DNSEXT) is already working on a competing protocol (LLMNR), which has just completed DNSEXT WG last call."
See the LLMNR FAQ.