It is possible on a Mac. DVD Extractor is one program that comes to mind. Of course you'll probably need an AC3 decoder as well, but those are around too.
And they expect them to listen to it on a Sony Walkman with stock headphones? Thats not exactly Hi-Fi equipment there:)
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I remember recording "CD quality" sound with my 75mhz Pentium and a cheap $5 mic from radio shack
"CD quality" does not been just having something recorded at 44.1KHz at 16 bits. A $5 rat shack microphone and a sound blaster is not going to get you anywhere near the capabilities of that low (vs. 24/96 or even 24/196) sample rate. Good audio equipment costs some real money. Take a look at this for a good quality entry level audio card. With good audio equipment (pre/pro, speakers), your $5 rat shack microphone recording will sound like utter crap compared to something recorded with this card (and a sennheiser or comparable microphone). Simple playback of normal CDs through this setup will also be an eye opening expierience.
Are we talking about the infamous CRT losing sync problem here? I "fixed" 1 or 2 iMacs that had that issue by strapping an 80mm fan to their exhaust. Sure, its fugly, but you can at least use the computer again (its not fun to find the shutdown menu when you're screen is out of sync). Seems to work, but sometimes only as a temporary thing.
I haven't seen it lately. A local university (CSUMB) has all of the dorms NATed, so you can a multitude of IM logins from the same IP. If (well, when) the network gets borked, the insant it works, AOL's servers reject all of the login requests from the dorms since they come in a sudden flood. It can reportedly take several hours for AOL to allow everyone back online. But it does explicitly block them forever.
Throttle Kazaa and other similar items then. Its not hard. You can set up a proxy-arped FreeBSD box with ALTQ installed which sits before your main router for not much at all. If you want a spiffy commercial solution, Packeteer has it.
You're looking at an opal doublet, which is a piece of piece glued to some black rock. The glue softens and the stone gets clouded. Solid opals don't have this problem.
Yes! FireWire allows something USB doesn't: peer to peer connectivity. This allows me to take a Sony DV converter and plug it into a Sony Camcorder/Video walkman with a firewire cable to dub VHS->Hi8(DV). With USB, you'd need a host controller, which up to this point means computer. I don't want to use a computer for dubbing tapes or doing other device->device transfers.
Depends on the mouse and the OS. OS 9 + Logitech's MouseWare works wonderfuly for multibutton mice/wheels. OS X natively supports USB wheel multibutton mice.
There is an evoloutinary computer based lego building system. I'm sure you can pull it up on slashdot. It basicly was a computer program which learned how to build a lego bridge. Rather nifty.
I had a Cyrix 166+ until about last week, when it suddenly decided to self destruct (got realy really really warm and froze. I'm considering of its uses in that one fortune quote: 101 Uses for a Dead Microprocessor). The machine is now a P200, running FreeBSD on a 3.6GB IBM hard drive.
Basicly, I agree with you. Its pretty much in the best interest of the company to try establishing a larger user base for a rather niche product.
Pov-Ray is free, but have you ever tried animating with POV-Ray? Going above simple movement operations, the math becomes incredibly difficult that you start considering selling your car to buy a copy of Maya:) A|W isn't selling to the mass consumer since the mass consumer would never buy Maya. Microsoft is selling to the mass consumer and cares a little more if your version of Windows is licensed. Microsoft is potentialy losing sales, while A|W is gaining sales from companies hiring people who have used Maya
Yes.... but if you're like me.... you'll end up starting your car while in first gear or reverse (depending how its parked). That can be rather unpleasent when you find a nice hole in your garage door:)
The biggest market that I see for these is upgrades. Your building has maybe a drop or two per location... but you need more to plug in your new network gizmo and don't have the ports. You could:
a) Rerun wire. Maybe lay new conduit because it doesn't fit in the old. Start punching through the walls again (depending on if the building came with wiring in the walls). + you still need switch ports.
b) Replace the wall plate with this 4 port switch in a wall.
I'd go for the second one on a labor standpoint alone.
bash is NOT standard on FreeBSD. sh on FreeBSD is mostly POSIX.2 compatible (w/ Berkeley extensions), and they claim its similar to the Korn shell. The system defaults to giving tcsh (/bin/csh actualy, but its tcsh) as the default interactive shell. sh is only (by default) used for the scripts (/etc/rc and friends).
Actualy, I did the same thing just recently (this time on FreeBSD). I simply had to change one entry in my/etc/XF86Config (load the "nv" driver instead of the "tdfx" driver). Windows 98? Several reboots, trying to download drivers with a 640x480 (16 color) screen on a dialup connection since the ones on the CD don't install.
What about a USB Mouse (Logitech mouseman wheel optical)? Windows: Several reboots without any mouse. Won't detect the mouse if you do something as simple as plug it in to the other port or on a keyboard hub. (Try moving any USB device. Windows will either not see it or have to walk through another setup routine, often requiring you hit enter on the keyboard which it is trying to detect:|) FreeBSD: Plug it in. usbd picks it up, and launches moused pointed at the USB mouse/dev device. If you were using moused before (you probably were), its transparent. Easy to move the mouse around, no funny issues. Works like a Mac.
I've dropped my IIIxe a total of 12 times, from 1 foot to 15 feet (scaling a fence:)). Its gone into "self destruct" mode (cover flies off, batteries fly everwhere, battery cover takes a long trip), but no permament damage (screen is still fine, no cracks). I would call that rugged.
Comfort is a good thing when you're trying to use a computer all day long. For some reason, I love my 7 year old "Packard Bell" keyboard. I just haven't found anything that replaces the feel. But, while we're on the issue of comfort:
1. Mouse. Get a mouse that works for you. Try them, there is no secret. I'm happy with my Logitech MouseMan Wheel Optical. Unfortunately, they don't make them for left handed people (I'm not one, but this may be a problem).
2. Monitor. Many people don't get a good monitor. They get the cheap no-brand things. My all means, get a good monitor. In case you haven't noticed, you spend most of your computer time looking at your monitor. Go for flat (LCD if you like it, but flat CRT is great - and cheaper). I personaly like my 19 inch Sony FD Trinitron G400. Flat. Crisp. 2 inputs. Great refresh rate support. Bright. 3 year warranty.
3. A comfortable chair. This is really personal, but a get a chair designed for sitting, not a lounge chair. A good sitting chair often costs less than an executive chair.
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It is possible on a Mac. DVD Extractor is one program that comes to mind. Of course you'll probably need an AC3 decoder as well, but those are around too.
And they expect them to listen to it on a Sony Walkman with stock headphones? Thats not exactly Hi-Fi equipment there :)
"CD quality" does not been just having something recorded at 44.1KHz at 16 bits. A $5 rat shack microphone and a sound blaster is not going to get you anywhere near the capabilities of that low (vs. 24/96 or even 24/196) sample rate. Good audio equipment costs some real money. Take a look at this for a good quality entry level audio card. With good audio equipment (pre/pro, speakers), your $5 rat shack microphone recording will sound like utter crap compared to something recorded with this card (and a sennheiser or comparable microphone). Simple playback of normal CDs through this setup will also be an eye opening expierience.
Are we talking about the infamous CRT losing sync problem here? I "fixed" 1 or 2 iMacs that had that issue by strapping an 80mm fan to their exhaust. Sure, its fugly, but you can at least use the computer again (its not fun to find the shutdown menu when you're screen is out of sync). Seems to work, but sometimes only as a temporary thing.
I haven't seen it lately. A local university (CSUMB) has all of the dorms NATed, so you can a multitude of IM logins from the same IP. If (well, when) the network gets borked, the insant it works, AOL's servers reject all of the login requests from the dorms since they come in a sudden flood. It can reportedly take several hours for AOL to allow everyone back online. But it does explicitly block them forever.
Throttle Kazaa and other similar items then. Its not hard. You can set up a proxy-arped FreeBSD box with ALTQ installed which sits before your main router for not much at all. If you want a spiffy commercial solution, Packeteer has it.
http://www.packeteer.com/products/packetshaper/
You're looking at an opal doublet, which is a piece of piece glued to some black rock. The glue softens and the stone gets clouded. Solid opals don't have this problem.
Opals are always a nice stone and do have a decent resale value. Of course they're rather hard to find in the US.
Yes! FireWire allows something USB doesn't: peer to peer connectivity. This allows me to take a Sony DV converter and plug it into a Sony Camcorder/Video walkman with a firewire cable to dub VHS->Hi8(DV). With USB, you'd need a host controller, which up to this point means computer. I don't want to use a computer for dubbing tapes or doing other device->device transfers.
Team Fortress was a Halflife based mod.
Depends on the mouse and the OS. OS 9 + Logitech's MouseWare works wonderfuly for multibutton mice/wheels. OS X natively supports USB wheel multibutton mice.
There is an evoloutinary computer based lego building system. I'm sure you can pull it up on slashdot. It basicly was a computer program which learned how to build a lego bridge. Rather nifty.
I already went over it... no Magrathea :( Maybe something truly improbable will happen to me really soon...
My Sony G400 (damn nice monitor, 19") weighs in at 60.3lbs. And its very hard to carry.
I had a Cyrix 166+ until about last week, when it suddenly decided to self destruct (got realy really really warm and froze. I'm considering of its uses in that one fortune quote: 101 Uses for a Dead Microprocessor). The machine is now a P200, running FreeBSD on a 3.6GB IBM hard drive.
Pov-Ray is free, but have you ever tried animating with POV-Ray? Going above simple movement operations, the math becomes incredibly difficult that you start considering selling your car to buy a copy of Maya :) A|W isn't selling to the mass consumer since the mass consumer would never buy Maya. Microsoft is selling to the mass consumer and cares a little more if your version of Windows is licensed. Microsoft is potentialy losing sales, while A|W is gaining sales from companies hiring people who have used Maya
Try Google and its cache. It tends to keep things newer.
Yes.... but if you're like me.... you'll end up starting your car while in first gear or reverse (depending how its parked). That can be rather unpleasent when you find a nice hole in your garage door :)
Everything changed in 1996. A thing called ODB-II came out and obsoleted that.
The biggest market that I see for these is upgrades. Your building has maybe a drop or two per location... but you need more to plug in your new network gizmo and don't have the ports. You could:
a) Rerun wire. Maybe lay new conduit because it doesn't fit in the old. Start punching through the walls again (depending on if the building came with wiring in the walls). + you still need switch ports.
b) Replace the wall plate with this 4 port switch in a wall.
I'd go for the second one on a labor standpoint alone.
bash is NOT standard on FreeBSD. sh on FreeBSD is mostly POSIX.2 compatible (w/ Berkeley extensions), and they claim its similar to the Korn shell. The system defaults to giving tcsh (/bin/csh actualy, but its tcsh) as the default interactive shell. sh is only (by default) used for the scripts (/etc/rc and friends).
Maxusers is set to 32 in GENERIC kernels.
Actualy, I did the same thing just recently (this time on FreeBSD). I simply had to change one entry in my /etc/XF86Config (load the "nv" driver instead of the "tdfx" driver). Windows 98? Several reboots, trying to download drivers with a 640x480 (16 color) screen on a dialup connection since the ones on the CD don't install.
:|) FreeBSD: Plug it in. usbd picks it up, and launches moused pointed at the USB mouse /dev device. If you were using moused before (you probably were), its transparent. Easy to move the mouse around, no funny issues. Works like a Mac.
What about a USB Mouse (Logitech mouseman wheel optical)? Windows: Several reboots without any mouse. Won't detect the mouse if you do something as simple as plug it in to the other port or on a keyboard hub. (Try moving any USB device. Windows will either not see it or have to walk through another setup routine, often requiring you hit enter on the keyboard which it is trying to detect
I've dropped my IIIxe a total of 12 times, from 1 foot to 15 feet (scaling a fence :)). Its gone into "self destruct" mode (cover flies off, batteries fly everwhere, battery cover takes a long trip), but no permament damage (screen is still fine, no cracks). I would call that rugged.
1. Mouse. Get a mouse that works for you. Try them, there is no secret. I'm happy with my Logitech MouseMan Wheel Optical. Unfortunately, they don't make them for left handed people (I'm not one, but this may be a problem).
2. Monitor. Many people don't get a good monitor. They get the cheap no-brand things. My all means, get a good monitor. In case you haven't noticed, you spend most of your computer time looking at your monitor. Go for flat (LCD if you like it, but flat CRT is great - and cheaper). I personaly like my 19 inch Sony FD Trinitron G400. Flat. Crisp. 2 inputs. Great refresh rate support. Bright. 3 year warranty.
3. A comfortable chair. This is really personal, but a get a chair designed for sitting, not a lounge chair. A good sitting chair often costs less than an executive chair.