I just turned 60 and the old people deal got my attention.
You young folks are so lame these days. I mean I keep wieghts to lift, (curl 45# bench 125# squat 150#) nice shoes to run in (couple miles every other day) and my Slamd64 11-current to play with my satellite boosting HD home theatre deal. Those HD documentrys are filling up my 0.8 terrabyte hard drive array pretty quick now. Looks like HD DRM has already failed.
You are doomed. The rest of the world is quite capable of producing it's own infrastucture. The USA is losing to the rest of the world that really does not like it much anymore.
The Chinese own your ass and if they ever call their paper you are toast. The dollar is dropping against almost every currency there is and your present boom is gonna tank real soon over your insane real estate ponzi game.
I live in a part of BC where the bikers kind of own this town. Now it's small and it's where we all live. There are long guns all over the place, 30 06s mostly but they are tools. If we disagree it's kinda a UFC thing here, noone even thinks of getting a cannon, that's for cowards in this part of the world.
Now there is the odd murder, two in 12 years but pro killers give you no chance and a gun would not have helped either of those guys.
We are pretty civilized in the bush here. I really feel no need to aquire my cannon of choice, a 1911A, full size thank you. I am good with one. I sure would not want to live in your country where I would probably need one.
No tech solution will work at any reasonable price if there is a long power outage. Empty the freezer, drain the plumbing and lock her up. Low temeratures will not damage anything and once you remove the perishables you are good to go.
Here's what you do. Install windose and it'll overwrite the MBR. Then install the latest slackware and have lilo overwrite the MBR during the install. Then get the lilo.conf in/etc and add thusly under the linux partition, #Other crap:
image =/boot/2.6.14
root =/dev/hda2
label = 2.6.14
read-only #Other crap
other =/dev/hda1
label = Windows
table =/dev/hda
With appropriate changes to fit your circumstance of course.
You get a nice red square with boot choices and because it's slackware _no_ wierd shit at all.
Both GUIs suck wildly. They are slow as hell and everything clutters up the place and the apps get in each others way.
A nice fluxbox/windowmaker, multi screen, I run 5 with keyboard shortcuts CTRL/Right-Left arrows. So a bunch of instantly accesible windows. No damn bar at all. Right click on vacent screen, or the wierd key between the windose and ctrl keys on the right, for a menu. Lots of keyboard shortcuts. Alt-m for mail is as fast as you can do it.
It's so much faster and easier than any of the commercial setups.
PenGun
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PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
"As a long time FreeBSD user, I have to ask: why the fsck can't any Linux distro manage to produce decent documentation? Other than an occasional install howto, Linux documentation is horrendous and woefully incomplete."
We are just so relaxed about computers... we just wing it.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
I really like FOX news. I get at least a belly laugh an hour from those morons, they are so out of touch with current events that they routinly say amazingly stupid stuff.
Kinda like the Daily show but they think it's real... priceless.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
I imagine you are a windose guy. The HD should be converted to AAC but mpeg4 will bring it to a reasonable size. I don't know of any useful windose apps that don't cost an arm and a leg. The mediacoder just uses the windose port of mencoder an mplayer feature.
It's fairly trivial in a Linux enviroment to rip video to pieces and reassemble it. I am still amazed at how pitiful windose is for media.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices!
Sound better is impossible. The actual music is the mark. It can sound different but the original is the actual music.
You have trained yourself to like clean non distorted sound, I blame the record industry. A real pity. The real thing is magnificant, wonderful, not exact and wild.
I just bought a Sony HDTV, a CRT. I have my amps and speakers turned off till I get the magnetic fields under control. I am feeding the TV from my very nice preamp but the sound is not even tonealy correct. The Sony amp and speakers in the TV are just wrong. The famous Sony clean sound.
Fire up the monoblocks and turn off the TV speakers, completly different, actual accurate tone, transients and details return, it's another world. That's just power amps and speakers changed.
I have about $10,000 worth of stereo here and it's nice but even a live performance in the damn bar just kills it for quality. The real thing rules.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
Ah well. If a recording sounds better than the live performance you have managed to convince yourself clean accurate sound is where it's at.
Too bad really. Ever been in the room with a tenor sax or my favorite, a trumpet. That sound is almost impossible to reproduce. They are loud powerfull beasts and you will need $10,000 to even come close.
It's analog eh', the detail is infinite in real music.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
Digital reproduction has to deal with the human ear which is able to hear a rock coming through the bush at your head and through the magic of phase analysis gets your head out of the way. This ear is very hard to fool.
Go to a concert and take your best portable and compare. See? Perfection is a long way off.
Again music is analog, any digital reproduction literally just fakes the sound.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
Yup it's called a record. Vinyl carries a huge amount of information including frequencys to over 150,000Hz on well mastered records.
The problem is that info _costs_ to retrive. My mostly homemade record player, old massive Rotary Platter and Rega arm with a Sumiko Blue Point wit the body hacked off and a Sonic Frontiers phono section cost over $2000. I like to hack hardware but if you have to buy a setup as good as mine prolly be $3000.
Worth every penny;). I also have 24/96 material and an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 sound card and it's just hi=res digital. Certainly nicer than most CDs but not in the same class as a well mastered record.
PenGun
Do What Now ???... Standards and Practices !
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I'm waiting for a player that will do .flac. Why it's a problem to do this is DRM. Still anyone who makes one will get my business.
Had a look at your website ... heh. Ah well.
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I just turned 60 and the old people deal got my attention.
You young folks are so lame these days. I mean I keep wieghts to lift, (curl 45# bench 125# squat 150#) nice shoes to run in (couple miles every other day) and my Slamd64 11-current to play with my satellite boosting HD home theatre deal. Those HD documentrys are filling up my 0.8 terrabyte hard drive array pretty quick now. Looks like HD DRM has already failed.
Again, have a nice day
Son they did not do this to get rich. It's a form of warfare, the Decider against the current government of a 6000 year old culture.
It's a fossil. It was going to be replaced by a complient CSS based site but I lost interest in web crap. Video is more interesting these days.
...
Fill yer arrogant boots poodle
You are doomed. The rest of the world is quite capable of producing it's own infrastucture. The USA is losing to the rest of the world that really does not like it much anymore.
The Chinese own your ass and if they ever call their paper you are toast. The dollar is dropping against almost every currency there is and your present boom is gonna tank real soon over your insane real estate ponzi game.
Have a nice day.
Then learn
One who cares what you think to mod it down one. Yesss a useful system
It's kinda old but I'll answer:
I live in a part of BC where the bikers kind of own this town. Now it's small and it's where we all live. There are long guns all over the place, 30 06s mostly but they are tools. If we disagree it's kinda a UFC thing here, noone even thinks of getting a cannon, that's for cowards in this part of the world.
Now there is the odd murder, two in 12 years but pro killers give you no chance and a gun would not have helped either of those guys.
We are pretty civilized in the bush here. I really feel no need to aquire my cannon of choice, a 1911A, full size thank you. I am good with one. I sure would not want to live in your country where I would probably need one.
No, NT 3.51 was the bomb. NT 4.0 was the original promiscuity upgrade and NT 5 and NT 6 were just more of the same, with bangles.
No tech solution will work at any reasonable price if there is a long power outage. Empty the freezer, drain the plumbing and lock her up. Low temeratures will not damage anything and once you remove the perishables you are good to go.
I guess if you live where everybody is crazy and armed you would need a gun. I give thanks I do not live in such a place.
... That's where South America starts
PenGun
The Peace Arch
Havn't seen one in years.
Here's what you do. Install windose and it'll overwrite the MBR. Then install the latest slackware and have lilo overwrite the MBR during the install. Then get the lilo.conf in /etc and add thusly under the linux partition, #Other crap:
/boot/2.6.14 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda
image =
root =
label = 2.6.14
read-only
#Other crap
other =
label = Windows
table =
With appropriate changes to fit your circumstance of course.
You get a nice red square with boot choices and because it's slackware _no_ wierd shit at all.
Good luck.
Open Sores can weep for all I care.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
That's ridiculous. Just to edit a web page you need an editor, a browser and an ftp client. I run em' in seperate windows.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Both GUIs suck wildly. They are slow as hell and everything clutters up the place and the apps get in each others way.
... Standards and Practices !
A nice fluxbox/windowmaker, multi screen, I run 5 with keyboard shortcuts CTRL/Right-Left arrows. So a bunch of instantly accesible windows. No damn bar at all. Right click on vacent screen, or the wierd key between the windose and ctrl keys on the right, for a menu. Lots of keyboard shortcuts. Alt-m for mail is as fast as you can do it.
It's so much faster and easier than any of the commercial setups.
PenGun
Do What Now
PenGun
Do What Now ???
"As a long time FreeBSD user, I have to ask: why the fsck can't any Linux distro manage to produce decent documentation? Other than an occasional install howto, Linux documentation is horrendous and woefully incomplete."
... we just wing it.
... Standards and Practices !
We are just so relaxed about computers
PenGun
Do What Now ???
I really like FOX news. I get at least a belly laugh an hour from those morons, they are so out of touch with current events that they routinly say amazingly stupid stuff.
... priceless.
... Standards and Practices !
Kinda like the Daily show but they think it's real
PenGun
Do What Now ???
I imagine you are a windose guy. The HD should be converted to AAC but mpeg4 will bring it to a reasonable size. I don't know of any useful windose apps that don't cost an arm and a leg. The mediacoder just uses the windose port of mencoder an mplayer feature.
... Standards and Practices!
It's fairly trivial in a Linux enviroment to rip video to pieces and reassemble it. I am still amazed at how pitiful windose is for media.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
What wouild that be? I am unaware of any digitally created music. Even a mess of synths output analog.
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do Wnat Now ???
Sound better is impossible. The actual music is the mark. It can sound different but the original is the actual music.
... Standards and Practices !
You have trained yourself to like clean non distorted sound, I blame the record industry. A real pity. The real thing is magnificant, wonderful, not exact and wild.
I just bought a Sony HDTV, a CRT. I have my amps and speakers turned off till I get the magnetic fields under control. I am feeding the TV from my very nice preamp but the sound is not even tonealy correct. The Sony amp and speakers in the TV are just wrong. The famous Sony clean sound.
Fire up the monoblocks and turn off the TV speakers, completly different, actual accurate tone, transients and details return, it's another world. That's just power amps and speakers changed.
I have about $10,000 worth of stereo here and it's nice but even a live performance in the damn bar just kills it for quality. The real thing rules.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
You nailed it. I can amaze people with my setup, but nobody cares ;).
... Standards and Practices !
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Ah well. If a recording sounds better than the live performance you have managed to convince yourself clean accurate sound is where it's at.
... Standards and Practices !
Too bad really. Ever been in the room with a tenor sax or my favorite, a trumpet. That sound is almost impossible to reproduce. They are loud powerfull beasts and you will need $10,000 to even come close.
It's analog eh', the detail is infinite in real music.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Oh dear. Music is analog.
... Standards and Practices !
Digital reproduction has to deal with the human ear which is able to hear a rock coming through the bush at your head and through the magic of phase analysis gets your head out of the way. This ear is very hard to fool.
Go to a concert and take your best portable and compare. See? Perfection is a long way off.
Again music is analog, any digital reproduction literally just fakes the sound.
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Yup it's called a record. Vinyl carries a huge amount of information including frequencys to over 150,000Hz on well mastered records.
;). I also have 24/96 material and an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 sound card and it's just hi=res digital. Certainly nicer than most CDs but not in the same class as a well mastered record.
... Standards and Practices !
The problem is that info _costs_ to retrive. My mostly homemade record player, old massive Rotary Platter and Rega arm with a Sumiko Blue Point wit the body hacked off and a Sonic Frontiers phono section cost over $2000. I like to hack hardware but if you have to buy a setup as good as mine prolly be $3000.
Worth every penny
PenGun
Do What Now ???