Yeap, I really need such a monster card to play UT2003 at 120 FPS...really...what, you don't believe me ? why ? just because my eye can't tell FPS after 60 ?
Realy? I like playing at a sustained rate of 85fps... keep it in sync with my refresh rate. If anything I don't want my fps dropping below 75fps. (I normally play at 1024x768 with as much detail as possible.) Note, this is sustained, and not average fps.
I remember one time when I had an early internal SCSI Zip drive. I brought it over a friend's house to transfer a few files (could've been the wee early days of mp3's, take that RIAA!).
After transferring the files to her machine (had to install the SCSI card and Zip drive into her machine), I totally forgot to eject the Zip disk out of the drive after I already disconnected everything from the drive and her computer was already in mid-boot.
Like an idiot, I quickly stuck the power back in the Zip drive and ejected it!
Bzzzt! Burnt out the drive and burnt the ends of my hair. The sound of shock was so loud I thought my toes blew off.
I gained interest in Leadtek when I read a review about the quality of the 2D filters they use on that Ti500 card. It rivals both ATI and even Matrox! (That's what really sparked my interest since I enjoyed the sharp 2D of my G400, but it just didn't cut it when it came to 3D games.)
They also mentioned that every Nvidia-based card Leadtek releases will have the same high quality 2D filters on it. Since then, I ended up buying a Titanium 200 TDH from them and its 2D display is up to par with my G400.
I checked out WROX's Professional PHP4. It had everything I wanted to do... create an email and news clients. It deals how to make an FTP client. It talks about use with MySQL and PostgreSQL. I found it rather helpful (along with php.net's documentation and user notes). Bah, here's an overview.
First I started out with Professional PHP4 from WROX (just to give me an idea). But they don't go through all the functions, therefore I headed over to php.net. The normaly documentation for the functions didn't do too much for me, but the user contributed notes did A LOT. (I was also new to MySQL, i wish mysql.com had as much documentation.)
And if php.net still couldn't answer my question, I finally sucked it up and asked on #php on OPN. They can be just as helpful... but normally I would get the RTFM and end up finding it again on php.net:)
Even transfering video using IEEE1394 to the computer is such a delicate exercise, that I tend to avoid doing more than 30 minutes at a time. Of course I carefully close down all my programs before doing so, and even then it is a very unstable process. Last night I tried twice, and got dropped frames both times after 30 minutes or so.
You shouldn't dump video (we're talking about DV, right?) for more than 30 minutes at a time anyway. From what we've experienced, (along with what we've heard elsewhere in our line of work), capturing more than 30 minutes at a time with DV (using IEEE1394) results in sync loss with sound.
(Capturing using composites or anything else except IEEE1394 will keep sync after 30 minutes.)
But, we normally don't worry about capturing any DV footage for 30+ minutes straight since we don't normally shoot any scene that requires a 30+ minute take;)
5. Make sure your box is sitting on carpet and not wood/concrete.
One thing about putting my box on the carpet instead of elevated above is dust.
Anyone else have this problem? We just replaced our carpet not too long ago (as in within 5 years not so long ago), and we still kick up a lot of dust off the carpet.
(We used the sun's rays or a high powered flashlight and walked around and did see a lot of dust coming off of the carpet.)
I have to clean out my vents in my case at least once a month to keep air flow efficient:(
As I sort of mentioned before, I prefer the external hard drives when it comes to extra hard drives. (I'll always put the OS drive in the system... just 'cause):)
That's why I was thinking about getting some x9160 card and go through the external route.
Of course, when *that* time comes, I'm not too sure what the specs for SerialATA will be.
I will not upgrade to a SoundBlaster Audigy. Creative just dropped any incentive for me to upgrade by eliminating the game/MIDI port on the back of their card.
I have an Audigy (EX to be exact). You're right, there is no Game/MIDI port on the back of their card. Instead, you use a dongle to get to the Game port.
Of course, that's how my EX is (from Audigy to daughter card to box which also has the Game port).
12 friggin' IDE channels. The mind boggles. Perhaps I can finally use up all the bays in my full-size tower. It looks mighty pathetic with just my CDRW and a floppy.
See, I'd like to do that too, but I think I'll wait until I see these boards with SerialATA. Just for the sake of neatness and air flow, you know? (My computer cooks with that AMD XP and nvidia chip in the summer time.)
I also have another question to those who could answer it... is it possible to create a nice solution to utilize all these IDE channels outside the case?
I'm sure I could drag a long IDE cable to some external case for HDD drives. But I don't want to just keep it hanging out of the case. (Are there plates that have these kind of connectors that go from internal to external?)
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This is OT, but I'm wondering (if anyone knew... 'cause this has been driving me crazy) why doesn't MS have ssh in place (or running along side) with telnet in their latest windows?
Roger Ebert has written about this and has a great column about a new film technology that shoots at 48 fps instead of 24 fps
That's odd though, I wonder what kind of film would it be. You could always burn more film and shoot it at 48fps instead of 24fps. You'd get a smoother look. As for your film artifacts, they could fix those at post (actually, in the telecine stage). Those artifacts come back when they print *back* to film. The nice thing about the digital projectors is that it could loose all that dirt film carries. (But I don't know that for a fact since I don't have a theatre around here with a digital projector.)
If I recall correctly, film being projected (theatre) moves at 48fps. It shows every frame twice before moving to the next one. Though, I'm not too sure if that's the same way it gets shot. (Exposing each frame twice.)
When I assisted a few DP's (okay, more like following them around), their light meter read off of 1/24th. So I'm guessing those hundred thousand dollar Panas (and the thousand dollar Aries) shoots normally at 24fps.
Sony's HD Cameras that Lucas is using is dubbed the 24p. And any other high end HD (broadcast) DV cams are capable of 24p.
I heard at a screen testing, Lucas shot on both 24p and on 35mm. Normal moviegoers could not tell the difference between the two. (Of course, the guys who shot it and work with both film and DV daily knew the difference.)
I agree that DV doesn't have the resolution as film (35mm, don't even get started with IMAX), but it's cheaper! (I think I'm going OT since this isn't about digital projecting anymore.)
Renting out a Sony DSR-500 and buying DV tapes is far more cheaper than renting a Pana (or any other 35mm camera) and shooting the movie on FILM! DV doesn't have to be developed and run through the telecine process to get it back on tape (normally Beta SP). For a 90min film, you'll spend probably around $10k than spending over $100k on just processing film.
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Ack! In 20 years, I'll be that dirty old man I always feared about.
Nah, the tabacco industry would probably adapt and try Tomacco instead.
Well, if it's on the Internet... it must be true!
Yeap, I really need such a monster card to play UT2003 at 120 FPS...really...what, you don't believe me ? why ? just because my eye can't tell FPS after 60 ?
Realy? I like playing at a sustained rate of 85fps... keep it in sync with my refresh rate. If anything I don't want my fps dropping below 75fps. (I normally play at 1024x768 with as much detail as possible.) Note, this is sustained, and not average fps.
didn't realize what the pinhole ejection
There's a pinhole ejection!?@
If I only knew!
Speaking of Zip drives...
I remember one time when I had an early internal SCSI Zip drive. I brought it over a friend's house to transfer a few files (could've been the wee early days of mp3's, take that RIAA!).
After transferring the files to her machine (had to install the SCSI card and Zip drive into her machine), I totally forgot to eject the Zip disk out of the drive after I already disconnected everything from the drive and her computer was already in mid-boot.
Like an idiot, I quickly stuck the power back in the Zip drive and ejected it!
Bzzzt! Burnt out the drive and burnt the ends of my hair. The sound of shock was so loud I thought my toes blew off.
How is that Ironic? I blame Alanis for this total misuse of the word... That's just a coincidence.
Or how Alanis puts it in her songs... unfortunate.
Not to mention IBM and Fujitsu
Maya Designs, Inc. and Carnegie-Mellon are trying to come up with a remote control that controls everything in your house.
Even my wife?! That would be awesome! :)
I gained interest in Leadtek when I read a review about the quality of the 2D filters they use on that Ti500 card. It rivals both ATI and even Matrox! (That's what really sparked my interest since I enjoyed the sharp 2D of my G400, but it just didn't cut it when it came to 3D games.)
They also mentioned that every Nvidia-based card Leadtek releases will have the same high quality 2D filters on it. Since then, I ended up buying a Titanium 200 TDH from them and its 2D display is up to par with my G400.
I'm happy :)
Didn't Apple use Pioneer's A03 or A04 for it's Superdrive?
I wonder if this is the same CDex from four years or so ago.
I remember trying to rip CDs with a generic 8x CD-ROM drive and it came down to two applications: CDex and WinDAC.
It took CDex to rip a CD 6 hours or so. It took WinDAC about 30 minutes. Yup, slower than real time for Digital Audio Extraction.Of course, my 8x CD-ROM drive was generic (no idea the name) running on a AMD 5x86 133MHz (P90 equiv.)
Now I'm running all Plextors but still using WinDAC. But I'm sitll wondering if that's the same CDex... (I should take it for a spin despite what) :)
I checked out WROX's Professional PHP4. It had everything I wanted to do... create an email and news clients. It deals how to make an FTP client. It talks about use with MySQL and PostgreSQL. I found it rather helpful (along with php.net's documentation and user notes). Bah, here's an overview.
Definitely.
:)
First I started out with Professional PHP4 from WROX (just to give me an idea). But they don't go through all the functions, therefore I headed over to php.net. The normaly documentation for the functions didn't do too much for me, but the user contributed notes did A LOT. (I was also new to MySQL, i wish mysql.com had as much documentation.)
And if php.net still couldn't answer my question, I finally sucked it up and asked on #php on OPN. They can be just as helpful... but normally I would get the RTFM and end up finding it again on php.net
Even transfering video using IEEE1394 to the computer is such a delicate exercise, that I tend to avoid doing more than 30 minutes at a time. Of course I carefully close down all my programs before doing so, and even then it is a very unstable process. Last night I tried twice, and got dropped frames both times after 30 minutes or so.
;)
You shouldn't dump video (we're talking about DV, right?) for more than 30 minutes at a time anyway. From what we've experienced, (along with what we've heard elsewhere in our line of work), capturing more than 30 minutes at a time with DV (using IEEE1394) results in sync loss with sound.
(Capturing using composites or anything else except IEEE1394 will keep sync after 30 minutes.)
But, we normally don't worry about capturing any DV footage for 30+ minutes straight since we don't normally shoot any scene that requires a 30+ minute take
5. Make sure your box is sitting on carpet and not wood/concrete.
:(
One thing about putting my box on the carpet instead of elevated above is dust.
Anyone else have this problem? We just replaced our carpet not too long ago (as in within 5 years not so long ago), and we still kick up a lot of dust off the carpet.
(We used the sun's rays or a high powered flashlight and walked around and did see a lot of dust coming off of the carpet.)
I have to clean out my vents in my case at least once a month to keep air flow efficient
Don't forget about getting a 3-button Logitech mouse. :)
I thought the Pacman franchise was owned by Namco, not Pacman.
:)
And it was called Puckman before it hit the States. I wonder what made them wanna change it...
CD drives are pretty fast as they are for me. But one thing that annoys me are its access times. :(
Thanks for the info.
:)
As I sort of mentioned before, I prefer the external hard drives when it comes to extra hard drives. (I'll always put the OS drive in the system... just 'cause)
That's why I was thinking about getting some x9160 card and go through the external route.
Of course, when *that* time comes, I'm not too sure what the specs for SerialATA will be.
I will not upgrade to a SoundBlaster Audigy. Creative just dropped any incentive for me to upgrade by eliminating the game/MIDI port on the back of their card.
I have an Audigy (EX to be exact). You're right, there is no Game/MIDI port on the back of their card. Instead, you use a dongle to get to the Game port.
Of course, that's how my EX is (from Audigy to daughter card to box which also has the Game port).
See, I'd like to do that too, but I think I'll wait until I see these boards with SerialATA. Just for the sake of neatness and air flow, you know? (My computer cooks with that AMD XP and nvidia chip in the summer time.)
I also have another question to those who could answer it... is it possible to create a nice solution to utilize all these IDE channels outside the case?
I'm sure I could drag a long IDE cable to some external case for HDD drives. But I don't want to just keep it hanging out of the case. (Are there plates that have these kind of connectors that go from internal to external?)
Just curious.
I hear the new Doom will be ported over to the XBOX... but that's so far from now.
:)
And chances are those who will be playing the new Doom will be upgrading their machine to the newest NVwhatever chip to play it
start ssh, ftp, and Apache with a click of the mouse
This is OT, but I'm wondering (if anyone knew... 'cause this has been driving me crazy) why doesn't MS have ssh in place (or running along side) with telnet in their latest windows?
Roger Ebert has written about this and has a great column about a new film technology that shoots at 48 fps instead of 24 fps
That's odd though, I wonder what kind of film would it be. You could always burn more film and shoot it at 48fps instead of 24fps. You'd get a smoother look. As for your film artifacts, they could fix those at post (actually, in the telecine stage). Those artifacts come back when they print *back* to film. The nice thing about the digital projectors is that it could loose all that dirt film carries. (But I don't know that for a fact since I don't have a theatre around here with a digital projector.)
If I recall correctly, film being projected (theatre) moves at 48fps. It shows every frame twice before moving to the next one. Though, I'm not too sure if that's the same way it gets shot. (Exposing each frame twice.)
When I assisted a few DP's (okay, more like following them around), their light meter read off of 1/24th. So I'm guessing those hundred thousand dollar Panas (and the thousand dollar Aries) shoots normally at 24fps.
Sony's HD Cameras that Lucas is using is dubbed the 24p. And any other high end HD (broadcast) DV cams are capable of 24p.
I heard at a screen testing, Lucas shot on both 24p and on 35mm. Normal moviegoers could not tell the difference between the two. (Of course, the guys who shot it and work with both film and DV daily knew the difference.)
I agree that DV doesn't have the resolution as film (35mm, don't even get started with IMAX), but it's cheaper! (I think I'm going OT since this isn't about digital projecting anymore.)
Renting out a Sony DSR-500 and buying DV tapes is far more cheaper than renting a Pana (or any other 35mm camera) and shooting the movie on FILM! DV doesn't have to be developed and run through the telecine process to get it back on tape (normally Beta SP). For a 90min film, you'll spend probably around $10k than spending over $100k on just processing film.