Where is the Windows utility to convert.MOV video images to.MPG, then?
That sort of thing usually happens 'automagically' when the code is freed.
Why wasn't I pummeled with options when I searched the Web for said utility recently?
And looking closer at what you typed: what the hell does a 'Streaming server' have to do with a utility to convert a proprietary video format to an open one?
The only reason I bought a new copy of the White Album was because my vinyl copy developed a skip at 'Martha My Dear.'
Which rendered the entire album unplayable, because you have to listen to all four sizes, as a whole, in order. And it was a DRAG to get that far in and discover the skip.
The GP commenter didn't say 'seemed.' There were plenty of people in the 1930's, in Germany, who knew that a certain nut's vision wasn't viable over the long term. They got out, if they could, or resisted and were killed.
The 'good pragmatic folk of the real world' will behave similarly today.
One has to believe that the hysterical 'Microsoft is coming to get us' mantra is used to build something, certainly something more reasonable than it seems on the surface. But it's difficult at times. The FOSS seems to NEED this sort of rant spell ever so often.
Windows Server 2003 is at least marketted to servers..
I honestly don't think I am far off in saying that probably, somewhere, in some marketing literature, the little fans that you plug into the USB connector are 'marketed to servers.'
The top bunch of entries on the list on that page looked like the usual Apple buzzword projects. Stuff they do, and stuff they do NOT give away.
I used a camera today in the lab at work that I thought would record short video clips to MPEG.
Nope. It generates fucking.MOV files. Better go download goddamn Quicktime again and endure it intruding on my system again for awhile. Oh, look! The 'easy click' to download a Quicktime player is now a complete bundle with iTunes. Damn, well, by manuvering around on the site I was able to find just quicktime itself. A fricking 20 meg installer. It doesn't take over 'extensions' in Windoze (my workplace is a core of MS fascism) like it used to. But one HELL of a bloated overbearing installer, as always.
Sorry. Apple is only a company that wishes it was Microsoft. Not one to be trusted by anybody but happy shiney people who flash plastic at the Apple Store and buy Apple this-and-that on a regular basis.
I just tried to. There appear to be seventy different versions, or at least several for each of numerous 'distros.' There wasn't a 'plain tar.gz' option except for distro-specific checkboxes. I suppose one of the options will soon be merged into pkgsrc as a 'layered on linux emulation' thing.
If they're going to have versions for seven or eight of the linux-kernel-based OSes, why not NetBSD?
Yes, it's definitely worth looking into. It's worth a lot of grocery money for people who would othewise have to engage in productive work. But, then, they get their degrees in fields related to a dubious psuedo-science called 'sociology' so I suppose they are entitled to the grandest 'Jobs Program' of all: implementing all the OTHER 'programs.' (to make it BETTER for ALL the REST of us TOO, you know!)
1. Most of the places where I have done board-level-troubleshooting, there are highly skilled women workers who do the rework for you after you identify the part that needs changing. And you had better NOT try doing the work with your iron first yourself, because she is one HELL of a lot better at it than you and you'll foul it up and make her job harder.
2. The pink traces on the circuit board are solder mask.
I wasn't going to post this, but now you've flounced about a bit much to some of the 'a girl on slashdot!' comments, so here goes:
Couldn't he just use the back of your head?
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I prefer the classic old books on Unix. It should have a chapter on setting up your environment (i.e..cshrc) and should cover all the important dotfiles. It should have a chapter on ed/ex/vi, preferrably one that starts with the ed commands and branches forward. It needs to have a roff chapter, since that was the first really useful application on Unix. Shell scripting is another must, and should start with/bin/sh and only after that is covered branch into any of the arcana of newer scripting.
When I first started involving myself with the freenixes, there wasn't anything else out there in printed documentation but ye olde Unix books and a few things newer things from O'Reilly (the _UNIX Power Tools_ book is excellent and will remain very very relevant for a long time, if we can fight off the GUI mess people seem to think that other people want). My favorite UNIX book is still one published by Osborne back in, I think, about 1983. It fulfills all the requirements I listed in the above paragraph.
Any book with screenshots in it is disallowed from consideration. If there MUST be illustrations, and there are cases where they are helpful, they should look like nothing more than what one can come up with using Xfig.
I dunno. Mozilla (or 'Firefox' if you prefer) I can download the source tarball and build it to run on all my NetBSD systems. Opera? Hmm, I have to install a Linux emulator?? How do I emulate the non-existent Linux version for my Sparc boxes?
The assertion that 'it's not a zero sum game' can be asserted when somebody is declining 'revenue' too, although it's usually applied as an arguement in cases that tip the other way.
It is NOT half a billion dollars buying somebody else a few private jets. No 'competitor' to CraigsList is socking away that kind of cash, and they won't when someone like Craig is driving the price to zero.
It probably frustrates a certain sort of person, though. Are you one who finds things like the above frustrating? Do you also complain because there aren't vending machines along all the hiking trails in National Parks?
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OMG! You're citing a Slashdot comment to back up an arguement??
Where is the Windows utility to convert .MOV video images to .MPG, then?
That sort of thing usually happens 'automagically' when the code is freed.
Why wasn't I pummeled with options when I searched the Web for said utility recently?
And looking closer at what you typed: what the hell does a 'Streaming server' have to do with a utility to convert a proprietary video format to an open one?
A good example of the latter would be the Kennedy family.
Where do you get the ludicrous idea that there's no taxation in Afghanistan or Sudan?
Per-capita, normalized to income, the tax there is probably higher than it is in the west.
The only reason I bought a new copy of the White Album was because my vinyl copy developed a skip at 'Martha My Dear.'
Which rendered the entire album unplayable, because you have to listen to all four sizes, as a whole, in order. And it was a DRAG to get that far in and discover the skip.
I paid $600 for my first 1x CDROM reader. I paid $300 for my first 2X CD Writer.
I don't have any fear that these drives will sit at $1000 for a long time.
Cool! So when can I burn these disks with growisofs from the command prompt? I'll maybe get one of these drives then.
iTunes has to be overlooked, or Apple's little pewter figurines will have to move over to the 'other side.'
Duck Rubby isn't necessarily nutty. He's just someone who has trolled himself thoroughly, so thoroughly that he probably takes himself seriously.
The GP commenter didn't say 'seemed.' There were plenty of people in the 1930's, in Germany, who knew that a certain nut's vision wasn't viable over the long term. They got out, if they could, or resisted and were killed.
The 'good pragmatic folk of the real world' will behave similarly today.
One has to believe that the hysterical 'Microsoft is coming to get us' mantra is used to build something, certainly something more reasonable than it seems on the surface. But it's difficult at times. The FOSS seems to NEED this sort of rant spell ever so often.
Just don't get too wound up in it.
Microsoft has also exited markets. They exited the UNIX market years ago, for instance.
And the ground plowed by anti-trust attorneys is still lying there, fertile.
Windows Server 2003 is at least marketted to servers..
I honestly don't think I am far off in saying that probably, somewhere, in some marketing literature, the little fans that you plug into the USB connector are 'marketed to servers.'
The top bunch of entries on the list on that page looked like the usual Apple buzzword projects. Stuff they do, and stuff they do NOT give away.
.MOV files. Better go download goddamn Quicktime again and endure it intruding on my system again for awhile. Oh, look! The 'easy click' to download a Quicktime player is now a complete bundle with iTunes. Damn, well, by manuvering around on the site I was able to find just quicktime itself. A fricking 20 meg installer. It doesn't take over 'extensions' in Windoze (my workplace is a core of MS fascism) like it used to. But one HELL of a bloated overbearing installer, as always.
I used a camera today in the lab at work that I thought would record short video clips to MPEG.
Nope. It generates fucking
Sorry. Apple is only a company that wishes it was Microsoft. Not one to be trusted by anybody but happy shiney people who flash plastic at the Apple Store and buy Apple this-and-that on a regular basis.
Isn't 'Pamela' a legal clerk?
I just tried to. There appear to be seventy different versions, or at least several for each of numerous 'distros.' There wasn't a 'plain tar.gz' option except for distro-specific checkboxes. I suppose one of the options will soon be merged into pkgsrc as a 'layered on linux emulation' thing.
If they're going to have versions for seven or eight of the linux-kernel-based OSes, why not NetBSD?
but it's definitely worth looking into.
That last line is the most important part.
Yes, it's definitely worth looking into. It's worth a lot of grocery money for people who would othewise have to engage in productive work. But, then, they get their degrees in fields related to a dubious psuedo-science called 'sociology' so I suppose they are entitled to the grandest 'Jobs Program' of all: implementing all the OTHER 'programs.' (to make it BETTER for ALL the REST of us TOO, you know!)
Here's news for you:
1. Most of the places where I have done board-level-troubleshooting, there are highly skilled women workers who do the rework for you after you identify the part that needs changing. And you had better NOT try doing the work with your iron first yourself, because she is one HELL of a lot better at it than you and you'll foul it up and make her job harder.
2. The pink traces on the circuit board are solder mask.
I wasn't going to post this, but now you've flounced about a bit much to some of the 'a girl on slashdot!' comments, so here goes:
Couldn't he just use the back of your head?
I prefer the classic old books on Unix. It should have a chapter on setting up your environment (i.e. .cshrc) and should cover all the important dotfiles. It should have a chapter on ed/ex/vi, preferrably one that starts with the ed commands and branches forward. It needs to have a roff chapter, since that was the first really useful application on Unix. Shell scripting is another must, and should start with /bin/sh and only after that is covered branch into any of the arcana of newer scripting.
When I first started involving myself with the freenixes, there wasn't anything else out there in printed documentation but ye olde Unix books and a few things newer things from O'Reilly (the _UNIX Power Tools_ book is excellent and will remain very very relevant for a long time, if we can fight off the GUI mess people seem to think that other people want). My favorite UNIX book is still one published by Osborne back in, I think, about 1983. It fulfills all the requirements I listed in the above paragraph.
Any book with screenshots in it is disallowed from consideration. If there MUST be illustrations, and there are cases where they are helpful, they should look like nothing more than what one can come up with using Xfig.
I agree, and am pleasantly surprised whenever I find such an article to read on 'the web.' This book review wasn't one, though.
I don't think anybody here is advocating 'nobody' watching the TV commercials. Me, I am fine with the duller, slower people watching them.
I'm quite happy to read Google ads as they target them much more effectively.
And I find Google ads particularly annoying as they dig in to what I am trying to focus on and spam me with deeper distractions.
And I am not talking about on Google. I've switched to www.mamma.com for my web searches, but Google still spams pages I visit.
I dunno. Mozilla (or 'Firefox' if you prefer) I can download the source tarball and build it to run on all my NetBSD systems. Opera? Hmm, I have to install a Linux emulator?? How do I emulate the non-existent Linux version for my Sparc boxes?
Opera just doesn't seem flexible hardware-wise.
Is right-click 'do not display images from this site' an adblocker? I just thought it was a reward for running Mozilla.
Once you've got a well-stocked list of sites blocked, it's kinda refreshing to wonder what crap would be in that blank space on a Windoze system.
I've even heard rumors that some people *pay* for ad blocking software.
Really weird.
The assertion that 'it's not a zero sum game' can be asserted when somebody is declining 'revenue' too, although it's usually applied as an arguement in cases that tip the other way.
It is NOT half a billion dollars buying somebody else a few private jets. No 'competitor' to CraigsList is socking away that kind of cash, and they won't when someone like Craig is driving the price to zero.
It probably frustrates a certain sort of person, though. Are you one who finds things like the above frustrating? Do you also complain because there aren't vending machines along all the hiking trails in National Parks?