I purchased a Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 XP Deluxe tv tuner, and I enjoyed it alot. It is not as expensive as other tuners available on the market, but works for all my needs. It has a stylish and easy to use remote control, as well as an FM tuner built in.
I have written a TV Tuner Guide for linux that focuses mainly on this tuner (but can be used for most tuners under linux.
For the price, and the quality you get, in my opinion, this is one of the best tv tuners out there.
For about 55 to 60 years now, one of the biggest threats in the world was the threat of a nuclear attact. One bomb that could wipe out a city in one shot. Just imagine the impact of a wide-spread EMP attack. Obviously it doesn't come close to the devestation of a nuclear weapon, but how much would our lives change? I'm not up much on the technicals of EMPs, but, would this basically wipe out almost any magnetic storage medium we use for computers? Imagine an entire city, like Washington for example, wiped clean of all it's data, this could set back a country during war-time a lot.
Other open source alternatives have been paving away for multimedia in linux. Such projects like MPlayer and Xine make it easy to play almost any type of format especially with MPlayer's recent addition of Quicktime codecs as well as Windows Media 9 format. In addition to these, Xine and MPlayer also can support dvd playback, so moving from such an established open source software solutions to Windows Media Player just doesn't seem to be a logical move on the Linux platform. Especially since both projects (among many more I am sure, ogle comes to mind) have been putting there hearts into their releases and deserve the focus and attention of the community.
This may enter the Linux platform, some people will boo, some people will cheer, but the bottom line is that the hype will die down as quickly as it did when Real Player came to Unix.
I work for a wireless reseller, and I've seen the complaints flood in. We are often flooded with callers who cannot connect their calls, or once every 10 calls they might actually get through. This is more seen in big cities such as New York, Miami, etc. The systems are overloaded, and from my experiences, the wireless carriers don't really care. They need to take a step back, and look at the current infrastructure they have in place, and realize that this is not going to last much longer. The systems weren't designed to handel the amount of traffic they are currently holding, and it's only a matter of time before it all comes crashing down around them.
I know that they currently do not have the money to pump into upgrading the entire system, but right now, the cellular phone industry is at a place where a lot of people are relying on the technology, so it may be a time to have a small markup in the rates. I know where I live, it is cheaper to own and use a cellular phone then a landline phone these days. There's only so much that the consumer will be able to handel before they go back to their old ways of communicating.
The company I am currently employeed with use Avaya for their VoIP needs (an in-bound call centre), it works just fine on the win2k network we are currently running. I have thought about trying to convince the IT department in moving us away from the win2k to the linux platform, but one of the major stumbling blocks of this was the compatibility of VoIP with Linux systems. I was unaware that Avaya offered linux services as well. Is this on the server side only? Or is the CentreVu IP Agent being/has been ported to Linux? If so, this could change everything.
If the courts are given the power to shut down a piece of software that allows the exchange of software, then where are the limits? Kazaa is one example, how about mIRC? Do they start to target all forms of the IRC client? Do they make it illegal to even use the protocol because it allows for file sharing? How about ICQ? The latest windows ICQ client i have used allows for file sharing, so we would have to do away with the ICQ protocol. Let's see, what else? FTP...the very nature of that protocol's name is for file transfers, so whoever came up with that must be sued as well. And our operating systems allows us to run these programs, so the makers of those need to be sued, as well as our internet providers for giving us the medium to transfer upon. There is no end to it, the only real answer to end it all is to make it illegal to use the internet at all, and be not allowed to speak to anyone who may have software they could "lend" you.
I, like a lot of others, learned how to use linux from the many many howto's and guides on the internet. I didn't have anyone to teach me, because no one i knew ran Linux. The only real help i got when starting was from a kind soul on IRC, who spent a few hours with me, to teach me the basics, and what packages to download for slackware 3.5.
But i find the bigest problem I have with trying to teach someone else how to use it, is the nice graphical user interfaces. A lot of people think of this as a great teaching tool, to make linux "look" like windows translates into the user being able to "use" linux but not "work" with linux. For example, my ex-girlfriend runs Mandrake 8.0 , and has been since early summer, but ask her something about linux and you can literally see the question marks floating above her head, she has no clue about it, she doesn't even know how to install an RPM (not that it's a bad thing).
I believe the only way that someone can really learn how to use linux, is to do it themselves, and only seek help if they are really stuck, that way, what they learn will stick with them, like anything else. My ex-girlfriend can call me up and say "hey, i want to install napster, how do i do it?" i could easily tell her to go to the gnapster website, download the file, open up the terminal, type "rpm -Uvh filename.rpm" but she will only remember that for 33 seconds it takes for her to type it, after that, it's gone, and she'll be calling me up again in a few more days asking how to install another program.
Note: If you go out with a girl, do not introduce her to Linux, because when you break up, she will still be calling you for months and months.
at my company, we have about 350 workstations, all running windows, but there is a damn good reason for it, you can't imagine how many times i see employees endlessly banging on their numerical pad screeming "the keyboard is broke, nothing works but the letters" and then calmly walking over to them, and with the greatest of ease, pressing the NumLock.
i find it quite odd that, at this point, a jon katz article has produced only two >3 rated funny replies. come on people, we're way behind schedual here!
eep, -1 flamebait
...asdf@adsf.com was an actual email address, i have used this email too many times to keep track of, but after looking at asdf.com i started using jklsemicolon@asdf.com just to be a prick, sorry guys!
If you would notice the dates next to each posting on the Freshmeat page, you would notice that those comments are from 1999, and the very last comment stated that as well.
....sleep
i remember back in the day when i was able to go to bed at a reasonable hour, and since the induction of quake, more and more games came along, Half Life, Quake 2 & 3, etc etc.
Sleep is for the weak?
i really don't understand how you can consider someone who has been on IRC since 96-97 a newbie, what do you consider an experienced IRC user then? I've scripted for mIRC, run my own servers (hybrid, ircu, bahamut, etc) and much more, i know irc.
i know that ever since i've been on efnet (early 97 probably) that efnet has never implemented a channel or nickname services in the idea that they should "not be owned". But i believe that this is the downfall of the Eris Free Network. Implementing a channel service would probably cut down on a lot of DoS attacks, for the fact that script kiddies aren't going to try and takeover a channel if it's pointless, even if they DoS the services, as soon as they come back online, the channel can be easily taken back again. I think that whoever (and i know there are many) makes the decisions about EFnet should really consider the thought of installing some services there, it would cut down on IRCop's headaches of having to face the same annoying people complaining that they're channel was taken-over, etc. At least this way, users can fix the problems themselves. EFnet, i've found, has always been a "broken" network, splitting even more then DalNet, it's never stable, and there are never constant server connections. I use EFnet for one channel only, and that is where a bunch of people from my hometown hang out and chat (#goodtimes), as for DalNet, i use it only for our group's channel (#LinuxGroup). But lately, i've been spending a lot of time on openprojects, great server, i think EFnet can learn from some of these other networks that are around.
So let's say all of those websites out there that give detailed descriptions of illegal substances such as drugs, hard drugs. Now, not only do these sites give detail descriptions, they also display how it's done, and the effects that it may or may not cause. Now, i don't know about most people, but there are a lot of people out there that use these sites to read up on any drug that they may do....just because there is a website that exists about a certain drug, doesn't force the user to do it, the user was going to do it anyways, at least now they're more informed on it, and know how to treat it, therefore it could hopefully prevent overdoses, or even deter people from trying it.
So the question is, if i'm running a website, for example, that is a help site for people who do drugs, and i link to websites that give detailed descriptions of illegal drugs, is that illegal? The intent is not to persuade people into doing it, but to give them information on it. It's like parents with talking about sex with their children, they know they're going to do it, and they have no way to stop it, so they talk to them about 'safe' sex. You can't stop anyone from doing anything that they want to, you can just inform them on how to go about it safely, and show them the consequences of their actions. So should my drug-help site be illegal? Illegal drugs are obviously illegal, or would they say "hey, this is for legitamite reasons, we can't ban this" but where does that line end?
The internet should be free, and the only laws that should be in place are laws that directly protect each user from REAL LIFE harm.
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You need to go create a blog or something, cause this post has nothing to do with the topic.
I purchased a Leadtek Winfast TV 2000 XP Deluxe tv tuner, and I enjoyed it alot. It is not as expensive as other tuners available on the market, but works for all my needs. It has a stylish and easy to use remote control, as well as an FM tuner built in.
I have written a TV Tuner Guide for linux that focuses mainly on this tuner (but can be used for most tuners under linux.
For the price, and the quality you get, in my opinion, this is one of the best tv tuners out there.
So....BSDs merge and Gnomemeeting closes the source...so that should bring us right back to evil bits....any bets?
For about 55 to 60 years now, one of the biggest threats in the world was the threat of a nuclear attact. One bomb that could wipe out a city in one shot. Just imagine the impact of a wide-spread EMP attack. Obviously it doesn't come close to the devestation of a nuclear weapon, but how much would our lives change? I'm not up much on the technicals of EMPs, but, would this basically wipe out almost any magnetic storage medium we use for computers? Imagine an entire city, like Washington for example, wiped clean of all it's data, this could set back a country during war-time a lot.
But you park in a Driveway and drive in a parkway, sometimes a name is just a name and not a function.
Other open source alternatives have been paving away for multimedia in linux. Such projects like MPlayer and Xine make it easy to play almost any type of format especially with MPlayer's recent addition of Quicktime codecs as well as Windows Media 9 format. In addition to these, Xine and MPlayer also can support dvd playback, so moving from such an established open source software solutions to Windows Media Player just doesn't seem to be a logical move on the Linux platform. Especially since both projects (among many more I am sure, ogle comes to mind) have been putting there hearts into their releases and deserve the focus and attention of the community.
This may enter the Linux platform, some people will boo, some people will cheer, but the bottom line is that the hype will die down as quickly as it did when Real Player came to Unix.
It's amazing how fuel-efficent a vehicle is when you are being pushed....
How about we call it: - "The Browser formally Known as Phoenix".
I would say sorry to those who can't see that character, but you are actually the more fortunate.
I work for a wireless reseller, and I've seen the complaints flood in. We are often flooded with callers who cannot connect their calls, or once every 10 calls they might actually get through. This is more seen in big cities such as New York, Miami, etc. The systems are overloaded, and from my experiences, the wireless carriers don't really care. They need to take a step back, and look at the current infrastructure they have in place, and realize that this is not going to last much longer. The systems weren't designed to handel the amount of traffic they are currently holding, and it's only a matter of time before it all comes crashing down around them.
I know that they currently do not have the money to pump into upgrading the entire system, but right now, the cellular phone industry is at a place where a lot of people are relying on the technology, so it may be a time to have a small markup in the rates. I know where I live, it is cheaper to own and use a cellular phone then a landline phone these days. There's only so much that the consumer will be able to handel before they go back to their old ways of communicating.
The company I am currently employeed with use Avaya for their VoIP needs (an in-bound call centre), it works just fine on the win2k network we are currently running. I have thought about trying to convince the IT department in moving us away from the win2k to the linux platform, but one of the major stumbling blocks of this was the compatibility of VoIP with Linux systems. I was unaware that Avaya offered linux services as well. Is this on the server side only? Or is the CentreVu IP Agent being/has been ported to Linux? If so, this could change everything.
If the courts are given the power to shut down a piece of software that allows the exchange of software, then where are the limits? Kazaa is one example, how about mIRC? Do they start to target all forms of the IRC client? Do they make it illegal to even use the protocol because it allows for file sharing? How about ICQ? The latest windows ICQ client i have used allows for file sharing, so we would have to do away with the ICQ protocol. Let's see, what else? FTP...the very nature of that protocol's name is for file transfers, so whoever came up with that must be sued as well. And our operating systems allows us to run these programs, so the makers of those need to be sued, as well as our internet providers for giving us the medium to transfer upon. There is no end to it, the only real answer to end it all is to make it illegal to use the internet at all, and be not allowed to speak to anyone who may have software they could "lend" you.
...a cheerleader with Tourette's syndrome...me like me like
I, like a lot of others, learned how to use linux from the many many howto's and guides on the internet. I didn't have anyone to teach me, because no one i knew ran Linux. The only real help i got when starting was from a kind soul on IRC, who spent a few hours with me, to teach me the basics, and what packages to download for slackware 3.5.
But i find the bigest problem I have with trying to teach someone else how to use it, is the nice graphical user interfaces. A lot of people think of this as a great teaching tool, to make linux "look" like windows translates into the user being able to "use" linux but not "work" with linux. For example, my ex-girlfriend runs Mandrake 8.0 , and has been since early summer, but ask her something about linux and you can literally see the question marks floating above her head, she has no clue about it, she doesn't even know how to install an RPM (not that it's a bad thing).
I believe the only way that someone can really learn how to use linux, is to do it themselves, and only seek help if they are really stuck, that way, what they learn will stick with them, like anything else. My ex-girlfriend can call me up and say "hey, i want to install napster, how do i do it?" i could easily tell her to go to the gnapster website, download the file, open up the terminal, type "rpm -Uvh filename.rpm" but she will only remember that for 33 seconds it takes for her to type it, after that, it's gone, and she'll be calling me up again in a few more days asking how to install another program.
Note: If you go out with a girl, do not introduce her to Linux, because when you break up, she will still be calling you for months and months.
at my company, we have about 350 workstations, all running windows, but there is a damn good reason for it, you can't imagine how many times i see employees endlessly banging on their numerical pad screeming "the keyboard is broke, nothing works but the letters" and then calmly walking over to them, and with the greatest of ease, pressing the NumLock.
do they ever feel stupid.
i find it quite odd that, at this point, a jon katz article has produced only two >3 rated funny replies. come on people, we're way behind schedual here! eep, -1 flamebait
...asdf@adsf.com was an actual email address, i have used this email too many times to keep track of, but after looking at asdf.com i started using jklsemicolon@asdf.com just to be a prick, sorry guys!
If you would notice the dates next to each posting on the Freshmeat page, you would notice that those comments are from 1999, and the very last comment stated that as well.
yeah, it can be easier, one simple step:
./configure && make && make install
tar zxf file.tgz && cd file &&
Done.
....sleep i remember back in the day when i was able to go to bed at a reasonable hour, and since the induction of quake, more and more games came along, Half Life, Quake 2 & 3, etc etc. Sleep is for the weak?
does this mean they'll have to release a "clean" version with fsck censored out?
for running windows, is for Half-Life Team Fortress Classic, i wish i wish i wish that it would be ported to linux, hopefully Team Fortress 2 will be.
i really don't understand how you can consider someone who has been on IRC since 96-97 a newbie, what do you consider an experienced IRC user then? I've scripted for mIRC, run my own servers (hybrid, ircu, bahamut, etc) and much more, i know irc.
i know that ever since i've been on efnet (early 97 probably) that efnet has never implemented a channel or nickname services in the idea that they should "not be owned". But i believe that this is the downfall of the Eris Free Network. Implementing a channel service would probably cut down on a lot of DoS attacks, for the fact that script kiddies aren't going to try and takeover a channel if it's pointless, even if they DoS the services, as soon as they come back online, the channel can be easily taken back again. I think that whoever (and i know there are many) makes the decisions about EFnet should really consider the thought of installing some services there, it would cut down on IRCop's headaches of having to face the same annoying people complaining that they're channel was taken-over, etc. At least this way, users can fix the problems themselves. EFnet, i've found, has always been a "broken" network, splitting even more then DalNet, it's never stable, and there are never constant server connections. I use EFnet for one channel only, and that is where a bunch of people from my hometown hang out and chat (#goodtimes), as for DalNet, i use it only for our group's channel (#LinuxGroup). But lately, i've been spending a lot of time on openprojects, great server, i think EFnet can learn from some of these other networks that are around.
So let's say all of those websites out there that give detailed descriptions of illegal substances such as drugs, hard drugs. Now, not only do these sites give detail descriptions, they also display how it's done, and the effects that it may or may not cause. Now, i don't know about most people, but there are a lot of people out there that use these sites to read up on any drug that they may do....just because there is a website that exists about a certain drug, doesn't force the user to do it, the user was going to do it anyways, at least now they're more informed on it, and know how to treat it, therefore it could hopefully prevent overdoses, or even deter people from trying it. So the question is, if i'm running a website, for example, that is a help site for people who do drugs, and i link to websites that give detailed descriptions of illegal drugs, is that illegal? The intent is not to persuade people into doing it, but to give them information on it. It's like parents with talking about sex with their children, they know they're going to do it, and they have no way to stop it, so they talk to them about 'safe' sex. You can't stop anyone from doing anything that they want to, you can just inform them on how to go about it safely, and show them the consequences of their actions. So should my drug-help site be illegal? Illegal drugs are obviously illegal, or would they say "hey, this is for legitamite reasons, we can't ban this" but where does that line end? The internet should be free, and the only laws that should be in place are laws that directly protect each user from REAL LIFE harm.
imagine if some of these people used this time to create intelligent posts, the possibilities are endless....