My friend on the other hand, is always very careful to obey the speed limit, and actually asked me "is the speed limit still 55 through here?" coming through metro Atlanta at 1:30am after a concert. (If you've never been to ATL, let's just say that anything LESS than 75-80mph is a sure way to have someone run up your rear bumper).
what really sucks is that it's 45 for the time being (around the 75/85 junction), and I refuse to go above 20 over. but yeah your comments about atlanta are right on. I drive 22 miles each way to and from work every day, a majority of that on GA400, bumper to bumper 70-80 mph traffic....it's like putting your life on the line every day. I've gotten to where I either go in around 7 or wait until 10....if you're coming or going from 7:30-9 am or 4-6 pm it's pretty much guaranteed there's gonna be a wreck...
ok none of this is really on topic....my $0.02 is that the guy should fry:)
While I enjoyed the movie and thought it pretty good overall, I was honestly a bit disappointed. Half the crowd clapped when the lights dimmed, everyone clapped at a few scene resolutions... but no one clapped at the end.
of all the stupid things people can do.....why oh why do people clap at movies? seriously.
You never forget qwerty and from all people I talk to, they can use it just fine
maybe I'm just stupid, but I sure forgot qwerty. and good riddance.
if I'm going to be typing an extended amount on a keyboard, I'll switch the layout. about 1 minute in windows, osx, and kde...less in a linux console (loadkeys dvorak)... otherwise I hunt and peck.
on my laptop I ripped up all the keys and put them in the dvorak positions, and running fluxbox, there's no easy (read: point-and-click) way of changing the keyboard layout. so I love giving people that. call me a sadist.
the biggest pain I have is (was) physics lab, running NT4 with no admin rights and having to type in-class lab reports. so I whipped up converters to turn typing on a us keyboard as if it were dvorak into something sensible. javascript or java.
but mplayer *is* library based, and does have multiple UIs. Also, unlike Xine, it doesn't crash all the damn time, and playing a DVD isn't UI voodoo.
mplayer crashes for me constantly. xine never does, and I'm running beta versions. mplayer has no dvd menu support. xine does. mplayer craps out on fullscreen with xinerama. xine gives you the option of crapping out like mplayer (spreading across both displays) but defaults to normal behavior (fullscreen on one display) xine is easy to use mplayer is not half the time mplayer won't play sound, especially with QT xine always does
anyway this is all just my own personal experience. I keep mplayer around, I'm now upgrading from rc5 to.90. but it barely seems worth it. I don't need its encoding stuff, and I've never run across a format I wanted to watch that xine couldn't handle. I don't know if it does RM or not, but I use realplayer for that anyway (and before you scream about closed source....that's one of the formats mplayer uses a closed dll to play).
oh and about playing a dvd being ui voodoo....whatever that means.... 1. put in dvd 2. click DVD button 3. click Play button
doesn't seem too hard to me.
last time I tried to play a dvd with xine....it was an rcX...I seem to recall something about -dvd and maybe having to specify the chapter, or something? I don't recall if it even read encrypted dvds....anyway movie playing is decidedly a "Desktop Machine" function. all my file management is done in a console, most of my time is spent there in fact....but I don't want friggin command lines on my movie player. apps like that are supposed to be straight forward and easy to use: here's a movie, play it. screw mounting a dvd, finding which vobs are the biggest, and specifying the title on the commandline. (and it's the same with vcds....and of course a click of the VCD button in xine).
so anyway if you haven't tried xine in a while, give the newest beta a try. there's some bugs, but really, it's a stellar application. if you're happy with mplayer, fine. I think it's silly for there to now be a holy war over movie players. I haven't had good experiences with mplayer, but there's plenty of people who have. anyway....I encourage anybody to give them both a try, and now it's time to stop wasting time on slashdot::grumble::
considering he was in a dorm that was closed for Spring to be renovated. I don't know which was worse for them, having to live there in Fall or being forced to move out.
well I went through that, they closed 6th street last summer, and my roommate and I had to move out. we're talking 10 computers, quite a few monitors in varying sizes, a bookshelf full of books, big TV, etc. and they didn't do jack to 6th street during their "renovation." yeah, that's highly annoying, especially when you've amassed the massive amounts of stuff from living in the apartment dorms (oh, and having 4 hours from the time you get your new keys until the time you have to be out of your old place).
it's not going to magically go through all 7 of your drives and organize everything for you so you can find it. You will still have to go through and manually add appropriate attributes to every one of your 180G of files.
obviously. I've actually kind of lost hope on ever finding anything again:) but seriously, I'm not talking about what a system like this could do for my files....I'm talking about what a system like this could do, period. if I had had this when all I had was one 18 gig drive, my life might be a lot easier right now, in terms of file storage. like other people have said, I think systems like this will become commonplace. as much as I don't like microsoft, they're doing this for longhorn (or maybe the next windows, I don't care all that much), and the world will follow right along. and it's probably a good thing.
Whoop-a-dee-doo! I can just as easily duplicate your attribute lists with directories and symlinks, so nothing has actually been gained.
yeah, except the hours I save by typing this into a box instead of trying to create some convoluted system of directories and symlinks (that break everytime a file gets changed). I'm proficient with grep, find, and friends, and I prefer a shell for most tasks. but newdocms represents a much easier way of organization than current tools & filesystems provide, I believe.
granted, there's still a lot of hurdles to get over, especially in the area of file distribution. this is going back to the whole mac resource fork problem, essentially. but I think it'll be good.
If he does not use the right keywords to make the query, he will not find the file.
that's what the category tree is for. if your document doesn't turn up with the keyword, just use a more general keyword.
Oh, and what if he wants to find the "Yearly Report 1976"
you're going back to file names again. forget the filename. there is no yearly report 1976. if he wants to find an annual summary report for 1976, all he has to do is put in the year. he could even put in "annual" and the year, or perhaps "report". for simple tasks like this, there's not a whole lot of advantage over a HFS, but it still eliminates the problem of how to keep the data (should the base directory be a document type, or should it be a year?).
Learn to organize, makes your life easier.
it's not a matter of learning, it's a matter of laziness.
and don't just think about the system in terms of files, think about whole projects, like coding. I have a ton of directories with code, in at least 8 different languages. should they go in directories according to their language? how about, say, a class I started a project in, that had homework due? what if a program has 2 different languages? shouldn't it still all be in the same directory?
with this system, you wouldn't need to worry about stuff like that (in the future, with more development....you're going to have to have filenames to compile these programs...). you'd tag source files as source code, with their language type, what project they belonged to, what executable they make, what version they are....etc. and any of that can be used to find any set of files. how can that not be better than a hierarchical set of files?
(just as an aside on relational vs. hierarchical databases....I HATE DOMINO)
yes, this system does take care of this. you're limited in your thinking, you're still looking at this from a HFS point of view.
you save your spreadsheet today as "Yearly Report 2002"
the thing is, you don't save it as "Yearly Report 2002". that's a file name, which is not what this system does. in newdocms, you give as much information about the document as you want, in any number of categories, and you don't have to remember arcane names, or the difference between "Yearly Report 2002" and "reports/yearly/2002". in your situation, after 2 days have passed, you come back and make a simple query for, say, Reports, and there your document is, right at the top of a list (since it's sorted by last access time).
I'm 21, started with DOS at age 8, so I can handle hierarchical file systems. that doesn't mean I have to like them. in my case, especially; I'm extremely messy (room, car, apartment, desk), and my hard drives are the same way. I have around 180 gigs spread between 7 drives, and I have no idea where anything is. I could find everything and categorize it in a hfs, but it sure would be easier to not worry about details like "where a file is located" or "what a file is named" and just worry about the types and contents of the files.
Consider this: you save your spreadsheet today as "Yearly Report 2002", and two days later you want to call it back your mind just doesn't say "Yearly Report 2002", but more like "Financial Data last year".
um, he took care of this.
try reading the article next time.
(am I feeding a troll if they're marked +2 Interesting?)
The experience described there seems pretty... horrifying. Are the complaints there completely valid still?
like that other guy said, this is definately a freshman whining; a sophomore at the oldest. He has a couple of valid complaints (the STUPID decision to use Scheme in CS1, and the physics department), but the rest of it is crap. If you like your major, you will like tech, basically. if you're going to college cause you have to, or it's just the expected thing to do, then go elsewhere.
the physics department sucks hardcore, none of the professors can teach (I've heard rumors of one that can, I'll try for him when I retake my only failed class, physics2). their testing sucks, the professors expect you to already know the material, etc. and for some retarded reason CS majors have to take physics 2, which is electricity, magnetism, and light. That would be GREAT if I were a friggin computer engineer....but it's worthless to me. I personally know many CS majors besides myself who failed phys2 the first time around.
I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll say it; the submitter mentioned getting shafted, GT's "symbol" or whatever is a tall pointy twisted tower in the center of campus, the Kessler Campanile, aka The Shaft....so getting shafted is something we complain about a lot here.
oh, by the way, we have a great Co-Op program. they hype it up a lot, but most or all of it is true. you're still a full-time student while working, and the only thing you have to pay for is housing, unless of course you don't like on campus. they make it easy with companies coming here to interview and whatnot. anyway, highly recommended from me.
I have successfully used it many times over the past year and a half for a multitude of things, yes it lacks features, but guess what, who really gives a hoot.
um....me? read the other pro-postgres posts for some details. granted, when you're writing crappy little one-table apps, mysql is fine. I rewrote my website from perl/mysql to php/postgres, and I could have just as easily used mysql. but I started development on a book lending library for my linux user's group, which I thought was going to be relatively simple. not done yet, but I've already made extensive use of transactions, row-level locking, subselects, triggers, and foreign keys. when you use good database design, and want real data integrity, these things basically become required.
anyway, plenty of people give a hoot. mysql has its place, but it is, in fact, basically a toy.
SVCDs actually use MPEG-1, not MPEG-2. They're quite different beasts!
sorry, you're wrong. VCDs are mpeg1, at a specific constant bitrate (somewhere from 1-2mbps) and mpeg1 layer2 audio at 224kbps. the resolution is 352x240, I believe. haven't done them in a while, and I don't have time to look it up. SVCDs are mpeg2 with variable or constant bitrate video (standard doesn't limit what bitrate, in a certain range) and constant bitrate audio. ntsc is at 480x480 I think. much, much, much higher quality. hence the name, S(uper)VCDs.
Why would super video cds be mpeg1? that would be pretty dumb...
ok so I took the time to look up and prove my point, vcdhelp says the following for ntsc svcds (pal changes the resolution):
Video: max ~2524 kbit/sec MPEG-2 (if the audio is in 224 kbit/s), audio + video bitrate max bitrate is ~2748 kbit/s. 480 x 480 pixels (CVD 352x480) 29,97 frames/second 23,976 frames/second (NTSC Film) with up to 4 Subtitles
Audio: from 32 - 384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2 with up to 2 Audio Tracks
Extra: Menus and chapters. Still pictures 704x480,352x240
2. What, specifically is wrong with video encoding under linux?
hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
just try it.....how about "everything"?
I literally spent all night wednesday trying to rip a dvd. it is nigh near impossible. try transcode -h or mencoder --help sometime.
I couldn't rip to mpeg2 (for svcds). transcode's site's instructions didn't work, or transcode is screwed up, or the gui I tried later is broken. or all of the above.
after spending a good while with that I tried to rip to mpeg4, since there was a lot more information about that available online. through many, many tries, and hours of reading, all my videos were out-of-sync, or the bitrate was too low, or the aspect ratio was wrong, usually most of these combined.
Anyway, I have to go into windows on my one machine that has it periodically for VPN'ing into work. I play a game every now and then. but svcd2dvd and flaskmpeg are my killer apps. ok, mencoder is probably more powerful than both these tools put together, but it's a moot point if you can't figure out how to use it.
That's okay.. just remember, whatever they do, even if you can't play the CDs on your computer anymore and you don't own any other cd players, you'll still be able to download the music somewhere.
I disagree. I'm in that position, I have a few cdroms, and my car his an Aiwa cdc-mp3, so it probably won't play copy-protected cds. those are the only players I have. Don't run windows, so kazaa is out (regardless of spyware), besides the fact that 128kbit mp3 is not gonna cut it. never been able to find anything decent that I listen to on gnutella; I don't have the time for irc; don't have anymore ftp hookups....
killing audiogalaxy....I don't even know. it pains me. not only am I not finding out about new bands, but when I do, I have to settle on whatever 112kbit mp3 somebody has that's cut off 22 seconds before the end.
I think the riaa is shooting themselves by shutting down all the downloading....but they did do a good job of it.
I...I've just become too emotional to continue.....:)
Forget running win32 gui apps on linux with this....will this even compile on linux?
I get this:
checking for pthread_resume_np in -lc_r... no checking for pthread_mach_thread_np... no checking for thr_suspend... no configure: error: Don't know how to suspend and resume threads on this platform configure: error:/bin/sh './configure' failed for pal/unix/
yeah, works great for me, too...and it's running on a pretty old laptop.
this person is on crack. "oh, I knew that I couldn't boot off of an xfs partition, but the installer didn't warn me!!" what the crap? I'm booting fine just fine off of an xfs partition. lilo doesn't read the filesystem (which is used by default in mandrake), and even grub has xfs support.
anyway, take this article with a big jug (the kind with the metal spout) of salt:)
and even more disturbing to me is the certain death of Conker:( I liked perfect dark's dual controller scheme, but when I had to duck to beat a training mission and couldn't find a way to do it with that control setup, I kind of lost interest.
conker's bad fur day, however, was one of the most entertaining games I've played.
Have you seen what they've done? They just changed the default look of the desktop, which in my opinion still looks very much like KDE!
exactly. who really cares? I don't understand why people can't grok the concept of a theme.
I emerged redhat-artwork a week or so ago, and I love the look. it's really quite slick. kde is broken with xinerama so I'm using gnome, and since Bluecurve comes with gdm, nautilus, xmms, gtk2, and gtk1 themes, I have a great unified desktop look (except for mozilla...).
LUG@GT had an installfest this saturday, and a redhat guy came with free stuff (and redhat 8.0 final). it really was kinda nice, I don't know if I'd match it with mandrake for desktop usage yet, but it was impressive. the install was atrocious (brown!!!???!!), but its fonts were beautiful and professional, and the install was just as easy as it's always been on redhat & mandrake.
I like how mandrake uses debian's menu system to keep all kde/gnome/*box/etc menus in sync. I never actually sat down and messed with a redhat8 install, so I can't comment on that. hopefully they have some kind of unified menuing system.
apparently we're not allowed to distribute the 3 cds, sorry:)
yeah, I emerged mozilla-1.1 with the crypt keyword in my USE, and this was the first time I could/ever/ get enigmail to work. But work it does, and beautifully.
I've always been partial to mandrake, this is good stuff. I doubt it's gonna bring about a revolution in email, but high availability in and end-user distro can't hurt.
What is "just" about making assent to a single doctrine the basis of eternal damnation?
if you have the bandwidth for a 9.5 meg mp3, and the patience to listen to ~30 minutes of stuff you don't believe, then try this.
I agree with pretty much everything he says, and I think a lot of other people will/do, too. and it's this exact topic.
everyday I drive 40 miles around downtown atlanta (including a 20 mile stint on the ultra-dangerous GA 400), and every day I fear for my life. atlanta drivers are the worst I have ever had the privilege of sharing the roads with (barring the southern cali area), and I know that the first wreck I get into will be blamed on me. as a good driver, I don't have anything to fear from a black box in my car, it can only help in the case of some moron weaving all over i-85 that nails me...
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My friend on the other hand, is always very careful to obey the speed limit, and actually asked me "is the speed limit still 55 through here?" coming through metro Atlanta at 1:30am after a concert. (If you've never been to ATL, let's just say that anything LESS than 75-80mph is a sure way to have someone run up your rear bumper).
what really sucks is that it's 45 for the time being (around the 75/85 junction), and I refuse to go above 20 over. but yeah your comments about atlanta are right on. I drive 22 miles each way to and from work every day, a majority of that on GA400, bumper to bumper 70-80 mph traffic....it's like putting your life on the line every day. I've gotten to where I either go in around 7 or wait until 10....if you're coming or going from 7:30-9 am or 4-6 pm it's pretty much guaranteed there's gonna be a wreck...
ok none of this is really on topic....my $0.02 is that the guy should fry:)
While I enjoyed the movie and thought it pretty good overall, I was honestly a bit disappointed. Half the crowd clapped when the lights dimmed, everyone clapped at a few scene resolutions... but no one clapped at the end.
of all the stupid things people can do.....why oh why do people clap at movies? seriously.
You never forget qwerty and from all people I talk to, they can use it just fine
maybe I'm just stupid, but I sure forgot qwerty. and good riddance.
if I'm going to be typing an extended amount on a keyboard, I'll switch the layout. about 1 minute in windows, osx, and kde...less in a linux console (loadkeys dvorak)... otherwise I hunt and peck.
on my laptop I ripped up all the keys and put them in the dvorak positions, and running fluxbox, there's no easy (read: point-and-click) way of changing the keyboard layout. so I love giving people that. call me a sadist.
the biggest pain I have is (was) physics lab, running NT4 with no admin rights and having to type in-class lab reports. so I whipped up converters to turn typing on a us keyboard as if it were dvorak into something sensible. javascript or java.
anyway, yes, dvorak should be taught in schools.
but mplayer *is* library based, and does have multiple UIs. Also, unlike Xine, it doesn't crash all the damn time, and playing a DVD isn't UI voodoo.
.90. but it barely seems worth it. I don't need its encoding stuff, and I've never run across a format I wanted to watch that xine couldn't handle. I don't know if it does RM or not, but I use realplayer for that anyway (and before you scream about closed source....that's one of the formats mplayer uses a closed dll to play).
::grumble::
mplayer crashes for me constantly.
xine never does, and I'm running beta versions.
mplayer has no dvd menu support.
xine does.
mplayer craps out on fullscreen with xinerama.
xine gives you the option of crapping out like mplayer (spreading across both displays) but defaults to normal behavior (fullscreen on one display)
xine is easy to use
mplayer is not
half the time mplayer won't play sound, especially with QT
xine always does
anyway this is all just my own personal experience. I keep mplayer around, I'm now upgrading from rc5 to
oh and about playing a dvd being ui voodoo....whatever that means....
1. put in dvd
2. click DVD button
3. click Play button
doesn't seem too hard to me.
last time I tried to play a dvd with xine....it was an rcX...I seem to recall something about -dvd and maybe having to specify the chapter, or something? I don't recall if it even read encrypted dvds....anyway movie playing is decidedly a "Desktop Machine" function. all my file management is done in a console, most of my time is spent there in fact....but I don't want friggin command lines on my movie player. apps like that are supposed to be straight forward and easy to use: here's a movie, play it. screw mounting a dvd, finding which vobs are the biggest, and specifying the title on the commandline. (and it's the same with vcds....and of course a click of the VCD button in xine).
so anyway if you haven't tried xine in a while, give the newest beta a try. there's some bugs, but really, it's a stellar application. if you're happy with mplayer, fine. I think it's silly for there to now be a holy war over movie players. I haven't had good experiences with mplayer, but there's plenty of people who have. anyway....I encourage anybody to give them both a try, and now it's time to stop wasting time on slashdot
I guess you had to pass the time somehow. Still, you could have used K-Y...
ok here goes my excellent karma, but this is the funniest AC troll post I have ever, ever read.
yes it's totally off-topic, but I sure do wish I had saved some mod points yesterday...
considering he was in a dorm that was closed for Spring to be renovated. I don't know which was worse for them, having to live there in Fall or being forced to move out.
well I went through that, they closed 6th street last summer, and my roommate and I had to move out. we're talking 10 computers, quite a few monitors in varying sizes, a bookshelf full of books, big TV, etc. and they didn't do jack to 6th street during their "renovation." yeah, that's highly annoying, especially when you've amassed the massive amounts of stuff from living in the apartment dorms (oh, and having 4 hours from the time you get your new keys until the time you have to be out of your old place).
it's not going to magically go through all 7 of your drives and organize everything for you so you can find it. You will still have to go through and manually add appropriate attributes to every one of your 180G of files.
obviously. I've actually kind of lost hope on ever finding anything again:) but seriously, I'm not talking about what a system like this could do for my files....I'm talking about what a system like this could do, period. if I had had this when all I had was one 18 gig drive, my life might be a lot easier right now, in terms of file storage. like other people have said, I think systems like this will become commonplace. as much as I don't like microsoft, they're doing this for longhorn (or maybe the next windows, I don't care all that much), and the world will follow right along. and it's probably a good thing.
Whoop-a-dee-doo! I can just as easily duplicate your attribute lists with directories and symlinks, so nothing has actually been gained.
yeah, except the hours I save by typing this into a box instead of trying to create some convoluted system of directories and symlinks (that break everytime a file gets changed). I'm proficient with grep, find, and friends, and I prefer a shell for most tasks. but newdocms represents a much easier way of organization than current tools & filesystems provide, I believe.
granted, there's still a lot of hurdles to get over, especially in the area of file distribution. this is going back to the whole mac resource fork problem, essentially. but I think it'll be good.
If he does not use the right keywords to make the query, he will not find the file.
that's what the category tree is for. if your document doesn't turn up with the keyword, just use a more general keyword.
Oh, and what if he wants to find the "Yearly Report 1976"
you're going back to file names again. forget the filename. there is no yearly report 1976. if he wants to find an annual summary report for 1976, all he has to do is put in the year. he could even put in "annual" and the year, or perhaps "report". for simple tasks like this, there's not a whole lot of advantage over a HFS, but it still eliminates the problem of how to keep the data (should the base directory be a document type, or should it be a year?).
Learn to organize, makes your life easier.
it's not a matter of learning, it's a matter of laziness.
and don't just think about the system in terms of files, think about whole projects, like coding. I have a ton of directories with code, in at least 8 different languages. should they go in directories according to their language? how about, say, a class I started a project in, that had homework due? what if a program has 2 different languages? shouldn't it still all be in the same directory?
with this system, you wouldn't need to worry about stuff like that (in the future, with more development....you're going to have to have filenames to compile these programs...). you'd tag source files as source code, with their language type, what project they belonged to, what executable they make, what version they are....etc. and any of that can be used to find any set of files. how can that not be better than a hierarchical set of files?
(just as an aside on relational vs. hierarchical databases....I HATE DOMINO)
yes, this system does take care of this. you're limited in your thinking, you're still looking at this from a HFS point of view.
you save your spreadsheet today as "Yearly Report 2002"
the thing is, you don't save it as "Yearly Report 2002". that's a file name, which is not what this system does. in newdocms, you give as much information about the document as you want, in any number of categories, and you don't have to remember arcane names, or the difference between "Yearly Report 2002" and "reports/yearly/2002". in your situation, after 2 days have passed, you come back and make a simple query for, say, Reports, and there your document is, right at the top of a list (since it's sorted by last access time).
I'm 21, started with DOS at age 8, so I can handle hierarchical file systems. that doesn't mean I have to like them. in my case, especially; I'm extremely messy (room, car, apartment, desk), and my hard drives are the same way. I have around 180 gigs spread between 7 drives, and I have no idea where anything is. I could find everything and categorize it in a hfs, but it sure would be easier to not worry about details like "where a file is located" or "what a file is named" and just worry about the types and contents of the files.
Consider this: you save your spreadsheet today as "Yearly Report 2002", and two days later you want to call it back your mind just doesn't say "Yearly Report 2002", but more like "Financial Data last year".
um, he took care of this.
try reading the article next time.
(am I feeding a troll if they're marked +2 Interesting?)
The experience described there seems pretty... horrifying. Are the complaints there completely valid still?
like that other guy said, this is definately a freshman whining; a sophomore at the oldest. He has a couple of valid complaints (the STUPID decision to use Scheme in CS1, and the physics department), but the rest of it is crap. If you like your major, you will like tech, basically. if you're going to college cause you have to, or it's just the expected thing to do, then go elsewhere.
the physics department sucks hardcore, none of the professors can teach (I've heard rumors of one that can, I'll try for him when I retake my only failed class, physics2). their testing sucks, the professors expect you to already know the material, etc. and for some retarded reason CS majors have to take physics 2, which is electricity, magnetism, and light. That would be GREAT if I were a friggin computer engineer....but it's worthless to me. I personally know many CS majors besides myself who failed phys2 the first time around.
I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll say it; the submitter mentioned getting shafted, GT's "symbol" or whatever is a tall pointy twisted tower in the center of campus, the Kessler Campanile, aka The Shaft....so getting shafted is something we complain about a lot here.
oh, by the way, we have a great Co-Op program. they hype it up a lot, but most or all of it is true. you're still a full-time student while working, and the only thing you have to pay for is housing, unless of course you don't like on campus. they make it easy with companies coming here to interview and whatnot. anyway, highly recommended from me.
I have successfully used it many times over the past year and a half for a multitude of things, yes it lacks features, but guess what, who really gives a hoot.
um....me? read the other pro-postgres posts for some details. granted, when you're writing crappy little one-table apps, mysql is fine. I rewrote my website from perl/mysql to php/postgres, and I could have just as easily used mysql. but I started development on a book lending library for my linux user's group, which I thought was going to be relatively simple. not done yet, but I've already made extensive use of transactions, row-level locking, subselects, triggers, and foreign keys. when you use good database design, and want real data integrity, these things basically become required.
anyway, plenty of people give a hoot. mysql has its place, but it is, in fact, basically a toy.
SVCDs actually use MPEG-1, not MPEG-2. They're quite different beasts!
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sorry, you're wrong. VCDs are mpeg1, at a specific constant bitrate (somewhere from 1-2mbps) and mpeg1 layer2 audio at 224kbps. the resolution is 352x240, I believe. haven't done them in a while, and I don't have time to look it up. SVCDs are mpeg2 with variable or constant bitrate video (standard doesn't limit what bitrate, in a certain range) and constant bitrate audio. ntsc is at 480x480 I think. much, much, much higher quality. hence the name, S(uper)VCDs.
Why would super video cds be mpeg1? that would be pretty dumb...
ok so I took the time to look up and prove my point, vcdhelp says the following for ntsc svcds (pal changes the resolution):
Video:
max ~2524 kbit/sec MPEG-2 (if the audio is in 224 kbit/s), audio + video bitrate max bitrate is ~2748 kbit/s.
480 x 480 pixels (CVD 352x480)
29,97 frames/second
23,976 frames/second (NTSC Film)
with up to 4 Subtitles
Audio:
from 32 - 384 kbit/sec MPEG-1 Layer2
with up to 2 Audio Tracks
Extra
Menus and chapters.
Still pictures 704x480,352x240
2. What, specifically is wrong with video encoding under linux?
hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
just try it.....how about "everything"?
I literally spent all night wednesday trying to rip a dvd. it is nigh near impossible. try transcode -h or mencoder --help sometime.
I couldn't rip to mpeg2 (for svcds). transcode's site's instructions didn't work, or transcode is screwed up, or the gui I tried later is broken. or all of the above.
after spending a good while with that I tried to rip to mpeg4, since there was a lot more information about that available online. through many, many tries, and hours of reading, all my videos were out-of-sync, or the bitrate was too low, or the aspect ratio was wrong, usually most of these combined.
Anyway, I have to go into windows on my one machine that has it periodically for VPN'ing into work. I play a game every now and then. but svcd2dvd and flaskmpeg are my killer apps. ok, mencoder is probably more powerful than both these tools put together, but it's a moot point if you can't figure out how to use it.
I disagree. I'm in that position, I have a few cdroms, and my car his an Aiwa cdc-mp3, so it probably won't play copy-protected cds. those are the only players I have. Don't run windows, so kazaa is out (regardless of spyware), besides the fact that 128kbit mp3 is not gonna cut it. never been able to find anything decent that I listen to on gnutella; I don't have the time for irc; don't have anymore ftp hookups....
killing audiogalaxy....I don't even know. it pains me. not only am I not finding out about new bands, but when I do, I have to settle on whatever 112kbit mp3 somebody has that's cut off 22 seconds before the end.
I think the riaa is shooting themselves by shutting down all the downloading....but they did do a good job of it.
I...I've just become too emotional to continue.....:)
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Douglas Adams: H2G2 (Deceased).
Forget running win32 gui apps on linux with this....will this even compile on linux?
/bin/sh './configure' failed for pal/unix/
I get this:
checking for pthread_resume_np in -lc_r... no
checking for pthread_mach_thread_np... no
checking for thr_suspend... no
configure: error: Don't know how to suspend and resume threads on this platform
configure: error:
yeah, works great for me, too...and it's running on a pretty old laptop.
this person is on crack. "oh, I knew that I couldn't boot off of an xfs partition, but the installer didn't warn me!!" what the crap? I'm booting fine just fine off of an xfs partition. lilo doesn't read the filesystem (which is used by default in mandrake), and even grub has xfs support.
anyway, take this article with a big jug (the kind with the metal spout) of salt:)
and even more disturbing to me is the certain death of Conker:( I liked perfect dark's dual controller scheme, but when I had to duck to beat a training mission and couldn't find a way to do it with that control setup, I kind of lost interest.
conker's bad fur day, however, was one of the most entertaining games I've played.
Um, actually, their new "corporate strategy" includes desktop usage. that's what redhat 8 is about, making linux palatable for home users.
exactly. who really cares? I don't understand why people can't grok the concept of a theme.
I emerged redhat-artwork a week or so ago, and I love the look. it's really quite slick. kde is broken with xinerama so I'm using gnome, and since Bluecurve comes with gdm, nautilus, xmms, gtk2, and gtk1 themes, I have a great unified desktop look (except for mozilla...).
LUG@GT had an installfest this saturday, and a redhat guy came with free stuff (and redhat 8.0 final). it really was kinda nice, I don't know if I'd match it with mandrake for desktop usage yet, but it was impressive. the install was atrocious (brown!!!???!!), but its fonts were beautiful and professional, and the install was just as easy as it's always been on redhat & mandrake.
I like how mandrake uses debian's menu system to keep all kde/gnome/*box/etc menus in sync. I never actually sat down and messed with a redhat8 install, so I can't comment on that. hopefully they have some kind of unified menuing system.
apparently we're not allowed to distribute the 3 cds, sorry:)
yeah, I emerged mozilla-1.1 with the crypt keyword in my USE, and this was the first time I could /ever/ get enigmail to work. But work it does, and beautifully.
I've always been partial to mandrake, this is good stuff. I doubt it's gonna bring about a revolution in email, but high availability in and end-user distro can't hurt.
if you have the bandwidth for a 9.5 meg mp3, and the patience to listen to ~30 minutes of stuff you don't believe, then try this. I agree with pretty much everything he says, and I think a lot of other people will/do, too. and it's this exact topic.
or you can just buy a couple of tubs of Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty. take some to work, it's Instant Popularity!
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everyday I drive 40 miles around downtown atlanta (including a 20 mile stint on the ultra-dangerous GA 400), and every day I fear for my life. atlanta drivers are the worst I have ever had the privilege of sharing the roads with (barring the southern cali area), and I know that the first wreck I get into will be blamed on me. as a good driver, I don't have anything to fear from a black box in my car, it can only help in the case of some moron weaving all over i-85 that nails me...