you can never be more right....me too....i can still remember my 1st year of B.Tech. when we were leaning using computers....and god, I loved those starts roaming around here and there in a square box located top-right corner....I dont know what did they remove that later and put another logo out there....I got to remember Mary Hopkin's that song: "Those were the days my friend we thought they never end"...well, I really mean it....
yes. there is. Install mplayer in linux with all the relevant codecs (from mplayer website). It will play.rm files. However, u may have difficulties if installing it because the installer is not so smooth. It is command-live version in windows. u can install MPUI or smplayer for GUI. And if u could install these successfully, u dont need to bother of any media-file at all....but "if".
To get rid of the annoying behavior of that tkbell or other similar stuffs, I would strongly recommend u to install "Spybot - search and distroy". It does a good job. It has an option which lets it stay in ur system-tray and keeps monitoring if there is any registry change. If some program attempts to do it, it asks u if u want it or not. If u allow, it will let it happen...otherwise not. By using this, u can control all the annoying automatic startup behavior of M$'s crapware (e.g. MSN-chat or Yahoo-chat or some kind of pornware).
I would say, use realplayer with Spybot installed....and of course, mplayer too;)
What the hell was that? Wasn't it a piece of ad/scam-ware that filled your desktop with crap and had misleading purchase options?
well, I don't understand why ppl r so critical abt realplayer. Isn't it an Internet standard for playing audio/video? Go to BBC or some porn sites...it offers both in Windows Media format as well as in Realplayer format. Of course, one can choose the Windows Media format (with mplayerplugin or mediaconnectivity(FF extension) support in linux) but that doesn't do the job. Using non-realplayer formats have a huge disadvantage that "seeking" is not possible. You can't seek a position in a streaming video or audio...if u try, the streaming stops. However, with realplayer, u can always do it and it indeed is very useful and convenient for users (whether u accept it or not).
oh damn...u hit the point...I was looking for this info soooooo much. I have a porn site always streaming in flash-format and I was not able to get how the hell should I get the video on my box for later use....I am testing it and it is working VERY well....
One addition: In Linux, there is no.tmp extension.....just "FlashiEzKDL" kind of names....rename it to "xxxxporn.flv" and it works like a charm. One can use format converter to convert it into other more common formats (e.g. ogg or avi or mpg).
Thanks!
You have no idea of how important the moon is. There are two major things people have started rushing on to moon once again:
1). It is the 1st starting point to outer space. Because of no atmosphere there, there are plenty of advantages.
2). It has a hell lot of Helium-3. I remember Indian president (a former leading scientist of India's defense program) 's speech in which he had mentioned that if we can develop technology to bring those Helium-3 to earth, it can fulfill our energy needs for next 10000 years. If Mr.Bush can spend billions of $s in Iraq, why can't India spend a fraction of it for moon (with a hope of success).
I was talking to one of my friends (who happens to be from India) the other day about computers. I mentioned that I use Linux and he was absolutely amazed and asked me why I would do that. Linux is considered the poor-man's operating system
He was certainly an idiot. I didn't hear anyone saying like this. Instead, the problem is lying somewhere else. My brother bought one new PC by himself (without asking my recommendations)....he got a pre-installed XP. Well, anyway, when I went to India, I brought FC-6 for him (I chose FC6 because it came with 5 CDs and all the required software was already there in those CDs...other distros might have been difficult to deal with in absence of Internet)...I tried to install that on that computer but hell, although the video-card driver was recognized by FC6, it refused to display anything (even console mode couldn't be launched after pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2). Later I found that the computer he bought was something China made (the anti-virus software installed on that was "panda", very first time I heard of this anti-virus). Anyway, these are the problems...if you have a high speed Internet and a little of pre technical knowledge, you can choose linux...but if no, it is damn difficult to deal with...even if the FC6 would have worked properly, I think it was a almost impossible to play an mp3 or other patented but common formats (since, FC6 or linux distros are not shipped with support to these formats).
For ppl having a bit of technical background and also having a bit of opportunity, they certainly learn linux. In our institute from where I am having my B.Tech, we were having 400+ boxes running Redhat, around 50 boxes running Solaris and around same 50 boxes running Windows. The OS what we have been introduced to by the profs, was linux. No one taught us windows....ppl learned it by themselves because they had to do some HW which could be done on windows only (e.g. AutoCAD etc.). For those having their own PCs, most of them was having Linux also. It is not that people in India can't use Linux....they would love to use linux...only problem is opportunity and availability.
Background, screensaver, and icon sites are notorious as well, which is why so many naive users who are obviously not regular users of porn nor games tend to contract a constant stream of malware.
So, essentially you are concluding two things:
1. His sister is "naive", and
2. She is not a "regular" user of game or porn (she does it only sometimes...for fun may be..??!!)
it offers 1 GB of total space and unlimited bandwidth...sufficient for an ordinary user....if needed more, create another picasaweb account and link one account with another using favorite feature of it...
I used Flickr before but was annoyed much with their 20MB/month limit as 1280x1024 images were talking 600KB+....means, not more than 35 images a month...a big restriction...
Did India also muscle the Italians into paying more than the market rate or REALLY, are the Italians paying more money than market can demand because the Italian born Sonia Gandhi is the leader of a large (in power?) political party!!
Seriously...this may be a possibility to support her party through back-channels. Elections are going on in few states there and also, she is accused of having close contacts with an Italian broker Ottavio Quattrocchi, who is among top in the most wanted list in India. Their close relations are visible time to time nowadays also. Few days ago, Quattrocchi's bank accounts were freezed in London because of suspicions that the money poured there might have come from illegal sources involving that notorious bofors gun deals when Sonia's husband, Rajiv Ganghi, was prime minister of India. As soon as the Indian counterpart was notified about it, Sonia sent an high rank official to London to convey the reverse and within 2-3 days, the money was released (and also, withdrawn).
As far as my understanding goes, there is nothing special about the orbit...rather, what is important is that how precisely they are put. I remember some article in this regard saying that the satellite was put somewhere between 549~551 km, high order of accuracy. Same is true with the inclination angle...2 degrees. I think this preciseness was the requirement of the Italians and that is done only after paying extra attention to, say, control system etc....and that is why the high cost.
dont worry then...he will not disappear and remain your loving uncle and you can visit him for long time until the government decides to tun down first-name Chins also:-)
whatever count is is going to have, it wont be beating iPod sales....
and hey c'mon, these subsidies are not going to stop the Zune to be listed top among top-10 flop-products of this decade...and we are going to witness this coming true!!
Thank you for your detailed response. However, I still have some doubts. lets assume that I posted something at Usenet anonymously. Administrators of the Usenet server, however, would still be logging IP Address, "MAC Address of the hardware" etc. on their server machine and if something too bad happens to, say, M$oft and the Usenet would be forced to share those logged data by law implementation authorities and that is why it still seems to be possible to track(logged data---->ISP provider---->IP/MAC address----->user) and screw the fellow who posted the post of the issue. Isn't there any foolproof way??
I will look into mixmaster and TOR, however, to see what are the things it has to offer:-)
and this is a "big" disadvantage when one is using non-google online services. I don't know why the hell ThinkFree is ranked top and Zoho second. Google D&S at least supports open-document format but it also has a limitation that it can't accept more than 500KB files.
well, the conclusion seems to that use the local machine for editing etc. and then use google or whatever for only publishing purposes.
If you open a gmail message with an attached wordprocessor or spreadsheet document it has a link by the attachment icon allowing it to be opened, edited or saved in Google Docs & Spreadsheets
is there anyone else who is seeing this option?? I don't see any such thing in my case [unfortunately:-( ]
In your account, look at the upload page. There's an email address there that you can use to email stuff into your D&S space. So, you could simply forward the message to your upload address. It's not "one-click," but it's still pretty easy -- and it doesn't require you to make use of the local computer.
well, the functionality is quite limited however. What is does is it converts the doc files into html and then publishes it online.....it doesn't allow other people to edit it...not soooo bad but of course people use to have much more expectations from google than what it is providing now as far as integration of gmail and D&S is concerned:-)
Google read my email too, but at least they are not fowarding my inbox to the Chinese government ala Yahoo!
That's a real terrible thing. Why the hell did Yahoo compromised someone's identity and private mails especially when it is well known that Chinese government have been having a damn worst record as far as human rights are concerned. Execution of people is an ordinary thing out there. This time it was China...who know what is next....and who knows if there are many such collaborations already done which is still unknown to us.
undoubtedly, this is a serious issue and one should think of these carefully before deciding which service to use.
u understood wrong my dear....I didn't say to use capital letters to point out his grammatical mistake....i said that as a joke and that is having a meaning as follows:
In small letters: congratulations => simply congratulations
however, if I use capital letters, it becomes: CONGRATULATIONS => congratulations with better spirit and more intensity!!
Especially since the advent of the internet, anyone can build a nuclear reactor or send a rocket into space if they really wanted to (well, obviously only if they have access to the required resources and funding as well as the information on how to build a rocket, etc). In a day when kids are building nuclear reactors in their back yard, I'm not too surprised to hear that India and China are sending rockets into space!
well, if u r talking about firecrackers and those stupid Gilbert U-238 toys, u r correct....but not otherwise, otherwise Osama Bin Laden would have used some nuke rather than air-planes to strike the twin-tower. It is same as you know every thing how to make, say, a petrol engine from book....but when u start putting things together to achieve a real engine, u need to have a lot of expertise and book-knowledge simply doesn't help beyond an extent. Same thing with weapon grade uranium...even a kid knows that U235 can be obtained after processing U238 in centrifuges but how many countries are able to get U235....I would say, very few!
Don't forget to use capital letters when congratulating India next time on the occasion of successful launch of GSLV scheduled after 6-7 months;)
well, let me tell you some facts why India or china haven't done anything substantial if u r comparing with USA. India or China were under the colonies until around 60 years ago and during those time, they were not able to produce even a nail by their own because they were not allowed to. After that, freedom came (thanks to Mahatma Gandhi for his excellent non-violent leadership against the Britons and also thanks to Japanese and Germans for initiating the WW2), these countries started everything of their own from very scratch and after a course of 60 years, India and China both are doing exceptionally well and will continue to do to in future as well. Look at China, they sent their guy to space without any help from outside (and USA has regretted of their decision not to include China in their International Space Station project). Very soon, China will be standing in front of USA in every aspect, including space technology. Time has come that few people like you should wake up. Similar to China, India is also doing too good. Indians have proved themselves that they have capabilities. They are launching their satellites by their own rockets with exceptional success rate. The failure of GSLV (to put the satellites in Geo-Synchronous orbit, 36000Km away from the Earth) six months ago also didn't go in vain. They learned many things from that failure and have pin-pointed what went wrong and you will see a successful GSLV launch by mid of this year. You talked about nukes....the devices what India detonated in 1998 (includes two thermo-nuclear devices) was developed completely by their own (after the 1st nuke test in 1974, India was put under sanctions forbidding any help on nuclear issue). India is also planning to launch their first unmanned moon mission until 2005 and manned mission until 2020. Again, I would like to remind that this is only after 60 years of independence. Can you remember what USA were doing after their 60 years?!! They were searching gold in California and killing each-other on the issue of racism and slavery. India and China are in much better position.
As far as dropping nukes are concerned, India has already a policy of not-first-nuclear-attack. Also, history says who used first nuclear bomb....it's USA killing thousands of innocent people in Japan. You should be ashamed of suggesting others on nuclear things. Others are not going to be as arrogant and barbarous as USA were.
One free suggestion at last....think a bit before speaking anything!!
well, if it is pronunciation problem, that's a serious issue undoubtedly. However, it is hard to think that one can have wrong pronunciation and he is assigned to take interview!! What I understood was the guy had a different non-native tone and that created all the problems...
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you can never be more right....me too....i can still remember my 1st year of B.Tech. when we were leaning using computers....and god, I loved those starts roaming around here and there in a square box located top-right corner....I dont know what did they remove that later and put another logo out there....I got to remember Mary Hopkin's that song: "Those were the days my friend we thought they never end"...well, I really mean it....
To get rid of the annoying behavior of that tkbell or other similar stuffs, I would strongly recommend u to install "Spybot - search and distroy". It does a good job. It has an option which lets it stay in ur system-tray and keeps monitoring if there is any registry change. If some program attempts to do it, it asks u if u want it or not. If u allow, it will let it happen...otherwise not. By using this, u can control all the annoying automatic startup behavior of M$'s crapware (e.g. MSN-chat or Yahoo-chat or some kind of pornware).
I would say, use realplayer with Spybot installed....and of course, mplayer too ;)
well, I don't understand why ppl r so critical abt realplayer. Isn't it an Internet standard for playing audio/video? Go to BBC or some porn sites...it offers both in Windows Media format as well as in Realplayer format. Of course, one can choose the Windows Media format (with mplayerplugin or mediaconnectivity(FF extension) support in linux) but that doesn't do the job. Using non-realplayer formats have a huge disadvantage that "seeking" is not possible. You can't seek a position in a streaming video or audio...if u try, the streaming stops. However, with realplayer, u can always do it and it indeed is very useful and convenient for users (whether u accept it or not).
One addition: In Linux, there is no .tmp extension.....just "FlashiEzKDL" kind of names....rename it to "xxxxporn.flv" and it works like a charm. One can use format converter to convert it into other more common formats (e.g. ogg or avi or mpg).
Thanks!
1). It is the 1st starting point to outer space. Because of no atmosphere there, there are plenty of advantages.
2). It has a hell lot of Helium-3. I remember Indian president (a former leading scientist of India's defense program) 's speech in which he had mentioned that if we can develop technology to bring those Helium-3 to earth, it can fulfill our energy needs for next 10000 years. If Mr.Bush can spend billions of $s in Iraq, why can't India spend a fraction of it for moon (with a hope of success).
He was certainly an idiot. I didn't hear anyone saying like this. Instead, the problem is lying somewhere else. My brother bought one new PC by himself (without asking my recommendations)....he got a pre-installed XP. Well, anyway, when I went to India, I brought FC-6 for him (I chose FC6 because it came with 5 CDs and all the required software was already there in those CDs...other distros might have been difficult to deal with in absence of Internet)...I tried to install that on that computer but hell, although the video-card driver was recognized by FC6, it refused to display anything (even console mode couldn't be launched after pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2). Later I found that the computer he bought was something China made (the anti-virus software installed on that was "panda", very first time I heard of this anti-virus). Anyway, these are the problems...if you have a high speed Internet and a little of pre technical knowledge, you can choose linux...but if no, it is damn difficult to deal with...even if the FC6 would have worked properly, I think it was a almost impossible to play an mp3 or other patented but common formats (since, FC6 or linux distros are not shipped with support to these formats).
For ppl having a bit of technical background and also having a bit of opportunity, they certainly learn linux. In our institute from where I am having my B.Tech, we were having 400+ boxes running Redhat, around 50 boxes running Solaris and around same 50 boxes running Windows. The OS what we have been introduced to by the profs, was linux. No one taught us windows....ppl learned it by themselves because they had to do some HW which could be done on windows only (e.g. AutoCAD etc.). For those having their own PCs, most of them was having Linux also. It is not that people in India can't use Linux....they would love to use linux...only problem is opportunity and availability.
1. http://www.myfreepaysite.com/ [you need to create a free account, that's all. Trust me, this is a great website]
2. http://www.youporn.com/
3. http://www.sexuploader.com/
4. http://www.shufuni.com/
5. http://www.xtube.com/
http://www.pornotube.com/ is a shit. Don't use it.
So, essentially you are concluding two things: 1. His sister is "naive", and 2. She is not a "regular" user of game or porn (she does it only sometimes...for fun may be..??!!)
Australian government is already known as an US-pet. Nothing is surprising here...it doesn't deserve to be a news at all...
it offers 1 GB of total space and unlimited bandwidth...sufficient for an ordinary user....if needed more, create another picasaweb account and link one account with another using favorite feature of it...
I used Flickr before but was annoyed much with their 20MB/month limit as 1280x1024 images were talking 600KB+....means, not more than 35 images a month...a big restriction...
Seriously...this may be a possibility to support her party through back-channels. Elections are going on in few states there and also, she is accused of having close contacts with an Italian broker Ottavio Quattrocchi, who is among top in the most wanted list in India. Their close relations are visible time to time nowadays also. Few days ago, Quattrocchi's bank accounts were freezed in London because of suspicions that the money poured there might have come from illegal sources involving that notorious bofors gun deals when Sonia's husband, Rajiv Ganghi, was prime minister of India. As soon as the Indian counterpart was notified about it, Sonia sent an high rank official to London to convey the reverse and within 2-3 days, the money was released (and also, withdrawn).
As far as my understanding goes, there is nothing special about the orbit...rather, what is important is that how precisely they are put. I remember some article in this regard saying that the satellite was put somewhere between 549~551 km, high order of accuracy. Same is true with the inclination angle...2 degrees. I think this preciseness was the requirement of the Italians and that is done only after paying extra attention to, say, control system etc....and that is why the high cost.
dont worry then...he will not disappear and remain your loving uncle and you can visit him for long time until the government decides to tun down first-name Chins also :-)
whatever count is is going to have, it wont be beating iPod sales.... and hey c'mon, these subsidies are not going to stop the Zune to be listed top among top-10 flop-products of this decade...and we are going to witness this coming true!!
Thank you for your detailed response. However, I still have some doubts. lets assume that I posted something at Usenet anonymously. Administrators of the Usenet server, however, would still be logging IP Address, "MAC Address of the hardware" etc. on their server machine and if something too bad happens to, say, M$oft and the Usenet would be forced to share those logged data by law implementation authorities and that is why it still seems to be possible to track(logged data---->ISP provider---->IP/MAC address----->user) and screw the fellow who posted the post of the issue. Isn't there any foolproof way??
:-)
I will look into mixmaster and TOR, however, to see what are the things it has to offer
So, could you (or anyone else) please point out what are such tools in Linux. I am really willing to know!
well, the conclusion seems to that use the local machine for editing etc. and then use google or whatever for only publishing purposes.
is there anyone else who is seeing this option?? I don't see any such thing in my case [unfortunately :-( ]
well, the functionality is quite limited however. What is does is it converts the doc files into html and then publishes it online.....it doesn't allow other people to edit it...not soooo bad but of course people use to have much more expectations from google than what it is providing now as far as integration of gmail and D&S is concerned :-)
That's a real terrible thing. Why the hell did Yahoo compromised someone's identity and private mails especially when it is well known that Chinese government have been having a damn worst record as far as human rights are concerned. Execution of people is an ordinary thing out there. This time it was China...who know what is next....and who knows if there are many such collaborations already done which is still unknown to us.
undoubtedly, this is a serious issue and one should think of these carefully before deciding which service to use.
oh no...anyone can sign up the gmail now...invite is not a need anymore :-)
In small letters: congratulations => simply congratulations
however, if I use capital letters, it becomes: CONGRATULATIONS => congratulations with better spirit and more intensity!!
phew!! :-)
well, if u r talking about firecrackers and those stupid Gilbert U-238 toys, u r correct....but not otherwise, otherwise Osama Bin Laden would have used some nuke rather than air-planes to strike the twin-tower. It is same as you know every thing how to make, say, a petrol engine from book....but when u start putting things together to achieve a real engine, u need to have a lot of expertise and book-knowledge simply doesn't help beyond an extent. Same thing with weapon grade uranium...even a kid knows that U235 can be obtained after processing U238 in centrifuges but how many countries are able to get U235....I would say, very few!
Don't forget to use capital letters when congratulating India next time on the occasion of successful launch of GSLV scheduled after 6-7 months ;)
well, let me tell you some facts why India or china haven't done anything substantial if u r comparing with USA. India or China were under the colonies until around 60 years ago and during those time, they were not able to produce even a nail by their own because they were not allowed to. After that, freedom came (thanks to Mahatma Gandhi for his excellent non-violent leadership against the Britons and also thanks to Japanese and Germans for initiating the WW2), these countries started everything of their own from very scratch and after a course of 60 years, India and China both are doing exceptionally well and will continue to do to in future as well. Look at China, they sent their guy to space without any help from outside (and USA has regretted of their decision not to include China in their International Space Station project). Very soon, China will be standing in front of USA in every aspect, including space technology. Time has come that few people like you should wake up. Similar to China, India is also doing too good. Indians have proved themselves that they have capabilities. They are launching their satellites by their own rockets with exceptional success rate. The failure of GSLV (to put the satellites in Geo-Synchronous orbit, 36000Km away from the Earth) six months ago also didn't go in vain. They learned many things from that failure and have pin-pointed what went wrong and you will see a successful GSLV launch by mid of this year. You talked about nukes....the devices what India detonated in 1998 (includes two thermo-nuclear devices) was developed completely by their own (after the 1st nuke test in 1974, India was put under sanctions forbidding any help on nuclear issue). India is also planning to launch their first unmanned moon mission until 2005 and manned mission until 2020. Again, I would like to remind that this is only after 60 years of independence. Can you remember what USA were doing after their 60 years?!! They were searching gold in California and killing each-other on the issue of racism and slavery. India and China are in much better position. As far as dropping nukes are concerned, India has already a policy of not-first-nuclear-attack. Also, history says who used first nuclear bomb....it's USA killing thousands of innocent people in Japan. You should be ashamed of suggesting others on nuclear things. Others are not going to be as arrogant and barbarous as USA were. One free suggestion at last....think a bit before speaking anything!!
well, if it is pronunciation problem, that's a serious issue undoubtedly. However, it is hard to think that one can have wrong pronunciation and he is assigned to take interview!! What I understood was the guy had a different non-native tone and that created all the problems...