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| 2005/2/25 [Uncategorized] UID:36409 Activity:nil |
2/25 w00t! |
| 2005/2/25 [Computer/SW/P2P] UID:36410 Activity:low |
2/25 No more bittorrent for me :(
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/24/technology/hollywood_lawsuits.reut
\_ eek. how does that work though? let's say someone puts up a web
page with his "free e-book". But it's really an illegal copy.
Clearly he's liable for the illegal distribution but what about
users who downloaded it? Granted this isn't plausible in all
cases.
\_ just don't use bittorrent for those blockbuster movies, it seems |
| 2005/2/25 [Health/Women] UID:36411 Activity:high |
2/24 Hey ilya, is it true that in Russia, women <24 are skinny twigs,
and over 40 old Olgas are "Mother Russia"?
\_ I don't think ilyas is Russian
\_ That's what I keep hearing. However, I left russia when I was young
enough to not be paying attention to women, so I didn't really
notice. -- ilyas
\_ I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg ~2 years ago. I wasn't really
all that impressed. What did astound me, though, was that a lot
of very young girls were seriously jailbaiting (many of them while
hanging out with mom.) -John |
| 2005/2/25 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:36412 Activity:very high |
2/25 Ever wondered what it's like to be a soldier in Iraq? What it's like
to roam around the Iraqi street, to interact with the Iraqi people,
and to be ambushed by enemies that you can't even see? Ever wondered
how our soldiers retaliate? And ever wondered if the Iraqi people are
really pro-USA or secretly pro-insurgents? I recommend "PSB Frontline-
A Company of Soldiers." Watch it on PBS. If you can't then get it on
torrent: http://www.mininova.org/get/10752/frontline022205.torrent
This is neither pro-war or anti-war, it just shows you the way it is.
\_ Some of us don't have to wonder. Some of us keep in touch with
people in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- ilyas
\_ Note you can know exactly what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan
and be either pro- or anti-Dubya.
Bush is a moron, but he's a good guy. This tends to lead
to mostly defendable intentions in foreign policy, but
incredible mis-steps in execution occasionally.
\_ Occasionally? name a non-misstep. intention is shit when one
is so royally imcompetent.
\_ He's not a "good guy". Who's not a good guy anyway? Who has
mostly indefensible intentions in foreign policy? Idiotic.
\_ I have an acquaintance coming back from Iraq this weekend for
leave (US Army). He has told me before that the Iraqis are
overwhemingly pro-USA. It only takes a few dufuses (Saddam's
ex-dufuses) to create trouble. I'm sure he'll have more to say
than fits in his usual letters.
\_ I think it entirely depends on where you are stationed. The
Kurds love us, the Sunnis hate us, in Baghdad it depends on
the neighborhood.
\_ Please tell him thanks and that he's appreciated.
\_ poor guy, he's a victim of Bush's incompetence
\_ 1. He is career military and it beats paperwork.
2. He find values in doing things like handing out
books to kids who never had them.
\_ Seconded. There are lots of us back home who really
value his service.
\_ Thanks for sharing this info. In the video an Iraqi civilian
gets killed and one of the soldier said "Shit, I got a ...
collateral damage. God damnit, someone call civilian
ambulence." Then they quickly run away as to not get ambushed.
Later on there was some intelligence that indicate that the
family of the killed civilian is pretty mad at US soldiers
and is planning to do something for revenge. So let me ask
you this, is there really a fine line between the good guys
and the bad guys? I mean, couldn't it be possible that
regular civilians get mad and join the insurgents, or the
other way around?
\_ You're a few wars behind.. Welcome to the reality based
community.
\_ No. In the Crusades you had the good guys and the
bad guys and it's easy to distinguish between the two.
In WW1 WW2 you had the Axis vs. the Allies, and it's
easy to distinguish between the two.
\_ Were the Crusaders the good guys or the bad guys?
\_ The answer is in Indiana Jones.
\_ Uh, oh, you're going to overload ilyas' binary reasoning circuit.
\_ what reasoning is that? That he's right and you're wrong
that I'm hollier than thou Bush-like reasoning?
\_ Sure, it happens but not in large numbers. Most of the people
there are like people here. They just want to be left alone
to live their lives. They don't want to be a part of anyone's
revolution, but they certainly hated Saddam.
\_ 100,000 is not a large number???
\_ Try >200k.
\_ 25 million people live in Iraq, and I doubt the number
of peaceful civilians who suddenly took up arms is
100,000. They are ex-military, foreigners, and others
with an agenda.
\_ Hint: the insurgency has grown steadily. The longer we
are there, the more we're seen as occupiers, the more
people will take up arms. Yes, there are outsiders, but
the majority are iraqis. They gave us a year of
relative calm. When the electricty and water didn't
come back on, they came at us harder.
\_ What makes you think it has grown in numbers? Links? |
| 2005/2/25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:36413 Activity:nil 66%like:34944 |
2/25 Clean up /csua/tmp |
| 2005/2/25 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:36414 Activity:nil |
2/25 Hey, I got my second FireFox 1.0.1 (WinXP) seg fault within 24 hours.
Can someone with 1.0.1 try this link and tell me if it crashes their
browser?
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453427.0368055557.html
\_ Does it seg fault in 1.0?
\_ 1.0 only crashed once a week or so for me. I'll try to
re-install 1.0.1 given what people wrote ...
\_ No seg fault, but the pop-up blew right past the pop-up blocker.
\_ No seg fault for me despite the nasty popups.
\_ yeah the pop-up stopper is broken, and in fact I've noticed this
for a while. I thought the pop-up stopper was superior over any
other pop-up stoppers. I guessed wrong :(
\_ I run FF 1.0 and LavaSoft Ad-Watch together. FF 1.0 blocked
many more pop-ups than Ad-Watch. I guess I won't switch to
FF 1.0.1 until its problems are cleaned up.
\_ 1.0.1 on OSX also allows this pop-up through, FYI.
\_ Okay, it was crashing because I had the flashblock extension
installed (prevents Macromedia Flash ads from running unless you
click on them). They released a new version of flashblock on
Feb 23 that fixes crashes. Now Firefox + flashblock doesn't crash
with that link. (Yeah, that's the only extension I'm running.) -op |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl, Computer/SW/Languages/Python] UID:36415 Activity:low |
2/25 Any python guys on the motd? I'm trying to find a python equivalent
to $/ (the perl input record separator) so that I can parse a file
with odd record separators (ie, not \n). The data I got on google
suggests that no such thing exists, but those posts were from 2003.
Has support for this been added of late?
\_ string.split('record_sep_char') I think.
\_ Problem with this is having to read in data blocks from the
file, because otherwise there's an implicit split on \n
(which my records contain).
\_is the file really big?
f = open("/usr/dict/words")
f.read().split('record_sep_char')
I'm curious too if there's a better answer
\_ I don't do much work in Python so I don't know if this will
actually work, but my copy of Python in a Nutshell mentions the os
module has an attribute linesep which is set to '\n' on Unix and
'\r\n' on Windows. What happens if you try to set that attribute
to your desired separator before sucking in your file? -dans |
| 2005/2/25 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:36416 Activity:high |
2/25 Wired, how far you have fallen:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5
\_ What the fuck are you talking about?
\_ Wired used to be techno-libertarian, this is written
by a Euro Socialist.
\_ Lessig is a Euro Socialist? Wow.
\_ Op-ed piece about tech stuff, mildly sensationalist, about
something of import to geek types? Sounds like Wired. -John
\_ Once again the invisible hand of the "free" market gives us
the finger.
\_ OK, dude, very basic again for those of you who were asleep
in Econ 100A&B: collusion, government lobbying, anything like
that is NOT the invisible hand, the free market, capitalism, or
anything along those lines. Thank you, you may now go back to
sleep. -John
\_ in other words, there's no such thing as the free market,
thus we can stop relying on it to solve our problems. -tom
\_ Haha. Let's play a game called 'spot the flaw.' -- ilyas
\_ w00t!
\_ How about "spot the twit." Hey, it's ilyas! I win! -tom
\_ w00t! You both get a "w00t!" for entertaining the
rest of us. A grateful motd thanks you both.
\_ This is how every implementation of capitalism has been.
\_ Yeah, this kind of sounds like the people who defend
communism. But in a perfect world...
\_ Whyis a regular op-ed column by one of the most respectable legal
scholars on constitutional and cyberspace law a problem? -dans
\_ An article showing corporate corruption in government, applicable
to tech stuff, this is inappropriate/wrong for what reason?
\_ I agree with the article. The government can do something
better than private enterprises because they are
fundamentally different. Private enterprises are there to
make money, governments are there to serve. If a company
can suck $100 out of you, they will not sell for $99.
Governments on the other hand just need to cover their cost.
\_ At the same time, governments are technically not
looking for max profit, so they have less of a incentive
to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. The company
may want to sell it for $100, but could sell it for $80
and a competitor is selling for $85 so it sells it for
$80. The author has a point that if the government CAN
do it cheaper/better and it is for a service/product that
makes sense, it should. Making laws prohibiting it from
doing that just because it eats into the bottom line of
some corporation is not a good enough justification for
not doing it.
\_ Thanks for the link, it is somewhat interesting. While we're on
this topic, may I suggest an excellent documentary that talks
about similar topics? "The Corporation" is an extraordinary film
about the creation of the American corporation, its legal
organizational model, its global economic dominance, and its
incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its
unrelenting pursuit of profit. You can rent it in Blockbuster,
Netflix, or buy it on http://Amazon.com
\_ you can get a preview here:
http://www.mininova.org/get/4719/The.Corporation.DVDRip.XVID.avi.torrent |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:36417 Activity:nil |
2/25 http://www.tennis-x.com/story/2005-02-25/n.php Proper courting behavior indeed http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2005/Feb/EEN421f5ecb61b68.html |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Industry/Startup] UID:36418 Activity:moderate |
2/25 I heard a rumour that Yahoo was deliberately targeting employees
with lots of stock options to make their bottom line look better.
Is there any truth to this???
\_ Targeting how?
\_ Firing them.
\_ And how would that help their bottom line?
\_ They need to exercise their options within 30 days of
getting fired or they lose them? -!op
\_ Stock options are now expensed.
\_ The company already issued them so they are going
to take the one-time charge whether they are exercised
or not. I don't see how firing people prevents
this after-the-fact. |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Consumer/TV] UID:36419 Activity:low |
2/25 What is the standard resolution of NTSC and PAL videos? How about
DVD and HDTV (is HDTV the same resolution as DVD?) How about
those new S-video plugs, what kind of signal/resolution do
they carry?
\_ google wikipedia { NTSC | PAL | DVD | HDTV } have phun
It's roughly ntsc 640x480, pal 720x486, dvd 720x480,
hdtv 720p=1280x720, 1080i=1920x1080 interlaced. S-video?
That's NTSC era. If you are going to use HD, you want HDMI,
DVI, component in that order of preference. -ax
\_ NTSC DVD is 720x480. PAL DVD is 720x576. NTSC video and PAL
video are both analog formats and don't have "pixels". NTSC
has roughly 480 horizontal scanlines (and PAL, 576), but the
resolution in each row is highly dependent on the quality of
the source. --jameslin |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Science/Battery, Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:36420 Activity:nil |
2/25 Stupid question, how is the 2300mah on my AA battery different
from the 4500mah on my laptop battery? Is it the voltage? If I
take 2 of my AA NiMH battery and add it up, the capacity is
larger than my laptop battery's rated mah....
\_ mAh is basically how much charge is available at a rated voltage.
Total energy stored is maH*Volts. Since your AA batery is 1.5V and
the laptop's is around 15, the laptop's battery has about 20 times
as much energy as an AA battery. You could approximate a laptop
battery with 2 columns of 10 AA batteries in series. (DO NOT attempt
this)
\_ what will happen?
\_ Laptop batteries have 3 or 4 pins to allow them to monitor
and control charging. Leaving these pins free is not in the
laptop design. Also, laptop batteries are not exactly 15V,
some are 13.2 and others are 18.6 or whatever. Getting it
wrong could let out all the smoke in your circuits.
\_ Feed the columns of AA batteries to the inlet for the AC
adaptor.
\_ OK, if you got the voltage and polarity right that
would work. -pp |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Computer/Networking] UID:36421 Activity:moderate |
2/25 What is the smallest (physical and price) cisco router that can
handle BGP? It should be able to have more than 256 ram.
\_ When you say ``handle BGP'', do you mean supports the bgp
protocol or supports enough ram to keep a reasonable (what do you
consider to be reasonable) number of routes in memory? Do you want
to be peering at PAIX, or do you just need a router to run the T1
line for your house? 256 megs is a *LOT* of RAM for a router and
more than you would ever reasonably need to run your home T1 line.
The 1760 is a reasonably good entry-level/consumer grade router,
but it maxes out at 96 megs. The 2691 appears to support 256 megs.
-dans
\_ I mean "supports enough ram to keep a reasonable number of
routes in memory." I shouldn't have mentioned price, I have
changed it to be just physical. I don't understand why a router
running bgp between two networks memory needs to be multi-u.
Isn't one of the advantages of having a "do one thing" box is
that it can be small? Anyway, I want a commercial grade
cisco router. I do plan to multi home my IP address, so that
if one colo goes down my precious pron server will still be
up at ISP number 2. (I know, the ISP has to cooperate, and
i'm kidding about the pronness)
\_ You need to define what you consider to be a reasonable
number of routes. Based on that you can calculate the amount
of memory you need. My (still largely uninformed) off the
cuff answer based on the above would be something from the
2600 series, which, I believe, are all 1U. -dans
\_ why would you run BGP out of your house? is there any reason
to run BGP unless you are multi-homed? Don't you need some
unique ID (ARIN or something-erother) to be multi-homed?
\_ so he can learn how it works?
\_ Look, I'm not the one asking for the ``smallest ... cisco
router that can handle BGP [that] should be able to have
more than 256 ram.'' As for why one might run BGP out of
one's house:
a) maybe you're a practitioner of the better homes and colo
facilities phenomenon
b) yes, there are other reasons to run BGP than being
multi-homed (details left as an exercise for the reader,
hint IBGP)
i) Those reasons aside, I said something about using a
router to run a T1 line, *I* never said anything about
running BGP out of your house.
The `unique ID' you are referring to is an Autonomous System
Number or ASN. You need one if you want to announce a
routeable ip address block on the internet. -dans |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/Networking] UID:36422 Activity:low |
2/25 Hi motd. A friend of mine wants to keep her AOL e-mail address (or
set up forwarding) since she got a cable modem. From what I found
on http://aol.com, it sounds like she wants to switch from AOL Dial-up
($24/month) to AOL Broadband ($15/month). Is this the right way
(I guess via AOL account management or calling them up)?
Is there a cheaper way? Anyone have any experience? Thanks!
\_ Tell your friend to let go and get a better permanent
email address. @aol.com is a sign of stupidity.
\_ What do you recommend? I was thinking @cal.berkeley.edu, but
when you send e-mail from your ISP account, people will start
using the ISP e-mail and forget about the @cal.berkeley.edu
account. Yahoo! e-mail (gmail still being in beta) is all that
comes to mind. -op
\_ Umm, google doesn't seem to have the same concept of "beta"
as the rest of the world. To steal a joke from some blog:
You should just think of "beta" as a hip type of product.
like "loose-fit" vs. "boot-cut" jeans.
\_ Don't be so dense. You set it as the reply to address,
or better, the from address (though those loser webmail
services may not let you do that).
\_ Set the From address in outlook.
\_ To the two posters above:
reply-to is something I thought of already -- basically the
issue is that some friends will see the ISP e-mail address
in the From: and a number end up using that.
I thought you would be smart enough to see this problem,
at least without insulting me, which is why I didn't
write about it in the first place.
As for From:, don't most ISPs these days have blocks on
modifying this?
modifying this? -op
\_ No, they don't block modifying the From: header since it's
something damn near every mail client on the planet has
been able to do for nearly a decade, and if they started
to block mail based on From: headers it would cost them
literally millions in customer support calls, and, yes,
you are dense if you believe this is happening. Perhaps
you're confusing it with the increasingly common and far
more lame practice of an ISP blocking port 25 outright
forcing customers to use its own smtp servers sxclusively.
\_ No, I'm not confusing modifying the From: header with
blocking port 25 outright by default (which SBC Yahoo!
DSL just enacted as you already know). I honestly think
Comcast does the From: checks to alleviate spoofing,
but I guess I can check up on this to see if it's
still true. -op
\_ Comcast != most ISP's. Perhaps you're thinking of
SPF (or the functionally equivalent thing Microsoft
is (was?) pushing)? -pp
\_ No I am not thinking of SPF or Microsoft's thing.
When I say "most ISPs", I am not referring to
absolute number of ISPs, big and small -- I am
referring to ISPs that users are most likely to
be using, such as Comcast cable Internet or SBC
Yahoo! DSL.
Perhaps I should have written "Comcast and SBC
Yahoo! DSL" instead of "most ISPs".
Anyways, I didn't just dream up of From: address
blocking. It did happen, with something that
wasn't out in left-field. ... was it uclink? -op
\_ Bugger if I know, I barely ever used uclink
even when I was on campus regularly. -pp
\_ Anyways, looks like with Comcast cable,
custom From: addresses works fine. And
she can use that with @cal.berkeley.edu. -op
\_ I have comcast and have my own From field. It works fine.
\_ Thanks! -op
\_ I have just given up and started using SMTP forwarding
from my email provider rather than trying to munge from
addresses. If your ISP blocks SMTP, try it w/ TLS or get
it unblocked? Where there is a will, there is a way.
\_ meant to add, I use "msmtp" sendmail replacement to
use w/ a linux mail client.
\_ My folks did something like that ... just call up customer
service and they can switch you to a bring-your-own-access
type service. |
| 2005/2/25 [Science/Physics] UID:36423 Activity:very high |
2/25 Is anti-matter and dark matter the same thing? Thx.
\_ Is our children learning?
\_ No they ain't. As to original question, not at all.
\_ No, you're wrong. Technically speaking dark-matter could
be the "same" as anti-matter if it turns out to be
composed of neutrinos. Since neutrinos are their own
anti-particle you could say that dark matter is composed
of anti-matter. Right now we don't know what dark matter
is. Perhaps it could be composed primarily of some sort
of anti-matter. Nobody knows.
\_ "More seldom than not, the movies gives us exquisite sex and
wholesome violence, that underscores our values. Every two
child did. I will."
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
\_ Dark matter is quite different from normal baryonic matter
and anti-matter. There are several views on what exactly
anti-matter is, but in general it can be though of as
matter that is composed of particles that are similar to
protons and electrons except that they have the opposite
charge (ex. positron is an electron with a + charge).
Dark matter is completely different. It interacts with
regular matter very weakly and is probably not composed
of any sort of known particles. Dark matter's presence
is mostly inferred from gravitational anomalies in the
rotation of galaxies. Some newer experiments are trying
to detect dark matter based on nuclear interactions, but
so far nothing has turned up.
\_ There was some /. story recently on something that looks like
an entire galaxy composed entirely of dark matter. Dark matter
has a bit of a 'magic blue smoke' quality to it, imo. -- ilyas
\_ I agree. The entire dark-matter/dark-energy discussion
reminds me a lot about the cosmic ether discussions prior
to SR. It seems like the universe is telling us something
fundamental and physicists want to shoe-horn it into the
standard model.
BTW, how did they detect a dark matter galaxy?
\_ I am not a specialist, so I don't know (the article didn't
really explain it well). Obviously using some indirect
way involving gravity, coupled with noticing there are no
stars there. -- ilyas
\_ If you are talking about the recent results re
VIRGOHI21, my understanding is that it was a
radio telescope search looking for H emission
lines. Also this isn't a dark matter galaxy
but a dark galaxy (basically a huge cloud of
H w/o many stars).
\_ I would be very surprised if you could get a cloud of
H to behave like a galaxy without any star formation.
-- ilyas
\_ How much dark matter is in a liter of the air next to you?
If none, how much dark matter is there in a liter of volume
of deep space?
If negligible, about how much volume of deep space would you
need to get one particle of dark matter?
\_ IIRC current estimates are that each second every square
meter of the earth passes through 1e9 dark matter particles.
\_ That means 1 liter has ~ one million dark matter particles!
I am swimming in dark matter!
\_ In comparison a liter of water has ~ 1e25 water
molecules.
\_ If we take 1 liter of air, I'm getting ~ 4 particles
of dark matter for every trillion molecules of
air. Is that right?
\_ Sort of. Dark matter is "there" but it doesn't
interact w/ regular matter. It just passes
through your body (and pretty much everything
else) as if it wasn't even there.
\_ Hmmm, so the motd is dark-matter. If we put ilyas and tom
together, would they explode?
\_ I think that you are confusing a few concepts. Dark
matter is weakly interacting and does not affect
normal matter except via its gravitation effect.
The following works a bit better: the motd is space-time,
ilyas is matter, tom is anti-matter. If they both
meet on the motd you will get an uncontrollable burst
of energy that will destroys everything in its path.
\_ If the only way to detect dark matter so far is from gravitational
anomalies, how do they know that dark matter is in the form of
discrete particles (or wave-particles like the way normal particles
are in quantum physics)?
\_ If you really want to know, look online in a source that does
not consist of computer science people. There is much
bullshit in the above answers, and I have become tired of
having flamewars with morons on the motd about physics.
Look on the websites of the various darkmatter searches out
there, and they should have good explanations of what they're
looking for and why.
\_ is dark matter like the Force?
\_ Not everyone agrees that dark matter is made of particles.
The leading theory is from the super-symmetry people who
think that one of the particles in their theory, the
neutralino, fits the dark matter bill.
FYI, SciAm had some decent articles on this topic a few
months back. |
| 2005/2/25 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:36424 Activity:kinda low |
2/25 This is what Palestinians mean when they say "cease fire":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4299609.stm
\_ The bomb was planted by a militant group that never agreed
to the ceasefire, and is actively trying to sabotage
negotiations. Same old shit...
\_ except Arafat is dead now
\_ Anyone who thought that was going to change much of anything
was living in a fantasy world. Both the Israelies and the
Palestinians are paralyzed by the demands of their hard
line factions - the idea that the death of one man would
change that seems a bit silly. |
| 2005/2/25-3/1 [Uncategorized] UID:36425 Activity:nil |
2/25 Looking for mid-level desktop support. If interested, email resume to
resumes@goodvibes.com
\_ $14/hr? Do you get "other" benefits?
\_ It's $14.07/hr
\_ Wow, that's like what, $30,000 per year?
\_ With the current Social Security system, you will have lost
$3,651/month versus private accounts! You would have had
$700,148 in your private account when you retired!
\_ Actually, with private investing getting around $700,000
is not exactly hard. I'm not saying you'll get that much
just sticking it in a bond market fund at 3.25%, but if
you invest wisely you can easily get that if you dump
around $100,000 in a well balanced portfolio for 30
odd years, as long as you are willing to ride the dips
with the rises in the S&P. |
| 2005/2/25-28 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:36426 Activity:nil |
2/25 Looking for a webcam that is Mac-compatible and preferably comes with
an easy to use software that lets you save a snap shot every 3-4
seconds to the HD so that I can put it on the web site. Again it's
gotta be Mac-compatible (my Logitech QuickCam 3000 doesn't come with
supported Mac drivers, and the free unsupported SourceForge driver
crashes after about 10 minutes). Thanks.
\_ Um, iSight? |
| 2005/2/25 [Uncategorized] UID:36427 Activity:high |
2/25 For those of you old enouogh to remember the 80's: Fry's has
Macgyver Season 1 on sale for $20. The Fry's on Arques still
has several copies left.
\_ My wife and I watched the whole run on USA several months ago. Best
TV show ever.
\_ Your wife's name wouldn't be Aunt Selma, would it? |
| 2005/2/25-28 [Computer/SW/Graphics, Computer/SW] UID:36428 Activity:low |
2/25 Hello video experts, I've been using DVD2AVI to convert VOBs to
AVI and WAV and then combining them using TMPGEnc, which I thought
was free. Today, it says "MPEG-2 expires after 30 days due to
licensing issues, please buy this product." What the hell? What
are other alternatives out there?
\_ mpeg2 is not free.
\_ TMPGEnc provides free MPEG1 encoding, but MPEG2 is not free.
You need to pay for TMPGEnc Plus. Both TMPGEnc Plus and CCE Basic
are around $50. Incidentally, using DVD2AVI to generate AVI files
isn't a great idea. Also, if your goal is to go DVD->DVD, then
why not use DVDShrink?
\_ Actually my goal is simply DVD(mpeg2) to VCD(mpeg1), I got
mixed up so it's cool. By the way it's quite tedious to split
the DVD into AVI/WAV then combining them, is there an easier
way?
\_ You're not actually supposed to create an AVI with dvd2avi
(despite its name; they've now renamed it to get people to
to stop using that misfeature), since that's just going to
be a collosal waste of HDD space. The usual way is to save
the project file (.d2v) and then open that (usually using
AviSynth, but I think the current version of TMPGEnc
can open it directly). --jameslin |
| 2005/2/25-28 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:36429 Activity:low |
2/25 To people running VM Ware, how much memory do you have? I have p4-1.7
and 256mb and its slow. How much memory do I need?
\_ A lot. You are running 2 operating systems. I'd double your RAM
at a minimum and more is better.
\_ Two OS's plus VMWare itself.
\_ 256 MB of RAM is not that much. If you're using a Windows host,
it's barely enough for even that one OS.
\_ 1 GB. RAM is SO cheap. Get plenty.
\_ My stupid machine at work uses Rambus memory, fuck.
\_ I've heard that when you run VMWare, it's even faster to disable
your host virtual memory so that you don't get double swapped
(where your host AND your virtual machine swaps at the same time).
Is this really true and has anyone benchmarked this?
\_ I run a 192 mb linux server as guest with windows as host on 256
seems to work fine, though I only use the linux os remotely and
haven't tried doing real work on the windows box at the same
time --darin
\_ I've always wondered if you can run a simple client on a P100
and hook it up on a Win based server |
| 2005/2/25-27 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:36433 Activity:high |
2/25 Best... Freeper... Post... Ever....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350645/posts
\_ What...the...fuck...? I don't even understand the intent of the post
or of any of the replies enough to even make fun of them.
\_ wow wtf is that? tangent: kids with flags and uniforms make me sick.
\_ I feel a great swelling of pride... in not being one of those
people.
\_ On the other hand, you post here.
\_ Touche'.
\_ The "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Mom in the upper right corner is just
too perfect.
\_ Since you all seemed unable to figure this out, the thread is for
the morale of troops who visit the site, of which there are
a significant number. So, my reply is you all are pricks.
Do you mock the USO as well?
\_ Posting morale boosters for the troops to freep is akin to having
your anti-war rally blessed by UBL. I mean, sure, the sentiment
is there, but it's still ick.
\_ Bad analogy. There are probably quite a few soldiers who
read and enjoy freerepublic, and appreciate the support.
The idiocy in the freeper post isn't idiotic because it's
a freeper post or because it is intended to support or
entertain the troops, it's idiotic because it's idiotic. |
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