RE: [H] Time taken to convert an Avi?
I use VSO xvid2DVD it generally takes about an hour to do a 90 min. avi and then auto burns it to a DVD. The only time now I use SVCD2DVD is to extract SVCD's from .bin's and then combine them if there are two disks and then burn a DVD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:37 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Time taken to convert an Avi? Just wondering what how long it generally takes for others to convert avi's to SVCD? Currently I'm converting a BBC series Wild Weather into SVCD compliant PAL mpgs before converting them to DVD with SVCD2DVD. Each avi is approx 1hr long (720Mb) and they're taking me 2hrs each on a P4 2.8 with a gig of ram using TMPGEnc Express. Seems a long time for such a task.
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote: A friend of mine is having a problem sending mail with both OE and Eudora. Mail comes in ok, but the system times out during sends. I can telnet to the smtp server he is using, and login, so there is connectivity, and his other computer (he has two, connected with a router) sends fine with exactly the same settings. Anyone ever see this? Norton or another AV getting in the way of the SMTP session? Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #384: it's an ID-10-T error
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
At 09:48 AM 24/03/2005, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Thane Sherrington wrote: A friend of mine is having a problem sending mail with both OE and Eudora. Mail comes in ok, but the system times out during sends. I can telnet to the smtp server he is using, and login, so there is connectivity, and his other computer (he has two, connected with a router) sends fine with exactly the same settings. Anyone ever see this? Norton or another AV getting in the way of the SMTP session? Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus]
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
At 09:04 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. I've also seen where the TCP/IP was screwed up in the network adaptor settings as compared to the router settings do exactly this yet they were able to surf without any problems. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
At 10:09 AM 24/03/2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 09:04 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. I've also seen where the TCP/IP was screwed up in the network adaptor settings as compared to the router settings do exactly this yet they were able to surf without any problems. What did you do to fix this? Renew the IP address? T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus]
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
At 09:29 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: What did you do to fix this? Renew the IP address? I've found that works if the all the settings for that NIC are on automatic but in this case they appeared to have been placed manually incorrectly when compared to the router which was acting as a DHCP server. I changed everything back to automatic but I could've manually put in the correct values as well. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
[H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 09:29 AM 3/24/2005, Thane Sherrington typed: What did you do to fix this? Renew the IP address? I've found that works if the all the settings for that NIC are on automatic but in this case they appeared to have been placed manually incorrectly when compared to the router which was acting as a DHCP server. I changed everything back to automatic but I could've manually put in the correct values as well. You also might want to check out fixlsp or lspfix (Whatever it's called) Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #22: monitor resolution too high
[H] Firefox 1.0.2 security update
http://getfirefox.com -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
Re: [H] More defrag benches
Agreed. Thane Sherrington wrote: Two more machines: 6/14% fragmention - 12% speed increase 27%/54% fragmentation - 15% speed increase. On the first machine, Windows defrag said it didn't need defragging, on the second it did. Given the similarity of speed increases, I think Windows defrag doesn't know much. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
RE: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
This is also a bus-car on the main road. The picture is a composite, took them a while to 'click' it all. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
thare a lot of those... I found another one where the top half of the guy is missing on the right side of the picutre (bike lane) roughly 2/3's of the way up. at the top 1/4 of that bike lane cross the street is some guy w/ his feet missing... On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:56:16 -0700, Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an error in the picture there is a man with a red backpack walking and his bottom half is missing. There is a parking area in front of the long building at the right of the picture and at the north end of that building on the sidewalk there is a blue sign, looks like it has a bicycle on it and the man is to the right of it. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.Waleed Kavalec Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:11 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom http://triton.tpd.tno.nl/gigazoom/delft2.htm A 2.5 gigapixel photo TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. So, what do we mean by large? After all, modern consumer cameras can easily take a picture with 5 million pixels. Well, we are talking about a photo of completely different dimensions. One with 2.5 billion pixels - that's 500 times more pixels. If this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). The photograph shows Delft and its surroundings in the autumn of 2004. It was taken from the top of the Electrical Engineering faculty of Delft University, at a height of about 100 m, by TNO. --- Go to the above link and the photo looks totally Unimpressive. ...until you zoom and pan... WHOA Can you find the guy standing by the fire hydrant in front of the red truck? (PS - actually its a composite, but still - dang!) -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ? -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
Re: [H] ot (almost Friday) gigazoom
Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thare a lot of those... I found another one where the top half of the guy is missing on the right side of the picutre (bike lane) roughly 2/3's of the way up. at the top 1/4 of that bike lane cross the street is some guy w/ his feet missing... The 2.5 gigapixel image is a composition of images rather than a single image. TNO developed a sophisticated approach to merge the many images - all 600 of them. The photos were taken automatically using a modern consumer camera and a powerful 400 mm lens. The camera was positioned automatically using a computer-controlled pan-tilt unit. Each of the 600 photos overlaps, an arrangement that ensured very accurate positioning and enabled us to stitch the images automatically into one giant image of 78,797 by 31,565 pixels. The most difficult tasks were processing these large images and comparing the overlapping images. Looks like where images meet, moving objects would have moved on before the next shot.
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - One thing is for sure ... there is no way in hell this would happen here in Australia because we make a legal point of it that all telephone systems are required by law to access the emergency services number (000 in our case) irrespective of the equipment and/or outstanding charges on any customer's line. That's just plain stupid to tell people that they need to register for it. I say Vonage deserve what they get. Adios, Tony
Re: [H] DVD File Formats
I finally did it with Nero. My mistake was going in through Nero Smartstart. If you go into Nero Burning ROM, you can select the format, it presents you with two directories (audio_ts, video_ts) to stuff your files into and then just burn away. Worked first time Steve Choose open files within DVD shrink and it will backup the files to the DVD burner. It is faster than Nero and does not have to re-encode the files but it will write them to a temp folder. Nero had been crashing lately on TS folders and it is generally slow in recoding files so I have been successfully using DVD Shrink to do this instead, and of course it still is great for condensing a DVD to burn to a DVD5. I still use Nero for DL disks, just slow as hell and mostly crashes on large vob's. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Maki Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:02 PM To: 'Steve Tomporowski'; 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] DVD File Formats DVD Shrink and Nero will do this easily. DVD Shrink will automatically run Nero for the actual burn. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:53 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] DVD File Formats Someone sent me the entire VIDEO_TS directory from a DVD. How to I burn this to make a workable, playable DVD? I *think* that all I need to do is burn it as data, but I could be wrong. I got an 'advisory' from Nero that if I did that, it would not be playable. What else would I need to do? Nero wants to regenerate everything I have already. ThanksSteve
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. USA; the home of corporate greed for the last 150 years or so... I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East. See chapter 8. The actual vehicle for large-scale European commerce developed out of another gift of Islam, the qirad contract. ... The first mention of the qirad in Islam occurs in the Muwatta' of Malik ibn Anas, the oldest extant Islamic legal text, which was written sometime after 750 AD. The History of the Corporation Volume One by Bruce Brown http://www.astonisher.com/archives/corporation_intro.html Al (who finally got the tag lines working) I pledge allegiance to the Corporate States of America; and to the Republicans for which it stands. A divided nation, under dept; with Justice and Liberty for Oil.
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East. See chapter 8. True. But Islamic free trade disallows interest... makes for a completely different system. Can you imagine Enron without all the convoluted banking tricks? On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:53:46 -0700, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary VanderMolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. USA; the home of corporate greed for the last 150 years or so... I was surprised to learn idea of corporations started in the ancient Moslem East. See chapter 8. The actual vehicle for large-scale European commerce developed out of another gift of Islam, the qirad contract. ... The first mention of the qirad in Islam occurs in the Muwatta' of Malik ibn Anas, the oldest extant Islamic legal text, which was written sometime after 750 AD. The History of the Corporation Volume One by Bruce Brown http://www.astonisher.com/archives/corporation_intro.html Al (who finally got the tag lines working) I pledge allegiance to the Corporate States of America; and to the Republicans for which it stands. A divided nation, under dept; with Justice and Liberty for Oil. -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
RE: [H] Best bang for buck - budget system
If you're going to re-use case, PATA HD (hopefully a CDROM, floppy in there) and you need a good bang-buck $400, here you go: 3000+ AMD ($149); 512MB ($54); NF3/250 basic board ($89); 5700 vid ($90) Less then $400. Hell, if you want less with at least upgrade options, change the 3000+ to a Sempron 2800+ S754, save about $50, and then later if you want you can upgrade.. for Photoshop, etc. you'll be fine (check out some of the benchies, also, the Sempron 2800+ in a S754 is one of the most overclockable bastards on the market) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Busa Rush Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:23 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Best bang for buck - budget system Sorry to bring this up again, but what CPU, Motherboard, video card and memory combo would people recommend for a budget system, say $300-$400 ? Will be running XP Pro with office apps and a little bit of Photoshop - nothing serious. Going to reuse a case and pata hard drive, screen etc. Thanks, Steve
[H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call
mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
G.Waleed Kavalec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True. But Islamic free trade disallows interest... makes for a completely different system. Can you imagine Enron without all the convoluted banking tricks? Not surprised. After all it was Western Man who figured out how to make a weapon from fireworks. To paraphrase what Chris said; humans are, after all, human, and if they can be inhumane, they will be. Al Opera op·er·a; noun. Greek word for death by music.
Re: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call
Now ya see? With GPS and a small warhead this could have been permanently solved. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:18 -0800, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... -- G. Waleed Kavalec --- Why are we all in this handbasket and where is it going so fast ?
Re: [H] Problems sending mail
Good idea. He has NAV2004, so I booted in safe mode with networking, and the problem persists. I'm thinking virus/spyware infection or Windows corruption. Also it might be possible that his ISP is blocking outgoing SMTP ... not so stupid as it might first look ... Catalin
Re: [H] More defrag benches
Considering that windows defrag is either Norton Speed Disk (win98) or Diskeeper (2K above), I'd imagine that has more to do with settings (or lack of) then the defragger being flawed. There's more to these numbers than simple %'s show and there's no defrag setting that fits all sizes. The full version of Diskeeper has 2 settings that cover both topics: defrag method collect performance data. I'd expect a drive with low file fragmentation but many directories all over the drive would produce lower performance when reading back multiple files (whole drive copy speed). While any few files of a large size high fragmentation would do the same but only when reading just them since their speed increase/loss would be lost in the overall performance benchmark reading the entire drive. Keep on benching Thane, looks like at least you haven't found zero-gain or negative effects from defragging! joeuser wrote: Agreed. Thane Sherrington wrote: Two more machines: 6/14% fragmention - 12% speed increase 27%/54% fragmentation - 15% speed increase. On the first machine, Windows defrag said it didn't need defragging, on the second it did. Given the similarity of speed increases, I think Windows defrag doesn't know much. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus]
Re: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call
As would better imigration law enforcement. G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: Now ya see? With GPS and a small warhead this could have been permanently solved. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:18 -0800, Francisco Tapia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
RE: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911
It's not so much a consumer thing but rather an essential services thing. The Telecommunications Act here clearly states that all homes must have a phone line in the premises and all lines must have at least access to emergency services even if the line is otherwise disabled to the consumer. I don't know how Texas expects to succeed in court given that Vonage were working within FCC regs. It's a shame, but at the same time, hopefully it will prove to be a valuable lesson to all telcos. Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary VanderMolen Sent: Friday, 25 March 2005 3:56 To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: Re: [H] Texas Sues Vonage After Crime Victim Unable to Call 911 Importance: Low Other countries seem to be much more pro-consumer compared to the caveat emptor attitude in the US. Gary VanderMolen
RE: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call
This is a real phone call? She's a f__king dope! I would've sent down a deputy to slap her out! Adios, Tony --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francisco Tapia Sent: Friday, 25 March 2005 5:31 To: The Hardware List Subject: [H] Fwd: [Humor] example of a bad 911 call mms://kroq.wmod.llnwd.net/a168/o1/kbaudio/911_tape.asf -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com | PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...
