Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix 259
And you don't want your database being a Flipper. MySQL has finally announced the name of their logo dolphin, and the winner is... Sakila! The name, submitted by Ambrose Twebaze of Swaziland, was chosen from 6357 entries "because it represents the global reach of MySQL as well as the friendly, open nature of the company." Slashdot covered the contest back in January, and MySQL listed some of the more popular names submitted back in April.
Perverse incentives are the most fun. Mark Barnett writes in reference to the ongoing pets.com lawsuit story Update: 10/04 00:18 GMT by T : Sorry, that's "PetsWarehouse," not "pets.com.":
"I was one of the settling parties. I did not settle out of fear. I settled because he wanted me to run his banner on my website for 120 days. The settlement did not say anything about the number of times it had to run. I ran it once per day at about 4 AM EST for 120 days. It was my joke on him. I think I got the better deal. I ran the defense fund banner about 1.5 million times versus his 120 times."
Wings for a lizard. Espectr0 writes "Phoenix 0.2 has been released!. Improvements include the return of the sidebar, extensions management and web form autocomplete. It's also a little smaller and faster, and 0.3 will be released in about a week. Get the scoop here."
Unsolicited testimonial. boomerang_56 writes "Wanting to see what the fuss was about, I just installed Red Hat 8. For me, working IEEE1394 features are a must. It was nice to see that now I don't have to recompile the kernel just to have Firewire working. So I downloaded and compiled Kino, and was able to capture from my camcorder, and even control it, without the major tweaks I used to have to do. Then I found out that Cinelerra has been released at version 1.0!!! So I downloaded and installed it via RPM (Pentium II binaries). I had to install an old version of libstdc++-3, but that was easy. No "--force" or the other hassles we used to have to go through. So the first time I fired up Cinelerra, after changing the preferences for IEEE1394 capture, I was impressed to see it actually captured on the first try. I guess the bottom line for this submission is as a user I wanted to say "thanks" for all the developers working on this kind of thing. We all know that besides gaming, video editing is the big killer app. It's really nice to be able to have this kind of power in open source software and not have to boot to Windows just to edit video now. It's not easy enough for my mom yet, but the way things are going, it won't be long. Oh, links... get Cinelerra here (check out the screenshots too). Get Kino here."
Blinkenlampen ueber Paris. fluxdvd writes "In celebration of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, Project Blinkenlights has transformed Tower T2 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France into what is claimed to be the world's largest computer screen. The system used to drive the display runs an embedded version of Linux.
Read the story at Linuxdevices.com. They have live streams of the building at night (Paris time) and replay the previous night's display druing the day. It's quite impressive :)"
We mentioned the plans for this display a few weeks ago.
Don't you hunger for a patent-free, royalty-free, better-at-identical-bitrate alternative? The release of Red Hat 8.0 included the notable, intentional ommission of MP3 software, a decision Red Hat made on the basis of possible patent and royalty problems.
Now SnowDeath writes "After two days of trying to get my ALSA install to work correctly in RedHat 8.0 (Psyche), I finally headed over to the xmms website to see if there were any known bugs with ALSA. Low and behold, the first thing my eyes read tells how RedHat Software decided to not include the mp3 plugin in their xmms install in Psyche in fear of pending patent problems. So, do not despair, there is an rpm "update" for this particular problem on the xmms site."
CS (Score:4, Funny)
Am I the only one thinking this was someone's plan to play counter-strike on the worlds biggest screen?
Sakila (Score:5, Funny)
Shit, that's what I thought when I first glanced at that name.
Re:Sakila (Score:2)
Mmmm, Shakira [geocities.com]...
Re:Sakila (Score:3, Funny)
I had a Japanese roomate/friend/coworker for a while, and I'd beg to differ. We worked for weeks trying to get his english R's right (while I worked on trying to get my japanese ra, ri, ru, re, & ro right), especially on words that ended with an r (like door, more, etc).
One day we were leaving the appartment and he absentmindedly refered to closing the door and said it exactly right. "Iwi!" I almost yelled, "you said it!" Unfortunately, he never could reproduce it again.
Don't say "R" (Score:2, Offtopic)
When I congratulated her, she said:
All that work for nothing....Re:Sakila (Score:2)
It's more complex than that. The Japanese "r" sound, found in common words like "ryori," meaning cooking or cuisine, is sort of a cross between the American "r" and "l" sounds. Whereas Americans (typically) make the "r" sound with their lips, and the "l" sound with their tongue, the Japanese "r" sound is made with a little bit of lip and a little bit of tongue. (Er, you know what I mean.)
So Japanese speakers often have trouble with both initial "r" and initial "l" when speaking English. Terminal "r" and "l" sounds, of course, just disappear entirely. "Door" becomes "doh," and "pull" becomes "puh."
But the average American has a much harder time pronouncing a Japanese word like "ryori" than Japanese people seem to have saying a world like "library."
Re:Sakila (Score:2)
I can't figure out how it's even possible to make an "r" sound with one's lips... I make an "r" sound by curling my tongue back so the tip presses against the middle of my palate, then making some sort of noise with my vocal cords. My lips aren't particularly involved... they just stay open during the process.
Japanese "r" keeps the tongue flatter and taps the tip close to the front of the mouth, making it sound sort of like a soft "d". Check this page [thejapanesepage.com] for a more complete explanation, plus sound samples.
Re:Sakila (Score:2)
Just trying this myself, and I can't understand how you could make an "r" sound while pressing your tongue against your palate.
It seems to me that *my* tongue remains fairly neutral on the "r" sound. It seems to be mostly made by the shape of my lips.
pets.com? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:pets.com? (Score:3, Funny)
Mark Barnett (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure its funny, but now they can tell other people that previous suits have been successfull settled out of court and they had better pay up.
All actions have consequences.
"Weaseling out of things is makes us different from animals...except the waesel." H.Simpson.
Re:Mark Barnett (Score:3, Insightful)
All a settlement means is that both parties agreed
to something. If one -- obviously insane -- party
says the terms were favorable to them, and you
believe them without checking, then you're a fool.
As a programmer... (Score:4, Interesting)
Each distro also demands tradeoffs. Redhat sacrifices everything to be "easy to install". Debian sacrifices currentness for stability (ha-ha). SuSE sacrifices compatibility with other distros for ease-of-use. And Sorcerer sacrifices that compatibility even more.
When Redhat removes another component like they did here, it's just business as usual in the Linux distro world. But for those developers out here who want to write applications, it's really hard with moving targets like these.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:3, Insightful)
Program to only one platform and ignore the others, and you better not tell your users that you support them.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course, you should learn how to package for your favorite distro.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:3, Informative)
Programming under Linux is a bit tricky. Basically its a tradeoff between using the libraries specified in the LSB (which doesn't help you at all for GUI programming), or to simply target a specific set of libraries (probably the ones bundled with the newest RedHat). Too many of Linux's APIs are currently in flux, and so it is a crapshoot which versions people will have installed.
The good news is that fixing the problem is usually as easy as making sure the right libraries are installed.
This problem, however, is a horse of a different color. This doesn't have anything to do with shifting APIs or the difference between distributions. This has to do with the fact that MP3 compression is patented, and the patent holders have changed the terms for use of the patents. RedHat can't distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties, and so they don't distribute the libraries that XMMS uses to decode MP3s.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:3, Interesting)
RedHat can't distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties, and so they don't distribute the libraries that XMMS uses to decode MP3s.
Err, umm.... well, xmms.org [xmms.org] says:
To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders. For commercially sold decoders - primarily hardware mp3 players - the per-unit royalty has always been in place since the beginning of the program.
So all this about RedHat not being able to distribute MP3 codecs without paying royalties actually appears to be, as we say, a bunch of FUD. Maybe they have different reasons, but it's not about royalties.
ummm... (Score:2)
It's really quite simple, it IS about royalties, either they pay them to cover their ass so Thomson can't sue them a year down the road from now, or they simply don't include an MP3 decoder.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Last I checked RedHat sold RedHat Linux, and that's almost certainly the catch. It's easy enough to take Thomson's word that they aren't going to prosecute, but the fact of the matter is that you don't need to protect patents like you protect trademarks. As long as RedHat doesn't have it in writing that they are free to distribute MP3 codecs then RedHat is liable for royalties (and penalties as well should it go to court).
Thomson probably isn't going to go after the folks working on XMMS, but RedHat Linux could easily be categorized as a "commercially sold decoder." Nullsoft pays licensing fees, by the way, and they clearly give their WinAmp away as well. The world of law is a murky place where it is always better to be safe than sorry. You can't blame RedHat for staying clear of potential problems.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
What about The Stable And Secure, Slackware [slackware.com]?
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Because setting up such things can be more of a pain than writing the application itself. Autoconf is a good idea only because it works under some fairly extreme conditions. There's nothing else at all to recommend it.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
I've used automake for several projects, and never for portability. It is a nice build system. Automake+CVS+a test suite can be a beautiful rapid development environment.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Write to the standard (Score:2)
Do you want to know more? [linuxbase.org]
Linux Standard Base & GCC 3.2 (Score:2)
If you develop in C++, make the effort to upgrade to GCC 3.2 and the new style standard C++ library style of programming. Believe me it's worth the effort. The only execption to this is if your interacting/recompiling with older KDE or Mozilla. The latter needs GCC-2.96 to load plugins.
Re:Linux Standard Base & GCC 3.2 (Score:2)
Do not set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. [visi.com] Compile with -R or LD_RUN_PATH instead.
That essay about LD_LIBRARY_PATH is one of the most interesting things I've ever read. Reading it helped me understand not only the issues involved, but affected a lot of my thinking about programming in general. It's good for you! :) I never can remember where it is, but I see that it's the first hit you get when you search for LD_LIBRARY_PATH on google now.
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Re:As a programmer... (Score:2)
Pretty much. The difference being that on Linux, you can report bugs you find and they actually get fixed. They don't just ignore bugs for 7 years [microsoft.com] which have never been fixed.
Another nice thing is that if you release the source for your application, the distro people themselves generally do all the work necessary to get your stuff working. In my experience, the parent question has really been a non-issue.
Lossy formats are louse (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Lossy formats are louse (Score:2, Insightful)
By sharing music, are we really showing record companies they don't need to exist, or are we showing them they need to tighten the reigns on people sharing music so they can top off their profit margin?
Re:Lossy formats are louse (Score:2)
First off, not all of the record labels out there exist to screw you out of your hard earned cash. While you may think you're 'fighting the man' by swapping music with your buds, ultimately, you ARE doing damage to the artists. The bigger a problem swapping becomes, the more money the labels are going to spend trying to fight it, and legislate it, and ultimately, that means a tighter grip on artist rights and material. The labels are draconian enough, and like enough, as copyright owners, they hold the cards. You're not being Robin Hood by trading those mp3s.
Next, using 30 megs of space/bandwidth for a single song is more than ludicrous, it's flat out stupid. One, I've got better uses for the disk space (like porn). Two, I've got better uses for the bandwidth (like streaming porn). Moreover, pegging out the pipes on your schools network just costs them more money, and by extension, the students.
Like as not, there are things in this country you may THINK you have fundamental rights to, but you're operating on borrowed time if you expect to go forward in life with that attitude. Here's an idea: how would you feel if I wandered up to your house at 2 am with a handset, tapped the J box on the side of your house, and spent an hour on the phone to Tibet? How about if I did this every night for a month until you got the bill for it? The usage pattern alone is enough for the phone company to tell you to take a hike when you say it wasn't you. You still wind up paying.. for my usage. While abstract, this is roughly how it works out for colleges and businesses across the country, footing the bill for your playtime.
You want to give the RIAA the finger? Good for you! Do it by producing your own quality material, and don't license it to them. You want a nice phat digital on-demand archive of quality audio in your home? Pay for the damn CD. Think it costs too much? Wait a few months and buy it used, or GET A DAMN JOB.
While our nation may be founded on acts of civil insubordination, I hardly find the tyranny of the RIAA to be affecting my life to such a degree that I need to resort to what amounts to petty theft from an artist who spent more than a few years busting ass playing shitty bars and clubs because they believed enough in their music to keep at it. Sure, I've swapped mp3's with people. The things I didn't like, I deleted. The stuff I liked, I bought. Don't screw it for the rest of us because you're a cheap bastard.
Re:Lossy formats are louse (Score:2)
Put up or shut up
Re:Lossy formats are louse (Score:2)
Re:Lossy formats are louse (Score:2)
If that's the case, sending checks directly to the band probably won't help much either, since they would be forced to hand them over to their label anyway.
Re:Lossy formats are louse (lousy) (Score:2)
Start with a 50 MB WAV file. Compress with Flac, and you *might* get 60% cut out. I honestly don't see much advantage over gzip or zip! Why bother with a new format name? ("Oh, our FLAC is better than zip/gzip, because... eh... we have a different name! We offer 2.2% better compression ratios!")
So now you have a 20 MB file. Lesee, over a 28.8 modem connection, you have...
A royal nightmare.
Ogg, on the other hand, compresses comparably to MP3. Your 50 MB WAV file might compress down to 4 MB with reasonable audio quality.
Lesee, over a 28.8 modem connection, you have...
Something reasonable.
Free beer! (Score:3, Funny)
FLAC is champagne, and mp3 is beer.
Ogg is quality beer, and MP3 is Bud beer. How is Bud beer like repairing your filesystem on a boat? They're both fscking close to water.
Re:Free beer! (Score:2)
As a Canadian, and therefore a connaisseur of all things alcoholic
Re:you are ignorant (Score:2)
Yeah, sure. A real lively music scene. How do you listen to it once you get home?
Perfect example: There's a guy here in Memphis who plays solo quite a bit, Ron Franklin (website [rfentertainers.com]). I really love his solo stuff, a good bluesy/folk/rock/gospel mix. But he only releases albums w/ the Entertainers. Don't get me wrong, I love RFE, too. But sometimes I'd rather listen to his solo stuff. I could probably get permission to record a show (I'm friendly w/ him), but then I'd have to mike it, try & get decent levels, pipe it into line in,
But hey! If you want to do all the work for me, I'd be glad to give you $10 for some
Re:Lossy formats are louse (Score:2)
As both a programmer and a musician who doesn't get paid for either(though I am employed in the tech field), I can honestly say that there will always be people who are willing to create music, or programs, for free. Along the same vein(but off the subject entirely), When I read about Microsoft bad-mouthing a huge group of coders who are coding just for the love of code(the OSS movement), it sparks a flame deep inside me; It seems fundamentally wrong. I won't elabourate too far on this, because I tend to get far too deep in my comparisons, but face it -- a big company(or rather, since it's the software industry and a monopoly, THE big company) is critisizing a worldwide volunteer effort, bad-mouthing it in a way that would land most people in court for slander(or is that libel? It's been too long since I brushed up on my legal...) if the tables were turned, and regular people are actually buying into it. Maybe I should write about those nasty communist orphanages?
big screen (Score:4, Funny)
Re:big screen (Score:2, Funny)
Oh yeah! You like hyperthreading, don't you baby?? Who's your daddy? Red hat's your daddy!
Re:big screen (Score:2)
But in all seriousness..time to find out if that bitch has an active internet connection...
You start smoking pot (Score:2)
MySQL Control Center (Score:3, Informative)
PROS:
1) Sleek User Interface (graphically shows PRI keys and I believe you can map relations (FK), but I haven't figured that out yet, also graphically shows indices).
2) Some queries download faster than web browser and telnet/ssh. Some SQL statements execute quite quickly like DELETE and INSERT.
3) Multi-window display helps to show historical SQL statements and current actions.
CONS:
1) System crashes with "large" queries. Kind of bad that I tried a simple SELECT of one of my "large" tables with 2,500 rows/records and my computer crashed. Yea, I quoted "large" because is is relative between my tables, not to the maximum number of rows that can be stored in MySQL tables. Your mileage may vary as I have really old computer at home - (64 MG/Ram, Pentium I, 32-bit Virtual Memory, Windows 95b).
2) Not very user-friendly in terms of SQL beginners. You have to know SQL in order to operate the application via the SQL pane.
3) Compared to other products like MS SQL Server Enterprise Manager, some of the screens are difficult to interpret (related to #2).
Hope this helps
Re:MySQL Control Center (Score:2)
Phoenix: Everything I always wanted in a browser! (Score:5, Interesting)
1) Customizable Toolbars
2) Home button where it SHOULD BE!
3) Inline form management (Mozilla's form manager is all but worthless unless you've already filled out 20+ pages of forms.)
4) Theme that respects my system colors! (Go ahead, change your system colors, Phoenix changes with them!)
5) No bundled on software--I just want a browser! And if you use Mozilla for the mail, don't worry, the Mail client will be getting the same overhaul as the browser. It's a project called Minotaur [mozilla.org], and will be started on roughly when Phoenix hits
There are tons of other things to mention here like the extensions manager, default popup blocking, tabs, worthwhile sidebars, ability to remove the throbber, a clean statusbar that actually works, etc., but it's best if you just see it for yourself! Go grab a copy, and then while you're enjoying it, thank Asa Dotzler, Blake Ross, Dave Hyatt, and the other guys who are making this a reality!
Thanks guys!
Not to mention... (Score:3, Funny)
From the release notes:
6. Why would I want to use 0.2?
It has a cool build ID. 20021001 (October 1, 2002).
...nifty
Re:Phoenix: Everything I always wanted in a browse (Score:2, Interesting)
Not sure about the others, but Dave Hyatt is/was one of the principles on the Chimera project and you can really see the similarity between these two browsers -- even to the point of the OS X style slide-out preference sheets. Very nice.
Re:Phoenix: Everything I always wanted in a browse (Score:2)
I wish this was true. Phoenix has an interface for disabling extensions. But the uninstallation button is disabled because Mozilla still doesn't implement the functionality. (And Phoenix is a rewrite of the GUI portions. It doesn't implement anything new in the base.)
The uninstall functions in existing packages have been a pain to implement for the developers of the extensions. It's still several hundred lines of code to provide an uninstall button.
Just to show how open MySQL is... (Score:5, Funny)
bastardo 14
absolutely hilarious
Phoenix Review (Score:5, Informative)
Phoenix is going to be the default browser in all Windows boxes that I admin - simply because it doesen't need to "install". Just plunk the directory over the network when a new version comes out and - wham! New broswer!
No "Updating Windows Installer"
No rebooting.
No IE vunerabilities!
No Unnesesary features from Mozilla.
No EULA to click through.
Oh. No rebooting!
Re:Phoenix Review (Score:2)
Doesn't the
Re:Phoenix Review (Score:2)
Windows 2000 was supposed to end all the rebooting. How soon we forget the promises.
I have learned since I set up a samba PDC at home that some of the installation features play well with network domains. You dont want everything to be on the network. Some things are local to the computer, some things are local to the user, and some things are totally global. For instance, your OE mailboxes can be on the network, but the server information is kept in the registry.
M$ does not employ stupid people. Their products are nice, but their management is questionable.
Red Hat and software patents (Score:3, Troll)
What patents are Molnar and Red Hat applying for? Why, patents on parts of Linux itself. See applications 20020059330 and 20020091868 at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Re:Red Hat and software patents (Score:3, Informative)
Method and apparatus for atomic file look-up. An atomic look-up operation allows an application to find out whether a file is opened atomically based on whether or not the file path is present in a file system namespace cache. If not, the file open request can be redirected, avoiding or minimizing impacts to the scheduling of various operations involved in executing an application. The request can be redirected by the application to a process that includes blocking point handling. An operating system according to the present invention includes a file system including a file system namespace, and an operating system kernel is operatively connected to the file system. The operating system kernel includes the file system namespace cache and the atomic look-up operation.
20020091868
Method and apparatus for handling communication requests at a server without context switching. An application protocol subsystem and protocol modules are disposed within an operating system kernel at a server. The protocol subsystem creates an "in-kernel" protocol stack that stores information regarding application protocol requests, such as HTTP and FTP requests, in a kernel request structure. A user space application can then continue execution while the operating system responds to the application protocol request without context switching. In this way, application protocol requests received over a network are handled and responded to by the server without causing a context switch.
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What has Red Hat done to cause you not to trust them? They are a solid GPL supporter, they don't play games like Lindows does with EULAs on GPL software. We have no reason to believe that they will do what they said, use these patents to protect open source, not hinder it.
They are not distributing the MP3 code because it opens them up to potential lawsuits. They are selling the code, along with distributing it freely, so Frauenwhosit just might have a problem with that, and decide a 200 million dollar bank account like Red Hat has, is a juicy target.
Re:Red Hat and software patents (Score:2)
1) They're applying for patents. Buying a handgun (copyright) for personal self-defense is reasonable. Buying a thermonuclear device (patent) for personal self-defense is not.
2) They have already stated that only GPL software will have a free ride, regardless of the software freedom other licenses provide. These patents allow them, should they choose to excercise their legal rights, to extort royalty fees out of every other distribution, since every distribution includes non-GPL software such as XFree86, Apache, etc. To reiterate, no one needs a thermonuclear device for personal self-defense.
Re:Red Hat and software patents (Score:2)
You obviously have no understanding of what patents are, or how they're different from copyrights. Put simply, you cannot both copyright and patent the same thing. Copyrights apply to certain things, and patents apply to other, different things. There's no overlap.
Before you speak out against something, you should learn about it. It helps cut down on the looking like an idiot.
Re:Red Hat and software patents (Score:2)
Re:Red Hat and software patents (Score:2)
Hand-guns are not very useful if all your opponents have thermonuclear weapons. Anyway, I will always prefer being hit by a patent lawsuit to being hit by a thermonuclear weapon.
Sakila (Score:4, Funny)
BSD has the BSD Daemon (sometimes known as Beastie, the daemon story is pretty long and I'm not going to type it here)
GNU has a Gnu (Well they share the same name so it was a fitting animal)
So umm why does MySQL have a dolphin? Named Sakila?
Re:Sakila (Score:2)
Because if you pronounce SQL with out saying each individual letter it sounds like dolphin talk
Re:Sakila (Score:5, Funny)
(2) Add arbitrary vowels between them to make it a three syllable word: Sa-Qi-La.
(3) Observe that people will pronouce the middle term "Chi" or "Qui" or something like that.
(4) Change Q to K. Reflect on how the KDE project will be happy about this (Symbolic Kuery Language), and also, how it sounds like a Latin crossover star [shakira.com]. Be pleased.
(5) Think of how cool the name Squall would have been. Masculin, sea-related, implies a disruptive yet powerful force, has S,Q, and L in it...
(6) Sigh.
Phoenix Screenshots... (Score:3, Informative)
I have posted severl screenshots on my site:
0.1 screenshots are here:
http://www.phatvibez.net/reviews.php?ID=phoenix [phatvibez.net]
0.2 screenshots are here:
http://www.phatvibez.net/reviews.php?ID=phoenix2 [phatvibez.net]
Re:Phoenix Screenshots... (Score:2)
https works great, cookies work, bookmarks work. And it renders stuff great. And it's FAST! Who woulda thunk it?
sakila? (Score:4, Funny)
seriously. WHAT THE FUCK.
the dolphins name is SQUEAL. EVERYONE thinks it should be SQUEAL. i am starting my own form of mysql starting today, and the ONLY thing different is that the dolphin is named SQUEAL!
on that note:
ARE YOU A PHP DEVELOPER? WORK WITH ME AND MAKE MILLIONS!
Web Developer II [sst.com]
Re:sakila? (Score:2)
Education required: BA or BS.
Yes, I have a bad attitude and I am educated in the fine art of bull shitting.
-- iCEBaLM
African flavor? More likely the arab peninsula (Score:2)
Nice to see that Slashdot got a reply. (Score:2)
Finally, I ended up forgetting about it. All the better. The name that they chose was equally forgettable. A "global" name probably means one that isn't trademarked that you're likely to forget in 5 minutes unless you're bombarded with heavy advertising and brand building.
So what did the dolphin namer win, anyhow?
Re:Nice to see that Slashdot got a reply. (Score:2)
A free copy of MySQL, obviously!
Concurrent use of Mozilla and Phoenix (Score:2)
Re:Concurrent use of Mozilla and Phoenix (Score:3, Informative)
Sakila! (Score:5, Funny)
overkill (Score:2)
It would be a different story if redhat received notice from Thomson multimedia, requesting that the package be removed. Since Thomson seems to be fine with Linux distros including mp3 player capabilities, why remove it?
xmms mp3 workaround (Score:4, Informative)
I didn't go back to the xmms site, I just used the Red Hat xmms RPMs which were included in the final beta called (null). These are xmms-1.2.7-14.mp3 and xmms-skins-1.2.7-14.mp3. I figure I don't need a lot of updates to a basic file player, and I prefer Red Hat authored RPMs for a Red Hat system.
Yanking MP3 support is unfortunate but not worth crying about. If you like MP3s, you probably can handle the hunt for the appropriate files to get your fix. I only use MP3s because so few hardware solutions support OGG or other formats yet. I'd love it if my SliMP3 [slimdevices.com] supported OGG too, but for now it does a great job of making a household jukebox. If I adopt a similar OGG solution, I'll just re-rip the CDs.
ballmer (Score:2)
too bad this wasn't around when the ally our base craze got started
Phoenix......I'm back! (Score:3, Insightful)
So far Phoenix has yet to crash, is "popup" free, fast and everything I wanted Mozilla to be.
Re:Phoenix......I'm back! (Score:2)
Sort of like a man swimming in a sewer claiming that he feels dirty because he's got a turd in his hand isn't it?
Blinken Ads (Score:2)
er, wait... We already have those.
Linux 1394 Works (Score:2, Insightful)
style video editing under Windows. I've fiddled
with every hardware configuration and used every
capture program under the sun and I still can't
capture more than a few minutes of video without
loosing frames. I read the various forums
occasionally and it seems to me that a weegie
board has more relevant things to say
about video editing.
It's not your motherboard. It's not software X.
It's all Microsoft. I dual booted RedHat (so my
other box is debian, I was lazy) and low and
behold I can capture for HOURS and nary a dropped
frame. When it did drop a frame, dvgrab politely
told me why. This stuff works. Too bad I can't edit
under linux yet. When Cinelerra has the stability
and feature set of something like Sonic Foundry's
Video Vegas desktop video will finally stop being
an aggravating trip through the worst that personal
computing has to offer.
By the way, if you are a Windows user frustrated
with your editing app crashing get Video Vegas.
Despite the crazy name it has plenty of
professional features and it's rock solid. Unlike
Premiere, which I can crash just by blowing on the
case gently, Vegas let's me get through hours of
footage with no back talk.
Re:it's spelled "losing" not "loosing"... (Score:2)
Sakila? (Score:2)
Eric Cartman: "Yeah, smart on rye bread with some mayonaise."
Can't get cinerella to work (Score:2)
I tried using mencoder to convert to another format, but mencoder complains about 'illegal instruction' for some reason.
Anybody have any useful suggestions ? How can I convert the files ?
Sakila - how to pronounce (Score:2)
Is There A Tool For These Names? (Score:3, Funny)
Sakila. Avaya. Verizon. Aquent (used to be MacTemps). Akamai.
Oh sure, they always say it comes from someplace. Akamai, for example, is supposed to mean something in Hawaiian. I forget what. It doesn't really matter because all these names sound the same. I think there is a secret Perl script somewhere that they aren't telling us about.
I think it has two basic algorithms. One of them takes a regular word and changes the spelling according to an algorithm I've yet to decipher. The other, simpler algorithm uses the folling syllables:
av, ev, iv, al, el, il, ul, ti, te, vi, va, vey, ty, tra, tri (perhaps others) and strings them together randomly.
Try it. It's easy:
Aviva. Eltiva. Altria. Ultera. Tyvela.
Thank-you.
By reading this post, and using the information contained herein, you consent to pay an outrageous consulting fee to me for naming your company. Make checks payable to Steven Marthouse, 5308 Oldcastle Ln., Springfield VA 22151.
Re:Is There A Tool For These Names? (Score:3, Funny)
For an extra $50,000, I'll type your new name into Google, and advise you of how many hits come back. If there are fewer than 50 hits, I'll research them and check to make sure that it's nothing anybody would care about.
Just by typing random names based on those sylables (and a few I left out, like "a" by itself). I had no trouble getting Google search rersults with fewer than 10 hits in some cases. An interesting side note--most of the hits came from character names used in online RPGs and/or Anime series. Is it possible that these corporate consultants are just geeks with a sense of humor?
Why Doesn't Red Hat.... (Score:2)
This way, they don't violate the patents (instead redirecting the download to xmms.org, which doesn't seem to mind distributing it), while still making it relatively simple and automatic for new users and others who then wouldn't have to figure out what's going on.
See 'ya in court! (Score:2)
You'll be sued now, for sure.
RadialContext for Phoenix (Score:2)
I just put a package for RadialContext for
Phoenix on the usual downloads page.
Huh? (Score:2)
Uhh, we do? Could somebody explain why please? I've heard it's more popular in the States than elsewhere, but I can count with one hand how many times I've seen (or even heard of) people editing their home movies on their computer: none.
Apple seem to make a big deal of this as well. Is this some kind of craze that never reached Europe, much like text messaging/sms never made the crossover to the US? Or is it just the latest round of tech industry hype, not actually backed up by substance?
From the Phoenix FAQ (Score:2)
:-)
Phoenix i686 on K6 (Score:2)
Re:wow, didn't know it had that (Score:4, Funny)
Re:MySQL new version (Score:3, Informative)
Re:MySQL new version (Score:2)
Re:Those rpm "--force" tricks... (Score:2)
While it's good to have a reminder every now and then of why I switched to Debian, every time I use it is a reminder of why I stay.
Opera needs --force and works fine (Score:2)
There are exceptions to every blanket statement, I guess. The Opera 6.x RPMs need --force on my system because I'm missing a Tk library which the RPM requires (for what I don't know). I don't want to install said libraries, so I use --force when installing Opera via RPM. Everything's fine.
-B