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I am a database administrator for Campus Crusade for Christ International. (Oracle 10g on aix and MS SQL Server 2000) I work at the world headquarters in Orlando, Florida. There is much more about CCCI and us at our home page, ThePeckFamily.us
I was born in Kalamazoo, MI - grew up in Phoenix, AZ - spent a little time in the Navy, homeported out of Alameda, CA - picked up a B.A. in Theology at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL - picked up a B.S. in I.T. at DeVry in Phoenix - and here I am.
bittercode@gmail
http://thepeckfamily.us/
AOL IM: ronpeckjr (Add Buddy, Send Message)
I am a database administrator for Campus Crusade for Christ International. (Oracle 10g on aix and MS SQL Server 2000) I work at the world headquarters in Orlando, Florida. There is much more about CCCI and us at our home page, ThePeckFamily.us
I was born in Kalamazoo, MI - grew up in Phoenix, AZ - spent a little time in the Navy, homeported out of Alameda, CA - picked up a B.A. in Theology at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL - picked up a B.S. in I.T. at DeVry in Phoenix - and here I am.
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Prost
Wednesday June 15 2005, @02:46PM
Last night I bought a Sony Dvdirect DVD burner. It is pretty cool.
I had been trying to burn dvds with my desktop but it just didn't do a good job. Everything came out looking like crap. I thought about buying a new computer but really can't afford it right now. When I was at the store getting my wife a digital camera, I saw the dvdirect. It works as a stand-alone unit and can handle a good number of formats-- so I thought I would try it out. Last night I burned a little over 3 hours of video. It came out very nice.
I can't remember if I ever posted this link-- but here it is:
Free On-Line Graph Paper
All different kinds of graph paper, ready to be downloaded and printed. Nice if you just want a couple sheets-- also some more hard to find patterns. There are also a couple graph paper generators so you can make your own custom graph paper. How much more geeky can you get?
I just downloaded 4 or 5 avi files but when I try to play them all I get is the audio-- not the video. What would do that? Is it something with the file or am I doing something wrong. I've tried to play them with realplayer, winamp and ms media player.
Interesting video storage site I was checking out last night-- http://www.kvikmynd.is/
It is hosted in iceland-- so I can't read any of the text-- and many of the videos are not in english. But lots are. Many of them it doesn't matter-- you don't need the dialogue to get what is going on. There are music videos, commercials, sports clips, all kinds of stuff. Some I've seen all over, some I've never seen. Many are european commercials. May be NSFW for many of you. There are some really amazing soccer clips.
On an interesting note-- they have a clip of Keifer Sutherland on the David Letterman show-- being shown on a news program because he talks about a visit to iceland. I never thought about that, but it is interesting to me, that they take note of what he has to say about iceland on an American program.
I had been trying to burn dvds with my desktop but it just didn't do a good job. Everything came out looking like crap. I thought about buying a new computer but really can't afford it right now. When I was at the store getting my wife a digital camera, I saw the dvdirect. It works as a stand-alone unit and can handle a good number of formats-- so I thought I would try it out. Last night I burned a little over 3 hours of video. It came out very nice.
I can't remember if I ever posted this link-- but here it is:
Free On-Line Graph Paper
All different kinds of graph paper, ready to be downloaded and printed. Nice if you just want a couple sheets-- also some more hard to find patterns. There are also a couple graph paper generators so you can make your own custom graph paper. How much more geeky can you get?
I just downloaded 4 or 5 avi files but when I try to play them all I get is the audio-- not the video. What would do that? Is it something with the file or am I doing something wrong. I've tried to play them with realplayer, winamp and ms media player.
Interesting video storage site I was checking out last night-- http://www.kvikmynd.is/
It is hosted in iceland-- so I can't read any of the text-- and many of the videos are not in english. But lots are. Many of them it doesn't matter-- you don't need the dialogue to get what is going on. There are music videos, commercials, sports clips, all kinds of stuff. Some I've seen all over, some I've never seen. Many are european commercials. May be NSFW for many of you. There are some really amazing soccer clips.
On an interesting note-- they have a clip of Keifer Sutherland on the David Letterman show-- being shown on a news program because he talks about a visit to iceland. I never thought about that, but it is interesting to me, that they take note of what he has to say about iceland on an American program.
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AVI files with only audio (Score:2)
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DVDDirect (Score:2)
I've been thinking about something like that. It has a digital input, so it would work with my digital camcorder. I shudder at the thought of having to download all 15+ home video tapes on to my computer, convert them to MPEG2 and then put them on a DVD
Re:DVDDirect (Score:2)
With the dvdirect unit I actually used the RCA plugs dealy from my camera - I don't have the cable for the firew
Re:DVDDirect (Score:2)
I have the firewire cable already for hooking up my camcorder to my PC. Firewire is Apple's trademarked name for IEEE 1394. They are pretty much the same thing, although I think with real firewire you have to able to power the device through the cable.
The graph paper link is very cool! (Score:2)
Hmm. (Score:1)