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That sounds a maintenance nightmare ... drive dies, system bricked.-barney (December 07, 2012, 12:59 PM)
Too bad Henry Ford isn't still around to ask why he decided to put the steering wheel on the left. He usually had solid reasons for why he did most things, even if his real reasons weren't what most people thought.-40hz (December 07, 2012, 06:01 AM)
All early automobiles in the USA (driving on the right-hand side of the road) were right-hand-drive, following the practice established by horse-drawn buggies. They changed to left-hand-drive in the early 1900s as it was decided that it was more practical to have the driver seated near the centreline of the road, both to judge the space available when passing oncoming cars, and to allow front-seat passengers to get out of the car onto the pavement instead of into the middle of the street.
Ford changed to left-hand-drive in the 1908 model year. A Ford catalogue from 1908 explains the benefits of placing the controls on the left side of the car:
“The control is located on the left side, the logical place, for the following reasons: Travelling along the right side of the road the steering wheel on the right side of the car made it necessary to get out on the street side and walk around the car. This is awkward and especially inconvenient if there is a lady to be considered. The control on the left allows you to step out of the car on to the curbing without having had to turn the car around.
In the matter of steering with the control on the right, the driver is farthest away from the vehicle he is passing, going in opposite direction; with it on the left side he is able to see even the wheels of the other car and easily avoids danger.”
You could set up a Bluetooth PAN, (Personal Area Network), with a $2 Bluetooth USB adapter which should cover any phone that has Bluetooth but that's beyond my knowledge.-4wd (December 06, 2012, 11:32 PM)
I'm guessing by your "$2" comment that there is no benefit getting a more expensive adapter?-Perry Mowbray (December 07, 2012, 12:58 AM)
What would you think: WiFi or BlueTooth PAN or Both??
Do you know how many phones have WiFi... majority?-Perry Mowbray (December 06, 2012, 11:14 PM)
So I could take my Router, and I presume that it'll set up WiFi without a DSL connection?, and give everyone the password which will give them access to the shared directory... I can see that working: particularly like the no-cost element.
I bought the HumbleBundle and then they added this game and I feel kinda cheated, so getting it after-all would be fantastic.-geckoman123 (December 06, 2012, 10:29 PM)
Running to try-Contro (December 06, 2012, 10:24 PM)
I had to figure this out yesterday when I tried to boot Acronis True Image from a bootable USB drive. True Image boots into Linux. I finally got it to boot but the screen is all garbled (separate problem).-edbro (December 06, 2012, 03:10 PM)
Is MKVTools recommended over MakeMKV? And My WDTV Live HD does recognize my MKVs... so I guess that means that MakeMKV rips with decompressed headers by default?-wraith808 (December 04, 2012, 07:47 PM)
Technically:
- Change of container only: Remuxing - Demultiplexing + Multiplexing of the original media streams into a different container format, (eg. AVI->MKV, VOB->MKV). You may need to decrypt contents to access them but the original encoding/bitrate remains unchanged.
- Change of stream encoding: Transcoding - you are changing the encoding of the original stream format, (eg. MPEG2->MPG4-AVC). Doesn't necessarily mean a change of container, eg. MPEG4-ASP AVI -> MPEG4-AVC AVI.
- Change of bitrate: Transrating - you are reducing the bitrate of the streams while keeping both original container and encoding, this is what DVD Shrink, CloneDVD, etc do.
-4wd (December 04, 2012, 06:02 PM)
Thanks for that- I'd not heard the term remuxing before. Good stuff! So lossless transcoding still means that you are changing the encoding, is that correct? You're just not losing any quality over generations?-wraith808 (December 04, 2012, 06:23 PM)
Nitpicking: if you simply copy (untouched) streams from one container to another, are you really transcoding? One might be able to argue so from the wiki definition, but personally I'd expect transcoding to involve de- and re-encoding of the actual streams.
Are there any better terms that could be used when you're simply copying streams from one container format to another?-f0dder (December 04, 2012, 01:01 PM)
I don't know. I know that MakeMKV does do something (has to really) in order to break the encryption. And I also cleans up the stream; looking at the mess that comes up when you look at a DVD shows some stupid stuff they do in the name of 'copy protection', So maybe it's still transcoding because of that?-wraith808 (December 04, 2012, 02:05 PM)
Ended up doing simple junction points on the server...now a 250GB HDD apparently holds 4.5TB of files. Saves a bit of navigation from the media player.-4wd (December 04, 2012, 12:03 AM)
That's actually a very cool idea! I'd not thought about using junctions, even though they've been very useful to me in the past.-wraith808 (December 04, 2012, 08:04 AM)
Best solution for a media server would be simple JBOD - just turns any old bunch of disks into one apparently enormous disk.-Carol Haynes (December 03, 2012, 10:25 AM)
Do you really want it counting down the days left in your life?!-TaoPhoenix (December 03, 2012, 07:22 PM)
I'm not paying any more for service now than I would if I didn't get a subsidized phone. But I would pay more for the phone. So ... why?-wraith808 (December 03, 2012, 01:14 AM)
How can Privoxy filter Secure (HTTPS) URLs?
Since secure HTTP connections are encrypted SSL sessions between your browser and the secure site, and are meant to be reliably secure, there is little that Privoxy can do but hand the raw gibberish data though from one end to the other unprocessed.
The only exception to this is blocking by host patterns, as the client needs to tell Privoxy the name of the remote server, so that Privoxy can establish the connection. If that name matches a host-only pattern, the connection will be blocked.
As far as ad blocking is concerned, this is less of a restriction than it may seem, since ad sources are often identifiable by the host name, and often the banners to be placed in an encrypted page come unencrypted nonetheless for efficiency reasons, which exposes them to the full power of Privoxy's ad blocking.
"Content cookies" (those that are embedded in the actual HTML or JS page content, see filter{content-cookies}), in an SSL transaction will be impossible to block under these conditions. Fortunately, this does not seem to be a very common scenario since most cookies come by traditional means.
The script also provides a batch mode to process a while directory of scanned images pages.
“The Read-only attribute for a folder is typically ignored (!) by Windows, Windows components and accessories, and other programs. For example, you can delete, rename, and change a folder with the Read-only attribute by using Windows Explorer. The Read-only and System attributes is only used by Windows Explorer to determine whether the folder is a special folder, such as a system folder that has its view customized by Windows (for example, My Documents, Favorites, Fonts, Downloaded Program Files), or a folder that you customized by using the Customize tab of the folder’s Properties dialog box.”
