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It's worth considering that the original is in mJpeg only because that doesn't require a seperate encoder in the camera (it just compresses each frame). This is roughly equivilent to having an mpeg2/4 stream with every frame being a keyframe. In fact the way your camera does it each frame won't...

I have far fewer USB devices but what I'd do would be; Maybe plug the mouse into the keyboard. I'm assuming both of the devices are pretty static and if your using a bog standard mouse niether sharing the bandwidth or not being very well powered will be an issue. If you have a high bandwidth...

theSwede, are you sure you don't also have the 1.1 framework installed? It's quite possible that it's actually included on the install media for XP64 since it was available before the 64 bit release and was moved via windows update at that time. Because 2003 is a server OS they don't ship it...

Xvid or X.264 are my codecs of choice when virtual dubbing. Xvid is probably best if you want to share your clips with others (since most people don't have players that support H.264 codecs in an avi container) but X.264 is great for size so it might be worth helping someone set up a player if...

I use the XP64 full Catalysts in 2003 but it seems you need to go out and find your own copy of the .Net 1.1 framework before you install them. .Net 2.0 will not work. I found the control center gave me a lot more useful information on what my AGP interface was doing, without it I had serious...

The article seems to suggest tat this might be an alternative to a ubs card reader for an OS which lacks appropriate drivers... Given that such an OS would have to be pretty obscure and that you lose hot-swapability I don't really see it's advantage over the more common internal units for too...

What are you talking about Mercutio? A game where you get to summon deamons and send them out into the streets of New York to eat fundamentalist Christians... That sounds great...

Your right you don't absolutely have to have the control panel but I find it helps for troubleshooting problems with gart drivers and agp speeds. I've had a few problems with ATI's autodetection of settings on nvidia chipsets and it's hard to even check how it went without the control panel. As...

You could just ask if he has another address because you prefer to not use aol addresses. If he asks why then you can explain your concerns. You'd want to be prepared to let the issue drop but that could at least be a low risk way to bring the subject up... That said it's probably not really...

I guess my point was that there are plenty of printers arround that will output photos that are more prone to fading than your optical media... I probably over stated it a bit though. Like Adcadet I don't really see any reason to print the things out, but if your wedded to the idea of physical...

I already have a couple of systems for playing games, with an X800Pro and a 9700Pro respectively. The x1300 would be hooked up to my TV and would be purely for watching tv shows and movies. The system it's intended for is currently running Kubuntu dapper drake, and I'm happy enough to keep it...

Paper isn't but most inks are, you'd need a very good printer with high quality ink before a printout will outlast a hard drive... And that would mean that the printouts would probably cost a fair bit too.

Right you are... I made the foolish assumption that the vendor who linked me to the HIS site had linked to the product they were actually selling, and apart from the connector it does in fact look identical... At any rate the one I'd buy would be the AGP version... Same thing but with no...

Not that one, unless I could find a board with two agp slots...

That's true Mercutio, I have enjoyed watching programs have minor strokes when they try to use IE instead of my default browser in server 2003. Sonys online game launcher does it and just dies half the time due to security restirctions... It's nice to know that if you can't remove IE without...

I'm resurecting this thread to get some opinons on this HIS x1300 video card. I'm thinking about getting one for my tv box which currently has a gforce2 mx200 card in it. My hope is that the extra video processing grunt in the x1xxx series cards might keep the system alive a bit longer than it...

I've never had any stability problems with Debian or it's derivatives. I've had no end of configuration issues trying to get X running on a TV but the only time I've ever seen it crash was when I accidently unpluged a network card whilst it was running... Fedora on the other hand finishes...

You mean they do?

I was pretty much over quake 4 when I finished it the first time but it's nice to know that ID are keeping the engine up to date. It bodes well for the new Enemy Territory game (Quake Wars) coming out which should be a lot of fun.

Things you need to know about apt; "apt-get update" before you do anything to get your package lists up to date. "apt-cache search whatever" to search for packages about whatever. "apt-get install packagename" to install the package. "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade to the latest version of all...

Wow, that's almost as good as Quantum's wonderfully ironically named Fireball hard drives. At least they replaced the boards pre-emptively. It'd be a shame to throw out a whole rack because you couldn't get the burnt plastic smell out... And you usually can't...

It brings up one of those unanswerable questions. Is unsolicited advertising which fails to make a product sound good still spam?

O.K... So a 16GB Laptop HDD for the same price as a really nice laptop with an 80-100GB standard drive... For 40 minutes of extra battery life I don't see people exactly falling over each other for this one... At this price flash memory is still arround 250x the cost/GB of standard hard...

After a couple of attempts to use Debian based distros I think I finally "think Debian" enough to be able to do it. For example your firefox problem should have been solved by, instead of even going to the firefox site, just using apt or synaptic. "sudo apt-get install firefox" for example...

Or "sudo apt-get install wine" rather...

Wine should be listed in Synaptic but if not "sudo apt-get wine" should install it no problems. You should also be able to get winetools (I'm not entirely sure of the package name for that since my Debian install doesn't have it but I know it's in Ubuntu, and hence in Kubuntu). That should help...

Well there is the part that requires you to install the .NET framework... The part where ATI link you to the .NET 2.0 framework package even though thier control panel doesn't run without .NET1.1. The part where you absolutely must uninstall the existing drivers before installing new drivers or...

The price of hard drives these days and the proliferation of onboard RAID controllers suggests to me that these small buisness with critical data could really benifit from a simple RAID1 setup. A bit late to help now I know but RAID1 along with a neat nightly backup solution would be great for...

Hmm proof reading... Tony are after... What the hell was I thinking...

I think the two things Tony are after are; the confirmation dialog when you close a window which contains multiple tabs to ensure that you realise you closing a heap of tabs instead of just one window, and a download manager kind of like IE instead of Firefox, i.e. one window for each download...

If I was going to set up sftp on a Windows box I'd probably use sshwindows which basically installs all the bits of Cygwin an associated software that you need to run ssh and sftp/scp. This solution is console only and has it's own passwords file but it can import all your windows users and will...

I have to admit I did find the Firefox interface a little lacking to start out with and then I realised that much of the functionality I was looking for was actually there as long as you knew a few shortcuts. For example the close button which is conspicuously lacking on each tab isn't really...

If anyone is playing arround with a Windows 2003 trial and happens to reset thier bios, remember to set the clock before you let windows load... After 5 or so days of using the trial I had everything set up just how I like it and now it thinks my 180 day trial is over... Very annoying...

Well, they say once you've broken the postage stamp barrier your well on your way to becoming an expert...

Turning off the screen saver should do it.

Xen would allow you to have an entire network on just one box. In theory with support for unmodified OSs on the way this would alow you to run OS2 on a linux box and have another virtual linux system functioning as a dedicated router to connect the OS2 box to all your windows boxes with the...

There are a couple depending on what you want. If you just want to have it log in automagically without a username or password at all then the solution is the same as with Tonys problem in this thread. If you'd like to just make it so that you don't need the control-alt-delete but still have to...

I think W is actually just trying to get stricter gun laws in place any way he can. For years the gun lobby have been hiding behind thier second amendment right to have guns for the purpose of fighting a tyranical government, W is simply calling thier bluff...

I'd guess that a fridge that can run off a bottle of gas would be a better solution, although probably outside of that price range...

I think it'd just about be time to set up a Linux box to potentially replace the OS2 machine when you get used to it. There shouldn't be too much that OS2 is better than Linux for these days so getting used it would be just about all of the battle...

Oh yeah I think you're right... In that case it'll either be WD or Samsung since they're cheaper than seagate and hitachi, probably both if Samsung buy WD... The hard drive buisness is an odd one, the companies that make the best products seem to actually be surviving. I know it should work that...

I'm finding it hard to tell from the coverage if they mean Walmart will be selling parts as in video cards and hard drives or parts as in boxes and monitors... At any rate if it's anything like the department store parts in Japan they'll probably mostly be over prices third party boxed stuff...

You could just install a basic software firewall and configure it to block all incoming and allow all outgoing connections. It's not perfect and it's not very elegant but it's probably as good as the windows firewall was doing and it's nice and simple and with an up to date virus scanner it's...

Yeah I realise that it's a joke, but apart from a couple of overstated references it's also pretty much all true. I think the impact of that is greatly reduced by having those references in there. It gives the people who believe in that crap a way (apart from outright denial) to keep thinking...

As much as I'd agree that the Bible is totally full of it I'd have to question some of those references. Maybe it's just the versions of the Bible I was looking at (I'm sure a fair few little mistakes have been cleaned up over the years in more modern translations) but the ones about Jesus...

I agree that stealing just isn't the right term, and perhaps more relevantly the laws of most countries would seem to agree with me (Although the American government seem to be trying to make it worse which seems a little strange to me). That's not to say that I think the indescriminant copying...

Ditto the above but add anything MS have produced and stuck the Live! branding on. Sure most of it's still in Beta bt I still don't understand how they can go from a more or less stable product to a hideously unstable beta wihtout making any significant changes to a product at all. *nix refers...

A more common thought at my workplace is to go with a rental truck chock full of fertiliser and diesel... All of the servers we work on are at customer sites in Sydney though so a bit more planning is in order given the drive (And the dificulty of getting several tons of home made explosives...

It's pretty hard to take someone seriously when they make statements like; So if an incandecant light bulb is roughly 5% efficient and this thing puts out 1000 times as much light with 1% of the energy useage that makes it about 500,000% efficient (Well and truely efficient enough to run off a...

You learn something new everyday... I'd always asumed that clods reproduced asexualy... Of course if we expose the reproducing and fusing clods to a blacklight we might be able to create some sort of hybrid technology with energy producing efficiency in the hundreds of percents...