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mplayer I too have been trying to convert videos recently. I found that mplayer (common on linux, available on windows) works well for a lot of things. mplayer --identify <filename> should tell you a lot about an existing file. The command-line options for mencoder (an encoder that comes with...

new purchase This seems to be the right place to share my reasoning for my latest purchase: a Nikon D40. I've had a Fuji F10 for a couple of years now, and I wanted something a lot better, especially for close-quarters, indoor, rapid-response photography (taking pictures of my kids). Why not...

RE: run 800 MHz RAM at 667 MHz. Will Wickards is right. I thought I read somewhere that running the RAM at an 1333M?(bytes?words?)/sec speed (667 MHz dual data rate) would be better than running it at 1600M?/sec with a 1333MHz bus. I would get the 800 instead of the 667 RAM simply because it's...

More info: processor/board/ram are the things that I get around to replacing least often. I have some relatively new hard drives, two 250 GB WD, and one 160GB Seagate. One of the WD is short-stroked to use only 30 GB, used for the OS and compiling, and the rest of it is only mounted when I back...

I am considering upgrading my computer, and would like any advice others here can give. Current configuration: Celeron 1.3 GHz Shuttle motherboard, Apollo Pro 133 chipset with VT82C686 south bridge A few parallel ata hard drives 1 broken DVD burner (reads, won't write DVD's anymore, writes CDs)...

I use OpenOffice.org, for cost, and cross-platform reasons. If I created a lot of word processor documents, I might learn latex/tex/lyx. EDIT: I also use Google spreadsheets for things I want universally accessible.

I don't run anti-virus on Windows XP on my laptop. The main family computer is linux.

Congrats on your mostly successful install, Bozo! I'm afraid I have no experience with F@H on linux. The ability to easily install the latest applications is what drove me to Gentoo Linux (from RedHat & Ubuntu). However, Gentoo Linux itself is not easy to install if you do not want to be a...

IMO, the biggest abomination in laptop screens is the reflective display. CrystalView, ClearView, BrightView, MirrorView, RearView, or whatever they're calling it now. I actually like the widescreen, as it makes viewing two text files side by side easier on a laptop without much screen real...

The laptops I've seen on display at WalMart all have missing keys, due to vandalism. Doesn't lend an air of quality to your product to be displayed like that. I assume that desktops will either suffer the same fate or not be put on display, like their current crop of low-budget desktop pcs...

HP I bought a bottom-of-the-barrel laptop 18 months ago. An HP 2500us, 1.8GHz Sempron with ATI IGP. The graphics card is the worst thing on it, but since I don't need 3d capabilities, it's fine. I swapped out the 4200 rpm hard drive for a 5400 rpm one I already had. I eventually upgraded to 768...

vmware server keys mubs: I Imagine that you can simply request a server key, since it's free. The key for a beta product is probably different than for a released product, I imagine. I purchased VmWare 3.x back in the day, and used vmware 4.x through work, and really liked it. I ran it on a...

Very interesting advice.

branded IGP's I bought one of the cheapest laptops I could find in January, a Compaq Presario V2500 or something. It works well for normal tasks, including compiling. At any rate, when I saw the "Graphics by ATI" logo, I thought, "oh, maybe laptop graphics cards are a thing of the past, since...

I bought an F10 A month ago I was shopping at Walmart when I noticed an F10 on clearance for US$225. After making sure that I could return it if it didn't work, I bought it. I was getting really frustrated with my el-cheapo camera, and was debating whether or not to wait for the F30, when this...

Well, I bought a new hard drive last week, and salvaged what I could off the old hard drive. I need to do backups more often. I lost 4 months of emails. I performed a couple more recent backups, but the hard drive failure apparently predated those. I never checked to make sure my backup process...

I am away from home and I am unable to find a diagnostic disk. I don't have a floppy drive and I don't have a windows 98 disk to construct a boot environment in which to use a downloaded diagnostic tool. I think I'll just press my luck until I get home in a few days. I backed up before I left...

I have a 40 GB hard drive on a Dell Latitude 400. While attempting to write to a large file I got an I/O error. An fsck of the reiserfs and a reboot later, I still get the same error on the write. The following message appeared in my system log: [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady...

And apparently, people still do sell it, now that I searched for the right model number.

Er, I meant BQ-390

Steve's Digicams has some good descriptions of battery chargers, with links to thomas distributing. Some of the chargers charge each battery on its own circuit, so you can charge 3. This includes the LaCrosse BC-900. I have a Panasonic QC390 I bought at Costco a few years ago. Only recently did...

F10 How's it holding up, e_dawg?

dpreview's take on f10 Okay, I read the whole dpreview review review (review) on the F10, and I want this camera! It is superb in lowlight compared to other point and shoots. It has a very usable ISO 800, and an ISO1600 better than similarly priced camera's ISO400. Plus it has very fast click...

I've found dpreview, steves-digicams, etc to be way too time-consuming to read as they mostly just list features. If I had the $300 to replace my crummy camera (HP m305), I'd buy the Fujifilm Finepix F10 based on the strength of this reviewer's comments and my experience with other Fujifilm...

jhead I do the same thing (rename images to the date in the exif info). I use jhead to do it, though. Don't know if it's available for Windows. I have a script that downloads images from the camera, renames them, puts them in folders organized by month, and also creates resized copies of the...

I believe that with Gentoo you can upgrade to the very latest no problem. I agree with blakerwry that there is no way using redhat package updates to update a redhat 7.3 install to be a redhat 8.0 equivalent. Usually, the kernel versions will vary between releases, and lots of other things...