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It's been running fine for me.

Yes, megabits per second. It's an average, and not a set number of bits per frame, since it's a variable bit rate. If it's a high action scene, it'll use more bits, but if there's little movement, it'll take less space.

Instead of using about 4-5 Mbps, they encode at 6-7 Mbps. The DVD spec allows up to 10 Mbps.

My parents' Volvo was broken into four times. Once each at the Shea Stadium parking lot, in front of my Grandparents' house in the South Bronx (not a good neighborhood), on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and while I was taking a tour of Rutgers.

There's a cost calculator here, which you may be interested in.

"On a typical day, my roof creates enough power for me to make 350 cups of tea, watch 70 episodes of Coronation Street, or make 800 slices of toast." Only in the UK is power measured in cups of tea. :)

I couldn't find anything either. The only thing Google turned up was pages saying that the changes would be announced on March 27.

I think what you want is the <pre> tag. Anything withing the <pre> </pre> will be monospaced, and formatted just like it is typed, including white space and line breaks.

Looks like the Leafs are done: 6-1 with 4 minutes left. Ouch. At the start of the playoffs, I would have picked the Devils out of the East, and the Wings out of the West. I still think the Devils will make it to the finals, but I don't know who will make it from the West. Maybe Colorado, if...

Some more in random order: The Sandlot The Crow Three Kings Raiders of the Lost Ark The Right Stuff The Untouchables Full Metal Jacket (the first half)

Off the top of my head: Braveheart The Professional October Sky Hunt For Red October The Godfather I & II Apollo 13

I ran into that in the RCs, and I was hoping they would change it for the final version. I guess not. :( Is there any rational reason for this?

Can feel...brain cells...dying! Must...close...page!

Not funny at all.

Believe me, the Rangers are unequaled in their ability to throw tons of money at over paid, past-their-prime free agents who perform horribly. They have the highest payroll, and still can't make the playoffs for six years. Just pathetic. It must be something about New York, because the Mets are...

Now those clips are much better than the first ones. There's still some very noticable noise in the sky on the second clip, but other than that, they look very good. I guess we'll have to wait and see how the T2 transfer comes out. If it comes out like these, it will be a noticable improvement...

GO RANGER... oh wait. Good thing baseball has started. Oh wait, the Mets are in last place. When does football start? :)

They finally settled on a name, and it's going to be called Firebird, and the mail client will be called Thunderbird.

Hmm. I booting into Knoppix to see if it was a Windows only problem, and it does the same thing with the version that come with Knoppix 3.2 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4). I can't install 1.4 right now, but I'll try it later to see if that helps. I...

And if you can't connect, it's because the site was getting 4,000 hits a second!

So, Best Buy didn't give you any problems?

Oops. My mistake.

For analog cable, I'd take an analog set over a monitor or my parent's HDTV-capable RPTV, since the static is less visible. For digital cable, the RPTV (upconverted to 1080i) over a monitor, and a monitor over and analog set. For DVD's, a monitor gives slightly better quality than the RPTV...

T2 is 137 minutes long for the regular version, and 152 for the director's cut, and this is supposed to fit into 3 GB. According to my calculations, that works out to about 3.1Mbit/sec for the regular version. I just don't see how it can be true HDTV quality (which is about 19.2Mbit/sec)...

"Step into Liquid" is 123MB for 3 minutes, and is the only live action one (the others are computer animated, and between 16-25MB for 20-30 seconds). I was assuming that if people were buying an HDTV resolution DVD, that they would be watching it on and HDTV-capable set, instead of an analog...

Microsoft has some samples on their site, here (IE & WMP9 needed), of 720p video encoded to WMP9 format. To me, there are more motion artifacts visible than on true HDTV. I would put the quality somewhere in between DVD and HDTV. The major drawback is most people will have to view it on their...

emerge rsync (to get the latest list of programs available) emerge -u system (to update everything on your system to the latest) emerge -u program-name (to update just one program) emerge program-name (to install a new program) AFAIK, there's no reason why you can't continue to use the system...

All but the fastest of systems. This should give you a good idea about how long it takes for KDE alone, for various different processors. My lowly Durons will take over 24 hours!

Download either the basic or 3stages version here. Although the installation is fairly straight-foward if you follow the directions, it does take a very long time, and requires patience. The installation instructions are here (the French directions are out of date). If you start with the 3rd...

Vlad's cat looks like one of mine. Nice pic, Fushigi. :)

As long as they don't make it look anything like Easy CD Creator 6. I just recently saw it running on someone's computer, and if you thought 5 was bloated, it's nothing compared to 6.

It's about time they did this. A browser should only be a browser, and not an e-mail client.

Cloudmark's Spamnet does work well, but it's only for Outlook. Am I the only one here who doesn't get a lot of spam? I probably get about 2-3 a week.

OK, that's good. I'll just make sure he has the latest version (he probably hasn't updated it in a while).

Thank you, Doug, for everything you've done with this site. And thanks to Mercutio for putting all this together. Steve

I've heard this about Nero, but is it just bad with video DVDs, or is it all bad with data DVDs as well? It's good to know that the Lead Datas will burn at 2x. Thanks.

Thanks, Merc. I'll probably buy a pack of the Riteks, and see how they work out.

My mom, my sister, and I bought my dad a Sony DRU-500AX for his birthday, and I need to find a good place to get the blanks. Also, does anyone have any recommendations on which brands are the best, and which to avoid? Their stand-alone player plays both DVD-R and DVD+R, and I'm looking for at...

The site was just completely down for about 20 minutes.

I've never had a problem logging in or out here, with Phoenix or IE.

It seems that Nero loads much faster on my system, after applying the patch. When putting in a blank CD, and clicking on "Create New CD Using Nero" from the pop-up menu, it used to take a long time to load (20-30 seconds?), but now it's less than 5 seconds.

Here are my results for when it's slow, from about 15 miles east of where they are located. Tracing route to storageforum.net [207.99.69.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.3 2 8 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.104.192.1 3 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms...

No problems so far tonight. Like all computer gremlins, it won't show up when you're ready for it. :)

Thanks! I can get a birdie now, but still no hole-in-one (I've only tried a couple of times though). That one has just as many trick shots, as honold's co-worker proved by getting a perfect score.

Here is my tracert from when it's running fast. I'll be sure to post my results from when it's running slow (probably late tonight). Tracing route to storageforum.net [207.99.69.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.3 2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms...

How did you get a hole-in-one on number 8?

It's extremely slow right now (around 2:30AM EST), taking a couple of minutes to load a single page.

Most of the EA Sports games work quite well with a gamepad, if you're into those kinds of games.

Looks good, Doug!

I've had a couple of spontaneous reboots while recording something, since upgrading to 8.1, which I meant to report in the other thread. I haven't tried downgrading yet, but I'm hoping it won't be problematic.