Sunday, November 19, 2006
Crazy Robosapien flamethrower
here's how to...
http://www.evosapien.com/robosapien-hack/marcus/html/flameosapien_v2.html
30 seconds to mars
A band i recently started listening to. Pretty good band if you ask me....
Links:
http://www.thirtysecondstomars.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thirtysecondstomars
http://www.purevolume.com/30secondstomars
Sunday, November 12, 2006
How to Stay Warm at Home Without a Heater
Steps
- Close all of your windows properly. This includes making sure storm windows are down if you have them. Windows should be latched.
- Keep your windows air-tight. You may want to purchase removable window-caulk or plastic to better seal them. At a minimum, stuff a towel or shirt in front of any noticeable leaks.
- Seal your doors. Check around the door frame and also under the door. You may want to buy weather stripping or a door sweep. Again, at minimum, make a draft dodger or stuff a towel at the bottom of the door.
- Close off any un-used rooms. The closed door makes that room another barrier between you and the frigid outdoors. It also stops air from circulating as much, which reduces heat loss. Also, home improvement stores sell magnetic register covers to 'shut off' registers in unused rooms. That way when the heater does click on, only the registers in the rooms you use will pump out heat. Makes for more efficient use of the heater.
- Put up curtains. A set of heavy curtains can block a draft. Open them when the sun is shining and close them when it's not.
- Put down a rug or carpet.
- Add insulation in the attic and the crawl space.
- Exercise; get in shape. 20 minutes of vigorous exercise can warm you up and keep you warm well after the exercise session. And your healthy body is generally more tolerant of the cold.
- Dress warmly. You should wear slippers or socks. Dress in layers, especially with wool or cotton clothing. Wear a hat. Don't wear your winter coat or you will have nothing else to put on when you go outside. When you are sitting still put on a blanket.
- Cook. Make cookies or a pie, or a nice, hearty stew! The kitchen will be warm while you are cooking, and then you can eat the warm food.
- Drink warm beverages. Make a cup of tea or coffee. Sip some warm broth.
- Light a candle. A candle/candles can produce a lot of heat, just be mindful of where they are placed and do not leave them unattended. A trip to most any grocery store or discount store can provide you with a number of candles cheap!
- Find a pet or friend to snuggle with. The living body of any warm-blooded being is a furnace unto itself.
- Be active. Moving around produces body heat!
Tips
- If you can not afford to heat your home, contact your energy supplier. They will work with you to find a payment plan you can afford. In addition, you may be eligible for federal assistance paying your bill.
- Eat enough fat! This will keep your thyroid and metabolism functioning properly, and you'll stay much warmer.
- Fill a large pot with water and let it simmer. The rising steam will keep your house amazingly warm.
- Take a hot shower or bath and use oil or lotion on your skin when you get out. It's almost like putting on another thin layer of clothing.
- Leave the warm water in the bathtub. It's like having a 25-40 gallon hot water bottle in your house.
- Put on a hat. About 80% of your body heat is lost from the top of your head. If you're cold at night, wear it to bed.
- Use a hot water bottle. Great for warming your hands & lap while sitting; also put it under the covers at the foot of the bed. Ahhh!
- If the air is too cold when you're trying to sleep, consider rigging a makeshift cloth "tent" over your bed. Your own breathing will warm up the inside of the tent very quickly. There's a good reason those antique beds had roofs and curtains...
- Use a humidifier. The added moisture in the air can increase the apparent temperature of your home by as much as 15 degrees.
- Turn on the lights. Incandescent and halogen bulbs create light through heat and can significantly increase temperatures in a room.
- Use a candle heater. It doesn't create as much heat as a fireplace or real heater, but will create warmth very cheaply.
- Take advantage of solar energy; place a dark rug in sunny areas of your house during the day to absorb the sun's heat.
- Place short fans set to their lowest settings so that they blow across radiant style heaters to circulate the warm air away from the heater, allowing the heater to warm new air.
- Microwave socks or small homemade "pillows" filled with rice, dried corn, or beans for one minute in the microwave and use as a heating pad or bed-warmer (if you don't have a microwave, use a hot water bottle).
- If you can afford it, leave other heat-producing appliances on, such as computers/monitors or strong lamps.
- Vent your electric dryer back into your house.
- After cooking, leave the oven door open to let the heat escape and warm up the area of the room around it.
Warnings
- Be sure to remove any home-made or store bought "pillow" style heating pads from the bed before falling asleep. They retain heat for a long period of time and if left too often in one spot, they can heat feather blankets or mattress covers to a dangerous degree and cause fire.
- Don't start any kind of fire or use your stove to stay warm, except for ovens that are approved by authorities, such as the fire department.
- Do not use unapproved materials for safely covering registers. (Call your local hardware store for safe covers). The material could potentially heat up and start a fire.
- Be aware that the more you seal off air circulation to the outside, you increase the possibility of a dangerous buildup of carbon monoxide in the air -- especially if you use natural gas or propane in the home. Be sure to install a carbon monoxide detector if you don't have one already. If you do, be sure to test it on a regular basis.
- Devices that produce heat as a by-product of their main function, such as incandescent bulbs, stoves and computers, will be less efficient and more expensive than appliances designed for space heating.
- Heating methods that increase air moisture (bathtub, humidifier) might encourage mold growth and condensation damage. Regularly check behind furniture that's standing against outside-facing walls, and around windows.
Deftones
w00t new album....Saturday Night Wrist
this song is called "Hole in the Earth"
Links:
http://www.purevolume.com/deftones
http://www.myspace.com/deftones
http://www.deftones.com/
Face Recognition lol
A little nifty utility that compares your face to a bunch of celebs and tells which ones you look like.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Circa Survive
REALLY good band...
this tune is called "Act Appalled" one of my fav tunes from them
Links:
http://www.circasurvive.com/
http://www.myspace.com/circasurvive
http://www.purevolume.com/circasurvive
Friday, November 10, 2006
That one band "MUTEMATH"
This band really makes you go on a trance. Cant really describe the genre...
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/mutemath
http://www.purevolume.com/mutemath
http://www.mutemath.com/
ye like vid podcast m8 ?
Hak5 is the Internet Television show for the hacker, modder, and do-it-yourselfer. With high quality tech entertainment and all things hack and mod. You'll find yourself breaking out the soldering iron with Wess Tobler or yielding networks (in)secure with Darren Kitchen. So join the gang on the 5th of each month for an engaging hour of technology and geek humor.
Purepwnage
i pwn noobs liek hard rite n my roomate has dis camera rite so hes all liek 'we can make a show lol' n im liek dats teh pwnage n stuf n hes liek i no lol so im liek ok film me noob n hes liek ok so we did lololol
thne we lukd at it rite n were liek 'omfg stfu dats pure pwnage lol' so we made dis site n stuf rite n now were gonna b famose!!!!
-teh_pwnerer
Ctrl Alt Chicken is a new form of cooking show... one in which the chefs don't know how to cook! Join Alex Albrecht and Heather Stewart as they attempt a new recipe each episode.
Diggnation
Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
Geekdrome(not vid but cool)
Two geeks debate movies, comics, music and video games while ripping each other new ones... or re-ripping each other fresh ones.
Indigital
InDigital looks at the latest gadgets and high tech products that define life in the modern world. Does it work? Is it worth buying? We take a look to find out and have some fun along the way.
Infected(not vid)
Martin Sargent knows more about technology than any living American, and each episode of Infected is a deeply probing meditation on how all those 1s and 0s are shaping our world. There's also a fair amount of poo talk. If you want the funniest, most original take on the world of technology and the Internet, get Infected by Martin Sargent today.
Mysteries of Science Explained
ver wonder just how or why a particular scientific phenomenon is the way it is? Our crackpot scientist does, but not for long, as he provides the answers to life's great mysteries every week in Mysteries of Science Explained.
NotMTV
Not Mainstream Typical Videos goes behind and inside the independent music scene. Whether it be a band interview, concert, or sound check. Not Mainstream will introduce you to different scenes and sounds.
PixelPerfect
Be amazed and learn as master digital artist Bert Monroy takes a stylus and a digital pad and treats it as Monet and Picasso do with oil and canvas. Learn the tips and tricks you need to whip those digital pictures into shape.
Systm
A couple of instructional videos
thebroken
thebroken is an underground technology show with a hacker mentality that caters to the elite (or wannabe 1337) computer user using a mixture of seriousness and irreverent comedy. thebroken debuted as an independent online show more than a year ago and has been successfully downloaded over 3-million times. Each episode focuses on several subjects and is between 20-30 minutes in length. If it's shady or underground, it's thebroken.
Web Drifter
I have done little else but surf the Internet since the Clinton Administration. But then, one grievous day, I finished it. My life torn asunder, clawing for a reason to keep living, I decided to re-trace my steps, but this time, I wouldn't do it online--this time, it would be for real. Journey with me now as I visit the physical loci of the most outrageous, surprising, intriguing and important websites I've bookmarked during my years of furious Internet surfing, actually going 'behind the websites' to get to know, and learn from, the time travelers, shamans, UFO cult leaders and other geniuses who created them. And who, you ask, am I? I am Martin Sargent: Web Drifter.
Beryl 3D Window Layer Plugin(linux)
This is a video showing a plug-in for linux that adds effect to the desktop. Linux can be very nice....
An hxc website...
This website is pretty good for all of you hardcore fans it has a daily update of news from various hardcore bands and artist. So if you're into hardcore you should really check this site out.
Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
Takeaway: You can't boot Windows XP from a floppy disk the way you used to be able to with DOS. One handy way to easily boot XP is by using a USB flash drive. Here's how to make it work.
Almost everyone who has worked with computers for any length of time at all has run into at least one situation in which a problem left a PC unbootable. What if you could return the machine to a bootable state just by inserting a USB flash drive though? Believe it or not, it is actually possible to install a bootable copy of Windows XP onto a flash drive and then boot a PC off of the flash drive. From there, you can use applications that you have installed on the flash drive (anti virus, anti spyware, disk repair, etc.) to fix the PC's problem. In this article, I will show you how.
What's the catch?
As with most cool new techniques, there are a few catches. For starters, not every PC is capable of booting from a USB flash drive. For the most part, computers manufactured within the last two years are generally able to boot from a flash drive. Older systems may require a BIOS update, or might not be able to boot from a flash drive at all.
Another catch is that not every flash drive will get the job done. The primary factors that limit your use of a particular flash drive are capacity and speed. Technically, speed isn't really a limiting factor, but booting Windows will be painfully slow unless you use a flash drive that supports USB 2.0.
The flash drive's capacity is actually a limiting factor though. Surprisingly though, there are size limits on both the upper and lower end. Your flash drive can't be too large or too small. There isn't really a documented minimal size for a flash drive. You just need something large enough to hold Windows XP and a few applications. As you probably know, Windows XP normally consumes over a gigabyte of disk space. Later I will show you how to use a free utility to trim the excess fat off of Windows XP and make it a whole lot smaller. Even so, I still recommend that your flash drive be at least a minimum of 256 MB in size.
As I mentioned, there is a maximum size for the USB flash drive that you can use. Currently, USB flash drives exist in sizes of up to 4 GB, and 8 GB flash drives are expected to be available by the end of the year. As nice as it would be to have 8 GB to play with, the flash drive that you use for this project can be no larger than 2 GB. The reason for this is because you will have to format the flash drive using the FAT-16 file system, which has a 2 GB limit. Presently, you are stuck using FAT-16 because most computers will not recognize a flash drive as being bootable if the drive is formatted with anything other than FAT-16.
Preparing your Windows installation CD
One of the requirements for creating our bootable USB flash drive is a Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installation CD. If your Windows XP installation CD doesn't already include Service Pack 2, then you will have to make a CD that includes Service Pack 2 through a technique called slipstreaming.
Other requirements
In addition to your Windows XP installation CD, there are a couple of other things that you are going to need. For starters, you will need the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. You can download this tool for free.
Another utility that you are going to need is Bart's Preinstalled Environment Bootable Live Windows CD / DVD, or BartPE for short. You can download this utility for free from the BartPE Web site.
In addition to the software requirements, you must verify that the PC that you will be using to create the Windows deployment has 1.5 GB of free hard disk space (minimum) and supports booting from a USB device. I also strongly recommend that the PC be running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Prior to Service Pack 2, Windows XP sometimes had trouble interacting with USB storage devices.
Formatting the flash drive
Now that you have all of the prerequisites taken care of, it's time to actually start setting up our flash drive. The first step in doing so, as strange as it sounds, is to format the flash drive. Windows will actually let you format a flash drive in the same way that you format a floppy disk. However, formatting a flash drive in this way will not work for this project. Furthermore, using Windows to format a flash drive directly has been known to destroy some types of flash drives.
Instead, you must format the flash drive by using the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool that you downloaded earlier. To do so, simply open the utility, select the device followed by the FAT file system option and click Start.
Once the device has been formatted, you must make it bootable. To do so, you must copy the BOOT.INI, NTLDR, and NTDETECT from the root directory of your PC's boot drive to the flash drive. These files are hidden by default, so you will either have to configure Windows Explorer to show hidden files (including protected operating system files) or you will have to open a Command Prompt window and use the COPY command to copy the files.
If you choose to use the Windows Explorer method, then open Internet Explorer and enter C: into the address bar so that you are looking at your local hard drive. Next, select the Folder Options command from the Tools menu. When the Folder Options properties sheet opens, select the View tab. Now, just select the Show Hidden Files and Folders and deselect the Hide Extensions for Known File Types and the Hide Protected Operating System Files check boxes. Click OK to continue.
Booting from the USB flash drive
Now that you have formatted your USB flash drive and installed the boot files onto it, the next thing that you must do is to configure your PC to allow you to boot from the flash drive. This is all done through the computer's BIOS Setup. I can't give you specific instructions for this part, because every computer is different. I can give you a few pointers though.
You can access your computer's BIOS by pressing a specific key immediately after you turn the PC on. The key varies, but it is usually either [F1], [F2], or [Delete]. Once you are in the BIOS Setup, you should verify that all of your computer's USB options are enabled. This might include things like support for legacy USB devices or support for USB 2.0. If there is a time out setting for USB devices, you should set it to the max to insure that the system doesn't time out while waiting on the USB device to boot.
Next, find the section on boot device priority. Normally, a USB flash drive (which is usually listed as USB-HDD, but may be listed as a removable device) will have a very low boot priority. If the USB flash drive's boot priority is lower than the hard disk (listed as HDD) then the only time the computer would ever boot off of the USB flash drive is if the system were to fail to boot from the hard disk. You must therefore rearrange the boot device priority so that the flash drive has a higher priority than the hard drive.
Configuring Windows
Now that we have finally made it through all of the prep work, it's time to start setting up Windows. As you have probably already guessed, the process of installing Windows to a flash drive is quite a bit different from your normal, run of the mill installation. There are a couple of reasons for this.
For starters, a full blown Windows XP deployment takes up over a Gigabyte of hard disk space. When you are installing to a flash drive, disk space is a scarce commodity. Even if you have over a Gigabyte of space on your flash drive, you probably don't want to use it all on Windows. It would be nice to have room to install a few applications. Therefore, you need to trim the excess fat off of Windows.
The other reason why the installation process is so different from the usual Windows installation is because Windows Setup is not designed to install Windows to a flash drive. You therefore have to configure Windows using an alternate method.
The PEBuilder utility that you downloaded earlier can take care of both of these issues. PEBuilder is designed to create a build of Windows XP (or Windows Server 2003) that does not take up as much space as a full blown installation. Once you create this new build, you can copy it to the flash drive. For right now, I will show you how to create a basic Windows build and copy it to the memory stick. Unfortunately, it's rather difficult to install applications once Windows is up and running. Therefore, after I show you how to create a basic Windows build, I will show you how to create a build that includes some applications.
Begin the process by opening PEBuilder. When you open PEBuilder, you will see a screen similar to the one that's shown in Figure A. Simply enter the path to the Windows installation files (the ones from your Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installation CD). Next, verify that the Create ISO Image and the Burn to CD check boxes are not selected and then click the Build button. PEBuilder will now create the new Windows build.
Figure A |
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| You must use PEBuilder to create a Windows build that will work with a flash drive. |
Now, it's time to copy Windows to the flash drive. To do so, you will have to use a special batch file that's included with PEBuilder. Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to c:\pebuilder313\plugin\peinst. Now, insert an empty flash drive into the computer's USB port and then execute the file PEINST.CMD. You will now see a menu appear as shown in Figure B.
Figure B |
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| PEBuilder uses a batch file to install Windows onto a flash drive. |
Type 1 and press [Enter] and you will be prompted to enter the path to the build that you have created. Enter C:\pebuilder313\BartPE. Now, type 2, press [Enter], and you will be prompted for the target path. Enter the drive letter that Windows has assigned to your USB flash drive. After doing so, the menu is updated as shown in Figure C. The menu now displays the source path and the destination drive. Type 5 and press [Enter] to install Windows to the flash drive.
| Figure C |
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| Use menu option 5 to install Windows to the flash drive. |
Installing applications
Now that I have shown you how to create and install a basic Windows build, I want to talk for a moment about how you can add an application to the build (prior to creating it). The PEBuilder program comes pre-configured to support a number of common Windows applications, but does not come with the applications themselves.
The reason why installing applications can be a little bit tricky is because most Windows applications modify the Windows registry. The build that you are creating is basically a collection of installation files, and the build itself does not contain a registry (the registry gets created when Windows is installed onto the flash drive). As such, PEBuilder uses a sort of registry emulator.
If you go to the C:\PEBUILDER313\PLUGIN folder, you will see sub folders for a number of different applications. If you open one of these application folders, you will see that the folder contains an INF file and a FILES folder. The INF file contains all of the information that would normally go into the registry, and the FILES folder stores all of the program's files.
To see how this works, let's install an application that I'm sure most of you are familiar with; Nero. Begin by installing Nero onto the machine that's running PEBuilder, as if you planned to run Nero locally on that machine. When the installation completes, copy all of the files from C:\Program Files\ahead\Nero to C:\pebuilder313\plugin\nero burning rom\files. In this particular case, the nero burning rom folder is the folder that has been set aside for the Nero application. The Files sub folder is intended to store Nero's system files.
Now, you must take care of Nero's registry entries. To do so, go to the C:\pebuilder313\plugin\nero burning rom folder and open the PENERO.INF file using Notepad. As I explained earlier, the INF file in an application's folder is used to store the application's registry entries. For Nero and all of the other applications that PEBuilder predefines, the INF file is pre-configured. You just have to make a few changes that are specific to your system.
In this particular case, the PENERO.INF file is designed to support both Nero versions 5.x and 6.x. Initially, the lines for both versions are commented out. You must therefore determine which version you have and then remove the semi colon from the beginning of the lines that apply to that version. If you look at Figure D, you can see how the two versions are separated.
Figure D |
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| An application's registry entries are stored in an INF file. |
Once you uncomment the appropriate lines, just replace "Your Name", "Your Company Name" and "Your Serial Number" with your name, your company's name, and your Nero product key. Save the file, and your set to go. The next time that you click the Build button, Nero will be included in the build.
Putting XP in your pocket
Running Windows from a flash drive isn't an exact science. Sometimes the process just doesn't work and there is no good reason why. As more PCs start to support booting from USB devices though, USB boots should become more standardized, and the technique should become more reliable.
Copyright © 2006 CNET Networks, Inc.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
A cool little script
works on almost every site
little tutorial:
code:
http://www.geocities.com/povety101/imgjs.txt
Did you know there used to be peanut butter slices...?
The story of P.B. slices:
"When he came up with the idea for sliced peanut butter during an evening with friends, Stewart Kennedy knew he would have to find a way to make peanut butter "unsticky." Creating P.B. Slices™ took Kennedy, president of Kennedy Foods, more than four years, thousands of feet of plastic cling wrap and countless samples hanging from his kitchen cabinets. In the end, diligence paid off as P.B. Slices has become one of the hottest products on the market."
clipped from www.pbslices.com
These where famous for a while but then kinda died of so we dont see these anymore or at least not around my town.
If you feel like tasting these there is more info here:
http://www.pbslices.com/retail/index.html
How to Make an Anime Music Video (AMV)
They're all the rage on YouTube, there are enormous sites dedicated to them, and they are popping up more and more as people get into this Internet craze. What is it? Anime music videos, or AMVs - songs set to clips from anime. Here's how to make yours!
NOTE: This tutorial is for Windows XP, since it uses Windows Movie Maker. If you do not have Windows or Windows Movie Maker, see the Tips section.
Steps
- Acquire the anime clips you want. If you already have clips in AVI format on your computer, skip this step and go to step 2. There are a number of ways to get anime clips. The steps below will detail three of them.
- If you have DVDs of the anime you want clips of, then there are a few ways to get clips. One is to use Fraps at Fraps.com.
- Open Fraps99 and configure it. Make sure "Enable Video Capture" is checked and that the hotkey does not interfere with your DVD playback program.
- Open up your DVD program, and minimize Fraps99. To start recording a clip, press your hotkey. To stop press the hotkey again. You can do this as many times as you like to make numerous clips. But Fraps videos are completely decompressed, so you'll need a lot of space, and you'll also need to convert them into a compressed format. Since this tutorial uses Windows Movie Maker to put together our videos, let's use Windows Media Encoder.
- Open Windows Media Encoder and Choose "Convert a File." Then follow the necessary steps to convert your videos (takes a while). Make sure you delete the original Fraps videos afterward! Otherwise they will take up gigabytes of space on your hard drive.
- Download videos from BitTorrent or other P2P networks such as Kazaa, eDonkey,Frostwire ,or (my personal choice) Shareaza. Find and download videos, and, if they are not in Windows Media format, convert them as before using Windows Media Encoder. Since these files are probably continuous, you'll want to "trim" them in Windows Movie Maker.
- Download clips from YouTube or other video sites. Using the online internet application VideoDownloader (or its Firefox extension), you can download anime videos from a wide variety of sources, listed below. Find anime or anime clips (or even getting clips from existing AMVs) from YouTube or AnimeEpisodes.net. Once you have found the video you want to download, follow the steps on the VideoDownloader web page and save the video as a .flv file. Then download and open Riva FLV Encoder. Select the flv file you downloaded, then under "Destination Video File" change the file extension from "flv" to "wmv". This will convert the video to Windows Media Video format for you (no need to use Windows Media Encoder).
- If you have DVDs of the anime you want clips of, then there are a few ways to get clips. One is to use Fraps at Fraps.com.
- Get your music together. Find the music you want on your computer and convert it to mp3 or wma format, if it isn't already in one of those formats.
- Open up Windows Movie Maker. To get your clips, click Import Video, and open your file. For your music, click Import Music, find your file, and open it. Drag and drop your sound file into the "timeline," and then drag and drop your clips into the clips window. Split and organize them as necessary, then drag them into the storyboard to put together your movie. If needed, you can add special effects by going to View Video Effects, or View Video Transitions under the Edit Movie heading. Once you have completed your video, click File -> Save Movie File, and set the properties for your video.
- Upload your video to YouTube, AMVspace, AnimeMusicVideos.org, or other websites - or just show it to your friends!
Tips
- If you don't have Windows Movie Maker, try a program such as AviTricks Classic, Zwei-Stein 4, or one of the free or commercial programs listed on this page.
- For best quality, choose a resolution of 640x480 or higher. But note that this will take up more space than otherwise.
- This tutorial will also work with other types of videos.
- If possible, try to get clips without subtitles or make sure the subtitles are off while capturing your clips! Subtitles make your video look like you didn't put very much effort into it.
- Try [1] Cinelerra]
- If you do not have a Windows computer, Macintosh has a slew of good alternatives. If Final Cut Pro or iMovie are not already pre-installed onto your system, Avid Free DV is a pretty good alternative [2] Avid Free DV].
Warnings
- Do not illegally download licensed anime!
- Make sure you have enough hard drive space if you are going to be using such space-consuming programs as Fraps99.
- Encoding takes a long time, so expect your project to take at least a few hours, if not a day or so if you'll need to do a lot of encoding.
- If you redistribute copyrighted anime, you're exposing yourself to lawsuits. Plus YouTube will just delete it anyhow, at the request of the copyright holder.
- Many P2P services, including the ones listed here, are known sources of viruses and spyware. Be certain you have current protection against viruses and spyware before attempting to utilize these services.
Things You'll Need
- Windows 2000 or higher for some steps (such as using Windows Media Encoder - Windows XP is required for Windows Movie Maker).
- A good idea of what you want to be in your video! Otherwise it will be sloppy and uninteresting.
The Red Balloon short film 1956
Well this movie is kind of weird so i decided to share it on my blog so there you go...
The Outline:
A boy finds a balloon - or is it the other way around? Together the pair wanders the beautiful streets of Paris, coping with grownups and the local bands of childrens. When one of the pair disappears, the loss is but temporary...
Genre:
Family / Fantasy / Short
The BEST band ever
Tool is my favorite band, I've known of this band for a couple of years now and have never gotten bored of listening to their music.
Links:
http://www.toolband.com/
http://www.purevolume.com/toolgroup
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
The movie "The Science of Sleep"
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance (more)
Tagline: Close your eyes. Open your heart.
Plot Outline: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Copyright © 1990-2006 Internet Movie Database Inc.
Through The Eyes of the Dead
This band is clasified as death metal and i first heard them in a concert with Children of Bodom and God Forbid.
Link:
http://www.myspace.com/tteotd
Monday, November 06, 2006
OMFG teh Playstation 3 commercials soooo weird
So i was watching tv(family guy...) and all of a sudden a baby comes out and starts making weird noises in front of a ps3 console. Days after i watch another commercial and its a ps3 solving(I believe) a rubix cube. So up there are the two commercials i watched.
so how bout that one band SAOSIN
This band is one of my favorite and im sure it'll be one of your favorites too if you check it out. The bands original singer was Anthony Green which in my opinion was a way better singer none the less this band is still kick ass. If you want to listen to Anthony Green's voice you should check out Circa Survive.
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/saosin
http://www.purevolume.com/saosin
Sunday, November 05, 2006
China and ipv6
The move to Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) -- which delivers greater capacity than today's IPv4 Internet and 128-bit IP addresses that exponentially increase the number of possible addresses from today's 32-bit technology -- has been necessary in Asia, where countries such as China, Japan and South Korea have a shortage of available IP addresses.
While the China Education and Research Network (CERN) highlighted the 10 gigabits-per-second speed of its new IPv6 network, CERNET2, experts indicate the shortage of IP addresses continues to be the main driver of the move to next-gen Internet.
ternet, become a first mover, and won respect and attention from the international community," CERNET committee director Wu Jianping said in a statement.
Protocol Problem
Asian countries and companies, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC and Samsung, have collaborated on the transition from today's IPv4 Internet to IPv6. The consortium, under pressure to head off a shortage of IPv4 addresses, has indicated the newer technology might be mandated beginning next year.
According to CERN, the U.S. controls 74 percent of the 4 billion IP addresses possible with IPv4, with China limited to the same number of IP addresses as the University of California, despite its 80 million Internet users.
Work toward IPv6 in the U.S. has involved the Department of Defense, Cisco, IBM (NYSE: IBM) Latest News about IBM, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft, HP and others, but the continued availability of IPv4 addresses has resulted in a lack of urgency, according to observers.
Mingled and Managed
Yankee Group's Kerravala, who predicted it could be as many as seven years before the U.S. truly begins adopting IPv6, said the two Internet protocol technologies are likely to co-exist for some time.
"There's really no migration," Kerravala said. "We're going to be running both for a long time."
Kerravala said there is increased interest in higher transmission speeds, which have dropped in price, but added that speeds such as 10 gbps are not necessarily tied to IPv6.
The analyst also said that the inclusion of IPv6 technology in today's products was causing some problems for users and administrators. However, the biggest issue of the next-gen Internet, Kerravala said, is the management of IP addresses. Today, he said, organizations often manage IP addresses with home-grown tools and equipment that is optimized for 32-bit addresses.
"It's going to be even harder to manage 128-bit addresses," Kerravala said.
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Kerrys little mistake
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush joined GOP lawmakers Tuesday in blasting Sen. John Kerry for telling a group of college students they could either work hard in school or "get stuck in Iraq."
"Even in the midst of a heated campaign season, there are still some things we should all be able to agree on, and one of the most important is that every one of our troops deserves our gratitude and respect," Bush said.
Kerry told reporters in Seattle, Washington, that the remark was a "botched joke" meant to target the president, not U.S. troops.
Bush added that U.S. troops deserve the full support of the government. (Watch Kerry say he won't apologize for criticizing the president and "his broken policy" -- 9:33 Video)
"The senator's suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and shameful," Bush said. "The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots -- and Senator Kerry owes them an apology."
Republicans unleashed a firestorm of criticism against Kerry after the Vietnam veteran's remarks on Monday, but Kerry said Tuesday that he made a mistake.
"The White House's attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe," the Massachusetts senator said. "It's a stunning statement about their willingness to reduce anything in America to raw politics." (Watch a recap of the day's war of words -- 3:02 Video)
Kerry's comment did not sit well even with leading members of his own party. A number of top Democrats told CNN they were upset with the senator for giving the Republicans election-time ammunition -- even if the GOP was hyping the remark.
"He has already cost us one election. The guy just needs to keep his mouth shut until after the election," a top Democratic strategist said Tuesday. (Watch how Kerry's gaffe may be a gift for the GOP -- 3:00 Video)
But not all Democrats concurred. Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia defended Kerry and applauded the senator for showing "our party how to fight back with the truth."
"John Kerry is a patriot who has fought tooth and nail for veterans ever since he came home from Vietnam. He has stood with his brothers in arms unlike this administration, which exploits our troops to make a political point and divide America," Cleland said in a statment.
Before Kerry's clarification, White House press secretary Tony Snow, House Majority Leader John Boehner and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, lambasted the four-term senator and demanded he apologize. (Watch Kerry's "botched joke'" that launched the political stink -- 1:50 Video)
A CNN poll suggests that Iraq is the second-most important issue, behind the economy, as voters ponder for whom to cast their ballots in next week's midterms.
White House: 'An absolute insult'
"This is an absolute insult," Snow said at a daily press briefing. "Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this."
Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said the remark was "insulting" and called on "Democrat candidates across the country" to publicly denounce the comment.
"These Americans who are risking their lives in the fight against terrorism in Iraq deserve better than to have their service demeaned by a United States senator," Boehner said in a statement. "Our soldiers need John Kerry's support, yet John Kerry offers nothing more than disparaging commentary."
Kerry, who is not up for re-election this year, fired back at the White House and the GOP, saying he was not disparaging U.S. soldiers.
"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy," he said. "No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan and a stand-still-and-lose strategy in Iraq."
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, spoke to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday.
According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the senator took the stage to roaring applause before regaling the crowd with one-liners, Bush barbs and tales of surfing at nearby Mission Beach.
He then said: "You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well.
"If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Comment 'mangled in delivery'
A Kerry aide told CNN that the prepared statement, which had been designed to criticize President Bush, "was mangled in delivery."
Kerry was supposed to say, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."
Before the announcement that the statement was botched, McCain, a Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, joined his GOP colleagues in condemning the remark and demanding an apology.
"Senator Kerry owes an apology to the many thousands of Americans serving in Iraq, who answered their country's call because they are patriots and not because of any deficiencies in their education," McCain said in a statement.
U.S. troops "deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service," he added and said the notion that only those with poor educations serve in the Iraq "is an insult to every soldier serving in combat."
"Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks," McCain said.
But Kerry refused to relent, calling the criticism part of the "classic GOP playbook."
"I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed-suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq."
He further expressed disgust with "Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country."
Kerry added that President Bush and Vice President Cheney "owe our troops an apology" because they "misled America into war."
Bush and Cheney "have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it," the senator said.
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80 gb ipod review
The latest version of the iPod has a few enhancements, including longer video battery life, support for some cool games, a brighter screen, a search feature, and larger capacity (up to 80GB). And the price drop is nice too.
Pros:
Bright screen. Excellent interface. Seamless integration with iTunes. You can transfer purchased music from iPod back to PCs. Very good sound quality. Long video battery life. Supports lossless and Audible formats, as well as gapless playback. Supports fun games.
Cons:
Audio battery life could be longer. FM tuner and recording capabilities require optional accessories. Video-format support could be broader.
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20 Things the average person doesn't know about XP
Welcome
20 Things the average person doesn't know about XP
1. It boasts how long it can stay up. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type 'systeminfo'. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep these, type 'systeminfo > info.txt'. This creates a file called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. (Professional Edition only).
2. You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run... and type 'gpedit.msc'; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care -- some may stop your computer behaving as you wish. (Professional Edition only).
3. You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that's not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.
4. XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can make it show everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word 'hide' and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be the software and you can now uninstall it.
5. For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These include 'eventcreate' and 'eventtriggers' for creating and watching system events, 'typeperf' for monitoring performance of various subsystems, and 'schtasks' for handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command name followed by /? will give a list of options.
6. XP has IP version 6 support -- the next generation of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type 'ipv6 install' into Run... (it's OK, it won't ruin your existing network setup) and then 'ipv6 /?' at the command line to find out more. If you don't know what IPv6 is, don't worry.
7. You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using 'taskkill /pid' and the task number, or just 'tskill' and the process number. Find that out by typing 'tasklist', which will also tell you a lot about what's going on in your system.
8. XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you've got a fast machine. On slower machines, you can make XP leave zip files alone by typing 'regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll' at the command line. If you change your mind later, you can change things back by typing 'regsvr32 zipfldr.dll'.
9. XP has ClearType -- Microsoft's anti-aliasing font display technology -- but doesn't have it enabled by default. It's well worth trying, especially if you were there for DOS and all those years of staring at a screen have given you the eyes of an astigmatic bat. To enable ClearType, right click on the desktop, select Properties, Appearance, Effects, select ClearType from the second drop-down menu and enable the selection. Expect best results on laptop displays. If you want to use ClearType on the Welcome login screen as well, set the registry entry HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop/FontSmoothingType to 2.
10. You can use Remote Assistance to help a friend who's using network address translation (NAT) on a home network, but not automatically. Get your pal to email you a Remote Assistance invitation and edit the file. Under the RCTICKET attribute will be a NAT IP address, like 192.168.1.10. Replace this with your friend's real IP address -- they can find this out by going to www.whatismyip.com -- and get them to make sure that they've got port 3389 open on their firewall and forwarded to the errant computer.
11. You can run a program as a different user without logging out and back in again. Right click the icon, select Run As... and enter the user name and password you want to use. This only applies for that run. The trick is particularly useful if you need to have administrative permissions to install a program, which many require. Note that you can have some fun by running programs multiple times on the same system as different users, but this can have unforeseen effects.
12. Windows XP can be very insistent about you checking for auto updates, registering a Passport, using Windows Messenger and so on. After a while, the nagging goes away, but if you feel you might go insane before that point, run Regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advanced and create a DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips with a value of 0.
13. You can start up without needing to enter a user name or password. Select Run... from the start menu and type 'control userpasswords2', which will open the user accounts application. On the Users tab, clear the box for Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer, and click on OK. An Automatically Log On dialog box will appear; enter the user name and password for the account you want to use.
14. Internet Explorer 6 will automatically delete temporary files, but only if you tell it to. Start the browser, select Tools / Internet Options... and Advanced, go down to the Security area and check the box to Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.
15. XP comes with a free Network Activity Light, just in case you can't see the LEDs twinkle on your network card. Right click on My Network Places on the desktop, then select Properties. Right click on the description for your LAN or dial-up connection, select Properties, then check the Show icon in notification area when connected box. You'll now see a tiny network icon on the right of your task bar that glimmers nicely during network traffic.
16. The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.
17. You can rename loads of files at once in Windows Explorer. Highlight a set of files in a window, then right click on one and rename it. All the other files will be renamed to that name, with individual numbers in brackets to distinguish them. Also, in a folder you can arrange icons in alphabetised groups by View, Arrange Icon By... Show In Groups.
18. Windows Media Player will display the cover art for albums as it plays the tracks -- if it found the picture on the Internet when you copied the tracks from the CD. If it didn't, or if you have lots of pre-WMP music files, you can put your own copy of the cover art in the same directory as the tracks. Just call it folder.jpg and Windows Media Player will pick it up and display it.
19. Windows key + Break brings up the System Properties dialogue box; Windows key + D brings up the desktop; Windows key + Tab moves through the taskbar buttons.
20. Windows XP secretly KNOWS that the average user has no idea what they are doing. Therefore, it doesn't let you do really stupid things like deleting the windows directory (at least not without spending several hours convincing it that you REALLY want to do this). Oh yeah, and internet explorer kinda sucks, get Firefox.
Rockbox Installation
this tutorial will explain how to install rockbox on your ipod
