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March 07

Been working on a few things.

Linux Section:

Updated Zaurus Kino2 reference, the new 0.4.2 is out, and it is pretty sweet.

I found a problem with my tutorial for encoding movies for the zaurus.  The audio sync is messed up again.  The only way I can get it to work is encode the video with mencoder, then use AVIDEMUX to encode the MP3.  I will update the section tonight.

As a work in progress, I have most of the DVD9 to DVD5 tutorial up.  A dozen or so more screenshots and it will be complete.
In the words section, I brought over a Blog entry and expanded it out a little.
Linux never ceases to amaze me, though.  On my Athlon XP 2200, I was ripping/encoding a DVD, listening to OGG music, chatting online with a Java application, editing my webpage, with an FTP client open, while compiling the latest mplayer, all at the same time…on 512 meg of ram.  I would love to see windows do that.  The music never skipped once either 🙂

 

Posted by on March 7, 2005 in Linux, Zaurus

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Food Food Food

March 04

Does fast food scare you?  It should.

Just (somehow) get a hold of the nutritional information for a typical fast food joint and prepare to be amazed.
There are shakes that are over 1,200 calories, burgers well over 600, and lets not mention the fries.  Just about every fast food place you go to is a death trap in terms of food health.  There are, perhaps, 10% of thier menu items that don’t exceed the fat/sugar/sodium intake guidlines.
A single typical meal at a McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, et al is your WHOLE DAY.  Lets take an example:
Big Mac 560 Calories 30 Grams of Fat 47% Daily Value

Large Fries 520 Calories 25 Grams of Fat 38% Daily Value

Apple Pie 250 Calories 11 Grams of Fat 18% Daily Value

Medium Coke 210 Calories, 0 Fat

Lets do the math now, shall we?

1540 Calories, 66 Grams of Fat, 103% of Fat.
Well, that’s it, you are done now.  Hope you are full.  For a typical American, you don’t need 2000 or 2500 calories to live, 1500 is just fine.  Just ask diabetic patients losing weight.  Sick, isn’t it?  You ate your whole day at one meal
As a personal note, my wife and I have been on Weight Watchers for a year now.  She has lost 60Lbs, and I have lost 76Lbs. We stopped eating fast food, and learned what a portion size should be.  I hope the rest of America learns before this generation has a shorter life expectancy than the one before it.

 

Posted by on March 4, 2005 in General Comments

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Commentary for March 3rd, 2005

March 03

Commentary for March 3rd, 2005, from a former Blog entry.

Listening to the radio on the way to work inspired this entry. I heard ad after ad about ‘geek squad’, Anti-virus software, and the new AOL which protects you from the all the bad guys. Well, I just makes me chuckle how much money is made off of Mircosoft’s shoddy products. I know why Linux is unsupported and slow to adopt in PC’s. None of the software companies want to loose their revenue stream of fixing, essentially, broken products. My Linux computer just zips along, working and working and working. If it wasn’t for having to move, my uptime would be in the the YEARS range. That’s right, my computer has never crashed, EVER. It has not locked up, slowed down due to adware, or really changed over time. I don’t run a server, it is just a desktop machine, and that’s it. I am connected to the internet 24-7 and I don’t have a single virus, adware, or hacker on board. I have a modern, non-fragmenting file system. That’s right kids, I never have to de-frag my 3 hard drives. I have a journalized file system, a real one, NOW. Not like WinFS, which may never appear. How much did the software cost me? Nothing. Is it legal? You betcha. Can I just hand you a copy and not worry about violating copyright law? Sure can, in fact, they encourage it. Is it perfect? No, but it sure is fun to play with. I do have security updates, which don’t require me to re-boot my machine. Anything short of replacing the kernel does not require a reboot. My software is updated often, and quickly as new vulnerabilities are found. Well, all I can say is enjoy your buggy, slow, virus/ad/spyware ridden computers.

 

Posted by on March 3, 2005 in Uncategorized

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New Kino2 out 0.4.2

March 03

There is a new Kino2 out (a movie player for the Zaurus).  This time it works with the SL-6000 (mostly).  I am still playing with the setup to see what is optimal.  Already the mplayer you install with it has decent performance.  I will try it out later tonight with some movies I have encoded.  If everything works out ok, I will update the feed and movie tutorial.  I am still working on the DVD9 to DVD5 tutorial, making it as newbie friendly as possible, with screenshots and everything.

 

Posted by on March 3, 2005 in Zaurus

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DVD Burners and lying liars.

February 15

About half way through writing a quick tutorial of DVD ripping/shrinking/burning.
With the president and his cabinet, when are they ever going to call these liars liars?  They lie about everything!

Social Security, it will be backrupt in 2042, well, that is a plain lie.

Amtrak, cutting money will create competition, well, it will just bankrupt the railroad, and if another 9/11 happens, we have no other interstate transportation system other than cars and busses.  Good idea.

Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, it is going well, and we are training the iraqis to defend themselves.  This is just a lie too, we will be there for the next decade and it will cost us about a trillion dollars.
Luckily, the right wing media does not report this.

 

Posted by on February 15, 2005 in Political

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