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Ode to Peta Jane
Alex is learning poetry. Here are some of his latest. First is a kind of neat form: Peta-Jane Awesome fun Busy helping caring Makes me very challenged Peta-Jane I had not heard of this form before, but it has the first and last line are the name of the person. The second line are two…
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T-Mobile $19.99 WiFi
Wireless Internet Access – T-Mobile HotSpots. Pricing is hitting the right range. Right now T-mobile offers a $20/month plan if you are T-mobile voice subscriber for Wifi access. Sign my up!
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Drowning in Wifi Signals
Doug’s Dynamic Drivel: A new Wi-Fi model. This problem of how power WiFi has been hotly debated in our shop over at “Geekfishing”:http://geekfishing.net. Basically if you have lots of 802.11 Wifi access points beaconing, you get unpredictable results as clients roam automagically from one to another. In our own offices, there are no less than…
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Topolino Wheelset Review and Veloflex Pave Reviews
h2. Topolino Wheelset Topolino Tech. I’m a crazy dope with too much craziness for lightness. In any case, I just got these wheels. A great deal from “Bethel Cycles”:http://bethelcycles.com that includes tires, rim strip and tubes. I finally got these and mounted them with a set of Veloflex Pave 700×22 tires. Here’s a review of…
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SHN: Lossless Compression
a little ludwig goes a long way: SHN. John points out that instead of using lossy Mpeg compression. Going to a lossless compression scheme like SHN might be better. Great point. With disk space so available, I’m already encoding at 320Kbps variable rate which is still 5x less than the raw CD format. But, I…
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PowerDVD Update
CyberLink Patch Files. Yet another update for the DVD player on my machine. For some reason PowerDVD works, but nothing else can play a DVD. Not Real, Windows Media Player or Interactual. Feels like a codec got blown away.
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Windows XP ASPI Drivers
Adaptec?Windows ASPI Package. Here it is the current Adaptec ASPI drivers, so I can flash my DVD drive.
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Nearly There…DVD+RW
DVDplusRW.org – Compatibility List DVD-Video Players. Well, I finally blew the DVD+RW as a test with MovieFactory. It looks decent, not great. Main problem now are the many incompatibilities with players. “Compatibility hacking for DVD Recorders”:http://www.dvdplusrw.org/resources/bitsettings_pc.html. My Toshiba 6200 needs a compatibliity hack, but the Sony DRU-120A drive I have can’t have the bitsettings changed.…
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DV to DVD or DiVX
Well, I’ve finally mastered the Video Explosion/VideoFactory tool and have a nice video, now there is the issue of how to get it out to the real world. It isn’t easy: * Sonic MyDVD. This has got to rate as one of the most ugly programs I’ve ever used. Main issue is that you have…
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Naveen
a little ludwig goes a long way: Naveen. Proving once again, I don’t understand the law. Naveen Jain owes Infospace $200M or more dollars!