MPlayerOSX – Mac binary distribution of “Movie Player for Linux” – flossy. Plays DIVX (and kin), Real, etc.
Oh, got my NEX ia today. Has some pretty neat features, seems to work well. Will write up sometime after I get a chance to play with it.
Musssst…. resist… remember, they betrayed us…
Ahh, there we go, sanity returning… It’s useless to me if I can’t read through my blogroll, and no SSH. That solves it. Oh, and there’s an SDK but no way to load my own apps. (and no expansion, and no BT) Next!
Yeah, it’s pretty uninspired… but come on, you knew it was coming.
The blog might be sitting fallow until I get off my lazy butt and fix things. Been futzing with my Gateway Touchpad and USB Audio Device in my nonexistant spare time. Oh and the work, freelance work, stack of bills and cleaning and all that jazz.
- mp3DirectCut – awesome Windows program w/ a nift GUI that slices and dices MP3’s (w/ vis and vu meter)
- Similar tools are available for Linux, like PyMP3Cut, and Mp3Splt (with .cue/cddb and mp3wrap (albumwrap) support). No nifty guis however.
In other news, the Star Wars clips I’ve been mirroring for Andy hit a max of 10.5Mbps Friday (my connection is a fully burstable 100Mbps – theoretical 12.5MB/s). Since then, a few more mirrors have been added, so, I’m not too worried about bandwidth usage, but will have to look at it in a few days.
What is disappointing is that Andy had to turn off commenting [and delete about 50 posts] because of the increasingly spiteful, petty, malicious, and distasteful nature of the comments. In any case, it was a little reminder that things are much different now that the rest of the world is online. It’s filled with the same sort of stupidity, careless cruelty, and downright mean-spiritedness as the real world (hoo-ray for humanity!).
Andy notes the irony that the people ripping into this kid most viciously are primarily coming from Game, Hardware and Tech, and Star Wars fanboy sites. Talk about pots and kettles. Maybe we need a different kind of mirror for these guys.
I was looking for this a few months ago. It looks like I just wasn’t looking hard enough (well, searching for the right keywords, at least). LUFS is a “hybrid userspace file system framework” which allows you to mount FTP, SSH, and even Gnutella files (it’s expandable) as local folders.
It involves a kernel mod and a user daemon that handles most of the VFS calls… Too bad there’s no way to handle the stuff purely as a loopback device, that would make it easier to port to OS X, I’d imagine. Obviously it doesn’t work on Windows, though. The only solution I’ve found over the past few months that’ll mount SSH/SSL drives is KnoWare’s Internet Neighborhood Pro.
(Look into KDE Fish – might work xplatform – can it work outside of KIOSlave – ie, at system level, or does it require Konqueror [and a GUI]?)
See also:
- enfs – user level vfs for linux and bsd. last release (v0.1) was in 2001 though
- AVFS – userspace virtual file system that supports: floppies, tar and gzip files, zip, bzip2, ar and rar files, ftp sessions, http, webdav, rsh/rcp, ssh/scp via Coda Kernel mod (OS X doesn’t seem to have one, and from this message, looks like it never will) or shared library hack (works for Solaris – would it work for OS X?)
- podfuk – like AVFS, uses Coda, works for Linux and Solaris
Worth noting: U.S. says Canada cares too much about liberties.
The comments in an annual report on international terrorism were the latest critical remarks from the U.S. apparently aimed at prodding Canada to bring its security measures in line.
The State Department report on global terrorism for 2002 suggests that while Canada has been helpful in the fight against terrorism, it doesn’t spend enough on policing and places too much emphasis on civil liberties.
Hoo-ray for the Land of the Free™.
Just about everything on the new system is up and running… vhosts are working again.
No updates for a while until I figure out to do with publishing. Also, lots of work / freelance work / projects I’ve been working on, going to try to get some productivity going.