No_47: Anyone know how to get the apple wireless keyboard working under Ubuntu 8.04 on a Core Duo Mac Mini?

I guess figure out what bluetooth chip Apple uses in the mini and search the Ubuntu forums for it.

No_47: The new vlc is the wasp's ankles.

Yes. It is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the western world.

They improved the fullscreen control thingy so that to pause/stop/do whatever, all that's needed is to move the mouse (like, *cringe* WMP). Right-clicking was pretty annoying. Maybe there was a way to get around that before, but I never figured it out. Also, restarts aren't required for every damn little change. Woo.

Have I stumbled across a glitch in the Matrix? I just realized I can read and comment on a thread for a link I submitted that was redlit according to my profile (3886500), and now the thread has apparently been nuked. And I'm getting the red narc bar under every Fark thread I click. What's going on?

WTF? That computer I was working on- I think it's got a serious gremlin.

First, the antenna on this guys network card went missing (he left it at the office because he didn't want to make the effort of taking it home).

Then, he requested the start up packet from Dell (which arrived within a day of his request)- I verified that all the discs were there, now I've taken the computer home and was about to start working on it, but out of seven discs that were there yesterday only three are still in the envelope.

???????????????????????????????

Tell him not to leave computer shiat at work anymore.

FuturePastNow: Tell him not to leave computer shiat at work anymore.

He would look at me blankly and ask me to explain that to him.

BEWARE LONG POST

I have a C Question. (Yes I know C, but for some reason this is causing errors and warnings with gcc)

Anyways, I want to typedef a function prototype:

typedef U32 (FnHandler_t)(Uint8 *message, Uint8 size);

Then it is used in a struct:
typedef struct
{
FnHandler_t *handler_fn;
U8 message_byte1;
U8 message_byte2;
U8 message_byte3;
U8 message_byte4;
U8 message_end;
U8 message_size;
}Handler_struct_t;

Now I am declaring two functions with that prototype:
FnHandler_t *Data_1_In(Uint8 *message, Uint8 size);
FnHandler_t *Data_2_In(Uint8 *message, Uint8 size);

And then using those in a structure:
Handler_struct_t Handlers[] =
{
// { handler_fn, message_bytes(1-4), message_end, message_size },
{ &Data_1_In, '#', 'A', 'L', ' ', 0x0D, 17, },
{ &Data_2_In, '#', 'M', 'D', ' ', 0x0D, 15, },
};


Now is my syntax correct? (all the ampersands and stars) Thanks for the help!

Greetings all

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to convert .MKV files into .ISO or .AVI files? This would be for the sole purpose of shrinking them down so they can then be burned onto a regular size DVD. I'm too cheapass to buy BLU-ray discs!

I have WinAVI Video Converter and it doesn't do MKV files - any suggestions?

Jazzycat

You could give avidemux a try and create, for example, a DVD-compliant mpg file from it.
Its wiki entry for Converting to DVD

"The mostly automatic way" sounds good - though it didn't do anything for me; but then again, my avidemux version is old enough that it isn't even listed anywhere on the project page anymore ;-)

The Voice of Doom: Jazzycat

You could give avidemux a try and create, for example, a DVD-compliant mpg file from it.
Its wiki entry for Converting to DVD

"The mostly automatic way" sounds good - though it didn't do anything for me; but then again, my avidemux version is old enough that it isn't even listed anywhere on the project page anymore ;-)


Ah perfect, many thanks VOD. From some of the forum comments it looks like it supports the Matroska format.

Personally, I wouldn't give someone advice on how to convert stolen media to a different format, but hey... diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks.

OK, I'm running Prime95 on a customer's machine that likes to randomly bluescreen (with different errors each time).

I got
[Wed Sep 24 15:22:35 2008]
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.4948730469, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.


The machine itself stayed running.
What should I blame? Memtest 86 and the seagate hard drive diagnostic tested ok. I've updated drivers and bios... all the obvious stuff

That's the sort of thing that happens when a processor has been overclocked just a little too much.

the guy bought the machine off some random other guy. it had a pirate copy of windows, and a pirate copy of office 07 when he brought it to me 3 months ago when the windows install was borked. he says it's been bluescreening randomly since i put a clean copy of windows on. so lord knows where the hardware came from.

but i've switched out the ram and it hasn't faulted yet...

I only ran memtest for 2 passes, and these are home machines so there's no ECC RAM.
It had run prime95 for about 4 hours after swapping out the RAM and I left it running overnight.

and yeah I didn't suspect the hard drive... but I wanted 40 minutes to do other things :)

No_47: Personally, I wouldn't give someone advice on how to convert stolen media to a different format, but hey... diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks.



You assume a lot there with your sanctimonious little statement, not all Matroska users are pirates.

Personally, I wouldn't give someone advice on turning his computer with stolen software into a working state, but hey... diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks.

The Voice of Doom: Personally, I wouldn't give someone advice on turning his computer with stolen software into a working state, but hey... diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks.

I put legal software on it, nimrod.

Jazzycat: You assume a lot there with your sanctimonious little statement, not all Matroska users are pirates.

FYI: Ripping and burning are legitimate computer operations that do not necessarily involve piracy, my dear No_47. I recall a similar response to one of my queries once about ripping something. You shouldn't feel a need to be concerned about whether everyone else is obeying the law.

And who cares anyway.

Looking for a BSOD screensaver I can use in linux. So far, the only close thing I can find is a Flash link that goes to fullscreen.

The guy asked wants to convert high def mkv files to dvd because he's too cheap to buy blue ray and you can think of a legal reason for doing that?
and maybe i'm pro-mpaa. maybe that's why it annoys me so much. Nyaaa :P

No_47
The guy asked wants to convert high def mkv files to dvd because he's too cheap to buy blue ray and you can think of a legal reason for doing that?

I don't know anything about who uses mkv or which programs do.
At first I even mistook it for plain m2v.
There are all kinds of weird formats or programs (or hardware like digital camcorders) that churn out videos with large file sizes and sometimes using rather strange codecs.
For example:
* when I played with MythTV, it used something called "nupplevideo" I had never heard of before
* my TV card: it records in standard MPEG2 (hardware encoder), but it uses 8000kbps video and 224kbs audio, which gets big pretty fast - you would need a double layer DVD to save a recorded movie to DVD without re-compressing it first



Also to keep in mind:
downloading and burning movies might not be illegal where she lives.
I know it wasn't in Germany until recently our idiots in charge were pressured (again) to add some more DMCA-style laws.
Now we have lost a lot of rights (basically: all) regarding copying stuff for private use while we still have to pay our blank media tax (which besides CDs/DVDs may include printers, HDs, scanners, USB sticks, MP3 players..)

And one of the most recent added things was that DRM-free copies were made illegal if they were "obtained through obviously illegal channels" which was meant to cover internet downloads - previously, only uploading was illegal.
I believe downloads could still be considered to be a gray area (at least in court), since one can doubt how "obviously illegal" files on the internet are to Joe Nongeek Sixpack:
Creative Commons and similar stuff, BBC "Listen Again"/iPlayer or Comedy Central offering its shows, Hulu, the mixed mess of legal and illegal content on Youtube (is it really Universal that posts clips as the user "UniversalMusicGroup"?), radio streams, legal P2P TV software like Zattoo, bands offering full-length sample clips from their newest album, Radiohead offering their album for whatever you feel like paying for it, ..

Ooops, to repeat the point I was trying to make before drifting off into that rand:
download and burn might even be legal where she lives.
While that area is a dark shade of gray here in Germany, isn't it still legal in Canada?

I didn't keep track how it is in France where Jazzy lives; I know that about 2-3 years ago they wanted to legalize all P2P for a flat fee, then they did a 180 degree turn.
Then they wanted to make downloads illegal, but circumventing DRM for private use would be legal and vendors forced to open their specifications to competitors to guarantee interoperability.
I distinctly remember them clashing over that with Apple and the iTunes/iPod combination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska

I think most of the 720p/1080p illegal rips of movies and tv shows are encoded in h.264 and contained in matroska. Hence my suspicion!

The Voice of Doom: geekybroad
Looking for a BSOD screensaver I can use in linux. So far, the only close thing I can find is a Flash link that goes to fullscreen.

There is one for xscreensaver

...

Bonus: the settings allow you to configure which death screens BSOD should show:

ooooooooo

Thanks

Yeah, checking the repos might have been an idea!

I'm new to using XFCE, so the fact xscreensaver uses gtk instead of Qt is a plus. Not installed yet. I've discovered more things to "shop" for.

Or, you know, I should just upgrade my old computer so I don't have to give as much thought to such things.

Mike: don't make me stop this car, kids!

they started it!

Got an SQL question for you folks.

I have two tables, Student and Scores

Student
+----+------+-------+
| id | name | grade |
+----+------+-------+
| 1 | Bob | 11 |
| 2 | Mary | 11 |
| 3 | Tim | 12 |
| 4 | Lisa | 12 |
| 5 | Gary | 10 |
| 6 | Leah | 10 |
| 7 | Dean | 11 |
| 8 | Lori | 10 |
| 9 | Don | 12 |
...

Score
+----+------------+-------+
| id | student_id | score |
+----+------------+-------+
| 1 | 4 | 100 |
| 2 | 3 | 98 |
| 3 | 3 | 97 |
| 4 | 3 | 86 |
| 5 | 4 | 92 |
...

I want to list ONLY the top 3 scores for EACH student in grade 12 like so:
+------+-------+
| name | score |
+------+-------+
| Tim | 98 |
| Tim | 97 |
| Tim | 86 |
| Lisa | 100 |
| Lisa | 92 |
...

What would my SQL statement be?

I'm sure it's simple but I've never had to use SQL since I'm an RPG programmer. In RPG I'd just READ a logical file over the Student table that only contained grade 12 students and then do a READE on a logical file over the Score table where the records were sorted by student_id, score desc.

Benny_Hill: Got an SQL question for you folks.

I have two tables, Student and Scores

Student
+----+------+-------+
| id | name | grade |
+----+------+-------+
| 1 | Bob | 11 |
| 2 | Mary | 11 |
| 3 | Tim | 12 |
| 4 | Lisa | 12 |
| 5 | Gary | 10 |
| 6 | Leah | 10 |
| 7 | Dean | 11 |
| 8 | Lori | 10 |
| 9 | Don | 12 |
...

Score
+----+------------+-------+
| id | student_id | score |
+----+------------+-------+
| 1 | 4 | 100 |
| 2 | 3 | 98 |
| 3 | 3 | 97 |
| 4 | 3 | 86 |
| 5 | 4 | 92 |
...

I want to list ONLY the top 3 scores for EACH student in grade 12 like so:
+------+-------+
| name | score |
+------+-------+
| Tim | 98 |
| Tim | 97 |
| Tim | 86 |
| Lisa | 100 |
| Lisa | 92 |
...

What would my SQL statement be?

I'm sure it's simple but I've never had to use SQL since I'm an RPG programmer. In RPG I'd just READ a logical file over the Student table that only contained grade 12 students and then do a READE on a logical file over the Score table where the records were sorted by student_id, score desc.

SELECT name, grade.score FROM students INNER JOIN grade ON students.id=grade.student_id ORDER BY name, score DESC;


Will get you the information you want. Not sure how to limit it to three each by name yet.

MusicMakeMyHeadPound: SELECT name, grade.score FROM students INNER JOIN grade ON students.id=grade.student_id ORDER BY name, score DESC;


Will get you the information you want. Not sure how to limit it to three each by name yet.

A friend of mine gave me this (which is I believe is MSSQL specific):
SELECT DISTINCT st.name, sc.score
FROM student st INNER JOIN Score sc ON st.id = sc.id
WHERE st.grade = 12 AND sc.score IN (SELECT top 3 score FROM score WHERE score.ID = sc.id ORDER BY score desc)
ORDER BY st.name

I turned it into something like this for MySQL:
SELECT DISTINCT st.name, sc.score
FROM student AS st INNER JOIN Score AS sc ON st.id = sc.id
WHERE st.grade = 12 AND sc.score IN (SELECT sc.score FROM score WHERE score.id = sc.id ORDER BY score desc LIMIT 0,3)
ORDER BY st.name

Unfortunately MySQL didn't like the LIMIT clause in the subquery. I noodled it around for a while and was able to figure out a different way to solve the problem - I convinced my pointy-haired boss it would be better to see all the scores rather than just the top 3 :-)

Of course I'm not actually working with students and scores but you know what I mean.

Thanks for taking the time to think about it MMMHP!

Service pack three is raping my xp box right now. It's wonder I can even post on the internets from the goddamned thing before it locks everything up. FARK THIS.

I figured I'd let automatic updates tell me when I could get it instead of trying to get it early, but apparently they didn't bother to make it work correctly, ever. If I ever stop gaming, I'll never set e-foot inside a windows box again. *sigh*

If you boot to safe mode, assuming the machine stays stable enough, you can remove sp3 there.
Then I'd suggest virus/spyware/etc scanning the machine, and updating all your drivers before trying to install again.
You maybe even want to run a repair install from your original XP media.

SP3 has worked correctly on most of the machines I've put it on, and 100% of the clean installs I've put it on.

No_47: Then I'd suggest virus/spyware/etc scanning the machine, and updating all your drivers before trying to install again.

That's what I'm doing now. Should have known.

Mike: what version of mysql?

5.0.51a

I found some documentation (pops) on the mysql website that mentioned my problem specifically but it didn't say anything about when they might have it fixed.

There IS a workaround apparently. A fellow posted his method of getting around it at the bottom of the page.

gayb: Service pack three is raping my xp box right now. It's wonder I can even post on the internets from the goddamned thing before it locks everything up. FARK THIS.

I figured I'd let automatic updates tell me when I could get it instead of trying to get it early, but apparently they didn't bother to make it work correctly, ever. If I ever stop gaming, I'll never set e-foot inside a windows box again. *sigh*

Cedega and Wine.

Man On Fire: Cedega and Wine.

Never works properly.
And why would anyone, anyone, pay a monthly subscription for a program to sort-of run games on Linux when they already have a Windows OS?
and have I mentioned directx 10? Because DirectX 10.

Man On Fire: Cedega and Wine.

I'm trying. My natural stupidity is dragging the learning process out a bit. Did get photoshop to work the other day, that was awesome. That's like an hour a day less spent in windows.

To me windows isn't the devil or anything, but all linux all the time is still the goal.

Dumb question: any (simple) way to use a grease monkey script to make a set page (the fark homepage is what I intend) meta refresh? I don't know all that much html/ect

Also, if I did this would it spaz out and lose my page if I was disconnected from the internet? If it like tried to refresh without internet

/:D boondocks has rickroll music

I'm not sure if this has been added by an extension I'm using or if it's part of Firefox, but try
Right Click anywhere on page -> Reload Every -> (choose time)
Right Click anywhere on page -> Reload Every -> Enable

and yeha I think it 404s when you go offline

Wow. I suck.

If any of you remember I've been trying to fix this guys computer. I went ahead and made the hard drive one big partition, (it was a small 33 mb partition and then one 55 gb partition) reformatted, and installed XP Home using the disks Dell provided. I figured that it would not do any harm to delete the utility partition, as I figured the malware he had installed had probably found it's way into everything.

Now, when I turn on the computer, I am asked to choose between operation systems Windows XP Home or Windows XP Home. I've booted into both and they seem to be the very same. When I go into either it shows that there is 55 gb of remaining space.

I pretty much want to make it so that he doesn't have to "choose."

What uh, what should I do?

TehNacho: Wow. I suck.

If any of you remember I've been trying to fix this guys computer. I went ahead and made the hard drive one big partition, (it was a small 33 mb partition and then one 55 gb partition) reformatted, and installed XP Home using the disks Dell provided. I figured that it would not do any harm to delete the utility partition, as I figured the malware he had installed had probably found it's way into everything.

Now, when I turn on the computer, I am asked to choose between operation systems Windows XP Home or Windows XP Home. I've booted into both and they seem to be the very same. When I go into either it shows that there is 55 gb of remaining space.

I pretty much want to make it so that he doesn't have to "choose."

What uh, what should I do?

Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery, then set the Default Operating System to one of the WinXP Home installs, then set the display OS list to 1 or 0.
Done.

Fenis-Wolf:
Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery, then set the Default Operating System to one of the WinXP Home installs, then set the display OS list to 1 or 0.
Done.

If you're ever in Phoenix, Phil owes you a beer.

Crap. Now I'm trying to get all the devices reinstalled.

Jackasses at Dell sent a random driver disk, and I've tried all of the audio drivers on it, and not one of them work.

Oh wow! The networking device works just fine!

Off to Dell.com to get shiat downloaded.

I'd just open boot.ini and delete the second Windows entry

also
this guy's retailer told him to take his two month old computer to a tech because it's a software fault.

(the RAM also faults at 514MB but that's not onscreen)
Fridays are always bad.

No_47: I'm not sure if this has been added by an extension I'm using or if it's part of Firefox, but try
Right Click anywhere on page -> Reload Every -> (choose time)
Right Click anywhere on page -> Reload Every -> Enable

and yeha I think it 404s when you go offline

Sounds like what I need, but not a default part of firefox-any idea what extension that might be?