dbminter

I was thinking the same thing as most of the replies here. If you're STARTING at 18 gig AVI, you're going to have a ridiculously large MPEG-2 video size for DVD. I believe the last time I used MainConcept MPEG Encoder to convert a 1 GB AVI to DVD Video, it created a 6 GB MPEG file. Now, if the same level of magnitude applies to this case, you're looking at a 108 GB MPEG file. At that size, can you even compress it down to DVD-Video at that level? The good news is, though, at 18 GB, the AVI should have fairly good video quality, I'd think. So, IF it could be converted, it should look pretty good as a DVD. I'd say the biggest hurdle is just having enough space to do this to start with.

It is continually asked: "How could the people who produced Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schiller, Heine, Goethe, Leibniz, Lessing, Kant, Schumann, Schubert have perpetrated the Shoah (Holocaust)?" There's a simple answer: World War I. It exposed 13.5 million German men to the largest occurence of industrialized killing in history (industrialized killing was, unsurprisingly, invented by the French with their Guillotine, tho' Dr. Guillotin thought he was doing the condemned a favor, instead he invented the first Assembly Line of Death). Which is why I've always found the most effective moment in Cabaret to be the part where "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is sung. When one knows the history behind the events being depicted in the background, it is frightening, yet entirely, unfortunately, understandable, how even just a small gathering like that outdoor beer festival rallies (most) of the people around that Hitler Youth's performance.

Even more unimaginable was that 7 other episodes, I think, were made! They were never shown, of course, for obvious reasons.

And, conveniently enough, ABC Family Channel is premiering Looney Tunes: Back In Action this Sunday! I'll tape it then to see. Also, got a reply from a post on IMDB forums about Breakfast On Pluto, and, it does indeed appear to be a Dalek in that movie!

It's about as subtle as singing, to the tune of the between verses part of Supercalifragolisticexpialidocious ( sp? ) : "Join the Party! Goose step in time! Join the Party! Goose step in time! Obey the orders or you'll die! Join the Party! Goose step in time!" Or, just sing the theme to that hit Brit-com, "Heil, Honey! I'm Home!"

OH, MY GOD! I NEVER thought I'd live to see this! The infamous Heil, Honey! I'm Home! Basic premise: Hitler is living with Eva in an American suburb, who get some undesirable new neighbors. Wow! HOW this ever got on the air, even though it was cancelled after 1 episode, is one of those mysteries man will NEVER solve! The video quality is godawful, but, the fact that it just exists amazes me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEq5A2XeBCw...ch=heil%20honey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eo_SCP77Tc...ch=heil%20honey

Wow... can someone explain THIS to me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_%28sitcom%29 WHY is there a picture of Ian Levine in an article about "Soap" when it doesn't mention him at all?

Oh, the Open sub-menus when I pause on them with my mouse? Is there any way to get this to apply to the actual Start menu itself? Meaning, it works okay for the first two layers, but, once you actually get into All Programs, they open automatically whenever the mouse goes over them. Thanks, though! I was looking for that. Never thought it might be contained in a TASKBAR property... what a bunch of idiots! And, no, calling them the "Taskbar AND START MENU Properties" is just an easy excuse for Microsoft to be lazy.

No, it's not that. That's the MS-DOS 16 bit subsystem. My error is in the Windows one. The one Microsoft won't admit is there, but is. My error has nothing to do with CONFIG.NT It appears to be related to the temporary directory that Windows wants to set (C:\WINDOWS\Temp that gets made regardless of what you actually set or tell Windows to use.) because when apps that make calls to it try to run, they say they cannot write to the temp area, which brings up the cause of the error from the Windows 16 bit subsystem. So, this error is partially related to the Eudora one, I think. That Eudora, too, can't write to the temporary folder, for whatever reason. For those following my Environment variables saga in another post this was why I wanted an easy way to edit the variables. Because I needed a lot of testing to be done. Well, I KNEW I'd need a lot of testing, because, that's the Microsoft way.

Oh, you wouldn't know. The error was not revealed in my diatribe above. I only remembered that in the past, XP had had that option enabled for the Start Menu beacause I had restored to my factory default partition, which was the 2002 release of XP. As for what the fucker error is... what ISN'T a fucker error with these guys? Where to start? Mostly, I'm narrowing down which of my restores is the youngest I can restore from that has the fewest problems in it. For instance, the one I just restored I know I can't use because it suffers from a problem the others do, too. HOWEVER, in those partitions, it could be fixed. In this one, though, it refuses, conveniently. Virtual drives simply refuse to believe anything is mounted in them. Other problems: Some installs have a problem with Eudora. Periodically, and always on closing, the software says it cannot write to file "<Insert an ANSI box symbol here and some random ASCII characters>" Some installs refuse to read Manufacturer ID's off of discs in drives Some installs have a damaged 16 bit Windows subsystem. Some installs believe the system is returning higher voltage values than it really is. So, the problem has been finding which one I can go back to that causes me the least amount of work to fix. Which requires a lot more time.

Yeah, say what you like, but, I bet not a one of you got the Bolger gag!

Somewhere, in Australia, colloquially called Oz, there is a prison, called Oz. Inside Oz in Oz, there is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind. Formerly an idiot, straw for brains, really, once he acquired education, he turned his mind to crime. Constructing a living robot, powered by a broken human heart, and a mutant anthropoid felis leo, knowing no fear through steroid overdose and gene therapy, he is waiting to invade the streets of the world in his armored balloon. He intends to steal the world's gold supplies, paving the streets of his own private nation of Oz with the booty. Any who dare to cross his path will feel the wrath of his weather dominator as he unleashes twister after twister. Yes, he's that smart! The guy's a real wizard! Cue Bond movie opening titles type music: HIS NAME IS BOLGER! BOLGER! HIS NAME IS BOLGER!

Isn't it obvious?

No, it's there. I discovered it was "on" when I restored the most ancient of my XP backup of the factory partition, post first boot, activated, converted to FAT32, to test my latest round for weeding out the new fucker error.

Once I find out what it was, I'll let you know. I think it worked fairly well, however, it wasn't a newbie setup, that's for sure. Very technical stuff if you wanted to do something beyond the default templates it included. However, that said, it did include a lot of templates for many situations, so, it gets points for that. From them, I was able to learn how to edit it down to select one on its own, etc.

Of course, you weren't there when Acronis first released the 9.0 version of the TI software. You've had the benefit of 6 months of updates. When it first came out, it just did not work at all.

I've been trying to find where Windows has hidden a setting I remember having ONE time before it got turned off somehow. There USED to be a setting you could enable where the All Programs link under the Start menu did not automatically open when you moved your mouse over it. You had to click on it to open it if you set it up to behave that way. Anyone remember what/where that was? Thanks!

I've been trying to remember/find a software package I had heard of a while back and gave a throw. It was some kind of boot selector for bootable CD's. You could put multiple bootable images on the CD and select the one you wanted at boot time. There were also several customization options to control how the boot worked, what loaded and didn't, etc. Can anyone think of what this might have been? I'm thinking something along the lines of Hiren Boot CD?

Oh, yeah... I had forgotten! ImgBurn DID kidnap my family and burned my house down! I had merely supressed the memory. Thanks! Now, my lawsuit can go forward, now that I conveniently remember those events that did not happen, as long as they help my case.

I really liked the line from Father's Day: "I picked another STUPID ape!"

Yeah, I had read that Rise Of The Cybermen takes place in an alternate reality where Rose's Dad is still alive. BTW, notice how many episodes have dealt with Rose going back to some point in time where her mother, father, or boyfriend are? Also, it seems that between the old series and the new, the Doctor has regained complete control of the TARDIS? Maybe without his race chasing him down anymore, there was no more need to be unable to control it, so, he finally repaired it? Then, what about the Randomizer and the Black Guardian?

Well, that's par for the course, now. You simply get it working enough to cover up the holes long enough to sell it. Shove it out the door and fix it later is the current professional software developer mantra. Nero, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Acronis True Image 9, anything from Symantec, anything from Microsoft.

Father's Day premiered last night. All in all, I liked this one a lot. Probably the 2nd best one of the 2005's I've seen. I could have done without the time monsters, though. Just kept the story on Rose and the Doctor. Rose dealing with her father and the Doctor dealing with a time anomaly. Because I thought they had just as good a story idea in the first half hour. Who wouldn't abuse, if given the chance, a time machine to save a loved one they never had the chance to know? I also loved how they had two sets of travellers in the area. The look on the Doctor and Rose delta prime's faces when Rose came running past them! Rose's motivation for being there at first, not to change history but to just be there so her dad doesn't have to die alone, is a refreshing change. And how Rose soon learned that though her mother told her glowing stories of her dad, he wasn't exactly the saint she made him out to be. Yet, he wasn't exactly the sinner her mother treated him as while he was alive. There were, though, some other problems I can't glance over. Why would ONLY Rose's changing of her father's death NOT be undone when the Doctor restores everyone else to life, as he claims? It seems a bit far fetched that there are time creatures whose job it is to kill anyone on a planet affected by a time anomaly, because that would seem to me to create an even larger one. Still, I have to give this show its points for a strong start and a relatively strong emotional tie with the central characters. While the execution does falter a bit in the last half, it still presented a new look on an old time travel cliche.

I've never found it that hard to believe it was how the German people reacted, actually. While it doesn't condone what they agreed to, of course, it makes sense they'd back anyone who offered them any kind of hope. Regardless of what it was. When there's no food on the table and someone says they will put it there, you don't really care what they'll do as long as food arrives. And, for a while, food did. Of course, the far reaching consequences for the price of that food... but, even then, I doubt the German people, even if they knew what it would cost, would have resisted. So, I can see how it all started. And, why it stayed around for the time that it did. Because there would part of those who resisted, but couldn't dare openly resist for fear or reprisals. And, naturally, there would be probably equal parts who went along with the whole thing entirely out self interests beyond merely protecting themselves from reprisals. But, from outright potential sharing of the spoils should the Third Reich have succeeded.

Sort of like when Movie_Junkie first posted on this. It just didn't feel "right" when I read it. Sounded like a too good to be true story. I wish I had thought of checking snopes then, but, it was spinningwheel, I think, who found it, initially. Let's see. Yeah. Credit where it's due.