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Just felt like a pictorial update. Additionally, I blogged. So boom.

Wow, Loogie’s posting again 8) ! Yes… and I have good reason to. If you have not already read my latest journal blog, first do so here: DVD Shitz.

Now that that’s out of the way… I’d like to talk briefly about the possibilities for what to do with a DVD for personal use. They are the following (taken from a convo I had w/ someone about this):

1. Rip onto a hard drive, w/ menus and subtitles (much more space), mount w/ Daemon, to play w/ PowerDVD.
2. Rip and turn into an .AVI, w/ no menus or subtitles (less space), to play w/ any video program.
3. Rip and burn back onto a DVD+R, in DVD quality w/ menus and subtitles, to play in a DVD player.
4. Rip and turn into an .AVI, w/ no menus or subtitles, and burn back onto a CD-R (VCD) (has to be approx. 1:30 long maximum), to play in a DVD player.
5. Rip and turn into an .AVI, w/ no menus or subtitles, and burn back onto a CD-R (data) (has to be 640-870MB maximum), to play w/ any video program.

My journal described how to use DVD Decrypter’s ISO mode to copy a DVD and burn it back onto a DVD+R. However, I would like to add that experimenting w/ File mode (.VBOs) could be useful in separating large DVD movies (bigger than 4.7GB) onto multiple DVD+Rs. Also, you need to use IFO mode if you want to skip burning back onto a DVD+R and encode it straight to an .AVI. FlasK MPEG does a brilliant and easy job of this. Here are the apps required to rip a DVD and turn it into an .AVI:

I’d like to add that all of this is perfectly legal… as far as I know 😕 . Also, I’m sure there are other aspects of DVDs that I am yet to learn, which may modify what’s been explained here.

And, for closing: here’s the first part of the Productivity section of my TopLaunch© toolbar. I use these beloved 7 appz for all of my DVD/CD stuffz. Click for descriptions.

Yes, that’s right. You can get your very own int shirt, right now! The only design at this moment is the “Snake Classic”, but more will follow, as well as other inventive shirts. Examples: VB programmer, lover of sporks, JavaScripter, no llamas, and “if you can read this, you’re too close” shirts.

More Int Than Int

So, I said that I was working on this timeline thing early last month and I finally finished it today. There’s still like a whole year in there with no events but it’s awefully hard to fill them in without any record. Without further ado, I give those of you that care The S&L Timeline.

Also, an amazing revelation occured while Loogie was helping me find out when he created int: He didn’t create int. Quelog did. 😮 Yes, that’s right. Proofage below.

CHSquelog: int
LoogieMan 2: ?
CHSquelog: interesting
LoogieMan 2: ok
CHSquelog: a new word has been born
LoogieMan 2: it won’t catch [on]

Oh how wrong you were, Loogie.

Oh yeh, int never goes anywhere… it’s Loogie who left. Or… I ain’t leave, I just bucked on posting for a while 😛 .

So, as Snake already explained, I got DSL. But allow me to elaborate. It’s Sprint, it’s 1536/512 (down/up).. or, in non-bit-speaking-robot-speech, 192KB/s down and 32KB/s up… and it ownz 8) . Part of the reason I haven’t posted in a while is that I’ve been collecting 1337 screenshots for this post… but I’ll just use the ones I have.

In comparison to other S&L members’ Internets, this is how it goes:

Snake………. 56/33.6 Dialup
Quelog………. 640/272 DSL
Gr-Dragon………. 3000/400 Cable
Gandalf………. 56/33.6 Dialup, formerly Satellite*

*unknown speed… llama 😀

Whilst playing the networking card, I’ll mention that Snake and I just had Surge 2.7 a week ago. As his news suggests, it was lame, and we basically just watched Kazaaed movies and played NOLF/UT the whole time. However, I just bought a brand new Netgear 4-port DSL Router! And yes… this came from the fruits of my Big-T “flippin”. So, now, I got my DSL modem, router, and switch all hooked up. I wish I coulda taken a pic of this sweet networking stack, but I ain’t got a DCam, and Snake’s dad is a bastard. Excluding used ports, we now have 10 available ports for Surges… w/ that extra appeal of being able to use broadband Internet too 8) … so, SOMEONE ELSE JOIN SURGE, DAMNIT!!!

In other news… I reviewed the NOLF2 “teaser” demo… check it out in the topframe ticker.

Patches That Suck: Dungeon Siege 1.1, Morpheus 2.0, and Java VM 2.0. The first two only suck in the fact that they don’t fix their main flaws (DS still fucks up EAX, and Morpheus still DLs very poorly), but Java 2.0 is plain evil. It installs itself w/ Morph 2.0… and what it is is a background app that opens in the systray every time u open a site in IE w/ java applets… it’s annoying, and even makes applets look worse. So, my tip to u who have this: uninstall it… the program, and the “Web Start”.

Innovations That Own: Windows XP ClearType Tuning, AIM+, and ViPlay.
At MicroSoft‘s site, u can “tune” ClearType (the WinXP font smoothing technology) so it’s darker than what XP options allows u to make it. ClearType is designed for LCDs, so on a CRT monitor, it’s defaultly light and blurry… not anymore . Next: Aim+ is a boom AIM enhancer by Big-O Software. It allows u to make windows transparent (only for XP users, of course 😛 ), clone AIM to sign on to as many SNs u want at the same time, and, best of all, log all convos into an accessible database. Since this is a bit hard to find online, I’ve made it available from S–: here. Finally: ViPlay is an app that one of our staff members found. Who, u ask? I wonder… uhh…

gand says:
yes, through sheer dumb luck, I discovered the best divx player i’ve ever seen.

Oh, int. Yeh, u can adjust the aspect ratio, change the speed/pitch of movies, make bookmarks at certain parts, and a slew of many more very useful features. It also plays back DivX movies (and keeps the audio/video streams more in-sync) better than WMP. Since this is also hard to find, u can get it from S–: here.

So, there u go… Loogie’s news… look out for my next post next Spring 😛 .

Well, its been way too long since anyone around here has made a news post! I would have been posting, but Snake neglected to give me a login…

Anyways, so yea. S&L. We’re the guys with the… um… badass site. So, news, news… ive heard that Loogie has a schweet new DSL installed. Snake’s been gaming, working on coding the S&L LANTALK program in delphi (it was in VB before.) Ive been busy being back at school so i havent had time to do much computer stuff. My classes this year include Networking, C++ Programming, and BASIC Programming, so it is a cool classload. I figure that if i make this post, the others will be forced to make followup posts or elaborations and explanations, so consider this a stimulator.. hehe.

Rock on, bitches!