Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Time on WNYC

Time on WNYC

Oliver Sacks in this RadioLab interview discusses patients living in drastically different time speeds. One takes 2 hours to wipe his nose. Another is extremely quick. She speaks quickly. Catches and throws with 10ms reaction time. When asked to count to 10 before throwing the ball, she barely slows down.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1942-activate-win7-mak-in-ts/

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1942-activate-win7-mak-in-ts/

To enable standard user activation on a KMS client, add a new DWORD registry value named UserOperations and set its value to 1. Create this value in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform registry subkey.

When complete, administrative rights are no longer required for some operations, such as installing a product key (slmgr.vbs /ipk), installing a license (slmgr.vbs /ilc), or rearming (slmgr.vbs /rearm). This means that a standard user can switch a KMS client to MAK activation, manually activate a computer, and—if necessary—replace an existing MAK with a new MAK. Doing so is not recommended, however, because it lowers security on the computer.

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http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/photo_scene_editor/

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Deploying Custom Registry Changes through Group Policy - Ask the Directory Services Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Deploying Custom Registry Changes through Group Policy - Ask the Directory Services Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs:

'via Blog this'

Process Monitor

Process Monitor: shows registry changes live

'via Blog this'

non-admistrator activate windows 7

 Optional MAK Configuration - Enabling Standard User MAK Activation
You can optionally create a registry key to allow a standard user to apply MAK and activate a computer. However, because this lowers security on the computers, it is critical that you understand the heightened risk in allowing standard users to change the licensing status.
Once you make this change, administrator privileges are no longer required for product activation.

 To enable optional Standard User MAK activation
  1. On the client computer, create the following registry key using regedit.exe.
  2. Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SL
  3. Enter the following data:
  • Value Name: UserOperations
  • Type: DWORD
  • Value Data: 1
Important note: This section contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure to back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 256986 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986/) "Description of the Microsoft Windows registry.

This procedure allows a standard user to switch to a MAK from a KMS client or replace an existing MAK. It also allows a standard user to manually activate the computer.
Note   If a standard user changes a volume product key, the ProductID registry values will not be updated this primarily affects product support. The Microsoft Customer Support Services are aware of this issue, and will use another method to determine the activation method.

Monday, September 12, 2011

British Airways - Hotel search

British Airways - Hotel search: BA0272 Depart San Diego 25 Mar 20:05 Arrive Heathrow (London) 26 Mar 14:25
$5498.10
BA0640 Depart Heathrow (London) 27 Mar 08:15 Arrive Athens 27 Mar 13:50
BA0633 Depart Athens 05 Apr 19:05 Arrive Heathrow (London) 05 Apr 20:55
BA0273 Depart Heathrow (London) 06 Apr 15:05 Arrive San Diego 06 Apr 18:15

Friday, July 22, 2011

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Wired article that's good for advisory.  This generation doesn't get to discover things on their own.  Everything already comes with the collective web opinion of it.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Adding a Global Group to the Local Administrators Group

Adding a Global Group to the Local Administrators Group

Aleks MSI - Manual Installation

Downloads - Manual Installation

Blender emulating numpad

pete,
open up blender and move your mouse cursor over the work file (top menu)
Then pull the cursor slowly downward until it changes into an double arrow cursor.
Now click the LMB and pull the menu down (about 2 inches or so)
This will reveal the blender setup where you make adjustments
Look for a button that says "System & OpenGL" and click to select it
Now click on "Emulate Numpad" 
While you're in the preference window, go to "View & Controls (left most button) and select "View Name" which is a green button to the left as well as Smooth View if you like your view ports rotation to be animated as you switch from one to another.
There are other settings too but this should get you started for now.

Move your mouse over the window border and drag it all the way up again.
Last step: Press "ctrl + u" to save the selections you just made as your new preference so that when you start blenderagain, it will remember everything.
If you feel that something isn't right, you can always start over and reload the factory setup from the "file menu"

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Encoding used for m2ts for promotional video

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/nada2.m2ts -vf crop=1440:1080:480:0,sc
ale=800:600,yadif -o c:/nada/nada.avi -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2:v
bitrate=12000 -speed 2

or without the right-adjusted crop


C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/nada2.m2ts -vf crop=1440:1080,sc
ale=800:600,yadif -o c:/nada/nada.avi -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2:v
bitrate=12000 -speed 2


if you want sound (note the 1.95 speedup.  not sure what the precise amount is but this works ok for short clips):


C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/bryanna.m2ts -o c:/nada/bryanna.mp4 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=24000000 -speed 1.95

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/bryanna.mp4 -vf crop=1440:1080,scale=800:600,yadif -o c:/nada/bryanna.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2:vbitrate=12000 -oac mp3lame -audiofile c:/nada/bryanna.m2ts

Better m2ts video conversion

This one converts to mpg4 first and maintains high quality while it doubles the speed.  Then the video is scaled and has audio added.

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/nada.m2ts -o c:/nada/nada.avi -nosound
 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=24000000 -speed 2

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/nada.avi -o c:/nada/nada2.avi -ovc lav
c -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2 -vf scale=640:480 -vf yadif -oac mp3lame -audiofile c:/n
ada/nada.m2ts

converting m2ts video using mencoder

Had a crazy 1/2 speed video problem when dealing with m2ts video.  had to double the speed, but then that doesn't work with audio.  audio has to be added in on a 2nd pass.  the following has a problem with corrupting the video, though.  -ovc copy is losing data.

C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/nada.m2ts -o c:/nada/nada.avi -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2 -vf scale=640:480 -vf yadif -speed 2


C:\Program Files\mplayer>mencoder c:/nada/nada.avi -o c:/nada/nada2.avi -ovc cop
y -oac mp3lame -audiofile c:/nada/nda.m2ts