Only Happy When It Rains

Mac Voice/video chat with PC

2008-10-07T21:49:00.004-03:00

Options:

Skype (p2p)
Yahoo! Messenger (audio, video with no audio, msn contacts but you can't call - voice chat with - them)
iChat (AIM pc users, audio and video chat)

http://www.mac-compatible-web-cam.com/mac-video-chat/mac-video-chat.html

http://robrohan.com/2007/11/30/trying-to-video-chat-between-mac-and-windows/

http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/ezjim/EZJimpage14.html

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

MAC & WINDOWS CROSS-PLATFORM IM APPLICATIONS
CONNECT IN REAL-TIME TO FRIENDS NEAR - AND FAR

SKYPE FOR MACINTOSH <-> WINDOWS:

Skype is one of the best and most reliable cross-platform video apps: It isn't just for free & very low-cost long distance VOIP calling. Check out and download the 2.7 version of Skype for Mac which now supports PC <--> Mac video chat options. Many iChat users experience problems trying to video conference with Windows AOL Instant Messenger users, so Skype is worth trying as an alternate. Skype's ability to upload your address book contacts and search their directory for pals helps build a buddy list quickly at Skype. Again: Only the 2.7x versions of Mac Skype supports Video functions - so get and stay current. At the Skype website note they sell two UVC-compliant Logitech cams in particular: specifically the Logitech Quickcam 9000, and the Pro For Notebooks models at their online store. NO others listed there are a good Mac choice.

APPLE iCHAT AV <-> AOL INSTANT MESSENGER:

iChat is preinstalled on every Mac. Great video quality and features, but LACKS COMMUNITY. You're on your own to find and build your own Pal-Buddy List from friends @aol.com and @mac.com accounts - But with AOL's AIM cross-platform compatibility has a HUGE user-base of AOL Instant Messenger folks to chat with. Get A Free AOL ScreenName Here to get started. Full support of text, voice, video and and now - file & screen-sharing with the latest OSX 10.5 Leopard iChatAV version. [FYI: If you get errors trying to do video chat, especially with with PC users, it's often because of Router, Firewall or Internet Security Blocking software far more common on the PC end. Try Skype instead.)
Looking for new iChat Pals? For general "Upscale Social & Professional Networking" as they call it: www.iChatFinder.com Or, check out www.iChatters.com for finding video chat pals from the Gay, Lesbian & Alternative GLBT communities.

ISPQ VIDEOCHAT <-> MAC & PC:

Unlike many chat apps, ISPQ has an INTEGRATED COMMUNITY: You can browse profiles & member pics, text message with still images and audio clips - and optionally video chat: 1 on 1 or Multi-party. Community is a key feature sorely missing from some other standalone Mac chat apps. Offers both 'Nice' Social as well as Frisky Adult chat rooms you can browse - Not for the kiddies. A commercial app that offers a free 21-day trial to test drive. This is a Fully-Featured conferencing program the Apple & PC platform has - in most aspects - what iChat ought to be.
[FYI: ISPQ's parent, NanoCom used to license out it's video conferencing code. The still VERY popular iCUii software once used it and was both Mac & Windows compatible. A fallout with NanoComm led iCUii to rewrite its app from scratch for PC-only. NanoCom morphed its code into ISPQ - and continues to provide a truly cross-platform videoconference app - for all of us. ] Using Boot Camp, VMware or Parallels: Mac users on Intel might try Windows PC options to give iCUii a looksee.

YAHOO MESSENGER MAC:

Recent improvements to the latest v.3 beta version of Yahoo! Messenger Mac for OSX helps. Large community of users since anyone @yahoo.com can potentially video-conference. Yahoo also recently added the ability to chat with MSN Messenger folk @msn.com and @hotmail.com. Doesn't support audio during video connections, so it's text chat with optional video only. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

MSN MESSENGER MAC:

For years, Microsoft MSN Messenger for Macintosh didn't support video AT ALL. The least capable Mac chat program; for text only and exchanging files, but has a huge userbase. Last year they added compatibility with @yahoo.com buds, so you can add Yahooers to your Pal list now. Microsoft recently added video support in the NEW Messenger 7 for Mac which followed their release of Office 2008 for Mac. But... video functions are supported ONLY FOR 'CORPORATE' ACCOUNTS and NOT 'PERSONAL ACCOUNTS' that the majority of us have. Perhaps Microsoft is using Corporate users as a test-bed first, and may eventually enable webcam video in MSN Messenger for the rest of us in future releases. There are two alternate MSN clones for Mac that try to do video; Mercury Messenger and AMSN. Both are rather Geeky and somewhat-flakey and sorta fail to deliver a commercial quality Messenger video compatible application solution the average user can just enjoy using.

IVISIT FOR MAC & PC - AND PDA'S:

Somewhat outdated, iVisit has been around a long time: itsroots go all the way back to the dawn of video conferencing, shortly after CUSeeme made it even possible over a dial-up modem. It just hasn't kept up with modern day interface enhancements. It has 'Rooms' you can join, browse who's online, participate in group chat, private message, and video 1:1... but it feels like a Programmer who doesn't understand a Consumer's needs wrote it.

CAMFROG:

Only takes minutes to download the free version of CamFrog, set up an account, and start stumbling through rooms full of people! It works, it's easy, and overwhelming sometimes. It's a little too easy to drown in overlapping windows but it's very approachable for first-time video chatters.

VIDEO CAPTURE, CONVERT, SECURITY, SURVEILANCE, FTP:

There's some notable Freeware, Shareware and Pay-For video and camera utilities to use with your webcam: Video converters to prep clips for iPod like ISQUINT, HANDBRAKE & VIDDYUP! Capture programs like BEAR'S HAND & BTV. Webcam Security and time-lapse surveilence apps with FTP uploading like BOINX iSTOPMOTION, KEYCAMX and IMAGECASTER. Some of the most useful chat add-on utilities come from ecamm.com like IUSBCAM which enables iChat USB video support on older Macs - and the highly recommended iGLASSES which allows you to adjust colors, brightness, zoom and more on both external webcams and built-in iSight as well. Just some of many great Mac webcam programs all worth mentioning.

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MSN
He was already using MSN. To keep things simple I tried to find an MSN client for Mac that would do video chat (or at a minimum voice chat). Don’t bother with this - it is folly.

Google Talk
I forgot that google talk doesn’t do video, but we couldn’t even get voice going from (Windows + Google Talk) -> (Mac + iChat).

Yahoo
This one was cruel. You can get video to work between (Windows + Yahoo client) -> (Mac + Yahoo client), but no audio. Who would use that? Cruel.

AIM
I found some web sites that say this will work, but we could not get it to work. (Windows XP + AIM client (no firewall)) -> (Mac 10.5.1 + iChat (no firewall)). We couldn’t get voice or video. In fact, iChat wouldn’t even acknowledge he had audio or video capabilities. I was disappointed with this one (and Google Talk) as it would’ve kept all my video chatting to iChat.

Skype
Finally we both downloaded Skype, and it just worked. We installed the application, created accounts, initiated video chats, and were chatting within minutes. (It is a well behaved Mac application to boot).

One last cool thing about Skype is it says it works on Linux too. I don’t have a Linux box with a camera so I can’t try it, but I am impressed they support Linux. If I had money, I’d invest a bit in Skype.

Sites que vendem instrumentos musicais

2008-03-11T15:22:00.000-03:00

http://www.musicalgrellmann.com.br/
http://www.americanas.com.br/cat/17350/eacom
http://www.foxtrot.com.br/index.asp?
http://www.hendrixmusic.com.br/
http://www.musicware.com.br/
http://www.instrumentosusados.com.br/default2.asp
http://www.madeinbrazil.com.br/
http://www.playtech.com.br/
http://www.reference.com.br/index.php
http://www.submarino.com.br/musical.asp?Query=ProductPage&ProdTypeId=3 2
http://www.tangomusic.com.br/
http://www.twotone.com.br/

Retirado de http://forum.cifraclub.terra.com.br/forum/3/2161/

Wireless com Broadcom no linux

2008-03-11T15:14:00.003-03:00

Solução que eu encontrei para fazer a rede sem fio funcionar com a placa wi-fi Broadcom. Placas dessa marca tem suporte limitado no linux, usando uma gambiarra que envolve extrair os arquivos do driver para Windows... detalhe importante: usando kernel 2.6:

Has anyone had luck with the new b43 driver and BCM94311 wireless? I'm further along than I was but now I seem out of ideas...

Obviously I installed b43-fwcutter and loaded the broadcom firmware (another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647273&highlight=b43))

I was getting an interface named wlan0_rename or wmaster0 until I used udev to set the interface name to wlan0. Before this I couldn't see any networks...

Using WICD I can connect to my AP with DHCP or Static. I can even use dhclient to renew my IP. I can't however ping my AP or anything for that matter (excluding my own NIC).

While trying to ping it says 'sendmsg not permitted' ...100% packet loss.
Dmesg says: 'Unknown IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=192.168.5.5 DEST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx..... etc

Also, when doing 'iwlist wlan scanning' my results are spotty... sometimes it works, more often it doesn't...

Any ideas? Thanks
walkerk
December 26th, 2007, 10:36 AM
Ok I figured it out. I posted the solution on another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=646755) of mine...

Here it is in case anyone else runs into a similar situation...
(you'll still get wlan0_rename or wmaster0 as a useless, unknown interface but your wireless will come off of eth1.)
> In order to get my card working correctly (BCM94311MCG) after installing the Broadcom firmware I had to do the following:

1. Alter the the NICs persistent interface name:
gksu gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

2. Now remove any interfaces already listed with your WLAN NIC's MAC address.

3. Add the following and then save and exit: (Replace 00:00:00:00:00:00 with your WLAN NIC's MAC address.)
# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4311 (b43)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:00", NAME="eth1"

4. Now create an alias for eth1 and b43:
echo 'alias eth1 b43' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/b43

5. Reboot

Retirado de http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-649038.html

Primeira foto com o k550

2008-01-07T17:12:00.000-03:00

Finalmente um celular com uma camera decente.

Eu sentado, com a carteira que ganhei (a antiga tava um bagaço).

Amarok

2007-11-30T23:47:00.000-03:00

There is no available decoder.

Erro que tive ao atualizar o sistema. Parece que tem algo a ver com mp3 e licenças... pra resolver, basta recompilar a xine-lib com a flag mad.

Redimensionando partições no linux

2007-11-30T23:39:00.000-03:00

Estava procurando uma forma de unir duas partições contíguas, ambas linux (ext3). Depois de muito pesquisar, achei o qtparted. Mas tive alguns problemas, resolvidos com o gparted, e o melhor é que foi muito fácil.

Basta baixar e queimar a iso do live cd do Knoppix, bootar o pc por ele, abrir o terminal, digitar 'sudo su', e depois 'gparted', vai abrir o programa. Apaguei uma das partições (estava vazia), e redimensionei a outra (que continha apenas o '/' =p).

As Maiores Bilheterias do Cinema no Brasil (top 5)

2007-11-23T00:39:00.000-03:00

As 5 maiores bilheterias no Brasil

Top	Filme	Ano	Publico
01	TITANIC	1997	16.377.686
02	TUBARÃO	1976	13.035.000
03	DONA FLOR E SEUS 2 MARIDOS	1975	10.735.000
04	INFERNO NA TORRE	1975	10.377.000
05	GHOST: DO OUTRO LADO DA VIDA	1990	10.035.000

As Maiores Bilheterias do Cinema no Brasil (números gerais)

2007-11-22T19:19:00.000-03:00

Algo muito difícil de achar na internet... caçando no google, achei algumas listas em uns poucos sites, umas muito desatualizadas, outras somente sobre filmes nacionais... ia colocar algumas aqui (só porque tive muito trabalho pra achar =]), mas de última hora resolvi entrar no site da Ancine (Agência Nacional de Cinema), e surpresa, tem uma várias coisas interessantes lá... também tem vários dados que não entendo absolutamente nada (alguém sabe a diferença entre investidor e incentivador?)

Dual monitors Linux (Nview)

2007-08-29T21:11:00.000-03:00

Utilizar twinview (dois monitores) no linux com driver da nvidia (versão 1.0-9755 ou anterior) sem realizar o procedimento abaixo funciona, porém configurar um monitor lcd como primário (crt como secundário) é simplesmente ignorado. O problema ocorre com o xorg, que a partir da versão 1.3 mudou a versão reportada do próprio package (antes, a versão instalada era reportada como 7.2.*, e passou a ser 1.*). Isso faz com que o driver da nvidia instale os módulos do servidor X no lugar errado. Abaixo explica como instalar o driver manualmente passando como parâmetro o local correto de instalação dos módulos.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?s=a6973662485708a533aae0b1d558554d&p=1225802&postcount=2

1.0-9755 and older on xorg-server-1.3 and its release candidates

The 1.3 series of the X.org server has a bug where the version reported changed from 7.2.* to 1.*. This confuses nvidia-installer into thinking that your X server is very old and it installs the X modules in the wrong place. To work around this problem, use the following options:

# sh NVIDIA-Linux-version.run --x-module-path=`X -showDefaultModulePath 2>&1 | cut -d, -f1` --x-library-path=`X -showDefaultLibPath 2>&1`

The 100.14.* drivers do not need this workaround.

32-bit distributions with 64-bit kernels

Some distributions have the option of installing a 64-bit kernel for use with all 32-bit userspace programs. This configuration is not supported by the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver. If you try to install the 64-bit driver package on such a system, you will receive an error like the following:

./nvidia-installer: No such file or directory

If you have this configuration, use your distribution's package manager to install a 32-bit kernel and then install the 32-bit version of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver.

Evangelion

2007-07-16T14:14:00.000-03:00

"Dias chuvosos fazem você se sentir triste
Mas você pode se divertir num dia de chuva também."

"Mas as pessoas, podem apenas ver coisas pela perspectiva que escolhem.
Sua verdade pode ser alterada, simplesmente, pela maneira como você a aceita.
Sua visão da realidade, muda sua percepção da natureza. Isso é tudo, literalmente, questão de perspectiva.
Existem tantas possibilidades quanto pessoas. Mas existe apenas uma verdade, que é a sua. É aquela que é formada por qualquer ponto de vista que você deseja tomar."

Evangelion

Criar arquivo Zip no PHP

2007-07-01T19:27:00.000-03:00

*
* http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=470&single=1
* by Denis125
*
* a patch from Peter Listiak for last modified
* date and time of the compressed file
*
* Official ZIP file format: http://www.pkware.com/appnote.txt
*
* @access public
*/
class zipfile
{
/**
* Array to store compressed data
*
* @var array $datasec
*/
var $datasec = array();

/**
* Central directory
*
* @var array $ctrl_dir
*/
var $ctrl_dir = array();

/**
* End of central directory record
*
* @var string $eof_ctrl_dir
*/
var $eof_ctrl_dir = "\x50\x4b\x05\x06\x00\x00\x00\x00";

/**
* Last offset position
*
* @var integer $old_offset
*/
var $old_offset = 0;

/**
* Converts an Unix timestamp to a four byte DOS date and time format (date
* in high two bytes, time in low two bytes allowing magnitude comparison).
*
* @param integer the current Unix timestamp
*
* @return integer the current date in a four byte DOS format
*
* @access private
*/
function unix2DosTime($unixtime = 0) {
$timearray = ($unixtime == 0) ? getdate() : getdate($unixtime);

if ($timearray['year'] <>> 1);
} // end of the 'unix2DosTime()' method

/**
* Adds "file" to archive
*
* @param string file contents
* @param string name of the file in the archive (may contains the path)
* @param integer the current timestamp
*
* @access public
*/
function addFile($data, $name, $time = 0)
{
$name = str_replace('\\', '/', $name);

$dtime = dechex($this->unix2DosTime($time));
$hexdtime = '\x' . $dtime[6] . $dtime[7]
. '\x' . $dtime[4] . $dtime[5]
. '\x' . $dtime[2] . $dtime[3]
. '\x' . $dtime[0] . $dtime[1];
eval('$hexdtime = "' . $hexdtime . '";');

$fr = "\x50\x4b\x03\x04";
$fr .= "\x14\x00"; // ver needed to extract
$fr .= "\x00\x00"; // gen purpose bit flag
$fr .= "\x08\x00"; // compression method
$fr .= $hexdtime; // last mod time and date

// "local file header" segment
$unc_len = strlen($data);
$crc = crc32($data);
$zdata = gzcompress($data);
$zdata = substr(substr($zdata, 0, strlen($zdata) - 4), 2); // fix crc bug
$c_len = strlen($zdata);
$fr .= pack('V', $crc); // crc32
$fr .= pack('V', $c_len); // compressed filesize
$fr .= pack('V', $unc_len); // uncompressed filesize
$fr .= pack('v', strlen($name)); // length of filename
$fr .= pack('v', 0); // extra field length
$fr .= $name;

// "file data" segment
$fr .= $zdata;

// "data descriptor" segment (optional but necessary if archive is not
// served as file)
$fr .= pack('V', $crc); // crc32
$fr .= pack('V', $c_len); // compressed filesize
$fr .= pack('V', $unc_len); // uncompressed filesize

// add this entry to array
$this -> datasec[] = $fr;

// now add to central directory record
$cdrec = "\x50\x4b\x01\x02";
$cdrec .= "\x00\x00"; // version made by
$cdrec .= "\x14\x00"; // version needed to extract
$cdrec .= "\x00\x00"; // gen purpose bit flag
$cdrec .= "\x08\x00"; // compression method
$cdrec .= $hexdtime; // last mod time & date
$cdrec .= pack('V', $crc); // crc32
$cdrec .= pack('V', $c_len); // compressed filesize
$cdrec .= pack('V', $unc_len); // uncompressed filesize
$cdrec .= pack('v', strlen($name) ); // length of filename
$cdrec .= pack('v', 0 ); // extra field length
$cdrec .= pack('v', 0 ); // file comment length
$cdrec .= pack('v', 0 ); // disk number start
$cdrec .= pack('v', 0 ); // internal file attributes
$cdrec .= pack('V', 32 ); // external file attributes - 'archive' bit set

$cdrec .= pack('V', $this -> old_offset ); // relative offset of local header
$this -> old_offset += strlen($fr);

$cdrec .= $name;

// optional extra field, file comment goes here
// save to central directory
$this -> ctrl_dir[] = $cdrec;
} // end of the 'addFile()' method

/**
* Dumps out file
*
* @return string the zipped file
*
* @access public
*/
function file()
{
$data = implode('', $this -> datasec);
$ctrldir = implode('', $this -> ctrl_dir);

return
$data .
$ctrldir .
$this -> eof_ctrl_dir .
pack('v', sizeof($this -> ctrl_dir)) . // total # of entries "on this disk"
pack('v', sizeof($this -> ctrl_dir)) . // total # of entries overall
pack('V', strlen($ctrldir)) . // size of central dir
pack('V', strlen($data)) . // offset to start of central dir
"\x00\x00"; // .zip file comment length
} // end of the 'file()' method

/**
* A Wrapper of original addFile Function
*
* Created By Hasin Hayder at 29th Jan, 1:29 AM
*
* @param array An Array of files with relative/absolute path to be added in Zip File
*
* @access public
*/
function addFiles($files /*Only Pass Array*/)
{
foreach($files as $file)
{
if (is_file($file)) //directory check
{
$data = implode("",file($file));
$this->addFile($data,$file);
}
}
}

/**
* A Wrapper of original file Function
*
* Created By Hasin Hayder at 29th Jan, 1:29 AM
*
* @param string Output file name
*
* @access public
*/
function output($file)
{
$fp=fopen($file,"w");
fwrite($fp,$this->file());
fclose($fp);
}

} // end of the 'zipfile' class
?>

addFiles(array("um.pdf","dois.jpg")); //array of files
$ziper->output("myzip.zip");
?>

RPG's Nintendo DS

2007-07-01T19:26:00.000-03:00

Fazendo uma listinha aqui de cabeça:
FFIII*
Lunar Knights*
Advance Wars
Etrian Odyssey
Pokemons
FF Chocobo Fables
FF Crystal Chronicles (do carvalho pra multiplayer)*
Dragon Quest não lembro o nome
Lunar

Japas/Lançando em breve:
FFXII Revenant Wings*
Xenosaga
FF Tactics A2*
Wakfu
Megaman sei lá o que
Dragon Quest IX*
Zelda*
It's a wonderfull world*

Os com * são os que tem cadeira fixa na minha wishlist xD muitos dessa lista eu só vi vídeos e imagens mas ainda não vi se realmente são bons, ainda tem uns que eu só sei que existe e são meio caça-níqueis tipo Inuyasha RPG, Naruto RPG, Full Metal Alchemist e por aí vai (aliás tem rumor que vai sair um batten kaitos pro DS =o)

Enfim, RPG não vai te faltar não xD

QUOTE(zelda-foca @ 20/06/2007 - 16:00)

Desses eu tenho e recomendo o FF 3, Lunar Knights e o Etrian. São muito bons.
O FF Chocobo Tales estou jogando. É legalzinho, mas meio infantil. O DQ é + aventura. Divertido, mas pequeno
Dos que não sairam que acho que devem ser muito bons colocaria o FFCC, FF 12 Revenant wings, FF Tatics, Xenossaga, DQ 9 e claro Zelda.

Meu gosto vai por ai mesmo (comprei o GBA só pra jogar FFTacticsAdvance =p)...
Nem tinha percebido que o DS tinha bastante jogo de RPG bom

Alice

2007-06-02T20:21:00.001-03:00

Link

Primeiro post padrão

2007-06-02T17:07:00.000-03:00

Não sei sobre o que vou postar
Nem sei se alguém vai ler
Já que estou usando uma porrada de ferramentas do google, vai mais uma...
Pra um texto interessante (em inglês) falando como se dará o fim do google, vejam aqui:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070524_002134.html