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Tracks Rockin' The Monkey House
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Thursday, September 28
BBC and Microsoft join farces, sorry i mean forces
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 28 Sep 2006 15:01 BST
BBC
director general Mark Thompson and Microsoft's Bill Gates have signed
an agreement to work on exploring opportunities for the delivery and
consumption of BBC content. The plans include an online
archive, and radically overhauled website and other ways to share
online content in the future. Thompson
said the BBC needed to forge strategic partnerships with technology
companies for the benefit of licence payers. Highfield added that
Microsoft was a key supplier to the BBC and that it was a gateway to
audiences through web services such as MSN and Windows Live Messenger
and hardware such as Xbox and Windows Media Center. He added:
"The BBC needs to work with all players in this space to make sure our
content is enjoyed by the widest possible audience, without them having
to come to bbc.co.uk to find it." Areas
of potential collaboration include search and navigation, distribution
and content enablement. Any actual procurements of new technology or
launch of new services by the BBC would be subject to regulatory
approval. ---- But as a license payer does that mean I'm paying for everyone to see it around the world, where is the added value for me?
Friday, September 22
Thank god for that. Ricky Gervais shuts his mouth for once
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 22 Sep 2006 14:54 BST
Ricky Gervais is to quit producing podcasts joking he had to "knock it on the head before everyone hates us. I
was trying something out. I wanted to see if I could cut out the middle
man and make podcasting a commercial concern." ----- Sorry Ricky everyone hates you already...stopping podcast isn't going to change that.
Tuesday, September 19
Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 19 Sep 2006 16:10 BST
EFF says Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and
Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo!
Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. It seems that
all of the 'PlaysforSure' media that has been sold and is currently being sold
will not play on the Zune. In addition, Microsoft has now advocated violating
the DMCA in order to transfer files to the player. Microsoft Zune architect J
Allard was quoted as saying there's 'Lots of DVD ripping software out there that
encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it's
MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those.'" full article http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004910.php
Friday, September 15
Fancy a XBOX 360 portable.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 15 Sep 2006 16:02 BST
Ben Heckendorn has re-configured his console into a laptop
form-factor. With a resolution of 1,280
x 720, it's HD ready. Portable XBOX 360. pictures: http://benheck.com/Games/Xbox360/x360_page_5.htm
BT launches YouTube service with a podcast twist
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 15 Sep 2006 10:21 BST
BT has unveiled plans to launch a podcasting site. It has teamed up with the Podshow Network.
UK version ... more »
Sunday, September 3
Mitsubishi announces 1920x1080 projectors for home-use
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 03 Sep 2006 17:54 BST
Friday, September 1
Tuner not found in Media Centre 2005
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 01 Sep 2006 00:47 BST
Last night I got Tuner Not Found
error messages when trying to view and TV in Media Center 2005. This was after installing and windows express update. I looked at the update and it had installed .Net 2.0 for some reason it had turned off some services and now wouldn't restart them without an error message I used the following steps to fix
these services, and once I did this, live TV started working again in
Media Center 2005 with Update Rollup 2.
- Click on the Start menu, choose Run and type cmd, cut and paste each line and hit return after each line.
regsvr32.exe atl.dll
%windir%\ehome\ehrecvr.exe /unregServer
%windir%\ehome\ehsched.exe /unregServer
%windir%\ehome\ehrecvr.exe /service
%windir%\ehome\ehsched.exe /service
Tuesday, August 29
Microsfot DRM hacked
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 29 Aug 2006 14:40 BST
A program called Fairuse4wm has been posted on the net
and is apparently capable of breaching Microsoft's Digital Rights
Management (DRM) system.
FairUse4WM is a GUI version of drmdbg that supports individualization version .3930 and some WM11 versions.
Basic requirements
1. Only works on individualized DRM file
2. Requires WM10 or WM11. Won't work on WM9.
Friday, August 25
Apple recall on laptop batteries
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 25 Aug 2006 08:48 BST
The announcement affects laptop computers - the iBook G4 and Powerbook G4 - sold between October 2003 and August 2006.
"We discovered that some Sony batteries in previous
models of PowerPC-based iBooks and PowerBooks do not meet Apple's
standards for safety and performance," Apple said in a statement.
| Computer model name | Battery model number | Battery serial numbers |
|---|
| 12-inch iBook G4 | A1061 | ZZ338 through ZZ427
3K429 through 3K611
6C510 through 6C626 |
| 12-inch PowerBook G4 | A1079 | ZZ411 through ZZ427
3K428 through 3K611 |
| 15-inch PowerBook G4 | A1078 and A1148 | 3K425 through 3K601
6N530 through 6N551
6N601 |
Remedy:
Consumers should stop using the recalled batteries immediately and
contact Apple to arrange for a replacement battery, free of charge.
After removing the recalled battery from their iBook or PowerBook,
consumers should plug in the AC adapter to power the computer until a
replacement battery arrives.
Consumer Contact: : Contact Apple at (800) 275-2273 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. CT Monday through Sunday or log on to Apple’s Web site at http://support.apple.com/batteryprogram to check the battery’s serial number and request a replacement battery.
Thursday, August 24
sorry for the outage
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 24 Aug 2006 17:18 BST
Well it seems my blog was getting a little popular and I exceeded my bandwidth allocation, so I've upgrade my site and we are back rocking and rolling.
Tuesday, August 22
WEP encryption cracked easily and quickly...
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 22 Aug 2006 13:55 BST
http://tapir.cs.ucl.ac.uk/bittau-wep.pdfWorried about continued toWEP at home, this new research finally provides a crack that's usable, within a few hours. You'd need access via another connection to a host already on the internet, some carefully selected hardware and this new software, but you can in about 2 hours read all the traffic, and connect to and use the network. Time to change encryption
Tuesday, August 15
M$ 1 Sony 0
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 15 Aug 2006 14:52 BST
Friend Roy did post:
Microsoft have just pulled their joker out of the hat before the Playstation3 launch. After learning from the original xbox hackers and
giving the 360 a mediacentre, (they did Actually credit the xbox hackers in their launch video), they've now announced that they will not only allow homebrew content on the 360, they are encouraging it!
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10458
And Sony must be sick to their stomach as they were the most well known company for doing this with their PS1 Net Yaroze project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze
Friday, August 11
Happy Birthday "the PC"
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 11 Aug 2006 11:05 BST
Today is the PC's 25th Birthday, 25 years ago IBM displayed their 5150 to the public, oh what have you done! 
Monday, July 31
bring out your dead...Quack
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 31 Jul 2006 15:13 BST
pple has asked owners of its 15in MacBook Pro notebook who bought their
machine between February and May 2006 to ... more »
HDMI Standard evolves
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 31 Jul 2006 10:31 BST
While talking in
the office James mentioned that there was going to be yet another leap
in the HDMI Standard, ... more »
Sunday, July 30
The strange things that turn up in your log files
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 30 Jul 2006 18:36 BST
I was doing a bit of house keeping on my webserver this afternoon and came across the very strange entry ... more »
Saturday, July 29
Image processing the microsoft way
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 29 Jul 2006 22:41 BST
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/whatis/default.htmlPhotosynth is a new image processing technology from Microsoft that takes a collection of images (say, of a famous ... more »
Wednesday, July 26
Oh the Joys of ordering online
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 26 Jul 2006 00:07 BST
On Friday I ordered a USB tv tuner for my new pc. I did the normal web search for the ... more »
Tuesday, July 25
Digital music player for the serious
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 09:40 BST
Wi-fi music player gets serious
it plays for Compressed formats (MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MusePack, WMA), Uncompressed formats (AIFF, WAV, PCM) and of course Lossless Formats (Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA Lossless) It seem they really have up'd their game and not compromised with any of the parts or connectors in this one and at $1,999 (£1,079) is not that too pricey for the audiophile pockets.DataSheet
Manufactures website
AMD to buy graphics vendor ATI for $5.4B
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 00:15 BST
It’s a TLA Day, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to buy Canadian
graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. for about $5.4 billion in cash
and stock, the companies announced today.
Rumors that AMD would buy ATI have circulated for a couple of months. If
approved, the deal will add significantly to AMD's product line, bringing in
a lineup of cutting-edge graphics chips and chip sets that include
integrated graphics capabilities. Much like the Intel line up
Monday, July 17
How to fry an egg... on an Apple MacBook
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:54 BST
Now we know why Apple's notebooks run hot - the company wants you to
own a computer you can cook ... more »
ContentAgent 2.1
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 12:00 BST
James the CTO of Root6 Technology post in his blog
ContentAgent 2.1 has just gone into the final stages of testing. Some of the new features include:
![CropperCapture[3]](http://www.clarkezone.net/showicon.jhci?id=e988e523-7026-4e87-b438-513ad9bfeb4d) Avid MXF Writing Enhacements
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Support for 28:1, 15:1 and 14:1 JFIF resolutions in PAL and NTSC -
Insertion of Timecode metadata intro resulting MXF file
General Enhancements
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Enhanced support for running ContentAgent on “Full” Windows XP (as well as XP Embedded) -
On-screen keyboards throughout UI ![CropperCapture[12]](http://www.clarkezone.net/showicon.jhci?id=7a4f6bed-4448-43e1-b514-a8dc1f11fd17) -
Touchscreen support in workflow designer -
Template import from ContentAgent v1.3 -
Enhanced performance for browsing folders with large number of files -
Improvements to the licensing system
Capture Enhancements
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Visual adjustments for video cropping boarders -
Input Proc Amp controls for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Colour Gain, Colour Balance, Gamma -
Vertical blanking support for handling 608 line capture (PAL) and 512 line (NTSC) -
Improved input video format detection -
Live capture for a set time period
Image sequence creation
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Platinum Transcode engine can now transcode video to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, Targa, PNG, JPEG2000 and DPX file sequences ![CropperCapture[15]](http://www.clarkezone.net/showicon.jhci?id=3b6bb3c2-8ba8-4629-aad2-557eca935f6c)
MPEG Multiplexing Workflow node
AutoCropping on still frame grabs
Export clip metadata as XML
This release will be available as a free-of-charge update to all on software maintenance.
Friday, July 14
You call is important to us!
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 16:52 BST
How important, so important that we don't answer your call and when we do we cut you off. So more hold music at the back of the queue when you call back. Isn't it wonderful when people don't do there job and promise you that they will sort it, rearraging a delivery for the day you can make rather than a day when you can't, are you listening Dell Customer Service.Have you ever though about asking your staff to do what they say to customers. I won't name and shame yet but if a company is judged by the way it treats it customers through customer service the Dell has poor third world customer service,
Courier Companies
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 13:19 BST
I've always
wondered by courier companies never ring the person they are going to delivery
to before they send the ... more »
Monday, July 10
German archivists have found a way to store and access digital data for centuries -- convert it to analog.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 17:18 BST
The data pool in
the universe is continuously growing. More and more information is
being saved digitally on CDs and DVDs -- but these thin silver disks
have a life-span of only about five years. That may be sufficient for
the average user at home or work, but archives and libraries face the
threat of massive loss.
At the end of June,
specialists gathered for a colloquium in the library at the University
of Stuttgart. They met to conclude the so called ARCHE project, which
sought a long-term solution for storing digital data -- and found one.
microfilm http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2079655,00.html
Tomorrow is D-day
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 15:25 BST
Tuesday is D-Day for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME users. After some
extensions, Microsoft is finally ending its association ... more »
Friday, July 7
PlayStation 2 in VAT Sting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 07 Jul 2006 16:18 BST
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd have been caught by the TaxMan They have been calling the Playstation 2 machines as ... more »
Thursday, July 6
Sky launches its text to record service
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 12:37 BST
Sky
has launched a service allowing customers to text their Sky+ boxes from
anywhere in the world, instructing it to ... more »
Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 10:50 BST
Monday, July 3
WiMAX in the UK. Here's why it won't fly
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 03 Jul 2006 17:43 BST
This article is from old friend Steve KennedyThe Article is from the great technology news service http://www.theregister.co.uk
WiMAX is ... more »
Friday, June 30
Fatman iTube
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 30 Jun 2006 16:12 BST
Forget today's synthetic sound systems - if you want to give your
digital tracks the audiophile treatment, you need to take a look at the
Fatman iTube.
Yes, it's an old-fashioned valve amp for your portable player, which
promises to give the music from your iPod "a luscious warm analogue
sound". While old-school technology might be at work for the music
output, the iTube is still a very modern piece of kit. It's essentially
a docking station for all iPods (except the shuffle), which comes with
a remote control so you can sit back and enjoy the music - or if you
hook it up to the TV, you can enjoy your pictures and video clips,
again controlled by the remote. Will it really improve your music that much? You can find out in July, when it goes on sale for £300. http://www.fat-man.co.uk/
Thursday, June 29
dedicated 2nd video out from the ibooks
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 29 Jun 2006 14:47 BST
Owen a good friend and Video Artist
has told me that "You can get dedicated 2nd video
out from the ibooks – it’s built into the graphics card, but has been disabled
in the operating system. Install this - http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
and you have a dedicated second video out J
It’s installed on Tony’s ibook and has been
on two of Andy’s without any negative effects…there’s even the software to undo
it should you want to take it in for repair and not have a voided
warranty….
Tuesday, June 27
when is 2K not 2K
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 00:29 BST
When your uprez'ing to DCI 2K from Standard 2K files, oh how many times am i going to refering to ... more »
Friday, June 23
Roys New Toy
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 14:41 BST
help people send big links via the web or for that matter over the telphone its called threesimplewords.net more »
Gamma Curves
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:44 BST
This was a post that Phil the Chief Engineer here at Root6 made in his blog regarding Gama Curves and future developement of ContentAgent..... permlink to the post
Broadcast live
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:21 BST
just having spent three days on a stand setting my purple flares 'hot wares' at Broadcast live www.broadcastlive.co.ukat Earl Court Two, were the great and the good of the Television industry came to look at shiny boxes and electronics with blue leds on them, I bumped into a few old faces and had a good time meeting some new ones and hopefully soon to be good customers as well. Had the wonder pleasure of showing the sales people at Sony how to dub one tape format to another with audio. The key to it guys is arming the audio tracks, giggles He's a picture of top bloke Phil...is it all going well Phil?  Other pictures here and here
Sunday, June 18
order your Sony Playstation 3 now
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Jun 2006 01:59 BST
Bloody hell not at that price....Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year. Pre order now for disappointment at Christmas, at the very cheap honest guv price of £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
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