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libkitty - Nov 22, 2004 6:36:39 pm PST #101 of 10003
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Thanks Daniel (and tommyrot). The addition to the dialing string seems to have done the trick. Whoot!


Vonnie K - Nov 23, 2004 8:07:42 am PST #102 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Help! I'm in the process of (trying) to create my first VCD with very little tech know-how, and having trouble even getting started.

So, the set-up is;

1) I have completed bit torrents embedded in Azureus.
2) I have downloaded TMPEnc for Avi --> MPEG conversion
3) Also downloaded the demo version of VCDEasy.

So, the first step seems to be to select the source file in TMPEnc wizard for conversion, but the thing is, the I don't have a separate free-standing avi-file--I can get at it only by opening Azureus and opening the completed file/folder/whatever. How do I export this file out of Azureus so that I could put it in the TMPEnc?

Another thing--I do have a free-standing avi-file at home, which I've tried to convert to MPEG last night, but the specification said the file would end up being 240% the size of the available 700 MB space on a CD. How do you tweak that so that you could get a reasonably-sized file?

You know, it'd be nice if some had done a step-by-step tutorial of the thing and put it on the web...


DXMachina - Nov 23, 2004 8:11:36 am PST #103 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Vonnie, there are tutorials here: [link]

eta: And here's a good place to start: [link]


Vonnie K - Nov 23, 2004 8:25:29 am PST #104 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Thanks so much!


tommyrot - Nov 23, 2004 9:21:13 am PST #105 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

If someone has a very agressive popup-blocker, the Javascript "Alert()" function will still work, right?


§ ita § - Nov 23, 2004 3:35:55 pm PST #106 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just got an e-mail telling me that my ebay account had been suspended.

And to go to http://cgii1ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI/ddl/ to log in and update my eBay records, but it also says:

you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the update of your actual account.

So, anyway, not logging in there (although it didn't accept my fake password), seem to still be able to log into ebay proper -- the weird thing is, the neither the subject header nor the domain name turn up anything in google.

Domain registry is a bit of a giveaway, but still. Kinda spooky to get something phishy with no evidence already out there on the web.


P.M. Marc - Nov 23, 2004 4:35:25 pm PST #107 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Did you forward it to the ebay address they have for forwarding those things? I was getting a whole bunch of them about three/four months back.


§ ita § - Nov 23, 2004 4:41:51 pm PST #108 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

D'oh. I forwarded it to the last mailserver domain to touch it, as well as the hosts for cgii1ebay.com.

eBay may be even more interested.


P.M. Marc - Nov 23, 2004 4:43:12 pm PST #109 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It's something like spoof@ebay.com, I think.


§ ita § - Nov 23, 2004 4:48:56 pm PST #110 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I found a form on their site and just used that.

I feel all early adopter and shit.

eta: also useless, since their form bounced the mail back