Archive for September, 2007

Second Life

Friday, September 7th, 2007

 
What is Second Life? 
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 9,351,619 Residents from around the globe.

From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming [...]

Sensor Rise Powers Life Recorders

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Hewlett-Packard’s Trusted Systems Lab director Martin Sadler predicts that by 2057 there could be at least 1 million devices for every resident in the United Kingdom, and that a person’s entire life could be recorded on a network of intelligent sensors. However, Sadler warns that such massive amounts of collectable personal data could lead to [...]

Macao

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Last Saturday afternoon, after my friend closed his office around 5.30pm (Official closing time is noon :P), I accompanied him and his wife to Macao with the sole intention of seeing The Venetian, a newly opened casino dubbed largest casino in Asia (the world?).
We took the hovercraft - about 45minutes trip from the HK port [...]

How to rip protected/encrypted DVDs

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Well, it all started yesterday when a friend of mine gave me an original movie on DVD. As usual, i tried to make an image using nero to save it on my pc then watch it during week-end. But this time, i got an error message from nero saying it can’t copy this disc as it is copyrighted.

So, i tried to copy it manually but in vain. I then tried using a dvd ripper, the movie was ripped but the film was encrypted, damn it! it was encrypted! ” ti ena ban tipti carer partou”!!!

Finally today i found the solution and my DVD was successfully ripped!

DVD RIPPER 2.68

Boilsoft DVD Ripper is a powerful tool to rip your DVD movie to avi, wmv, vcd, svcd, iPod video MP4, PSP video MP4 and other format. with it, you can rip your DVD movie in small video files with a few clicks.

Boilsoft DVD Ripper is also a DVD to iPod Video Converter and DVD to PSP Video Converter. It helps you to convert DVD movie to Sony PSP, and convert DVD movie to iPod, fast conversion speed with great quality.

Boilsoft DVD Ripper is a all-in-one dvd ripping software, it has more settings you can customize, Just a couple of mouse clicks, you can backup dvd movie to hard disk or transfer to iPod or PSP.

DVD to AVI, DVD to WMV, DVD to VCD, DVD to SVCD, DVD to DVD all-in-one!

Features

-rip DVD to avi — xvid + mp3, xvid + ac3
-rip DVD to vcd, svcd and dvd, NTSC and PAL supported
-rip DVD to WMV, supported wmv 9 video codec and audio codec. - EXCLUSIVE!
-rip DVD to iPod video MP4.
-rip DVD to PSP video MP4.
-extract raw vob file
-allows you to select target subtitle and audio track.
-Support preview
-Remove all the restrictions of DVD (CSS, Region…)
-Rips SONY ARccOS protected DVD movies. - EXCLUSIVE!
-Rip each chapter or range of chapters to an individual file.





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UOM-comstudies Wiki

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Ive created a wiki for all those doing communication studies at UOM.
Here’s the URL:
htpp://comstudies.wetpaint.com
In fact a wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it (Source:Wikipedia)
It will enable anyone who join it to edit the pages and easily share resources among themselves. they can also have discussions [...]

The Origami swan of Prison Break

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

How to construct the Origami swan of prison break?

http://www.wonderlandblog.com/photos/uncategorized/prisonbreakdottheory.jpg

Step 1. Make a KITE BASE

. ori_swn3(invisible spacer)FOLD, then UNFOLD


TIPS:

Look at the picture; hold your paper exactly the same way.

Always look for the dashed line...it shows where the next fold happens.
Then look at the arrows…they show what movement will happen.
An arrow head at BOTH ends means FOLD and then UNFOLD.

Think about this for a minute. You are learning a new SYMBOL LANGUAGE!


Step 2. Finishing the Kite Base

ori_swn4Fold lower edges to CENTER crease.


TIPS:

Check the dashed lines. Where do you think they will be on your paper?
What do the arrows hint at?

Look at the NEXT picture to see what you are aiming for…


Step 3. Congratulations! This is the KITE BASE.TIPS:

ori_swn5
Your paper should look like this. Notice how the illustration tries to tell you that the back of the paper (which is gray) now shows. If you folded your paper really well you won’t have a gap between the edges in the middle. DON”T OVERLAP those edges!!!! (That sometimes will wreck your work by locking stuff together so it rips!)
The pictures sometimes show a gap to make it easier to see what is happening

This goofy little symbol means something. Look at the next picture to see if that helps you guess…



Step 4.

ori_swn6

TIPS:

Did you guess the symbol meant TURN THE PAPER OVER?

What clues should you be looking at now?
…the dashed lines..
…the arrows….



Step 5.

ori_swn8(OOPS…I forgot the arrow telling you to fold up the bottom’s point.)

TIP:

Notice where the dashed line is…
and look at the next picture to see where the point ends up.

This makes the swan’s neck.


Step 6.

Fold down the head.

TIPS:
How big do you want the head?

You can change what the bird looks like a lot by varying the length of the neck or of the head.


Step 7.

Fold the swan in half
along the dashed line.

TIPS:

Think about what the arrows are trying to tell you….



Step 8

Grab the swan by its little neck and pull the paper up until it looks right to you!


Then squeeze the paper at the base of its neck to crease it.

The last step is to pull up its little swan head so it looks forward…..you can figure it out so I’m not going to bother to show you a picture.


Congratulations!! You have done it!

Magical Maths Equation wizard

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Well i found this program on the net and i hope it will help you to improve your maths!! LOL….mmmm actually its for lazy persons like me!
Yes! it will help improve your maths but IN A DESCENDING ORDER!!!

Anyway check it out:

We are all used to making calculations on a calculator. It seems quite natural to let an electronic device do this job. But besides simple arithmetical calculations, there are more intellectual tasks. One of them is solving algebraic equations.

If you study at university or school, you have to deal with this task quite often. We highly value your abilities and are sure that you can solve any equation yourself, but is it worth spending time on it? Do you think that there is no other way than solving them manually? Then we are proud to present you the first calculator for the completely automatic solving of math equations!

You probably looked for such programs already and were disappointed by their quality (ex. online quadratic equation calculators). If this is the case, let me tell you about great features of our equation solver - Equation Wizard.

Equation Solver

So, the program automatically solves algebraic equations written in any form. It means that you do not have to make any preliminary calculations or study the equation. Just type the equation in the program the way you see it in your textbook or notebook. Thanks to its artificial intelligence, the program will analyze the equation and step by step reduce it to a canonical form.

At the same time, the final solving looks so natural as if it was made by an experienced mathematician. Each step of the solving has an explanation so you will even be able to learn how to solve algebraic equations yourself if you just view results in Equation Wizard. After the equation is reduced to a canonical form, the solver determines its order and finds its roots. And it can be any equation - linear, square, cubic or, for instance, of the seventh power. Equation Wizard finds both real and imaginary roots in order to give you the most comprehensive solving.

Besides its smart solvings, the program has a convenient input and displays data in a visual way. Just enter an equation the way you are used to and click one button! In an instant, you will get the solving with detailed explanations, formulas in each step of the solving and the roots of the equation. After that all you will have to do is to print the solving of the equation or save it to a file. What used to take half an hour and several pages full of notes will take several seconds without any effort from you with Equation Wizard.

With its powerful analytic engine, Equation Wizard also allows you to simplify math expressions thus saving your time no matter what calculations you are making. And that is not all that makes the program your indispensable everyday assistant.

Solved math problems
-: Linear equation solving
-: Quadratic equation solving
-: Cubic equation solving
-: High order equation solving
-: Nth degree equation solving
-: Expression simplifying
-: Expression calculating

Homepage : http://www.equationwizard.com/

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