Sony VGN-NR110E Windows XP Drivers

I've had troubles installing drivers for this laptop, since I've had to reinstall everything over recently (twice: once because my harddrive failed on me, and the second time because my computer got a virus that I figured it would just be easier to reinstall.) This pack will have the drivers for everything, unless you are looking for the SATA Driver so that Windows XP can recognize that you have a harddrive so that you can install XP. (I may upload those files later if I can find the floppy drive that they're on)

















This pack has the drivers for Atheros wireless, ethernet, Texis Instrument card reader, Intel 965 Chipset, Realtek audio, HDAudio modem, Pointing device, and
Notebook Control and Utilities.

Rapidshare Download Link Sony VGN NR110E Drivers

Open Source: Part 2

The Open Source Advantage

Since the start of the open source movement, it has played a major role in the advancement of technologies and in the development of the Internet. With open source software the code of the software is open and available to anyone. So anyone can improve or customize the software if they have the will power and knowledge to do so. The other major advantage of open source is that the software is free. A classic example is that of Photoshop and GIMP, they are both image editing software capable of doing tons of different things and having many different features to each of them. The difference between them is that Photoshop cost, but the GIMP is free.

Another thing with open source is they tend to come out with updates more often. Where as Microsoft comes out with a new version of its Windows Operating System about every three to four years, an alternative Operating System called Linux has major updates about every 6 months, and minor updates that come frequently. A major flaw with the Windows operating systems is the problem with infrequent updates. When a new security exploit is found, it takes Microsoft several years before they update with a new Operating System, which only hurts the users. Microsoft knows that this helps them because they can market it as "security" improvements, and sell more of their software. With Linux, there are very few viruses, and when one is found, its patch in a brief amount of time.

Open Source software is available in a wide variety of software types: from multi-media software, image editing software, office software, and the list goes on. Some open source software compete against major commercial grade software with a pretty big price tag. Blender is a free open source 3D Computer Graphics Software, it is competing with other software like 3ds Max ($3500), Houdini ($1,995 Houdini Excape, Houdini Master $7,995), Maya (Maya Complete $1999 USD and Maya Unlimited $6999 USD), and others with the same high commercial price tag.

Recently Promotion Studios finished a new commercial which used the Blender software.

You can visit the Web site of the commercial here:
http://www.promotionstudios.com/?p=326


Matt Ebb writes: "We've just finished a recent TVC project that's now airing in the US for Striderite Slimers shoes. It involved a fair bit of fluid sim, which we did in Blender, along with all the animation and rendering.

We used Max for modelling, and Blender for fluid sim, animation and rendering."

There have been many other Blender animations made by the Blender Animation Studios, other commercial organizations, and even home users. Here are just a few of them







This software along with many others have the features as revival software that you would have to pay for.

Open source is giving the ability to use all sorts of software to average users for free.

Microsoft almost two years ago released a new operating system: Windows Vista. That operating was hyped as a great operating system, and the greatest version of Microsoft's Windows up to date. It was to be released with all these great features and improvements in all kinds of areas. But what really happened was Microsoft couldn't make the release that they wanted, so they cut back on all these features that were planned in Vista, and released it into the market. The real "Vista" with all those features that Microsoft was claiming is now going to be released in a little over a year as Windows 7 (Early January 2010). Now Microsoft is stuck convincing people that Vista is the improvement that has been hyped, that it is better, and that you and everyone else should "upgrade." But for a lot of people they don't view Vista as being an upgrade. I won't even go into the part that lists all the flaws of Vista, just analyzing the attempt to have users "upgrade" to Vista. If you want detailed information about the flaws in Vista try looking at:

jdserver.homelinux.org/vista.php
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista
badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista







(In the video they don't really tell whats great about Windows "Mojave." They have empty praises without telling us what they saw was great about it. With a great quote in there being "It looks awesome" and "It seems so easy)

Microsoft now has the Mojave Experiment campaign, with the goal being to convince people that Vista is good. The problem with this Mojave Experiment is that of course when you show case something it should look great it should look amazing. With a good advertising method, almost anything can appear to be good. With the Mojave Experiment they never actually let people use Vista, they just showed "The Best of Vista." With just a demo of it being shown you won't get the frustration of a resource hog operating system, no real improvement in security or stability, or even the lack of compatibility with a large portion of the things on the market today.

Microsoft is desperately trying to sell this failing operating system, and the time is getting shorter for Microsoft to do that, with the real release of "Vista" coming.

This Mojave Experiment for me, and many others has the negative affect. It screams "Look Vista is so bad they have to try and convince people that what they've heard is wrong and that all these people bashing Vista don't know the "true" Vista.

All I can say now is; "Microsoft failed with Vista like they did with ME, by releasing a unfinished operating system into the market too early." Will they learn from their mistake and not do it yet again? With Windows 7 (what vista was originally suppost to have in it) coming in early 2010, will Microsoft fix things up before releasing their OS into the market, or will they do the same thing as Vista and release another failure.

The video transcoding nightmare

N608 MP3/MP4 Player


Recently I got a mp3 player ( I got it for free and its a cheap mp3 player that can also play videos)
So yeah, i'm using this one for now for a couple of months as a short term replacement until probably after my birthday in November when i'll probably buy a player from iaudio.

But anways here's where I got it from. Its a very reasonable price, and since I got it for free...nothing beats that price. ;) But yeah the player features:

- Built-in 1GB Flash Memory

- Digital FM Tuner

- Plays MP4/Pictures/eBook/Tetris

- 1.3MPixel Digital Camera

- Records Voice
- MiniSD Memory Card Expansion Slot (up to 2gig cards)
- Touch Screen
- 320x240 screen resolution

So its a pretty decent mp3 player, but for the past two/three days I've been frustrated with trying to convert a video into the proper format. I spent a ton of times trying every format. Everything I tried gave me a "file format error." Finally I found out it can play a video with the video in xvid and the audio in mp2 with the container being .avi. The only problem was the software I was using had the audio off by several seconds. This was every time i tried converting something it would be off by about 5 seconds. So finally last night i discovered the software that was built for these Rockchip players. viDrop, a free open source video converting tool. It uses a graphical user interface for you to set up how you want to transcode and then uses the command line in windows to transcode.


So the final settings that I used for transcoding are:








For the FPS I set it at 20 but you can play around with that, i think it could be capable of a little higher, but you probably won't notice a difference. But things like the Width, Height, and Codec (for audio and video) have to be the same for it to work on the player. You can mess around with the FPS and the video and audio bitrates, along with the resize method and other settings if you want.







I hope this can help anyone that is having the same problem I was having with video encoding for this player.


viDrop Download

Open Source: Part 1

OPEN SOURCE

Although you may have no idea what open source is, or even heard about it, you have benefited directly or indirectly from open source software. You are reading this blog thanks to the server hosting from blogspot.com, which is being run on servers using an open source Operating System (or OS for short) called Linux. In fact most web servers use an open source OS because of the known stability and superior performance. Top500.org keeps statistics about the top 500 supercomputers world wide. A table on one of the pages shows the following statistics:

Operating system Family				Count		Share%			Rmax Sum (GF)	Rpeak Sum (GF)	Processor Sum
Linux				426		85.20%			4897046	7956758	970790
Mixed				34		6.80%			1540037	1900361	580693
Unix				30		6.00%			408378	519178	73532
Windows				6		1.20%			47495	86797	12112
BSD Based				2		0.40%			44783	50176	5696
Mac OS				2		0.40%			28430	44816	5272
Totals				500		100%			6966169.82	10558086.75	1648095

Both Linux and the BSD operating systems are open-source. so over 75.8% of the worlds top supercomputers use open source because of the known performance benefits. Even big search engines and sites (Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Wikipedia, Amazon, and others) use open source software. You can find out what OS sites are running by searching for the site on http://news.netcraft.com/


What Is Open Source?

Open-source was started as a branch off of the free software movement. In 1998 Eric S. Raymond, along with others, created the Open-Source Definition along with founding the Open-Source Initiative to promote open-source. The main thrust of open-source is freedom coupled with technical superiority. As such, Raymond's goal was wide adoption, especially by the cooperate world. Open-Source, one of the driving forces of the digital revolution, considerably helped in the development of the Internet along with the continued maintenance of its infrastructure. Without open-source software the Internet would be considerably less developed. Because of the freedom benefits in licensing, source code access and superior development enacted by the open-source ideology everyone should use, share, promote, or even develop open-source software.