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| Dvd to Divx/AVI | |
posted by Miller at 4:11 pm on Oct 6, 2008
i'm creating a media server and am looking for the best, easiest and fastest way to convert a dvd to DVIX or AVI, keeping the 5.1, and keeping the video quality the best i can
any suggestions | | Streaming cable to other computers? | |
posted by OcTaNe91 at 8:39 pm on Oct 5, 2008
i know there is hardware to stream cable television to computers but is there a piece of software i can install on a computer that has a tv tuner card, and have it stream from that over the wireless network to a laptop? |  | No more A4? |
posted by nidex at 7:40 am on Oct 5, 2008
I hate to talk about stuff until it's 100% done, but this girl has been sweating me about buying my car. Hopefully it'll be gone tomorrow.
The other week I heard a noise like the timing belt slapping the cover, so I turned it off and pulled the cover off. Sure enough, the joint on the timing belt tensioner's spring wore through. Took the car apart, which includes removing the front of the car. Then I found out I needed a whole list of crazy ass tools that I do not have, but could buy for the low low price of $500. Fuck that. Zip tied the spring down to hold tension, threw the car back together, cleaned it up and that's where it's at now.
I told her everything it needs since she's a friend, advised her not to buy it, but she still insists. I guess I can't really tell her no, even though I told her I'd feel bad selling it to her. She has a thing for Audi's I guess. If it falls through I'll throw it on Craigslist and feel sorry for the fool that buys it.
So what's next? So far I'm between a 4 door Integra and a GS300. Suggestions?
edit: And she was riding shotgun during what caused this: 
I don't get that, I would never buy a car that I knew somebody took on a 50mph romp through a farm field.  | | The return of the Insight! |
posted by mattdev at 8:39 pm on Oct 4, 2008
So at the Paris auto show, they just announced that the Insight will be returning in 2010!  Quote:
PARIS -- Honda rarely, rarely tips its hand about future products. This is a secretive company, secretive to the point of being a bit paranoid.
So it was a surprise to see the Japanese auto maker jump the gun with pictures and selective tidbits about the Honda Insight hybrid-electric car it will put on sale next April – and show tomorrow at the Paris Auto Show.
Now the five-passenger hatchback Honda will show in Paris is officially a “concept.” Ignore that. Honda types say the production Insight will be almost identical to the concept. It is unusual for Honda to tout a car that won't go on sale for months, to leak details, share pictures and the like. Honda is doing this to steal Toyota's thunder.
Toyota, of course, is the world leader at selling hybrids. Honda has never liked that, not given that Honda actually beat Toyota to market in North America with its two-door hybrid. It did not sell well and neither have the Accord Hybrid – discontinued – and the Civic Hybrid.
So far, Honda's hybrid efforts have been a bit embarrassing – especially so for a company that prides itself on being a so-called engine company dominated by the smartest of engineers.
What we're seeing now is Honda in fighting mode. The Wall Street Journal argues that the Insight is “likely to pose the most formidable threat to Toyota” we've yet seen on the hybrid front – “delivering greenness for fewer greenbacks.”
Honda officials have led me to believe that the Insight will be highly affordable, selling in the $22,000-range or so in Canada. At that price, Honda is expecting to sell 100,000 or more Insights a year – perhaps more. Ten thousand of those might be sold in Canada.
Except Honda won't be alone in challenging Toyota and that means those sales numbers might be a stretch. General Motors already sells a slew of different hybrids, Ford has the Escape Hybrid and more like it coming in a few months, Nissan is pushing ahead, Chrysler has a wide-ranging electric car program in the works and on and on.
Oh, and did I mention the Santa Fe Hybrid Hyundai is showing in Paris?
More from Paris tomorrow, right here.
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