techy

windows xp service pack 3,

arrived this week, and disabled the bottom part of my screen for a few bootups...

this time it's ok but i really hope it's not an intermittent problem, my old computer used to have it and it drove me balmy...

the next time the problem comes back i'm getting rid of sp3, a whole lot of people on the web saying they have problems...

in other techy news i finished half life 2 last night... great game, great story...

good to have it gone though, all together too compulsive...

and finally i'd like to morn the demise of smartftp, free version,

this week they upped sticks and moved to the pay only way and i'm afraid that means i'm parting company with them,

not to worry, filezilla comes running into the fray, a new face (for me), i'm just marking this transition, one gets used to seeing things a certain way when one does a series of actions every single week...

ok another techy thing, i'm thinking of changing the way i do the rendering for the improvisation, it's been a certain way for years, video & audio, wmv & wma, which i learnt from someone as a way to get good clear images on youtube, googlevideo converts it into divx with mp3 audio, so i'm tempted to start delivering divx with mp3 audio straight to googlevideo...

but vegas won't deliver that, at least not with high enough mp3 rates, (56Kbit/sec), so i've found a great program that will make vegas think it's rendering uncompressed video/audio, but is actually freezing time (quite matrix) and delivering the video - frame by frame to whatever other program you wish,

so i'm going from vegas, through frameserver, into virtualdub...

i haven't yet found the best results but i'm heading in the right direction...

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