These cheap Chinese manufactured MP3 players, commonly called Ch i pod’s are quite prevalent and the hacked units as this one was often have software problems, this one has just failed and I wondered what was inside it, (hangover from being a curious kid), so I take it apart to see, enjoy

Google Tech Talks
July 23, 2008

ABSTRACT

Every material has a distinctive spectrum. The spectrum of a material tells us about its chemistry. Hyperspectral images produce a spectrum (represented as several hundred numbers) at each pixel in an image. So hyperspectral images enable us to map variations in chemistry.

The first hyperspectral scanners, built in the 1980′s and 1990′s, were designed for airborne applications, primarily for mineral, environmental and military applications. However, in recent years, hyperspectral microscopes and cameras have been developed and are being used for terrestrial applications in areas such as medical diagnosis, burns analysis and skin cancer, biosecurity, pharmaceuticals, forensics and in agribusiness.

A significant issue in hyperspectral imaging is that the spectra at many pixels in an image are actually mixtures of the spectra of the pure ingredients. My main focus over a number of years has been on developing fast and sophisticated algorithms and software for “unmixing” these spectra into their pure ingredients, both when the pure ingredients are known and when they are unknown. This has resulted in two software packages:

The Spectral Assistant (TSA), which has been incorporated into another CSIRO package, The Spectral Geologist, which itself has been sold to over 100 (mainly exploration and mining) companies around the world; and Iterated Constrained Endmembers (ICE), which has yet to be commercialized.

I will give an overview of the algorithms underlying TSA and ICE, and demonstrate their application to some mineral, remotely sensing and biological data sets. Finally, I will discuss some unsolved statistical and computational problems associated with these packages.

Speaker: Mark Berman
Mark Berman received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree and University Medal in mathematical statistics from the University of New South Wales in 1974, and the Master of Statistics degree from the same institution in 1976. In 1978, he was awarded the Ph.D. and D.I.C. degrees in mathematical statistics by the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.

He was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley during 1978-1979. Most of his time since then has been with the CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences (CMIS), Sydney, where he is now a Chief Research Scientist. He led CMIS’ Image Analysis Group from 1989 to 2000. He spent 1988 at the Melbourne Research Laboratories of Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd. where he established the Image Processing and Data Analysis Group. His research interests are in image analysis (especially hyperspectral), spectroscopy and spatial data analysis.

Since 2007, Dr. Berman has been working part time at CMIS. During this period, he has also given Ph.D courses in spectroscopy and hyperspectral image analysis at the Technical University of Denmark and Stanford University.

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It is acting as if a button is stuck but i have removed the housing and this is not so. I believe it is a software problem. It was sent back to 02, who updated it to the very latest firmware but the problem is still there. anyone else experiencing such problems?

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http://www.jnf.org.uk/ “With the advent of video.google, and with the encouragement of Tim Hollingworth, it has proved possible to put up on the web, videos of how emotions can interfere with mental health.

A long series is planned, and the first one is already posted.

Click CURING MENTAL PAIN

Further videos in this series are planned, as indicated below.

Meanwhile, in Interviews filmed by Tim Hollingworth, I was able to express a number of reservations about the current situation regarding psychiatric views of personality disorder. Click TOO LATE FOR KATE, to see these.

The main objective of these videos is to restore hope and confidence into today’s benighted psychiatry by establishing that these are all software problems not hardware failings – so all are 100% curable, given enough appropriate support.

future videos on -
curing panic attacks
curing schizophrenia
curing panic attacks
curing multiple personality disorder
curing manic depression / bipolar
curing psychosis
curing self-harm
curing all manner of personality disorder

that is curing mental pain

These videos are not coming on stream as fast as I would wish – but they are lining up ready for action – so stand by.

the following appears in the introduction section for Curing Mental Pain 1

Emotional growth and mental health — you cannot change the past, but you can change its impact.

Children are impressionable — they pay desperate attention to the social and emotional support system they find themselves in. They cannot survive on their own, so they learn very deeply what works with the adults around them — that way they have a better chance of surviving. This is Attachment Theory.

When childhood traumas are immediately followed by effective emotional support, the effects are ephemeral. Where insecure attachment prevails, the results can, in severe cases, disable that individual for a life time — indeed until they can be persuaded, with enough emotional support, to revisit the trauma, and place it firmly in its childhood context.

This videos shows how the process works. It introduces two books — Emotional Health ISBN 0-9551985-0-X, and Unsafe at any dose ISBN 0-9551985-1-8, both of which can be previewed at www.amazon.co.uk or at www.TruthTrustConsent.com. Further info is available at www.esc99,org. Many more videos are planned, including — curing panic attacks, curing anorexia, curing depression and bipolar, curing self-harm, curing all varieties of Personality Disorder. For latest info on these videos check out www.TruthTrustConsent.com.

Dr Bob Johnson

Consultant Psychiatrist, P O Box 49, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, PO38 9AA UK

e-mail DrBob@TruthTrustConsent.com www.TruthTrustConsent.com
GMC speciality register for psychiatry reg. num. 0400150
formerly Head of Therapy, Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, Liverpool
Consultant Psychiatrist, Special Unit, C-Wing, Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight.
MRCPsych (Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists),
MRCGP (Member of Royal College of General Practitioners).
Diploma in Psychotherapy Neurology & Psychiatry (Psychiatric Inst New York),
MA (Psychol), PhD(med computing), MBCS, DPM, MRCS.

Author Emotional Health ISBN 0-9551985-0-X
Author Unsafe at any dose ISBN 0-9551985-1-8″

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I was playing games friday night with friends and ran into to problems that exploit just how screwy software protection is, and why I prefer not to work in windows.

Note, the tools I am using in this video, tcpview.exe and procexp.exe are available from Microsoft. Sysinternals
made this programs originally, but
Securom protected games will not run if you use procexp.exe before hand, as demonstrated in this video.

Punkbuster is used on all of Dice/EA’s games, and is the major reason these games can’t be played in wine, which is the reason I don’t play them on wine.

But in Windows, if “PnkbsterB.exe” or “PnkbstrA.exe” or both come down you will be unable to get on a game server.

In the video I demonstrate how I to keep PnkBstrB.exe up if it should come down, permitting you to play BF2 if you have a similar problem.

Sysinternals was the same company that found the Sony rootkit on Sony’s music CD’s, used to permit Sony to monitor people’s use of their CD’s (inspired by DRM protected audio files as CD’s don’t contain DRM, so this was how Sony planned to add DRM to CD’s, patch peoples windows kernels to hide Sony’s activities and permit them to illegally shutdown someone’s machine if they are illegally distributing Sony music).

I don’t know which is more evil, SOny or Microsoft or Electronic Arts, but this is what you sacrifice when buying software from these companies. But you have only yourselves to blame, Microsoft has been testing consumer trust from the very beginning, and seeing how much consumer rights can be penetrated in the interest of making more money.

Yes this is another one of my griping videos, but I have some proof this time of some of the crap that goes on Windows that makes absolutely no sense on the Ubuntu platform..

See if you get a machine with Windows ready installed, you may never learn to install an operating system.. Then you may be of the opinion that all PC’s run Windows, that not running windows is not a choice. Even knowing why you wouldn’t want to run Windows is not discussed. I’m here to reveal why Windows sucks.. Zero privacy, insecure, and full of bugs.. I use it every now and then to play games, but I try to avoid using Windows altogether.. And I hope to play all my games on Ubuntu, screw Windows. There is no need for it.

This video was captured at a variable rate hovering around 5 frames per second, at 640×480, in camstudio on windows XP. Because the video format was variable frame rate, I was not able to edit it in blender’s video sequence editor as I would in linux, so I reboot and tried to work on it in Ubuntu. OggConvert wouldn’t read the video file, so I converted it to ogg theora/vorbis format with mediacoder running in wine, then I converted it a second time with oggconvert to compress the file even more, source format was 900MB, this one is 50MB, 34 minutes long. In fact most all the video I upload to youtube is in Ogg Theora/Vorbis (Ogg is a open source media container format, unlike WMV and Quicktime which are used to lure users onto the Mac and Windows platforms, Ogg is the standard video format used on the linux platform, and unpatentable by Microsoft (a method Microsoft uses to avoid competition is to patent related technologies to limit the flexibility of competitors technologies, as well as open source applications).

If you want to be freed of file format dependency, best thing to do is switch to the linux platform as most all file formats used on linux are there to free people of these limitations imposed by commercial software developers selfishly focussed on their own needs.

Open Source secures systems, makes them less vulnerable to hackers and viruses. The only thing pushing open source is the intent to say “there is a better alternative” to commercial software that makes sense.

The flat wheels were fixed, but it’s still got software problems. Pesky software. I’m a hardware guy myself, so I won’t even pretend to understand XD

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Music: “Winter Born” by the Crüxshadows
Series: Digimon, every series and most movies.

This was originally started in concept and video by Razorsaw as a tribute to the Royal Knights. Due to some software problems, I got pulled in to help out, and… this is the result. I like how it turned out overall, and hope you all enjoy it.

Containing:

1. Me rambling about pirating software.
2. Microsoft’s changes in Vista; both good and bad.
3. Software compatibility with Vista.
4. More pirating information.
5. blah blah, etc

Here is a peek at some Vista Ultimate features and visual sexiness. The operating system runs extremely smooth (seeing as you have the right hardware), and I just love it to death so far. Never been happy to run a Microsoft OS. Let me know if you have any compatibility questions!

Windows Vista version comparisons: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

Part 3 of a series of video based training tutorial for the Virtual Decorator Home Design Software from developer3d.com.

This video covers some problems experinced by beginner users.

The basic version of the software is free from www.developer3d.com. If you like what you see we are currently seeking expressions of interest from distributers and business partners around the world. There is an affiliates link on our web site for anyone intersted in reselling our upgrade packages.

For more information contact us at http://www.developer3d.com