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Archive for January, 2007
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Friday, January 26th, 2007Council videos
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007The Medford Council online videos changed format and location, making them much more difficult to download and take clips from. I found the location of the individual files and I found a program to convert the Flash files into AVI or MPG format.
The new location is:
http://video.cityofmedford.org/video/council/
The unfortunate thing is that they are all in Flash format (*.flv) which is not a simple viewing format like *.avi or *.mpg.
To convert them I use VideoCoder from
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_81_18085.html
After installing the program:
1. Drag and drop the .flv files you downloaded into the large white area in Media Coder
2. Click on the Video tab in the lower left-hand section on the window and select XviD in the Codec drop-down menu, Format should be “default”.
3. Click the large Start button on the top tool bar to start transcoding your video.
4. When completed a window will prompt you saying that transcoding is completed, go to your file’s original location and an .AVI file should be there with the same file name. Now you can play it with Windows Media or your favorite media player.
To save it as *.mpg, instead of *.avi, select MPEG1 instead of XviD.
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Before you play with any of the other settings save your settings…select “File” and “Save as preset”. I saved mine as “AVI” that way I can always come back to these default settings. Someday I’ll experiment will all those overwhelming options.
Original instructions found at:
XP connection limit — dropped mapped drives
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007You can configure the AutoDisconnect time by running the following command from a command prompt:
net config server /autodisconnect:time_before_autodisconnect
Specify the time in minutes.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314882
Or, I found this:
I had the same problems (Dropped drives, workstations disconnecting, ect.) and could not find a solution anywhere. But I finally did find an answer. Try one of the following or both:
[To turn Autodisconnect off] Type > net config server /autodisconnect:-1
[Try this on the server and ws]or
Install or repair the DHCP, DNS and WINS on the server. Setting up theses services “correctly” Completely! solved the problem. I did them all at once so I am not sure which one was the trick but I suspect WINS was the key.
win98 login screen missing
Monday, January 8th, 2007To get the login screen back for Win98 delete the autologin key:
Delete (after backing up your registry) the AutoLogon key in: HKey_Local_MachineSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionNetworkReal Mode Net This should restore your logon prompt.
Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 7:34 am Posted by Robert (1 messages posted)
OpenDNS speeds up internet?
Monday, January 1st, 2007OpenDNS makes your Internet work better.
Well, I made the changes they suggested. Let’s see if it actually helps.
