Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical is a repost of quite an extensive
emergency medical library you should store on your boat laptop you might
find useful.

Look down the list posted at 0400 this morning for subject field that
begins with:
Req: Please post books for emergency medical services........
Obviously, if your server will look back even further, you'll see the
original whole library postings on this important subject for remote
cruisers.

Could save someone's life....

While you're perusing e-book.technical, don't download any magazines that
all begin with:
Ger's Leesmap Nr.....
They post them every time the company puts out a CD. If you download them,
nothing that needs to be done in the bilge and lockers will ever get
done.... Ah, I see Sport Fishing Sep-Oct 2006 is one of them....


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Larry wrote:

Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical is a repost of quite an extensive
emergency medical library you should store on your boat laptop you might
find useful.

Or just go to :
http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-se...ga-dqs_st_shs_
seafarer_information-medical/mcga-dqs_st_shs_ships_capt_medical_guide.ht
m
and get the full .pdf from the UK MCA.

(OK, in .us you get free charts, but at least some things are free from
uk.gov...)

rgds, Alan
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Larry,

Pardon the current topic intrusion, but referring to your Xnews posting.....

how exactly can the movie be burned to a DVD rather than having to view
it with Videolan ?

Gratefully, again,
Courtney



"Larry" wrote in message
...
Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical is a repost of quite an extensive
emergency medical library you should store on your boat laptop you might
find useful.

Look down the list posted at 0400 this morning for subject field that
begins with:
Req: Please post books for emergency medical services........
Obviously, if your server will look back even further, you'll see the
original whole library postings on this important subject for remote
cruisers.

Could save someone's life....

While you're perusing e-book.technical, don't download any magazines that
all begin with:
Ger's Leesmap Nr.....
They post them every time the company puts out a CD. If you download
them,
nothing that needs to be done in the bilge and lockers will ever get
done.... Ah, I see Sport Fishing Sep-Oct 2006 is one of them....


--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

"Courtney Thomas" wrote in
ink.net:

how exactly can the movie be burned to a DVD rather than having to
view
it with Videolan ?


http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...o-dvd-osx.html

I never convert because I own an LG model LDA-511 DVD player, which plays
the divx movies directly as does my Magnavox portable DVD player. It's
much more compact to leave them all in Divx format, putting from 3 to 6
full length movies on a single DVD, instead of carrying around 6 DVDs to
play on the old players.

I'm not sure which of the conversion programs on freedownloadscenter is
better than any of the others because I never use them. Sorry I can't
help you further.

The LG is a great unit for a boat. It loads in a tiny slot like a car CD
player, reducing to zero the chance of breaking off some flimsy DVD drive
drawer like your laptop has on it. Too bad laptops don't use this
slotted drive, either. The unit is wide and fairly long but less than
1" high, making it fit under my Gateway 21" monitor with the HDMI input
so I can watch movies on the LG while on the computer...Picture-In-A-
Picture (PIP) mode...without the movies eating into the CPU time on the
computer...(c;

Another thing that's done to the LDA-511 is to break open its region
restrictions so you can play ANY DVD from ANY region in ANY format...even
upconverting any of them to HDMI for your big video screen in 1080i
format, digital TV. If you cruise or fly worldwide, the LDA-511 allows
you to play ALL the DVDs you buy from foreign countries your USA-only
player will not play by design from the movie moguls trying to bleed you.
Screw them....:
http://110220electronics.com/osc/pro...roducts_id=380


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You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

Larry,

Thanks once more for a dip into your encyclopedic store of web lore :-)

The portable I'm tryin' to play the rars on is 1133Mhz and 524MB of ram and
Videolan will start to play the movie but soon stops. Is it hardware and if
not, what am I
missin' ? There's no error msg, just seems to run outta gas.

Are the rar files what you are callin' divx or what ?

Courtney



"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Courtney Thomas" wrote in
ink.net:

how exactly can the movie be burned to a DVD rather than having to
view
it with Videolan ?


http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...o-dvd-osx.html

I never convert because I own an LG model LDA-511 DVD player, which plays
the divx movies directly as does my Magnavox portable DVD player. It's
much more compact to leave them all in Divx format, putting from 3 to 6
full length movies on a single DVD, instead of carrying around 6 DVDs to
play on the old players.

I'm not sure which of the conversion programs on freedownloadscenter is
better than any of the others because I never use them. Sorry I can't
help you further.

The LG is a great unit for a boat. It loads in a tiny slot like a car CD
player, reducing to zero the chance of breaking off some flimsy DVD drive
drawer like your laptop has on it. Too bad laptops don't use this
slotted drive, either. The unit is wide and fairly long but less than
1" high, making it fit under my Gateway 21" monitor with the HDMI input
so I can watch movies on the LG while on the computer...Picture-In-A-
Picture (PIP) mode...without the movies eating into the CPU time on the
computer...(c;

Another thing that's done to the LDA-511 is to break open its region
restrictions so you can play ANY DVD from ANY region in ANY format...even
upconverting any of them to HDMI for your big video screen in 1080i
format, digital TV. If you cruise or fly worldwide, the LDA-511 allows
you to play ALL the DVDs you buy from foreign countries your USA-only
player will not play by design from the movie moguls trying to bleed you.
Screw them....:
http://110220electronics.com/osc/pro...roducts_id=380


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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

"Courtney Thomas" wrote in
nk.net:

The portable I'm tryin' to play the rars on is 1133Mhz and 524MB of
ram and Videolan will start to play the movie but soon stops. Is it
hardware and if not, what am I
missin' ? There's no error msg, just seems to run outta gas.



Hmm....a lot of what makes the movies bomb on any computer isn't to do
with processor speeds, any more. What it depends on, these days, is the
speed of the hard drives and their access times...and sometimes the load
on the motherboard, which is MUCH slower than the 1.2GHz processors,
slowing everything running down.

When the movie isn't running and you're not doing anything else...the
computer just sitting there....How much disk access do you see as
indicated by the little hard disk light?

Other things stupid Windows XP just can't help but do also brings
everything to a halt on DOS 5.2, too. I've found Windoze calling Mother
in Redmond, Micro$oft's overloaded servers, checking on updates, checking
to see if you stole the operating system, etc....every few seconds!
Windows, XP or not, doesn't "wait well". About anything can bring it to
a screeching halt, waiting for some obtuse hardware access. This makes
the movie balk or timeout and unwatchable.

Go to www.sysinternals.com and download TCPView and Process Explorer,
both for free. Install them as any program, and run them both. Set
TCPView to always run on top so you can see what's calling whom on TCP/IP
inside and outside the computer when it bombs. Windoze doesn't like it
if Mother doesn't answer its cries for help. TCPView let's you see it
call.

Start the movie playing but don't watch it. Bring Process Explorer up on
top so you can watch what programs are hoggin' CPU time or other nasty
delays going on. My Emachines AMD Athalon 64/3400+ beast with 1G of RAM,
goes berserk at odd times with hardware interrupts (second line on
Process Explorer's running programs list). Noone can tell me why. To
recover, I simply must reboot the system. Windoze, itself causes it
because it will do it with all other programs unloaded....even in safe
mode. If the hardware were at fault, simply rebooting wouldn't recover
overheating hardware interrupts that can sometimes, but not always or in
any particular sequence of events, consume over 70% of all the CPU time
just looping like crazy! Process Explorer easily exposes CPU hogs or
screwups like mine....

One of the CPU pigs on my system is EZ-Tune, which keeps monitoring my
big 21" Gateway LCD monitor to see if I've turned it from horizontal to
vertical and switches the video automatically. It monitors the monitor
way too often and hogs way too much processor time. The monitor's really
worth it, though....

Lots of things could cause the movie to crash....but it's mostly problems
with way too fast computers and way to archaic 5400 RPM laptop hard
drives that are too busy servicing too much of a load.



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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

Mr Larry ,,, I will put this on my list .. after I get a GPS ,,

And a laptop

After I get a second job.



"Larry" wrote in message
...
Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical is a repost of quite an extensive
emergency medical library you should store on your boat laptop you might
find useful.

Look down the list posted at 0400 this morning for subject field that
begins with:
Req: Please post books for emergency medical services........
Obviously, if your server will look back even further, you'll see the
original whole library postings on this important subject for remote
cruisers.

Could save someone's life....

While you're perusing e-book.technical, don't download any magazines that
all begin with:
Ger's Leesmap Nr.....
They post them every time the company puts out a CD. If you download
them,
nothing that needs to be done in the bilge and lockers will ever get
done.... Ah, I see Sport Fishing Sep-Oct 2006 is one of them....


--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.