Where Enterprise Computer Networking and Video Games Meet!
Shows: The Jolly Roger Blocast: Enterprise computing At It's Best The Black Spot: Our Views On Video Games
Hosts: Mike, Mr BagHead and Randy
What did we use?
Intel BOXD945GCLF Intel Atom processor 230 Intel 945GC Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo, APEX MI-100 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply, 1Gb Kingsten, 40 GB Segate, Sony DVD drive.
This Jolly Roger covers Adobe Express, Orcale free downloads, Disk enclosures, bookreviews, and a short Baghead Video!
Show Notes:
http://www.Photoshop.com/express
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/index.html
http://www.newegg.com
http://tv.abobe.com
On this 8th show of the Jolly Roger Blogcast we talk about the new release of Office 2007 sp1, Pirate protection of Windows Vista, Jackass 2.5 for free, and two windows XP operating systems you may not have heard of; Windows FLP and Windows PE.
Have you ever downloaded a video from the internet that your system would not play? There is a fix; you can watch the dirty little bit torrents you pulled down by installing the Combined Community Codec Pack.
This pack was created with the goal not to break anything on your system. “…the CCCP was created to replace the filter packs provided by several anime fansub groups into a single reliable pack capable of decoding practically any group’s files - without breaking compatibility for other formats.”
CCCP is super easy to install, and the defaults are set for the average user. ”goal of CCCP isn’t to decode everything, but to support sensible releases. ffdshow can decode more video formats than listed here, but most of the formats are turned off with the CCCP default settings. If you need any of them, you can turn them on yourself in the relevant filter configuration dialog.”
One issue you need to know about is that if you install this on a system where the users do not have admin then there are a few more steps to the install process. Click here if need.
The CCCP includes audio and video codecs for:
Video codecs:
MPEG1 is supported by Windows
MPEG2
MPEG4-ASP
Xvid
DivX (all versions)
Generic/other MPEG4 ASP (3ivx, lavc etc.)
MPEG4-AVC/H.264
Theora
WMV9
Flash Video
Audio codecs:
MP3 and MP2 and MP1
AC3
DTS
AAC
Vorbis
IMA ADPCM - rare
LPCM - on some DVDs, more common on HD DV & BD
FLAC - no .flac splitter included, you can only play it if it’s in MKV
TTA
WavPack
If you need a decoder for your video CCCP is the exe you have been looking and it is free. They do except donations.
The CCCP is only for windows 2000, XP, and Vista. No linux CCCP, use mPlayer.
Have you been thinking about learning scripting? Well if you work in IT the answer should be yes. I bought Microsoft Windows Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide by Ed Wilson a few months ago. I didn’t have a driving project so I took my time reading it.
Pros: This book starts with the basics. If you don’t know anything about scripting this is where you should start. This book walks you through the scripts and explains what each part does. The biggest pro is that you really learn scripting. $29 for a techie book is not a bad price. You can buy it at Amazon.com
Cons: Some parts were repetitive, once you have read parts there are whole sections you can skip later on in the book. Understand this is not a scripting “reference.” If you are looking to perform some specific task chances are it is not in this book.
Over all if you don’t know scripting in just a few weeks you will be writing scripts to create folder structures with corresponding global groups or a script to find double dead ends in your TradeWars 2002 game. I enjoyed it and now I have added a new skill to my IT War Chest.
What you don’t know what Trade Wars 2002 is? Well that’s for a future blog.
nd it is free. They do except donations. 
