oldbloke's mutterings

Water dripping through the kitchen ceiling



AFAICT, it's just the seal at the end of the bath having given up. A trip to B&Q tonight, then.

> Free of charge evening talk organised in association with the Manchester
> branches of the BCS and IET.
>
> 'Free Software in Ethics and Practice' - speaker: Richard Stallman
>
> Thursday 1st May, 2008 - Talk starts at 6:45pm (ends approx. 8:30pm)
> with refreshments from 6:15pm.
>
> Venue: Room D1, Renold Building,
> University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB
>
> There is no need to book a place - just turn up on the night.
>
> Abstract:
>
> Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement,
> which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate
> to control their own computing activities. The Free Software
> Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously
> referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.

Ah, we have to format the disc in VR mode if we want to maintain the aspect ratio...
Maybe. Testing now.

We dumped part1 of The Colour Of Magic to disc t'other day, and it was recorded in 4:3 instead of 16:9. But of course it's actually recorded as M*N pixels and an entry in the .IFO file tells it what aspect ratio to play back as. So I was able to fix it using IFOEdit (or is it called EditIFO?) - at the cost of another disc, of course. Although if we had -RW instead of -R I could've done it on the existing disc. I think.
We'll buy the DVD of tCoM when it comes out anyway, for any extras. I just thought it was about time we used this recorder as more than just a player. If the widescreen test is OK, we have some stuff on the Sky+ box I might dump off while we're asleep. If it's not, I'm slightly stumped.

[EDIT] Nope, still 4:3. And the passed-through signal from the sky box comes out in 4:3 too. Just like it used to with the VCR. It must be something basic, but can I find it in the menus? Can I shpx!