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Which container do you guys recommend? MKV or AVI? I've heard MKV has better compression ratios resulting in high-quality video while being a low-space format.

MATLAB can graph numbers if that's what you're looking to do.

It can probably do it, but you probably will want a high-powered machine for it. Newer distributions have support for multithreading. You may have to do some relabeling of your data to make it graphable (e.g. write a quick script to query and make it into an x-y coordinate system). Supports Linux.

Yeah, I want to simply visualize a huge series of numbers so I can see how they're laid out. Let's say they're user ids from a certain social networking site, and I'm curious how they choose user ids so we can save time when doing a full brute force. In theory. ;)

Statistics are okay, as long as it can handle 170 million lines. Linux friendliness would be nice.

Well, SPSS is (iirc) a pay-to-use program and I can't recall how expensive it is. If you want to do statistics based on names vs. uid's, etc etc, SPSS is probably one of the easiest ways to go about it. I've used it a couple times and it has a pretty steep learning curve but that shouldn't be a problem for you. :P

I'm not really familiar with MATLAB. Can it do what I need?

MATLAB can graph numbers if that's what you're looking to do.

SPSS is a program I've seen commonly used to interface with lots of numbers. It's a statistics tool, so I don't know if you need something as robust. Is all that you're looking to do graph things? Linux friendliness a big requirement?

What software(s) do you guys use to rip a full dvd to an encoded AVI, MKV, or other format? Which format(s) do you prefer/why? I've got some DVDs I want to back up before they [eventually] die and am looking for some feedback..

You have officially lost all clout when it comes to rating women.

No. She's ugly, Megan Fox is ugly, and I've never understood the big hype.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080730022851/starcraft/images/1/1f/JimRaynor_SC1_HeadAnim1.gif

Sure as hell looks bald-headed to me.

Which reminds me, must play SC1. So much damn fun.

Remember, this new campaign takes place (I'm assuming) a good deal of time after the Brood War ended.

Doesn't change the fact that, drunkard or not, Raynor's new character looks uglier than Angelina Jolie (which is saying something. good lord that woman is atrocious).

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080730022851/starcraft/images/1/1f/JimRaynor_SC1_HeadAnim1.gif

Sure as hell looks bald-headed to me.

Which reminds me, must play SC1. So much damn fun.

That guy does NOT look like Raynor on first glance.

Speaking of which, the new Raynor sucks. I loved the bald-headed marine from SC1. *sigh*

More fun: windows (or my slackware CD) randomly destroyed the boot partition! I had to fix it with an Ubuntu livecd ... I'm wondering if I'll ever get this dual boot thing working again. Son of a bitch.

Hopefully she doesn't plead the fifth on you. Or the second for that matter.

If she's doing things in bed worth pleading the fifth, she sounds like a keeper...

Always install Windows first and let Linux clean up it's mess.

I think you misunderstood. Windows install: partition X GB for NTFS and Windows boot partition. THEN Linux install: partition Y GB for ext4 & swap. THEN: wanted to take the unpartitioned space (~80GB) and format that to NTFS using Linux. Linux didn't even see the damn unpartitioned space, and once I got it to do that, it didn't let me write to the partition table no matter what I did. Windows let me write to the table... and also decided to overwrite my Slackware partition. Win.

Update!

So Windows, in all its infinite wisdom, decided that when I wanted to take the unpartitioned space and make a partition out of it, it would instead pick the slackware install drives. -.- Thank god I put LILO on the MBR and not the partition!

Reinstalling shit sucks.

I still don't know why the partition didn't show up in Linxu, but that's alright I guess.

There is no BNET. Think of a mixture of Facebook and XFire.

"destroyed b.net". ;)

Beta ran acceptably on my GeForce FX 5900.  Got about 30 FPS provided I didn't hover over huge battles too long.  Or play Protoss.  Energy fields destroyed my FPS.

And with how D3 looks it looks as though Activision is making Blizzard go graphics first and not appeal to its fanbase. SC1 was amazing because you could almost play it on what had the equivalent specs of a graphing calculator *just fine*. SC2 I may only download just for the story. It looks like they destroyed b.net from what I've heard.