Archive for 'Rant'
Wondering how to spend my computer cycles
I am beginning to feel the lack of computing power in my attic…
There is a pending KDE 4.5.0 release, which needs to be built for slackware-current. Then there is also VLC 1.1.2 which was released a few days ago… and those packages need to be built for Slackware 13.1 (so that they can join [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2010 under Me, Rant, Slackware, Software.
Tags: athlon, kde45, kvm, qemu, vlc, xen
Comments: 12
Google Open Sources VP8 Codec
The press has seen a lot of commotion lately about HTML5 and its out-of-the-box video support through the new < video > tag.
Ogg Video – being the open source and royalty-free container used for the HTML5 video tag – is not favoured by the big players with commercial interests in web standards and content. There [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2010 under Rant, Software.
Tags: h264, html5, ogg, vp8, webm
Comments: 3
Covert spam
I run this blog without the illusion that it will make me any money. But I know there are many people trying to make a good amount of cash by maintaining a “popular” blog. What defines popular? Having a lot of “backlinks” i.e. other sites refferring to (linking to) your blog is a measure of [...]
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Rant.
Tags: blog, spam
Comments: 2
VLC media player
Are you one of these people who puts Slackware on a computer and then immediately follows up with the installation of another media player than Xine?
Well, I am one of these people. I have been using MPLayer a lot – it builds relatively easily and because it uses Windows codec DLL’s it supports a multitude [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Rant, Slackware.
Tags: mplayer, multimedia, package, video, vlc
Comments: none