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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]