Category Archives: Ordinateurs

Computers and that

FFMPEG

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Arthur

I saw that ffmpeg 0.5 was released the other day (I don’t have any link here) and since my Msys/MingW environment was already ready to go I decided to compile my own ffmpeg executable. I expected it to be ‘an … Continue reading →

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Some KDE

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Arthur

I run a mix of Gnome and KDE on one of my computers: for a couple of Mono related things, I ended up frequently running the Gnome desktop. Just today, I decided to follow-up on the notifications telling me that … Continue reading →

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Ice, Ice, Maybe

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Arthur

Everytime a Wix script (Windows Installer XML) fails to compile, it logs ICE errors. For some kind of reason, whenever these errors or warnings pop up, I keep humming the tune of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” (Youtube, if you’re … Continue reading →

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Debian 5 (“Lenny”)

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Arthur

Via Slashdot, I found out that Debian “Lenny” (or 5.0, so you will) has been released. On February 14th. I can feel the Debian love at Slashdot. Seriously, this looks like a major release (or setback if you’re in the … Continue reading →

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FFMPeg III

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Arthur

Note to self: the source version of ffmpeg comes with h264 presets. Earlier, I mentioned where to get the ffmpeg binary from (note, as far as I can see, the last build was done in 2008), so there may (indeed) … Continue reading →

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The Other Third Kind

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Arthur

I‘m not sure where this all came from but this week it appears that ternary logic is the craze on reddit (proof 1 and proof 2). The first link goes to a short Wikipedia article about the Russian’s (successful) attempts … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg II

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Arthur

I have been making small progress on my own front-end for FFMPeg (earlier on xsamplex). Earlier I was rounding up the serializers (data persistence, data schmersistence): the threading code was finished months ago. I just have to connect the last … Continue reading →

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At your Runlevel

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Arthur

Earlier, I was reminded of the typical run-levels on Linux systems, particularly on Debian-flavoured distributions. For future reference1: Run level 0: System Halt Run level 1: Single User/No networking (“Safe Mode” for Windows connoisseurs). In this mode daemons won’t be … Continue reading →

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Nemesis of the 3rd kind

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Arthur

The Windows Vista sounds remind me of several sound effects of a game (Konami’s Nemesis III) I used to play on an MSX-2, a whole long time ago. Compared to the other games in that series, this episode was actually … Continue reading →

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Backup

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Arthur

One of the weirdest stories last month, was the one about JournalSpace losing its data and then just plain calling its quits because the inability to recover that lost data. There’s an endless discussion going on at Slashdot and at … Continue reading →

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Is there hope?

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Arthur

I‘ve been working so much on Vista and XP lately that I forgot about the release of the first beta for KDE 4.2, so naturally, I decided to download the latest binaries (“Neon”). Barring any bugs, I have to say … Continue reading →

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You asked: Creative Live 24-bits review

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of years ago, I bought a Creative Live 24-bit USB, after finding out that my latest computer’s soundcard did not include a wave-out mixer. The logical choice was to find an external USB soundcard and luckily I didn’t … Continue reading →

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A public service announcement

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Arthur

So, yesterday, I noticed that the WordPress download site was already seeded with the new 2.7 version, while the official blog was still yawning about the RC2 of that version. For no particular reason I decided to deploy it. I’m … Continue reading →

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