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technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
It looks like my data snuck up into the cloud without telling me…
Feb 1st
I bought a new laptop recently. This isn’t my first PC upgrade. I think I’m on my 9th laptop at this stage. It’s always been a dreadful chore, exporting, packaging, burning, installing, copying, saving, importing and then configuring everything. it used to take a solid weekend before I was 100% comfortable. This time around was very disconcerting. I basically switched on my new laptop, installed a few tools, entered my MS Office license key and I was pretty much good to go.
Because my current work style is very fluid, where I hop between my office and home PCs, a laptop, More >
We’re being told to “embrace knowledge & risk”
Jan 12th
Prof. Martin Curley has got together with some other eminent economists and has written a book called “Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship – The Key to Social and Economic Transformation”. The core argument (I think. I’ve only read the press coverage), is that the quickest way to improve society (and by implication get out of this financial mess) is to concentrate on the knowledge economy. Professor Curley says that the west has lost the ability to innovate and take risks.
Risks are manageable if you’re a large corporate, but it’s a huge ask if you’re a start-up. Start-ups need capital and for most of us More >
Result! I’ve got DivX working on Moblin 2.1
Nov 16th
Barky posted an easy to follow set of instructions as a comment on moblin.org. It’s bound to get lost as the old comments get purged so I’ve reproduced it below so I can find it again myself
Here’s what you need to do…
Build gstreamer modules ———————–
get the gstreamer packages: from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/
from the gst-ffmpeg directory get gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-bad directory get gst-plugins-bad-0.10.16.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-base directory get gst-plugins-base-0.10.25.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-good directory get gst-plugins-good-0.10.16.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-ugly directory get gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory More >
A pleasant surprise from Adobe
Oct 29th
I bought Macromedia Homesite 5.5 from Macromedia’s web store back in 2005, just after Adobe bought Macromedia. They’ve long since killed off Homesite but it’s never been beaten in my opinion as a HTML/web code editor. I had a need yesterday to make a minor change to a PHP file and I decided to dust off Homesite rather than edit in notepad. I went to my CD wallet and couldn’t find the CD so I thought I was pretty much stuffed. Most of my on-line purchases have been from Digital River and I expected similar treatment (at best) from Adobe. DR expects More >
