technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Technology
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 >
bendunne.com seems to be a no-show
Oct 19th
Ben Dunne has bought hours of radio air-time on Newstalk over the last month telling everyone about his new website that would revolutionise buying of stuff and doing of things that was coming on the 19th of October. It caught my eye because nobody does a hard launch on the Internet. The accepted wisdom is to soft launch/beta the website first to iron out the kinks and build up some content and then put out the ads. Out of curiosity I took a look at his site today and it’s an empty page for some reason, so that marketing investment is largely wasted. More >
