Today I tried installing the experimental R600/700 3D drivers for Fedora 12. Surprisingly, nothing much broke. And now I have compiz, yay! Like the clutter gdm screen, it's a bit too slow though.
Unfortunately, blender seems to be slower than it was under software rendering. sigh. read more
In the Future, we will embed machine images in our Ogg files, which, when booted and given network access to the other multiplexed data will decode, render, and export the results data in a variety of JSON responses.
read moreCute demonstration of chrominance vs luminance sensitivity in the human visual system. With source code!
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Monty has posted another of his excellent technical updates on the theora encoder rewrite which has been ongoing for more than a year now. It's a good summary of what went into the recent beta releases.
We still have a bit to go before the final 1.1 though ...
read more$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
60 ls 59 cd 52 svn 44 nano 40 make 26 less 26 fgrep 14 wget 11 host 10 rm
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Lawrence Lessig recently posted a summary on the fsfe-uk list about problems that were blocking Theora adoption. Here's a rebuttal, for what it's worth.
His first point, that Theora isn't technically competitive with the lastest batch of encoders for the encumbered MPEG codecs, is entirely true. From ...
read moreThe planet aggregator needs an advogato style trust metric for deciding which feeds to include. Solves that nasty maintainer bottleneck problem.
read moreOgg podcast feed for Cory Doctorow's reading of Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown about events leading to the formation of the EFF.
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