Been working on a few things.
Linux Section:
Updated Zaurus Kino2 reference, the new 0.4.2 is out, and it is pretty sweet.
I found a problem with my tutorial for encoding movies for the zaurus. The audio sync is messed up again. The only way I can get it to work is encode the video with mencoder, then use AVIDEMUX to encode the MP3. I will update the section tonight.
As a work in progress, I have most of the DVD9 to DVD5 tutorial up. A dozen or so more screenshots and it will be complete.
In the words section, I brought over a Blog entry and expanded it out a little.
Linux never ceases to amaze me, though. On my Athlon XP 2200, I was ripping/encoding a DVD, listening to OGG music, chatting online with a Java application, editing my webpage, with an FTP client open, while compiling the latest mplayer, all at the same time…on 512 meg of ram. I would love to see windows do that. The music never skipped once either 🙂
Stuck in a rut
Computers and the high tech world are stuck in a rut. The computing world is boring. Is there anything you can do today that you couldn’t really do 10 years ago? Listen to music? Make movies? Well, people were doing that over 100 years ago. Organize your life? Keep notes? Need a tablet PC to do that? Not really, you can do it with a sheet of paper. I have watched computers grow from the 64k machines of my childhood to the multi-gigahertz machines of today, and I am amazed how little more you can do with computers now. Except for the internet (but there were BBS’s and e-mail back then), there has not been much change. I still use a word processor, which is still not really WYSIWYG. I still use spreadsheets, and I still play games. All the same things I was doing when I was 11 years old. In fact, some things were easier back then, like drawing programs. I loved drawing on the old computers. Now I hate it. We need something new, something you really can’t do in the real world. I don’t know what it is, but whoever comes up with it will be a billionaire.
Posted by admin on April 6, 2004 in General Comments, Linux
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