http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje Random thoughts Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:23:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FFmpeg is the project that provides multimedia codecs to your favourite media player. Be it the MPEG-4 playback in AmaroK, the WMA-playback in Xine, the H.264 playback in Totem or the playback of WMV in mplayer, FFmpeg is the reason that it's there. Clearly, many people try to take advantage ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2008/03/31/ffmpeg-hall-of-shame/ What happened last week is just amazing. I was planning to go home (to Europe) for christmas, so I booked a flight from Newark to Schiphol, Amsterdam for Saturday the 22nd. I left home over 4 hours before the flight would depart, all would be fine. I took the FDR ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/12/29/home-for-christmas/ Today, I was in a Verizon Wireless shop, trying to buy a cell phone. Actually, I was just trying to get my old one fixed, it broke for the 3rd time within a year (LG is completely crap, so it seems). Instead of getting a new item of the same ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/08/26/verizon-wireless-and-getting-a-cell-phone/ While all those poor GNOME rockstars were at GUADEC hacking on features... I was at DJ TIESTO (ti-jes-to, ti-jes-to, ti-jes-to) at Hammerstein, Manhattan. And yes, he is amazingly good. http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/07/21/159/ Good things generally happen when you least expect it. After Apple support was kind enough to erase my HD without asking, I started using Google Mail and Google Calendar. One word: wow! Did you actually know that there are good spam filters out there? I mean, filters that catch more than ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/07/04/a-google-slave/ Sometimes the devil has style. Real, genuine style. There may be no question that the holocaust was a sad reality during world war 2, but regardless, Iran decided to start a contest to make cartoons of it. And I have to admit, some of them are really quite good. Again, ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/06/01/holocaust-cartoons/ A while ago, I blogged about the impossibility to have a shared agenda between multiple OSes (here, a Linux / OS X dualboot) running local tools. iCal getting slower as my calendar grows made me finally decide to move to GCal and synchronize both sides client-side. I don't like it, ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/05/28/inevitable/ ... or, really, Brooklyn. J. invited me to go to a bar for some live music. I was into it, not having a clue who was performing. Well, in short, first it was a sucky singer who couldn't sing. However, there was a really hot girl in front of the ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/05/23/a-night-out-in-nyc/ I accidently made myself update to Feisty earlier today. I think it started with an email from someone telling me that my iSight driver didn't work for him, me deciding it was time to boot back into Linux and see what's wrong and getting annoyed that Gtk+ on Dapper was ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/05/06/feisty-is-feest/ The AACS (those people that try to own your high-resolution video player) has attempted to take down numerous sites (examples provided in the link) that try to express a number (13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640, that's ~13x10^36) as hex (0x09.f9.11.02.9d.74.e3.5b.d8.41.56.c5.63.56.88.c0, which happens to cover 31 hexes, or 15,5 bytes). Apparently, knowing this number is ... http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2007/05/02/a-number/