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VLC Media Player 0.8.4

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

VLC Media Player is a lightweight media player capable of playing almost any audio or video file; two, it’s cross-platform; three, a lot of other ambitious media player projects are based on its open source code; and four, the VLC team keeps on improving it. Today VLC Media Player 0.8.4 came out with a host of fixes and new features, including a new on-screen display system, better IPv6 support, an RSS feed overlay video filter, Icecast (Shoutcast) stream forwarding, and CGI 1.0 support in the HTTP module.

SuSE RPM packges are availble from PakMan.

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I’ll be back…

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

on Sunday. I am going for a trip to Joshua Tree, Mojave and Death Valley.

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Simple Linux backup

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I have found article about Mirdir on LWN. Mirdir provides a quick and easy way to make an ad hoc backup of important data. With it you can copy a file or directories to your keydisk, or save redundant copies of data you can’t afford to lose. It tries to do only one thing, and do it well: mirror a directory. When searching more I found that there are few other tools available to do this job: rsnapshot based on rsync

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Capture One RAW Converter

Monday, November 21st, 2005

It loooks like great RAW utiliy. Pro version it’s a little expensive but I might try LE version available at BHPhoto for $79. Capture One DSLR (known hereafter as C1) can be used to convert a group of RAW images with the maximum quality, maximum control and quickest workflow. The one big strength Capture One DSLR has over the Canon software is that all adjustments happen in (almost) realtime. That means you can make a grey balance adjustment and see the change immediately, this is far better than the rather slow-to-change Canon FIle Image Viewer.

Reviews:

DPReview

Outback Photo – Capture One DSLR (C1) Experience Report and RAW Converter Essentials

Andy Rouse’s Review

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Nice article about programming priciples If you follow all these rules religiously, even you wouldn’t be able to maintain the code! Funny or Deja vu?

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Fotolia: social marketplace for royalty free stock images.

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Found on The Digital Photography Weblog:
“Fotolia is solution to allow photographers of all levels to store, share and sell their photographs and illustrations. You create an online gallery – which also allows comments from viewers – and offer the photographs for sale. Membership is free and copyright remains with the photographer.”