During my move last week I accidentally discovered the only true evidence for the nerds and fanboys out there:
Can anyone beat me on that and present older crap? (Only real boxes, manuals, cds/floppys allowed!)
Update 20.08.09: Nikias Bassen sent me in this beautifully designed piece of pure geekness. A shot of his Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 from August ’98 below.
Enjoy!
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Played around with some unmaintainable Evolution plugin called evolution-statusicon I wrote once.
Since upgrading to the latest openSUSE 11.1 release I felt it was missing badly on my desktop.
It had to be compiled within the Evolution source due to non-public header usage (e-shell stuff) which led to some problems packaging it or even distributing it outside of the main Evolution release.
Today tough, I managed to fix the requirements to compile it as a standalone EPlugin quite easily and thus pumped out a release plus corresponding packages for openSUSE.
The plugin provides a small notification area icon to show/hide/quit Evolution’s windows and comes handy if you have your favourite PIM open all the time.
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Ah, feels good to be back finally. Enjoyed being ripped off and scammed in NYC over NYE and work has caught me up again.
In other news, you might have heard about NVIDIA’s VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) which literally offloads Video decoding and processing to the graphics processor on Unix systems. They introduced it with the 180.06 driver series which you can download at their official site.
Apparently frameworks like ffmpeg/xine and players like mplayer or vlc have or plan to pickup support for it despite it will take a few months to get there. Unfortunately, my framework of choice which appears to suit best for it, GStreamer (congrats for recent move from cvs to git), has no such efforts yet (and can’t directly profit on an ffmpeg implementation).
The API is only available for NVIDIA graphic cards but quickly checking out the docs today I picked up a line which kind of shows that NVIDIA seems to expect others to pick up…
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Back-end driver files. These files are located in the standard system (possibly X11-specific) library path.
libvdpau_%s.soFor example:libvdpau_nvidia.solibvdpau_intel.solibvdpau_ati.so
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Interesting… Too bad ATI and Intel both plan to go with their own implementations of Video acceleration APIs.
Are we going to see a happy end for Video acceleration on Unix?
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Hey, it appears as those superbrain folks on the libiphone mailing list are onto something regarding the new hashing algorithm used in Apple’s 2.0+ firmware.
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I know it’s a bit late but still interesting to point out:
The Big ?
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