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November 30, 2005

Added Google Adsense

Recently my website was abused by Referral Spammers. My ISP made a whole analysis of it. As a result of this, my statistics are currently no longer viewable outside my usual browsing location.

However the huge amount of hits this generated made me think. Why not use it? So I added Google Adsense and a Google referral button to the site. No idea if it's gonna bring in any money, but I might as well give it a try.

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Posted in Webbing

November 10, 2005

New Buildserver

We have asked for donations in the past in order to assist us in developing for the Mac OS X platform. Now all of a sudden we had to return our Xserve machine, which was doing the daily nightly builds and the buildbod commit checks. So we cut to the chase and bought ourselves a Powermac G5 1.8 Ghz Dual Processor machine.
It's standing at my apartment atm and I'm working on setting it up as the new buildserver. The G5 is lovely and really fast. HDTV is a breeze with this machine.
After we set it up as the new server, and as soon as I have a TOS cable etc, I will start working on improved Digital Audio support for VLC OSX, and then i made give Video Capture a try, since I know also own an iBot firewire webcam.
I'm not making any promises, but I think I should be able to get something usable soon.

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Posted in VideoLAN

November 04, 2005

Pay to tell your story

As Stallman and many others already feared, the USPTO has come up with yet a more idiotic patent. From today, it is apparently possible to patent a storyline. You say: "So what?". Oh my.. you have no idea. This means that the person awarded the patent can collect licensing fees from ANYONE who writes a story, makes a movie or in any other way base a work on this storyline. This is the END of creativity of the mind people. When is America gonna stand up for their rights instead of for money and say: "Enough is enough!!!". This is totally getting out of hand.

Below a repost of an earlier blogentry with some links to related materials

My friend Jon Lech Johansen pointed me at some speaches by Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig. Cory is a Science Fiction writer and EFF spokesperson and Lawrence is a Stanford Professor of Law. Both have great ideas on copyright, DRM and Freedoms. And even better examples of what often goes wrong in the current situation of regulation of these.
I would consider this obligated viewing material for all European Parliament members before they take the all important EU Patent vote. It's directly related to patents in that patent law is BUILT on these copyright laws. And the current proposal (let's not even talk about the legality of how it got trough the EC :D ) protects and exploits exactly some of the defects of current copyright law.

And it's interesting material for anyone interested in Piracy, Copyright, DRM, Creativity and Freedom.
Cory's famous DRM speach at Microsoft (txt)
Cory's NUUG speach (mpg)
Cory's NUUG post speach discussion (mpg)
Lessig's talk (takes a while before it gets really interesting, but VERY good). (mpg)


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Posted in Philosophy

VLC iPod Video Conversion

As reported on tuaw.com, Phil Windley has created a script to automatically convert Tivo (or other MPEG2 sources) into iPod G5 compatible MPEG4 video files.

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Posted in VideoLAN