Well, I’ve gone on another Firefox elitist mood with my page. I have no Microsoft Internet Explorer to test the interface but it looks fantastic on Firefox, Safari, and Opera. So I guess if the page looks jacked up on top, it’s because you’re on IE.

I put up a screen shot from browsershots.org. I’m just going to put it out there. You have to update your browser. IE7 ain’t enough.

Get

Firefox

Now.

There! See, I made the text fit some more.

Peace!

This is a new version of Fock’s Truck.

h264 – Xvid

In an earlier post, I mention that I might buy a Canon Powershot TX1. It now seems that maybe the canon is not the right choice after all. I read some reviews and videos about it and it’s a bit of a hog when it comes to memory. In fact a 2 gigabyte chip holds about 7 minutes of film. That’s just not going to cut it.

I’m thinking maybe it’s time for another choice. The Aiptek HD GO seems to be very popular. It’s pros are great low light and vivid daylight image and slim form factor. I hear a lot about the microphone being a little noisy on this baby, but I plan of capturing the audio separately on my films anyways. It records strait to h264 video at about 60 MBs a minute vs the Canons’ 500 MBs a minute. A down side of that same issue is that I have to do a strange demux and transcode to make it work in Cinelerra. I really like the fact that the Canons’ videos just drop right in.

I did a comparison of the two cameras video quallity. I have them in different sizes for slower computers, but the HD is the 720p version. Check them out.
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Quicktime 360p

Quicktime 540p

Quicktime 720p

Another great point of this baby is the price. The sugested retail is $299.00. That’s almost half. I’m going to keep looking, but it seems this is a fantastic contender.

It’s funny really. I don’t do that much writing outside of the usual blog or web forum, but I get a considerable amount of joy out of using Open Office. For all who do not know what Open Office is, it’s a free, robust, feature full office program comparable to Microsoft Office. They joy I refer to isn’t from the easy to use interface, the full compatibility with existing office documents, not even the built in PDF export tool that gets so much use. No, my joy is with the freedom. The freedom of knowing I’ll always have access to this application, no matter where I am. If a meteor hit my house, destroying my laptop and all my other worldly possessions, never in my rebuilding process would I ever have to think “How will I afford Office for my new computer?” No matter what OS, no matter what architecture, there is always Open Office. Freely available, freely updated, and always reliable.

Download this:
ODF – PDF – Doc – Google Doc

This has got to be one of the funniest and bizarre videos I have seen in a long time.

This is Youtube Video Blogger Chris Crocker. I kinda feel sorry for the guy. No mortal man (or woman) should ever put so much emotion into the world of celebrity.

Look, I ain’t trying to be mean, but I was pretty shook up when Don Knotts kicked the bucket. I mean that was an end of undeniably one of Americas greatest actors, dead in the would be second prime of his career. Without him Matlock just couldn’t go on. It just wouldn’t be the same.

Chris’ pain is so sad, that it becomes funny again. Get over it man. It’s just celebrity gossip, it’s just the pathetic fake of Hollywood, and I know not even Brittany herself (If she could read) would disagree with what I said. Move on.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to watch ‘Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo’ in honor of Brittany’s half assed stage show.

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Using Cinelerra’s motion tracking tool I found that compositing might prove to be a strong point for Cinelerra. When I get a chance I will probably set up some cheesy matte background and film one of my cohorts to stand in awe of some funky GIMP‘d world.

Well, sorta. The Gimp core is being replaced. They’re about to launch Gimp 2.4, but by 2.6 the core will be replaced by GEGL a new XML graphics processing system. Some of the notable features will be:

1. 8bit, 16bit integer and 32bit floating point, RGB, CIE Lab, and Y’CbCr output.
2. Non destructive editing
3. Processing and display of image buffers larger than RAM
4. Rich core set of processing operations that internally computes with HDR capable 32bit floating point.

To put it in layman’s terms, Higher color modes, HDR, and Layer effects. Sweet Jesus that’s awesome. This sould be released when the new UI comes out too.

There’s been rumor of porting KDE desktop to Windows. There seems to be some debate about this. Some would say that it’s damaging to Linux community because it keeps potential Linux users from adopting Linux. Some how this argument seems without much merit to me. I know that my adoption of Linux was eased by the familiarity of all my favorite application working identically in Windows. My migration was unusual at the time compared to a lot of my cohorts. I was using Open Office, GIMP, and Firefox. Most of them were using Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and IE. (Might point out, we were all a bit poor, so Office and PS where bootlegged.)

Having said all that. A bit on a rant nevertheless, I believe that KDE being ported to Windows signifies a bigger goal. The original goal of free software. Free software should be made to help and improve the life of everyone. The user, the programmer, and even the Windows user. If KDE somehow makes the daily tasks of most windows users easier, then we’ve done quite a wonderful thing. It shouldn’t always be about Linux adoption, it should be about choice.

Google does not care if your using Firefox, IE, Opera, or even Lynx. That’s why Google has dominated the internet. Google lets you have choices. It’s a recipe for success. Now I may be a Gnome geek, but KDE has a lot to offer the Windows world. Krita is a great example. It looks a lot like Photoshop. A familiar face. K3B could possibly totally replace Nero for a lot of users.

Well hopefully if this port does go without a hitch, it will make things easier for some of my friends. Anything that makes them bitch less, will make me feel better too.

So let’s see. The NT kernel was built in 1993. It originally required a 386 running at the whopping speed of 25 Mhz, and a huge fist of 8 MBs of RAM. The system was kind of large and you needed a 90 MB hard disk. In 1993 it was powerful and very easy to use.

Somehow Microsoft decided to not change the kernel. They blamed it on ‘compatibility issues.’ However anyone who’s tried to run older application on Vista knows that compatibility was not highest on the list.

It’s been 14 years. Can we please move on. The kernel is like a huge stack of plates, that never get cleaned. The larger it gets the harder it is to stack, and the worse mess it will be when it crashes.

Via Wikipedia: Windows NT and Architecture of NT.
Via Encyclopedia Dramatica
Via Uncyclopedia