tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70948361970020955652011-12-13T10:27:10.720-08:00Technology, the way I see it...oneandzerotalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17321510704765577312noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094836197002095565.post-31013425663497788082007-10-24T00:54:00.000-07:002007-10-24T01:22:11.480-07:00

Thanks for those kind words, Mr. Spock, and here's your portrait, as I drew using Flash CS3. It was my first attempt at drawing with Flash, and it took me a little over an hour (click to enlarge):Now that I'm unemployed, I decided to learn some Flash. I downloaded the trial from Adobe, and started reading around. I was more interested in writing programs using ActionScript 3, but while writing

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All the excellent bits and bytes I put (with others in the RND team) into the Transparency Software Vision(tm) product were not enough. The startup company I worked for since January 2005 (almost 3 years) is shutting down - I suspect the previous link to the company site would be broken pretty soon.The investors lost faith in the company management and decided to cut their losses and take

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I've written a plug-in for Azureus that allows running an arbitrary command line once a download completes. You could, for example, send yourself an e-mail once this happens, but there's actually already a plug-in dedicated for this.I'm using this plug-in to check if AVIs I download use packed bitstream, and if they do, unpack them. This way, there's one less thing to do before I can play the

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I saw the following in MythTV's forum (MythTvTalk):"Once the video is captured in the file (...), you are past any PAL/NTSC differences..."While this is true in some aspects, it's very wrong with regards to one important aspect: frame rate. Why is frame rate important? Because there's no way to do interpolations on time.Let's think about it this way - if your monitor is set to 1024 x 768 and the

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GeneralI'm using DWR at work and it's an excellent tool for AJAX (easily doing RPC from the client browser in JavaScript back to the Java Server). It also has good enough integration with Spring, which is a plus.But for quite some time, we've had errors popping up in our logs every time we sent a JavaScript object to over DWR. The errors would look something like this:2007-03-07 03:56:14,783 [

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Why I need an HD based DVD playerThe reason is quite simple. I have two kids. The older is 3.5 years old and the younger is 2.5 years old. The both watch a fair amount of kids' DVD and like other kids their age, they love seeing the same movies over and over again. Like other kids their age, they've become experts at operating the DVD player and scratching the DVD discs quite hard.There's no use,

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Many Xvid encoded movies are encoded using Packed Bitstream. What is it? First of all, for me it's important since I have a stand-alone DVD player that can play Xvid encoded avi files, but only if they don't use packed bitstream. Whenever I obtain a movie, and before I burn it on a CD-RW, I have to check if it uses packed bitstream, and if it does, use a utility to convert it to a non-packed

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In a previous post, I said HD 1080i sucks because interlaced, in general, sucks. I went on to explain a few things there. Recently I edited a home movie from old footage of my niece (for her birthday), and tackled a nasty interlaced issue called "Field Dominance". Here's one more reason why interlaced video should be abandoned...Let's skip the definition on interlaced video (You can always pick

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Warning: this is a very technical post. Read at your own risk...The ProblemThere's a certain US show that airs on Wednesday nights. When it's Wednesday night in the US, it's actually early morning in Israel, where I live. By Thursday morning Israel time, there's already a torrent for downloading a high quality, commercial free, video of that certain show. The episode takes 350MB, and usually

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Yesterday I saw this piece of code in a unit test (We're using JUnit like everyone else) we have for one of our components: Timestamp dawnOfTheAges = new Timestamp(0);I immediately e-mailed the person who wrote the code complaining about the fact that constructing a Timestamp like this creates something that's much more recent than the dawn of the ages. It's midnight as it was celebrated

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About a year ago I decided to give Linux a chance (I chose Ubuntu). I assume I'm not an average PC user since I've been a programmer since 1986, so if someone could use Linux as the operating system for a desktop computer (my home computer), I should be able to do it as well.In the last year I used Linux (I'm definitely not an expert, and I don't have the time to become one), and found many great

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CNET published a recent article saying on a visual comparison, they can't see substantial difference between 1080i sets and 1080p sets (The case against 1080p). I find such articles alarming. I think 1080i sucks, and here's why.Simply put, 1080i sucks because interlaced broadcasting sucks.The real issue with interlaced content is not the TV set. I know CNET is all about telling people what

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Why should you convert DVDs to DV?If you’d like to backup complete DVD movies, there’s little sense in converting them to DV. A 2-hour movie, converted to DV would consume a lot of your HD space - something like 26GB. DV is used for video editing, so if you’d like to edit your own videos, and insert clips from DVDs into them, this tutorial is for you.What you needYou'll need the following:DVD

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Okay, not for everyone, but if you want to really enjoy seeing movies at your home, you should be happy that HDTV is getting closer and closer, because it's going to be much cheaper to enjoy a cinema-like experience at your home.How come? Everyone is talking about how expensive high-def TVs cost and the premium you have to pay for high-def players that support BluRay or HD DVD. While this is true

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It's quite expensive to buy good high-definition equipment. Prices are going down and newtechnologies emerge all the time. In addition, it's hard to justify the cost, when there's not enoughcontent that's broadcasted in high definition.If you're in the US, you're in good shape, since you can enjoy a few hours of HDTV every day, butoutside of the US it's even harder to find high-definiton

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