Apple uses H.264 for a lot of its trailers; unfortunately Fedora doesn’t come with it out of the box. Fortunately it turns out that ffmpeg (available from RPM Fusion) does support it, so all you need to do is run sudo yum install ffmpeg-libs gstreamer-ffmpeg and life is good.
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Apple uses H.264 for a lot of its trailers; unfortunately Fedora doesn’t come with it out of the box. Fortunately it turns out that ffmpeg (available from RPM Fusion) does support it, so all you need to do is run sudo yum install ffmpeg-libs gstreamer-ffmpeg and life is good.
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Last night I upgraded to Fedora 11. I have to say that I’m impressed! It’s the first Fedora upgrade in a long time which went in quickly and cleanly, without any problems that had me tearing my hair out, which was a problem with past releases (if I — a professional developer, sysadmin and geek — had trouble then you know that normal people did). Overall, Fedora 11 looks more like a ‘polishing’ release than a feature release: for the most part, things look & behave the same, but they do it better, with fewer bugs.
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Last night I upgraded to Fedora 11. I have to say that I’m impressed! It’s the first Fedora upgrade in a long time which went in quickly and cleanly, without any problems that had me tearing my hair out, which was a problem with past releases (if I — a professional developer, sysadmin and geek — had trouble then you know that normal people did). Overall, Fedora 11 looks more like a ‘polishing’ release than a feature release: for the most part, things look & behave the same, but they do it better, with fewer bugs.
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As most of my readers know, my day job is as a Unix developer & system administrator for a large outsourcing company. ‘What’s Unix?’ the non-technical among you might ask. Well, basically it’s just about the greatest computer operating system to achieve widespread use (there have been better or more interesting ones, but they never really took off). It turns 40 this year. Kinda funny that I work on something almost nine years older than I am.
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As most of my readers know, my day job is as a Unix developer & system administrator for a large outsourcing company. ‘What’s Unix?’ the non-technical among you might ask. Well, basically it’s just about the greatest computer operating system to achieve widespread use (there have been better or more interesting ones, but they never really took off). It turns 40 this year. Kinda funny that I work on something almost nine years older than I am.
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Bob Martin proposes that software development teams model themselves after craft guilds, with a master programmer supervising journeymen programmers who supervise apprentices. Not only that, but computer science degrees would be replaced by apprenticeship in most cases. He demonstrates that such a team would be fairly inexpensive and could be highly productive. It’s an intriguing idea.
My big concern with eliminating college is simply that higher education expands the mind. But is it really necessary to spend $200,000 between the ages of 18 and 22 in order to expand one’s mind?
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Bob Martin proposes that software development teams model themselves after craft guilds, with a master programmer supervising journeymen programmers who supervise apprentices. Not only that, but computer science degrees would be replaced by apprenticeship in most cases. He demonstrates that such a team would be fairly inexpensive and could be highly productive. It’s an intriguing idea.
My big concern with eliminating college is simply that higher education expands the mind. But is it really necessary to spend $200,000 between the ages of 18 and 22 in order to expand one’s mind?
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The Guardian uses lots of free software to run their website. Recently, they discovered a bug, tracked it down, fixed it and submitted the patch to the developers. Were it proprietary software, they would have discovered it, but would have been unable to track it down or fix it, and the odds are that their vendor would not have considered it a high priority.
Free software rocks.
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The Guardian uses lots of free software to run their website. Recently, they discovered a bug, tracked it down, fixed it and submitted the patch to the developers. Were it proprietary software, they would have discovered it, but would have been unable to track it down or fix it, and the odds are that their vendor would not have considered it a high priority.
Free software rocks.
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Well, that title is a bit alarmist, but it’s true: Excel corrupts gene names and Riken identifiers in spreadsheets. I have to ask: if you’re doing anything important, why are you using Microsoft software to do it?
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Well, that title is a bit alarmist, but it’s true: Excel corrupts gene names and Riken identifiers in spreadsheets. I have to ask: if you’re doing anything important, why are you using Microsoft software to do it?
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