Google has open-sourced their VP8 video codec and announced The WebM Project.

The new file format combines the VP8 video codec with Vorbis and will play within your web browser using HTML5.
It is a huge win for proponents of open web standards.

Information on accessing the Git repository for the source code is readily available at:
http://www.webmproject.org/code/

Arch Linux, a rolling-release GNU/Linux distribution, has released new installation media containing the project's latest snapshot. It has been my distribution of choice for years and I highly recommend it.

Netinstall ISOs: i686 | x86_64
Core ISOs: i686 | x86_64

Happy new year to everyone.

I had my Cowon iAudio7 in my pocket most of the day and when I took it out to use during lunch it suddenly froze and wouldn't power back on for a little bit.

After looking it over, I noticed that the iAudio 7 had a nice crack on the right side of the Swing Touch control which left an indentation (The one place that wasn't covered by the plastic case it is encased in).

I have absolutely no idea what I did or what I hit in order to ruin it, but I could have lived with the crack provided things still functioned properly.
Unfortunately, the unit is malfunctioning badly so I am forced to set it aside and purchase a new Ogg Vorbis player.

Does anyone know if there is a better Ogg Vorbis capable player than the iAudio 7 out these days? If not, I'll just get another iAudio as I really liked it.

It has been quite some time since my last post on this site.
Honestly, I haven't been able to think of anything that I really wanted to talk about.

If you have ever read some of my previous posts, you know that I am a complete sucker for old hardware. Thus, It should not be hard to conclude that during my absence I have been happily collecting various incarnations of out-dated technology.

My most recent acquisition is an Sun Microsystems Ultra 5 (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz). I had to put some money into it in order to get it running, but bringing things back from the 'dead' is part of the game so it was completely worth it.

I'll be replacing the GNU/Linux distribution I had initially installed for testing purposes with Splack, a port of Slackware to the SPARC architecture, fairly soon and from there we shall see how things go.