Planet SoC

“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
Mohandas Gandhi
From the Red Hat website.

I got this story in my mail today, a modern take on an ancient story

Once upon a time, there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market.
One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell in the river. Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood (the woodcutter and the axe), he started praying to the River Goddess. The River Goddess wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers. The engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river.

[Tech]

• It takes a filesystem to beat a sledgehammer. ZFS vs. brute force.
• Interview with Julian Seward, founder of Valgrind.

[Health]

• Just eat well. Vitamin supplements don’t help.

[Tech]

• It takes a filesystem to beat a sledgehammer. ZFS vs. brute force.
• Interview with Julian Seward, founder of Valgrind.

[Health]

• Just eat well. Vitamin supplements don’t help.

Google released the Summer of Code results last night, and I’m in! I’ll be working on the VP3/Theora encoder for FFmpeg this summer. They sent me a nice email right around the deadline time, and the site was updated after an hour or so. They also added me to the GSoC students’ private mailing list, which is currently flooding my inbox with everyone’s(~1000) introductions.

Google released the Summer of Code results last night, and I’m in! I’ll be working on the VP3/Theora encoder for FFmpeg this summer. They sent me a nice email right around the deadline time, and the site was updated after an hour or so. They also added me to the GSoC students’ private mailing list, which is currently flooding my inbox with everyone’s(~1000) introductions.

Google released the Summer of Code results last night, and I’m in! I’ll be working on the VP3/Theora encoder for FFmpeg this summer. They sent me a nice email right around the deadline time, and the site was updated after an hour or so. They also added me to the GSoC students’ private mailing list, which is currently flooding my inbox with everyone’s(~1000) introductions.

Finally, after a couple of nights of slogging it out, I managed to beat the BFI video decoder into shape. Here’s the subsystem playing the title track of Flash Traffic: City of Angels. Mike Melanson wrote a review of this game sometime ago, which is pretty much the last word on this game. The patch for the video decoder is here.

Finally, after a couple of nights of slogging it out, I managed to beat the BFI video decoder into shape. Here’s the subsystem playing the title track of Flash Traffic: City of Angels. Mike Melanson wrote a review of this game sometime ago, which is pretty much the last word on this game. The patch for the video decoder is here.

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