http://www.sidequest.org/weblog/ Walking through life sideways en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 02 May 2007 16:40:29 +0100 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:08:00 +0100 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.121 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wow internet people of the world. I was surprised tonight. As slow as defending DeCSS took off all those years ago, so quick was the defending of the AACS key. Many people on the Internet spoke out tonight after AACS... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2007/05/dmca_takedowns.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2007/05/dmca_takedowns.html Technology Wed, 02 May 2007 16:40:29 +0100 Woekele from SNT approached me yesterday if I knew how to build a launcher for Urban Terror, my at-one-time favourite game. I remembered I had once written a quick mock-up application called MacUrT that did just that. I never really... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/09/macurt.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/09/macurt.html Open Source Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:38:38 +0100 It's soooo difficult sometimes to put under words the things you feel and know in your heart are true. There are a lot of things in the US government that I do not agree with by a longshot. I feel... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/09/start_thinking.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/09/start_thinking.html Webbing Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:00:56 +0100 Jean Paul Saman and I visited IBC 2006 again this year, and I have put a small photo tour online. VLC was seen quite a few times again on the floor, this time some of the companies included were names... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/09/ibc_2006.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/09/ibc_2006.html VideoLAN Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100 VideoLAN has been around far longer then most ppl realise. The project's sourcecode wasn't released till somewhere in 2001, but there was something working long before that. One of the 4 co-founders that started with the idea, intially known as... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/08/the_founding_of.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/08/the_founding_of.html VideoLAN Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:14:51 +0100 For those who are interested, and just so that I remember the link. Here is a gallery and a description of the VideoLAN serverpark.... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/the_videolan_se.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/the_videolan_se.html VideoLAN Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:08:00 +0100 Have you seen Del.icio.us yet? It's an online community for sharing bookmarks basically. Now you know I always have to check what VLC brings up in tools like this. Well, the results are in. Among the different interesting tidbits, I... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/vlc_is_just_del.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/vlc_is_just_del.html VideoLAN Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:36:26 +0100 So after our recent issue with the Sony Rootkit, yet again several things have been reported to us. This time someone is selling our software for $29,99 without informing the user they will simply be getting VLC media player which... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/gpl_violations.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/gpl_violations.html VideoLAN Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:58:41 +0100 I have always liked crawling trough Google search results for websites and images that look at, use, review, list etc. VLC in one way of another. I have now created a small webpage that presents you with 6 random images... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/google_and_vlc.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/google_and_vlc.html Webbing Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:47:19 +0100 People keep running into issues with this, even though it is described in the README.MacOSX.rtf file on the diskimage. I happened to run into a small HOWTO explaining it a bit more detailed, and with pictures. I hope that by... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/vlc_subtitles_i.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2006/01/vlc_subtitles_i.html VideoLAN Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:43:34 +0100 Recently my website was abused by Referral Spammers. My ISP made a whole analysis of it. As a result of this, my statistics are currently no longer viewable outside my usual browsing location. However the huge amount of hits this... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/added_google_ad.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/added_google_ad.html Webbing Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:56:26 +0100 We have asked for donations in the past in order to assist us in developing for the Mac OS X platform. Now all of a sudden we had to return our Xserve machine, which was doing the daily nightly builds... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/new_buildserver.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/new_buildserver.html VideoLAN Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:10:49 +0100 As Stallman and many others already feared, the USPTO has come up with yet a more idiotic patent. From today, it is apparently possible to patent a storyline. You say: "So what?". Oh my.. you have no idea. This means... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/pay_to_tell_you.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/pay_to_tell_you.html Philosophy Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:37:40 +0100 As reported on tuaw.com, Phil Windley has created a script to automatically convert Tivo (or other MPEG2 sources) into iPod G5 compatible MPEG4 video files.... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/vlc_ipod_video.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/vlc_ipod_video.html VideoLAN Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:02:12 +0100 After years and years my father is finally "Back to the Mac". I have been migrating his data and I ran into some problems which we're quite annoying. First was migrating my father's Favorites from Internet Explorer to Safari. This... http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/10/windows_to_mac.html http://sidequest.org/weblog/archives/2005/10/windows_to_mac.html Apple Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:09:44 +0100