http://www.stupids.org Whats going on? Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A number of sources (not including google themselves, so far) are reporting that google are to open source the vp8 codec that they acquired on2 earlier this year. If true, this is really good news. Open source needs a good high quality video codec backed by a large organisation ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=51 I have been watching with interest the development of LLVM for quite a long time. For quite some time, work has been taking place on Shark to provide LLVM based JIT for IcedTea. Now I read that Mono has an alternate LLVM based JIT. This is excellent news. The more users LLVM ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=50 I thought is was worth breaking an almost 2 year silence to note that eclipse has finally been upgraded from version 3.2 to version 3.4 in the latest karmic repo. Finally! Well done to those involved. Ubuntu is now on a much better track towards catching up with Fedora for Java ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=49 Shortly after the recent announcements from Miguel regarding Novells partnership with Microsoft to develop moonlight, Simon Phipps responded in hos blog criticising the agreement. Not long after, Miguel and others counter attacked. Now I’m not going to comment here about whether I think the Novell / MS agreement is a ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=48 I did a talk last week for the Nottingham LUG. It was a basic intro into approaches to version control, followed by a few examples. People have asked for a copy of the presentation, so I have put that and some other LUG talk material of mine (including work in ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=47 For those who don’t know, Schrödinger is a library implementing the quality Dirac video codec. It is triple licensed using MPL ,GNU LGPL and MIT. It is important because although we already have Theora, another free video codec, Schrödinger is much more advanced and is comparable in ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=46 Finally the OpenJDK sources are available. Still quite a lot of people, especially a subset of Linux folks, don’t seem to care about java. Personally I think we will look back on this in a few years as a crucially important point in the open source and free ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=45 Feedback about the BBC on demand service is being sought. There is one question about whether Windows only services are acceptable. Find the survey here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.html http://www.stupids.org/?p=44 I’m never quite sure how much difference petitions make, but we seem to have tried just about everything else and there are still some people who genuinely believe software patents do more good than harm. Please join us and oppose software patents http://www.stupids.org/?p=43 I decided some time ago to move all my services from my home ADSL connected server to a hosted machine. Well, now I’ve finally got around to it. Services are being moved over one by one. Hopefully I’ve not messed it all up and you should actually ... http://www.stupids.org/?p=42