Much Ado About Everything

It’s well known that only Vista Ultimate and Business have the Windows Remote Desktop server so that they can be remotely controlled.  Fair enough.  Just use VNC for a free alternative, right? Wrong.  But of course.  You should have expected that from Vista, no? Due to change in the security model, software like this does [...]

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If you want to encode video on Linux, you’re in for a world of pain. Let’s compare encoding a video file to crossing a river. Expect to have to generally learn how to build a bridge to cross to the other side – and then build it. As opposed to – at the very worst [...]

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On July 22, 2007 Intel executed massive price cuts on their entire processor line. I decided that enough is enough and finally bought myself one of those new processors. The best value for connoisseur right now is quad core chip – the Q6600. I even managed to get the new-as-of-July-16th G0 revision, but that’s a story for another day. The story for this post is about what can be done with such a power. Of course, I buy new hardware just because but there is one reason which does make sense – and that is video encoding.

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