2004 April at Not sLop

Archive for April, 2004

Electronic Citations, from the Columbia Guide to Online Style

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 30th, 2004 in General Links

About the Columbia Guide to Online Style
A reference for standard bibliographic references can be found at: Writers’ Workshop at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The internet will kill television news?

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 28th, 2004 in By-Pass The Media, The Media, Social Networking

Internet will kill of Television News - an essay
Very interesting essay. For my views on this topic checkout Interactive Tele-Journalism.

mini GNU/Linux distro for the Via EPIA boards

1 Comment Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 26th, 2004 in Streaming and Multi-Media, Hardware, Open Source, Entertainment, Development

freepia
Yea! Now I will have something to do with my M-10000 once my thesis is done ;-)
From the site:
Freepia is a small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. It currently runs on the M-9000 and M-10000 (ezra and nehemiah cpu) but with some modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should […]

Cloning NT

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 26th, 2004 in Open Source, Development

ReactOS - Home
From the site:
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.

Does Television have a future..

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 25th, 2004 in The Media

The Future of Television
Of course it does… Dave Lennie has an interesting blog: “television will be very different in just 5 years”

Ambient chandeliers!

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 25th, 2004 in Networking, Electronics, Hardware, Gadgets, Fashion, Food and More

Yahoo! News - Chandeliers shaken by crystal SMSs
From the article:
“It’s time to shake up the industry. There are too many chandeliers around with no life and soul — just expensive cookie-cutter designs,” said Nadja Swarovski, grand-daughter of the company’s founder and vice president of communications.

A snippet of what is to come for Forbes readers..

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 25th, 2004 in By-Pass The Media, Streaming and Multi-Media, The Media, Business, Social Networking

Yahoo! News - Is TV Next?
They say that the internet is a “problem” for TV.. Hmmn, I would welcome a bit of a shake up, perhaps only those companies willing to embrace the technology and social power of the internet will survive. Wouldn’t that be nice..
From the article:
The problem is, the Internet is […]

YASNS Meta List

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 25th, 2004 in Social Networking

YASNS Meta List - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com
The Yet Another Social Networking Service list.

Will Windows Media on DVD spell the end of MPEG-4

0 Comments Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 25th, 2004 in Streaming and Multi-Media

Streamingmedia.com: Commentary: MPEG-4 is Dead
While the DVD Forum adoption seems big, I don’t think that this one win for WM will mean the death of MPEG-4. In any case, the argument given in this article is interesting.
From the article:
Given the adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Media Video 9 by the DVD Forum, there’s increasing reason […]

Real encoding on OS X

1 Comment Bookmark on del.icio.us Published April 25th, 2004 in Streaming and Multi-Media, Mac

Streaming Media, Inc.
Nothing for live streaming as far as I can tell but a step in the right direction. It has been a couple of years for Real on the Mac (not including third party encoding solutions such as Cleaner).
From the article:
RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), today unveiled a beta version of its new Real […]