Archive for May, 2004
rConvGui
My little application is coming along. Slowly though. I found an mp3 library which utilizes the LAME mp3 library called Tritonus. We’ll see if I can get that to work. The example I have does. 
I also found a recursive directory structuring routine. Coupled with looking at my previous source code… I have working… PIECES! Now it’s time for it all to come together.
Alright, back to coding… kind of.
Recursive Convert
My little application is coming along. Slowly though. I found an mp3 library which utilizes the LAME mp3 library called Tritonus. We’ll see if I can get that to work. The example I have does.
I also found a recursive directory structuring routine. Coupled with looking at my previous source code… I have working… PIECES! Now it’s time for it all to come together.
Alright, back to coding… kind of.
PHP and Java
I made a small application (more like a quick script) in PHP-GTK and am now trying to port it to Java using Netbeans. We’ll see how it goes. I have several times attempted to look at Java… but it seems like a huge insurmountable beast.
What the PHP-GTK app was run through a directory structure, dump it into an array, and then convert wav files to mp3s using LAME. I wonder if this is easy in Java. It should take me a long time to figure out!
I’ll keep you updated!
Tera-GMail
Here’s a picture of Gmail. Today I learned that the storage had jumped from 1,000 MB to 1,000,000 MB. Yeah, that’s from a gigabyte to a terabyte. Some have said that their storage didn’t go up… but mine sure did. I wonder if it will stick around…
I greyed out my email address and a person’s name that I emailed. I also put a box around the storage limit, and copied it to the same photo after I resized it so you could see clearly the full terabyte in all its glory.
Anything else in the image is original and non doctored.
Intellectual Property
For a good read on copyright and trademark… check out this little clash of thinking between Microsoft and opensource folk.
The best part is more towards the end, and here’s a little quote to whet your appetite.
“In 1950, he said, copyright lasted for 20 years after the creation of a work — the same as a patent. Now, 54 years later, the life of a copyright is 75 years after the death of the person or company that created the work”
Wow. That is crazy. Corporate, Corporate America, HOOOOOO!!!!!! I just imagine a convention hall full of suits salivating over the thought of this just before it was passed into law in the latter part of the 20th century. 