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.
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.
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!
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.
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. :-(
WOW! I remember back in 1996-97 when people had no option but to choose the technology that would serve them best on the Internet. It may come as a surprise to some, but the Internet does not even equal the WWW.
How many today have heard of things other than Instant Messaging, P2P and the WWW? How about FTP, telnet, IRC, SSH, USENET, or even relatively new technologies like RSS? There are too many that get -EVERYTHING- in there daily lives served to them on a platter… and never look for choice.
I do understand however that the WWW is usually the most exciting and easiest to use part of the Internet… but have we as consumers even lost there? Consider an obvious failure by Microsoft to serve it’s customers with a web browser that continues to improve. Internet Explorer does not support a lot of web standards, you get pop ups galore, who knows what kind of back doors (appearing regularly), and it is on 1 platform. Many websites on the public, open WWW (GASP!) -require- Internet Explorer. Go buy Windows if you want to use these services and these sites. ???!!!??? What if I don’t want to pay $299.99 for Windows XP Professional?
Listen… that’s what you get with a legally declared monopolist.
It seems today that 90% of the market blindly uses whatever they are spoon fed. Those who have a “pre-installed” browser are content with that and never venture into the world of “choice.”
We have freedom to choose information and not always accept the path that is pre-chosen by the corporate money hungry.