Internet usage is increasing. People are using more bandwidth and more people are coming online every day. The idea of having ISPs cache content in order to save on data being repeatedly sent long distances seems simple enough but quickly becomes a copyright minefield, with the act of caching content being a direct violation of [...]
It’s been an up and down week. Here’s a quick post: Faster, Multi-core Mplayer By default, Mplayer will only ever decode videos on one CPU core; This I found out when trying SMPlayer again and noticing the option to set the number of decode threads. After some searching around, it seems, adding “-lavdopts fast:threads=2” to [...]
With the arrival of a new baby in the house next door, more specifically, the room through the wall from mine, means my late night rave sessions are going to need a bit of toning down. Though I already have a set of Zalman surround headphones I use for gaming, the cable is quite a [...]
Ubuntu has always had notoriously bad sound management. Introduced in 9.04, Pulseaudio has done something to improve on it’s predecessor, Alsa, but one problem I regularly run into is getting it to use the right sound devices. Often I’ll restart my computer or unplug my webcam, and the next time I start a Skype conversation, [...]
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