Ron Schenone

Short Takes On Computer Stuff – May 27, 2007

Posted by on May 27, 2007 | 4 Comments

Norton Internet Security – Symantec has issued a fix for a buffer overflow problem that the company states is corrected by using its Live Update feature. Make sure you get the latest definitions as well.

Microsoft Says Sorry – For those of you using the X-Box and were having trouble downloading the beta of Halo 3, MS has apologized and states the problem[s] have been fixed.

Vista site – Nick Zara has a very nice web site dealing with Vista, that is designed for beginning and intermediate users. Stop by and see what you think – windvis.com

Microsoft vs Linux – Microsoft this week claims that its strategy is to enter into agreements with other Linux distributions such as the one they entered into with Novell. That’s what they are saying. :-)

Google - Google continues to out pace Microsoft in the search wars. No duh!

Vietnam – Steve Ballmer got Vietnam to sign an agreement that their government would not use pirated software.

Ubuntu – Made the PC World top 20 list.

Intel – The chip manufacture has announced the introduction of lead free processors.

Nintendo – Wii still number one.

Apple – says goodby to the 17″ monitor.

Microsoft to Linux – on which patents Linux infringes upon “we don’t have to show you no stink’in badges”

Dell - will be selling Dimensions at Wal-Mart and Sam’s club.

Microsoft – No SP3 for XP until 2008.

Google - rumor now is they are going to setup their own free mobile service using ads to pay for it. :-)

Google again – search engine continues to gain more market share.

Novell – will provide a edited version of their agreement with Microsoft after it files its report with the SEC.
[tags]google, microsoft, dell, intel, linux, apple, [/tags]

  • http://twitter.com/aieyan Hariyansa Bin Arip

     

    Yup … I’m totally agreed with you Chris. The important thing
    is the content. If the video quality is something like “extravaganza” but the
    content is like “hmmmmmm” then is no point. Well back to the basic… why Youtube
    … or something like it ever exist? … Is to share… Sharing the knowledge,
    the moment or whatever it is… But the important things are it accomplishes the
    main goal… video-sharing… If the video quality is high… how many of the
    viewer appreciate it if compare to the quality of the content. Well everybody
    has it own opinion… and that’s my opinion…

  • Yousuf Ali

    Actually you can upload all the way up to 2k!

  • http://sambeal.com/ Sam Beal

    I don’t think you know what your talking about. video compression is very lossy. YouTube stream bits at fraction on the full RGB loke 1 to 10%. Your browser/player decodes the stream to full HD – and it can be trannsparent to you eyes how lossy it is.

  • Huzur79

    Ya you have no idea what your talking about on this one. The answer is yes. Not only due to the lost quality every time something is done to a video which at every stage loses some info but also due to the method which YouTube encodes.

    I’ll give u a example.

    Camera records video. It already compresses it into h.264. Then you upload it to YouTube. It now compresses it again into it’s format. Each step of the way some information is lost. Further that YouTube does a single pass encode and a lower bit rate to save on space and bandwidth. Vimeo for example offers a better encodin proccess for it’s paying customers which include a 2 pass encode to make it look a little better.