Musings on Technology
I do a lot of photo editing nowadays, mostly for my travel blog over at One Man, One Map. I’ve always had the impression that the PNG export in darktable might be slower than it has to be, but it had become a real issue since I’ve upgraded my desktop PC to a six-core Ryzen 7 1600X CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 950 GPU.
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Taking pictures of lightning is hard. Usually one would take many shots with an exposure time of several seconds, and then sift through all the pictures. I didn’t feel like doing that.
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I’m using a number of Nautilus scripts for media production, e.g. to easily convert files to JPEG or MP3 format with pre-defined settings. Nautilus doesn’t parallelize script execution, but it’s not so hard to create a script which does.
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Now that Ubuntu phones and tablets are gone, I would like to offer my thoughts on why I personally think the project failed and what one may learn from it.
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Remember when Wikia, Jimmy Wales’ (of Wikipedia fame) for-profit company, tried to build its own search engine and fight Google?
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Nach nur acht Monaten Wartezeit gibt es Folge Zwei des KontextCast. Max und ich sprechen in Anlehnung an einen meiner letzten Artikel über Computer, Zeit und die Frage, ob 2038 endlich die Welt untergehen wird.
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If you couldn’t find anything interesting in the 54 Google Summer of Code ideas by the KDE project, here’s some more.
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In a statement issued on March 14, 2017, the Free Software Foundation declares that the new GitHub Terms of Service don’t conflict with copyleft, but still recommends to use other hosting sites.
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A recent thread on the debian-curiosa mailing list brought up this license after a Debian ftpmaster rejected the braillegraph 0.1
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On January 19, 2038 all signed 32-bit timestamps representing time and date relative to the “UNIX epoch” will roll over. Just 68 years later, in 2106, all unsigned 32-bit values will do so. But even before that, timestamps used by the Network Time Protocol will roll over in 2036. Since it’s only 19 years to Armageddon, I’ll lok at what this means for Linux, Windows and other systems and how problems are being solved.
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