Coolrun

Today, my coolrun script got accepted at SourceForge. This script enables or disables the powersaving features on the AMD Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP or Sempron line of processors. It does that through direct hardware access to the chipset using the setpci utility. A lot of chipsets are supported at the moment, but unfortunately none of the ATi chipsets are supported because there's no public info available on them.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/coolrun

Greatest Linux satire ever

Words cannot explain it, I laughed so much that I almost pissed in my pants :D

Linux, a European threat to our computers
Linux and Windows compared
Linux: the reliability myth debunked

Scripts for DVD encodings

Well, I've been maintaining 2 shell scripts for DVD encodings for some time now and I thought I'll host them on SourceForge. First one is called xvidenc and uses MEncoder to encode a DVD or a video file to the XviD format. The script supports virtually all XviD options of MEncoder and further has support for various audio codecs like MP2, MP3, AC3 and PCM. Other features include support for 10 different software scalers, DVD cropping, DVD deinterlacing, interlaced encodings, DVD denoiser, deblocking/deringing of video files, DVD title inclusion, setting the output FPS, and audio resampling...

Second script is called h264enc and is very similar to xvidenc except it encodes DVDs or video files to the H.264 format again using MEncoder to do the job.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidenc

https://sourceforge.net/projects/h264enc

I'm currently waiting for an approval of my third project, coolrun, which is also a shell script that can be used to enable/disable the powersaving features of the AMD Duron/Athlon/Athlon XP or Sempron line of processors. The script supports a lot of chipsets though none of the ATi chipsets are supported at the moment 'cause the bastards at ATi won't release public info of their products

Mark Shuttleworth's mail to the openSUSE devs

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, posted a controversial mail to the openSUSE mailing list hoping to steal developers away from the openSUSE project. A lot of developers saw this mail as a really lame attempt and told Mark to "fuck off".

Mark, I'd say that you first go fix you're 64-bit support and remove the binary blobs from the kernel before sneaking at openSUSE developers. What you did here is really lame. I'm wondering if you really want to start a distro war. I'd expect from a person like you to be much more flexible in that matter. What Novell did is definitely bad, IMO, but that doesn't mean that you should start poking on openSUSE developers and packagers. If you disagree with the current actions Novell has taken, then I'd suggest you start bashing on Novell and not on openSUSE. Remember, the openSUSE project is a community driven project, the devs still have the final word on what goes in and what not.

Instead of fighting against each others, I'd suggest we team up together and work on areas in Linux that still need a lot of improvements. Your disrespectful mail will only bring the 2 distributions further apart. Mark, if the openSUSE devs feel that they should jump ship, they have enough brains to decide when to do it.

Oh.... Mark.... wait, JBoss, which is now part of Red Hat also has an agreement with M$, maybe you should start bashing on Red Hat too. Or maybe you need another space walk to the International Space Station to clear your head a bit... spaceman!

Vote NO on the MS/Novell deal

Bruce Perens has started a petition against the current MS/Novell agreement. Everybody who thinks this is bad for Linux, please vote NO here http://techp.org/petition/show/1

OIN says MS patent claims are baseless

I knew this for some time now, but here's the confirmation from OIN

A Linux patent group formed by IBM, Sony, NEC, and Phillips said Microsoft is making "baseless" claims when it says users need protection from patent infringement lawsuits.

More here: Linux patent group says Microsoft's claims are baseless

Boycott Novell/SUSE?

Here you go, some people want to boycott SUSE and Novell

Boycott Novell: http://www.boycottnovell.com/
Boycott SUSE: http://boycott-suse.blogspot.com