Montly archive for 2007-09

Dear Web Hosts of the World

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-24

Long story short: If you are one of the many web hosing companies that is still holding on to Apache 1.3: Upgrade!

The Apache server 2.x series—released five years ago—has many advantages to the old 1.3 release. Especially when working with content negotiation. There are many bugs that have been fixed and significant speed improvements as well.

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Ogg extensions in the wild

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-17

FLAC 1.2.1 was released a few hours ago. Among the changes was a new file extensions for the Ogg FLAC format. The new .oga (audio/ogg) extension is a part of Xiph's new file extension and MIME type specification for their media formats. FLAC's implementation is one of the very first seen in the wild.

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Adding numbers on computers

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-16

Many thinks of graphical user interfaces as being easy. However there is one task that is still very difficult to achieve: adding numbers—actually math in general. Users have to make at least three mouse clicks to get the correct interface—or the calculator application—before starting to calculate. This goes for most graphical user interfaces. But does it have to be this difficult?

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OGG is for metadata too

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-09-07

OGG is a media container format. But it is also supposed to contain metadata; information describing the media it contains. But there is no standard at all for including metadata in OGG containers. I want to change that.

Update: Got it's own page on the Xiph wiki. Continued entry »

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