August 2008

If compiling transcode for macports has you stuck at ‘undefined symbols’ for _mpeg2convert_rgb24 , the problem is that configure isn’t finding the ports version of… Read More »transcode on macports fixed

While looking for articles about doing programming on font files Google mostly found me people talking about typefaces for programmers. Jeff Atwood made a very… Read More »A Tour of Typefaces for Programmers

There’s been much made of the revelation that Diebold voting machines run an install of McAfee Anti-Virus, and that it’s caused trouble with the voting… Read More »Anti-Virus on Voting Machines

Following up on my March 2007 article Conflict of Interest at Comcast, in excerpt: Odds are those high-traffic users are downloading video. … This is… Read More »FCC Rules on Conflict of Interest at Comcast

Unfortunately the GNU java in CentOS 5 is too old to run modern Java code. So, you need to install the Sun version in many… Read More »Sun Java for CentOS 5

Apple has pulled the popular iPhone application BoxOffice from its store without informing the author or responding to his queries. Some have speculated that it… Read More »First Open Source iPhone App Killed?