Category Archives: Opensource

gOS development kit & Mainboard – VIA PC2500E 1.5Ghz

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So many of you have probably alread heard about the walmart PC for $200 that has sold out online and is raising some serious competition in the low end PC market. This PC runs on a 1.5Ghz Via C7 processor which consumes only 20Watts of power. The board it comes with has SATA, DDR2, 8 USB ports, Onboard Video & LAN. It’s a very very nice piece of hardware that can be purchased at clubit.com for a measly $60 + shipping. We picked up one to give it a go. We’ve got it running Fedora 8 at 1280×1024 resolution at a acceptable amount of response time. The video looks crisp and clear and everything worked right out of the box and it’s pretty amazing considering it only cost us $60….

Here are some photos of our new found toy:

Fedora 8 Release & Review

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I’m very happy to announce that he folks over at the fedoraproject have released version 8 codename `werewolf`.  It’s a very satisfying release, while I expect 9 to be the major step, 8 is very exciting, they’ve gotten a lot of work done on the ‘prettiness’ of the OS which it was a bit lacking previously.  I’m currently running the 64 bit version on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 here at the office and it’s absolutely flying and working beautifully.

Good job guys 🙂

-Scott

DVD Encoding, Burning Linux

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To encode to 16×9 ratio (change the aspect= value to be 4/3 to encode in 4/3), please note you’ll need to adjust -ofps value based on the frame rate of the source

mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -srate 48000 -ofps 24000/1001 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts  vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:keyint=18:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=4900:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 transformers.dvdrip.avi -o Transformers.dvdrip.mpg

< Relax and go get a scotch or cigar as this can take some time >

if you need to merge files:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o “transformers.dvdrip.avi” “Transformers.disk1” “Transformers.disk2”

so lets say you have encoded Transformers.dvdrip.mpg and you want to write it to DVD, create a folder in the same directory as that file called ‘DVD’ or really whatever you want

then:

dvdauthor –title -f Transformers.dvdrip.mpg -o DVD
dvdauthor -T -o DVD

Now within that ‘DVD’ directory you have a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder just like a DVD

Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” released

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Ubuntu’s latest release happened today with the release of version 7.10. Sourcemirrors.org my mirror service is a download mirror for Ubuntu CD images and boy oh boy is it getting hammered. Here are some statistics:

Hostname mirror2.sourcemirrors.org ()
Uptime 19 hours 52 min 35 s
Started at 2007-10-17 23:09:30
absolute (since start)
Requests 25 kreq
Traffic 162.77 Gbyte
average (since start)
Requests 0 req/s
Traffic 2.33 Mbyte/s
average (5s sliding average)
Requests 3 req/s
Traffic 13.90 Mbyte/s 
794 connections


-Scott