Image+Audio

Posted on May 24, 2006

Hmm, wouldn’t it be nice if it was possible to view slides synchronised with audio recordings from past conferences on music/video players? Technology is there — MPEG-4 is supported by IPOD and 3G cell phones and they have enough disk space and CPU power. MPEG-4 can be used not only for typical video/audio combination, but for still images + audio. All we have to-do is scrape screens-shots from presenter’s screen and synchronise them with audio recording of the presentation. It would also be possible to insert an occasional video recording of a presentation between the slides.

File size would be really small, after all it’s just an audio stream, bunch of 320×240 images and some timing data. Typical player would be able to buffer ~5 minutes of the presentation, so it won’t kill the battery like music videos do. And because it is possible to protect the content with DRM like FairPlay, conference organisers and organizations like e-Concordia can give it only to the targeted audience.

Sometime it’s impossibe to visit a conference, so i think a lot of people would actually buy such conference recordings. For example would you consider to buy “Creating Passionate Users” by Kathy Sierra? What about a cdrom with every CUSEC presenatation in the format I described?

Image+Audio

Posted on May 24, 2006

Hmm, wouldn’t it be nice if it was possible to view slides synchronised with audio recordings from past conferences on music/video players? Technology is there — MPEG-4 is supported by IPOD and 3G cell phones and they have enough disk space and CPU power. MPEG-4 can be used not only for typical video/audio combination, but for still images + audio. All we have to-do is scrape screens-shots from presenter’s screen and synchronise them with audio recording of the presentation. It would also be possible to insert an occasional video recording of a presentation between the slides.

File size would be really small, after all it’s just an audio stream, bunch of 320×240 images and some timing data. Typical player would be able to buffer ~5 minutes of the presentation, so it won’t kill the battery like music videos do. And because it is possible to protect the content with DRM like FairPlay, conference organisers and organizations like e-Concordia can give it only to the targeted audience.

Sometime it’s impossibe to visit a conference, so i think a lot of people would actually buy such conference recordings. For example would you consider to buy “Creating Passionate Users” by Kathy Sierra? What about a cdrom with every CUSEC presenatation in the format I described?

Posted on May 22, 2006

Posted on May 22, 2006

Evrovision finalist

Posted on May 22, 2006

Hell just froze. Heavy metal band from Finland won the first prize on POP music festival! Pretty good costume, eh? ;-)

Evrovision finalist

Posted on May 22, 2006

Hell just froze. Heavy metal band from Finland won the first prize on POP music festival! Pretty good costume, eh? ;-)

300$ advice

Posted on May 21, 2006

Never, ever let your servers have a full file system or you will end up calling a 300$/h support service to recover your production system. How difficult is it to periodically check your if your production server - your milking cow - your money making machine is OK?

Also I guess an art of recovering a system over the phone is vary much like landing a 747 over the phone. Frustrating for both you and the “idiot” on the other end.

P.S the other end is probably intelligent and smart, just in the “shit happend” state.

300$ advice

Posted on May 21, 2006

Never, ever let your servers have a full file system or you will end up calling a 300$/h support service to recover your production system. How difficult is it to periodically check your if your production server - your milking cow - your money making machine is OK?

Also I guess an art of recovering a system over the phone is vary much like landing a 747 over the phone. Frustrating for both you and the “idiot” on the other end.

P.S the other end is probably intelligent and smart, just in the “shit happend” state.

Good semester

Posted on May 12, 2006

Finally got all my grades back:

COMP 353 B+
COMP 354 A
COMP 346 A-

I’m loving it!

And, another good thing just happened, Concordia approved my request to change the concentration from computer application to software systems. Not a big deal, but now I will enjoy 45 COMP credits instead of doing a dreaded minor in some kind of social science.

Good semester

Posted on May 12, 2006

Finally got all my grades back:

COMP 353 B+
COMP 354 A
COMP 346 A-

I’m loving it!

And, another good thing just happened, Concordia approved my request to change the concentration from computer application to software systems. Not a big deal, but now I will enjoy 45 COMP credits instead of doing a dreaded minor in some kind of social science.

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