Archive for June, 2009

Finished off a tree house for the boys this weekend. There was concern by the grandparents that it did not have sides. I tried explaining that they wouldn’t be able to jump off / climb down the rope if I put sides on but they still think it’s unsafe. Falling out tree houses never did me any harm.

As you probably know by now I purchased the TranquilPC BBS2, ATOM 330 based box with raid.  I am running ubuntu server 64bit.

I have quite a lot of dvd images on it, and access them from my media center, but to save space I wanted to encode them as mp4 so I installed the  64bit handbrakeCLI on it, not being bothered if it was going to take a few hours to re-encode the dvds.

Now my acer Core duo 2.0gb laptop encodes at about 80 frames/second which I have always been happy with, so I was very surprised to see that the Atom330 1.6Ghz, with it’s 2 hyperthreaded calls managed a very respectable 65 frames/sec!

Back to the Future III took 42 minutes to encode as mp4 720×576.

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I was quite chuffed last night, I got a comment on my UFCS submission asking for permission for a guy to use the “wired” ubuntu logo on his credit card. Apparently Capitol One allow you to choose and image to put on the card.