Posted by rograndom - March 11th, 2005 Comments Off
LAME is my perferred MP3 encoder, but it’s kind of slow, even on my dual-cpu G5. Now, the G4 and G5 processors have a special instruction set called Altivec which should, in theory, speed up certain tasks. Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and even Apple’s own iTunes take advantage of this. LAME does not, but I [...]
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Posted by rograndom - March 2nd, 2005 Comments Off
This is the only place where people will vote at the town meeting to: 1. Approve measures to fix coyote problem that is having a negative effect on the deer population (all the deer are going to die!). Then, ten minutes later: 2. Approve more relaxed rules for deer hunting season to fix the deer [...]
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