mpeg4ip

March 25, 2002 by Eric Richardson

The mpeg4ip project looks really interesting. Though it's been around for a little over a year now, I just ran into it the other day. It's a CISCO backed effort to create a standard protocol for video streaming. This includes the creation of a patent-free baseline codec, player, encoder, and server. Very cool stuff. I'm compiling it right now.

if only all boring classes had computers

March 22, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I would be much happier if I had the ability to read Plastic and Slashdot in all my boring classes.

We're supposed to be learning how to do research right now. Instead, we're sitting here, waiting for a no-show reference librarians. Those irresponsible librarians... always wasting my time.

a walk through history

March 20, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So last night I was looking around the eThreads site, and found a bunch of old code I didn't even know I still had. Apparently my source archives actually contain a few remenants of the mSQL days, plus a full complement of versions with the eThreadsII core. Click to read fun things I found... — Continue Reading...

cool new stuff in whatsplaying

March 19, 2002 by Eric Richardson

While fighting network suckage here at USC (45% packet loss over an hour or so), I added some cool new stuff to the what's playing scripts. You can now browse more than just the last ten plays, and can go into a song's info and see every time it's been played. I'll add more features later, but those are fun for now.

verbal reorganization

March 19, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I've split my papers off of the main verbal intercourse page. They now have their own papers index. Eventually I'll integrate that into verbal more cleanly.

At the same time I've posted several new essays, so check those out.