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These days I'm mostly posting elsewhere on the web:
  • On my Fediverse instance @lhl
  • On my digital garden site: https://mostlyobvious.org/
  • On a documentation site: https://llm-tracker.info/
  • And on HN or Reddit
Posted on September 27, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl
  • Daniel Hsia’s shorts – some clever 10s films (oh, and “How To Do The Asian Squat“, which is quite funny)
  • Bernard Chang’s short films – he used to draw Valiant comics!
  • Nimpsy – Buster Slims
  • Ruben Fleischer
  • BEAM.TV: Radiohead – Go To Sleep
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Posted on September 27, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music hits v2.0. Pretty hot.

 
old and busted
guide
new hotness
guide
# of genres
110
140
# of samples
110
635
# of files
118
312
amount of text
41.3kb
105kb
total sum time of all music samples
13m 59s
2h 5m 37s
total size of all files
2.85mb
47.8mb
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Posted on September 25, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl
  • OS X and ipfw Firewall Protection
  • OS X Firewall Setup
  • Firewall and NAT startup script for OS X Server
  • Firewalk X
  • Turn off the Microsoft Office “anti-piracy” feature that causes a security vulnerability
  • OS X: What Time Is It?
  • StartupItems
  • HOWTO: Running as an OS X StartupItem
  • Using Startup Items in Mac OS X
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Posted on September 25, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl
  • Flix 2.5 Pro vs. Sorenson Squeeze
  • Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite
  • Squeeze It
  • Codec Comparison – no-nonsense comparison, see also the rest of tbuehler’s Video Guide
  • ExtremeTech/Vendor Codec Comparisons – video d/l for comparison
  • The Curse of Digital Video – using (optical) filters for a less harsh look
  • Over/Underexposing Video
  • DVX-100 Gamma Settings
  • Using Magic Bullet and Anamorphic in your DV project
  • Nimble Nimbuses and Swift Sunsets Creating Time Lapse Video
  • Media Management in Final Cut Pro 4 – wow, amazingly informative
  • ‘I said TRIM, dang it!’
  • Trimming With The Range Selection Tool
  • Simulating a 35mm Motion Picture Clarity Signature
  • Force Film, IVTC, and Deinterlacing – what is DVD2AVI trying to tell you and what can you do about it
  • Film Look Deinterlacing for DV (Shooting Digital: Chapter 1)
  • HighDef FAQ
  • Twixtor review
  • filters: Joe’s Filters, Synthetic Aperture, Algolith, the foundry Furnace, Sapphire, Re:Vision Effects (Twixtor, etc), Virtix, Magic Bullet (AE only)
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Posted on September 25, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

Electronic paper reaches video speed – Diamond Age here we come!

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Posted on September 25, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

Looks like Soekris et al have some new high-power competition w/ the new Nano-ITX boards if the price is decent…

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Posted on September 25, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

aptitude – looks better than dselect; also, apparently has minesweeper built-in

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Posted on September 25, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

Celebrity Turing Test – In which a rock star visits his own forum, but neglects to bring a valid I.D.

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Posted on September 23, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

Nope, no global warming, no sirree. That’s poppycock.

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Posted on September 23, 2003February 27, 2005 by lhl

More /. discussion on touch screen voting.

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