nirav April 19th, 2006
Here’s another Logic Builder!
Write an application that will take a block of text as input and generate a list of keywords from it. You can make the app as simple or as complex as you want.
A few notes:
nirav April 19th, 2006
Facing a strange problem!
I have a few mov files that I want to convert to SWF. Have a web interface to upload the files, and then php calls ffmpeg to do the conversion. This thing works fine if I upload files from Windows. But if I upload an mov from Mac, it processes most of the file, and then hangs on the last few bytes. The server is Linux where ffmpeg is running.
If I upload the same mov file from Windows, the conversion works fine.
Here’s the output of ffmpeg when it hangs:
FFmpeg version CVS, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: –prefix=/usr –libdir=/usr/lib –mandir=/usr/share/man –enable-mp3lame –enable-libogg –enable-vorbis –enable-theora –enable-faadbin –enable-xvid –enable-a52 –enable-a52bin –enable-pp –enable-shared –enable-pthreads –enable-dc1394 –enable-gpl –disable-strip –extra-cflags=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -m32 -march=i386 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
libavutil version: 49.0.0
libavcodec version: 51.7.0
libavformat version: 50.3.0
built on Mar 1 2006 05:30:05, gcc: 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2, from ‘work_3_4.mov’:
Duration: 00:00:05.6, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 171 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: qdm2, 22050 Hz, stereo
Stream #0.1(eng), 11.99 fps(r): Video: h263, yuv420p, 240×180
Output #0, swf, to ‘work_3_4.swf’:
Stream #0.0, 11.99 fps(c): Video: flv, yuv420p, 240×180, q=2-31, 200 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, stereo, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop encoding
bad superblock typeize= 134kB time=4.0 bitrate= 274.2kbits/s
bad superblock type
bad superblock type
bad superblock type
I searched for the “bad superblock type” and could find it only in the QDM source. What am I doing wrong?
The mov file plays well on the Mac as such.
Magnet April 19th, 2006
Search engine optimization (SEO) is no longer a secret weapon of cutting-edge, Web-savvy marketers. Even traditional companies have to make sure that search engines like Google and Yahoo find them consistently—because search engines are the primary way that prospects and influencers learn about products and services.
Here are a few questions every CMO should ask (and be able to answer):
What do we want our web visitors to do?
How many search visitors per month actually do what we want them to do?
What percentage of search visitors leave our website within 10 seconds?
Which search phrases are we focusing on?
How often are we appearing for our target phrases?
How often are we appearing compared to the competition?
Obviously, there are other and even more important things that a CMO would want to know about an SEO effort—number of opportunities generated, cost per opportunity, revenue produced, etc.
Magnet April 13th, 2006
Dear All,
Sometime I really wear my creative cap and think how Mobile can add sizzles to Brand Carnival. The answers I get, are in plenty.Today M buzz is like pollen grains to Brand essence and sms marketing have toed the line already:)
M buzz are lucrative soaps in marketing arenas which give the marketers the creative guns to hunt for the audience!! I have done an attempt to find out the hive of the tinsel arena:)
Best Regards
Arnav
Magnet April 11th, 2006
Windoxs XP, OS X and Linux has just one thing in common they all are in English and probably that’s where the similarity between the three ends. However my aim is not to compare Windows XP with OS X or Linux but to highlight the fact that all big Corporations develop applications in English only and not in any other language even when it is estimated that more than half of the world’s population communicates in only 8 languages: English and Mandarin Chinese, Hindi (with Urdu), Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Bengali and finally Portuguese (Courtesy: unesco.org). There is no clear cut reason why English is so widely used, perhaps it is the dominant language in the United Kingdom, the United States, many Commonwealth nations including Australia, Canada, Malta, New Zealand and other former British colonies. Or perhaps the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, airlines, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades (Courtesy: Wikipedia)
I would love to see someone to come out with an OS or an application which is Multilingual and gives every language the due respect, which they deserve. What comes close to my mind is Utkarsh which is probably worlds first OS in a regional Language (Courtesy: Utkarsh)
I can’t stop myself from admiring the efforts IIT-Madras has made in developing Multilingual System which permit a uniform and language independent approach to designing computer applications supporting user interfaces in all the Indian languages ( Courtesy:iitm.ac.in)
Now we not only have the means but also a good reason to look beyond English and explore other languages. I would love to see more of Utkarsh in different languages.
” Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to communicate”
( Courtesy: Anonymous)
http://multilingualos.blogspot.com/