This is an interesting coincidence…

A friend across-country found this in the paper today, and knowing that I lived in the San Francisco area felt the “need” to forward it on. Thanks, SG – it gave myself, and a few other local friends a nice chuckle.

For the last few months, my bandwidth use as been increasing; and my pageviews have stayed relatively the same. Upon researching this, I’ve discovered that many places are now “hotlinking” directly to my programs, which means that the user might no idea what, or where they are getting the software from. Worse, they most likely are unaware of whom to contact for support!

As mentioned in this post on my forums; I now do a test to see if my files are being referenced locally, or from one of my other sites. If this is the case, the file will download as normal; otherwise, the user will be redirected to my software page.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

It’s my fault. I admit it. Upon hearing of a primary author of the MacOS X port of VLC “dropping out” for a spell; I wanted to make sure that I’d be able to continue to play my files!

I thus opted to attempt to update MPlayer. MPlayer OSX is horribly out of date, and rather slow. Horribly so. I decided to utilize the newer 1.0pre3 software, and after a few bugs and excessive work to compile everything statically, I pass the savings on to you with a speedy recent incarnation!

GET THE HOLY WATER!

That’s not specifically my BioStar M7MIA; but that’s only because I’m a rather forgiving person. This motherboard has the old buggy VIA 686b chip; which renders both PCI and USB entirely unusable. I’m finally getting rid of it; I’ve got a nice ABIT NF7 coming to replace it; I can still use my old kit with it, and eventually upgrade my 5 year old surplus and have a halfway decent machine – I hope!

Whist looking for utilities to manipulate the evasive Matroska format; I stumbled upon Mortiz Bunkus’ MKVToolNix tools.

I was suprised to see that no one had yet made a MacOS X port; and after a bit of a discussion with Mortiz; I guess I’m the official MacOS X port guy. Neat, huh?

You can snag it from my software page.