The world is full of people making miraculous claims for video compression. For example, the hucksters at Euclid Discoveries have been leading their investors on with tales of incredible video compression for years now. No doubt that somebody, someday, might make a quantum leap in video compression, but for the past 25 years it’s […]

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There are a lot of video codecs in the world, and the competition is pretty fierce. Is there any room for a newcomer to claw out some market share? There are lots of pretenders, but few who actually succeed in making a dent in the marketplace.
Let’s look at what’s already out there and in […]

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Richard Baldwin has written a few nice tutorials on Data Compression, with the algorithms illustrated by Java code. Three free articles cover Huffman coding, LZ77 compressing, and the DCT.

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This article gives an overview of how to handle internationalization in your Java program, with samples given for Chinese web pages.

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My home RAID experiment continues, with good success, as I take drastic measures to reduce heat in the inside of my Terabyte disk server. I learn that the most important things about airflow aren’t necessarily just fans.

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Forgent has made a lot of money from the ‘672 patent - forcing camera and PC manufacturers alike to sign licensing agreements that included payments for back royalties. Now that the US Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated several key points of this patent, things aren’t looking quite as good for the Austin, TX trolling firm.

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