Yet another blog for JBKempf

A new laptop

I am not used to having a Mac with me, but this time has changed.

For my work on VLC, someone helped the VideoLAN project and gave us some new laptops to improve the Mac OS version. I just got one of those, when I was at the FOSDEM.

Macbook

I have one of the white Macbook, 13.3" with a 2.2Ghz proc and 2Gb of Ram, running Leopard.

I upgraded to X.5.2 and Xcode 3.0. I installed VLC, Adium, FFX 3b3 and removed some Microsoft Office crap.

Impressions

I have very gladly impressed by the product, the finition and the OS X.

However, the keyboard is not that good and the keymap horrible. \ ~ | are more than difficult to produce, and the Terminal is very bad, especially if ou want to achieve pgUp, pgDown, End, Home in VIM, in the Terminal.

Else, it seems to be as good as a Linux DE, and has nice coverflow stuffs, and many tools like SVN installed by default. The background image is ugly but I like the 3D dock.

VLC

more later :D

Disclaimer

Rémi still hasn't any RSS feed, so here is another article about protocol.

This article is not my production

VoD

For those who don't know him, Rémi is, between many other stuffs, the network expert in VideoLAN team.

On his personal website__

Here is a copy-paste of his introduction

As a developper of VLC media player, I often get to see people wonder ing whether they should use RTSP or HTTP to stream their audio or audio/video content. Even though I like open standards (which the IETF champions), I cannot say I am a big fan of RTSP.

Remark

N.B.: this article is concerned about video-on-demand. For live streaming, there may be more reasons to prefer RTSP over HTTP.

A few VLC developers are going to attend FOSDEM in Bruxelles in a few weeks.

If you are around, please come and discuss with us... :D

I am trying to go too. Updates soon.