del.icio.us bookmarks for October 13th through October 20th
Links for October 13th through October 20th:
- Embedded.com - How video compression works - How video compression works BDTI explains how video codecs like MPEG-4 and H.264 work, and how they differ from one another. It also explains the demands codecs make on processors
- Facebook | Programming Puzzles - I’m not looking for a job - and must be one of the few people on the planet not to have a Facebook account - but these porgramming puzzles look like fun.
- Hacker. Dropout. CEO. - Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook - Social Networking - Good profile of Mark Zuckerberg
- Mike Davidson - How to Snatch an Expiring Domain - Well written account of how to grab an expiring domain
- ii.com · Power Pine: Getting the Most Out of Unix-, Mac- & PC-Pine by Nancy McGough - Advice on setting up pine
- Battle Tanks - “Battle Tanks is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. It has original cartoon-like graphics and cool music, it’s fun and dynamic, it has several network modes”
- ONLamp.com — An Introduction to Erlang - An Introduction to Erlang
- Speaking UNIX, Part 13: Ten more command-line concoctions - Nice command line tips - including the use of tac - like cat, but in reverse!
- Extract and decompile .chm file to view as html file under Linux - arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on python-chm binding to chmlib from GnoCHM project.