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Perian 1.0 Released

Finally, after the fiasco with macupdate, we really released version 1.0. Go get it.

AppleTV users, we suggest using ATV Loader to install it. Downloading the current package, and extracting the components out of it will work, but when it shows up on ATV Loader, that will be much simpler.

Legacy Comments:

stucka - Jan 12, 2008

sorry for my english. I fond in the web perian 1.1b for download , i read this beta is only for donate users, i am no a donate user for this moment but wath happend if i install this beta in my mac ?? please tell me why is only for donate users and why i fond this in te web? thanks an sorry for my english again. i am a latin guy

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Friday, June 29, 2007

Open Source Attitudes

With my recent work on Fire, Adium, Perian, and A52Codec, I have come to realize several misunderstandings concerning open source software.

Ask anyone involved in Open Source Software (OSS), whether it be the users or the developers, and you will find there is often a disconnect between the two groups. The users are upset with the elitist attitudes of the developers and the developer are upset with the whining of the users. Why does this happen? The answer is simple, people are greedy.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Perian Woes

Well, we had some fun with Perian today. First it started when macupdate decided that they were going to post a fake 1.0 of Perian. You can read the details if you like. Since this is clearly something we didn’t want, we had to figure out how it happened. My guess is that someone saw the new website design in development within the subversion repository, clicked the download link that was there, and noticed it download a version later than what we have on the website.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Monday, June 18, 2007

Why Me?

Why did I get a email like this?

hi, my name is ****** from Brazil. I am a electrical enginnering student and I would like to know if someone has a program that calculate the transient stability with values of internal voltages of the machines. My program calculate a Load Flow for systems 9-bus and 14-bus, but need to find the values of pre fault and post fault and Variables of state e equilibry of machines I need simulate three phase short circuit considerated Fault period (tch) and generate Grafics angle X time and Grafics velocity X time I need to simulate a three phase short circuited with fault period tch and generate graphics with the results of anglextime and velocityx time bars voltage of system and internal voltage of generators. I have a doubt. What is the best language to develop this kind of program?Delphi or C++ Builder? Thanks

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, June 12, 2007

New Safari

Well, Apple released a beta of Safari 3.0 and so I decided to try it out. I had almost forgotten why I switched to Firefox until I was doing this post. Safari’s javascript was not up to par to work properly with wordpress, so I had to switch to a browser that was. Now, wordpress is hardwired to disable features on Safari, so I had to make it lie and claim it was Firefox in order to test them. Seems to work just fine.