https://willus.com/blog Willus.com blog posts https://willus.com/blog?rssfeed Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:00:00 GMT After getting a couple requests, I programmed an RSS feed for my web site at https://willus.com/blog/feed. I checked it on the W3C RSS Feed Validation Service web site.... https://willus.com/blog?rssfeed https://willus.com/blog?trs80_update Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:00:00 GMT After nearly 10 years of using Peter Phillips' amazing TRS-80 Model III javascript emulator on my web site, he has now added support for the Model III high-resolution graphics board (640x240),... https://willus.com/blog?trs80_update https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2023 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT OVERVIEW These are run times of ffmpeg v6.1 on a Windows 11 PC with a core i9-9900 CPU vs. on a Mac mini with an M1 CPU.... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2023 https://willus.com/blog?gcc13_benchmark Tue, 26 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT I re-compiled k2pdfopt v2.55 with gcc 13.2.0 and clang 17. Here are results on both a Windows-11 PC with an Intel Core i9-9900 CPU and on a Mac Mini... https://willus.com/blog?gcc13_benchmark https://willus.com/blog?blog_revamp Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:00:00 GMT I spent some time today re-organizing my blog and home page. A left-side menu has been added to the blog to quickly navigate to different entries, and I moved many of the aging links on my home page into blog entries here, e.g.... https://willus.com/blog?blog_revamp https://willus.com/blog?gcc12_benchmark Fri, 06 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT I re-compiled k2pdfopt v2.54 with gcc 12.2.0 and clang 15. Here are results on both a Windows-11 PC with an Intel Core i9-9900 CPU and on a Mac Mini... https://willus.com/blog?gcc12_benchmark https://willus.com/blog?tesseract_accuracy Fri, 06 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT Since 2018, I have been testing Tesseract's OCR engine against the resolution of the... https://willus.com/blog?tesseract_accuracy https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2022 Sun, 24 Jul 2022 08:00:00 GMT Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 6 Mar 2020... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2022 https://willus.com/blog?gcc11_benchmark Sat, 14 May 2022 08:00:00 GMT I re-compiled k2pdfopt v2.53 with gcc 11.3.0 and clang 14.... https://willus.com/blog?gcc11_benchmark https://willus.com/blog?compression_bmark Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:00:00 GMT {mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\."; mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";} .xl1520779... https://willus.com/blog?compression_bmark https://willus.com/blog?win7_tips Sun, 06 Jun 2021 08:00:00 GMT HP Photosmart P1000 Compatible Driver HP Deskjet 970CSE. You have to do a manual driver install. Cleaning up your C: Drive... https://willus.com/blog?win7_tips https://willus.com/blog?mac_M1_cpu Sat, 23 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT I got my hands on a mac mini with the Apple M1 CPU and compiled k2pdfopt on it. It is a very impressive performer. See the table... https://willus.com/blog?mac_M1_cpu https://willus.com/blog?even_github Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:00:00 GMT Wow, even GitHub, a site for hardcore programmers, is using the nebulous date format I blogged about before, so I get to see a whole bunch of files dated "last month" or "last year."... https://willus.com/blog?even_github https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2020 Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:00:00 GMT Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 3 Jun 2017... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2020 https://willus.com/blog?holiday_song Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT I'm a Christmas music junkie, and I got pretty excited about the Starbucks holiday song I heard this last Christmas, but I didn't find it until just now. That is partly because the lyrics have yet to be... https://willus.com/blog?holiday_song https://willus.com/blog?one_month_ago Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT RANT> Why do sites like YouTube, Reddit, etc. all list the dates that comments are posted as imprecise and relative times like "1 month ago" and "2 years ago"? Do they really... https://willus.com/blog?one_month_ago https://willus.com/blog?made_up_plots Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:00:00 GMT I won't call out the company that put up this idiotic plot on their web site, but the dollars listed on the horizontal axis are supposed to be represented by the blue curve on the plot. See anything wrong?... https://willus.com/blog?made_up_plots https://willus.com/blog?playbuzz Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT I decided I wanted to vent a bit about PlayBuzz and realized I had no real place to put such a vent, hence, my first ever general "blog" entry on willus.com after nearly 20 years of hosting the site. And I only wanted to vent because when I google "playbuzz is a scam," there are... https://willus.com/blog?playbuzz https://willus.com/blog?driver_deletion Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:00:00 GMT Can the folks at Microsoft please, please, please stop deleting my printer driver every time they do a major update to my O/S? Windows 7 SP1, Windows 10, Windows 10 Creators -- these all deleted my HP Deskjet 970CSE print driver that I have to set up specifically... https://willus.com/blog?driver_deletion https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2017 Sat, 03 Jun 2017 08:00:00 GMT Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 21 Nov 2012... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2017 https://willus.com/blog?hosting_history Sat, 20 May 2017 08:00:00 GMT I had a disappointing experience with Bluehost today. I've updated my web site hosting history page. https://willus.com/blog?hosting_history https://willus.com/blog?mobile_performance Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:00:00 GMT The smart phone has officially passed up my 7-year-old desktop PC in CPU horsepower. On an average of Jet Stream,... https://willus.com/blog?mobile_performance https://willus.com/blog?streaming_videos Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:00:00 GMT Making videos compatible with multiple browsers and devices INTRODUCTION Today virtually every major browser supports... https://willus.com/blog?streaming_videos https://willus.com/blog?dlp_lamp_life Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:00:00 GMT DISCLAIMER Let my preface by saying that you should be extremely careful servicing your own TV, particularly the halogen bulb on a DLP TV, as they are very expensive,... https://willus.com/blog?dlp_lamp_life https://willus.com/blog?ewaste Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:00:00 GMT Don't throw away that phone, computer, or television! E-waste is a term which covers modern electronic waste such as household televisions, computers, tablets, mobile phones, printer cartridges, etc.... https://willus.com/blog?ewaste https://willus.com/blog?ipad_jailbreak Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT Spurred on by web sites that told me I could ssh into my iPad if I jailbroke it, I went to jailbreakme.com which led me to the redsn0w site... https://willus.com/blog?ipad_jailbreak https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2012 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMT Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OLDER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 26 Dec 2011... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2012 https://willus.com/blog?ubuntu11 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT I've decided that the way to go for running both Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my home PC is to use Virtual Box. If you google "Virtual Box" and then the name of whatever OS you want to install, you'll... https://willus.com/blog?ubuntu11 https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2011b Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OTHER FFMPEG/AVCONV BENCHMARKS 21 Nov 2012... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2011b https://willus.com/blog?oil_change Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT Visit the CheckYourNumber.org California web site to see how often you should change the oil in your car. Changing the oil in your car too frequently can have a negative impact on the environment.... https://willus.com/blog?oil_change https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2011 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT Comparing the ffmpeg.exe and avconv.exe win64 versions OVERVIEW These are run times of ffmpeg.exe... https://willus.com/blog?ffmpeg_bmark_2011 https://willus.com/blog?win7 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT After six years with the same family PC, and with my hard drives getting full, I finally pulled the trigger on a major upgrade, going with a new Core-i5 processor, lots of RAM,... https://willus.com/blog?win7 https://willus.com/blog?energy_usage Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMT The most important issue we face today Energy usage, particularly of non-renewable resources such as oil, coal, and natural gas, is an integral part of the industrialized world... https://willus.com/blog?energy_usage https://willus.com/blog?booting_disasters Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT After six months of hardly touching Linux, I decided to reclaim my disk space from the Linux partition I'd created since I ultimately could not get Ubuntu to boot... https://willus.com/blog?booting_disasters https://willus.com/blog?drm Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT It's such a simple concept. Sell individual downloadable songs on-line for a nominal price in an open source format at varying levels of quality... That's what I wrote back in late 2003, and as of January 4, 2008,... https://willus.com/blog?drm https://willus.com/blog?wine Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT IrfanView doesn't work quite as seemlessly as I thought in Wine. It is functional, but the keystrokes don't work for some reason, and I can't get it to seemlessly be my default image viewing app. Fortunately, the... https://willus.com/blog?wine https://willus.com/blog?linux_experiment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT I am using (or abusing, as my wife would put it) the holiday break this year to start investigating Linux on my PC. My ultimate goal is to be free of the chains of Microsoft and shed their O/S before I feel compelled to... https://willus.com/blog?linux_experiment https://willus.com/blog?ferber_method Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT At our child's nine month doctor visit, my wife mentioned to our pediatrician that our child wasn't sleeping well, waking up several times during the night. The... https://willus.com/blog?ferber_method https://willus.com/blog?dipole_fm_antenna Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT (How to get high quality sound from your iPod or Satellite Radio on your car stereo.) Long story short: I made a simple FM antenna for my Sirius Satellite radio car kit's FM transmitter, and now the sound quality is excellent.... https://willus.com/blog?dipole_fm_antenna https://willus.com/blog?spam_tips Sun, 19 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT After about five years with the same e-mail address, I finally had to pull the plug on my easy-to-remember e-mail address in October of 2003 because of... https://willus.com/blog?spam_tips https://willus.com/blog?spammed Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT My apologies to anybody who may have received (or may still be receiving) spam e-mail from willus.com with links to porn sites (example below). These are not... https://willus.com/blog?spammed