The Weblog of Vincent Oberle - Thoughts and opinions about technology and business

Archive for August, 2004

What’s to find on this web site

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Now that my blog is in place, it’s time to present the content of this site.

Basically, it gathers various projects and papers I have been doing in the last years, most of them from my student time.

The most popular of these projects is Gestion de bus CAN. It’s a school project I did with two […]

Update: iTunes to phones, PVR and Bittorrent

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

Not yet the iPod supporting the phone feature as I wrote, but Apple and Motorola announced a partnership to bring iTunes to Motorola phones.

There is an interesting interview of a Downhill Battle author about blogs, Bittorrent, filesharing. Especially he talks about a project that does what I was dreaming about in my A P2P video […]

Switching to Blosxom

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

If you read my first post, you know I had quite some difficulties choosing a solution to run this blog. After having played with several tools, I ended up customizing some PHP based tool. Unfortunately, this is not a very good solution in the long term, as I have to maintain the tool myself, so […]

The fun of webfeeds

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

In the link menu of my web site has appeared a new section called blogroll. It is a nice little consequence of a new way I read web sites: I use webfeeds.

For an introduction on webfeeds see here. In short, a webfeed is a way for a web site to continuously “feed” you announcements of […]

A P2P video recorder box

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Building its own PVR (Personal Video Recorder) seems like a fun thing to do, and there are several web sites that provide manuals and software to help, like MythTV. Today, even the cheapest hardware provides enough processing power for a PVR. Thanks to the small form factor boxes, the PVR doesn’t need to look like […]