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The Xiph Foundation has officially released Ogg Vorbis v1.0 today! For those not familiar with Vorbis, it's a lossy audio compressor/decompressor (codec), similar to MP3. I've been using the prerelease versions for over a year and it's my preferred format for encoding my CD's. It has more fidelity, bitrate for bitrate, than MP3. It's not supported on most mobile MP3-type players yet, but for computer-based listening, it's great! I encourage you to visit Vorbis.com and check it out!

I'm working on creating computer-viewable backup copies of my "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 3 DVD set for myself and it's like I'm taking a college course in "Computer-Based Video Processing"! There is a lot of work going on in this field, and I've tapped more than a few websites and discussion forums for help and software. Read on for an overview of the resources that have helped me.

I had dedicated my dual-P2 server (Cosmic) to running Mandrake Linux 8.2 and Zope to serve out this site and my family's site. Unfortunately, I think I installed too much of the software included with Mandrake, or created a problem by changing the default system runlevel down to 3. The system started locking up routinely with kernel panics. Read on to find out how I got the site back up...

Microsoft released the long-awaited Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 today. You can download it from here. I'm a professional Windows NT/2000 Server administrator, and we've been waiting on this quite a while. Let's hope it makes W2K even more stable; it's doing quite well for me already.