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Using the Olympus C-770 with GNU/Linux
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Articles and technical reports, covering a range of IT and software development topics, are available here to read.
A Quick Overview of Character Encoding Schemes
[Wed, 01 Mar 2006] A short article that describes the most common character encoding schemes, such as ISO-8859 and Unicode. A PDF of this article is also available for download.
FRET v0.0.5 Design Changes
[Fri, 02 Sep 2005] A short article describing how to use an MPEG-4 digital camera, the Olympus C-770 UZ, with a GNU/Linux system. The article focuses on the problems of viewing and editing MPEG-4 movies and includes a Perl script that provides the batch conversion of these files to other formats. The article is available in pdf format for download and the Perl script is also available.
Using the Olympus C-770 with GNU/Linux
[Tues, 02 Oct 2005] A short article describing how to use an MPEG-4 digital camera, the Olympus C-770 UZ, with a GNU/Linux system. The article focuses on the problems of viewing and editing MPEG-4 movies and includes a Perl script that provides the batch conversion of these files to other formats. The article is available in pdf format for download and the Perl script is also available.