Comment Dutch Government wants a test-track (Score 5, Interesting) 60

by Peetke on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:05AM (#55355323) Attached to: Richard Branson's Virgin Group Invests in Super-fast Hyperloop One Transport System

The Dutch government has concrete plans for a test-and-validation track, near Amsterdam: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/a...

Comment Great, but what about open codecs? (Score 3, Insightful) 136

by Peetke on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:15PM (#54554881) Attached to: Apple Announces Native HEVC Support In MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11

Will they support VP8 VP9 and AV1? That would be far more great than HEVC.

Comment Faster printers (Score 2) 185

by Peetke on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:35AM (#44173229) Attached to: Breaking Up With MakerBot

There already are much faster printers, like the Ultimaker. The high failure rate might be from your individual setup, because that shouldn't happen that often.

Comment Following /. on Google+ (Score 1) 50

by Peetke on Monday July 01, 2013 @05:07AM (#44151869) Attached to: Thoughts From Readers on Replacing Google Reader

I'm happily following /. on my Google+: https://plus.google.com/+slashdot/posts It's an even nicer way to follow /. than Reader was.

Comment Re:Versus H264 advantages are what? (Score 1) 161

by Peetke on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @08:24AM (#44038045) Attached to: Google Enables VP9 Video Codec In Chromium

Google itself provides any hardware manufacturer with the chip-designs/blueprints for VP8 so adding this should be a breeze. Nvidia provides full VP8 hardware decoding and encoding at up to 1080p 60fps @ 60Mbit in the Tegra4 chipsets.

Submission + - Wikipedia moved to MariaDB 5.5 (wikimedia.org)

Submitted by Peetke on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @12:54AM

Peetke writes: As we all know Oracle is not the biggest friend to the Open Source Community. Long standing OSS supporter Wikipedia has now moved from an optimized fork of MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 5.5, with both the English and German sites. Wikipedia expects all other languages to follow within a month. Performance wise this move has no big implications, but it will ensure our biggest community database will live long and prosper.

Comment Don't forget Arch Linux (Score 5, Informative) 208

by Peetke on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:18AM (#43301649) Attached to: MySQL's Creator On Why the Future Belongs To MariaDB

Arch Linux also made the switch three days ago: https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/

Submission + - The Netherlands rejects ACTA (webwereld.nl)

Submitted by Peetke on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @10:32AM

Peetke writes: The Dutch House of Representatives unanimously accepted motion to urge the Cabinet to reject ACTA (if they ever get the change to do so; it may already end in the European Parlement). Additionally an even stronger motion was accepted to reject any future treaty that may harm a free and open Internet. This is a good day for the Internet.