Just tell him: Thank-you! Sam
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross < [email protected]> wrote: > Would you have any thing you would like me to talk about? > Whatever you want me to discuss is of interest to me. Remember I am > hardware newbie. > > He is one of the 7 chaps from the beginnings of ARM and still employed. > > I have also asked here: > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/**pipermail/arm-netbook/2012-** > October/005795.html<http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2012-October/005795.html> > (lots of discussion here) > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.**com/pipermail/discussion/2012-** > October/009897.html<http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2012-October/009897.html> > and on the LibrePlanet discuss ML. > > -- > This sig is a long one and in dev... > > I'm on StatusNet var identi and Diaspora. > http://social.aross.me > > Please use the address [email protected] in public places. This is > part of my spam control. > > Please add to your contacts and use to contact me "<You first name and > your last name>[email protected]". This is future prof. Part of my > anti spam plan. If I have not created a > <1st&lastname>.contacting@**aross.me <[email protected]> address please > bug me. > > > > Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > OpenDocument instead! > http://fsf.org/campaigns/**opendocument/<http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/> > > > Decent, recommended by me, non-proprietary, patent free, royalty free, > FOSS archive formats: > > XZ http://tukaani.org/xz/format.**html <http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html> > TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 (If you must.) > PEA > http://www.peazip.org/pea-**archiving-utility.html<http://www.peazip.org/pea-archiving-utility.html> > > A multi platform archiver progam: > http://www.peazip.org/ > A comparison of formats: > http://tukaani.org/lzma/**benchmarks.html<http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html> > http://www.peazip.org/peazip-**compression-benchmark.html<http://www.peazip.org/peazip-compression-benchmark.html> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Comparison_of_file_archivers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers> > > > mp3,acc,wma,rma,ect audio formats are all rubbish! > Decent audio formats: > > Vorbis (lossy) http://www.vorbis.com/ > FLAC (lossless) http://flac.sourceforge.net/ > Speex (for voice, lossy) http://www.speex.org/ > > For multimedia containers, I like/love: > MKV http://www.matroska.org/ > WebM http://www.webmproject.org/ > OGG http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ > FLAC (Audio only. Use with the FLAC audio format.) > > Good Video formats: > > VP8 http://www.webmproject.org/ or H.264 (Not nice legal wise.) > Theora http://www.theora.org/ > > Take you time with encoding. I don't mined waiting for 12hour long ones, > hope that's ok with you! Aim for best quality too. Do not think you have > to reincode stuff to send it to me. I like my quality even if that means > downloading 4GB mpeg 2 yuck but you will hate uploading that. > > > The word “hack, hacker, hacking, hacked, etc” is often misused. It does > not mean nasty, evil stuff. Cracker is the word you want. See: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/**hacker-howto.html#what_is<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/**words-to-avoid.html#Hacker<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker> > > > Stop Software Patents! > > Proudly using distributions of GNU/Linux. No m$ or bapple! No lock-in, > dependence, drm, limits :). > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/**mailman/listinfo/discussion<https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion> >
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