Sep 22 2008
Last year, I moved our small programming department from using JDeveloper and editing shared files directly on a network drive to using Netbeans 6.x and a proper version control system (Subversion).
After the initial learning curve, this has all been going…
Feb 15 2008
Just a few days ago, I compared the relative sizes of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) and OASIS’s OpenDocument format (ODF). I noticed that while OOXML was smaller for smaller amounts of text, ODF was smaller for larger documents. I…
Feb 12 2008
A while ago, as OpenOffice.org 2.0 approached completion, I compared the file sizes of Microsoft Office’s binary format against OpenOffice’s new OpenDocument format. Recall that OpenDocument is an XML-based storage formatted that is ultimate compressed into a zip file, creating smaller…
Jan 19 2008
Every so often, I dink around with benchmarking common lossless compressors. One of the best sites for it is, I think, Werner Bergman’s Maximum Compression, which is a rather comprehensive running benchmark of just about every lossless compression benchmark under…
Jul 27 2007
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of digital audio: Hydrogen Audio is even more abuzz than normal.
André has released a new version of Exact Audio Copy. A high-level changelog is as follows:
- Better…
Feb 14 2007
A new version of FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Encoder—has been released, a mere three months after its last major release.
The main improvements in this release are speed optimizations at all levels, but most importantly, encoding at -8 is twice as fast as it…
Feb 01 2007
In my lust for benchmarking compressors and things of that sort, I decided to attack some typical Linux CLI compressors for a very general comparison of their relative efficiency.
If you want to skip straight to the results, go ahead and…