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I had hopes for France, but not much seems to be coming of that. But now Norway is stepping up to the plate, and is demanding action fast. Aside from the DRM issues, I like that they’re complaining that Apple “reserves the right to change unilaterally consumers’ rights to access material already purchased.” Yes, that […]

I’ve just upgraded from WordPress 2.0.2 to WordPress 2.0.3. Let me know if you see any problems.

Hey, Jonathan’s blogging about Thumper. Neat.

For whatever reason, XEmacs decided tonight to crash on me when I fire up Gnus. Not good – I like to be able to read my e-mail. Fortunately, there’s a workaround – it doesn’t happen if I touch my .newsrc first – but otherwise the crash is quite reproducible. Sigh. I’d seen XEmacs crash once […]

I looked into using delicious for this, but its automatic blog posting doesn’t quite do what I want. So I guess I should cook up some way of transforming its RSS feeds, or something. (An excuse to learn about XSLT!) In the mean time: This seems to be sticking with me. Glad I didn’t buy […]

I’m too cheap to get a fixed IP address, and at some point recently, my router’s external IP address (i.e. the one assigned by my cable provider) changed. So I’d like to write a cron job that runs every hour and dumps my external IP address on a computer somewhere else, so I’ll always know […]

I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.2. (From 2.0.1; largely a security fix.) Pity they don’t make patch files available. Let me know if you see anything weird.

The mac is pretty well set up now. I’ve finished transferring all my music to it; the long part was just getting it on the USB drive from the old computer. (And I’ve even ripped a few more CD’s: I was really running out of room on the last computer’s hard drive.) The only thing […]

I’m typing this on my new Mac. Which is adorable, and seems to work well enough, though there’s still a bit of work to do. I don’t have my music transferred yet – I tried sharing my music folder from my old laptop, but for whatever reason I can’t get the mac to see it. […]

I’m now generating my HTML pages based on the data in the SQL database. I’m still first assembling all the data in memory using Java method calls, and writing that out to an SQL database, but then I throw away the in-memory copy and regenerate it from the database. I can’t really say that that […]

The old laptop’s screen is now being held on with duct tape. Truly a marvelous substance. Fortunately, Apple claims that I’ll get the new laptop in the middle of the week.

The new Ultra 20 (panini) is all set up now – I’ve transferred my home directory, and I’m reading mail from there, doing svn commits there. I still haven’t set up backups properly, but that’s something I wasn’t doing right on the laptop, either, so it’s not a reason to hold up the switch. Notes: […]

A good DMCA policy paper. Maybe I should switch to zsh… Microsoft is evil. Mit Gott an unserer Seite. Yes, that is a static image. A different Z-Machine. Hmm. Laser monks! Pretty. Hmm: having been confronted with a few posts that look similar to the above in other blogs, I am starting to see the […]

I get DNS service through my registrar; twice this week, it has failed. (The only reason why I can write this is because I’ve edited my hosts file.) Clearly, I should look for other options; problems happen, and I don’t want any more single points of failure than necessary. The server that hosts this blog […]

A week after installing FC4 on the new machine, I wiped it and installed FC5. Which one of my coworkers recommended; I was planning to do an upgrade, if for no other reason than to avoid having to burn 5 more CD’s, but it refused to upgrade from local images. (Sigh.) So I had to […]

I can’t wait to see how this turns out. Don’t get me wrong – the proposed law won’t leave us in an ideal situation, but I am glad to see a real stand for openness, and sensible penalties for making unauthorized personal copies. On a related note, I laughed at this quote from an interview […]

The ip address for this blog (and my personal e-mail) has changed; it may take a day or two to percolate. And right now something strange is going on – I can’t resolve my domain names to either the old or new IP address. Anyways, it should sort itself out soon enough. Many thanks to […]

I upgraded packages on the new computer today. At first, everything went quite well – I was impressed at how quickly it downloaded the 300-odd packages it needed. (Apparently the networking works well!) And then it started installing packages; unfortunately, when it was most of the way done installing, the computer became unresponsive. (Largely: it […]

I burned some FC4 x86_64 CDs earlier this week. Then I went to install them on my new computer, but did a media check first. Three of them failed. I re-burned them; the new copies failed, too. Next: read an installation guide; it suggested that installation over a network or from a USB hard drive […]

My router seems unwilling to hand out static ip addresses to clients with certain Ethernet addresses. Which is unfortunate – unless I’m misunderstanding things (always a possibility), it seems that I’ll have to hard-code nameserver addresses on the machine that I want a static IP address for. And I’m not in control of the nameserver […]