Trying to figure out making QuickTime Playlists right now. There’s a free program called QT Xlist which will play text lists, however one can’t navigate sections… There’s also a program called QT Playlist Maker, but it’s $15. It looks like it’s just generating SMIL, so I’m putting together something to do just that.
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- TreoCentral: Hacked the Logo, Now Hacking the Rest – go go go
- Juan Cole: Bush Sneaks in and Out of Baghdad
- Well-Designed Weblogs
- Seagate Exec: Sub-$200 Terabyte Storage Two Years Off – so, maybe I don’t need to worry about more than 4 drives, I can just quadruple storage in two years by swapping my old drives out
- del.icio.us – Delicious is a social bookmarks manager; w/ REST API; brilliant (via veen, via waxy)
- Classical Madness – japanese classical music videogame
- MarrowSoft Xselerator XSLT IDE and Debugger
- NYTimes: Decoding the New Cues in Online Society
Devon Lake, 25, a high school teacher, discovered that this fall when she was bombarded with requests from former students to accept them into her Friendster circle, which she uses to keep in touch with her friends from Burning Man, the annual primal gathering in the Nevada desert. The potential costs of putting one part of her network in contact with the other part were too high, so she rebuffed her students and cleaned up her profile by removing anything that could be interpreted as a reference to drugs. “I’m a young teacher, so drawing that line is already a careful balancing act,” Ms. Lake said. “It made me feel on my guard about what I posted to the site.”
- [this is dumb] – frickin awesome
One of my drives died on me yesterday (what a pain). However, this did make me stop putting off building that file server. So, I went ahead, caught up on research, and did the deed today. If you’re interested, you can compare what I ended up with and what I spec’d out back in February.
| Qty | Component | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SuperMicro SC733T-450 (black) | $245 | 1 | Panasonic 3.5″ FDD (black) | $7 |
| 1 | SuperMicro SUPER X5DPA-TGM (MBD-X5DPA-TGM-O) | $191 |
| 1 | Intel Xeon 2.4GHz (533MHz bus) | $165 |
| 1 | Vantec CCK-7015 1U Heat Sink/Fan | $17 |
| 2 | Crucial 256MB DDR PC2100 ECC | $134 |
| 1 | LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-6 | $360 | 4 | Western Digital 250GB SATA Caviar w/ 8MB cache (WD2500JD) | $972 | 1 | APC Smart-UPS 700VA | $286 |
The final result, will either be about 700GiBs of RAID 5, or about 475GiBs of RAID 1 storage. Actual cost w/ shipping, tax, etc: $2,515; about $3.50/GiB or $5.30/GiB respectively.
The case was probably not the best idea for future expandability, but the Enermax I was looking at had been discontinued, and the SC942s were just way too expensive… Hmm, now that I’m looking, the SuperMicro SC742T-550 might have been a good idea for future epandability ($352 @ GGS). Well, not going to worry about it too much.
- Happy Thanksgiving – there doesn’t need to be a link does there? Actually, a friend has told me that The National Dog Show that follows the Macy’s Parade on NBC is a can’t miss. Like Best in Show, but… err, real
- Simon on Google, Microsoft and Tall Poppies – I know they’ve gone on tape (wasn’t it on Triumph of the Nerds) w/ the MS s/w in every home; maybe they’ve changed their line recently
- Feedster on what do w/ problem blogs like mine – actually, I wouldn’t spend too much effort on this special case. ie, in all my web travels over the last few months I can’t recall really a single blog that generates feeds and doesn’t have permalinks. That being said, caching in general might be a good idea. There is a lot of ‘ephemeral’ RSS, I’m thinking about news services and other channels. Also, many of the permalinks given in RSS feeds point to fragments within the home-page, which become invalid once it rolls over. Of course, Feedster is doing better than Google. It’s almost surprising that Google still doesn’t try to make any effort at all to track content to permalinks
- Neurotech Vendors Seek to Exploit Cortical Plasticity
- End-to-end is a BIG political statement
- vi Complete Key Binding List
- The End of RSS
- Cases of ‘living dead’ growing in India
- /. Google disc: Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up, Google Blocks ‘Optimized’ Pages
- Latest map of the internet
- XML-RPC Progress – Harry Fueks has taken Simon’s IXR class to the next level
- MachL 3.8 desktop machine; expensive hardware in an ugly case (neat readouts though), w/ Apple ripped-off website design
Jason Nolan (PhD, Knowledge Media Design Institute, UToronto) gave a presentation on Journaling Communities for Scholars @ RCAT recently. Ahh, video online. Also interesting: KMDI – an institute in the School of Graduate Studies and is dedicated to research and graduate education in all aspects of knowledge media design (KMD). [yay referer logs]
Hmm, I still have yet to write/present on blogging in academia… or doing more fun exploratory tech (what I’ve done at work so far). (Technically, I’m in the ‘Center for Scholarly Technology’) Although something interesting did come up today… social software technology built into a student portal? That might be *very* interesting.
- Basic Survival Techniques for Incarceration
- Send an SMS from AIM (or iChat)
- Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
- Teen idol Jonathan Brandis dies at 27 – saw the coroner’s confirmation of suicide on the wire; sorta weird
- Hellboy Trailer – hmm, hopefully this won’t suck
I’ve been digging through some of my old music recently, which has been really cool. It’s easy to forget about on some great stuff when you’re constantly going through new stuff. Been listening incessantly to Spoon’s Girls Can Tell. I am your shadow in the dark/I have your blood inside my heart
– so frickin’ good.
- Spoon – Me And The Bean [5.2MiB MP3]
- WWW::Mechanize
- WWW::Mechanize::Examples
- WWW::Mechanize::FAQ
- WWW::Mechanize::Shell
- O’Reilly: Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize
Good-bye to my hiptop soon.
# Login $a->get('http://www.t-mobile.com/'); $a->field('txtMSISDN', $phnum); $a->field('txtPassword', $passwd); $a->submit(); $a->follow_link(text => 'Desktop Interface');
Thought about iTunes Music Store: why doesn’t it allow you to use your/other people’s playlists/libraries to generate personalized suggestions?
Speaking of music, Pitchfork’s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s Redux is all up. Wish I owned more of these, there are some classic gems in there.
- How to use ftp in combination with .netrc
- The CVS FAQ: Setting up and Managing the Repository
- Setting up a CVS repository – the FreeBSD way
- Secure CVS Pserver Mini-HOWTO
- O’Reilly: CVS Administration, Tracking Changes in CVS
- CVS Best Practices
- Getting Started with CVS
- CVS FAQ
- /. finally picked up on the whole L.A. County Bans Use Of “Master/Slave” Term; almost 2000 comments attached to this topic; impressive
- Xeni made today Kigurimi + Cosplay day on BoingBoing; the Japanese will never fail to impress in their bizarrity
- EJ MIDI Turntable – turntable retrokit that uses an optical patterned record + catridge (camera?) a MIDI convertor box and OS X + Windows software; hook that up to a V4!
- TreoCentral: Lets Hack the Carrier Logo