- Counterpoint: Downloading Isnt Stealing – an interesting 250w piece by aaronsw, conversation; I’m still on the fence about compulsory license. it’s better than what’s going on now, but would it be something that would be allowed to be implemented? (especially by labels)
Category: Legacy
Proving to once again be ahead of the curve [23MiB QT], looks like RIAA agents are now the real deal.
In other hardware regrets, I got a Netgear WGR614 802.11g router a while ago. While it works fine and has given me very few problems, I wish I had gotten a Linksys WRT54G instead. Why? Mostly so that I could throw Linux on it. I would kill for the ability to do some traffic shaping right now.
- SeattleWireless: LinksysWrt54g – lots of info
- Linux on the WRT54G
Last November, I found out that sysctl was reporting that my Powerbook was running at 2/3rd speed. After fiddling it with a while, I finally gave up because 1) the speed kept resetting, and 2) because Xbench didn’t report anything funky (similar CPU score either way).
Reading the ‘What is Mac OS X?’ writeup inspired me to do some Open Firmware digging and figure out what was going on. So, went about booting in, and connecting via telnet (very cool, see also telnet downloading) and got some perplexing numbers:
name PowerPC,G4 cpu-version 80010303 state running clock-frequency 1fca0554 bus-frequency 07ef4594 config-bus-frequency 07e8fe70 timebase-frequency 01fbd165 l2cr 80000000 force-reduced-speed 00000001 min-clock-frequency 032d4b20 max-clock-frequency 33ad5ec0 processor-to-bus-ratio*200000008 rounded-clock-frequency 1fb5ad00 recalced-clock-frequency1fbd1650
According to the Open Firmware, the current clock-speed *is* running at 533MHz, however XBench CPU results are exactly in line with what’s expected (I get a score of ~104). Weird, no? (actually, the weirdest part is the force-reduced-speed, that shouldn’t be one, maybe I’ll muck w/ this over the weekend.
- [Samba] File xfer speed issues with MacOS X 10.2 and 10.3 – I’ve been suffering from interminably slow reads (writes were fine) w/ my Panther system and my home file server. Sure enough, doubling the socket buffers brought speed up to regular Mbit speeds. Quite strange.
- /proc on Mac OS X – cool beans
- What is Mac OS X? – really really great writeup of low-level Mac OS X tech (kernel, file system, boot loader, etc) — surprisingly accessible
- Re:Carbon’s roots are older – Carbon history from former QT engineer
- The War On Terror’s Blind Spot – Steve Johnson on how no one’s paying attention to the right-wing terrorists
- Locke, Property and Software Piracy
- Internet Archive Opens Crawler Code Under LGPL – Gordon Mohr (blog) has been a busy guy
- Friends foil Olympia man’s home – looks like $100 of foil well spent
- SACD Outputs Analog – interesting, current Toslink connections don’t have bandwidth for SACD
Ringing in the new year by writing Netscape 4 code fixes. Yes, in the year 2004. Writing workarounds specific to a 4.76 CCK build no less. Still being distributed here on campus (along w/ Netscape 6.0.2; remember, the 6.0 branch? so bad that it can’t even be found in the Netscape Product Archive?). Hoo-f’in-ray.
- normal-flow DIV spaced improperly placed after absolute DIVs, click-plane problems of course also apply
- JS parser will die on certain CSS (no surprise)
- most bizarre: within a function, testing for document.getElementById doesn’t return false value
- RareWares Debian GNU/Linux Repository for Sid/Unstable – for your Debian Linux encoding needs
- Eloisa to Abelard, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! - Cybergreen, Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future – Reason interview by Mike Godwin (yes, that one)
- Massive Change: Bruce Sterling – radio interview
- Bush Grabs New Power for FBI – in our country
- Thorough post on CPU cooling by tiger99, an avionics designer who works w/ sub-zero component cooling
Upcoming Shows:
- 1/14, Troubadour, The Lawrence Arms (The First Eviction Notice)
- 1/16, Troubadour, The Decemberists (Billy Liar)
- 1/17, Troubadour, Mark Kozelek (of Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon – Gentle Moon)
- 1/21 (Derby), 1/22 (Spaceland), 1/23 (The Echo), Battles (members of Helmet, Tomahawk, and Don Caballero – June Is Finally Here)
In Feb: Midtown, The Jealous Sound, Mates of State, Notwist, SAGE Francis/Joe Beats (Non-Prophets); In Mar: Ninja Tunes (Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, etc), In Apr: Squarepusher
So, this iTunes Opener is my first foray into the world of AppleScript. Originally, I was trying to fight w/ the GUI scripting, but in the end, I realized that was pointless. What I have now is actually pretty much a slightly beefier version of Better iTunes handling of M3U files at Balnaves.com. I’ve associated my MP3s and M3Us to this so that when I open these, it loads all of the files into a new playlist and plays it (instead of lumping all the stuff into the Library and playing only the first song). I’ve also written a bit so that it automatically deletes my netjuke M3Us. There might be someway to generalize temporary M3Us (maybe by file location), but this is currently good enough for my purposes. I’m no longer constantly pissed at iTunes.
Todo: Needs some work getting icons and association stuff working (works fine as a droplet currently)
- Unicode spaces – list of Unicode white space characters