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Exploiting the impossibility of equilibrium


The computer crashes so regularly, taking with it all the work since the last crash, that I have to find a way of reminding myself to save all the time. I do this by balancing a book on my head while I'm working. It falls off so often that I remember to save. Interesting spin-off - in order to keep the book there at all I have to sit well, and move my eyes more than my head. Now I'm starting to think this is the way to always use a computer.

Brian Eno - A Year with Swollen Appendices, October 15th, 1995


 
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Tip


for those who use the blog digest kinja: adding the xml/rss feed of a blog to the system often works when the regular url does not. Example: Antville blogs. Just add "/rss10" to the address (hint by herr k.).


 
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On software engineering


You see, a "bug" is often just a sign of recognition that a program is behaving undesirably. Such "undesirability" may indeed be caused by mechanical problems in which code does something different from what it was intended to do. But all too often the code is doing exactly what the programmer wanted at the time, which (in the end) turned out to be a really bad idea. The former is a programming bug, and the latter a design bug, or in some exceptionally lethal cases, an architectural bug.

from The Next Move in Programming: A Conversation with Sun's Victoria Livschitz (via g3rm)


 
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Dear music industry,


Can you please tell me why I should continue buying your copy protected CDs? Not only that they don't play on my computer CD-ROM drive they also don't work on my car stereo. A JVC hifi capable of playing mp3s I bought for about 500 euros two years ago. For once I was almost an early adopter and now this. Thank you EMI et al. You are digging your own grave there. If you want turnover halve the prices and stop this stupid copy protection which drives people into piracy as the free mp3s downloaded via file sharing networks work whereas your expensive CDs don't.

P.S. Is it actually illegal to play mp3 versions of the previously purchased copy protected CDs on a car hifi (using this software for example)?

P.P.S. I own copy controlled (those bloody euphemisms always) CDs by Radiohead and Massive Attack. How could these two politically left-wing bands release their records at a consumer unfriendly label like EMI/Virgin? Maybe they don't want to sell their albums. That would make sense in a way. It's a pity I like their music and I more or less share their political stance but I won't buy any of their copy controlled records anymore.


 
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Obscenity


From the Wikipedia entry on Bill Gates:

According to one estimate, Gates possesses more wealth than the poorest 50 percent of the world's population.

P.S. And how did he become the richest man in the world? From the same article:

In the early 1970s, Gates wrote the Open Letter to Hobbyists, which shocked the computer hobbyist community by insisting that a commercial market existed for computer software and that such software should not be freely copied without the publisher's permission. At the time, the community was strongly influenced by its ham radio legacy and the related Hacker ethic, which insist that innovations and knowledge should be freely shared in the community.

So what's happening now with Linux and other open source software taking away market shares from Microsoft is in a way the revenge of the community.


 
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An honest virus


The following e-mail with a batch file attached to it was in my inbox this morning:

Subject: A special powful tool This is a very powful tool I wish you would enjoy it.

 
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antville error #1


When trying to access my referrers:

Error in application 'antville':

Conversion to object unsupported by null detected at line 1 of function 'referrers_action' in file: 'site/referrers.hac'


 
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Watchlist broken?


1.9.2003 "But it worked on the development server..."

I made some massive speed improvements to freshblogs last night, but in the process broke something else. I'm working on putting it back together. Sorry for the inconvenience. posted by d. saint at 3:18 PM

The website/weblog monitor freshblogs which I am using is experiencing some problems. My watchlist has suddenly melted down to 20 weblogs. There used to be more than 120 sites in there.

In the meantime I created a blogroll at blogrolling which is displayed on your right-hand side for the time being. The big disadvantage of blogrolling is that it gets the update data only from weblogs.com. Apparently only very few music weblogs ping weblogs.com. Or do you believe that of the 120 sites in the link section only ten weblogs have been updated in the last 48 hours?


 
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Classifying weblogs


From the technical point of the reader there are four kinds of weblogs I know of:

  1. The basic outfit: An internet page which doesn't tell anybody when it is updated or it tells everybody that it is updated all the time. There are not so many of these. Often the problem is that there is pseudo-dynamic content on the page like banners which makes it impossible for the reader to know if the page has been updated or not. In this case I use my Quickbrowse collections (subscription $12.95 for 3 months) which I visit on a regular base. An example is this music collection which I check every two or three days.

  2. The middle class variant: Weblogs which behave like normal pages and have a correct update status (can be found out with the page freshness bookmarklet from here). Most of the music weblogs I read belong into this group. I read those weblogs using this fresblogs page. It is ordered by last update, the freshest fruits are on top. Right now there are about 130 music sites in there. For some of those sites freshblogs shows several updates per day when they have only been updated once. Therefore I usually open the list only on a daily base. To open the links in a new page I hold down the shift key when clicking on them.

  3. The upper class model: Weblogs pinging weblogs.com or blo.gs. Those weblogs can be read via a page like blo.gs where you register and add the weblogs you read. Afterwards you get a page with the latest updated weblogs on top and the lazy webloggers on the bottom like in 2). The advantage to 2) is that this method is more reliable. As freshblogs supports pings I use it here as well.

  4. The luxury version: Weblogs supporting RSS (XML) feeds which can be read in a newsreader similar to an e-mail program like Outlook. The program I started to use is the freeware feedreader. Up to now I have thirty weblogs in there of which most are from antville. Unfortunately I have yet only found one music blog supporting RSS, it is monkey puzzle.

If your weblog supports RSS feeds and is about music I would be very thankful if you told me so that I can add you to my news feeds.


 
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