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Archive for July, 2004
Listen Up!
2004年7月28日23時14分This webpage sums up the (graphic) differences between what qualifies as an “atrocity” when Americans do something wrong and the middle east. But it is a graphic, so be forewarned.
This Land is … whose land?
2004年7月28日3時13分JibJab made a hilarious parody of the song, This Land. The voices and animation are great. So check it out!
UPDATE: apparently the authors of the song can’t take a parody and are in a legal struggle with JibJab. Pathetic.
SolarSeek Almost Here
2004年7月22日4時44分Hello! The mac needs a decent, cocoa client for the soulseek peer-to-peer network. Awhile back some people started such a project, but did not get around to finishing it. I have taken the code from the SoleSeek project and intend to finish the great project that they started. While nothing is published at the moment, I have basic features working (including chatting privately and in channels, uploading and downloading). Check back soon for a download location to try out the first test-release of this project!
Downloads (behind a firewall) now work (including queues!).
UPDATE: The first preview of SolarSeek (the pending new name) is here!
You may contact me at solarseek@fejta.com.
SoleSeek progress
2004年7月20日3時10分Alright! Uploads and downloads both work now! The client also now responds to searches and file list requests. The next task is to get all of this working when one’s behind a firewall.
i, Pod
2004年7月18日18時49分I gather from the latest Newsweek hullabaloo that the iPod is going to win the presidential election, cure cancer, and bring us closer to global peace (backyard wrestling will settle international disputes in the future and my stock in manufacturers of poorly made folding chairs will skyrocket). Don’t get me wrong, I love my mini (especially now that it’s behaving itself with my PC), but they seem to think the iPod will be remembered as some kind of shot heard ’round the world in a fantastical revolution against (depending on where in the Newsweek article you’re reading) the recording industries, compact discs, copyright law and/or Microsoft’s market share.
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Ouch, it hurts
2004年7月16日13時40分Fine geek humor. Actually, pretty funny stuff in there regardless of geek orientation. I’m still laughing! No, really.
<tag> Ouroboros: lets play Pong
<Ouroboros> Ok.
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<Ouroboros> Whoops
A billion dollar idea
2004年7月13日22時11分Slate mentions that companies would rather find treatments for AIDS than cures. A good point–treatments are much more profitable. The only way this will change is if we make it profitable to create a cure. The only way we can make curing people profitable is if we change the medical industry’s primary revenue system away from selling medicine and towards curing people.
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Sports Tech
2004年7月13日14時16分I found a new (to me) gadget-news site recently. If, like me, you love to check out all the latest and tiniest little doodads, hit up the site once in a while.
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Sony’s Operating System
2004年7月13日14時11分IBM and Sony are jointly developing the next processor for the Playstation 3–the cell processor. Dvorak mentions in one of his talking points that with the release of this, Sony plans to enter the market with its own Operating System. Who knows what kind of operating system Sony has in the works. It wasn’t immediately apparent to me. Why bother competing with Red Hat etc with another linux distro. That market is saturated. Then I remembered that Sony licensed BeOS a couple years back (before Be was bought by Palm). Probably unrealisitic, but wouldn’t it be cool if Sony brought BeOS back to life for their own OS?
We have some BeOS nostalgia here. Employees also miss being with the compnay.