GNOME has a good page describing some of the concerns with linking GPL’ed software against the OpenSSL libraries. Debian believes that as long as OpenSSL and the GPL’ed software are delivered on the same medium or in the same distribution, the GPL’s ‘accompanying clause’ is invoked: There is some disagreement about what this exception...
Read more →To get the presidential debates as mp3’s: go to the (www.youtube.com/cspan) Play the debate (before you go home, e.g.) Pull the debate .flv file from your cache (e.g. FlashTmp0) run it through ffmpeg to extract the mp3 To get the file from your cache, figure out where the flash cache is and...
Read more →Saw this train car at Clark’s Trading Post: and it made me think of SSL certificates. I think that qualifies me as certifiably hopeless.
Read more →From today’s new Macbook announcement: 11:01AM Q: Concern about the glossy screens. Are you going to offer another option? A: Steve: We're going all glass -- we won't offer another version. Phil: You offset the reflection by the brightness, and consumers love it. One of the great things about a notebook is you can...
Read more →I got a spam today advertising a ‘virtual conference’ called CISSE 2008. Apparently they compiled at least part of their spam list by harvesting the Mozilla Bugzilla database. Their address harvester had trouble with basic e-mail parsing but got enough of my address there to positively identify the source. It’s apparently organized by: Tarek...
Read more →I noticed today that quality CD-R media has crossed the price line with quality DVD-R media, and is now more expensive than DVD-R*. This means for daily data archiving purposes CD-R is dead. I’m ordering one last hundred pack for specialty use in machines that cannot handle DVD-R (very old computers, CD players, and...
Read more →I’ve been writing a short note here after each minor release of Mac OS X 10.5, noting the major problems with it, and 10.5.5 is unfortunately no different. Today I applied it to my main machine’s Leopard install and tried two fairly simple operations: * delete a partition with Disk Utility * install Software...
Read more →This will sync any attached iPods if iTunes is running: #!/bin/sh osascript <<_END_OF_UPDATE tell application "Finder" set processList to get name of every process if processList contains "iTunes" then tell application "iTunes" to update (every source whose kind is iPod) end if end tell _END_OF_UPDATE It can be called from a cronjob to keep...
Read more →From Fedora Weekly News: Daniel P. Berrange laid it out there. “There is pretty much zero chance that Fedora 10 will include a Xen Dom0 host. While upstream Xen developers are making good progress on porting Dom0 to paravirt_ops, there is simply too little time for this to be ready for Fedora 10. So...
Read more →I just ordered a new hard drive from PC Connection and when I went to check out I got quite a surprise. I realize that for a while companies have been charging more for shipping to residential addresses than business, but PC Connection has taken this to a whole new level. My home address...
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