Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 22:38 100Mbps is soooooo 1993, and fully insufficient in copying lot's of Linux images :wink: over my internal network. So, today I upgraded to Gigabit. Even with the purchased el-cheapo hardware (Intel Pro NIC's, and a 3COM 10/100/1000 switch) the speed increase is noticeable (70-80Mbps versus 300-350Mbps). Too bad that my DSL connection doesn't go that fast :-(
Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 22:27 The last couple of weeks my blog was under some sort of spam attack. I got about 50 to 80 spam comments a day. Thankfully, Askimet intercepted 99% of those messages. But Askimet shouldn't be getting these messages, because my captcha plugin should keep them out... well, it didn't.
Yesterday, I found Wordpress Hashcash. A plugin which uses crypto to keep automated spammers away. So far it's working.
UPDATE: ever since I installed WP-Hashcash it has been awfully quiet on the spamming front :-)
Never mind... Thankfully Askimet is catching them all (50 per day at this moment)
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 15:52 EMI has discovered that DRM is hater by most of the consumer market, and therefor will release their music with the hated DRM. Now it's waiting for the other big players in the music industry (Sony, and Universal). Apple's iTunes will be the first to offer these unrestricted downloads. Note that the new downloads are a bit more expensive, but this includes much better quality (256kbps AAC versus 128kbps AAC). The older versions (with DRM) will still be available, but are also 30 cents cheaper (99 cents versus 1.29). If you have purchased DRM protected songs (released by EMI),you can 'upgrade' them for a lousy 30 cents a song.
Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 12:35 Here you find some of the pranks going around this year.
Fun Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 11:01 It's been a couple of days since the release of the Apple TV. Directly after its release it became clear that the device runs on a minimal version of OSX. It didn't take long for enthusiasts to open the Apple TV box, and add extra functionality (like SSH, DivX, XviD, etc). Even adding a much bigger harddrive is quite possible. These 'hacks' can be found on AppleTVHacks.net. Today, a new hack surfaced. It seems that Apple implemented some sort of limitation on running a full blown version of OSX... Well, that limitation didn't last very long. There's a short tutorial about running OSX on the Apple TV (including support for keyboard and mouse). This makes the Apple TV the cheapest Apple PC available (299 euros). You do need additional hardware to make this work (like special screwdrivers, an Intel Mac, some extra peripherals, etc.)
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 17:16 I can watch this all day long :razz: Just like the Benny Bernassi (Satisfaction), and Eric Prydz (Call on me) music video's.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 1:06 I've got this blog running for a couple of months now. Even though not many comments are left behind (I don't care), the spammers definitely found my blog. I receive over 30 spam comments a day now. Thanks to the Askimet Anti-spam plugin for Wordpress, the spam entries are quarantined.
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 11:30 Last night my server went down. There was a 'poof', and then nothing. The status LED on my motherboard was still in the green, so it could be either the motherboard, CPU or the power supply. This morning I head out to the local computer dealer to get me a new motherboard, CPU, and a power supply. Thankfully, it was just the power supply that died. This might actually be a good opportunity to upgrade my server to a Mac Mini.
Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 20:35 Apple has update their public beta of Boot Camp with support for the 32bit edition of Microsoft Windows Vista. This 'proves' that the rumors about the possible delay of Leopard due to lack of Vista support are not true.
So a release of Leopard in Spring 2007 is still possible :-)Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes:
- Support for Windows Vista (32-bit)
- Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime (synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
- Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
- A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information and actions
- .....
