links for 2007-11-30
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“The EFF’s study provides strong evidence that Comcast is using packet-forging to disrupt peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing on their network.”
Archive for November, 2007
Automation chains and entropy
Some more diligent readers might have seen a few… odd posts in the last couple of days. These were “links for…” posts, the sort created automatically by del.icio.us every night at 2am when it tries to auto-post the things I’ve bookmarked during the day.
Turns out that, for reasons unclear at present — but which you may want to take the time to explore if you use WordPress and post remotely via the XML-RPC interface — something got broked.
Not sure what, but MarsEdit (the desktop blogging client I use to compose most of my posts) and del.icio.us and TextMate all started complaining suddenly. Maybe some earlier post I created had a showstopping character or unclosed tag; maybe some script kiddie or bot had poked the interface often enough to cause some kind of blockage. In any case, I see no damage at present, now that I’ve upgraded from WordPress 2.1.x to 2.3.1.
But there could have been, I’m guessing.
So (a) back up your blog datatbase, and (b) upgrade your blog software if you haven’t done that recently.
Comments off
links for 2007-11-25
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“to convert a regular text document to LaTeX format”
links for 2007-11-24
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“…emerging value is contingent on the production, and growth of community (instead of the production and growth of material wealth”
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“Information overload exists, but mainly inside our heads.”
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“We invite proposals for an economically viable way to recover silver from silica-encapsulated ore.”
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“A piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it”
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“What better way could there be to create a nation of constant lawbreakers than to instill in that nation a contempt for its own laws?”
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“The big news from the world of Harry Potter isn’t that Dumbledore is gay. It’s that J.K. Rowling is greedy.”
links for 2007-11-23
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“In my mind, the bellwether for ebooks is which format/platform is most popular for comics.”
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I always feel more comfortable and alert when I’ve had some “insomnia” and a nap the next day. Ironically, “old sleep” may well be what we do as we get older, too.
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“Books have led some to learning, and others to madness…”
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And also: will bitch-slap next person to use phrase “an evolution” as a noun, in any context. Period.
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“There is definitely a major shift underway and at its core is a growing recognition of the enormous value that a whole…”
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“.epub” allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications.
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“…it is impossible to involve a mobile carrier with a technology without infecting that technology with Awful Crap.”
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“You pay for downloadable books that can’t be printed, can’t be shared, and can’t be displayed on any device other than Amazon’s own $400 reader…”
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“From personal experience I can tell you that the big labels are beyond clueless in the digital world – their ideas are out-dated, their methods make no sense, and every decision is hampered by miles and miles of legal tape, copyright restrictions, and co
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We will be having a FundCamp here, soon. Or so I predict.
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“Revolutions don’t happen without revolt. The public has been revolting since 2000. And those in power have continued to sit in Versailles. The beheading has begun.”
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“When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot”
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It’s just another strange day in the increasingly strange life of a Pirate Bay admin.
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“Law is the operating system of our society and today’s agreement means anybody can read the source for a substantial amount of case law that was previously unavailable.”
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“SDRM is what Amazon should be using if it is worried about piracy.”
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“We are maniacally focused on delivering the most value, for the most users, as quickly as possible.”
links for 2007-11-22
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ERROR LOG note page xxi
links for 2007-11-20
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Testimonial: The designs are great, and useful, and customer support (a thing I rarely have opportunity to need) is excellent as well. Kudos.
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Testimonial: The designs are great, and useful, and customer support (a thing I rarely have opportunity to need) is excellent as well. Kudos.
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Testimonial: The designs are great, and useful, and customer support (a thing I rarely have opportunity to need) is excellent as well. Kudos.
links for 2007-11-19
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(tags: nostalgia)
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Surely somebody I know owns photographs of the old swimming pool at the Santa Fe Institute. Maybe me, even. I’ll have to check.
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via: Winston
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