New Alex Gaudino Music Video

I can watch this all day long :razz: Just like the Benny Bernassi (Satisfaction), and Eric Prydz (Call on me) music video's.

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Blog Spam

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.

Every spam entry looks the same, and all the links the f*ckers try to leave behind won't work (I must admin that I try some of the links they are leaving behind). So I ask you; What's the point in spamming useless links? If a link won't work, you won't even try a (spammed) link in the future, because it's a waist of time. Same goes for e-mail spam. I receive lots of spam in my inbox, but what is the use in advertising viagra, if the shop is offline.I guess that there are just too many people with too much spare time on there hands. But not enough to create, or host a decent online drugstore :-)

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Major Server Downtime

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.

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Apple Adds Vista Support To Boot Camp

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.

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
• .....

So a release of Leopard in Spring 2007 is still possible :-)

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What We Call The News

And yet another great video from JibJab :-)

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Dutch Online Music Store Stops

The Dutch download store download.nl closes its virtual doors. Reason; Too many complaints about the restrictive DRM. So it doesn't just limit the average consumer in playing their favorite tunes, but it also puts people out of a job...... The dutch site isn't the only online music download store. The German musicload.de reveiled that most of their complaints (75%) are about the restrictive DRM. Will the music industry ever learn?

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Wordpress 2.1.2 Update

I upgraded my version of Wordpress to version 2.1.2. This went the usual 'problems'. First of all I 'forgot' to make a recent backup. Second, I used Transmit (an OSX FTP Client) to upload the new pages. Transmit has the possibility to overwrite files. No worries (I thought), I just renamed the files I editted, do I could rename them back when I had uploaded the new files. It seems that I didn't read the warning very well. When I overwrote the directories, Transmit removed them first and uploaded the new files afterwards. This meant that all my uploads, and customized files were gone..... aaaaargh. Fortunatelly, I had a backup from two weeks ago, so I could get the old files. This reminds me to make a decent backup before doing anything about my Wordpress installation in the future....

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Internet Porn On A Different 'Channel'

Most internet traffic for browsing is using ports 80 (http) and 443 (https). The wise governor (Huntsman) of Utah has suggested to ban pornsites from these default ports. This way it should be easier to block traffic to these sites (just block the porn-port). So I guess that the following ports will be used in the future of Internet browsing:

• 69 - porn related websites
• 666 - websites about satanisme
• 1337 - TechTalk
• etc.

Thankfully, the world is bigger than Utah, but I do feel sorry for those who live there......

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Remote Annoyances

It's been a couple of days since I got my new home cinema set, and there are several annoyances with remote controls. My old home cinema components were also from Pioneer, so I guessed that the new remotes would be similar, but boy I was wrong. The new remote for the AV receiver has about 10 times as many buttons, with every at least 2 functions per button. The remote for the Pioneer DVR-545 lacks several key buttons on the remote;

• numeric keys for zapping
• buttons for going fast forward and reverse
• Audio and subtitle selection

If you need those controls (and I need them a lot), you have to slide the remote open, and use a SHIFT button to alter in movie settings (like the subtitles). Why not place these buttons on the surface? So newer doesn't mean better IMO

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Next Generation Internet

Researchers at the Stanford University believe that the current Internet isn't fit for the future. They believe that a fundamental redesign is necessary to accommodate future usage.

We believe that the current Internet has significant deficiencies that need to be solved before it can become a unified global communication infrastructure. Further, we believe the Internet's shortcomings will not be resolved by the conventional incremental and 'backward-compatible' style of academic and industrial networking research.

Well, I think they have a point. BUT, starting over from scratch means that you throw everything out and start with absolutely nothing. Will the 'old' Internet still be there during the migration? Are we (the consumers) gonna have two Internet connections (one plain-old-Internet, and a new-and-improved Internet)? That's not gonna happen.... So migrating means that 'both' Internets are active at the same time, and accessible over the same 'wire'. There has to be some sort gateway between the two. This introduces backdoors etc. The new network is bound to fail if your not able to access info on the plain-old-Internet. A long time ago, we had a separate 'Internet' in Holland called 'HetNet' (TheNet). That didn't last long, because there was no (official) gateway between the two. So that meant that you had to switch between the two... I guess it's pointless to say that HetNet didn't last that long (HetNet is a dutch ISP atm). So I guess that I'm more than curious how they're gonna solve this.

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