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'DRM Can be Experimented With', says RIAA Chief
A lot was made over Steve Jobs message to the RIAA Tuesday. The message, which gained widespread publicity in no small part due to the blogosphere, essentially said, “Hey we’re Apple. We built iTunes on FairPlay (Apple’s DRM scheme) because the music industry wanted it so, but we’d really like the music industry to reconsider…
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Why Stale Media Won't Survive
I could probably give a thousand reasons why Old Media, referred to by me as stale media, simply won’t make it in the brave new world of new media. It’s the same argument that Apple’s Steve Jobs tries to make in his spinnish way regarding DRM and the music industry, and the same argument that…
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My Script for Auto WordPress Upgrade
I like posting scripts. I am proud of most of them. I mentioned before that I run WordPress trunk and that every day, the auto upgrade script runs, upgrades this blog and sends me a detailed email regarding the upgrade. Not only does this help me keep track of changes from revision to revision without…
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Selling Technosailor
For a period of two years in my life, back in the late 1990s, I lived in NYC. I loved NYC. I didn’t make much so it was hard to live there, but I loved it. In fact, I still love NYC. In August of 1998, I began thinking that my tme in NYC had…
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Ensuring your OS X or Unix operating system Can Deal With Daily Savings Time Changes
Most of the OSes, including Windows, have made software updates available to deal with daylight savings time changes that go into effect in 2007. Here’s how to do it on OS X.
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Virtual Solutions to Shared Network Resources and Email Solutions
I’ve been looking into a number of different resources for b5media. Namely, I’m looking for a better email solution for mail serving as well as an offsite backup and shared resources solution. As we’re a fairly large infrastructure spread globally, we have requirements as well. Email Solution Currently, we run all our mail locally through…
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Bookmarking with Furl
I just started using a new bookmarking tool called Furl that is a compliment to Del.icio.us. It is located at www.furl.net Many of you might be familiar with it and see the “F” icon in some blog badges. It’s quite versatile and useful, although it’s not perfect. I see a lot of possibilities for this…
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Flushing Stale DNS in Unix
In case anyone else needs this information, I’ve just figured out that ipconfig /flushdns that we use in the Windows world translates to lookupd -flushcache in Unix/Linux/Mac OS X/BSD.