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Boxee: What AppleTV should of beenPosted by Synfinatic on October 24, 2008 at 9:46 am in Cool, Tech.So I just got an Apple TV. Honestly, even after paying 30% less for a refurb and getting free shipping, I’m not that impressed. For $300 I’d expect a device to support more file formats and the tight link to iTunes to a single iTunes database is annoying in a multi-computer household like ours. Tags: apple, boxee, music, video
Happy Happy Joy Joy!Posted by Synfinatic on October 20, 2008 at 8:21 pm in Cool.Finally! San Francisco 49ers fire Mike Nolan! Tags: 49ers
Either way you’re breaking the lawPosted by Synfinatic on October 17, 2008 at 8:34 pm in Geek Law.The comic xkcd makes the point that when you “buy” DRM’d software, music or movies that you’re really at the mercy of the company who controls the DRM and they can effectively revoke your access for any reason just as Walmart threatened to do recently. Of course, once the company locks you out of the content you paid for you either have to pay for it again or break the law by bypassing the DRM. Hence, you’re probably better off pirating the software, music or movie in the first place- if you’re going to break the law there really isn’t any point paying for it in the first place since laws like the DMCA don’t care if … Tags: DMCA, DRM, piracy, xkcd
Linky #2Posted by Synfinatic on at 3:59 pm in /dev/random.I’ve been sitting on these interesting articles and I figured I’d share: Warren Buffet explains in the New York Times why now it is the time to buy stock in US companies. Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder of Creative Commons writes in the Wall Street Journal, In Defence of Piracy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on the NSA Spying on Americans again, but this time it’s our service men & women calling home to their families and organizations like Doctors without Borders. Update: Stephen Colbert has this to say on the subject: A scathing article on the … Tags: copyright, eff, south park, tsa
Maybe McCain wont vote for bad bills next timePosted by Synfinatic on October 15, 2008 at 3:31 pm in Geek Law, Politics.I found this really amusing. McCain’s campaign wrote a letter to YouTube requesting that they give special preference to political videos when receiving DMCA takedown notices. Basically some people are claiming the McCain campaign is violating their copyright by including music, video, etc in their YouTube videos and are demanding the videos be removed. Tags: DMCA, irony, mccain
Server move completedPosted by Synfinatic on October 9, 2008 at 10:19 am in Life.Just a quick FYI, the server has moved to it’s new home. DNS is still propagating, but should complete in the next few hours… Anyways a big thanks to Martony, Gabe and Jason who helped out. Tags: site news
Server move (again)Posted by Synfinatic on October 6, 2008 at 2:04 pm in Life.Since staying with Speakeasy DSL isn’t going to work out and I’ll be moving to Comcast, my server needs to find a new home. As luck would have it, I’ve found a new home for my box, so I’ll be moving the server over later this week- probably in the morning hours since the site is so close to work. More details to follow… Tags: site news
OSS sit-repPosted by Synfinatic on October 5, 2008 at 4:42 pm in Code.I figured I’d write a quick situation report on the three open source projects I’m involved with: Tcpreplay Pretty much in total maintenance mode right now. I’m more then happy to help users and fix any bugs which people report, but I’m not working on any new features right now. Tags: Cabernet, openpacket, tcpreplay
Sarah Palin’s Debate Flow ChartPosted by Synfinatic on October 3, 2008 at 10:31 pm in Politics.As an ex-speech & debater in high school, I got a real kick out of this flow chart passed on to me by a co-worker:
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Move Report #2Posted by Synfinatic on at 11:38 am in Life.So things are coming along pretty well, albeit a bit slower then I’d like. After nearly 3 weeks of working with Speakeasy/Covad/AT&T on my DSL, it turns out that I’m too far away from the CO to get a decent connection so I’m moving over to Comcast. The Comcast service is indeed *VERY* fast (I saw ~30Mbps down and 3Mbps up last night!) and about 40% cheaper then Speakeasy, but not having a static IP and being able to run a full range of services on my server is a big negative. I’m in luck though- I’ve found a place I can host my server for free, so it’s all going to work out. We’ve also learned … Tags: home, utilities
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