Voder-Vocoder

Occationally I find old photos which are cool that never made it onto
the site: (link)

This image shows a keybord with keys color-coded as to what finger you are supposed to use to hit each key. My issue: my D-finger doesn’t want to hit the C-key without moving my whole hand.
Why does the layout of the keys and the geometry of my hand conflict with how they teach you top type?

DO NOT PAY FOR INTERNET SERVICE! (Score:5, Funny)

As Confucious Say:

If you pay for month of AOL, you give yourself net access for month.

If you buy neighbor cheap wireless linksys router and offer free setup, putting your MAC on it and retaining usr/pwd, you give yourself net access for life.

—from slashdot (source)

from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Worship:

Transitive Verb:
    To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence. (1)

    To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect
    and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor
    of; to adore; to venerate. (2)

    To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as
    a lover; to adore; to idolize. (3)

Noun:
    Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
    Obs. (4)

    Honor; respect; civil deference. Obs. (5)

    Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain
    magistrates and others of rank or station. (6)

    The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being;
    religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of
    reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.  (7)

    Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;
    adoration. (8)

    An object of worship. (9)

Intransitive Verb:
    To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform
    religious service. (10)

Mark uses the term worship to refer to any religious gathering. I say it is limited to religious veneration, submission, adoration, or reverence of a diety (2,7,10) or as a metaphor (1,3,5,6,8). I need to discuss this further with him. I don’t remember exactly what he said.

The point is: if I was a diety, I would not want to be worshipped. This is why I don’t like the term.

“Jon ‘DVD Jon’ Johansen has cracked the Apple Lossless encryption used by the Airport Express to communicate with iTunes.”

AirPort Express RSA Public Key,
Modulus:
59dE8qLieItsH1WgjrcFRKj6eUWqi+bGLOX1HL3U3GhC/j0Qg90u3sG/1CUtwC
5vOYvfDmFI6oSFXi5ELabWJmT2dKHzBJKa3k9ok+8t9ucRqMd6DZHJ2YCCLlDR
KSKv6kDqnw4UwPdpOMXziC/AMj3Z/lUVX1G7WSHCAWKf1zNS1eLvqr+boEjXuB
OitnZ/bDzPHrTOZz0Dew0uowxf/+sG+NCK3eQJVxqcaJ/vEHKIVd2M+5qL71yJ
Q+87X6oV3eaYvt3zWZYD6z5vYTcrtij2VZ9Zmni/UAaHqn9JdsBWLUEpVviYnh
imNVvYFZeCXg/IdTQ+x4IRdiXNv5hEew==
Exponent: AQAB

I’ve got a Backup Strategy for my home computers!

1. I only care about my desktop (lensman), my email server (ups), and my web server (halcanary.org). My laptop (hiro) and my mediapc (dalek) contain no files that need backup.

2. Backup ups to lensman by way of rsync-over-ssh. Backup halcanary.org by way of wget-over-ftp.

3. I’ve segregated my files into directories:

• /home/hal contains normal home-diectory stuff: rc files, documents, scripts, temporary stuff, note-to-self.txt note-about-*.txt, etc. A lot of small crap. 1.4G, but since its so much text, it compresses down to 634M to fit on a CDR. If i gets much bigger, I’ll move directories out of it.
• /mnt/d/music is all *.mp3’s. It lives on a seperate drive. backup is a hassel. A seperate issue.
• /home/files contains a bunch on stuff that doesn’t nessisarily need to be backed up. Mostly large files. Mostly stuff I got off of the internet. If I lose it, I will find it again. If I need to delete it I might consider putting it on CDR first. A lot of *.iso and *.avi *.pdf.
• /home/files/Photos is a seperate directory because it is big (I take a lot of digitals and don’t ever delete the original images). 846M. A few months ago, it fit on a CDR. I might segregate it into pre-2004 and post 2004 directories.

If I am going to reinstall the OS, I’ll grab a copy of /etc, but none of the system files need to be backed up

UPDATE 2004-08-12: I made a few changes last night:

• /home/files/Backups contains mirrors of my files on halcanary.org and ups. It is currently 444M; it fits on a CDR.
• /home/files/Photos-pre-2004 is just what it sounds like.
  478M.

Just a reminder:

To make Movabletype’s RSS-feed work the way mine does, replace

<description>
<$MTEntryExcerpt remove_html="1" encode_xml="1" $>
</description>

with

<description>
<$MTEntryBody encode_xml="1" $>
</description>

Every time I burn a CD full of a bunvh of random files in order to get them off of my hard drive, I will print out a list of files it contains so that I know how to find old files.

Missile Command for linux.

I was confused by this story this morning. It would seem that William Gibson (1914-) is not the same person as William Gibson (1948-), even though they are both writers.

I must admit, I’ve never managed to get through a Gibson novel anyways, so why would I care?