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Friday, February 22, 2002 |
Can The Album Survive Digital Music?
"I don't think that anyone is realistically saying that CDs or albums are going to disappear in the foreseeable future."
Well, I am. Wouldn't it make more sense for an artist to design a coherent, artistic website over collections of digital music?
I know it is passé, but I still think that Information wants to be free.
9:28:25 PM 
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An article (no link, registration required, but I can't register) in Forbes written by William Baldwin, entitled
Bill Gates Could Save Buenos Aires.
Says When will Microsoft software be so trustworthy that even Argentinean peasants stake their wealth on it? Sooner than you think. Probably while their country is still being ruled by interim presidents.
Yeah, Yeah
8:55:46 PM
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I once heard a joke about a philosophy lecturer who was explaining how in English two negatives make a postitive (eg., "Is not true that there is nothing here"), while in other languages, like spanish, two negatives make a negative (eg., "No hay nada aqui"). He is remarking that he had never heard a case where two positives make a negative, when a sceptical voice from the back says Yeah, yeah.
See my next story for an application.
8:52:49 PM
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Control & Creativity
The future of ideas is in the balance
By Lawrence Lessig
The Internet puts two futures in front of us, the one we seem to be taking and the one we could. The one we seem to be taking is easy to describe. Take the Net, mix it with the fanciest TV, add a simple way to buy things, and that[base ']s pretty much it.
4:12:48 PM
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Doc has trouble with Palm Desktop Beta.
I wouldn't have suspected Palm Desktop as the culprit for Doc's problems. I have run it since it came out with few problems
Actually, the only problem I have with Mac OS X is that sometimes it completely looses connection with networking. This happens when I am using an airport connection at the limit of reception. When I loose the signal I move around and shuffle until it finds it again. This works 90% of the time, but sometimes it looses all conection to networking so even "ping 127.0.0.1" doesn't respond (either it hangs in there o says "no route to host")(?). At this point I can't even start applications (they bounce for a long time and then stop but nothing opens) or restart, I have to force it. I suspect this is related to automatic switching of networking, because once I reboot it doesn't happen again until after I plug the machine at work. Another piece of the puzzle is that I never shutdown my machine, I just put it to sleep throw it in my bag and go.This problem is not that big a deal since it doesn't happen that frequently, but since I started using Mac OS X I have to say that rebooting pisses me off!. I wonder why.
8:57:54 AM
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MacFixIt is using a subscription model for old information (some of it put by users, oh, well). One reason I am reluctant to subscribe to these services is that sometimes you get errors like:
Database error: Invalid SQL: select val from active_sessions where sid = 'aade86beaf4a64d8b5f874c455ab8c60' and name = 'MFI_Session'
MySQL Error: 1016 (Can't open file: 'active_sessions.MYD'. (errno: 145))
Session halted
(from MacFixIt today)
If I where paying I would be very angry not to have access.
8:39:55 AM
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Mac Cluster's Last Stand?. Research scientists want to make supercomputer clusters from Macs. Apple's machines are powerful and cheap to run. But there's a problem: They're the wrong shape. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]Gavin jokingly said the lab had considered buying a bunch of G4 Cubes and stacking them sideways like bricks to make a computing "wall," but the computer must be seated upright to work properly.
When I substitute my Cube, I am going to use it as a server in a closet somewhere, but I thought the Domain Name resolver (lookupd) in Mac OS X wasn't good enough to use it as a serious server. Wouldn't that be a problem for clusters?
Anyway, this story shows how Mac OS X has already increased Apple's mindshare and "useshare" among computer users.
7:57:09 AM
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