Friday, May 9, 2003

Bought two CDs yesterday, can't play them in my SONY CD-Player, means can't transfer them to MD (thank you music industry worldwide for implying I'm a thief). Should have learned the lesson a couple of months ago when I bought the last CD that didn't work in my CD-Player. 7:28:28 PM

The Register: Runs an article about our favorite Digital Restrictions Management Company (M$ you guessed it, right?). Based on the contents of the article, I'd vote for setting DRM on every M$ product to expire it after 2 hours, nobody is able to create something meaningful with M$ products in that time-span and the user is therefore protected from being locked out of his/her own data for good. But seriously, I think that TCPA/Longhorn/(enter the next name for M$ DRM shit) will be deployed anyway. As long as the PHB aka. The Boss is a common occurrence in companies, M$ will succeed simply based on the fact that one has to be THAT STUPID to use M$ software to store data in a format that can't be opened without M$'s blessing. Think your GL of 2005 won't open with M$ Wordexel 2007 because M$ lost the information about the used format due to failure to renew the DRM on the source-files (if they should be able to renew, then what's the point of using DRM in the first place). 6:24:32 PM

Syntax to remember, if you're like me, I tend to forget the syntax of commands I don't use that often, here is a quick reminder for 'find': finding all files with a changedate older than 20 days from today: find . -ctime +20 -exec ls -l {} \; Interprets like this: find from here (.) changedate more than 20 days ago (-ctime +20) execute the following command (-exec ls -l) with the found filename/path ({}) and add a semicolon (\;) after the command. the last part is necessary to give the shell a way to differentiate between successive commands. 4:35:39 PM

Could iTunes 4 Force Music Artists To Create Better Albums? : Even if their paychecks do not change significantly, which they probably won't, we still have a way to get exactly what we want with iTunes 4. (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) Interesting point, this could change the industry as a whole. Just imagine no more 'fillers' you have to pay for... 4:16:50 PM

BTW: here is the syntax (just in case ;-) ) hdiutil create -size 500m -encryption -type SPARSE -fs HFS+ -volname I know, it can be done with the mouse, but then the image is not sparse (just uses the amount of MBs that are actually on it). 4:04:32 PM

I made a horrible mistake while switching Macs, I gave the harddisk in my new Mac a different name (compared to the name used on the old Mac) and Radio refused to work. Trying to avoid any hassle, I created a 'sparse image' to mount. Hopefully everything is working as expected. 4:01:19 PM

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