08 Jul 2002
Today I’m attempting to catch up on news. I was at Tate, my family’s home on a lake, with no phones/cellphones/internet for a whole week. At first I just going day by day thru /., opening a tab for each intresting link, but then I had 40 tabs open by the time I got to Wens, and Galeon isn’t coping with it very well (100% cpu useage).
The worst news of last week (of what I read so far): 2600 Dropped the DeCSS Case
Best news: Someone with a bit of clue wrote a story on M$ latest attempt to take over the world in the grey lady.
28 Jun 2002
cypherpunks archive
I want to make the best mailarchiving software yet, and then apply that to cypherpunks
mnet xml rpc
Split mnet into two parts: the backend and the gui. The gui will communicate with the back via xmlrpc.
tunetagger
Mostly waiting for other hacks on musicbrainz to get finished (new sig code esp.
libmp3hip
adding encoder guessing, info on mp3 streams, seeking, floating point interface, lame analysis interface
25 Jun 2002
Unanswered because I don’t have time to look it up: In a AChord network can you somehow find out if there is a node that has a specific hash? I don’t think you can, but…
19 Jun 2002
Way back in 1995-96, I lost my Mac religion. This was a big change for me, but I think this comic describes it best. Also I liked the idea of linux, because if there was a screamingly apparent problem (like one app crashing bring down the whole system) it would get fixed with in months, not when someone at Apple got a clue, which took them 6 years!.
Now, hopefully cluefulness will rule at Apple for a while. My wife says she wants a Mac for her new computer. I want to have one too, so I can play with it.
19 Jun 2002
(ok… just one kitten) While I was in Chatt. I got to see the new addition to the family, a black kitten named Nekio (or was it Mekio?)
Since I can’t resist cats, I shall subject you to a picture:
