April 2007
9 posts
IPv6: Turning our salvation into a mouthful of...
Unholy mother of uninformed panic, this is so bafflingly idiotic. End-to-end NAT-less communication is the very *dream* that I hoped that IPv6 would bring, but now this single feature is deemed a *security issue* and recommended to be blocked? ACK!
The genius at Homeland Security who started this oughta be banned from ever using a computer again. He/she obviously takes way too much pleasure in...
“Um, maybe they think about computer science as programming because it is...”
– John Gruber’s commentary on a NYT article on women in CS.
How to merge mp3:s
Use MediaRage ( http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html ) to organize all the mp3’s in one big pile in a folder. Make sure that when sorted by name, the mp3’s are in playing order (for example, they would be so if they were called “disk 01 track 01 first track.mp3”, then “disk 01 track 02 second track.mp3”, and so on.)
Download mpg123 from...
On burning students to a crisp
When I was studying at highschool, they gave us larger and larger amounts of homework and projects and responsibilities to take care of. They motivated this practice by saying that it was a good thing – it would teach me how to prioritize and plan, to prepare me for university life.
All it did was make me miserable, because as little as you can make a coffee maker be better at making coffee...
Links for 2007-03
I wanted to do a weekly linked list, but I’m too lazy to organize the links that delicious has already spammed my blog with, so I’ll just bunch them together here, and make linkblog entries once-per-week in the future instead.
Palms Out Sounds - Where’d Daft Punk get all those samples from? If you like Daft Punk, you’ve gotta check these out.
Mac OS X Python Packages...
“Apple’s sustainable competitive advantage is their deep trust in the...”
– David Weiss (MacBU) with wise words. Everyone is trying to artificially lock their customers to their products (either by proprietary formats or FUD) instead of believing that their product is actually better than the competition and that that will retain their customers.