Musings

Here I am at my Wife’s Sisters computer, trying to fix a printer that no longer prints black. (Google tells me that the printhead probably is clogged with dried black ink) Anyway - I’m accessing the Internet to diagnose this problem - nothing special there. But I’m doing so, using a 56k Modem. God - how can anybody bear that kind of slowness? Have I really drooled back in the old days, when I got my first 2400 baud, my first 14'400 baud modem? Nowadays, anything under 512kb speed just seems unbearable… (and then you also have to wait until the modem has dialed, negotiated, etc. - I’m so used to being always on) ...

Interestingly, my old blog (on the Wiki) doesn’t work when I access it with my browsers, from my computer. But when working on a different computer, it shows up fine (minus CCS, minus images) - well, time to move the more interesting entries to this new format.

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I’ve had a Barix Exstreamer for quite a while. It has been sitting in my bedroom, mostly not playing. One of the reasons was the the server software (zServer) that Barix provides isn’t quite to my liking. Barix has since made zServer open-source and I have started to work on it (something that unfortunately I don’t have too much time for at the moment). But on the Exstreamer Mailing list, someone mentioned Streamsicle as an alternative. This piece of software is a streaming server that jukeboxes through my mp3 collection on my home theater PC. Re-configuring the Exstreamer was a snap and now it sits and happily plays through my collection. ...

It doesn’t really come as a surprise: The Obsverver has an article that shows, that the NSA is snooping on phone and e-mail conversations of the members of the UN security council. Land of the free - ehh?

I have been using Zoë for a while now (as a kind of Google for Email) and I’m more than happy with it. Recently Raphaël included the possibility that Zoë also handles RSS feeds like email. When using this feature with this Blog, I noticed that the RSS entries that come from this site are truncated to 15 characters or so - not really much meat for an indexing engine. Thanks to Andrew Dunn my blog now outputs both RSS1.0 and 2.0 feeds with the full text of an entry - just like it should be. Get his instructions and implement them! ...