Not all viruses are evil
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Ipod Nano
So last week I bought an Ipod Nano. Up until now I have been using my good old 20GB Neuros Audio which has worked very well but is a little big to carry around. Someone on AAU was selling an Ipod Nano that he won for 2/3 of the original price so I couldn’t resist and bought it 🙂
My biggest concern with the Ipod has been the lack of proper codec support. I have a large part of my music collection in Ogg and thus it would be unusable with the Ipod Firmware. For a while I have been looking at the Ipod since it’s rather slick and found that one can install rockbox on it and then play a whole range of codecs including ogg and flac.
So after I bought it I installed rockbox and so far it has really blown me away. The crossfade, games support (frozen bubble, pac man, doom? :)) are icings on the cake of a really powerful music player that plays everything worthwhile playing. Rock on! 🙂
So about a year ago I was starting to get a lot of spam so I tried different techniques to combat the problem. Long story short, the solution I found to be the most effective was simply to use bogofilter. After using it for about a year without any retraining I finally had to retrain my filter as there was 2-3 specific kinds of mails it kept misclassifying as non-spam. During that period only 100-200 spam mails had been registered as legitimate mail and 45000 spam mails had been correctly classified. I stopped checking for real mails classified as spam after about 2 weeks of no false positives. That’s pretty damn impressive. All hail bogofilter 🙂
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Mms used to scam people
Seems mms has been used for the greater good of scamming people into buying some lame links or software package. Mms is used to show how you can get great movies from around the world. Although at the end of the auction it does tell you that the screenshots are not of the real products you will receive 🙂
Link to screenshot (when the auction ends :))
I have begun working at Iola, a new company I have started with some friends from Uni. Currently it’s a bit slow as we get everything up and running but it’s going to be a lot of fun once this first fase is over.
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bazaar rant
So arch has had two major implementations: tla and bazaar. Bazaar was a fork of tla and for a while was actively maintained by Cannonical. That was until they decided that the future was in bzr. That’s their right, but it left the users with a big void. Tla was not really maintained anymore since everyone was more or less using bazaar and bzr was not nearly stable enough to put your sensitive data into. It was still changing repository format 😉
Furthermore it causes big problems for distributions when upstream just suddenly disappears. What happens when critical external libraries are updated in a non-compatible way (libneon anyone?) with no way to SLOT them.
Luckily someone has picked up tla again and it is slowly putting out releases again, but bazaar is completely dead. I tried contacting the former maintainer but he doesn’t even respond to emails anymore it seems.
I have updated my free software patches page with the patches from Gentoo. It might come in handy for other people.
So what’s the future? bzr, git? I don’t know, but I don’t have a lot of faith in Cannonical with the bazaar stunt they pulled.
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Master of science
I finished my degree about a week ago and has since been enjoying the summer. I’m starting a company in Aalborg with two from my study in about three weeks time.
I finished reading the book The social life of information. It has some excellent points even though it at times feels a little old (It’s only 6 years old). I would recommend it to anyone interested in how we should approach implementing (into a social context) new technology and how we shouldn’t get to cut up in the hype that new technology often brings 🙂
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Love Doctorow
I was watching Cory Doctorows speech on DRM at the Red Hat summit and I found this little quote really funny and insightful:
“DRM isn’t about stopping people from ripping stuff off. DRM is about taking those few honest people and screwing them out of every penny that you can”
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Rage
So by accident I was looking through Rasterman’s blog and found out that he has been developing a menu system for movie playback using the E17 libraries.
I downloaded the demo movie and was fairly impressed with the nice effects. So off I go to download the thing to evaluate the good and bad things about it. It turns out to be pretty snappy on my machine but also really buggy. It is probably at the same stage bug wise as mms was 2-3 years ago. I think the lesson I learned was that you can do some cool stuff with gstreamer and that using the E17 could be cool, so I’m definitely going to look into that.
Other than that it was a cool tech demo of some of the things E17 is capable of and it that regard it did a fantastic job.