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Your call may be recorded…really

a classic db vs. jSchwa interaction:

jSchwa: ack! db: ack what ack? jSchwa: gonna be 39 degrees tomorrow… that’s the high db: ack! db: gonna be 80 here tomorrow db: hehe jSchwa: hehe shut up

imagine that for hours on end cause that’s how we roll…

Posted in Family, observations — by db on 11/14/05 (0) Comments


Life is good

Washer and dryer both empty and I’m out of hangars. Can only mean 1 thing…

All of my laundry is done!

HA!

Posted in observations — by db on 11/14/05 (2) comments


Sony rootkit based on LGPL and breaches licence?

If this is true, more bad press for Sony (hopefully):

“It turns out that the rootkit contains pieces of code that are identical to LAME”, “This software is licensed under the so called Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL). According to this license Sony must comply with a couple of demands …”, “Sony complied with non of these demands…”.

read more | digg story

Posted in Music — by db on 11/13/05 (0) Comments


My next big project

And the first time I’ve done anything like this on such a large scale.

I’ll be setting up my first wLAN. Over about a 3/4 mile radius.

I’m fairly excited about it actually. I’ve already spec’d the parts and hopefully they will get purchased in a week or two so I can start installation and testing.

I’ll keep ya posted.

Posted in personal — by db on 11/07/05 (3) comments


Don’t buy this CD!

I’m a bit late to this party, but it’s been a busy week.

Update…GRC has some great information about this. Click here to check it out.

For those of you that haven’t heard, Sony’s DRM has some funky provisions when you try to play the tracks on a Windows PC: From Mark’s Sysinternals Blog

The DRM reference made me recall having purchased a CD recently that can only be played using the media player that ships on the CD itself and that limits you to at most 3 copies.

What this means is that in order for you to play this particular CD on a Windows PC, you have to install the player that comes on the disk. While not necessarily a bad thing, there is a small problem with the player. (Read on…)

Posted in Music, Things I hate — by db on 11/05/05 (3) comments


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