Archives: 2001 January
Verio Does the Right Thing
January 29th, 2001, No Comments
Since I frequently rant about how bad Verio is, it seems only fair to mention when they occasionally do something good. Verio is the upstream provider for cryptome.org. Verio was recently notified by the MPAA that Cryptome was in violation of the DMCA because it contained a transcript of John Hoy’s declaration from the DeCSS [...]
The 1945 Firebird Suite, Instead of the 1919, in 2001
January 28th, 2001, No Comments
We braved the cold weather and rain last night to hear the 1945 version of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite at the DSO. This was the first time I’ve heard the piece live and it was quite impressive. Even when you know exactly what’s coming the dynamic range and volume of a live orchestra can still catch [...]
Shopping for New Cars
January 25th, 2001, No Comments
I’m likely to buy a new car this year and have been pondering the possibilities for a while. One option is to replace my aging Acura Integra with the 2002 Acura RS-X which is due out soon. The Integra is the last Acura to have its name taken away and replaced with random numbers or [...]
Verio Strikes Again
January 24th, 2001, No Comments
Verio strikes again. About half the IPs in our C block seemingly went dead the other day. Web servers on those IPs couldn’t be hit from outside and we couldn’t ping anything beyond our own router from them. Something along these lines happened last year and it turned out someone at Verio had decided to [...]
Flying Lizards and Other Music
January 22nd, 2001, No Comments
I finally managed to obtain one of two out of print Flying Lizards CDs that I’ve been trying to get my hands on for while. I won an eBay auction for their first, self-titled CD last week and it arrived today. It’s the first time I’ve heard their stuff in years. Now if I can [...]
Two Movies and a Blowout
January 20th, 2001, No Comments
I finally got around to posting a freshmeat update for the latest version of newslog. There are a couple of bug fixes and a few new features. It’s the first update in nearly a year. Susan and I went to see Miss Congeniality last night. It was okay – definitely a see-once sort of movie [...]
Richard Stallman Comes to Dallas
January 17th, 2001, No Comments
I heard RMS speak at the DFWUUG meeting last night. A lot of other people showed up too, in spite of the cold, wet weather. It’s the first time I’ve seen him in person and he was very much what I expected with a few exceptions. He told the story of the Free Software Foundation, [...]
Ringtones vis SMS using Perl
January 14th, 2001, No Comments
I managed to find some time to study the problem of sending ringtone data to my cell phone. As I mentioned in a previous news item, I’m sick of only being able to download silly melodies as ring tones and want to be able to create some ringtone datasets that more interesting ringing sounds. The [...]
