Archive for July, 2006

A valediction for a super computer …

We’ll miss you … but the rockin’ post-punk, space-age, surf music of Man or … Astroman? can express that sentiment far better than I ever could!

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Still Blue with Bluehost

I promised an update to the “A Bit Blue with Bluehost” article I posted last week, and I am afraid there is still very little clarification as to why [[Drupal]] and [[Typo3]] are not currently [[Fantastico]] enabled. According to the tech I spoke with this afternoon, the Drupal and Typo3 development communities need [...]

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I Am Legend

About two years ago I read a novella by [[Richard Matheson]] titled [[I Am Legend]] which was written in 1954. This work continues to haunt my soul quite regularly, and a quick look at the basic plot of the narrative, as quoted from wikipedia below, would make you think, “oh, wow, another post-apocalyptic vampire [...]

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Embedding a Sound File in a Flash Movie using ActionScript 2.0

Update: this project has since been kyboshed, but the meat and potatoes of the Flash tutorial is still valuable.

I have talked breifly about a project I have been working on in my post “A Bit Blue with Bluehost”. And while my content management issues with Bluehost have not entirely been resolved as of yet [...]

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Film classics from the Internet Archive’s public domain collection

Screenshot from the screwball comedy His Girl Friday, a film which is freely available though the Internet Archive

I watched [[His Girl Friday]] for the first time this evening and it was quite impressive -I am still recovering from the barrage of piercing dialogue shot at me, as if with a machine gun, for over an [...]

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A Bit Blue with Bluehost

This afternoon I have been a bit blue with bluehost. I have been ramping up for a project I will be working on over the next month, and I finally got motivated to install the Content Management Systems [[Drupal]] and [[Typo3]] (I am going to try working through both to see which one [...]

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Doing Things with Digital Video on a MAC

Over the last couple of months I have been putting together some resources for ripping DVDs, editing the extracting files, and converting/compressing them into more globally readable formats. Negotiating the minefield of video [[codecs]] and file extensions is a complex process, and I certainly do not claim to be an expert. Yet, I [...]

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Beyond Self-Interest, or, Some Initial Thoughts on Re-imagining the Possibilities of the Open Source Movement

In a recent article on ZDNetUK, Sun’s Simon Phipps argued that the [[open source]] movement is premised on the capitalist ethic of self-interest. Below is an excerpt from the article quoting Phipps’ discussion of open source within a capitalist framework:

Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun Microsystems’ chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, said [...]

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“THE HORROR, THE HORROR!” movie

This post started out as a comment on my favorite blog these days, The Tattered Coat. Matt, the proprietor of said blog, has one of the most intelligent, entertaining, and interactive blogs going. After a long hiatus to finish his dissertation, Tattered Matt is back at it and as good as ever. Lately he [...]

Quick-fix for Headphones Bug for XP on MacBook Pro

As Mikhail pointed out to me, when you have the headphones plugged in on the the MAcBook Pro in XP the built-in speakers still play sound. For a quick-fix to this problem intel has released a program that re-routes all the sound to the headphone jack. The only trade off is no [...]

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