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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005Tags:
Archive for March, 2005
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b/w experiment
Sunday, March 27th, 2005
i had taken some shots with a digital compact of a friend making a bong. when i didn’t like the pictures i started experimenting a bit with gimp and this is what it looked like in the end….
my amazon wishlist
Sunday, March 20th, 2005Tags:
podcasting, ruby
Saturday, March 19th, 2005finally started to play with podcasts a bit. these are essentially rss feeds containing links to audio files. pod cast clients like iPodder then automatically download these files every time there is a new RSS post.
on my search for some interesting feeds i accidentally came across chaos radio (german), a radio show about various IT topics produced by the chaos computer club - unfortunately they don’t offer a feed, so i just wrote one, which is available under langalex.org/chaosradio_podcast_ogg.php.
i started with a simple PHP script that reads the file list from their ftp server and creates an rss representation from that, linking to the ftp server. apparently, my pod casting client doesn’t speak ftp but only http. so i ended up writing an ftp to http proxy script - the final reason i needed to start playing with ruby, an OO scripting language some smart people have been talking about quite a bit in the last months.
problems not solved yet: the rss feed is generated from the ftp server file list every time causing unneccessary load on the ccc ftp server. also, the ftp-http proxy downloads the files from the ftp server before sending them to the actual client.
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
buying music vs the evil music industry
Monday, March 14th, 2005my personal conclusion to my previous post is to buy as much music as possible (as much of the music i buy) from finetunes.net. they represent most of the smaller german labels, offering downloads in 192kbit MP3 or OGG Vorbis without any digital restrictions management (DRM). this way i’m not paying any money to the major (evil) labels, instead i support (yet) less popular artists, who hopefully get a fair share of my money. (as opposed to the majors, where most of the money goes to the labels)
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005Tags:
industry kills music
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
as golem.de reports, the german music industry has now demanded to extends the copyright protection for music to a 95 year period (now: 50 years). they justify their claim with other countries like th U.S. having a longer copyright period already, many artists would be losing their protection.
As mentioned in an earlier post about lawrence lessigs book free culture - how big media uses technology and law to lock down culture and control creativity., the only reason for the music industry to demand longer copyright protection is to control as much of thecultural production as possible, to protect their established industry.
The chaos computer club has now started a campaign (german) asking people to stop buying music from the major labels. The music industry has missed the information age train, and is now using the money from CD sales to file law suits against users of file sharing networks and advertise campaigns against sharing music, using false statements to scare p2p users.
Tags:trac - lightweight software project management
Friday, March 4th, 2005trac is an open source software project management … software. it integrates a wiki, bug reporting and version control browsing into one web interface
Tags:ajax
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005javascript is coming back to the web. the new keyword is ajax - asynchronous javascript and xml. it’s essentially about creating web apps that use javascript to load data from the web server into the page currently displayed instead of loading an entire new page, which enables a much nicer user experince. examples are google suggest, google maps and tada lists.
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