April Fools Day
Here you find some of the pranks going around this year.
Run OSX on the Apple TV
It's been a couple of days since the release of the Apple TV. Directly after its release it became clear that the device runs on a minimal version of OSX. It didn't take long for enthusiasts to open the Apple TV box, and add extra functionality (like SSH, DivX, XviD, etc). Even adding a much bigger harddrive is quite possible.
These 'hacks' can be found on AppleTVHacks.net.
Today, a new hack surfaced. It seems that Apple implemented some sort of limitation on running a full blown version of OSX... Well, that limitation didn't last very long. There's a short tutorial about running OSX on the Apple TV (including support for keyboard and mouse). This makes the Apple TV the cheapest Apple PC available (299 euros).
You do need additional hardware to make this work (like special screwdrivers, an Intel Mac, some extra peripherals, etc.)
New Alex Gaudino Music Video
I can watch this all day long :razz:
Just like the Benny Bernassi (Satisfaction), and Eric Prydz (Call on me) music video's.
Blog Spam
I've got this blog running for a couple of months now. Even though not many comments are left behind (I don't care), the spammers definitely found my blog. I receive over 30 spam comments a day now. Thanks to the Askimet Anti-spam plugin for Wordpress, the spam entries are quarantined.
Major Server Downtime
Last night my server went down. There was a 'poof', and then nothing. The status LED on my motherboard was still in the green, so it could be either the motherboard, CPU or the power supply.
This morning I head out to the local computer dealer to get me a new motherboard, CPU, and a power supply. Thankfully, it was just the power supply that died.
This might actually be a good opportunity to upgrade my server to a Mac Mini.
Apple Adds Vista Support To Boot Camp
Apple has update their public beta of Boot Camp with support for the 32bit edition of Microsoft Windows Vista. This 'proves' that the rumors about the possible delay of Leopard due to lack of Vista support are not true.
So a release of Leopard in Spring 2007 is still possible :-)Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes:
- Support for Windows Vista (32-bit)
- Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime (synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
- Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
- A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information and actions
- .....
What We Call The News
And yet another great video from JibJab :-)
Dutch Online Music Store Stops
The Dutch download store download.nl closes its virtual doors. Reason; Too many complaints about the restrictive DRM. So it doesn't just limit the average consumer in playing their favorite tunes, but it also puts people out of a job......
The dutch site isn't the only online music download store. The German musicload.de reveiled that most of their complaints (75%) are about the restrictive DRM.
Will the music industry ever learn?
Wordpress 2.1.2 Update
I upgraded my version of Wordpress to version 2.1.2. This went the usual 'problems'.
First of all I 'forgot' to make a recent backup. Second, I used Transmit (an OSX FTP Client) to upload the new pages. Transmit has the possibility to overwrite files. No worries (I thought), I just renamed the files I editted, do I could rename them back when I had uploaded the new files. It seems that I didn't read the warning very well. When I overwrote the directories, Transmit removed them first and uploaded the new files afterwards. This meant that all my uploads, and customized files were gone..... aaaaargh.
Fortunatelly, I had a backup from two weeks ago, so I could get the old files.
This reminds me to make a decent backup before doing anything about my Wordpress installation in the future....
Internet Porn On A Different 'Channel'
Most internet traffic for browsing is using ports 80 (http) and 443 (https). The wise governor (Huntsman) of Utah has suggested to ban pornsites from these default ports. This way it should be easier to block traffic to these sites (just block the porn-port).
So I guess that the following ports will be used in the future of Internet browsing:
- 69 - porn related websites
- 666 - websites about satanisme
- 1337 - TechTalk
- etc.