So, I’m waiting for a package that was shipped via TNT. Fine, I get a tracking number and go to TNT’s web site and do a “Track package” search, and get the tracking details. Fine…
Well — almost….. Argh. Continue reading
Some lessons learned from setting up Apache with mod_chroot and then trying to get PHP’s mail() function to work. Sure, there are several mod_chroot caveats listed, but that wasn’t quite enough.
Hmm, is it just me, or isn’t selecting the “No sounds” scheme one of the first things you would do after installing Windows? I would at least expect that any experienced and sane person would do so…
Hearing “DING” and Windows startup and shutdown sounds from people in the IT department or who are supposed to be “system administrators” really scares me…
It makes me wonder what other annoying, useless default features they’ve left enabled… :P
With beta 2 release of Silverlight 2 (SL2-B2), Microsoft decided to change the socket implementation to require a socket policy server, which basically is a TCP server responding with an XML document if you send it a certain string.
Recently there has been talk by some music labels that they will be releasing non-DRMed mp3 files, followed by updates that they are going to “watermark” these files.
I choose to write “watermark” quoted, as this is really more tagging than watermarking, because I doubt they will be applying on-the-fly digital audio processing to watermark, followed by encoding each mp3 specifically for each customer. Let’s assume they’re going to just modify stocks of ready-encoded mp3s.