December 2007
Playing with jabber and python again!
about to take a much needed shower. Then lunchy
just uploaded some more pictures to the flickr!
Sleepy. Just got up and am waiting to shower.
My Year of Living Dangerously →
2007 is just about over, and the big thing about this year for me is that I got through it without having a “real” job. Not without racking up some serious debt and loads of troubles along the way (my car got re-repossessed yesterday, for instance), but the only boss I had all year was myself and it was incredibly satisfying.
They say that entrepreneurship is about living for a while...
How to Convert a MacOS X 10.5 Leopard Upgrade DVD... →
Recently buying a few new Macs I found that Apple bundles a special crippled “drop in” Leopard upgrade disc that requires an installation of MacOS 10.4 on your Mac. Considering that I format my Macs right out of the box this crippled upgrade DVD doesn’t really work for me - which then forces me to purchase a retail copy of Leopard. Hardly fair!
Here is how to convert that crippled MacOS X 10.5...
Put a Head on the BitTorrent Hydra with xbtit →
Back in July, we took a look at a beta version of the xbtit tracker package, which aimed to make owning and running a BitTorrent tracker a much easier, simplified experience. Created by BtiTeam, xbtit enables potential site administrators to quickly and easily set up their own BitTorrent tracker, something that was only previously accomplished by people with some coding skills. TorrentFreak...
A perfect christmas story →
This made me laugh. Providers were fighting who will give better ‘free sms’ plans. Then my GSM provider decided that they have enough resources for even better campaign - they offered adding 0.02 LTL to account balance for every SMS received. So, smart kids saw business opportunity - they started spamming SMS messages from one phone (free SMS!) to another (get paid for SMS received). Smarter kids...
IDC Predictions, NAS, Storage is still #$@#$ →
Today from Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/12/27/1953245.shtml From Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/26/netgears-tiny-networ.html First thing, 1TB drives are still too expensive. At around ~120 for a 500gig drive compared to ~$350 for a 1TB drive, bang for your buck still comes from buying 500gig drives. For enclosures? I like the concept of NAS, but the price point is not...
