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Wow, that’s a lame title. I couldn’t think of anything better :-/ This is a general-purpose update as to what I’ve been doing of late, so no single title seemed appropriate, except “What Dave’s Been Doing Lately” (and I think the title I finally went with is more punchy). Read on for general babble about … Continue reading “Saturday Morning News”
Wow, that’s a lame title. I couldn’t think of anything better :-/ This is a general-purpose update as to what I’ve been doing of late, so no single title seemed appropriate, except “What Dave’s Been Doing Lately” (and I think the title I finally went with is more punchy).
Read on for general babble about what I’ve been doing lately, and a random thought about the best way of getting feedback about server development.
In the last 24 hours this blog has been attacked by nasty porn spammers. I’ve erased dozens of spam comments and trackbacks. 🙂 I’ve turned off trackbacks for now ( 🙁 ) and I will add comment captchas later today to try and stop this crap. Anyone have a good suggestion on how to manage … Continue reading “Blog spam attack”
In the last 24 hours this blog has been attacked by nasty porn spammers. I’ve erased dozens of spam comments and trackbacks. 🙂
I’ve turned off trackbacks for now ( 🙁 ) and I will add comment captchas later today to try and stop this crap. Anyone have a good suggestion on how to manage trackback ping spam?
I haven’t been doing much MusicBrainz stuff the last week besides finally getting my test server up and running .. I’ll explain with two words. Xbox. Halo. ‘Nuff said. Some media blips I thought others might find interesting: John Peel, a UK radio DJ luminary who has brought many a budding artist into the limelight … Continue reading “Nothing to see here, move along”
I haven’t been doing much MusicBrainz stuff the last week besides finally getting my test server up and running .. I’ll explain with two words. Xbox. Halo. ‘Nuff said.
Some media blips I thought others might find interesting:
John Peel, a UK radio DJ luminary who has brought many a budding artist into the limelight through his “Peel Sessions”, has died of a heart attack at age 65. It is a sad day. Details.
Hilary Rosen, the former CEO of the RIAA has, in a Wired article, had some promising words to say about Lawrence Lessig and the Creative Commons license. Details.
That is all.
The faulty disk has gone back (no refund so far though). I ordered a new disk from a different supplier, got it within 24 hrs, and it’s now in my machine and humming along nicely. So now I’ve finally got the RAID 5 working.
The faulty disk has gone back (no refund so far though). I ordered a new disk from a different supplier, got it within 24 hrs, and it’s now in my machine and humming along nicely. So now I’ve finally got the RAID 5 working.
This week I ar’ been mostly scanning surface scanning Maxtor hard disks. It’s a slow operation – very slow – so I’ve had zero chance to work on MB really.
This week I ar’ been mostly scanning surface scanning Maxtor hard disks. It’s a slow operation – very slow – so I’ve had zero chance to work on MB really.