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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
A special thanks to CodedChaos, who I didn't realize had posted a link to the iTunes on Linux petition on the heavily viewed I-Hacked Edge blog. Check it out!
Also, whatever happens, I know I will be good - if iTunes ever comes to Linux, great! Otherwise, I am happy using Songbird. Whatever happens, I am happy now!
That said, be expecting some sort of fuel economy related articles, as well as some car restoration articles soon! My father and I have an 1961 Rambler American and a 1963 Rambler classic, by AMC, each of which we are restoring. The 1961 was my dad's first car, and the 1963 was intended to be used as a parts car for the engine, but we decided it was too cool to destroy. I plan on painting it two-tone, white and bright green. They aren't fast, but they are efficient and pretty with their 196 Cubic Inch engines, and a two barrel on one and a one barrel carb on the other, they get around 25-30 mpg. I plan on increasing economy on the 1963 as much as I possibly can, with a goal being 50+mpg. I will post pics, plans, and progress as we go forward, and I will try to get some pics up soon!
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
I have been searching for an alternative to iTunes for some time now. I wanted to get away from the DRM, as well as the "evil corporation" type vibe that comes from anything made by Apple or Microsoft. The main reason, though, is that I wanted an all in one solution to iTunes that would run in Linux. Amarok is ok, but I don't like the interface. Needless to say, after some searching, I found exactly what I needed: Songbird.
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Songbird is a music management system that has a similar interface to iTunes users (except the default is a sexy black/grey scheme), and it is under development. It has not yet reached version 1.0, the current stable version being 0.2.5, with version 0.3 expected very soon (lots of fixes!). The best part is the iPod integration! It works perfectly when syncing music, but it does have a problem syncing podcasts at the moment, as it synced only the first 1min25 sec of a 1hr25min podcast...That said, let's discuss some cool features:
- Songbird is built upon the Mozilla engine, thus is cross-platform compatible
- "Feathers" (plugins) are available, and thanks to Mozilla, this Player supports streaming music and streaming radio, as well as the ability to add podcast subscriptions simply by browsing to their feed
- iPod Compatible
- Other players will be/are being added to the list of compatible devices
- Skinable
- Sees network devices and network services
- Incorporates the eMusic, CD Baby, Birdman Records, Beggars Group, and Amazon music stores, and more can be added through "feathers"
- Can subscribe to MP3 Blogs
- Play music from Yahoo! Unlimited
- Tons more extensions/plugins available on Dev site
- Is faster than iTunes, although a bit buggy in its early version
- It is pretty!
Needless to say, you should try this player no matter what platform you run! Windows, Linux, Mac - it runs on everything! Please, take a look, and make sure to report any bugs you run into!
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
As some of you may know, I recently installed the Page Cache extension for Joomla by ircmaxwell. It is simply amazing. Although I was using a tiny fraction of my Dreamhost-alloted bandwidth to begin with, this is amazing. The difference between the bandwidth usage, as well as my conquery usage are astounding. I can't believe it! It seems bandwidth usage and conqueries have decreased DRASTICALLY, and page load time has never been better! It is a win-win extension, and its free! Go install it!
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
At 9512 signatures at the writing time, the Petition for iTunes on Linux seems to be faring well. I know that many people who use Linux prefer GTKPod, and Amarok, among others, do some good for your other Linux using brethren and please sign the petition. No one program that I know of for Linux so far is capable of interfacing with the iPod as iTunes does, and no other works with the iTMS, which may or may not be good in your opinion, but note that the DRM can be removed. Whatever type of user you are, if you use Linux, please look at, and sign the petition.
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
As everyone who has ever read my blog probably knows by know, I have noticed a large increase in the number of hack attempts upon my Joomla based site. I currently have a little fun with these hackers, and have decided to make my noindex page a bit of a honeypot experiment. In the recent zipfile I posted of strings these hackers use, as well as their scripts, I copied the strings and pasted them in the bottom of my noindex.html page. Then, I stuffed the page with Google ads (may as well try to make a buck off of them, huh?), and ran it through the QUIT indexing tool. Hopefully, my site's hack attempts will all be constrained to only my noindex.html page, rather than my actual site from now on.
Some friends of mine, as well as myself have been discussing measures to further mess with these would-be hackers. Don't get me wrong, I consider myself a hacker, but more of a white/greyhat, and not a cracker or defacer. We are eventually going to build a noindex page to rule them all, one that will do lots of fun things to the attacker's browser/script, hopefully shutting or slowing him/her down. Some ideas we have had include the following:
- Millions of popup windows, going to user chosen locations, like ads, affiliate sites, Goatse, etc...
- Refresh every x seconds, popping up all of the windows again
- Create a memory leak somehow
- Have the hacker's machine attempt to calculate Pi through their browser
- Use portions of other crash scripts from around the web
- Offer to install weather spyware, bonzi buddy, etc...
- The list goes on
The only problem is that I stink at PHP, as well as Java. I can do templates, but that is about the full extent of my web language abilities. Anybody have any ideas, or code you would like to contribute? If so, just leave a comment and we can get in touch. Otherwise, go to I-Hacked and submit a worthwhile article to get a free membership. Then, you can discuss the project in there with us.
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