Being the thoughts and writings of one Gustaf Erikson; father, homeowner, technologist.
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My trusty Sun Ultra 5 workstation was due for a new OS (OpenBSD 3.8) and some new hardware. But when I started it up I got the following message on the serial console:
RED State Exception on CPU = 0000.0000.0000.0001
This is Bad News(tm) according to Google. So it’s time for the scrap heap for this old machine, and the search for cool hardware continues.
(BTW, if someone needs parts for their Ultra 5, drop me a line. Maybe we can work something out.)
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My old email provider home.se is moving to a new platform and are disabling the mail forwarding feature that was in place earlier. This enabled me to just forward all emails sent to that address to my Gmail account and have everything in one place.
Now this is no longer possible. I suspect that the email forwarding feature was a problem for them as they couldn’t display ads in the webmail interface for the users that had that enabled. So I don’t think it’ll be back.
I can access these emails via POP, so this raises the question: how can I enable the “import” of these emails into Gmail via POP? Two possibilities present themselves:
use a POP client (like spit Outlook) and create a rule that simply forwards all received emails to my Gmail account
code a little script that grabs the emails via POP and sends them
on, using cron for example to schedule it.
The second option is the most fun of course, but it would be cool if there already was something like this out there. Any ideas?
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In the real system, where the secret vectors have forty entries, not four, it takes a conspiracy of about forty devices, with known private vectors, to break HDCP completely. But that is eminently doable, and it’s only a matter of time before someone does it.
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Also, more on HDCP at Wikipedia.
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I’ve long been concerned that people finding my weblog via Google or other search engines get directed to my archive or category pages (like gustaf.symbiandiaries.com/weblog/scrivener) instead of the individual entries. A whole year’s postings may contain enough terms to lead people to it, even though the individual posts don’t.
This is annoying for users and wastes bandwidth. I didn’t know how to fix it until I found this article by Fazad Majil. It described my problem exactly and recommended putting the following meta tags in the <head> of the relevant pages:
<meta name="robots"
content="noarchive,noindex,follow,nocache" />
This will allow the pages to be followed but not indexed or cached.
The problem was how to distinguish chronological archive and category
pages from the main page or story pages. The solution was Barijaona
Ramaholimihaso’s
pagetype
plugin. This gives you a variable you can check against with
interpolate_fancy.
My head.html template now contains the following code:
<?$pagetype::pagetype like="(category|chrono)">
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive,noindex,follow,nocache" />
</?>
I haven’t noticed a significant slowdown in traffic to the affected pages, but that will take some time.
Next up is getting “Previous” and “Next” links up to each story. Barijaona has a plugin for that too, prevnextstory, but I haven’t had time to implement it yet.
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We’re leaving for Halland tomorrow to visit my parents over Easter. I’m looking forward to it, Spring is always a bit further along down South, and my sister + boyfriend will be there too.
Here’s hoping I get everything fixed tomorrow. Luckily I got the day off (in exchange for working a full day on another “half-day” later this year) so I should have enough time for last-minute laundry, dropping off the cats at my sister-in-law’s, packing etc.
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Joe Weisenthal:
Unlike Microsoft, which faces competition from Linux, the music industry has a captive audience — what else would teenagers do for entertainment, read books? ¶
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Light activity on the blogging front. I’ve been busy as a bee at work (tired, but it’s a good tired). Spring is in the air, and things are looking up at a few places. Some other things just stay the same, but life is about dealing with that situation.
Something that grabbed my attention was a mention in The Economist about Hottxt, which is basically SMS over data. I’ve long wondered when mobile IM will cut into the fat revenue stream that is SMS, but I didn’t see this coming. It makes a whole lot of sense, especially if the receiver of the text doesn’t have to be part of the service.
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