Thursday, December 12, 2002

Hey kids!  I've moved!  Be sure to update your bookmarks and newsfeeds. 7:18:32 PM

Sunday, June 30, 2002

Here's an excellent article in the New York Times about what needs to happen for the Music industry to adjust to the internet. 10:37:26 PM     I got an e-mail from an unknown e-mail address with some interesting links relating to yesterday's post.  First, a story called The Right to Read by Richard Stallman.  Second, a site drawing parallels between Microsoft's Palladium project and that story. Here's some more information. Here's a story on an AMD motherboard design that could make Palladium work.  AMD and Intel have agreed to work with Microsoft on Palladium. Here's the original Newsweek story on Palladium via MSNBC.  Note: the MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.  Under Palladium, you probably wouldn't be able to read this article unless you had a subscription to Newsweek or MSNBC.  If you could read it, you couldn't download it or save it on your computer for future reference. Dave's words. Good article on The Register (dubbing Palladium "Windows 1984"). Lots more stuff on Google. 5:10:03 PM

Saturday, June 29, 2002

Bob Cringely has the story on how Microsoft is going to take over the web.  This will obliterate the web-as-commons paradigm and set the web up as nothing more than another Cable TV system, where large companies get to use it to distribute their content.  It leaves their competition, most notably Linux, out in the cold.  The article is a little technical, but I think it'll be pretty readable to everybody.  This is important. 2:40:56 PM

Monday, April 22, 2002

I got an e-mail from Lawrence Lee at UserLand, trying to help with the FTP upstreaming problem I was having about a month ago.  This help was totally unsolicited.  When was the last time you had tech support come to you, for free?  Those guys are amazing. 10:53:32 PM

Thursday, March 14, 2002

Dan Gillmor has an article on Microsoft's coziness with the Department of Justice.  Every once in a while I think I should just bite the bullet and upgrade to XP; they're going to make me one day anyway.  Then I read stuff like this, and I'm perfectly happy with Windows 2000.  Hey, maybe I'll invest in a Mac. 7:09:08 PM     My upstreaming issues are not, in fact, solved.  Can anybody help me out?  I'm wondering if it's breaking when it has to create directories, which would be bad.  The homepage got posted, but that's the only file that's up there. Event What happened Time Secs Upstream Can't upstream because "Can't find a sub-table named "C:Program FilesRadiowww20020222.txt"." 12:43:52 AM 665.766 Upstream 25 files: 12.html, 13.html, , 15.html, 16.html, 20.html, 21.html, 26.html, 27.html, 28.html, 29.html, , 31.html, 01.html, 02.html, 03.html, 04.html, 05.html, 06.html, 07.html, 10.html, 11.html, , 16.html, 17.html. The server reported an error: One or more files failed to upstream because Can't bind listen stream because TCP/IP error code 10048 - Address already in use. 12:32:41 AM 74.283 12:45:52 AM     I love technology.  The solution to all problems: shut down, reboot. First, there was the connectivity problem I've been having since the power outage this past weekend.  I even went out and bought a new network card in the hopes of fixing the problem; didn't work.  I had to call Comcast support, and the solution was to unplug the cable modem for about a minute, plug it back in, and hope it fixed the problem.  It did. Also, nitchie.com is now operational.  You can see a mirror of this weblog at http://www.nitchie.com/users/chris/weblog.  Initially, I had some problems upstreaming to the FTP server.  I kept getting "timeout" errors.  The solution was, you guessed it, shut down Radio and restart.  All was right with the world.  I'm still having minor issues; the images don't appear to be publishing yet, but I'll figure it out. Note that the above URL is not final; I set wheels in motion this evening to have the weblog running at http://chris.nitchie.com/weblog/.  Sorry for the inconvenience for your favorites and RSS feeds, but I promise this is the last time.  Don't update yet, wait for the final move. 12:40:17 AM

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

The nitchie.com domain is now being hoted by Excelsior Technologies in Atlanta.  As of this afternoon the DNS changes just needed to propagate.  Look for the big move sometime in the next week. 6:06:26 PM

Saturday, March 09, 2002

Pablo Picasso. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." [Quotes of the Day] 1:46:13 AM

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