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May 7th, 2013
I have made a patch for asterisk. They don't accept it though and I had to sign an NDA
agreement in order to submit patches. Sheesh.
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Changed blog a little
May 6th, 2013
I hope you like it. When I went to a CSS class the instructor said that in
Germany or any place that you read left to right there is a menu bar on the
left. Well in my case it's on the right, which would make my style arabic or
persian. As a compromise I have added a black bar on the left now so that
there is bars on both sides of the article. I think it looks better now and
I'm working on fixing the jagged edges.
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Earworms, Ohrwurms and co.
May 6th, 2013
I've been diagnosed of
Schizophrenia at least once in my life. I also have
been diagnosed of depression
, and OCD which is a form of Tic disorder. However
what I haven't been diagnosed with is "Susceptible to Earworms" disorder.
An earworm is when you hear
music and it plays over and over in your head,
in my case it can be as little as one syllable as in a simple "oh" of the
reggae artists Vybz Kartel or as high as I would guess ten syllables.
In fact I've never heard a single voice in my head that I didn't hear before,
most of them stem from music I hear and very rarely from other recordings, yet
the headmusic keeps going at the weirdest moments.
It makes me a little
paranoid to be honest, and I suspect my medication I currently take amplifies
earworms. Now it doesn't matter what music I listen to I get the bug but I
prefer to be listening to Reggae music at home. Current head spinners that I
like listening to are Alaine - Jehovah (listen close to the syllables as they
are a classic reggae beat), Lutan Fyah - Bossman, and Turbulence & I-Shenko -
Obeah man. The latter two are off the downtown riddim collection which I like
listening to as well.
As I walk down the street with headmusic in my
brain, I wonder if it's noticeable. When I go into a supermarket I usually
get inducted with white peoples music or whatever is playing on german radio,
something like "message in a bottle" by the police/sting. Usually I leave
the store playing repeating sentences of message in a bottle in my head.
Totally bugged out!
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Ordered a new book from Amazon
May 5th, 2013
It's another Ruby book. I fear I never get to read all these books fully
because as soon as I get started with one I already have the next one. But
I'm easily bored, confused, irritated with some books and their delivery
style. Hoping this one will be a thriller. It's called
Practical Ruby for System Administration by Andre Ben Hamou. I should have
it delivered to my parents in 3 days.
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We don't really have alternative access
May 4th, 2013
The german telco DT has capped its links to 75 GB if you use 16 Mbit DSL.
What I thought about is the alternatives... there are none. DT has assets
of 500K Euros per employee of its 230,000 workforce. And they own the copper
links. Does that mean the DT can do with us what they want? There is only
one alternative, and it doesn't scale. Check
freifunk.de which is a citizen built Wifi mesh. They do not exist on
a scale the size of Germany and beyond so they don't really scale. We need
something to counter big evil telcos who do with us what they want.
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Google Glass doesn't really phase me
May 3rd, 2013
I wear glasses. As a teenager I wore contacts predominantly. But I can't
understand anyone wanting to give their life to google by wearing google
glasses. Oh yes, life may be better because it may have been without hope
at some point. But what of that is just illusion? Now the concept of
google glasses isn't so bad. Until the part where you upload. To Google.
Enough said.
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My Compression Algorithm doesn't work
May 2nd, 2013
I have done some tests with a document I wrote in 2010 called my-compression.txt found on my /public stash. Well I came to the conclusion that there is too
many collisions to give a definite answer on a compressed segment of 38 bytes.
Too bad. I'm still hoping for a compression algorithm that can be
re-compressed, thus ending all bandwidth and volume problems. But it's just
a dream, it seems.
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The cravings are bad...
May 2nd, 2013
I crave chatting on IRC. This tells me I was addicted. But I'm gonna beat
the addiction, I have considered writing a program that simulates IRC with
people randomly talking about cameras and throwing numbers around (camera
model #'s) that I don't know. In fact a lot of the "trash" talk I can
probably do without, in the last few years it got especially trashy as
people lost a sense of purpose (in my opinion) why they were there.
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OpenBSD 5.3 released, 3 hosts upgraded
May 1st, 2013
Today was network rearrangement day and upgrade day. I have upgraded mars,
jupiter, and luna. I didn't upgrade uranus yet because I want to figure out
some weirdnesses with it.
I now have ipsec'ed tunnels going from luna, jupiter and uranus to mars and
mars acts like a router. The ipsec'ed tunnels protect the wifi bridge which
are encrpyted too so I have extra encryption. More later.
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Why would a provider get rid of flatrate?
April 29th, 2013
Recently Deutsche Telekom announced that they are getting rid of their flat
rate for DSL. I've been giving this some thought, around discussion, and here
is what I've noticed:
- DT is offering TV and voice over DSL both of those services are not counted
against the cap limit of 75 GB. In a way this is to prevent other TV over IP
or voice over IP providers from being an alternative because people will be
capped pretty quickly if they get TV from the United States (as an example).
- I've thought perhaps they want to lose customers, a very ridiculous thought
but who knows?
- Back in the days of the German Bundespost, telecommunications were strictly
controlled by a non-free market, perhaps elements in DT want such control back
- DT is afraid to shed jobs and thus pushing restrictions on the users, which
will save them ultimately
These are some thoughts of mine that make me wonder. It is definitely an
attack on freedom and net neutrality in my view. I'm having trouble convincing
my parents to switch for what it's worth. At 15 GB usage last month they
aren't affected they say and they say other providers will follow suit. I
think that's not correct but we'll see.
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