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{ Monthly Archives } March 2009

DVDs and Regions

I admit to find­ing it amus­ing that Barack Obama’s gift to Gor­don Brown of 25 clas­sic Amer­ican movies ended up illus­trat­ing one of my hot but­tons — Mr. Brown couldn’t watch the Region 1-encoded DVDs on his Region 2 player. Here’s TechDirt’s take on the story (link from Volker Weber). I have been in many […]

2009 03 20 Family
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OpenSolaris and ddclient

I have some minor sites run­ning on the base­ment OpenSol­aris box, and since our IP address changes reg­u­larly, I use ddcli­ent to notify DynDNS of the changes. It was work­ing just fine on the old Debian box, but of course OpenSol­aris does things dif­fer­ently, and the ddcli­ent pack­age doesn’t come with all the bits you […]

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2009 03 19 Technology Comments (7)

Balisage Participation

I’ve never been to one of the really big con­fer­ences with thou­sands of people; I’ve heard the energy can be amaz­ing, and there is always some­thing inter­est­ing going on. I tend to find myself at smal­ler con­fer­ences where you have a chance to see people again whom you saw in the last talk, and can […]

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2009 03 18 Conference Comments (1)