When I make video connections using my iSight in iChat, I get strange errors like:
No data has been received for the last 10 seconds.
I have no idea what this means. This problem only arose after I switched to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). I get this in situations where I never had a problem before. I don’t think it is a firewall issue because I can connect okay; it only seems to trigger after being connected for a little while (anywhere between a few seconds and a few minutes).
Ideas?
Rather than try to rehash something that I don’t know enough about to describe without making some errors, I’ll point you to a few places that discuss the high impact court ruling.
Essentially, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC had no rights in forcing manufacturers to include copy protection technology (specifically, the “broadcast flag”) that was intended on limiting unauthorized distribution of over-the-air TV on the internet. However, introduction and mandate acceptance of such broadcast flag would have prevented much innovation in the area by essentially blocking out Open Source/Free Software from using digital television by making the drivers difficult or impossible to write for.
Cory Doctorow has a good write up of the subject at Boing Boing: V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT! I suggest you take a look, as this ruling is huge in terms of consumer electronics for the next few years.
As it stands now, the FCC can regain this power to institute a broadcast flag only if congress explicitly passes a law granting them that authority. But no politician wants to pass a law breaking the TV’s of their voters. With any luck, it’ll be a dead issue.
Brad on a Donkey, Originally uploaded by Brad Froehle.
You should check out Flickr, as it now has all of my pictures on it. Like this one, of me on a Donkey outside of Old City Hall in Boston, MA. You can also see a set of all the pictures from my trip to Boston.
I’ll try to do a good job posting notes here when I upload cool things to Flickr, you should also subscribe to the RSS feed to get instant updates.
Has anybody gotten their Samsung ML-1710 printer to work with Tiger?
I’ve installed the drivers from Samsung’s website (for Mac OS X 10.3), but they do not seem to show up when I add the printer.
With finals week rapidly approaching, I’m beginning to feel a little stressed about this semester.
I have all of my homework done for the rest of the semester, save for the Final Report in Methods of Experimental Physics (MXP). That paper is due on Friday, a rapidly approaching deadline!
However, I should be mostly home free after Friday — I only have two finals, one on Thursday and one on Friday.
Tonight wrapped up my Latin Dance class, something that I will definitely miss. Joy (the instructor) and I were talking afterwards — she asked what I was taking next year and then proceeded to suggest Swing Dance. Funny that I already signed up for that one. After class 20 or so of us headed over to Famous Dave’s for Salsa night. We stayed for a little under two hours, leaving pretty early because everybody has stuff to attend to.
So far 4/7 classes have wrapped up completely:
I bought a Flickr Pro account a few days ago and went nuts uploading files, maxing out my 2GB limit for the month of April and using 10% of May’s allowance while uploading over 1700 pictures.
If you aren’t a friend or family, some 400 of those won’t be initially visible to you. If you are a Flickr user already, leave a message here and I’ll add you as a friend. If not, either leave your email and I’ll send you a password to get in, or sign up for Flickr and leave your screenname.
I’ve also put together about 30 photo sets that should be interesting to browse.
It snowed briefly this afternoon. Nothing accumulating, but it’s almost May!
Snow is for the winter!
Update (May 1, 2005): It briefly snowed again today!
Since the server this is running on was upgraded to PHP 5, the old Textile 2 plugin no longer functioned.
I have updated this plugin to use version 2.0.8 of the TextilePHP class. Thanks to Adam Gessaman for the original plugin.
You can download textile2.0.8-smartypants.zip or textile2.0.8-smartypants.tar.gz.
Note: This was updated from Adam’s 2.0.3 plugin (not the more recent 2.0.5 plugin) by merging the changes in the Textile.php class into the plugin using the GNU utilities diff and patch.
At first, I must admit that it doesn’t seem like there is a whole lot new. Spotlight is neat, but I already had much of that functionality with Quicksilver. Dashboard is a good idea, but I’m not sure I’ll work it into my daily routine quite yet.
Here’s a list of applications and neat additions:
Update: I just remembered I posted my inpressions on the Developer Preview last July. It’s an interesting read to compare my views… some things (like Safari and iChat) were fixed up, but other problems (Dashboard) remain.
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