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martes, enero 13, 2009

You can not read this blog in Internet Explorer (6)

Categoría: Web, HTML, tecnología

You can not read this blog in Internet Explorer 6, and I think it's broken in IE7.

It would seem that something about my CSS and/or MySpace's CSS makes the blog impossible to read in IE.  If things are quiet at work, I will look at this this morning to see if I can fix things at my end.

IE6 is still useful for people who have older computers.

But, seriously guys, it's 2009, and it's time to update your browser to Safari, Firefox, or some such.

Update:I also couldn't see the blog in Chrome. Basically, I cut and paste from Microsoft word, and it added some crazy HTML that made it so my private blog could only be seen in Firefox and no other browser. Since I only use Firefox, I couldn't see the problem, but my girlfriend couldn't read my private blog because she uses IE7.

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sábado, enero 10, 2009

Worldnetdaily is for conspiracy theory nuts

Categoría: Noticias y política

I'm sorry, if you in any way shape or form doubt the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate, you are a conspiracy theory nutcase.  Well, it would seem that this is exactly what World Net Daily believes.

Conservatives have a double standard.  They think it's OK to spread these kind of lies (another being Fox News' "Obama is a Muslim" nonsense), but if anyone criticizing a conservative reports information they later find out comes from fraudulent sources, they get racked overed the coals (Dan Rather had to step down as news anchor for talking about some forged documents as fact, even though he apologized for making the error)

Comparing World Net Daily's and Fox News' (or, should we say "Faux News") handling of the truth, with CBS news' handling of the facts, I have very little faith in any conservative news outlet being able to tell the simple truth.

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viernes, diciembre 26, 2008

The psychology of hard-core Trekkies

Categoría: Películas, TV, celebridades

Since MySpace seems to allow public blogs that can be read by non-members of MySpace again, I will start writing public blog entries again.

OK, so here I am really bored and skimming through a compusive Trekkie's web site complete with long speculation about what should be 'canon' or not 'canon', and an overly long series of articles on spaceships we see for only a minute or so in a single episode of Star Trek.  Yeah, I'm a little under the weather with a working internet connection and too much time on my hands.

So, yeah, the person behind this site is probably a little obsessive compulsive.  You get a lot of, you know, interesting people on the internet (I was one of them when I had the notion that Linux was a better desktop operating system than Windows, for example)

So, after quickly deciding these articles have little of interest, I start skimming his reviews of episodes from the original 1960s Star Trek.  His review of 'Charlie X' (scroll down, since this guy didn't bother to use 'a name="whatever"' markers) is an interesting psychological look at this person.  He criticizes this episode for Yeoman Rand's compassion towards Charlie (her attempt to get him a surrogate girl-friend of his age is silly) and feels Kirk was too nice (it is noteworthy how well Kirk puts up with Charlie's adolescent misbehavior).

Interesting; these notes seem to show someone who feels acts of kindness and compassion are abnormal and not OK.  While one can't know who someone is just on what they put on a public web page, these notes give us hints to the origin of whatever it is in him that makes him the stereotypical obsessive-compulsive Trekkie that they make fun of in the movie Galaxy Quest.

Which brings up a memory.  I remember seeing the then-new Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country with a couple of buddies at college.  The girl I saw the movie with and myself thought the movie was good, but this hard-core Trekkie who saw the movie with us could not stop ranting and raving about how non-canon the movie was, such as the presence of fire extinguishers on the spaceship.

To quote William Shatner, it is just a TV show.  There is no canon; if an screenplay author has to change some detail of the past to make for a good story, they will.  Listening to the hard-core outspoken fans is a really bad idea; the later movies in the Star Wars prequels suffer becuause of this.  For example, in Revenge of the Sith we get a long and tedius light saber value because that is what the hard core fans wanted.  I personally would have traded that for a realistic turning to the dark side by Anakin Skywalker.

Speaking of getting a life, time for me to wash up and say hi to my girlfriend.

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miércoles, septiembre 17, 2008

The cheap trance party is over

Categoría: Música

Because of how Amazon's mp3 purchase system works, mp3 songs are charge by the track for only one dollar a track.  Well, some trance remixes have the entire CD just be a single long track.  Since a track is only a dollar, it was possible last week to buy some really high quality trance remixes, paying only a dollar for well over an hour of high-quality trance mix.  I got nearly four hours of kick-ass trance last week for only three dollars.  Sweet, very sweet.

Amazon caught on to people doing this, and changed the pricing structure for these music mixes.  Today, when I looked at some more trance mixes to download, the two-disk sets were eight or nine dollars instead of the two dollars they cost last week.

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

- Sam

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miércoles, septiembre 10, 2008

My current favorite song: "Twist of Fate" by Olivia Newton-John

Categoría: Música

Well, it looks like the major record labels have finally woken up and smelled the coffee.  Amazon.com now has legal high-bandwidth mp3s you can purchase for only 99 cents a song, with an excellent selection.  With the exception of some digital holdouts such as the Beatles, I can get pretty much any song that was a hit in the United States.

The selection there is still a little thin for some EuroDance (I can't find any Blancmange, Surreal's hit "You Take my Breath Away" isn't available, etc.), but if the song was a hit in the US, they will usually have it.

I've been buying a lot of music over the last week or so.  The service is currently only available in the US; I would like to thank Sean for letting me use his machine as a proxy so the mp3 buying thingy thinks I'm in the US (it checks the location of your IP when you click on "buy mp3").

My favorite song which I have bought so far is the single version of Olivia Newton-John's hit "Twist of Fate" (the 12" extended version, alas, isn't available as a mp3).

Basically, in late 1983 Olivia Newton-John, trying to repeat the success of "Grease", made the entirely forgettable movie "Two of a Kind" which bombed so quickly I don't even remember seeing it listed at the local theater.  The only redeeming feature this movie had was the song "Twist of Fate".

I remember when this song first came out and didn't particularly impress me at the time; I thought the two-note flourish they have at the beginning of the verses was kinda goofy and Newton-John was pretty much a has-been when this song came out (indeed, it was her very last top-10 hit).

Well, a couple of months ago I had a dream about this song so went over to YouTube to watch the video and decided I liked the song.  Yesterday I finally got around to downloading the song.  What a treat!

I don't know why I didn't care that much for this song so long ago; this song really kicks ass and is a very well-produced work of Euro-dance music.  It's one of those rare songs that I love so much I have put it on "repeat one" and have been listening to it over and over the last two days.  I'll probably be sick of it within a week, but what a song in the meantime.

Actualmente escuchando:
Olivia Newton-John - Twist of Fate
Fecha de publicación: 1992-11-20

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miércoles, julio 02, 2008

The Lou Dobbs myths busted

Categoría: Noticias y política

Lou Dobbs is a CNN panelist who has a talk show; in his shows he frequently talks about how those horrible brown-skinned Mexicans coming in to America with a new culture and a new language are making things hard for America, how these people are a disgrace, etc.

His facts are, at best questionable. I would almost, but not quite, put his process of getting an interpreting facts in the same category as people who think the universe is 6000 years old, think global warming isn't real, think 9/11 was a government conspiracy, etc.

A lot of people seem to get their information from him, and regurgitate his rants on message boards, so I found a good article basically debunking his claims:

http://mediamattersaction.org/reports/fearandloathing/online_version

- Sam

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miércoles, julio 02, 2008

The iPhone is coming to Mexico on July 11th

Categoría: Web, HTML, tecnología

OK, I had to go to the Telcel service center to make some changes to my cell phone plan and to look in to possibly having a monthly plan.

Here's the deal: The iPhone is coming to Mexico. It will be available on July 11th; the same the the 3G iPhone is coming to the United States. The price of the phone will be between "200 and 400 dollars"; and it appears you will have to sign up for a service plan to get the iPhone.

The cell phone service that you can use with the iPhone is Mexico's biggest cell phone provider: Telcel.

- Sam

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miércoles, junio 25, 2008

Review: LP KP 115a

Categoría: Web, HTML, tecnología

The LG KP 115a is a little-known cellphone; I have seen very little information about it posted on the internet. It is a small, low-cost (About $60 US, including activation and a number of minutes on Telcel' s network) cell phone with mp3 and image viewing support (but no camera). It appears that this cell phone is only available in Mexico; LG has no information about this phone on their web page.

The built in mp3 player is reasonably good; the majority of songs play without problems, but there are noticable glitches with a handful of songs I have encoded from my CD collection using the LAME mp3 encoder. The most annoying glitches are in the song La fuerza del destino by the 1980s Spanish-language group "Mecano" ; no matter what LAME settings I used (noshort, no joint stereo, only joint stereo, etc.), I was unable to make this song play without noticeable glitches and places where the singer sounds like as though she is singing underwater.

The phone also has a FM radio that my friend Sinai is using right now to listen to music. It allows one to listen to music, but (probably because of pressure from the RIAA) doesn't have the ability to record from the radio.

The phone has a basic voice recorder; it can only record to the phone' s memory. Since the phone has very limited memory (measures in kilobytes, not megabytes), it can only record about three minutes of voice. Fortunately, it is possible to move voice records from the internal memory to an external SD memory card.

The built in image viewer is basic; it has problems with large images and it' s best to make images small 128x128 jpeg files for best results, so I took a number of pictures of family and friends and converted them down to be small jpeg files so I can show pictures to my friends.

The KP115a has a slot, in the back under the battery for putting in a MicroSD memory card. Telcel' s official position is that you can' t put a MicroSD card larger than 1gb in this phone. This is incorrect: The phone works fine with 2gb SD cards, as long as they are formatted with FAT16. The directory hierarchy is unusual; music has to be placed in a folder named " Sounds" off of the root directory and pictures in a folder named " Images" off of the root directory. It is possible to have sub directories, but the mp3 player will only add mp3 files in the "/Sounds" folder to playlists. You can play mp3s without using playlists, fortunately, and even have the mp3 player repeat all of the songs in a single folder. To change folders requires user intervention.

There is no USB support for this phone; the only way to upload or download files is to remove the microSD card and put it in your computer. The phone doesn't use standard headphones and it is not possible to buy an adapter for standard headphones in Mexico, although they do seem to exist on the internet. The built in headphones earbuds of questionable value; it is hard to hear songs on a noisy bus unless the song was mastered very loudly (I actually reprocessed my favorite song, Glyder by Jonn Serrie, to be as loud as possible so I can hear it on the bus)

Compared to my old Nokia 6010, the voice quality leaves a lot to be desired. With one family member who lost a lot of their hearing during military service, he could not understand me until I turned on the built in speaker phone and talked as loudly as possible in to the phone' s microphone. Talking to my friend Ivonne on streets or other places with background noise is problematic, requiring me to put the phone up against my ear and to have her sometimes repeat herself for me to understand her. Reception is also more spotty than the reception on my old Nokia.

So, the LG KP 115a is a basic-low cost cell phone with mp3 playback capability. You get what you pay for, basically, but this is a reasonable option for having as a second phone number or as a backup cell phone that can play mp3s on the side. It can be used as a primary cell phone as long as the majority of one's calls are done indoors or other quiet locations, and the people one has conversations with have good hearing.

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lunes, junio 23, 2008

A good Linux application: Firefox

Since I have been talking about Linux's problems, let me talk about something positive Linux has.

One good Linux application is Firefox. This is a web browser; in other words, it does what that big blue "E" on a Windows desktop does, only better.

Firefox has a number of features Internet Explorer (the name of that program with the big blue "E" doesn't have). For example, it has inline spell checking; as I write this blog, any misspelled words are underlined. It has support for extensions that allow the Firefox experience to be customized in a number of different ways. It also has better web standards support than Internet Explorer (the just-released Firefox 3 passes the Acid 2 test; something the last released Internet Explorer still can't do.

My main issue with Firefox is that the underlying code needs to be constantly updated; they discover a pretty major security problem with it about three months. It's better than Internet Explorer with regards to security; they make sure, whenever a security patch is made, a new version of Firefox is automatically downloaded that patches the problem.

Also, the lifetime for a given Firefox release is fairly short once a new version is released; 1.5 only was support for a little over a year, as I recall, and support ended for it ended about a year ago. Note that some Linux distributions still backport security patches to older versions of Firefox; an update to Firefox 1.5 was released as recently as April by them.

But, Firefox 3.0 is better than Firefox 2.0, so most users should just upgrade every year or so, and let Firefox do its auto-update of security patches.

Firefox runs in Windows, Linux, and MacOS X; unofficial ports for other platforms exist (right now I'm using an unofficial 64-bit compile of Firefox that comes with this version of Linux)

Another good Linux application is Busybox, which I will talk about in another blog.

- Sam

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viernes, junio 13, 2008

Why Linux is not suitable for the desktop

Categoría: Web, HTML, tecnología

I have blogged about this before, and will blog about this again.  As someone who drank the Kool-Aid and believed the half-truths and lies of Linux fanatics for years, I find Linux fanatics tell, at best, annoying, and, at worse, downright scary.

There is a reason why Linux has not succeeded on the desktop.  It's because Linux is not a suitable platform to develop applications or even device drivers on.

Let me give you one example: I am using Windows XP right now.  I just tested, and was able to install and run Netscape Navigator 2.0 from 1995 without problem.  All I had to do is download this ancient browser from evolt.org, click on the setup icon, and run the install wizard.  Mind you, a good deal of today's internet is completely unusable in NN2.0, but this Windows 95 program is 100% compatible in Windows XP.

On the other hand, it's impossible to run a 1995 era Linux binary in any modern Linux distribution.  Indeed, in the mid-2000s, when I still made sure my websites were Netscape 4.0 compatible, and before I installed Windows, I had to use a difficult-to-configure chroot() environment in order to perform cross-browser testing of my website.

Another issue: Driver compatibility.  Linux kernel programmers seem to be on a crusade to constantly break old drivers, and to make it so new drivers are not compatible with older kernels.  Windows XP/Vista uses essentially the same binary structure for drivers as used in the mid-1990s with Windows NT; there's a good chance that a mid-1990s NT driver will work today on a new computer running Vista.

And, oh yeah, applications.  Sorry, guys, but The Gimp is not a replacment for Photoshop.  Open Office is not a replacement for Microsoft Office.  Gaim is really not a replacement for the real MSN client.  Firefox is a replacement for Internet Explorer 7; this is the only piece of open source software I feel is equal to or superior to the proprietary equivalent.

The fanaticism and ideology of many Linux users is also downright annoying.  When religion of any form blinds someone to the truth, it is time to rethink one's priorities (This also applies to global waming deniers, young Earth creationists, people who take conspiracy theories seriously, people who think everyone should make  professional music/movies/software for fun and for free, etc.).

- Sam

As an aisde, I have one friend who's a young Earth creationist, and another who is a global warming denier.  Both people are nice enough, but I just can't agree with their world view.

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