[Hedda]'s diary
Written about Sunday 2009-04-05
Written: (5710 days ago)
And how should I eat without a working stove?!? At least I have a micro and plenty of bread at home.
Crash!
Bloody nothing works! Elftown crashed today because my stove is so broken that it wipe out the electricity in my entire flat when turned on. And the fine shiny UPS that should save Elftown didn't work even for the minute it took me to turn the power on. I hate UPSes! They don't work when they are needed half of the times. Their batteries obviously have to be checked all the time, and how to do that isn't clear. Changing them involves closing the server down anyway.
If there could be UPSes with capacitors, I would love to have one, even if it can't sustain power that long. As long as it doesn't suddenly stop working after 2 years!
I think about 7 postings were lost and maybe some house-updates are lost. Worse is that 30 hours of diary notes, guestbook notes and wikicomments have been lost (Some sort of accident in the recovery.). The wiki-changes should be OK though.
Braindead anti-capitalists strikes again
Activists stormed the closed Royal Bank of Scotland at 15 o'clock today in a protest against capitalism or something. The thing is however that the bank is now crashed and socialized! So the anti-capitalis
I do understand that people get angry when there are people making loads of money during the current crises, but then target people who actually make loads of money (in a bad way)! Go and get those people (and companies) who get huge sums for holding rights to dead authors' book, patents and make money from fighting monopoly fights in courts instead! These are the people who really steal from the poor and give to the rich, and strangle innovation and culture in the process.
But I guess it's easier to attack closed banks than yelling "Bloody Thieves!" to Metallica when they are on stage. Chickens!
I just saw the last episode of Battlestar Galactica (There shouldn't be any spoilers here, but stop reading if you're übersensitive!).
I saw the behind the scenes movie where they promised that we should be so surprise, so I was kind of expecting a lot of twists. But the only thing that really surprised me was that it was so boring. They tried too hard to make it a grand finale, but it it just become a long long funeral. The fighting scenes were too long, the flash-back scenes were too long, the emotional scenes were too long... It was too long!
Some surprises here and there though. But not as totally shocking end as I would have made. And some things just didn't make sense.
Well, now it's over. I'll miss #6, but not so much the rest.
Australians saved for now:
http://www.aus
IiNet Pulls Out of Australian Censorship Trial
(IiNet is Australia's third-largest ISP)
Stephen Conroy is still alive though, so Internet access is still far from safe in Australia.
For more sad news: Obama is helping RIAA destroy the economy, destroy innocent people's lives and enrich the lawyers:
http://slashdo
And this he can't blame on Bush. Bush even prepared some nice resort camps where Obama could send the RIAA-people...
I watched Obama on Jay Leno this morning, and he's giving all the right answers to everything. But he isn't asked why the shrinking US-economy should keep enforcing intellectual monopoly laws that only benefit a few people and a huge number of lawyers. If you didn't have to pay for (even indirectly by higher prices) lawyers, you could easily afford new houses and cars without borrowing over 13% of GNP.
Written about Thursday 2009-03-19
Written: (5727 days ago)
So far, Elftown isn't on Australia's black-list:
elftown.eu/stu
But there is a lot of other legal sites there that are. By the way: Linking to that blacklist if enough reason to get blocked. What should happed is that the evil people behind this regulation should be put behind bars for destroying free speech. But that will not happen until we make them block every site out there so that their voters start to see what they really are.
More background:
http://slashdo
Best ever!
I was watching the Swedish final for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was so and so, but this, which unfortunately wasn't a contest entry, was great:
http://www.you
Skip the first 3 minutes if you don't understand Swedish.
Fantasy Art vs Lolcats
http://www.goo
Lolcats is apparently beating the crap out of fantasy art.
I've thought for a while to make some sort of viewer-moderat
Feeling a little better today.
Unfortunately I woke up at 05:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. I guess it's time for breakfast and then a nap instead.
Written about Friday 2009-03-06
Written: (5740 days ago)
Blärgh!
I suddenly got sick before going to bed last night. Now I've slept all day, but I'm still not feeling well. It feels like a desert with a sandstorm in my throat. I guess I'm OK otherwise so it isn't that bad. But it's highly annoying.
It's amazing to see how right-down stupid publishers are about file-sharing. It's time for them to realize that they sell books, not a story.
Anyhow, a fantasy and science fiction publisher got it right:
http://www.bae
http://www.bae
I hope that this stops being science fiction and more publishers start to get this. So far it seems like Baen is doing quite well so let's hope the money starts talking the language of freedom like it eventually does despite constant local setbacks.
This is so me!
But then I don't see why I should pay for music when active artists want to give it away for free to make me come to their concerts. And non-active ones I don't give a shit about and I'm more leaning towards paying to make anti-cultural anti-democrati
Written about Friday 2009-02-27
Written: (5747 days ago)
Time for crosswords!
1 2 3 4
A |___|___|___|___|
B |___|___|___|___|
C |___|___|___|___|
D |___|___|___|___|
A) Comic
B) Te with grey
C) Municipality in Antwerp
D) Warhol
1) Renamed Eris
2) Legacy of game series
3) Respect slang
4) Clone without O
Enjoy! It isn't that easy, but not that hard either, I hope.
Written about Monday 2009-02-23
Written: (5751 days ago)
Written about Friday 2009-02-20
Written: (5754 days ago)
They are having a course about Elftown!
Well, about social networking and Elftown is listed there:
http://edweb.c
I had to read the stuff here where they have projects about online safety, which is a very good thing to learn, but it could have been more about reality and less about "Don't do it!" crap:
http://edweb.c
It's spelled "Internet", not "internet"! I'll only point out the errors here, not the correct stuff because I'm not their morality booster, I just want to correct these common misunderstandi
Alex's slides basically say that Internet will kill you and that you never should provide any information nor ever speak to anyone you don't know. So what's the point then? It's like only use a photo when you can see the other person, because otherwise misunderstandi
It also gives a very naive view of "adults". They aren't heroes or predators, but most of them are just old children morons. I guess students don't feel comfortable to put truths like that in their papers... And I really hate this sickness about that pretending like all parents are great if you just give them a chance. No advices what so ever to kids with crappy parents! And those are the ones who really need advice.
Eitan goes on in a little more sane way, but in the same style. (parents have to) "be able to save your children from technology you yourself don't understand.". And then goes on to say that the children should obey the morons that know nothing about Internet. Sorry parents: It doesn't work that way. Most people, kids included, will and should not follow orders from people who don't know what they are talking about. If you want to help your kid on the Internet, you better learn how it works. If you will not do that, let someone else take care of that part of the upbringing instead of behaving like a drunk elephant in a pottery shop.
Jonathan starts with a common misunderstandi
Ilana makes the password change mistake again.
Gavi goes on about the crappy KRESV test. That crap is hard to remember and doesn't make people careful. Tell them how a mail-worm works instead! And COPPA doesn't make you safe! The only thing that keep people safe on the Internet is knowledge. Which you'll get from Internet-addic
Josh things that the children should talk to their parents about downloading stuff. Works fine only if the parents know a shit. Talk to someone who knows something instead! Then Josh does an uncommonly good thing by telling how to meet people you've met on the Internet instead of saying that you shouldn't.
Martin goes on about that pointless KRESV test. They he explains how fun it is to cyberbullying by writing "DON'T DO IT!" in huge letters. You can't "fight" cyberbullying. You have to make the ones doing it feel ignored because they do it. Otherwise they will go on and even more if they feel that people really hate it and suffer from it.
Aviad should learn from Josh instead of just saying "Don't ever meet anyone from the Internet!". And then it's that story about that "parents always know the best thing for you". I don't know what the point with this is, but saying such things to kids who feel that they are being oppressed by their parents doesn't help at all, regardless if they are hiding that they are talking to boys or doing drugs. They need to know that there are other people and the entire Internet out there to guide them where their parents have failed.
Ehum, sorry about my last posting.
You can get a great "Windows 7": http://blogs.z
So you thought that Vista was bad?
Well, don't worry! Windows 7 is on the way. It's great! It will steal your right to use your own files:
http://tech.sl
As the computer is getting more and more important in people's lives, this is getting really serious. You basically have to beg to Microsoft (Or Apple!) to get access to your beloved photos, art and other files! It might work now, but suddenly the company you buy from is having financial problems, updates your computer and demands that you pay up (or they just go bankrupt and you can't access the files for all the money you have).
Normal people and non-tech companies have to start realizing that when they give away control, they are making themselves slaves.
The alternative is to use an open operating system like Linux. It works great for my mother and for me. There's still some issues for the people in between, but these issues will be solved, while Microsoft and Apple will keep making worse and worse DRM until you practically don't own your computer or anything on it anymore.
Don't through out your old systems right away, but think about this when upgrading! You don't want to spend your life learning another system that is bound lose significance.
Linux has about 1% market-share among private desktop users now, and it's growing at a rate about 30% per year and have done so for quite some time. That means 13% market-share in 10 years and 169% in 20 years... Unless the Linux company screws it up... Oh, wait, there is no such company! It doesn't matter if 90% of the Linux companies screw up because there are 10% left and it's still Linux. And if you put it on your computer, you own your computer and it will always be possible to upgrade.
Three week Global media-boycott: [@fe51460545473]
The name is a little wrong: It's a boycott of:
* No purchases of CD's.
* No purchases of films.
* No purchases of computer games.
* No visits to movie theaters.
* No movie rentals.
So no boycott of watching movies, TV, reading newspapers or magazines, going to concerts, using Elftown or playing WoW.
Yay! Feels good to be able to go out and throw some rocks at people who are trying to steal my Internet! Hit them were it hurts!
Don't mess with these jellyfishes! Immortal, regenerating, morphing seriously bad-asses that you basically can cut into pieces and they will re-shape and they don't bother about starvation either:
http://www.the