BounceWeb has been down since about 3PM this afternoon, which affects macmegasite & worldbeatplanet. I’m moving both sites to my reseller account, which is still up. I’m using backups of the database from last night, so all statistics & anything posted since then has been lost. I’ve changed the DNS servers for WorldBeatPlanet, but I haven’t changed macmegasite yet. If it comes back up, I can simply point it to the database on the new server.
I’m reluctant to switch to the new server because I’ll lose shell access, subdomains don’t work, and the SMTP server doesn’t seem to be able to send mail. I’m thinking of switching to http://www.netsourcehosting.com, although I’m paid a year in advance at BounceWeb. If I switch, I risk losing my reseller account (which I’m using to host mymacmail.com). I’ll most likely make the switch when my year is up, since it costs about the same & they seem pretty reliable – the administrator of that site is also the administrator of www.derekandalexking.org.General
New Youssou N'dour album streamed
New Youssou N’dour album streamed live. From now (monday 14th October) until Monday 21st October at 12 noon the
whole of Youssou N’Dour’s new album “Nothing’s in vain” can be heard streamed live on the internet. Check out BBC Music Online for more details, by clicking here or vist BBC World Music. [WorldBeatPlanet]The top-10 things I missed
The top-10 things I missed in 10 days without OS X. With my PowerBook away to be repaired for the first 10 days on this month, I found myself using Mac OS 9.x and even Windows in between shifts of using my wife’s PowerBook. Here is what I missed most about having my own OS X-based machine to work with:
- Speed – The move from a G3 PowerBook with 1GB of RAM to a PowerBook 3400c with 144MB of RAM or a Windows box with 64MB of RAM was a painful slowdown.
- Stability – It is hard to beat the stability of Mac OS X, no matter how much I may point out shortcomings of the operating system.
- Radio 8 – The additional speed of Radio under OS X cannot be appreciated enough until you run it under Mac OS 9.x on an underpowered machine. There is truly a reason computers keep getting faster.
- NetNewsWire Lite – One of the first programs I fired up when I got my Pismo PowerBook back was Brent Simmons’ excellent RSS news aggregator.
- Chimera and OmniWeb – Neither of these Web browsers can be touched by anything under Mac OS 9.x.
- OmniOutliner – How did I used to live without an outliner?
- iTunes – Yes, I can run iTunes under Mac OS 9.x, but that older version of the program is not as flexible as the newest running under Jaguar.
- Fire and Proteus – It is hard to touch the OS X goodness of these two multi-protocol chat clients that let me communicate with people using AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber and IRC all from within one application.
- Unix under the hood – I don’t dig into the command line a lot on a day-to-day basis, but there is no beating it if you need to fire up Terminal in order to see what process is eating up all of your processor time.
- Complete flexibility – Mac OS X offers more ways to access your data and to customize the way you work with your data, through shareware, Unix and other means than any other OS in the world right now. And it is customizable in a completely user-friendly way.
Cthulhu goes to Nigeria. [
Cthulhu goes to Nigeria. [ via L A Morse ] Baiting “419” scammers has become the Internet’s favorite spectator sport (that, and posting fake personal ads then publishing the responses). In this round, a researcher from Miskatonic University gets in over his head, but not with the scammers.
“The last thing he saw, as the fraud descended upon him, was the fraud, descending upon him.” — after Lawrence Person’s BLFC Lovecraftian entry. [More Like This WebLog]The finder just crashed giving
The finder just crashed giving the following stack trace, which confirms that it’s written in PowerPlant:
Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x9502a0e8 in LView::Activate() #1 0x9502db20 in LWindow::Activate()This is kind of old,
This is kind of old, but it’s amusing in light of Harry Belafonte’s recent remarks about Colin Powell.
Carter wins Nobel Peace PrizeOnly
Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize
Only the third US President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter had an imperfect presidency, followed by a lengthy career as an ambassador for peace on behalf of the United States. His political fortune rose in the aftermath of the two humiliating defeats for the US, the war in Vietnam, and the Watergate scandal and Ford’s pardon of Nixon. Carter was the first presidential candidate I voted for. Like many others, I came to see him as a weak president, but in later years came to appreciate his values of honesty, hard work, and an uncompromising sense of what’s right. It’s unfortunate that his award was tainted by politics from the awarding committee, but the award stands on its own. As an American I am proud that Jimmy Carter, who represents what’s good about my country, is this year’s Nobel Laureate. [Scripting News]
Carter became a great statesman after he left office, and is one of the very few ex-presidents who actually did good work instead of trying to make money from his office. I really hope Carter tries to negotiate peace with Iraq – I think he’s one of the few people who could do it.A Sad Day for America.
A Sad Day for America. CNN: Senate approves Iraq war resolution. ‘The president praised the congressional action, declaring “America speaks with one voice.”‘ I’m not… [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]
I’m really disgusted by this situation. War with Iraq would be a disaster.More EFF News Items. Robbing
Dan Bricklin, co-inventor of Visicalc, discusses how DRM will “break
the chain” of archival techniques that has existed for thousands of
years.
Tuning Out the Customer
Fortune.com’s David Kirkpatrick on how the media industry’s defensive
posture on digital piracy is damaging their long-term interests.
You’ve Got Dissent!
Chinese dissident use of the Internet and Beijing’s counter-
strategies. [MacMegasite]
The State of Florida Sanctions
The State of Florida Sanctions Child Abuse
Florida’s Escambia County Assistant Prosecutor, David Rimmer exhibits unethical and immoral treatment of a 13-year-old-sexual abuse victim in blatant display of child abuse during recent murder trial. When did the state of Florida start to sanction child abuse? Pensacola, FL, October 9, 2002 ÷ Concerned citizens are outraged over the blatant display of child abuse exhibited by Florida’s Assistant Prosecutor David Rimmer. Mr. Rimmer flagrantly disregarded the standard practice of requiring the testimony given by minors or victims of sexual abuse to be made during a courtroom session closed to the public. He recently called a 13-year-old victim of sexual abuse to testify on national television. This took place during the murder trial accusing a convicted child molester of killing the boy’s father. Additionally, the same defendant is charged with molesting the 13-year-old. There is little question that Mr. Rimmer intended that this victim be cast in the least favorable light to the jury and used his authority and power to humiliate and degrade the underage victim of a convicted child molester. Mr. Rimmer presented Alex King, a child victim of sexual abuse, in a courtroom to offer testimony against the defendant, Ricky Chavis. Alex King was forced to give testimony with both arms and legs shackled while dressed in his county jail uniform. This child was required to answer questions regarding his “sexual relationship” with the defendant which not only got into specifics, but also included reading “love notes” the child victim wrote. Florida law prohibits a “consensual sexual relationship” between a 13-year-old child and a 40-year-old adult, calling it statutory rape. It was Mr. Rimmers’ obligation to insist that this testimony, by this child sexual abuse victim, be given in a closed session rather than parading a young boy shackled in handcuffs around the courtroom. Unfortunately, Alex Kingâs testimony was broadcast to millions of television viewers. State sanctioned child abuse must be stopped. Mr. Rimmerâs unethical and immoral treatment of a 13-year-old victim of sexual abuse is not acceptable. He must be held responsible for his actions and be charged for child abuse. Alex and his 14-year-old brother Derek King are in the Escambia jail awaiting their sentencing for being found guilty of second-degree murder without a weapon and arson. According to the jury, the boys opened the door of their home and allowed the murderer of their father to enter. The minimum sentence for this crime is 22 years to life. Donât let Floridaâs legal system fail Alex and Derek. Starting with one voice, laws can be changed. Show your support by attending a rally for Alex and Derek before a hearing motion for a new trial on October 17. Attend the rally and please stay for the hearing at 1:00 p.m. in Pensacola. Rally Date: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Location: In front of the M.C. Blanchard Judicial Building 190 Government Street Pensacola, Florida Additional ways to show support for Alex and Derek are to sign the online petitions for Governor Bush and the Honorable Judge Bell requesting justice for the King Brothers at http://www.petitiononline.com/Kingboys/ and http://www.e-thepeople.org/a-national/petition/3642/view. Defense donations are being accepted for Alex and Derek at the Bank of Pensacola. Please make checks payable to Bank of Pensacola, Alex and Derek King, Account #050016, Attn: Alicia Steele, P.O. Box 12966, Pensacola, FL 32591. You can also visit the King Brothers store at www.cafepress.com/kingbrothers. Concerned citizens from around the world have formed a coalition to seek justice for Derek and Alex King and others. Working together with Rev. Thomas Masters and his Under Our Wings Organization, it is our goal to bring justice to the legal system in Florida. This coalition will not stop until justice is reached in the King Brothers case. For more information, visit www.derekandalexking.org or http://home.triad.rr.com/seekjustice/. Everything you’ve ever heard about corruption in the South is true. There’s a real “good ole boys” network going on here. The boys were allowed to waive their rights and gave their confession to a deputy sheriff who was a friend of Rick Chavis with no other adults and no attorney present. The clothes the boys wore the night of the crime were washed and never tested for evidence. Chavis was allowed to visit the scene after the crime since he was a friend of some of the firemen. Rimmer purposely lied to the jury. The more I read about this case, the more I find wrong with it. We need to clean house here and get rid of the corrupt officials.