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  • MP3 tags and file names

    • IMHO file names should never ever contain anything else but only “printable ASCII” characters.
    • letting music file names reflect the contents is sometimes just too much work, so sometimes I abbreviate them to just the track number

    I just came across some Glenn Gould albums, and now the file names all look like 99.mp3. I first tried something better than that, but that was just PITA and I stopped it. I did improve and clean the track names themselves though. Maybe they are too long for the iPod now, but they display well in iTunes.

  • RCS vs. Apache Ant – **/*.java vs. RCS/*.java

    Looks like the exclude tag also works well within the javac tag.

    I like having at look at Roseanne Zhang’s “questions and answers on Apache Ant” now and then.

    Links:

  • Microsoft filed an action against Motorola – The H Open Source: News and Features

    Is Microsoft running out of steam? – The H Open Source: News and Features

  • tables in PDF files – are there any, that you would like to get hold of?

    If so, pls leave a comment here or drop me a line at my e-mail address!
    I can help you.

  • Letter case – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Letter case – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    “snake case” – I have not yet come across this term before today, but this is my preferred letter case.

  • questions and answers on Apache Ant by Roseanne Zhang

    questions and answers on Apache Ant (the software tool for automating software build processes) by Roseanne Zhang

  • The Social Network (2010) – IMDb

    The Social Network (2010) – IMDb

    That’s the movie on Mark Zuckerberg, the “inventor” and creator of Facebook.

    From Trivia:

    • The opening breakup scene with Jesse Eisenberg and Rooney Mara ran eight script pages and took 99 takes. (link)
    • “Who was the movie star?” – “Does it matter?” – the movie star was, in fact, Natalie Portman (Born: Natalie Hershlag), who was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to 2003 and helped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by providing him insider information about goings-on at Harvard at the time Facebook first appeared there.
    • The Winklevoss twins were both played by actor Armie Hammer. However, Ralph Lauren model Josh Pence played one of them strictly from the neck down. His face was digitally replaced with Hammer’s to make them appear identical, as the two men are unrelated and look nothing alike. The two spent 10 months in twin boot camp to match one another’s subtle movements and rapport.

    From Quotes:

    • “As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared.”
    • “You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying so hard to be one.”

    Update after watching the movie:


    I think the Winklevoss twins should not have gotten any money.
    My impression is, that they just discussed a business idea with Zuckerberg, and discussing such an idea a without non-disclosure agreement isn’t really worth anything.
    They should not have gotten money or shares from Zuckerberg or Facebook, that was wrong.

    I think, it’s very sad, how the friendship between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin evolved, but then that’s how it goes with “business partnerships”. You have to make sure to stay in very, very close contact with your partners, otherwise you run the risk to get catapulted out of the game. Of course it’s esp. very sad to see, that “Zuckerberg dropped Saverin’s 30% ownership share of Facebook down to 0.03%” (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin#Personal_life_and_Facebook).

    Justin Timberlake … plays Napster creator Shawn Fanning as a slightly delusional, paranoid entrepreneur (from technofunkie‘s review (on IMDb) on this movie).

    I am very, very grateful to my supporter friend, who allowed me to watch this movie.

  • TableSeer.SourceForge.net

    TableSeer | Download TableSeer software for free at SourceForge.net

    TableSeer is a tool that automatically identifies tables in digital documents and extracts the contents in the cells of the tables as well as table metadata.

    That software seems to apply more heuristics than pdf2table.

  • my wifi access point TP-LINK TP-WA901ND

    I am employing another wifi access point (that’s the device, whose name I am using here in the tittle) and a different WPA encrypted wifi network (SSID) for my neighbours, and today I thought, I should have a look at it again.

    I got intrigued to do a firmware upgrade on the device, not really the latest one, but one of this year, and after rebooting

    1. I noticed, the “System” LED kept blinking slowly,
    2. and I also couldn’t access it any more.

    I feared, these 2 symptoms would be related, and that made me a little nervous.

    I enforced a reset by pressing the reset button for 5 seconds, and applied the settings again, that I had applied severals months ago. Everything is fine now.

    The “System” LED is still blinking slowly, but the manual doesn’t handle this case and I also can’t notice any real problem, that this might indicate, so I simply ignore that.

    Just to make sure, that my lovely neighbours do not successfully invite anybody to my wifi network by themselves, today I enabled MAC address whitelisting on that wifi network, and I added the MAC addresses of all of their computers, that I am aware of. MAC address whitelisting is not the last security feature I apply to protect myself and my own computers. I also route their IP packages through a different VLAN on a managed switch, a Netgear FS526T, but that actually belongs into a different blog article.

    Actually this device is not only a wifi access point. You can also operate it in several other modes, but right now I am not in the mood to describe that.

  • Tim O’Reilly on illegal immegrants and more: “Immigration Reform: Let’s stop kidding ourselves”

    Buzz by Tim O’Reilly