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Posts for July 2005

Do the fax

28th July, 2005     Rants,

I decided finally, that I should find a use for the phone line that isn't being used here. My decision in the end was to use my old external 56k modem, and hook it up to a BSD box, and run a fax daemon to email and vice-versa type of gateway for when i might need to receive (and possibly one day send) a fax.

So I started by looking for a decent fax daemon program for linux, and i stumbled across Hylafax, which seems to look like it could do the job sitting on it's hands.

Great, I thought...

Problems arose after installing it, to realise that the number of configuration options that exist to get it working are extreme. It required more time setting it up, then it would have taken me to run the faxes to people.

So after 30 minutes of getting nowhere, i gave up (for now). It's been a long day, and this obviously was not a task for a day like today. One day I might decide to finally do something with that phone line again, but by then, I hope faxes are dead.

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Piracy is Good?

16th July, 2005     WWW,

So says Mark Pesce, in a recent presentation held at the Australia Film and Television school.

A copy of the presentation is available from archive.org.

In the talk, Mark mainly focuses on Television, and how technologies (Bit-Torrent), have boosted ratings by them being "pirated". For example, Battlestar Galactica, and the new BBC Dr Who series; which were available on the internet hours after being shown, and now had some of the highest Television ratings in the countries they have been shown.

He highlights however, how the change to Hyperdistribution for television, would mean a change in the normal television distribution chain, which isn't that much a good thing.

It is a very informative talk, and worth the hour long sit and watch.

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Blogging

5th July, 2005     Blog, Life,

It's about time I really got into the blogging scene. Not just to be cool, but because there is often thoughts on my mind, which I want to write up.

So now, with my new webhost coming into play, I have decided to set up Wordpress so I can blog to my hearts content.

Of course, the content which is going to be posted on here, will be varied... even I don't know what I will start posting yet. All I can guarantee is that there will be things related to Programming, Linux, and all things nice.

Hope you have a read every so often, might read something interesting one day.

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