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Batch convert Irssi logs or other text files to UTF-8 using recode
When I recently rented a VPS running a fresh install of Debian, I thought it was about time to stick with the now default Unicode locale, UTF-8. Doing this switch in a sensible fashion would include converting often used text files, such as chat logs from the older, more compatible but limited ISO 8859-15 charset.
(By [...]
Openness and microblogging
This entry was originally posted as a comment on Xuenay’s blog. Also: doesn’t LiveJournal support real hyperlinks in comments? Ultra-suckage.
I’ve always found Twitter to be a very interesting concept, but I don’t use the service myself. I find its minimalism compelling, but its terrible at representing conversations or replies. Jaiku on the other hand has [...]
Hufvudstadsbladet kan göra tre miljoner årlig förlust men saknar vettig webbupplaga
Enligt Hbl skall Konstsamfundet satsa på sina tidningar och få dem att gå på vinst även om situationen för närvarande inte utlovar solsken och jordgubbar med vispgrädde och konjak serverade i syrénbersån. Utan att kommentera dagstidningsbusiness som jag inte vet något om gnäller jag gärna om utbudet av svenskspråkiga Helsingforsnyheter på webben. Därav lyfter jag [...]
Idiot MEPs want EU to regulate blogging?
Good grief, what are these MEP asshats thinking?
I’m against ownership concentration as much as the next guy, but I wonder what pluralism in media policy has to do with blogs putting “journalists and other media professionals under pressure”. I don’t see how regulation of before unseen ways in which potentially independent, anonymous citizens can express [...]
HP GPLs the Tru64 Unix Advanced File System
Hewlett-Packard has released the source code of AdvFS under the GNU General Public License. AdvFS is an advanced file system (with features such as snapshots and storage pools) used by the company’s high end Tru64 UNIX operating system.
This probably means that HP does a lot of business with Linux, and that there really is a [...]
George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure
Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech.
A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate what [...]
Introducing omglog.com
For some time, I’ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, [...]
Wiretapping in Sweden: all communications to be monitored?
Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called “better adapted military intelligence gathering” that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden. A few quotes from the post:
“At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic [...]
Svensk tv 1979: Diskotek och dansbandsdöd
Nedanstående reportage (flashvideo från youtube.com) som visades i svensk tv (Rapport i TV2) den 17 maj 1979 hittade jag bland Copyriot-inlägg jag lämnat olästa en tid.
(länk till Youtube)
“Många verkar skratta sig blåa över att Musikerförbundet år 1979 krävde en “särskild diskoavgift” för att rädda dansbanden. Med risk för att skratt hamnar i vrångstrupar, måste jag [...]
Creepy photoshopped father-son portraits
I hope manbabies.com proves to be too unhealthy for the human mind to become a longstanding mainstream webtard meme. Image borrowed from post #43.
[via:kung fu grippe]
Google’s new favicon
Google has a fugly new favicon.ico. I liked the old one because of its relative colorfulness, and I find it somewhat puzzling that they chose to use a gray gradient in the new version.
(Image borrowed from Google Blogoscoped)
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