Archive 25. May 2005

DRM is and remains shit

I've now reinstalled my computer - I wanted to start fresh with the installation so that everything really works smoothly and no remnants from the Jaguar (I skipped Panther) cause any trouble. So I made backups and reformatted and set up the box. Everything went well. Dragged music via drag-and-drop into the iTunes folder, that worked too. Played the first purchased piece - I have to authenticate my computer. Hello? What? I'm using it on exactly the same computer I bought it on, but I have to authenticate myself?

DRM is simply an insult to adult customers.

TBNL - A Toolkit for Dynamic Lisp Websites enables generating dynamic content with Common Lisp. Essentially, it's something like a FastCGI solution for Common Lisp.

Tiger Attack

Here, the Tiger is currently being installed. At the moment, most things still work, but I haven't installed everything that should be working yet. At least, the network is already working.

The Safari of OS X has a stupid bug: you can usually click on a defined label to toggle a checkbox. Only not with Safari. Annoying, that.

Voyager reaches the boundary of the solar system - good journey and greet the aliens for me!