Posted by Damien Pollet
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:54:00 GMT
This summer I moved to Lugano for a new position at USI.
Sadly this implied that I had to let go of the 28Mbit fixed IP DSL from Free.fr to a wonderful 4MBit, dynamic IP, same price. So this weekend I had some fun coaxing Apache into proxying the websites from my dyndns.org address.
Anyway, I’ll keep it short, as I’ve also been hacking Pier and Seaside to replace the current Typo running on Rails. You got to eat your own food, especially when it tastes better :-)
The analogy could probably work for any field where strategy and tactics come into play, and it’s rather funny to see it map so well to the recent events. However, it breaks at one point… at the end of a game of Go, the game result doesn’t matter so much because both players have played a nice game, and won experience and respect.
In our case, let’s hope the chuban was actually good and the yose turns towards the public interest…
To celebrate my small patch of adressing space, I added the banner you can see at the top-left of the page. It should be red if you come from IPv4 land and green if my tunnel is up, my config actually works, and you are really in IPv6 (not using an ::ffff:a.b.c.d IP).
So I’m coming to my first point, which is how to tell Lighttpd to differenciate clients and keep the config files modular.
Posted by Damien Pollet
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:19:28 GMT
As reported by Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow, Apple announced today that the iTunes music store would soon offer high-quality, DRM-free tunes and videos, starting with the EMI catalog. That’s really great news!
From the PR point of view, I now wonder what Steve Jobs’ thoughts on music post was really… stating his opinion in public to push the majors, or more a kind of early announce to prepare our minds?
Posted by Damien Pollet
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:09:45 GMT
Actiontastic is a cool GTD application by Jon Crosby. Until now we were teased by expiring beta releases, but Jon decided to open-source it!
Opening up this project for community participation is the best possible thing that I can think of doing for its future. Great things are on the horizon for that sweet intersection of the web and the desktop. I would rather discuss them openly and collaborate with other like-minded people than hide any of the details just to make another $29 shareware sale. I am not opposed to the idea of shareware in general and have purchased quite a bit of it myself over the past year. It’s just that shareware isn’t the right path for Actiontastic.
I really like this approach of free, tweakable, open-source software, associated with a paying hosted service (like Actionatr) for those who want all the benefits without bothering themselves with maintaining infrastructure.
