Building simplicidade.org: notes, projects, and occasional rants

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Why I like nslu2

Pedro has a small rant about NSLU2 device from Linksys. His point is that any self-respecting geek already has a full linux box in his home network, that is able to do much more than the NSLU2. Well, yes, you are right, but that’s the wrong point. My point is that I hate that Linux box in my home network, and I would prefer to have a silent, the least moving parts possible box, and I don’t have nothing against having several boxes, each one doing some specialized function.

Just finish writing a hint to MacOS X Hints, about publishing virtual hosts via rendezvous. Here is a copy, in case it's not accepted. I'm using this as we speak. In a previous hint it was described how to use the RegisterResource of mod_apple_rendezvous to publish additional paths of your local server via Rendezvous. Virtual hosts are more complicated because you cannot send the hostname via rendezvous, apparently. But that's easy to solve with mod_rewrite.

iTunes in Motorola phones

Some phones from Motorola will be able to sync with iTunes. The phones should have removable media, so you might have a 1Gbyte storage space in there :). I really could care less, I have an iPod. The point I that made me write this is: you will not be able to use the music as ring tones. Why? The ring tone is a $3.2Bn/year industry, the iTMS is a paltry $100M/year industry.

iTunes in Motorola phones

Some phones from Motorola will be able to sync with iTunes. The phones should have removable media, so you might have a 1Gbyte storage space in there :). I really could care less, I have an iPod. The point I that made me write this is: you will not be able to use the music as ring tones. Why? The ring tone is a $3.2Bn/year industry, the iTMS is a paltry $100M/year industry.

Video iPod

I was listening to an old archive of Your Mac Life, the Mac-oriented radio show (check it out, it’s good). The show was the July 29, and the segment that got me thinking was the Chris Breen of Macworld. He’s a iPod-expert, and was there to talk about the 4th generation iPod. He said that the iPod menu in the 4G has a ‘Music’ item (i assume it replaces the old ‘Browse’ item), and goes on to speculate what will they do next.

The Douglas Adams release

I was looking at the new CPAN releases and saw a new release of version. Me thinks we should call all the x.42 releases a Adams release in tribute.

More about NAT

I’m reading the meeting notes of the “behave” BOF at the latest IETF meeting. There are some remarks that make me nervous. There is a belief that IPv6 will end the need for NAT: NATs continue to proliferate and have seen an increasing rate of deployment. IPv6 deployments can eliminate this problem, but there is a significant interim period in which applications will need to work both in IPv4 NAT environments and with the IPv6 to IPv4 transition mechanisms (e.

Aleluia

And then, at the end of the tunnel, a light tries to fight against the dark long corridor… Jabber Architecture: IETF recognizes that NATs exist: "There was a healthy discussion from some saying that the IETF shouldn't enable "those people". The counter argument is that they're going to do it anyway, so we may as well tell them how to do it safely. The turning point in the meeting was when someone at the front asked who in the room was using private address space.

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