I was gifted a spotify subscription and find myself using the service often.
However, I’m increasingly annoyed with the product and find myself wondering if I will continue as a paying customer.
RANTS: Quote of the day
When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the sibylline books. It falls into that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchhill
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TECH: mod_deflate, apache2 and no compression .
You’ve enabled mod_deflate either via apxs as a module, or by recompiling httpd as a whole, but alas, no compression.
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PHOTO: Chicago Skyline
gorgeous chicago skyline, march 2014.
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TECH: Reminder: Google to RETIRE XMPP support!
In what I assume is the most underreported reported tech story of the last year, Google(tm) intends to screw their customers by retiring XMPP support for Talk/Hangouts/Voice on May 15, 2014.
Users of pidgin or other chat software will find their gtalk handles dead in less than two months! Whats worse is that the group communication features of Hangouts(tm) have much to be desired.
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TECH: Running multiple instances of cgminer on Linux
One may have software, hardware or configuration issues which require multiple instances of cgminer to share the USB bus.
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LIFE: What I learned from Sandy.
It has been over a year now since Hurricane|SuperStorm Sandy, a fine time to post my notes from a day trip to Staten Island. Hopefully this paints a picture of conditions on the ground after a flood.
