October 2000 Archives

ApacheCon 2000 Europe

Back from ApacheCon
Europe. It was pretty good. I met a lot of people I had never met face to face before, and overall got a better vibe of things and where things are going in the future. Talked with the author of AxKit Matt
Sergeant, gstein, rbb,
sterling, wrowe,
daniel, Jick and many others. I finally lived up to my reputation by attending the conference with greenish blue hair. Needless to say there
was much rejoicing with english ales and bitters.

Back to work

Now that I am back I am updating and working some more on
the Apache Mailing List
Archives, yes wrowe, search is still one of the things I am working on. ;-) But better support for different charsets is also a thing I am working on with some of the better support in the CVS versions of AxKit.

Advogato Certification

Another comment on wrowe diary, I must say that I am actually quite happy with being a Journeyer, since I really do not feel that I have contributed enough to Open Source to qualify as a master. There are a lot of things I would like to see and things I would like to do better, the archive being one, and hopefully we will get to a point where I might feel I might deserve the
certification.

I am currently kicking it in london for ApacheCon. Hanging out with many including Jick, daniel, dirkx and others.
I will put up some pictures of this weekend which was a group of about 30 people hacking on Apache projects with some
minor 56k connectivity to the net. ;-) Tonight there is mod_perl get together at a local pub. Should be fun.

Last week I was at BSDCon, which was a lot of fun as well. fanf went up for only a day or two, just to kick it with us and to have some beers and visit a few sessions.

According to this Salon arcticle, the watermarks have been hacked. So much for the boycott. I guess we will get to see what this means to SDMI.

Inside has the SDMI response to the article.

As brought up on several music and technology sites, SDMI is looking for someone to hack their latest watermarking. After doing a little hacking, I realized that however much fun it was, it really didn't matter.

Since we really want to find something that allows for our current "fair use" rights, having what we have now would be a good solution from the consumer perspective. As an artist this might be a little bit of a different story, but you definately would like to make your own decisions and get compensated for your work, rather then giving a huge share to the record labels.

After getting several "employment opportunities" from different label projects such as Sony's "digital locker" project. I really look at this as an attempt to undermine the consumers interest. Therefore, as an EFF member, I am Boycotting the HackSDMI challenge. Whose servers, ironicly, sit only a single hop away from my co-lo box.

This salon article (note: I am currently working in the ex-salon offices in San Francisco.) Points out some interesting view points of some of the technology industry members of
the SDMI. Although, I think they might have a point, I still think probably the best way to ensure consumers rights is to Boycott the challenge. Hopefully they will then go live with a technology that is seriously broken and we can go on with life.

Things seem much more stable. I am working on cleaning up the layout a little bit. Making it more plain in a hope the pages will load faster and will format a little better. Slowly but surely things are getting much like the way I envision it. It is still pretty far away from that, but I enjoy the progress I have been seeing in it.