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Sure MP3s are cool, but now that Napster is trying to go legit and all the huge consumer electronics manufacturers are supporting the format, what does a young trend bucking anti-corporate music swapper have to do to stay ahead of the curve? Download the latest (beta4) preview of Ogg Vorbis, of course. It's the really free really good digital music CODEC. Or if you're like me, and you still find yourself using cassette tapes, but want to sound like you're on the cutting edge, you can just read this interesting interview with the guys behind Ogg. Burn baby burn.
Baaaa. I made zero progress yesterday, but I may have screwed some stuff up, so at least I wasn't completely ineffective. It's remarkably hard to work for eight hours on something you are not accomplishing (but I guess that's where the screwing stuff up part came in.) Must get out of the house today. Perhaps it will put itself in order while I'm gone. Seems about as likely as me being able to do it.
Spent yesterday in linux land. I think the new box is going to be called tulip, although I still have to consult my tree specialist about that. Anyway, I'm now able to telnet into tulip from the iMac, as well as browse html pages on tulip from Netscape on the iMac. But I couldn't get FTP to connect (or, it seems to connect, but then it just hangs while getting directory information.) This is a problem, because I need FTP working to upload the latest PHP and MySQL. But after I get that done, I'll really be getting somewhere. Hopefully today will see some good progress.
I don't care who owns my bases. Bring on the backlash.
Here's a nice explanation of "web bugs" which are the limited case where cookies can be a security problem. The maddening thing, as he points out, is that it is not a problem with cookies, per se, but with the lame way they are implemented in Netscape and IE. Cookies are your friend. Your browser is probably not.