My little corner of this place called the World Wide Web
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I just got finished reading Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin. In it there was this great conversation about the firing of Ross Levinshohn by Peter Chernin, the soon-to-be former COO of News Corps. Here it is: “You’re not happy, are you?” Chernin said. “No, I’m not,” Levinsohn agreed. “This isn’t working out, is it?” Chernin said.
“No, it’s not,” […]
Miscellaneous
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As some of you might have noticed, I have just recently moved my WordPress installation into a subdirectory of arfore.com. There are several reasons for this, the main one being that I would like for my blog to become a component of my website rather than the blog being the entire site.
Moving the WordPress installation itself […]
arfore.com
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Fringe, a new series on the Fox network that is using a new format Fox dubs Remote-Free TV. The episodes are longer than your average sitcom. The Wikipedia entry on the show states that this series will have less commercials and promos.
While this is true, one of the interesting bits is that before each commercial they […]
Television
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This next week the Senate is expected to vote on legislation to delay the transition of broadcast television in the United States from analog signals to digital signals.
The initial deadline was to have been February 17, 2009, however some in Congress as well as President Obama claim that more time is needed due to the […]
Technology, Television
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One of the current hot topics in many technology circles concerns the cloud-computing model. Wikipedia has the following definition for cloud computing: a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.
One of the biggest criticisms and concerns with this approach is the ownership, integrity, and […]
Security, Technology, arfore.com
One of the current hot topics in many technology circles concerns the cloud-computing model. Wikipedia has the following definition for cloud computing:
a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.
One of the biggest criticisms and concerns with this approach is the ownership, integrity, and security of the data. At work we are struggling with this concept as well. We are investigating moving our student e-mail into either Microsoft’s or Google’s online mail model. From an economic approach it seems very cut-and-dried. If we move the data for our users into the cloud then we cut down on our data storage, server and basic infrastructure costs. However, the legal ramifications of this are interesting.
Faculty and staff data are to be kept inside the enterprise due to concerns over the possibility that their mail would contain confidential or sensitive data, such as grade information, student id numbers, etc. What is interesting is that if a student is the recipient of an e-mail from a faculty or staff member that contains this information then the confidential or sensitive data has been placed in the cloud whether or not the faculty or staff member wanted it that way.
I have been dealing with this in a small way myself while trying to decide if I should move all of my personal mail into Google (which already hosts my mail accounts using the Google Apps services). Do I rely on the large scale backup and storage of Google? At first I was concerned that I might loose connectivity during a rare outage of the GMail system. But I realized that I only check my mail using a full client on my machine at home. Everywhere else I rely on an imap connection or the web interface. So I have made the leap!
Now to work on making my GPG signature stuff work with GMail’s web interface.
Security, Technology, arfore.com
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While surfing around today for some new wallpaper for my computer desktop at work it occurred to me to wonder when a piece of artwork might be considered sexual harrassment.
Given that the only other person that works in my office with me on a daily basis (Hi, Ashley!) is a open-minded art major and tends […]
arfore.com
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Quite some time ago I used to do a fairly regular Friday post of music videos. It’s time to start that over, but this time I going to post one every Monday night.
Tonight’s video is She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes. The song was released in 1990 on the album Shake Your Money […]
Uncategorized
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In my process of tranferring my DVD collection to a digital media server I discovered that the Apple TV software is smarter than I thought.
I have been ripping my DVD collection using Handbrake on my Mac and transferring them to a Windows box which is shared out via my internal only network to the Apple […]
Apple, Apple TV, Technology
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I just got finished reading Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin. In it there was this great conversation about the firing of Ross Levinshohn by Peter Chernin, the soon-to-be former COO of News Corps. Here it is: “You’re not happy, are you?” Chernin said. “No, I’m not,” Levinsohn agreed. “This isn’t working out, is it?” Chernin said.
“No, it’s not,” […]
Miscellaneous
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While surfing around today for some new wallpaper for my computer desktop at work it occurred to me to wonder when a piece of artwork might be considered sexual harrassment.
Given that the only other person that works in my office with me on a daily basis (Hi, Ashley!) is a open-minded art major and tends […]
arfore.com