RIAA Violates Internet Standards // Tech Generation
January 24th, 2008
I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .
… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:
Aggregating Blogs with FeedWordPress // Tech Generation
January 21st, 2008
With multiple websites devoted to certain topics, I was looking for something like the croissanga plug-in that would automatically link to posts from other locations in one place.
… I found a great Wordpress plug-in called FeedWordPress that allows you to import other RSS feed items as posts into Wordpress. … However, I found that the DePo Clean theme was displaying “Comments Off” for that setting so I modified the index.php so that it would be more descriptive to visitors (43 is the category ID for my posts imported via FeedWordPress):
New Year, Site Changes
January 21st, 2008
I’ve finally moved my personal blog over to its own domain name - jenniferl.net - and to deal with my multiple blogs for Technology and Travel , I’ve found an add-on called FeedWordPress which will automatically import any entries I’ve written at other sites as posts to this site. I also made some changes so that comments would collect where the original post is published; for any syndicated posts (also categorized as “Syndicated”), a link to the comment page on the original site will show up.
Macbook Lies About Quartz Extreme // Tech Generation
January 21st, 2008
I tried to start up Final Cut Express on my Macbook and was greeted with an error message:
Configuration Error: This software requires certain hardware or software which is missing. * Quartz Extreme Support
Macbook, why you gotta lie like that?
It was probably because of a recent software update. I had this error before and convinced [...]
Invasion of Facebook Wall Spam @ Tech Generation
January 19th, 2008
I got a message on my Facebook wall today. It read (links replaced):
what up Jen?
get the entrie billboard top100 for your cell from [RINGTONE SITE]
i think that Bre is the owner and cool as hell
Slightly confused, I did some digging around and it looks like it was wall spam. Lovely. Another example [...]
MacBook Air: Form vs. Function @ Tech Generation
January 19th, 2008
I attended MacWorld and held the MacBook Air in my hands and I have to admit that it is one fine piece of engineering. I initially thought that there was a lot more material under the laptop hidden by the curved edges a la their previous version of the iPod Nano, but it really [...]
Handwriting Recognition Progression @ Tech Generation
January 18th, 2008
It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my [...]
Caught In The Battle @ Tech Generation
January 10th, 2008
Originally written on May 24, 2007.
Internet2 (aka I2), a high speed research network with over 200 universities, can also be used for transferring non-research related data like music or movie files.
In April 2005, when I heard that the RIAA was going after people on Internet2, I remember asking my colleague, “How the hell did they [...]