Bitbucket Podcast #2 Jazz Mix

I realise now I shouldn't have posted all the details of #1 to both Blogs.

The Podcast Blog is
bitbucketpodcast.blogspot.com

The Atom Feed for Netvibes etc. is
bitbucketpodcast.blogspot.com/atom.xml

The actual Feed for iPodder, Doppler, iTunes etc. is
feeds.feedburner.com/bitbucketpodcast

Still confused? So am I.

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The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

Article in PC World (the US one). Number one? AOL.

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The Bitbucket Podcast

I know you have all been waiting for this. Well here it is.

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Music

Title And Registration by Death Cab For Cutie
Reflex Blue by without malice
Sum of One by Blame Amy
Electric Love by Reactor
Exodus Damage by John Vanderslice
Spitting Out Benchmarks by amplifico

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Not saving the Planet

Not sure which is worse, the energy used leaving our Linux server running for seven months, or the heat produced in that time. A good indication that Linux runs unattended for a long time though.

Countries I have visited

create your own visited countries map

Hmmm. I wonder?

You should see what it says about my graphics card :-(

Google Analysis

Apparently I signed up for this, but I can't remember. Anyway, I got an email from them last week sying I was in, so I set up the St Andrews home page for monitoring (you just need a few lines of JavaScript at the bottom of the pages you want monitored) and left it for a week. Its pretty interesting looking at the stats.

Panic! Don't Panic?

One of those things I tell people will eventually happen to them happened to me tonight. I was editing a Word document, saved it, tried to quit Word, and it would not. The whole PC hung up with the HDD drive flashing frantically. I pressed reset. The PC tried to restart, the BIOS reported no HDD, then a Black Screen Of Death:

BOOT DISK ERROR - INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Gulp.

Found Bart PE Boot Disk, inserted, pressed enter. It booted into Knoppix. Started Command Shell, did C: - DISK NOT READY

Now wondering how long to rebuild this, and what I had on its C: drive. Shouldn't be too much apart from Music. Database I was working on backed up last night, phew.

Turned it off to think. Half an hour later, turned it on again and it started normally.

What do I do now? Turn it off again, never turn it off again, back everything up - how?

Still thinking, PC still running, 4 hours later.

ADSL

Bit of a rant coming up.

In the mid 90s I went to an IATA conference in Montreal, about the use of the Internet by Airlines. One of the keynote speakers was an Internet pioneer (whose name I am embarrassed to say I can't remember). This was about the time that ADSL was taking off in North America, and he rubbished the technology because he said that the speed must be the same in both directions. I didn't think much about it at the time, but now, ten years later, of course I realise what he was getting at.

Up until a few years ago the fastest residential connection we could get was 56 Kbits. Then we got ADSL at 512 Kbits down (ten times faster) and 128K up (only twice as fast). This made browsing much faster, but uploading not much faster. Last year we got 2 Mbits down and 256 Kbits up. Later this year we will probably get 8 Mbits down and 512 Kbits up. This is the first time it will have been possible to run a web site on an ADSL link, and will make uploading pictures and music less of a drag, and may even make video practical.

I recently had a shock when we ordered a 2 MBits SDSL line for work, which costs GBP 4,500 per year, compared to GBP 240 for ADSL, but we needed a line to send emails from so ADSL wasn't an option.

End of rant.