I spent the past several days trying to get the data moved over from my old PowerBook G4 to a newer one. I had about 60Gig of data (a lot of raw audio) on that, and wasn’t surprised that it didn’t go flawlessly. Apple’s Migration Assistant tool is cool, but the transfer froze not long after it attempted to move my own account over. A friend at Apple suggested it might be file corruption, and that’s exactly what it turned out to be. I never actually identified the offending file, but did narrow it down to a folder that had…
Dave has shipped his OPML editor…
and it’s Win only for the time being. The Mac version is “coming real soon now.”
Scoble wonders what kind of contests Microsoft will do around Windows Vista.
Hmmm, how about guessing how many known-but-unfixed security vulnerabilities there will be when it ships? Kind of like guessing how many jelly beans there are in a 100 gallon aquarium. Sorry, Robert. My inner Macintosh bigot-demon got the best of me this morning But I promise I will never utter another Microsoft joke if it ships with support for Hawaiian, including a keyboard, sort order, date formatting and the other goodies that ship with OS X.
Podcasters Shutdown on .Mac.
I was about to unsubscribe from Geek News Central‘s RSS feed when I came across this interesting tidbit. I know a few people who were taking advantage of the previously unmetered bandwidth on their .Mac sites for hosting podcasts. One was hosting his latest shows on his .Mac site for the big rush, and then moving them over to his ISP when the initial new show rush was over. I haven’t asked if his strategy has changed. I know the owner of the ISP I use personally, and haven’t heard a peep from him about bandwidth issues, so I probably…
Still getting no love from iTunes podcast directory.
With no avenue for communication evident, I was thinking that perhaps there was something about my feed that the iTunes that they didn’t like. So I manually created a new feed which includes all of their custom tags and resubmitted. Hopefully it will show up soon. Here is the new feed:
OPML outliner demo.
I was tuned into Dave’s talk from Harvard yesterday; someone had set it up so that the video feed was viewable with some kind of Flash client. Audio wasn’t bad, cut out a bit, but that’s not unexpected these days. Mahalo to the crew that arranged for the feed and IRC channel. The OPML outliner sounds interesting, looks similar to the outliners in Frontier and Manila. No news as to progress on the Mac version. One bit of disappointing news is that it does not support Unicode, same as RU or Frontier. The kernel is now GPL – is anyone…
Scott goes off on Dave.
Dave takes the full brunt of Scott’s acerbic Cornish wit in this one. I’ve used Frontier since the mid-90s and its cousin Radio Userland since it was in beta. RU still drives this site. I don’t listen to Morning Coffee Notes at all. I sampled a few and decided it wasn’t what I wanted to spend my time listening to. I prefer my cup of Dave in text format; it’s easier to skim. Personally I find it worth sorting through the lumps of coal to find the occasional gem. On the “lost music” episode that Scott talked about, it’s helpful…
Wired: How Do You Say Computer in Hawaiian?
My goodness, 10 years has passed since this article was first published in Wired. Boy, do I feel old now. The work that is described in this article laid the foundation for everything that we’ve done with Hawaiian and technology since. Reading the article again has brought back some fond memories. Thank God Connie didn’t take any pictures for the article. Wait, I think she did but they weren’t published with the article. Whew! Wired was the magazine for geeks in those days, and the article brought us a lot of recognition and offers of kōkua (help).
NahenaheNet Podcast #004 goes online.
This one features the music of my friend Tom Conway and his band Gypsy Pacific. It talks about the approaching release deadline for the 2006 Grammy Awards, and the trials and tribulations of my buddy Kenneth Makuakāne as he upgraded his Macintosh to OS X 10.4. If you do digital audio recording on your Mac, check out the podcast before upgrading!
IrishMusicPodcast.com Going Online.
I already know this will be one of my favorites. Host Michael Murphy has his own band called Michael Murphy and The Shannon River Band in the Pittsburgh area. Their audio samples sound great, and they even have a CD that benefits US troops, similar to the one that Kenneth Makuakāne did for our Hawai’i troops. I just ordered my copy. Looking forward to his podcasts.