Tue, 15 Jan 2008
Three Things - 1 of many
This weeks three things are -
- MySQL 5.1(.20+) can log errors via syslog (finally)
- IBM Blades run quite well despite being very wet. (don't ask)
- Amazon Prime is too helpful. (Wooo individual book orders)
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Posted: 2008/01/15 19:48 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Short Review - Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms
I liked the original Hellboy, it had great casting, an OK story and Selma
Blair being hot. Well, technically on fire, but we'll let that slip. I was
expecting great thing from the first of the animated Hellboy films - special
effects are great but you can go completely overboard with the monsters in
an animated film.
Instead I spent a couple of hours watching Hellboy Sword of Storms plod along at a very slow pace. The story was dull, the animation was fine but nothing exceptional and the only highlight were the occasional witty one liners. Wait for it to hit TV
Score: 3/10 - bring on Hellboy 2
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Posted: 2008/01/15 19:36 | /movies | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Proof of Ownership and Third Party Escrow
I own a lot of old comics, piles of DVDs and a somewhat smaller (but
still decent size stack) of audio CDs. These take up a lot of physical
space, the comics decrease in quality, they all attract dust and are a
pain to dig through when I want to find that one song on a compilation
CD from 2002. Or was it 2001?
I have a lot of data - iso images and virtual machines are among the biggest disk eaters. A large percentage of it sits on a number of small external hard drives that are cheap, easy to upgrade (buy a bigger one, run an rsync and done) and simple to take offsite.
I'd love to use the latter to solve the former - I'd happily buy two 500GB drives (dirt cheap) rip redundant FLAC and MP3 copies of a number of my CDs (and scan / rip everything else) and then dispose of them to get a shelf back but how do I then prove everything is legit when something crops up and I have to display the fact I paid for them? Amazon orders? Credit card receipts? With the grossly inflated fines being levelled in the US I'd be bankrupted if I couldn't prove I did buy the soundtrack to Finding Nemo (although the fine might be less painful than having it in the public record that I did - it was a present, honest!)
So where are the companies offering indemnity, escrow and proof of legitimate ownership? Why can't I tick a "remember I bought this" button on Amazon and know that they've got my back? (as well as my VMs, online storage and book purchasing history?) Is this impossible to do? Is there no market for it? Where am I going to put that next order from Play when it turns up...
It could even be a way to recover things you've lost, they'd have the proof that you owned it and it'd cost them practically nothing to issue you another copy. As much as I love CSI, Buffy and Stargate I want my floor space back.
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Posted: 2008/01/15 19:28 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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