~larcher

(No, this has nothing to do with DRM .. )
It’d be neat if the iPod would let you flag something as “never play this
again”. Sure, you can already do this with the rating system — I give
something a 1-star rating, and then once in a while go remove all the mp3′s
with 1 star. But unless you make a special smart playlist and always use that
playlist, you might hear it again before it’s deleted. With a separate flag, it would never pop up again in a random shuffle.

This flag would have another use .. say I use streamripper to save some href="http://npr.org/">NPR program or
download some news from someplace like HREf="http://www.factsquad.org/radio">this. I probably only want to hear
this mp3 once, and only within a few days of copying to my iPod. So I set an
expiration date and/or a playcount limit. So after I hear it once or the story
is a week old, it never comes up randomly again. It stays on the iPod until I
explicitly delete it or all the expired tracks, so I can still manually select
it if I really do want to hear it again.

Just a thought ..

Might be possible someday with this Linux firmware for the iPod

Just found this: in vim, hitting ga will
tell you the ASCII code of the character under the cursor (in decimal, hex
and octal) .. neat. Vim is good I’ve thought about trying href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">that other editor, even
installed it at least once, but I just don’t have the copious amounts of
freetime I know it would take to figure out how to do all the nifty stuff I’ve
learned to do with Vim.

Last night I applied this patch to my Debian
install of djbdns and routed around
the damage caused by Verisign (morons!). I’m using djbdns as a forwarding
cache and as an internal tinydns for spoon.cx. This way, www.spoon.cx points
to my external IP when I’m away and to the correct private 192.168 IP when I’m
at home. And the setup was much simpler than BIND, which I used to run for
spoon.cx ..

Also, now that I have dns running on nougat (the Debian box),
there’s no essential services left on the original spoon (ancient slackware
box), so I switched it off .. yay. No more clik-clunk of the harddrive. Now
to find time to take it apart, clean out the harddrive, use the parts for
other boxes.. weeee.