Curious

From WISH webpage on HD availability "Right now, it is not possible to receive directly from Dish or DirecTV,..."

terminal goodness

Trying to add to my knowledge of Unix via the terminal window in OSX - here are some handy tools for troubleshooting a cranky mac. Thanks to Randy for showing me!

ps -ax|grep {app name}

will return information about the application, provided it is running, most importantly the PID. Knowing the PID you can execute the following

kill {PID}

perfoms an old school force quit

ps -axug

lists all process on the system currently holding a PID - doesn't mean the process is running though

top -i 1

pretty much the same as process explorer on the windows side (or the process tab in task manager) refreshes top process based on cpu% every second in this example



so there you go nothing ground breaking, but handy nuggets for the uniformed.

jason

yummy

I wanted to draw some attention to my delicious page. I have been updating it daily and have found it easier to post links to.. then I don't have to come up some attempted witty paragraph just to post the link.

since I am here I will add a link to something fun

lastly, I ended up purchasing the NIN Ghost I-IV for $5 and I am quite pleased with the overall experience. I got all 36 songs in Apple Lossless format, a 40 page .pdf of the liner notes, and all the digital extras wallpapers, avatars, etc...

Kudos to NIN!

Praise for NIN

Thank you Nine Inch Nails for having the guts to explore new ways of working with technology and not against it. I know other bands have done it / are doing it, I just happen to be a fan NIN and I think they did a nice job. Licensed under Creative Commons and available at Ghosts(dot)nin(dot)com. I am particularly impressed with the options to purchase. In this release there are 36 songs over 4 volumes - hence Ghosts I-IV. The cool thing is the entire first 9 songs (or vol. 1) are free to download. If you like that you can pay $5 to get the other 3 volumes or 27 songs. For the mega fan there are more expensive options that include the vinyl release and autographs.

Another point of getting it right was the free download. Often a site will claim that it is free then ask for a valid credit card?! If I have to go through the pain of having a credit card with me and entered - I damn well might as well use it! Not free any more! So kudos to NIN for truly offering a free download sans credit card!

** at the time of writing this I had began download of the free content only to have the connection dropped, over, and over. so apparently they are getting slammed pretty hard!

I am glad that so many people are embracing the bands that are trying to make a change.


UPDATE: Great blog article from WSJ echoing my thoughts in a more WSJ way!