Whups.
I’ve been using QProcess from QT to spawn some SSH processes in glTail, and then just using exit(1) to quit while testing.
And on thursday evening, by server ran out of memory due to ~4000 SSH processes running. Guess I should find out how to properly quit a QT application instead of just exiting. 
I’ve had a bit of fun the last week or so, and done two implementations of the same program. One in Ruby, and one in C++. The goal was to try and make a ‘pretty’ and entertaining view of the relationship between your web-pages, and where your traffic is coming from.
The Ruby version ended up dropping below 30 FPS when handling the relationships between ~90 urls, while the C++ version is at about ~800. Even though C++ is a pain to develop in compared to Ruby, I’m going to have to drop Ruby this one time due to speed.
RIAA spends thousands to obtain $300
They were aiming for $529,500. Tihi.
Recording Industry vs The People
In SONY v. Arellanes, the Court has refused to allow the RIAA untrammelled access to the defendant's hard drive, holding instead that only a mutually agreeable, neutral computer forensics expert may examine the hard drive, and that the parties must agree on mutually acceptable provisions for confidentiality
Earlier, RIAA has used their own experts to find incriminating evidence on hard-drives.
BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison at Torrentfreak
> The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.
I wonder why most torrent sites move to other countries, with a bit more liberal view on these things. Elitetorrents did promote that they had StarWars on their frontpage, so I can see how the MPAA got a bit pissed off.
Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame - Yahoo! News
> San Francisco (InfoWorld) - SAN FRANCISCO – Demonstrating a perhaps more aggressive path than anticipated, Sun Microsystems is set to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning.
This means around chrismas. Will be interesting to see what comes of this.
I used the default Xorg 7.1 that ships with Edgy, and Compiz & friends from Quinnstorms Edgy repositories.
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
Option "SubPixelOrder" "none"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "DynamicClocks" "on"
Option "mtrr" "on"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "RendelAccel" "true"
Option "MergedFB" "true"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "true"
Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024-1280x1024"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]"
Monitor "DELL E171FP"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
Virtual 2560 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
# Option "Xinerama" "ON"
EndSection
I upgraded my Gentoo box running MythTV to a new kernel and a new ivtv version. The only problem I had was that watching live TV no longer worked, and I need that to satisfy the wife even though we rarely watch TV regularly any longer. It seems the ivtv driver change the numbering scheme for tuners to start with 0 to starting with 1. Running mythtv-setup and changing the selected tuner from Tuner0 to Tuner1 made everything work again.
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
> MALMO, Sweden — It’s Saturday night and I’m lounging on a living room sofa surrounded by lanky twenty-somethings in shorts and deep tans. Across from me, a wire emerges from a green Xbox — modified to stream movies from its hard drive — and snakes past two dusty turntables and into a video projector, which is displaying a menu of movies that would make Blockbuster jealous.
Nice writeup of The Pirate Bays history and motivation.