Author: Tor Håkon Haugen

  • Når skal bransjen våkne?

    This is in Norwegian, sorry….

    Dagbladet.no publiserte i dag artikkelen “Annenhver så filmen i opptak“, og handler om hvordan PVR-dekodere, Personal Video Recorder, griper om seg. Som eksempel viser dem til nyinnspillingen av filmen “Planet of The Apes”, hvor 47 prosent av seerne så den i opptak.

    Jeg skal ikke gjengi alt her, ettersom det naturligvis er best å lese artikkelen i sin fulle helhet på Dagbladet.no, men jeg ønsker å sitere min egen kommentar på artikkelen her:

    Ut fra disse tallene bør jo bransjen snart innse at folk ønsker å se hva det vil, når det vil.

    Ren spekulasjon; Men jeg vil tippe at flesteparten av TV-seriene som blir lastet ned her i Norge er serier som ikke sendes på norsk TV når den slippes i orginallandet, og når den først dukker opp så er det på et klokkeslett som ikke passer folk flest.

    RiksTV er ikke et digitalt fremskritt. Jeg venter fremdeles på dagen når man kan sette sammen TV-tilbudet selv. Kanal for kanal, eller enda bedre, program for program.

    Med PVR-dekoder er man et lite stykke på vei, men man må fremdeles betale for alt man ikke er interessert i å se.

  • 12 months in the Apple garden

    About a year ago, a friend of mine bought his first Mac and set of to explore the world as an Apple maniac. Now, 10 months later, he has finally begun to write about his experience.

    From his blog:

    Macify me is an attempt to document my first year as a Mac user. The idea is to try out some of the many myths and (mis?)conceptions around Apple, Mac and iEverything. I’ve decided to put myself in the role of the guinea pig and let all the good, the bad and the ugly of Apple Mac get into my life.

    In short – macify me !

  • Top 5 Spiders Visiting

    I guess you all know how search engines index the web. They send robots, or spiders, to surf the web and collect information about different pages. About a week ago I installed StatPress on my WordPress installation to collect some statistics about my visitors. 

    StatPress is a plug-in for WordPress which allows for real-time statistics about visitors. It reports most popular posts, browsers, search terms used to find your blog and also which search company visits your site most frequently.

    In these 7  days I’ve had StatPress installed it has collected the following information about the search companies indexing my site. The results are in percentage of visitors recognized by StatPress as spiders:

    • Baidu – 34.2% (344 visits)
    • Google – 14.7% (148 visits)
    • Yahoo! – 11.4% (115 visits)
    • MSN – 7.7% (77 visits)
    • Radian6 – 7.5% (75 visits)

    The latter one I haven’t even heard about, but apparently they’re working on social media. Or in their own words:

    “Radian6 created tools to help remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis.”

    This list may not be 100% accurate since StatPress only lists spiders which is know to it. At least I think that’s what it does, because I have yet to see a single entry from any Norwegian search engine. But then again, maybe they’re not aggressive enough to get onto the list?

  • VI Client and VMware Server

    Found a nice tip for using VMwares Infrastructure Client to manage VMware Server, a product which is usually managed via web interface. The tip is to simply add the port number of the web interface after the server name or ip address in Infrastructure Client. I.e. “servername:8333”, where 8333 is the default port number for VMware Servers web interface.

    The reason for this is most likely that VMware Server is installed as an application on top of an operating system. This underlying operating system might very well use the default SSL port number, 443, for its own web service already.

    However; If you’re running VMware Server exclusively, it should be possible to change the port number of the web interface to 443, thus avoiding this issue all together. At least my guess is that this will work.

    If you want a free hypervisor, but don’t want the trouble of maintaining an underlying operating system, I would recommend taking a look at VMware ESXi. I’ve written a blog post about it. The only reason, as I can see, to run VMware Server is the hardware support, since the operating system takes care of this. VMware ESXi has limited hardware support by default. But there are ways to get support for SATA controllers, among other things.

    Also; You might want to check out Citrix XenServer, which also has been released for free. This is a bare-metal hypervisor, meaning you don’t need an underlying operating system. But I don’t have any experience with XenServer, so I can’t really give any advice or tips yet.

    Credit:

    [1] http://www.desktop-virtualization.com/2009/02/25/use-infrastructure-client-to-manage-vmware-server/

  • Cartoonish from The Pirate Bay

    From the frontpage of The Pirate Bay today:

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