Archive for January, 2007

AACS Use Restrictions

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6301301.stm
“A large-scale breach of AACS could be a threat to the $24bn DVD industry and dent hopes that high-definition discs would invigorate the market.”
There is usually increased spending on a new format after it’s released as people re-buy their collections (this is what they are referring to with the “invigorate the market”) but eventually this [...]

A Waste of Hard Drive Space?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Yesterday my / partition was 93% full, today it is only a modest 49%.
The space was mostly taken up by uncompressed video files from my tuner card (>1GB each) and my cached apt packages.
I really should keep an eye on that.

Bristol Interview

Monday, January 15th, 2007

The position was a C# Developer in a company called ALD Automotive, the job description said they’d provide training on for people who knew Java. So this Friday I travelled by train to Bristol for the interview. The interviews were in 2 stages, the initial interview which I was going to and then a follow-up [...]