American Rhapsody - Comments

Things I've Done This Week - Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:26:21 -0800

(( I *cough, cough* too :-) ))

About the basement... hmm... if you could show some pictures (photographs or drawings) of the situation... (without revealing any secret or clue about geographical location, of course)...

Things I've Done This Week - Krazy Kitty

Krazy Kitty — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:06:16 -0800

I really don't see what you're talking about, Pablo, *cough, cough*.

And no, they're not worried about espionage (I myself can barely understand what it is that I am doing, and I doubt anybody cares anyway), they're just cheap. Some of the rooms in that basement (including the one for our PhD students) have windows and the ground in front of those has been cleared away at a 45 degree angle, so it's not fully inhuman...

Things I've Done This Week - Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:59:38 -0800

(By the way, the english version of this blog lacks the mention "now operating from Germanland")

Things I've Done This Week - Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:56:33 -0800

Germanland authorities believe it is their duty to protect foreign researchers from espionage or harmful attacks. Whence the bunkerlike (or windowless) offices. (Isn't it likely?)

Adobe Digital Editions, Ubuntu, and DRMs - Francis

Francis — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:44:01 -0800

dabix Thanks a lot!!!

Notice of Public Interest - Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:59:59 -0800

((Oh, I totally agree: of course not, of course not! even in those cases no one "deserves" anything for it)).

Notice of Public Interest - Krazy Kitty

Krazy Kitty — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:59:24 -0800

The name of the office in charge of the investigation is given at the end of the article, Pablo, so I doubt there is an official version of the facts already. But in any case, even if Tommy was driving recklessly and did something illegal and stupid, he certainly didn't "deserve" to die. I didn't know him well, but still, dammit. (The driver of the car is, by the way, fine, or as fine as one can be after being involved in such an accident, not that it changes anything.)

Je sais, Gabriel, je sais. Wait. Someone is wrong on the Internet., tout ça, tout ça. Néanmoins, ce genre de commentaires apparait entre de touchants éloges funèbres venant de gens qui connaissaient Tommy, ou tout simplement des messages de gens qui trouvent le tout très triste, et qui eux font du bien à lire... (je ne le connaissais que peu, surtout de vue, on a eu deux-trois conversations en tout, mais putain, quoi.)

Notice of Public Interest - Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:23:36 -0800

Il y aura partout, dans tous les pays du monde, dans toutes les langues, des commentateurs du niveau du Figaro.fr ou de Rue 89. La meilleure solution est toujours de les ignorer superbement.

Malheureusement, parfois, tu ne peux pas. Bon courage.

Notice of Public Interest - Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:15:56 -0800

Besides the fact that journalists and readers like to draw hasty conclusions about any kind of incidents (involving motorcycles or ships, it doesn't matter) even (or rather: specially) if they weren't there and did not know the details of what really happened (but who can tell what really happened). Big hug.

Adobe Digital Editions, Ubuntu, and DRMs - Øystein

Øystein — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:34:34 -0800

Thanks a million! I ran into the exact same problems as you did and managed to solve them thanks to your post :-]

Resolutions, Schmesolutions - Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:54:14 -0800

Turn 27... check! Happy Birthday!! :-)

Adobe Digital Editions, Ubuntu, and DRMs - dabix

dabix — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:04:24 -0800

Thanks a lot.

A tip for Calibre and drms on linux :
Once you have your adeptkey.der file, just put it in the calibre configuration directory and the plugins will work perfectly. You'll just have to add drm books like any other in your library.
(and say goodbye to your little pyw friends)

Bye.

Conferencing - Krazy Kitty

Krazy Kitty — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:27:52 -0800

I guess you mean that I didn't write any of those accents because I never know where they go, Pablo ? That would match my lovingly flat French accent when I speak Spanish, which made my Spanish colleague exclaim "Oh, now you have a French accent at last" when he heard me talk to our taxi driver... Glad the card made it and you were able to decipher it! (I'm afraid I had to restrict myself to the few things I had a vague idea how to say...)

Conferencing - Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:45:16 -0800

By the way, I got yesterday a lovely grenadian postcard \o/ —which I think is written in an accentless spanish ;-) . Thanks so much!

Conferencing - Krazy Kitty

Krazy Kitty — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:25:19 -0800

I'll insist once more, Pablo, on the fact that this would have been entirely different in any place other than Spain. Granada and the Sierra Nevada were beautiful, the sense of late dinner and all night partying absolutely appropriate for a conference that goes on til midnight every day, and I had forgotten how much I liked hearing Spanish and speaking the few words of it that I can master (with a terribly French accent, I'm told (except that I was told "sexy" and not "terribly"...)).

Conferencing - Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:34:03 -0800

Very happy for you, K², it was that great!

The Last Thursday of November - Dominic

Dominic — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:51:56 -0800

Very appropriate to go with Haydn @ Thanksgiving. As Monty Python observed, "Haydn and Rachmaninov enjoyed a nice drink with their meal" which fits quite nicely :)

The Last Thursday of November - Krazy Kitty

Krazy Kitty — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:27:09 -0800

Thank you, Otir! Hope you and your boys had a great celebration.

The Last Thursday of November - Otir

Otir — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:10:03 -0800

Happy Thanksgiving to you my friend. You are sitting in spirit around my feast table (I should take a picture of your postcards visible in the background!)

Adobe Digital Editions, Ubuntu, and DRMs - Tazzer

Tazzer — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:03:29 -0800

Thank you very much indeed!

I was able to install ADE via wine.
OS: Ubuntu 11.10
Wine version: wine-1.3.28 (it was the newest non-experimental version in the Ubuntu software center)
ADE 1.7.2 from this link:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb4030...

Active Python: 2.6.7.20
Tools_v4.8.zip - I missed it in your post that I needed it to get the inept* scripts :)
pycrypto-2.0.1.win32-py2.6.exe (under binary versions)

There are updated scripts for python 2.7.x but I wanted to match Gabriel's version numbers as close as possible... as that led to Gab's success and mine too :)

Thanks again!!

Tazzer

P.s. I loved Pablo's comment on Teleporting Rights Management