Wednesday, 1 July, 2009
This will be my last posting until Monday. I hope everyone enjoys their 4th of July as much as I probably will.
Jeff Duntemann’s Contrapositive Diary did not suffer from bandwidth overload. I emailed him yesterday and he sent back a note indicating that his web host had suffered a massive SQL injection attack. All the accounts on the server that hosts Jeff’s diary, and that use a database, were taken down by the attack. Once his web host gets the damage fixed, Jeff will have to replace all his content from backups. I have been in his shoes, so I know what he has to do. My sympathies go out to him.
Silly sign of the day:

110% ?????? Aren’t computers wonderful?
Free/Open Source Software
- Aaron Seigo Fears Demise of Freedesktop.org
- Ohio Linux Fest [September 25-26] – Back to the Future of Linux!
- 10 mistakes new Linux administrators make
- The pros and “conns” of Intel’s ConnMan for Linux
- Desktop Linux…building the future
- Quick List of Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu
- VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux Brings 3D and OpenGL 2.0 Support
“It’s Mine, and You Have to Pay (and Pay and Pay) For It”
- “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rights retention for scholarly articles
- RIP, Pirate Bay
- Infamous Niro JPEG Patent Smacked Down Again
- RIAA claims victory in Usenet.com copyright case
- The End of The Pirate Bay: A Victory Against Piracy?
- ISOHunt to start filtering content
- Judge Richard Posner’s misguided view of the Internet and newspapers
Local and Other News
- Trojan Swipes FTP Credentials for Major Companies in Malware Attack
- The Huge Hidden Cost of Microsoft Software
- Amazon.com cuts R.I. partners over tax
- Hulu locks out PS3 Users, Others to follow?
- Report: botnets sent over 80% of all June spam
- Europe won’t pay more for Windows 7. Really! - More money for less software - what a unique concept!
- Local: Train incidents under investigation
- Microsoft reminds us that Windows is f*cking expensive











