BLOGical Thoughts

The North Idaho Linux Users Group has a technical session tomorrow at F1 For Help in Rathdrum. I think I will take the now-undead computer there and see if anyone can help me with resurrecting the operating system. If not, I may try installing Ubuntu and then install Windows 2000 professional in a virtual machine on that O/S.

I need to do a lot of shopping this weekend for the weekend after this one. We are having a barbecue at work on Wednesday, where I will be doing Dutch oven potatoes and two desserts. Then the next day I will be going to a teardrop trailer gathering and I need food for the potlucks there. It’s going to be a very busy couple of weeks.

I need to come up with a different way to download podcasts. Right now, I am downloading them in my Windows 2000 VM, then copying them to the actual workstation, then copying that to my thumb drive. Too many steps involved there. I guess I will have to ressurect that computer.

Silly sign of the day:

Free/Open Source Software

• Linux-Powered Enterprise Storage: Openfiler
• Open source show gears up with 200 sessions
• VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 2 arrives
• Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears
• Shuttle XS29f: Linux Looks Great in Green
• Eclipse Foundation Releases Galileo 2009
• What I Need to Help Sell Linux
• Should Oracle’s Linux strategy be…Ubuntu?

“It’s Mine, and You Have to Pay (and Pay and Pay) For It”

• Are Canadian Politicians Finally Recogizing There’s More Than One Side To Copyright?
• Judge Posner Recommends Extending Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers
• Small Town vs ASCAP
• Sirius XM must raise prices to pay music royalties
• MPAA says Real’s patent attempt saps RealDVD argument
• Pirate Bay retrial denied; judge declared “unbiased” - Yeah, bought and paid for, more like.
• PubPat and “Patent Troll” Make Strange Bedfellows
• Music industry ‘missed’ Napster
• Meet the former Time Warner exec the US govt has put in charge of writing a secret, restrictive copyright treaty

Local and Other News

• Analyst: $120 for Windows 7 ‘way too much’
• ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful TSA Searches And Detention
• Cogeco Metered Billing Goes Live, Confuses Customers
• School Pays Educator Falsely Charged In ‘Sexting’ Probe
• ICANN appoints former cybersecurity chief as new boss
• Who Exactly Is In Charge Of The App Store? Anyone?
• Weaving a better Web page
• Internet scareware scammers settle with FTC for $100,000
• EFF sues for publication of FBI domestic surveillance manual