I hope everyone had a nice holiday. I did. I spent the holiday in Lake Havasu City, AZ, at 65 degrees, with my family. I drove down and back, and encountered no bad weather or bad road conditions in either direction. I am certainly glad I didn’t have to drive through Colorado, though.
Today is the first official day of my working at home instead of in an office. My work computer is almost set up – I still have to get the VOIP phone working. Other than that, I’m ready for work.
I am trying to figure out a couple of things about openSUSE 10.2 before I write an article about it. Specifically, are these KDE menu changes done by the openSUSE crew, or are they part of KDE 3.5.5? And are they reversible? After I answer those two questions, I will be posting the article.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- The Well-Tempered Debian Desktop
- Windows screwup forces Ubuntu shift
- The gag is off: Samba’s Allison talks turkey on Microsoft-Novell deal
- CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time
- Another lost year for Linux? I think not
RIAA/MPAA/BSA/FCC
- Studios’ DVDs Face a Crack in Security
- RIAA sues AllofMP3 for $1.65 trillion – Oh, yeah – that’s fair, isn’t it?
- Indecency complaints: the roller coaster statistics continue
- AllofMP3 Responds to RIAA Lawsuit
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Will More DRM Mean Fewer Audits?
- AT&T Net Neutrality “Commitments” Unenforceable?
- Microsoft Windows DRM Foretells Doom and Gloom for Vista
- Recording industry, MP3 may reach truce
Other News
- The Microsoft Tax revisited
- Trade Secrets Trump Election Transparency
- Microsoft’s Laptop Giveaway Rubs Some the Wrong Way
Security/Our Rights
- MS sees out year with another Vista attack
- OneDOJ: a new national law enforcement database project
- U.S. gov looks to crypto to plug data leak holes
- TSA “security” measures are internally inconsistent
Big Brother
- Raid’s results leave family ‘in shock’
- Homeland Security Admits Privacy Errors in Anti-Terror Effort
- The TSA Follies
- Revealed: the scope of DHS’s passenger data collection and the Telegraph’s alarmism