I have finished adding slideshows of all the pictures I have for 2003, 2004 and 2005. I still have 2006 to do and I will get that done in the next few days. Check out the BLOGical section Teardrop Trailers for the slideshows.
The NILUG meeting was held on Saturday, and there was a big turnout. We also got a lot done, including installing Mepis on a virgin machine as a dual boot to Windows XP. I brought up the subject of leveraging our Linux expertise into some kind of a full time job, and there was some good discussion on that, but no others are willing to put themselves out for that. I would really like to, but I don’t know how successful it would be.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.2 Rise to (and in Some Ways Above) Microsoft’s Vista Challenge
- Fedora releases a live CD
- Tables of Equivalents
- Linux Live CDs
- We Are All Agilists Now
- BSD – The Dark Horse of Open Source, by Brendan Scott, OS Law
- Linux in main-stream cartoons
RIAA/MPAA/ESRB/BSA/FCC
- History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers
- Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld
- MPAA’s file fakery exposed
- Rare, medium, or well-done? FCC to be grilled by Congress
- Senators introduce bill to restrict Internet, cable, and satellite radio recording – Congrats, Hollywood. Isn’t nice to have our Senators in your pocket?
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Take Action: Defend Your Right to Record Off the Radio!
- Spocko, KSFO, and the Blogosphere’s Allergy to Copyright Thuggery
- New Senate Bill Targets Satellite Radio
- Canada considering tough new copyright law?
- Rights management system – DRM patent, filed by Alan Cox of Red Hat
Other News
- Two of Saddam’s co-defendants are executed
- Outlook 2007 panned by Email developer
- Bush refuses to waver on Iraq troop plan – Who the hell does he think is working for? The people who elected him or himself? If he was a CEO, the stockholders would fire his ass!
- Idaho gov. wants to kill all but 100 wolves in state
Security/Our Rights
- Security Now 74: Peter Gutmann On Vista Content Protection
- FedEx refuses shipment of made-up stuff, empty cans
- Architecture and airport security
- University of Idaho Reports Computer Thefts
- PayPal Adds Security To Fight Phishing
- Real ID database to be outsourced – “For your security, we’ll let some non-government entity have your records.”
- Verisign hacking challenge targets Microsoft products – again
Big Brother
- Pentagon won’t back official who blasted Gitmo lawyers
- Bloggers cite rumors of US “secret war” with Iran and Syria
- Cheney: Credit checks aren’t illegal
- NGOs to sue US over WMD claims
- How NSA access was built into Windows
- U.K.: Whitehall plan for huge database