I spent a lot of time plowing on Saturday. We got about 8 to 10 inches of snow up here on the rimrock. The problem is getting to be where to throw it, not just getting it off the road. I have a six foot berm in front of my house right now.
There are a couple of really old projects I need to get back to, and I plan to start doing that this week. One of them is the coaching program and another is The Shadow stories. Remember them? I still haven’t finished converting them to HTML. I will see about that this week.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Expect more open source enterprise apps this year: analysts
- China making own PCs with own CPU and Linux
- What’ll they think of next: Winbuntu?
- Linux lobby pitches single standards camp
- FreeNAS makes it easy to add storage to home networks
RIAA/MPAA/ESRB/IFPI/BSA/FCC
- Universal exec – say goodbye to the old record co.
- RIAA’s legal win not so easy listening for XM
- Judge allows music industry to sue XM Satellite
- With arrest of DJ Drama, the law takes aim at mixtapes
- RIAA talks flat fees, and how they turned the French
- MPAA, RIAA, CEA Execs Clash Over DRM & Hardware Controls
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Audio/Video Quality on Windows Vista
- Windows Vista Content Protection – Twenty Questions (and Answers)
- HDCP: beta testing DRM on the public?
- Music companies mull ditching DRM
- Microsoft spins DRM tale in ‘blog’
- Of patents and promises
Other News
- MS Zune: Wireless sharing – 58% of top songs are sharable?
- SCO faces new setback in IBM case
- “It’s so simple, it’s ridiculous”: taxing times for 16th amendment rebels
- Prosecutor says presidential recount rigged in Ohio county
- New lobbying bill to criminalize political bloggers? (updated)
Security/Our Rights
- Storm Worm Hits Computers Around the World
- Spammers’ Fake Newsletters Slip by E-Mail Filters
- Data Breach Could Affect Millions of TJX Shoppers
- Net security from one of the fathers of the biz
- Kansas City loses tax record tapes
Our “friends”, the TSA
- Security update: Shorter no-fly lists; air cargo won’t be screened, “for your safety”
- The score thus far: TSA, 1… Zippo lighter camera, 0
- What Happens When Local Industry Crosses Paths with the TSA in Lousiville
- Put Down Your Key And No One Will Be Hurt
- The TSA Follies
Big Brother
- Bush agrees to court oversight of domestic spying – Agree, my ass. It’s the Law and he must obey it. Otherwise, he would be a criminal. Oh, wait…
- Computer Privacy in Distress
- Pa. man’s letter brings Secret Service