I went out to dinner last night with some of my coworkers. The dinner was kind of a going-away party for two of them. We went to the White House in Post Falls and had some good food. There were six of us there, and I seemed to be the only one who wasn’t going anywhere new.
I downloaded a Linux distro that was oriented towards genealogy, and installed the distro as a virtual O/S on my standard Linux workstation. The distro is called LGenealogy and is very nice, as well as comprehensive. It is based on Ubuntu 6.06, and it includes three different genealogy programs.
I will be looking at the 1951 Plymouth Concorde today and will make a decision on whether to buy it. I hope it meets my expectations.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Is Novell losing Linux? No, it’s just bad reporting
- The Real Point of Unbreakable Linux: Breaking Red Hat
- ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE
- Open XML’s Quick ISO Approval Irks Indian Execs
RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/BSA/FCC
- FCC Fudges its Broadband Report — but finally gets one thing right!
- Big Win for Innocent RIAA Defendant
- RIAA thinks CDs should be three times more expensive
- Music industry sues Augusta man – Wants $3,750 for $4 worth of songs!
- MPAA roadshow a hit with legislators
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Sylvia Browne Attempts to Silence Web Site – The Striesand Effect in action.
- Thoughts on Music – Steve Jobs
- Dvorak: Apple CEO Steve Jobs is dead right about DRM
- Will Major Music Companies Drop DRM?
Other News
- Budget cuts may delay shuttle replacement
- Gay Rights Activists Introduce Initiative that Would Require Children in Marriages – A stupid response to a stupid action.
- GOP Losing Another PR War?
- New Homes for Old PCs
- A New Texas Bill for “Open Documents”
- Wal-Mart’s Video Download Signup Page – Does not work at all in Firefox. Way to go, Wal-Mart!
Security/Our Rights
- Hard drive vanishes from VA facility – aka, The Ministry for Data Leaks
- MS Admits It Needed More ‘Intrinsic Security’; Launches Products
- Hackers attack key Net traffic computers
- Skype Reads Your BIOS and Motherboard Serial Number
- Thieves target government records for identity theft
Big Brother
- U.K.: Plan to list paedophile web names
- Who Watches The Watchers In Surveillance Society?
- US surveillance of soldiers’ blogs sparks lawsuit
- U.K.: Passport chips only guaranteed for two years – And the passports are good for 10.
- Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images – John McCain strikes again!
- US preps vast DNA dragnet
- Stealthy Iris Scanner in the Works