The NILUG meeting will be held tomorrow in Coeur d’Alene. I’m looking forward to it. One of the regulars will bring Revolution OS, a video about open source. I will bring Ubuntu Ultimate for those who want to see it, and will also bring an NEC PC8201 that I have had for at least 25 years. Should be a fun meeting.
I hope to get a lot of chores done this weekend. I need to change the tires on my Honda and hook up the brakes in the Plymouth. I also want to find a place that can help me with the restoration of the Plymouth’s interior.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- Create a Web-based interface for MySQL databases in a flash with phpMyEdit
- Japan may migrate 400,000 Windows school desktops to Linux
- HP considering factory-loaded Linux desktops and notebooks
- Open source tree tracker debuts in San Francisco
- AllPeers makes the leap to open source
- Are Linux Systems Ready for Daylight Saving Time?
RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/BSA/FCC
- Internet Radio on Death Row
- Linux Mint freshens Ubuntu’s palate
- The Music Industry’s ‘Spring Offensive’
- Viewpoint: The truth about the RIAA
- RIAA and Sci-Fi Upgrades
- Company tracks down file-sharers
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Patent office claims filesharing a threat to user privacy, national security
- Rubin on Google
- Anti-DRM activists rap Steve Jobs
- BitTorrent DRM Troubles
- Patent Monkey: Microsoft Stakes DRM Patent Claims
- Dell wins latest round of Alcatel patent spat
Other News
- Bill would require sites like MySpace to check ages – What, the Connecticut AG thinks he owns the Internet?
- State makes big fuss over local couple’s vegetable oil car fuel
- Gonzales Offers Concession on Prosecutors
- California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, to destroy books for Starbucks
Security/Our Rights
- ID Theft Is Exploding In The U.S.
- Microsoft’s OneCare antivirus fails another test
- Microsoft admits WGA update phones home
- SEC goes after stock spammers, hackers
Big Brother
- FBI criticized for Patriot Act use
- FBI underreported use of USA Patriot Act
- Homeland Security revives supersnoop