The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published “Unintended Consequences,” [Updated link] a review of four years under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). The results have been chilling, for legitimate press, research, and the fair-use rights of U.S. citizens. I’m a member of EFF, and support their actions.
Archive | January, 2003
Post dated 2003-01-11 21:45:13
Tamar E. Granor, former Editor at FoxPro Advisor, has a great editorial piece here on the marketing challenges of Visual FoxPro and proposals to rename and repackage it.
Post dated 2003-01-11 16:43:10
A Novelist Who Walks the Walk. Science fiction writer Cory Doctorow, an outspoken advocate of the free publication and copying of digital works, is putting his money where his mouth is. He’s giving away his first novel to anyone who wants it. By Paul Boutin. [Wired News]
Post dated 2003-01-11 11:58:25
Microsoft agrees $1.1bn legal deal. The software giant reaches a massive compensation agreement in California after being accused of overcharging. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]. Very cool! I wonder how much money will actually end up in the hands of consumers, and what they will buy.
Post dated 2003-01-11 10:17:26
Nailed the Twiki problem. It was a rights issue. Just took enough flailing with CHMOD and CHGRP and CHOWN to get the right combination of rights and ownership. Now to go back through and undo the ones I don’t need, to keep the installation reasonably secure…
Post dated 2003-01-10 18:13:41
Twiki update: generating the view HTML locally from the Perl script creates the proper response, so this must have something to do with the rights of the Apache user. I’m such a newbie, I can’t believe I’m even typing this, but let’s see if I can get it to go…
Chapter 5 in which Dave goes to Harvard
DaveNet: Chapter 5 in which Dave goes to Harvard. [Scripting News] Sounds like a way cool gig, Dave. Best of luck!
Post dated 2003-01-10 09:47:04
What to Do With That Old, Slow PC. Don’t throw away your old computer. Some manufacturers offer trade-ins and rebate programs so you can recycle what you no longer want to use. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]
Post dated 2003-01-10 09:33:04
I’ve used Twiki web content management software several times for in-house knowledge bases, always running on Windows 2000 and IIS. Last night, I installed Apache 2.0 and Twiki onto a Linux workstation I’m learning to use. As I’m a Linux newbie, it took about two hours of flailing with the GUI and command-line commands to get it to 90% functionality. More hacking later this weekend should get it to come around. I hope to be able to publish this as a wireless wiki for a conference I’ll be attending in February.
Post dated 2003-01-10 09:22:45
Last year on this day: “If you knew you were going to be stranded on a deserted island and could only take one website with you, which would it be?” [Scripting News]