Some good commentary on the (liberal) view of the music sharing issue and, as it says, links to slews of legal downloads.
Archive | November 25, 2003
Advisor FoxPro DevCon: JW Marriott Resort, Las Vegas
Once again, Advisor hosts their conference at an expensive facility that doubles the cost of attending DevCon vs. the other conferences. I think Advisor is still marketing to a corporate, expense account clientele that don’t patronize DevCon any more. Conference Attendance over the years shows a pretty clear trend. Well, this should have a postive effect on the Essential Fox and Great Lakes Great Database Workshop conferences.
VFP DevCon Hotel. “I just got my December FoxPro Advisor. DevCon will be at the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa. Again, the dates are Sept. 29-Oct 2, 2004.” From Craig Berntson’s FoxBlog
House passes an anti-spam bill with no teeth
Spammers Pleased with ‘Anti’-Spam Act See the discussion on Slashdot
Palfrey, Harvard, Diebold, Slater: DMCA used to cut off free speech
John Palfrey: “Copyright is not meant to be used as a weapon to stifle free speech.” Link via Scripting News
FoxForum Wiki RSS 1.0 Feed Back Online
For those who prefer the RDF-enhanced RSS 1.0 feed to an RSS 2.0 feed, both are now once again available for the FoxForum Wiki at the site of my RSS feeds, http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html. Steven Black, owner of Fox Wiki, had to rebuild the server that serves wiki content, and for some reason my little hack couldn’t connect to his web service, although other developers didn’t seem to have any trouble. I finally got around to rebuilding the application and RDF once again pours forth from http://www.tedroche.com/FoxWikiRSS/foxwiki.rdf. Enjoy!
Windows Explorer Annoyances
It’s annoying that every time I open Windows Explorer, I have to wait for it to render the 60 sub-folders and 65 documents of “My Documents,” even though I know I want to browse immediately to some folder on my C: drive. Here’s one solution: change the default location in the command line of Explorer.exe. Details here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/tips/august/bertleff1.asp
This will change the default page to the root of “My Computer,” which at least on my computer, opens significantly faster. An explanation of the command line options can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;152457&
Diebold ATMs infected by Nachi worm
I am at a loss to understand why anyone would think that putting Windows on an ATM is a sensible thing to do. Why? Nachi worm infected Diebold ATMs. From The Register
Brother off to Micronesia
Brother Joe has an annoying habit of flying off to some remote country when family holidays approach. I think it’s just his excuse so he isn’t volunteered to bring the olives. Seriously, Joe is a Registered Nurse volunteering to fly where medical attention is needed. He managed to do this last Christmas, too, although miraculously arrived home at the last minute from Guam. This year, Micronesia was just hit with a Category 5 hurricane, and off he goes. Godspeed and good luck, brother. Take care of yourself.