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Ideas as Property — the Big Lie of Big Content

By on September 13, 2003 in Home Page

Ideasas Property – the Big Lie of Big Content is
the title for this piece criticising the idea that ideas are property
that can be controlled like physical property. In the US, the framers
of the Constitution found the idea so important that they included it
in the document: Section 8:

The Congress shall have the
power… To promote
the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times
to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective
writings and discoveries;

Seems pretty straight-forward to me.

Nine Eleven

By on September 12, 2003 in Home Page

If I ever go to England…. …I’m taking the bus. What the heck do you do with one of these, anyway? [Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blog]

Nine Eleven

By on September 11, 2003 in Home Page

Two years ago today. May all who have lost friends and relatives find comfort and peace.

New Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039

By on September 10, 2003 in Home Page

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-039.asp [updated link]
lists a new security flaw, based on an extension of MS03-026 to new
ports. The MSKB is pretty confusing. Bottom line, right now, ensure you
have a firewall in place, whether you are attached to the internet
directly or through an intranet. Working through the language of the
patch will take some time. Look at this:

Note If you use the KB823980scan.exe tool to scan
a computer that has the 824146 security patch installed, the tool will
incorrectly report that the computer is missing the 823980 security
patch (MS03-026). Microsoft encourages customers to run the
KB824146scan.exe tool to determine whether the host computers on their
networks have the 823980 (MS03-026) and the 824146 (MS03-039) security
patches installed.

Pretty confusing stuff.

MSDN RSS Feed now available through the VFP Task Manager

By on September 10, 2003 in Home Page

Along with the great ProFox mailing list, Ed Leafe runs TaskPaneCentral, and Michael Henstock just uploaded a new task pane to the Files area
which will read MSDN postings. WARNING: the links in the Task Pane will
launch an instance of the IE browser, so make sure you have taken the
appropriate security precautions. A patch to the Task Pane to launch in your default browser is documented here.

What nonsense!

By on September 9, 2003 in Home Page

Forrester: Linux development can be more costly than using Microsoft software.
“The Microsoft-commissioned study estimated the cost of building custom
J2EE and .Net applications within large and medium-size organizations.”

“The price gap was primarily the result of the
difference between the prices of the BEA and Oracle software and those
of Visual Studio .Net and SQL Server.”

 What nonsense. So, it is possible to spend more money on
expensive software and end up with a more expensive solution. Duh. And
what if they used Apache, JBOSS and PostGreSQL?
[Computerworld News]

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