I discovered that IAYFT.com hasn’t been registered. Hmmm.
Ars Technica published this “blackpaper” on wireless security.
Forbes is publishing a special report on Linux.
Digital Consumer is another site fighting the poorly-thought-out, over-reaching efforts of the music, movie and tech industries, in controlling piracy by crippling our fair use.
This Seattle Times article details the lifelong avocation – violin collecting – of Dr. Dave Fulton, the genius who ran Fox Software and sold it to Microsoft. [Ed: original article lost. Here’s an update on the collection: Highly successful violin collector finds that it’s time to let go
Andy Kramek pointed out this handy Win32 resource for VFP Developers in a posting on CompuServe.
“Microsoft Readying ‘Avalon’ Framework for Longhorn
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has promised for years how Windows will allow consumers to access “information at your fingertips.”
With Longhorn, the next version of Windows due out in 2005, the company will take its first serious stab at delivering on Gates’ vision. ”
Where do these journalists get off? IAYFT was a decade ago, a lame promise come and gone unfulfilled, up there with “user friendly.” It was followed by equally unmet though less memorable phrases. What a crock.
Harvey Reid, a local guitarist of great talent, explains what ASCAP and BMI are here.
Microsoft’s Palladium is the latest proposal in digital rights management. As an author, I welcome the ability to control the distribution of my document, but as a consumer, I am strongly opposed to anything that will restrict my ability to copy, merge, mix or modify software, paper, tape, CDs or bits. This is an infringement on my ability to do my job. “Personal use” is a principle and not a Constitutional Right, and it is being eroded at an alarming rate. Palladium is a heavy metal poison, a carcinogin, an element, the name of many theaters, a role-playing game and the protective statue that guarded Troy. Microsoft protected Trojans? It does make you wonder. Read more about Palladium here:
Stephen Levy writes for MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp
Slashdot goes crazy: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/27/125227.shtml?tid=109
More follow-up (cross-links from Slashdot):
Summer Solstice! Sunrise: 5:07 Am, sunset 8:30 PM, for the longest day we get in these parts. Yahoo.
Spent the morning fixing up the EssentialSourceSafe PDF, using Adobe Acrobat. Cool program, although the interface was giving me some pretty inconsistent results, no doubt due to my unfamiliarity with the program. Never the less, I was able to produce a pretty nice looking TOC in about two hours.
Spent the day cleaning out the cellar. An ugly job, but rewarding is the outcome.
SlashDot sent me off on an interesting trail through the web starting at http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=227. Worthy of more study. Short form: Lessig good, MPAA/RIAA/Adkinson bad. But, we knew that. Many. many very worthwhile links from this page, though, including http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/piracy.html. Fascinating commentary, with some really interesting conclusions, like:
cost in a market with piracy will always be less than in a market without piracy
Lessig’s links are surely impressive as well: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/future/. His thesis in The Future of Ideas, ISBN:0375505784, is that there is a coming Dark Ages of the Information Era, as AOL Time-Warner, Sony-Paramount, Microsoft and the other big media conglomerates take over the web is a pretty chilling conclusion.