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Don’t Let the FCC Design Your Software and Hardware!

By on March 12, 2004 in Home Page

Don’t Let the FCC Design Your Software and Hardware.

The technology community needs to stand with opponents of the movie industry’s software-regulation scheme, also known as the Broadcast Flag. The EFF and others are suing to block stifling rules designed to protect Hollywood at everyone else’s expense.

Meanwhile, PublicKnowledge,org is lining up tech companies to sign comments to the FCC opposing such regulation. There are only three days left to sign before the comment deadline ends. If you’re a tech executive or have the ear of one, please pass along the links and urge him or her to sign.

Posting from Dan Gillmor’s eJournal

Food for thought…

By on March 8, 2004 in Home Page

From OSNews: *The Command Line – The Best Newbie Interface?*. “This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them…”.

Fedora Review

By on March 3, 2004 in Technology

OSNews links to a review on Fedora: Swapping Red Hat for a Fedora. However, this sentence set me off:

It started off by offering me the same media test that was available from previous versions of Red Hat Linux, something I recommend every newbie Linux user go through.

(emphasis mine) Hey! Only newbies have bad media or bad burns? Snob.

Microsoft failed to explain the advantage of Windows XP: it’s not the OS, it’s the bundled software

By on February 28, 2004 in Home Page

OSNews links to a piece in a Seattle newspaper that reports Microsoft Exec Says Marketing Effort Faltered with Windows XP. It’s so nice that they let him have free space to explain what their advertising should have said. The best part was:

In the next version of Windows – codenamed Longhorn – Allchin said Microsoft will be working to make things run more smoothly and easily for customers.

We’ll get it right next time. Really. Oh, c’mon.

Apple offers repairs for iBooks, customers unhappy

By on January 29, 2004 in Home Page

Ars Technica posts: Apple announces iBook repair program. “Apple today launched a repair program that will cover some iBooks which have suffered from the widespread logic board and display problems.” A little too late for this fellow, an Apple OS X to Linux switchback, who reports on OSDir “Having Bitten the Forbidden Fruit, it Bit Me Back. Six Times” linked via OSNews: ”
I simply can’t bear the pain of the hardware vendor lock-in anymore.”

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