Copyright hurts creators In an article I’m too lazy to read or understand the excellent free peer-reviewed net-journal “First Monday” has published an exhaustive survey of the earnings made by British and German musicians. Their conclusion? Copyright doesn’t give creators a living, and in many cases (such as clearing samples) it costs them more than [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Isn’t it ironic? Two Jordanians had a torrid online romance and, after several months, decided to get married. When they met F2F for the first time, they were shocked to discover that they were already husband and wife. According to an Agence France-Press article quoting the official Jordan News Agency, the two were separated from [...]
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Make the mac mini your bitch …and other assorted hacks I already have a headless server running Gentoo, but if I didn’t already and had a little money I’d be working with a mac mini. So I say go ahead and make the mac mini your bitch! Void your warranty and overclock your mac mini [...]
MP3Tunes.com
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
God, I am so stoked about this… DRM free music cheaper than iTunes mp3 formated music online storage of purchased music Come get some… at mp3Tunes.com
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Online Photo Storage and Sharing? So I’ve backed up all my photos, I’m planning to run a small web site of my home cable connection, and I’ve thought about putting up my photo album there as well. Lately I’ve been looking at a couple online solutions, but I have a couple needs. Here’s the list: [...]
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Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Channel 101 and Laser Farts Someone once had the crazy idea that we wouldn’t need the “gate keepers” of media pretty soon. Of course that means that people we don’t trust or know no longer choose what content we are able to see, buy or read. The drawback to all this is that along with [...]
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Sunday, February 6, 2005
Bypassing Windows user/file restrictions Let’s face it: We were (or are!) all students at one time, and during that time there were computers provided for our use, but unfortunately for us, they were usually quite locked down. These restrictions were generally in use to prevent A) Outside software from being installed on the machines (for [...]
AMD’s Personal Internet Communicator
Sunday, February 6, 2005
am I the only person who wants one of these? The PIC is a low cost, sealed fanless PC with pre-installed software designed to help provide 50 percent of the world’s population with internet access and computing capabilities by the year 2015 – an initiative dubbed 50×15 by AMD. Update: article by Cringley who I’m [...]
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Sunday, February 6, 2005
Me and Billy McGee Has anyone else stopped paying attention to Bill Gates? So I’ve watched Microsoft’s keynote speech at CES, and I’ve read the transcripted conversation at Gizmodo. More and more I’m beginning to think that it’s a waste of my time to read what one of the most important men in the world [...]