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Ars Technica is reporting that FCC chairman suspects “grassroots” astroturfing in à la carte cable debate. Hmm, you think? How many of us want to pay extra for channels we don’t want? Imagine a grocery store that offers $100, $150 and $200 boxes of groceries. No mixing and matching, no skipping your brussel sprouts.
Cable [...]
I needed a couple of high-current-carrying lugs and cables for a set of batteries within a UPS (the previous owner had replaced four batteries with two and discarded the excess cabling), and fellow tinkerers on the GNHLUG mailing list suggest I check out the Electronic Surplus Services Store. I hadn’t visited their facilities since it [...]
James Fallow is more formal about it, writing in the Atlantic. James Fallows (July 24, 2007) – Biting the bullet on Windows Vista: back to XP (Technology)
“The other bad call came late last year, when I said that users should wait to buy new computers until the new version of Windows, Vista, was available — [...]
I’ve been disappointed for years that “PC” Magazine didn’t recognize that Windows was just one option of what to run on a “PC.” In his farewell column as Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine, Jim Louderback give Microsoft a kick in the, uh, pants:
“I could go on and on about the lack of drivers, the bizarre wake-up [...]
Last weekend I upgraded my T40 from the 30 Gb drive it came with to an 80 Gb drive, as I was running out of space and needed to run WinXP under VMWare on my Fedora Core 6 installation. I used partimage to make snapshots of the existing NTFS partition, the WinXP the machine came [...]
ZDNet Asia does a nice job of summarizing August’s MS patches: Microsoft fixes 14 flaws in 9 patches; 6 are critical. Lots of critical software to patch: XML processing, Office, OLE Automation, GDI and Internet Explorer means that every Windows installation is threatened by “Remote Code Execution” — someone else owning your machine. Get Patching!
Followers of the Hentzenwerke Publishing empire know that Whil Hentzen has the largest catalog of Visual FoxPro books and an impressive collection of books bridging the gap from the Windows world into the Linux/Free/Open Source world. Whil’s been working for quite some time to put together a book on working with VFP and back-end [...]
Ben Scott reminds folks about the Seacoast LUG meeting happening tonight:
For the August 2007 SLUG/Seacoast/UNH/Durham meeting, there will be a presentation on the Panda3D 3D engine.
=== About Panda3D ===
Panda3D is an Open Source “3D engine” — software that lets you model a “world”, and then render it in real-time on a graphics display. Think [...]
From Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/ Friday, August 10 2007 @ 04:52 PM EDT
Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most:
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
That’s Aaaaall, Folks!
I, for [...]
In the previous issue of A List Apart, Rob Swan presents “Conflicting Absolute Positions,” an article about using CSS to lay out a web page with fixed top panel, left side panel and a floating panel on the right. Here’s the final result for you to admire. View the source: short and to-the-point without a [...]
