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The people who owe our troops an apology are George W Bush and Dick Cheney, who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it 
-Democratic Senator John Kerry
http://amandacongdon.com/roadblog/2006/10/28/craig-newmark-ca
(Unfortunately, I can’t find the code to link the video. You’ll have to click the link.)
10/29/2006 9:04:18 PM, by Nate Anderson
You may remember back to a simpler time when the SAT dealt with math, science, and analogies, not with Google searches and Wikipedia. But as information and communication technology (ICT) have become crucial student skills in the last decade, organizations like the Educational Testing Service (the group behind the SAT) have created material to judge student performance in these new areas.
ETS has developed an ICT Literacy Assessment (test a demo version) that gives students short tasks (3-5 minutes, testing one particular skill) and long tasks (15 minutes, testing skills in combination) to complete on a computer. These include things like sifting through e-mail and developing accurate search queries for academic databases, along with other, more business-related projects.
Funny, I think my company makes a Technology Literacy Assessment product…
Learning.com - Tech Literacy Assessment
If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I’m not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity… pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty.
We have to make it gorgeous. We have to make it easy on the eye. We have to make it take your friend’s breath away.
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » #13: “Pretty” is a feature
Ok here we go:There are 2 ways to start xgl ,
- If you want to start xgl when gdm starts , follow the the “normal” howto! The downside of this way to start xgl is that you can not start a normal gnome session (non xgl) , atleast not trough gdm.
- If you still want to be able to start a normal gnome session , folow the “second” howto! That way you can choose between an xgl gnome session or a normal gnome session. The big plus is that if something is wrong with xgl , you still hava a desktop available.
- If you used previous howtos , be sure to remove or modify all the changes you have made!
“What happens when a film studio and a fanbase get into bed? Fans of Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and the movie by Universal Studios — Serenity — are not amused. After being encouraged to viral market Serenity, the studio has started legal action against fans (demanding $9000 in retroactive licensing fees in one case and demanding fan promotion stop), and going after Cafepress. The fans response? Retroactively invoice Universal for their services.”
Apparently, the problem is caused by the fact that the Windows kernal power manager doesn’t manage to find a block of contiguous memory to hibernate. This happens occasionally on laptops with 2Gb of RAM. It can be quite annoying when you put your laptop to sleep, pop it in your haversack, then some time later find a discharged battery and a VERY HOT laptop bag (my laptop uses a 180W PSU, just to give you an idea of how much power it sucks up).
Anyway, it’s nice that they solved the problem, HOWEVER, you can’t actually download the hotfix, but have to contact Product Support Services for it. I’m not sure if there’s a fee to be paid for it, so I just Googled the hotfix and found a copy elsewhere. Here’s a copy if anyone wants it: Download here:
Edit: To save that gracious person’s bandwidth, I’m also including the link to the Microsoft hosted download here:
Japanese experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto: For the Damaged Right Eye
Trippy 12-minute 1960s film by Toshio Matsumoto, whose work influenced Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Link
Just found this in one of my backups, and thought I’d share. Enjoy. 
1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or loaf all you want.
4. When you say, “I love you,” mean it.
5. When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in the eye.
6. Believe in love at first sight.
7. Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.
8. Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but it’s the only way to live life completely.
9. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
10. Don’t judge people by their relatives, or by the life they were borninto.
11. Teach yourself to speak slowly but think quickly.
12 When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and ask, “Why do you want to know?”
13. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
14. Say, “bless you” when you hear someone sneeze.
15. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
16. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
17. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
18. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
19. Marry a person you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be even more important.
20. Spend some time alone.
21. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
22. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
23. Read more books. Television is no substitute.
24. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
25. Trust in God but lock your car.
26. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.
27. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
28. Don’t just listen to what someone is saying. Listen to why they are saying it.
29. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
30. Be gentle with the earth.
31. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
32. Mind your own business.
33. Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t close his/her eyes when you kiss.
34. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
35. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. It is wealth’s greatest satisfaction.
36. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
37. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
38. Remember that the best relationship is one in which you love each other
39. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
40. Live with the knowledge that your character is your destiny.
41. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Ok, ok, there is a very significant reason I’ve found to stick with WordPress.com versus hosting my own - my domain is slower than hell. Even when I turned off almost all of the plugins, the admin interface is dog slow to do anything, and the widget preferences are really buggy. I’ll probably keep poking a stick at my own domain install, but for now, WordPress.com is where I’ll stay.
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times. Although NeXT failed to sell its elegant and infamously buggy black box, Jobs’s fundamental insight - that personal computers were destined to be connected to each other and live on networks - was just as accurate as his earlier prophecy that computers were destined to become personal appliances.
Now Jobs is making a third guess about the future. His passion these days is for objects. Objects are software modules that can be combined into new applications (see “Get Ready for Web Objects”), much as pieces of Lego are built into toy houses. Jobs argues that objects are the key to keeping up with the exponential growth of the World Wide Web. And it’s commerce, he says, that will fuel the next phase of the Web explosion.
I’ve gotta give him credit, Steve Jobs definitely has a knack for looking into the future of computing.
I really like this pic.
First of all, Sony’s claim that Lik-Sang didn’t turn up and therefore incurred no legal cost is absolute nonsense. Lik-Sang’s legal representatives spent over a year to vigorously contest the UK’s court jurisdiction until the last moment, produced witness statements and documents, and replied to Sony’s allegations about parallel importation and copyright infringement. Plenty of documents were sent back and forth from Hong Kong all the way to the UK, and it was also argued to the London High Court that Sony has launched duplicate actions in different countries, but all to no avail. The court case in Hong Kong is still ongoing, and Lik-Sang as well as its lawyers spent hundreds and hundreds of hours trying to catch up with Sony’s mass of documents and claims. As a result, two different High Court judges at different occasions expressed their surprise about the unusual high legal expenses claimed by Sony’s law firm.
Lik-Sang: Setting it straight - PlayStation Portable News - PSP Updates
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Ah, Sony, how little clue you have what a worthlessly ruthless company you are. Too bad your profits are way down and all your batteries are exploding. Here’s a big fuck you!
I will *never* buy a Sony product again. I am thoroughly disgusted by their business practices.
Ah, I hosed the first install, so I deleted everything and started over from scratch with the help of Google and my search for “top WordPress plugins”. I thought WordPress.com was pretty slick on it’s own, but damn, the standalone install has an outrageously large collection of incredibly cool plugins. Hopefully, if all goes well, you should be reading this article on my hosted blog instead of it’s old resting place (jdanger.wordpress.com). I’ll keep ya posted. (Whether you’re interested or not. 
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When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they’d also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used the phrase “litigation-laden landmine.” Part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban warned that YouTube would face the same copyright fate as Napster.
There’s only one problem with these theories: the copyright law itself. Under the copyright code, YouTube is in much better legal shape than anyone seems to want to accept. The site enjoys a strong legal “safe harbor,” a law largely respected by the television and film industries for the choices it gives them.
Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
So… I’m in the process of porting my WordPress.com blog to my own domain, since, I already pay for one, and I’ve heard that the WordPress.org install on your own server is *much* more extensible than WordPress.com.
Thus far, the only snag I’ve run in to is trying to get the video posting to work. On WordPress.com, all you need to do is type youtube=<url> (with brackets around it, but if I actually did that here, it would embed an empty video).
I found a posting on wordpress.org support with a suggestion on how to post, and thought I’d link to it for my (and your) future reference:
To insert YouTube videos in your WordPress blog do the following:
1. Login to WordPress admin
2. Go to Options >> Writing
3. Uncheck borht Users should use the visual rich editor by default & WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
4. Go to Write >> Write Post
5. Paste the ‘embeddable player’ code for your YouTube video in the write box
6. Publish videoThat’s all there is to it!
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The Blog This for Firefox adds a button to Firefox which starts a new Windows Live Writer blog post prepopulated with content and title from the current web page. Blog the whole page, or just selected snippets. Interacts with other registered plugins to parse and structure web content where appropriate. Blog quickly when you find something of interest on the web.
Apple apologized Tuesday for shipping video iPods containing the Windows virus RavMonE.exe, which apparently made its way onto a small number of the ubiquitous devices at a manufacturing plant. Around 1 percent of units shipped after September 12, 2006 are affected.
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“So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free,” Apple said in a statement on its support site.
The company also took the opportunity to blast Microsoft’s Windows operating system for not doing more to protect customers from such malware. “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it,” Apple said.
So it looks like Sony’s battery fiasco will likely cause delays and high battery prices until June 2007, according to Bloomberg News, which reports that “prices for battery cells have risen about 15 percent in the past three months because of the shortage.” If that wasn’t bad enough, the news agency also adds that Sony has set aside ¥30 billion ($251 million) “for costs related to the August recall of batteries used in Dell and Apple computers, Sony spokesman Yoshikazu Ochiai reiterated today.” However, that figure doesn’t take into account the recalls by the laundry list of other companies like Fujitsu, nor Sharp, nor IBM / Lenovo, not to mention a few others. So we’ll guesstimate that Sony’s true cost is really somewhere around ¥40 billion (over $334 million), and that, of course doesn’t include any future companies that may come out of the woodwork to point out faulty batteries they bought from Sony — like, oh, say, Sony. That’s right, Sony has also officially announced a recall of 300,000 batteries in their own devices. Yikes.
By Associated Press
LONDON - Bill Murray created a small sensation in the Scottish town of St. Andrews, joining Scandinavian students at a late-night party and even helping to wash the dishes, a newspaper reported Sunday.
In the movie “Lost in Translation,” Murray plays a lonely middle-aged actor in Japan who befriends a young American woman and goes partying with her.
And in what The Sunday Telegraph said was life imitating art, the 56-year-old Murray joined up with 22-year-old Norwegian student Lykke Stavnef, who took him to a house where a student party was in full swing.
“Nobody could believe it when I arrived at the party with Bill Murray,” Stavnef, a social anthropology student, was quoted as saying. “He was just like the character in ‘Lost in Translation.”‘
The phrase “The customer is always right” was originally coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London in 1909, and is typically used by businesses to:
- Convince customers that they will get good service at this company
- Convince employees to give customers good service
Fortunately more and more businesses are abandoning this maxim - ironically because it leads to bad customer service.
Here are the top five reasons why “The customer is always right” is wrong.
While having a robotic assistant play video games for you might sound novel, it’s certainly not as thrilling as interacting with the 1s and 0s yourself. A team of researchers, engineers, and students at Washington University in St. Louis have crafted a brain-computer interface system that allowed a 14-year old gamer suffering from epilepsy to cruise through the first two levels of Space Invaders using only his imagination. Rather than picking up an Xbox 360 and perusing through the Xbox Live Arcade, the crew went back to their roots and programmed an Atari 2600 to interface with the brain-sensing apparatus. The headgear boasted a grid of sensors that monitored “electrocorticographic activity” from the brain’s surface to detect signals based on thought processes that were going on. By calibrating his thoughts with video game triggers, the teenager was able to learn the ropes “almost instantaneously,” and had no qualms demolishing the competition while twiddling his thumbs. The group plans to use this successful experiment to further understand the mysterious signals of the mind and give physically disabled individuals a chance to show of their mental sharpness, but we’re hoping to see this thing bundled in with the sure-to-be-delayed PlayStation 8 that should hit shelves sometime before 2050.
Teenager plays Space Invaders with only his brain - Engadget
Swab a clear liquid onto a gaping wound and watch the bleeding stop in seconds. An international team of researchers has accomplished just that in animals, using a solution of protein molecules that self-organise on the nanoscale into a biodegradable gel that stops bleeding. If the material works as well in humans, it could save thousands of lives and make surgery far easier in many cases, surgeons say. Molecular biologist Shuguang Zhang, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, began experimenting with peptides in 1991. Zhang and colleagues at MIT and the University of Hong Kong in China went on to design several materials that self-assemble into novel nano-structures, including a molecular scaffold that helps the regrowth of severed nerve cells in hamsters (see Nano-scaffolds could help rebuild sight).
Self-assembling gel stops bleeding in seconds - tech - 10 October 2006 - New Scientist Tech
Nokia’s research and development team have kicked it up a gear with an attractive “aeon” concept phone showing up in the R&D section of the company’s website. The most prominent design feature of aeon is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone, similar to BenQ-Siemens’s Black box concept phone we saw recently. Currently mobile technology isn’t quite up to realizing this fantasy, but we’ll sleep better tonight knowing that at least one of the cellphone industry’s biggest names shares the same dream as we do — BenQ’s dream didn’t count, unfortunately.
CRN is reporting that Dell first identified the cause of the failures in Sony manufactured batteries late last year. At the time, however, Dell believed that the faulty batteries were in a small sample of notebooks and decided to recall only 22,000 units.
In letters obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the line of communication between Richard Stern, acting associate director of the CPSC and John Hodges, a lawyer for Dell, is brought to light:
“Thank you for your full report of November 10, 2005. … In your report, submitted on behalf of Dell Inc. … you indicated that some lithium-ion battery cells manufactured for Dell could contain contaminates that create an internal short circuit. An internal short circuit could result in excessive heat, smoke or flames in the battery pack and possibly beyond, creating risk of thermal burn,” wrote Stern.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.
“The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google. “Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners to offer a compelling media entertainment service to users, content owners and advertisers.”
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.html
A declaration by SCO’s backer, BayStar has revealed that the software Giant Microsoft had more links to the anti-Linux bad-boy. The declaration made by from BayStar general partner Larry Goldfarb has turned up as part of IBM’s evidence to the court. Goldfarb says that Baystar had been chucking USD 50 million at SCO despite concerns that it had a high cash burn rate. He also claims that former Microsoft senior VP for corporate development and strategy Richard Emerson discussed “a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would ‘backstop’, or guarantee in some way, BayStar’s investment”. Thanks to The Inq for the summary.
If you’re already running Windows Vista on your machine, and especially if you’re dual-booting with Windows XP (or other Windows OS), you’ve probably noticed that boot.ini has been ditched in favor of Vista’s new bootloader. You can edit it directly in Vista with a program called “bcdedit.exe” via the console, or you can download and install this software instead, which is way easier and works in XP (bcdedit.exe, however, does not.)
Product Page:
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“There’s bits and pieces of information floating around that revolve around Iwata Asks interviews on Nintendo’s website. What I found interesting was the tidbit about the updatable operating system: ‘Wii is the first system from Nintendo that we can continue to be involved in (via operating system updates) after the customer buys it. This means that Wii will greatly expand and diversify the ways in which people will enjoy games in the future.’ The Wii is reported to operate on top of a proprietary form of the Linux kernel, although there are already efforts to make a GNU/Linux for the console. So, the answer to the age old question is that it already runs Linux.”
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/08/1754219&from=rss
Cool photo collage, created by fd’s Flickr Toys:
It’s known that programmers swear a lot. There’s always fucks, shits, cunts, bitches, crap. There’s the kernel fuck count, for example, which shows the number of findings of “fuck” and “love” in the Linux kernel, over different versions of the kernel.
Google recently released the Google Code search (beta, of course), which searches through open source tarballs and zips, and tries to find the number of occurences of a specific query, and then showing them. So, nothing more than a Google which searches through code. Of course, what other use could there be than searching the number of occurences of fuck. In different languages.So, what language is the most sweared one? I used Python, Perl, PHP, C++, C and C#, to get a wide range of programmers. I recorded the number of found and also the number of entries found without anything, to have a rough view of how many packages in a specific language there are, as Google might not have indexed all, and there may be more packages of C than of C# and others. Of course, there will be more fucks in 4′520,000 results I got for C than the 62,800 that the search returned when searching for C#.
Now, the results.
http://blog.predius.org/2006/10/05/fucks-per-source-package-and-license/
You’ll be able to rent this lovely humanoid robot, made by a Sanrio subsidiary, for $3500 for 5 days.
Compared to the previous model, DER2 has thinner arms and a wider repertoire of expressions. The smoothness of her movement has also been improved, making it now even more likely for the uninitiated to confuse her with an actual human being.
Actroid’s limbs, torso and facial expressions are controlled by a system of actuators powered by pneumatic pressure. Once programmed, she is able to choreograph her motions and gestures with her voice.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is introducing a new search service — strictly for computer programmers only.
The Web search leader said late on Wednesday it is introducing Google Code Search, a site that simplifies how software developers search for programming code to improve existing software or create new programs.
Google product manager Tom Stocky said the Mountain View, California-based company is set to help programmers sift through billions of lines of computer source code using its familiar search box to uncover snippets of reusable software.
“For a long time it has been sort of an unsolved problem,” said Stocky, a product manager in the developer products group. “It is hard to find references to this sort of data,” he said.
Meredith says:
“Last week, a 15-year-old girl at Caney Creek High School (near Houston) complained to her father [Alton Verm] about “bad language” in Ray Bradbury’s classic SF novel Fahrenheit 451. Dad complained to the district and pushed for the book — which tells the story of a man in a futuristic, totalitarian society whose job is to burn unapproved literature — to be removed from the curriculum. As the icing on the cake, his request came during the last week of September, which just happens to be the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week.”
Best line in the article:
“It’s just all kinds of filth,” said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read Fahrenheit 451.
From BoingBoing.net:
Original article:
Home network equipment maker D-Link entered the mobile phone market Tuesday, introducing a new line of “V-CLICK” handsets that work with both traditional GSM operators as well as Wi-Fi networks. Users can switch between the technologies with a click of a button.
As wireless hotspots become more ubiquitous, phone manufacturers have turned to building handsets that are able to utilize Internet connectivity for making calls over VoIP. The idea is that such calls are cheaper than traditional cellular calling, especially when dialing internationally. In addition, Wi-Fi coverage could help areas where cellular signals are limited or non-existent.
Theoretically, a user could hop onto a Wi-Fi network when in range and save money, as well as ensure their call won’t drop while indoors. The problem, of course, has been perfecting such a capability, as handing off a call between a cellular and Wi-Fi network has proven quite complicated. T-Mobile, however, has been testing such a service in the northwest United States with positive results.
http://www.betanews.com/article/DLink_Introduces_WiFi_GSM_Phone/1159890483
corridors full of unknown consoles, originally uploaded by ezekiel.eugene.
I just made a photoset of a derelict White Alice / DEWline military radar installation I visited about a month ago out in remote western Alaska. The Distance Early Warning system (or DEWline for short) was built during the Cold War for the purpose of ‘hearing’ soviet airplanes as they approched. The government spent untold hundreds of millions of dollars on these installations back in the sixties and seventies and i’m unable to find a single picture of one anywhere on the internet. (…)The photos from inside the facility look bright and illuminated but that’s just camera flash. They were pitch black, and infested with caribou. It was a classic videogame scenario: naively exploring a derelict radioactive military facility in the middle of nowhere full of rusting filthy machinery with low-battery flashlight. Fun stuff.
Creative has unveiled a new device called the Xmod, which is based upon the company’s X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio platform and promises to improve the audio quality of compressed music, such as that purchased from Apple’s iTunes or any MP3 files.
Shaped like a candy bar, the Xmod plugs in between an audio source and stereo speakers or pair of headphones. It works with any portable audio player including the iPod, along with plugging into a computer’s USB port without requiring the use of software. Creative claims the result is “better than CD quality” sound.
Essentially, the Xmod up-converts the audio signal to 24-bit surround. The X-Fi Crystalizer identifies which areas of the audio file have been truncated or damaged during compression. Creative says the technology can “restore” the highs and lows of the music that otherwise would not have been audible.
The X-Fi CMSS-3D component of the Xmod, meanwhile, creates virtual surround sound through speakers or headphones. Because most digital audio included on movie and TV show downloads includes only two-channel stereo, Creative has designed the Xmod to emulate a multi-channel speaker setup. It can place specific voices in the virtual center channel while ambient noise is in the background.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Creative_Xmod_Claims_to_Improve_Music/1159894240
Linux.com | Running .Net applications on Linux with Mono
Mono is an open source project (sponsored by Novell) that allows you to run .Net applications on Linux (as well as Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris and even Windows).
To obtain it, go to the Mono download page and find the version you need for your distro.Once you’ve installed Mono, get one of your .Net programmers to create and compile a simple Microsoft Visual Studio C# console application.
On Sept. 25, IBM took its crack at ending its case with SCO by summary judgment. Now, it’s Novell’s turn, and the company appears to be attempting to cut off SCO’s lifeline to its cash reserves.
On Sept. 29, Novell Inc. filed for “partial summary judgment as to its Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Claims for Relief for constructive trust, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, and accounting, respectively” at the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
These claims are not, as one might think, concerning Novell’s claims that it, and not The SCO Group Inc., still owns Unix’s copyrights. Novell has claimed that neither the APA (asset purchase agreement) of Sept. 19, 1995, which transferred Unix and UnixWare to Santa Cruz Operations, nor Amendment 2 to the APA gave SCO any copyrights to Unix.
Instead, Novell is going after the money that SCO has made from Unix. In particular, according to Novell’s memo in support of its motion for summary judgment, the company wants its share of the “payments SCO received from SVRX [Unix System V Release any] license agreements that it executed in 2003 with Sun Microsystems, Inc. (”Sun”) and Microsoft Corporation (”Microsoft”).”
This is f**king awesome. I love Joshua Radin, and I love Yaz (original artist).
This song is amazing…
Xbox Media Center is an open-source program that turns your first generation Xbox into a cheap media extender for accessing your media files.
Version 2.0 is now out, with new features including DVD-Video menu navigation support, a new music player with crossfading and gapless playback. Karaoke CDG-file display, read-only support for FAT12/16/32 USB storage devices up to 4GB in size, and a number of new skins and skinnable features.
You can check out a full list of features and supported file formats and codecs here.
Every bit of information you could ever need on setting up your own Xbox Media Center is available here.
Craigslist is one of the best sites on the web for one very simple reason: it’s extremely useful. That blue and white page with links is about as vanilla as you can get - but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes that makes it one of the most incredible resources on the planet.However, there is more than you can do with Craigslist than that Plain Jane interface would lead you to believe. Keep reading for this week’s feature on how to become a Craigslist power user.
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