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I mentioned ZZZ online before, but I think it's worth repeating. I've really been enjoying it. The guy who writes it is a total nut. Sort of a Popular Science on the web, except much better.
From slashdot: Microsoft has clarified their man Jim Allchin's rather insane comments that open source software threatens the "American way". They didn't mean that. They meant the Gnu Public License (GPL) threatens the American way. Maybe they are finally understanding. I can't wait to read Richard Stallmans comments.
This is doubly funny, becasue even on Slashdot (in the comments at least) Stallman is regularly attacked in just this way. "He's a communist!" "He wants to share everything!" "Did we mention he's a communist!" I just always thought these were little republican 13 year olds.
Yes, that's right Napster offered the music industry one billion dollars to allow their members unlimited swapping of works for five years. Slashdot. Cnet. FoxNews. I can't imagine they'll except that offer. Or any offer really.
Here's an unusually good space shuttle picture from this most recent launch.
New issue of Cryptogram. Good stuff on proposed hard-drive-embedded copy protection plans, a semantic attack by URL that I would probably have fallen for, and another good explanation on why he thinks electronic voting is a really bad idea.
Much better. I bought the O'Reilly Horse book ("Running Linux") yesterday, and that was just what I needed. I learned more about unix in one day of reading and poking around the command line than in my almost 2 years of just using a unix system (I mean remotely using somebody else's unix system.) Maybe it's not so hard.