For the past year I’ve been telling libraries that they need to have a digital card reader/writer in the building for those patrons that come in and want to e-mail their photos to the grandparrents. Well, stop making excuses and shell out just ten bucks for a Sabrent 42-in-1 USB 2.0 External Flash Memory Card Reader and Writer SBT-CRW42 at TigerDirect.com.
Archive for » November 18th, 2005«
The EULA’s worse!
18
Nov 2005
Sony deserves a serious spanking at this point. The EFF decodes the end user license agreement for all those CDs I’ve been posting about. It seems that Sony doesn’t believe in fair use. (Unless you’re using a Betamax to record your TV shows of course.)
Category: sony
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Just when it couldn’t get worse…
18
Nov 2005
It seems that the XCP software on Sony CDs violates the rules of opensource software.
“We can confirm that at least 5 functions in the XCP software are identical to functions in LAME,” said Thomas Dullien at security software firm Saber Security in Bochum, Germany, which specializes in the analysis of complex software.
Open source software, if used, needs to be identified as such, so that it can be freely shared with others. Developers on Slashdot.org and other Internet bulletin boards could not find an open source reference in the copy-protection software.
Category: sony
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"Tech Terms" presentation archive available
18
Nov 2005
The very popular free webinar “Tech Terms: What’s new, what’s hot, and what you’ve got to know” is now availabe as a one hour recorded session. It will be available until December 31, 2005.
To access the recording, do the following:
- Run the wizard found at the following url:
http://208.185.32.63/wizard/launcher.cgi?wc=qt. This will ensure that your computer is set up for viewing the slides and listening to the audio portion.- Once you’ve run the wizard, follow this link:
http://208.185.32.63/launcher.cgi?room=BCR_Training_2005_1118_1202_34- Login with the following Room ID: BCR_Training The recording should start automatically once you enter the “classroom.”
If you have any questions about the presentation itself and the information in it, contact me. Thanks.
Category: bcr
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Free Webcast: Firefox Search Plugins
18
Nov 2005
On December 2nd, 2005 at 10am MST I will be presenting a free, one hour webcast on creating Firefox Search Plugins. This session is limited to 25 seats and BCR members are given preference but at the moment there are still 24 seats available. (Feel free to register for one seat and then have as many people in the room as you’d like.) A full description and registration instructions can be found at http://www.bcr.org/training/online/FFF-index.html.
Category: bcr, firefox
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Jessamyn points out one problem in this press release from ALA in which they confuse the concepts of domain name and e-mail addresses.
ALA also has a new election domain name. It is now 2006election@alavote.org.
Yes, Jessamyn’s points are all completely valid to which I point out another problem with the only other sentence in that paragraph:
This change to a dot.org from a dot.net will make it less likely that any ballots will be incorrectly identified as spam.
Huh?! Sorry folks, but spam filters today are hardly considering top level domains (TLDs) as the sole arbiter of whether or not an e-mail is spam. Saying that a .net address is more likely to be spam over a .org is like saying that just because there’s a ~ in the URL, it must be a personal site.
First ALA fails on a technical issue, then they fail on a logic issue. Is anyone proofreading these press releases?
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Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit
18
Nov 2005
For those of you who read my blog and don’t understand the more technical posts (mom & dad), specifically the ones about Sony CDs of late, here’s a non-technical overview of the story including why everyone should care.
Category: sony
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Dr Who Tardis Phone Flasher
18
Nov 2005
Another great Christmas idea: TARDIS Phone Flasher.
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For the past 30 minutes I’ve been attempting to watch the webcast of The Battle Over Books discussion at NYPL. However, every time I try to access it I get asked for a password and then told I’m unauthorized. Nowhere on the site does it mention any sort of password. Was anyone able to get in?
UPDATE: According to the site the next morning: “THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT THE LIVE WEBCAST, WE WILL BE POSTING AN AUDIO ARCHIVE OF THE EVENT SHORTLY. AND A VIDEO ARCHIVE WILL BE POSTED AS SOON AS THE ARCHIVE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED AND ENCODED.”
Category: video
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