Bruce Hubbard, an Auckland peace activist, sent an email to the US Embassy objecting to the war on Iraq and got charged with misuse of a telephone for his troubles
Epson has introduced the Stylus Photo R800, geared toward the high-end photographer and advanced amateur photographer. With an estimated price of US$399, it supports resolutions of up to 5760 x 1440 dpi. It’s a six-colour photo dye ink system with all the colours in individual ink cartridges and can print a 5 x 7 colour photo in 45 seconds. It includes both Photo Black and Matte Black ink cartridges for printing on any media without changing the black ink cartridge.
Featuring an eight-channel print heat system that includes blue and red inks, the system also includes a ‘Gloss Optimiser’ which provides a clear coating (but no ink) for uniform glossy prints.
Built-in CD/DVD printing capabilities for printing directly onto inkjet printable CDs or DVDs using the printer’s straight-through paper path are a nifty addition.
FrogPad hopes to single-handedly revolutionize the two-handed keyboard with its one-handed fully functional keyboard.
With only 20 keys, the US$189 USB FrogPad keyboard is only a fraction the size of a normal Qwerty keyboard and emulates all of its functions. I want one.
The Australian National Office for the Information Economy said it wouldn’t endorse use of Microsoft’s controversial document security technology, Information Rights Management in Commonwealth agencies
The US Library of Congress has created four exemptions under which it is legal to crack digital copyright protections — lists of sites blocked by commercial Internet filtering software, but not spam-fighting lists; computer programs protected by hardware dongles that are broken or obsolete; computer programs or video games that use obsolete formats or hardware; e-books that prevent read-aloud or other handicapped access formats from functioning
The torrent of spam that is flowing into electronic mailboxes comes not only from outlaws and hucksters but also from the office towers of the biggest and best-known corporations
Individuals and small-business owners should be able to buy domain names without being required to divulge their mailing address, phone number and e-mail address, an international coalition planned to say in a letter
Did you read the article? If not basically this guy got sacked by Microsoft because of this blog entry entitled Even Microsoft wants G5s. The article contains a happy snap of some G5s being unloaded from a truck. That’s right, just some computer boxes in a truck, no people, no MS references in sight, accompanied by some text about someone getting new toys at Microsoft. Microsoft didn’t like this, or the offer to remove the post and gave him the boot.
I think this quote says it all really:
Good. That means that as it’s your site on your own server, you have the right to say anything you want. Unfortunately, Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you’re no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus.
Yes indeed, bloggers beware especially if you work for Microsoft or Macrosuck.
No, really! Have a read.
Symantec has been unable to resolve a glitch that is stopping some users activating its latest antivirus software, and says it doesn’t know when a fix will be available
There’s Movabletype plugins, manual configuration and external services available for creating blogrolls, but they all create far too big a footprint when you’re link happy. I wanted something a little more compact, a random link list of favourite URLs no more than five or six items long.
So I put the idea to sbszine who came up with a nifty little javascript that creates the list of links by randomly pulling one out of each category group. Very nice.
Dave Winer finds truth lies in the middle, after reading a recent I, Cringely Windows vs Linux diatribe.
Reality lies somewhere between Cringely and Ballmer and Linus. How about this. Both guys (Ballmer and Torvalds) make really shitty software. Microsoft, after decades of Windows development still can’t make a robust operating system that a normal person can use. And Linux ships with every security feature wide open. An end user who actually installed it (an amazing accomplishment in itself) would end up (instantly) hosting a playground for script kiddies everywhere. And the user interface of Linux sucks. Windows isn’t totally terrible. It’s a huge embarassment that with many billions of dollars, dozens of years, and billions of man-hours, this is the best the human species can produce.
Some moron from the US propaganda machine has ripped off the very well written, girl on the street blog, Baghdad Burning
The Anti-Spam Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force early this month formed a subcommittee to hammer out differences between a number of competing protocols that all aim to do the same thing: verify that e-mail senders are who they say they are
A company accused of sending unsolicited bulk email was fined US$2 million, the first such ruling under California’s anti-spam law. PW Marketing LLC and its owners, Paul Willis and Claudia Griffin, were also banned from owning, managing, or holding an economic interest in any company that advertises over the internet without first notifying the attorney general. The injunction will remain in place for 10 years
The Gemini, described by inventor Robert Leeds as the world’s first underwater sports car, is a personal submersible that will set you back US$825,000. However, the submarine only goes about five knots, so speed is not its primary focus. It can handle three people for three days at depths of up to 50 metres
The latest offering of Mandrake‘s distribution, 9.2, has been found to not only be incompatible with some LG CD-ROM drives, but to destroy them during the installation process. Mandrake have posted information on their errata page. Along with over 350MB of updates within a week of release, it’s not been a good start for this latest release
Search engine Google, owner of one of the most powerful brands on the internet, is now close to floating its shares for the first time
With the rise of Mini-ITX motherboards and their usefulness for modding small household objects into PCs has resulted in hobbyists across Europe, the United States and the Far East stuffing the works of personal computers into toasters, humidors, biscuit tins, lampshades, even a plush ET doll
Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft previews a system for singling out mail from approved addresses. It plans to use the system in its free Hotmail e-mail service
A home-brew supercomputer, assembled by technicians and students at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1,100 off-the-shelf Apple Macintosh computers in just one month at a cost of slightly more than US$5 million, is about to be ranked as one of the fastest machines in the world
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