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Programmer Cleared of Digital Piracy, in Blow to Hollywood. Booyah.
Internet/Technology
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searchlores.org. Interesting articles on searching the web. Crossing Swords With General Ashcroft. Will government prosecutors ever produce a legitimate case against Hamdi or Padilla? U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations. While “enemy combatants” (not to be mistaken with POWs) are being detained and tortured, troops prep for yet another oil war, and our economy lies … …
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USA is not wanted in Iraq. Did I read that correctly? Pat Buchanan?! Fantastic. Why Software Should Be Free. An old article, but nonethless a fascinating read. Can’t say that I agree with all of it, but it certainly forces me to reconsider my priorities.
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Replaced all JPG and GIF files with the more friendly PNG files. Excel files are mostly converted to HTML, and I’ll do the same for Word files soon.
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We Can Put an End to Word Attachments. Word generates crappy, bloated HTML so I’m just gonna have to convert by hand.
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On a whim, I wiped out all of my cookies in IE and Mozilla and exerted rigorous control over the cookies which I allow to be stored on my machine. The number of cookies which sites try to get users to accept is simply incredible, but this led me to the observation that IE (5.5 … …
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Guerrilla Warfare, Waged With Code. One rarely reads about the positive side of hacking.
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As of today, Zagat is a subscription site. I hardly use it anyways as the user reviews on CitySearch offer more interesting details.
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Turns out the toolkit included in the FreeBSD PowerPak can be pretty useful after all as the open-motif distribution is available on disc 4. Saved me a ton of time when I tried to install Motif last night. Easily the best money I have ever spent on an operating system… How To Win The War … …
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X and PPP dialup are now running, and I am so psyched! Who could have imagined that a fun weekend would consist of reading the FreeBSD Handbook and recompiling UNIX kernels? :-p GEORGE W. BUSH HATES AMERICA. Too easy a target, but you know it’s true. Our Sandbox FF league finally drafted (almost a week … …