In the News

• DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it   2008-07-24
• Microsoft to Nuke MSN Music DRM Keys   2008-04-22
• Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas   2007-12-31
• Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use   2007-12-30
• 3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM   2007-12-27
• Feds to audiophiles: You're all pirates now!   2007-12-15
• Net radio negotiations hit snag over DRM   2007-07-19
• Microsoft is Dead   2007-04-7
• Levy: Death to DRM?   2007-04-2
• Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB   2007-03-30
• Digital radio broadcast flag gets snubbed by FCC   2007-03-25
• Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity   2007-03-13
• Save Net Radio   2007-03-9
• Webcast royalty rate decision announced   2007-03-2
• Eric S. Raymond gives up on Fedora   2007-02-21
• How to Explain DRM to Your Dad   2007-02-16
• DRM: the state of disrepair   2007-02-16
• DRM loses hearts and minds   2007-02-15
• Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw   2007-02-13
• HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken   2007-02-13
• DRM in Windows Vista   2007-02-12

Activism

• Boycott Petland - Animal cruelty, to dogs in particular, on a grand scale
• Irish Northern Aid Committee
• Don't buy HD-DVD or Blu-ray disks
• Defective by Design

Nostalgia Lane

• A paper on the incremental compiler used on the Advanced Computer for MEdical research (My second computer [360 Model 50].   The first was Wilbur, a 360 Model 67, at Pine Hall.). My first high level language was PL/I, or at least ACME's trimmed version of it (PL/ACME).

Throw-away Code

• gvi2avi - Convert Google video file to AVI.   The script removes 68 bytes of header info that Google embeds into the AVI header

Programming Languages

• An excellent introduction to one of my favourite programming languages, PL/I
• The best programming language ever, Common Lisp

Just for Fun

• Tracing where I live now to where I used to live in the UK  (Note Step 22) [Note: for some reason it's broken now]

My bored computers, in their spare time, have something to do:

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