Cory Doctorow’s presentation tonight at ACMI was an insightful and entertaining look at a number of issues facing media and distribution today. Focusing largely on DRM and distribution models, many of the existing and attempted forays of big business were looked at and taken apart, from rootkits to FairPlay, in addition to a glimpse at [...]

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Google’s new calendar looks good, and seems to be pretty easy to use. This will be really handy to have, provided I can keep it updated (auto update from Outlook would be nice). However, after importing all my Outlook dates, every one of them is exactly 24 hours late. This means I’ll have to scrub [...]

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Just browsing the torrent sites (for the latest distros, of course) and it looks like the most popular software download isn’t from Adobe or Macromedia (yeah yeah, same thing, I know), or even Microsoft. Rather, the hot property seems to be Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite 6.0. I mean, what are ph47 w4r3z [...]

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