Home

Remember my rant about Apple not letting you save mp3's on other mp3 players?  This is known as DRM - Digital Rights Management.  The RIAA, which has its head firmly stuck in the sand, thinks that DRM will solve the mp3 piracy problem.  Good luck with that one, fellas.  Let me know how that works out for you.  This week's CNET poll asked people what they thought about DRM.  Note that this forum only supports legal music distribution.  Check out the poll results on CNET.com.

I get an online newsletter about tech-related stuff every week.  Every week they do a poll about some computer-related thing, like "have you bought an LCD yet?"  Or, "when will you install the new version of Windows?"  Last week the question was: "Which of the following do you think is the biggest threat to your privacy?"  They were talking about adware, spyware, or Google.  (In case you didn't know, and you should, Google saves every search you've ever done.  Now the government is suing them for that information.  You should be worried.)  Any

http://www.wimp.com/championship/

Reformatted my files hard drive into a format that can be read by both linux and windoze.  Successfully copied over most of my files.  The big news: turned on file sharing!  Now my linux-hosted hard drive is accessible over the windoze network.  Awesome.

Jordan: 2

Linux: 0

At least I have something going for me these days . . .