Has reason returned to the land of DMCA? The jury in the Elcomsoft case seems to have decided it should! Here’s the important part of the jury instructions, to my mind: “Merely offering a product that could violate copyrights was not enough to warrant a conviction, the jury instructions said” Haven’t heard that point made…
I spent most of last night fighting with my stupid wireless card! Actually, no, the wireless card was fine it was the stupid Configuration Utility that is supposed to work hand in hand with it that I was fighting with. It seems that a few days ago the Config Utility decided to load as a…
I haven’t really taken a good look at the Lockergnome Forums in about a week, and with a spare 15 minutes today I decided to pop in and browse around and see what the topics are in Gnomie land. Then the entirety of the problem I have with them hit me. It’s too freakin’ big!…
Jeff makes an interesting point regarding writing a weblog anonymously or not. It’s something I’ve been struggling with as the new year approaches and I look at the prospect of a job search. Is the fact that you can easily find my weblog by searching by my name a good thing or not a good…
Quick note to say that I’ve been looking at and playing with some stuff for the new Pocket PC. I’ve gotten a bunch of freeware from FreewarePPC and I’ve discovered the motherlode of themes from Pocket Themes. A couple of excellent resources!
If you work in tech long enough you will, inevitable, come across a fix that leaves you going “Why would anything be designed to do THAT?” Or, as I tell coworkers when I come across one, “I don’t know why it works, I’m not even sure why those two things are related, but it works,…