Just a little comment. I’m usually not one to click on ads, but when I saw a banner ad for a NEC projector with 3000 ANSI lumens for under $1000 USD, I just had to take a look.

The NEC product page has a nice little sidebar to “Check …

While I’ve often told mystified people that hosted services - the free ones - aren’t required to backup your data, and you should probably do it yourself, I usually didn’t worry about this very much - all of my web apps are on my own boxes, as well as my …

So, once again, still really busy. But a few new things.

First, my racks both at home and at the apartment are atrocious. They have no cable management at all. Both started with 1-3 machines, and no real plans for upgrades (since they’re just my personal/development machines). Unfortunately …

Yeah, I almost forgot to link right to thearticle from Reuters about the EU fining Microsoft $1.35 BILLION USD (899 million euros).

Microsoft’s monopolistic business practices are costing it billions of dollars.

IDEA:
Actually be open. Open up all of your protocols, specifications, APIs. Even start opening …

Here’s another Groklaw article on recent Microsoft tribulations. This really is starting to get disgusting. It’s not that I hate Microsoft, I don’t. What I hate is their attitude, and their business practices. Everyone else - I mean everyone - makes software that interoperates with other vendors. Microsoft, even …

From A Groklaw article today:

In Atlantic v. Brennan, the courts have finally recognized RIAA’s “making available” argument for the sham it is. Groklaw has a link to the full ruling, which includes:

At least one aspect of Plaintiffs’ distribution claim is problematic, however, namely the allegation of infringement …

Well, while I haven’t made much progress on anything interesting - mainly my NMS comparison or any of my other projects - due to my busy schedule, I did get an hour or two to clean up my network at the apartment, swapping out my 24-port Linksys switch in my room …

Some links for today:

Microsoft’s new promised on interoperability, open standards. etc. - somewhat ironic given the Office Open XML debacle on “standards”. And Red Hat’s worries about it. (Ars Technica)

Groklaw’s lengthy analysis of the promises.

Pakistan removed from the Internet, causes global YouTube outage.

A Guardian …

Well I know I haven’t updated in a while. I have a whole bunch of links that I’d like to comment on, but things have been horribly busy. You can find the links in my “1-toblog” folder on del.icio.us (prefixed with “1-” so it shows up …

Well, today happens to be my 21st birthday. Now, not only can I vote or die for my country, but I can finally buy a drink when a president I didn’t vote for sends me off to war! All kidding aside, almost every year I can remember, it’s …