Frustrations with Apple's tech support. In response to an irritating problem I'm having with my two new Mac servers, I called Apple for support today, and have to say I'm less than impressed. First, to explain the problem: both of my machines are wired on a network, and while the network has the capability of… Continue reading Frustrations with Apple's tech support
Why Current Intellectual Property Law is So Wrong-Headed
Why Current Intellectual Property Law is So Wrong-Headed. Jamie Boyle: Deconstructing Stupidity. It is as if we had signed an international stupidity pact, one that required us to ignore the evidence, to hand out new rights without asking for the simplest assessment of need. If the stakes were trivial, no one would care. But intellectual… Continue reading Why Current Intellectual Property Law is So Wrong-Headed
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“It would be a tragic mistake to underestimate the potential market power Skype is accumulating.” So says the always insightful Martin Geddes. He's right, and yet this mistake is still quite widespread. [Werblog]
Pope Has Gained the Insight to Address Abuse, Aides Say
Pope Has Gained the Insight to Address Abuse, Aides Say. The man who is now pope was greatly responsible for deciding whether and how to discipline priests accused of sexual abuse. By LAURIE GOODSTEIN. [NYT > Home Page]
Mono in focus
Mono in focus. Mono, which is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework, was in focus at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 on Thursday. The technology features a virtual machine that can enable .Net applications to run on Windows or Linux and Unix, and lets .Net developers build apps for those two platforms.… Continue reading Mono in focus
Enhancing search results with metadata
Enhancing search results with metadata. My tag fever has now infected the InfoWorld site, as Chad Dickerson and Matt McAlister have recently discussed. This opens up a bunch of possibilities. Today, for example, I tweaked my experimental InfoWorld power search to report the InfoWorld-assigned tags for URLs in the result set. Only the most recent… Continue reading Enhancing search results with metadata
Making it easy to do the right thing
Making it easy to do the right thing. You'd think that a language with only a handful of verbs, only two of which are widely spoken, would be easy to learn. Not so in the case of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, though. After more than a decade we're still sorting out how and why to… Continue reading Making it easy to do the right thing
Victorianization Update
Victorianization Update. While I was away, the Republicans have continued their push to create a neo-Victorian America with: the anti-entrepreneurial “Indentured Servitude Promotion Act“, the “American Aristocracy Tax“, and a crackdown on moral turpitude in the media Of course, Victorianization wouldn't be complete without a good dash of hypocrisy. More signs that are becoming a… Continue reading Victorianization Update
Getting organized using OneNote note flags
Getting organized using OneNote note flags. I've written recently about some of the more exotic capabilities of OneNote, but I thought I would spend a little time on Note Flags. Note Flags are one of the fundamental features of OneNote that makes the power of having an electronic notebook apparent. Oddly, although we consider Note… Continue reading Getting organized using OneNote note flags
Last Benedict shepherded Catholic countries in World War
Last Benedict shepherded Catholic countries in World War. THE choice of papal names is often scrutinised for hints on what the new pontiff might have admired in previous popes with those same names. [The Scotsman]