Monthly Archives: June 2007

A bad idea by any other name…

June 4, 2007 – 4:57 pm

Latest Idea To Fix DRM: Give It A New Name - from Techdirt
Since repeating the claim that DRM enables things for consumers isn’t making it true, an HBO has a new idea: scrap the term DRM in favor of DCE. DCE, of course, standing for Digital Consumer Enablement.
He says he doesn’t want to use the [...]

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Buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodile

June 4, 2007 – 2:03 pm

This is very likely to be the only animal video you will ever see here, but it is too cool to pass up. Make sure to watch for the comeback towards the end.

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Headphone haters at Home Depot

June 4, 2007 – 12:11 am

So I was at Home Depot today, just wrapping up and checking out in one of the self-checkout lanes (which I love and every store should have), when this lady walks up to me and …
HD Employee: “You need to take your headphones out of at least one of your ears. It’s a new rule; [...]

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Video Editing on Linux

June 3, 2007 – 11:33 am

On Friday night, we went to see the school play that Martha has been working on with her class. Afterwards, I was asked if I could make a DVD of it, based on a camcorder recording of the performance.
I figured it would be a good opportunity to try out Ubuntu Studio for real, instead of [...]

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Google Gears - it’s not just storage

June 3, 2007 – 10:38 am

The recent talk of Google Gears reminded me again about an aspect of it with a lot of potential.
In addition to the local storage system that enables offline access, it also provides a WorkerPool API for performing script tasks in multiple processes, allowing for much more responsive asynchronous operations. This is a pretty big deal [...]

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