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Post from Fedora 8

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Fedora 8 comes with this nifty little "Post Blog Entry" application. Nice, but it assumes that all Wordpress blogs are in a subdirectory named "wordpress" on the server. There's a way around it, but still. Anyway, lets see how this goes...

Why the AACS Key is a Non-Story

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

One of my friends asked me why I hadn't written about the recent publicity surrounding the [AACS Processing key](http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=09+f9+11+02+9d+74+e3+5b+d8+41+56+c5+63+56+88+c1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) that's proliferating on various blogs, news sites, t-shirts, and songs. Part of the reason is, of course, that I'm lazy. As said friend well knows, I'd much rather drink beer than almost ...

Further Bullshit

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

So here's a story about a man who "stole" a school bus to drive refugees to the Astrodome. Contrast that with the reporting on Channel Four in the UK of a white middle class man who "found" an abandoned boat on the side of the road and used it to ...

More Sanity…

Friday, August 26th, 2005

So yesterday(ish) I wrote about the ruling that the DMCA cannot be used in cases where the underlying copying falls under fair use. Today, Cory Doctorow posts about a ruling that the police cannot legally prevent the public from videotaping their activities. Apparently someone was arrested for filming the police ...

The always helpful London Underground staff…

Friday, July 29th, 2005

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