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+<img alt="Amaroklogo" title="Amaroklogo" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/amaroklogo.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Amarok, the awesome music jukebox software for linux, has [announced a new version][1], which brings the app to version 1.4.5. New features include: 
+
+*	An integrated Shoutcast stream directory.
+*	Support for custom labels. Organize your music how you want.
+*	Magnatune redownload manager
+*	Improved sound quality when using the equalizer with xine.
+
+That's excellent news for Linux users, but the Amarok team has good news for other OSes as well. Apparently work is already underway on Amarok 2.0.
+
+Amarok 2.0 will run natively on Linux, OS X and Windows and could be released as early as this summer. As long as that doesn't mean Amarok 2.0 will be running in Java, that's the most exciting software news I've heard since BitTorrent [announced plans][2] to port µTorrent to Linux and Windows.
+
+
+
+[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/content/view/10/66/ "Amarok 1.4.5 now available"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/bittorrent_inc_.html "BitTorrent Inc. Acquires µTorrent"
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+Elsewhere on Wired:
+
+*	Cult of Mac picks up on something we skipped and concludes it's unlikely: [iTunes for Linux][1]. The strange thing is, Amarok is, IMHO, so much better than iTunes, why would you want iTunes on Linux?
+
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/02/itunes_for_linu.html "ITunes for Linux - Don't Count On It"
+
+*	Autopia brings word of a UK-based ad campaign [designed to educate school children][2] about global warming. "BBC News notes that the FOE site also 'includes a game involving a polar bear which destroys a 4x4 vehicle by hurling ice cubes at it.'" Sweet. Does that work?
+
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/02/if_smart_ads_we.html "Global Warming: Silence = Death"
+
+*	Listening Post [has the scoop][3] on the first band to "tour" Second Life. A London-based band Redzone will play a four-show tour inside the virtual world starting this Friday. Saves a bundle on airfare, that's for sure.
+
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/band_to_tour_se.html "Band to Tour Second Life"
+
+*	Table of Malcontents continues to [dig up some of the awesome artwork][4] lurking around the webernets. This time it's Ukranian artist Oleg Denisenko who specializes in weird chimera, specifically, "Quixotic-looking sphinxes dress their chicken-legged, dragon-winged bodies in suits of armor constructed with anachronistic mechanical sophistication." (see small pic above)
+
+[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/02/the_strange_sph.html "The Strange Sphinxes of Oleg Denisenko"
+
+*	And our best headline of the day goes to 27B Stroke 6's Luke O'Brien for this gem: "[Conservative Think Tank Not Thinking][5]"
+
+[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/02/conservative_th.html "Conservative Think Tank Not Thinking"
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+On hearing my description of the Super Bowl, a slightly nerdy British friend of mine said "oh, so it's like the World Cup but more homoerotic and xenophobic?" I didn't respond to the baiting, but certainly the Super Bowl is not to everyone's taste, fortunately Linux was there to offer an alternative. 
+
+Any nerd worth their salt wasn't vegetating in front of the television yesterday, they were busy downloading and compiling the newly released Linux kernal. As part of what Linus Torvalds calls Super Kernal Sunday, version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernal was made available yesterday. The new kernal features numerous bug fixes, unpdates and new features including the introduction of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization to the mainline kernel.
+
+Proving once again that FLOSS software has more fun, the press lease from Torvalds is chock full of nerd humor. Here's what Linus [wrote][1] in an email to the Linux Kernel mailing list:
+
+>Before downloading the actual new kernel, most avid kernel hackers have
+been involved in a 2-hour pre-kernel-compilation count-down, with some
+even spending the preceding week doing typing exercises and reciting PI
+to a thousand decimal places.
+
+The half-time entertainment is provided by randomly inserted trivial
+syntax errors that nerds are expected to fix at home before completing
+the compile, but most people actually seem to mostly enjoy watching the
+compile warnings, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, scroll past. 
+
+As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on
+Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd'
+constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country
+sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens". 
+
+Walter was immediately attacked for his racist and insensitive remarks
+by Geeks without Borders representative Marilyn vos Savant, who pointed
+out that not all of their members are either pasty nor white.  "Some of
+them even shower!" she added, claiming that the constant stereotyping
+hurts nerds' standing in society. 
+
+Geeks outside the US were just confused about the whole issue, and were
+heard wondering what the big hoopla was all about. Some of the more
+culturally aware of them were heard snickering about balls that weren't
+even round.
+
+The above link also includes a list of updates, changes and bug fixes in the new kernal. 
+
+[1]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/4/119 "Super Kernel Sunday"
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+The Nightly Build:
+
+*	Ebiquity, an internet research group comprised of students and faculty from the University of Maryland, [released some interesting numbers on spam][4] in the world of blogs (no I will not use that term). Highlights from the study: over 50 percent of blog pings are spam, most spam blogs are based in Mountain View CA and MySpace is now the largest contributer of to the world of blogs.
+
+[4]: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/02/01/pings-spings-splogs-and-the-splogosphere-2007-updates/ "Pings, Spings, Splogs and the Splogosphere: 2007 Updates"
+
+*	For those Mac users who are lovin' Vista, Parallels has [released a new build][7] of its popular virtualization software. Parallels Release Candidate 2 adds full USB support, improvements to Coherence Mode and more.
+
+[7]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 2"
+
+*	Google has added some more tools to its [Webmaster Tools][5] to include a way to view a much larger sample of pages with inbound links your site. From the [Google Webmaster Central blog][6]: "unlike the link: operator, this data is much more comprehensive and can be classified, filtered, and downloaded. All you need to do is verify site ownership to see this information."
+
+[5]: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ "Webmaster Tools"
+[6]: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html "Google Webmaster Central Blog"
+
+*	TSIA: [Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized Copies Of Windows][8]
+
+[8]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20070205/122618.shtml "Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized Copies Of Windows"
+
+*	And finally your daily web zen: [photoshopped animals][2] (most of which were taken from the ever-entertaining [worth1000][3].) [Thanks NoEnd]
+
+[2]: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=21785 "Photoshopped animals"
+[3]: http://www.worth1000.com/ "worth1000.com"
+
+[photo credit][1]
+
+[1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twoblueday/376922196/ "Sunset Lake Dora"
+
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/reboot.txt
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:
+
+*	Rumors of an Apple announcement in a super Bowl ad proved to be unfounded, but Reuters reports that Apple has [settled their long-running trademark dispute with the Beatles'][1] record company of nearly the same name. Which means you can probably expect to see the Beatles' music on the iTunes Store sooner rather than later.
+
+[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-05T144058Z_01_WEN3541_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-BEATLES.xml&src=rss "Apple and Beatles settle trademark squabble"
+
+*	Speaking of Super Bowl ads, YouTube has got them [all in one spot][2]. 
+
+[2]: http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=sb&t=&c=0&l=&p=1 "Superbowl Ads"
+
+*	Microsoft has [turned on a feature][3] in Internet Explorer that allows Web sites with a new type of security certificate to display a green-filled address bar in IE 7. The certificate is designed to help prevent phishing scams.
+
+[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6155826.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "IE 7 gives secure Web sites the green light"
+
+*	Is a Google Powerpoint on the way? Techcrunch [reports][4] that some posted what appears to be a header file from an existing Google application by the name of "Presently." The files has since been edited to remove that reference, but Techcrunch posted a screencap of the original if you're interested.
+
+[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/04/google-powerpoint-clone-coming/ "Google PowerPoint Clone Coming"
+
+*	This is the headline every traveler has been waiting for: [Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers][5]. The New York Times reports that Meraki, a start up founded by two MIT grad students is hoping to solve the "last ten yards" problem of universal WiFi access by using in-home boxes to create a "mesh network." The network then "dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment."
+
+[5]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04digi.html?ex=1328245200&en=28e094940f7284cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers"
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+This week's theme for the tutorial o' the day is how to be a better blogger. But by "better" we don't necessarily mean wealthier -- you might want to [hang on to that day job][0] -- nor do we mean more popular. By better we mean more discoverable.
+
+There are a number of ways that you can improve your blog's relevancy in search engine results that have nothing to do with getting high profile inbound links. Perhaps the most important thing you can do is write good headlines.
+
+For a case study in how not to write headlines, I offer myself. In case you haven't noticed from this site I suck at coming up with catchy headlines and it only gets worse when I write for my personal site. To address this decided lack of creativity I started culling headlines from song titles and lyrics (duly credited of course).
+
+The problem with this is that when my articles turn up in a Google search (which isn't often) the headline offers the searcher absolutely no clue how the content of the page might relate to their search. This is dumb, a colossally bad idea. 
+
+A much better way is to write, if not for Google, at least bearing in mind how Google is going to index your page. Obviously I am not the person to look to for advice on this matter, rather I suggest you turn to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, who wrote an article some time ago called *[Writing for Google][1]*. Not coincidentally it is the number one result for the Google search "write for Google" -- I rest my case.
+
+BoingBoing also had [a relevant post][2] over the weekend in which Cory Doctorow attributes at least some of BoingBoing's high ranking in search results to their headline writing skills. "I actually think that this is part of the secret of our success," he writes, "we write headlines like wire-service stringers, headlines that are meant to be easy to grok from a cluster of RSS links, search-results, and so on."
+
+Then there is of course the older, but [still relevant advice][3] of Jakob Nielson.
+
+Of course no matter how good your headlines are if you content is poorly written you're not going to get much traction with readers, but for that one you're on your own. It's also worth noting, as the BoingBoing post linked above does, that in some ways the web has [ruined the pithy headline][4] that print rags live by.
+
+And that my friends is how I justify my own failure to take my advice. Bring back the pithy headline! Damn the search engines and full speed ahead! Of course you might actually want people to read your blog, whereas the idea that anyone reads my blog quite frankly frightens me.
+
+Later this week we'll take a look at how URLs can be improved and some better linking practices for your blog.
+
+[photo credit][5]
+
+[0]: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0205/p01s03-ussc.html "Bloggers can make money, but most keep day jobs"
+[1]: http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/writing_for_google "Writing for Google"
+[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/03/searchengines_kill_t.html "Search-engines kill the art of clever headlines"
+[3]: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html "How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines"
+[4]: http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6155739.html "Newspapers search for Web headline magic"
+[5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/evdg/150114657/ "Full Speed Ahead!"
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+Every since I found out that Vista Home and Vista Home Premium editions explicitly prevent you from running the software in a virtual machine I've been pouring over Microsoft's EULAs trying to make sense of them. Kudos to Microsoft for providing a nice easy way to [browse through all the EULAs for all their software][1]. You can download all the licensing agreements as pdf files from that link.
+
+There have been a number of reports on the internet about all sorts of terrible things you agree to when accepting the Vista EULA, but it isn't really that bad.
+
+There are however a couple of things that you might want to know. It's true that Vista Home and Home Premium can not be installed in virtual machines. The specific text reads:
+
+>USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES.  You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system. 
+
+Microsoft claims that the majority of users wanting to run Vista under virtualization software are businesses and enthusiast who would be better served by the Business and Ultimate versions respectively. Which, while it may have some merit, is nevertheless market-speak for "we arbitrarily decided to punish users looking to run our software on a part time basis."
+
+But the crippling doesn't stop there, even those who go with Vista Ultimate on their virtual machine still can't play Microsoft DRM content:
+
+>You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device.  If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker
+
+Another rumor I'd heard about the Vista EULA is that it allows Windows Defender, the built in virus and spyware protection that ships with Vista, to arbitrarily remove programs. How much merit this has depends on how paranoid you are, here's the relevant text:
+
+>If turned on, Windows Defender will search your computer for "spyware," "adware" and other potentially unwanted software.  If it finds potentially unwanted software, the software will ask you if you want to ignore, disable (quarantine) or remove it. Any potentially unwanted software rated "high" or "severe," will automatically be removed after scanning unless you change the default setting.  Removing or disabling potentially unwanted software may result in 
+
+*	other software on your computer ceasing to work, or 
+*	your breaching a license to use other software on your computer. 
+
+By using this software, it is possible that you will also remove or disable software that is not potentially unwanted software. 
+
+In other words, Windows Defender could remove programs you don't want removed (certain torrent software comes to mind) if the mothership decided to tell it to do so with an update. However you can always disable it and use another anti-virus/adware remover.
+
+The last line in that quote is kind of interesting since it basically says that Windows Defender may not work. However in this day and age it probably behooves Microsoft to error on the side of caution when it comes to security, still it's not very comforting.
+
+The last part of the licensing that bears mention is sure to send shivers down the spine of any FLOSS advocate:
+
+>The software is licensed, not sold.  This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software.  Microsoft reserves all other rights.  Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement.  In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways.  For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/userights.  You may not 
+
+*	work around any technical limitations in the software; 
+*	reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation; 
+*	use components of the software to run applications not running on the software; 
+
+I still have trouble with the idea that commercial software is not sold but licensed, but that's hardly unique to Windows, most other large commercial software packages ships with similar wording. What varies from manufacturer to manufacturer is how the license is applied. In Vista's case the software is licensed to a specific machine, not a user. You can transfer your software and license to a new machine exactly once if you bought Vista retail. If your copy of Vista came with the purchase of new computer that copy of Vista may only be legally used on that machine.
+
+On the bright side, Microsoft has done a good job of writing the Vista EULA in a surprisingly readable, low-jargon manner. There's a few places where the wording gets tricky, but it's nothing compared to the Yahoo user agreement I [struggled through][2] last week.
+
+I should also point out that regardless of the Vista EULA, local laws governing the country of your residence always trump any EULA so bear that in mind.
+
+[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/default.aspx "Find License Terms for Software Licensed from Microsoft"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/yahoo_wii_porta.html "Yahoo Wii Portal Gets Pwned"
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