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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Fri/else.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Fri/else.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd5b579 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Fri/else.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Elsewhere on Wired: + +* It's not all iPods you know, there are some other nice mp3 players out there. Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk [has a look at a new model from Tascam][1] that bills itself as the MP3 player for guitarists. Some cool features include, "a DSP that can slow down playback without changing the pitch, loop sections in order to learn them, and pitch the song up or down in 1 percent increments to match your instrument's tuning." + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/an_mp3_player_f.html "An MP3 Player for Guitarists" + +* Gadget Lab's Rob Beschizza finds a "[living lightshade][2]." The living lightshade consists of a hanging bulb and a vine the slowly grows up a metal frame. Strange, but kind of cool. + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/02/living_lightsha.html "Living Lightshade from Dreamingreen" + +* Annalee Newitz at Table of Malcontents wants to know why there's [more sex][3] in fantasy novels than sci-fi novels. + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/02/hotter_sex_in_f.html "Hotter Sex in Fantasy Than in Science Fiction?" + +* Cult of Mac [weighs in][4] on New York State Senator Carl Kruger's moronic proposal to ban iPods while crossing the street. Don't worry we already sent Kruger a memo about that thing called the Walkman, should be all straightened out by tomorrow. But we do predict somebody isn't getting re-elected. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/02/new_york_state_.html "New York State Senator Wants to Ban Walking With iPods"
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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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..949b63a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<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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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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It's probably obvious by now that I don't like DRM and I refuse to use anything that has DRM. + +But DRM is really just a method of trying to enforce copyright. Earlier this week Steve Jobs [wrote an essay][5] slamming DRM and professing a wish to get rid of it, which got me thinking that really there is no way to get rid of DRM without making some radical changes to U.S. copyright law. + +[Jonathan Lethem][4], author the novel *Motherless Brooklyn*, had one of the best essays I've ever read on the issue of copyright in the last issue of Harpers. The article, entitled [*The Ecstasy of Influence*][6], is now online and, while I admit it's quite long, I encourage you to read it through to the end, because at the end you'll discover something -- most of what Lethem writes is borrowed, copied and re-appropriated from other texts. + +Even the authorial "I" of the article is often not the "I" of Lethem himself, but that of other authors ranging from Lawrence Lessig to David Foster Wallace. Not only does Lethem make an incredibly cohesive, well-reasoned argument for a more open copyright system, but he does so using the very methods and results he's advocating. + +Here's a clip: + +>If nostalgic cartoonists had never borrowed from Fritz the Cat, there would be no Ren & Stimpy Show; without the Rankin/Bass and Charlie Brown Christmas specials, there would be no South Park; and without The Flintstones—more or less The Honeymooners in cartoon loincloths—The Simpsons would cease to exist. If those don't strike you as essential losses, then consider the remarkable series of "plagiarisms" that links Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe" with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, or Shakespeare's description of Cleopatra, copied nearly verbatim from Plutarch's life of Mark Antony and also later nicked by T. S. Eliot for The Waste Land. If these are examples of plagiarism, then we want more plagiarism. + +I'm something of a copyright nut, the first thing I did while playing with [Yahoo's new Pipes tool][7] was try to create a mashup of newsfeeds that just track the word copyright. Unfortunately the site went down before I could get it set up, but when I do I'll add a link to the bottom of this article if anyone is interested. My personal feeling on copyright is nicely summed up by Woodie Guthrie: + +>This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. + +Lethem, along with [Mike Doughty][1], [Mark Hosler][2], and [Siva Vaidhyanathan][3] were also on PRI's Open Source Radio last night to talk about issues of copyright. The broadcast repeats much of the article but is still a marvelous listen and it's available online (mp3). + +>Why do we need a term like open source? Why do we need a term to apply to cultural production and distribution? Why do we need a term like open source to apply to software? The reason is that in just the last twenty or thirty years we've seen the rise of a completely different model of cultural distribution, what I call the proprietary model. + +>... + +>What we think of as open source is basically culture, it's how human beings have organized themselves, communicated with each other, joined each other, forged identities and most importantly grooved and danced for centuries. This is basically how people have always dealt with each other. It's just in recent years that we've imposed these interesting cages, legal cages, psychological cages, ethical cages around this level of sharing. + +The suggestion here is not that copyright should be abolished, but that it was working just fine before Disney and Sonny Bono got hold of it. Of course the ultimate irony being that almost nothing Disney has ever done is remotely original. + +Think about this way, if Bob Dylan were just starting out today, he'd be sued out of existence. + + + +[1]: http://www.mikedoughty.com/ "Mike Doughty" +[2]: http://www.negativland.com/ "Mark Hosler founder of Negativland" +[3]: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/ "Siva Vaidhyanathan Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, New York University" +[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lethem "Wikipedia: Jonathan Lethem" +[5]: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ "Thoughts on Music" +[6]: http://www.harpers.org/TheEcstasyOfInfluence.html "The Ecstasy of Influence" +[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/yahoo_launches_.html "Yahoo Launches Pipes"
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I haven't had any stability problems, but there are bad memory leaks. Gran Paradiso, as Firefox 3 is code named, launches using about 33mb of RAM; after ten minutes of browsing that number jumped to 100mb and after a couple of hours it was close to 400mb -- and that's with no extensions installed. If that doesn't discourage you then nothing will. + +However, the main reason for the memory leaks, according to the release notes, is the new and improved garbage collection system which promises a much improved memory footprint once the bugs are ironed out. The release notes say: + +>In order to better handle memory issues, a new garbage collection system has been implemented. However, as the process of integrating Gecko into this system is still ongoing, there are some known leaks that result in large memory usage when the browser is used for a long period of time. A restart should resolve the problem, which will be fixed in Alpha 3. + +While this alpha may have some memory leaks, I am happy to say that it uses much less CPU power than Firefox 2, especially when it's idle. One of my main gripes with Firefox 2 is that even when it's in the background doing nothing it still manages to consume 4-5 percent of my processing power, which seems unnecessary. However, when Gran Paradiso is sitting in the background unused its CPU usage drops to zero, which beats even Safari. + +Gran Paradiso is the first release to use the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which means that Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME are no longer supported and Mac users will need OS X 10.3.9 or better. + +This new release is the first from Mozilla to be totally [Acid2 compliant][2]. Gran Paradiso supports the new Cairo graphics layer which alo still has a few bugs. + +Mac users are no doubt looking forward to Firefox 3's use of native Cocoa widgets which should make the browser feel more "Mac-like." Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what Cocoa widgets are, but in my testing UI elements like drop down lists and text fields still look the same as they always have in Firefox. + +Overall Firefox 3 looks very promising and feels much faster than Firefox 2 (particularly on graphic heavy sites like Flickr). Alpha 2 marks yet another milestone on the way to the finished product, but it's still obviously only for testing. If you'd like to help out the Firefox team by testing out the alpha 2 build they'd love to [hear your feedback][3]. + +[1]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a2/releasenotes/ "Firefox 3 alpha 2 release notes" +[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2 "Wikipedia: Acid2 test" +[3]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback/topics "mozilla.feedback" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/nightly.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/nightly.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09324b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/nightly.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build + +* Did anyone else hear a loud popping noise earlier today? I think it was the sound of a bunch of congressional heads pulling out of, er, the ground and deciding that [e-voting machines ought to have a paper trail][1]. Because frankly that movie with Robin Williams wasn't really that good. + +[1]: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3658576 "E-Voting Machines Get The Fish-Eye" + + +* In case you couldn't figure it out yourself, [Reuters has the inside scoop][2]: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube are very very very rich. + +[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-08T015758Z_01_N07247460_RTRUKOC_0_US-YOUTUBE-PAYDAY.xml&src=rss "YouTube founders split $650 mln in Google payday" + +Today's web zen: [24: Aqua Teen Hunger Force][3] + +[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWUaQVZHzyI "24: Aqua Teen Hunger Force"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Tue/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Tue/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b52c9e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Tue/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<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: + +* Walmart has [jumped in the digital movie download game][1] with a huge splash announcing that it will be offer downloads from all six major studios, something no one else has been able to do until now. Participating movie studios include 20th Century Fox, Disney, Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Bros. The bad news: downloads will cost roughly the same as in-store DVD purchases, ranging from $13-$20 for new releases and $7.50 and up for older titles. The store will also include television shows. + +[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-06T142601Z_01_WEN3625_RTRUKOC_0_US-WALMART-HP.xml&src=rss "Wal-Mart launches new movie, TV download service" + +* Leander Kahney, of Cult of Mac fame, points out something many people may not know, the recent settlement between the Beatles and Apple means that Apple [can now sell iPods pre-loaded with music][2], something they were previously unable to do according to an older agreement. + +[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72656-0.html?tw=rss.index "IPod Will Be the New CD" + +* Is Apple using its iPod muscle to slow adoption of Windows Vista? The official [Apple page on the subject says][3]: "iTunes 7.0.2 may work with Windows Vista on many typical PCs. Apple recommends, however, that customers wait to upgrade Windows until after the next release of iTunes which will be available in the next few weeks." If you feel like installing Vista now Apple has [released the iTunes Repair Tool for Vista 1.0][4], which may help with some, but not all, iTunes-Vista issues. + +[3]: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305042 "iTunes and Windows Vista" +[4]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunesrepairtoolforvista10.html "iTunes Repair Tool for Vista 1.0" + +* Microsoft is warning of a new zero day flaw in Microsoft Excel that could allow remote code execution. The warning affects Excel in Microsoft Office 2000, Office 2003 and Office XP, as well as in Office 2004 for Mac. Currently there is no patch available. + +[5]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932553.mspx "Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution" + +* Princeton Library is the latest university library to [join Google's ambitious Google Book Search project][6] which aims to scan the world's libraries and make them searchable over the Web. As with the other 11 participants Princeton, will be offer only public domain books (roughly 1 million). + + +[6]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-02-06T012745Z_01_N05495149_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-LIBRARIES.xml&src=rss "Princeton libraries join Google book-scan project"
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