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Archive for March, 2003

Freedom and privacy

Monday, March 31st, 2003

You may have heard about the sinister DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). Now the Super-DMCA is on its way. It has already started to gain acceptance in several states already.
This new legislation could very well outlaw useful things like SSH (secure shell), VPNs (virtual private networking), NATs (network address translation), and home networks in general. [...]

Nice ice photographs

Monday, March 31st, 2003

Check out a site with some amazing ice photographs.

Lots of storage

Monday, March 31st, 2003

Wow. Two petabytes of storage! That would finally provide the space I need for lots of my photos. Okay, well, maybe it would be a small amount of overkill. *smile* (A petabyte is an awful lot of space.)

Rosetta & Gutenburg - Public Domain archives

Monday, March 31st, 2003

The Rosetta Project is a website which has a large library of illustrated children’s books composed of works in the public domain. There’s no doubt that you have probably heard of many of each which are posted on the website, including: Old Mother Hubbard, Mother Goose Rhymes, Robinson Crusoe, The Ugly Duckling, and The Three [...]

The weather outside is frightful…

Sunday, March 30th, 2003

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… Well, that’s what the weather forecasters have been predicting, at least. Yesterday, the temperature was nice, although it was a little muggy out due to the humidity. Today, it has been a very cold, rainy Sunday — with a chance of snow in the forecast. The [...]

Mozquake?

Friday, March 28th, 2003

Someone recently got the idea to embed the classic game "Quake" in Mozilla. I am not making this up.

Time traveller

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

"Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!"
Wow. Sounds like Biff from Back to the Future II, an HG Wells novel gone wrong, or a bad Star Trek Voyager episode.
Thanks to Bryan to pointing out this article on [...]