So, Mary Gardiner, civic-minded lady she is, mentioned that she was going to have a go at making a submission to the senate on the FTA and it’s effect on Linux and free software and that she’d probably put whatever she came up with online. Michael Davies replied that You aren’t allowed to make your […]
The Creative Commons has come down under. They’re developing some new licenses to address Australian law a little better, and make folks doing free works just that little bit better protected.
If we’re ever going to do anything about the problems various copyright laws and patents cause us, we have to start sometime. Linux Australia is starting now, and focussing on the Australia/United States Free Trade Agreement. They have a page full of information up at http://www.linux.org.au/fta/. If you’re an Australian, you’ll be affected by these […]
Someone complained that my last entry wasn’t recent enough to “count” as an updated blog entry. Maybe that someone will be more pleased with an entry about stuff that at least happened this year. As mentioned previously on this blog, this year’s l.c.a was in Adelaide, and was hosted by Michael Davies and his crew. […]
So since I’m not in the mood to write much, I thought, hey why not put up some pretty piccies. And then I thought, why I have all those skiing photos I took last year; I haven’t put any of them up. And then I thought, mmmm, skiing. Anyway, I was priveleged enough to take […]
The AU/US Free Trade Agreement text is out. Too early yet to say for sure if it’s going to be bad for Linux, but it certainly looks like we’re going to be further locked into some bad laws. An issue that occassionally comes up in Debian is why there are relatively few chix0rs. One technically […]
Eating cats and dogs is now illegal in SA. Conscientious objector Kris Hanna had this to say: It plays upon unfounded fears about people from our own cultures who have different eating habits to our own. I wonder if he meant “It plays upon unfounded fears about people from other cultures who, in actual fact, […]
One objection to email fees is related to email viruses: if every email you send costs a cent, and you get a virus that sends out 20,000 emails you’ve just lost $200. That sucks. Fortunately, that’s straightforward avoidable by limiting the amount of money your computer can access without your authorisation (by way of password, […]
The Gnu Hunter writes: Yahoo and Microsoft are looking at ways of imposing a postage fee for emails as a way of reducing the ever increasing number of junk emails or spam. No, Yahoo and Microsoft are looking at ways of making more money by charging for something that was previously “free” and are using […]
So, here’s the lede: Howard blasts ‘sloppy’ Latham Prime Minister John Howard has launched a scathing attack on Federal Opposition leader Mark Latham, saying he is sloppy with the truth and he wants to expose him. But the Labor Party is unfazed by Mr Howard’s criticism. At the time of writing, that’s what’s visible on […]
I had dinner with Michael. Other people showed up too. Michael forced me to post pictures, because he’s vain. Unfortunately he’s not vain enough to blog. Bitch.
As part of moving, I needed to get the Internet hooked up again, which meant getting a new ADSL modem. Looking around, there seemed to be good deals for combination ADSL modem/4 port hub/wireless access point dealies, and as it turned out I was able to get a second hand one for even cheaper. As […]
Well, the year has certainly started off in a decidedly odd way. At the very least, I’ve commenced it the way I hope to finish it — with broadband Internet at home. Yay! Those couple of weeks without while I moved were… wearying. In any case, this hopefully marks the resumption of irregular blogging. UPDATE […]