http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070711-library-of-congress-asked-to-pull-webcasting-licenses.html
Ars Technica is reporting that Media Rights Technologies is at it again. This is the company that threatened to sue some companies because they didn’t do enough to stop ripping internet streams. Their solution was to use/buy their product. Those lawsuits still haven’t come to pass but now they’re asking the library of congress to [...]
Posted in Quick Bits | Tagged drm |
Apple joins the the Tuesday patch party and releases updates to Quicktime and iTunes. The patches are for the software on both Windows and OS X.
The Quicktime update, to version 7.2 includes eight security vulnerability fixes in addition to updates to the H.264 codec, support for full screen viewing and “numerous bug fixes”. As with [...]
It’s the second Tuesday of July and that means patches from Microsoft. This month brings six patches, three rated critical, two important, and one moderate. Only five patches are for desktop software and Windows Vista also gets its own unique patch although it’s the one rated moderate. Of these, only the .NET patches and [...]
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070710-criminals-confused-about-how-to-get-the-job-done-google-to-the-rescue.html
Ars Technica has an amusing story about a couple of inept, but successful, burglars who used Google to find “How to crack a safe”.
http://news.com.com/Mac+desktops+are+smarter+money%2C+says+CIO/2100-1016_3-6195778.html?tag=nefd.top
CNet’s News.com has a front page story (not an entry to one of their blogs) about a UK company considering Macs as alternatives to their Windows PCs. They have 700 PC users. Now, I like Macs and use them as my personal computers, but if this potential 700 PC switch is front page news then [...]
Posted in Quick Bits | Tagged os_x, windows |
I finally got around to upgrading to Wordpress 2.2.1 (from 2.2.0) which was released almost three weeks ago. One benefit of procrastination is that the Fantistico scripts available through Bluehost were updated and I could update with one click through Fantastico. I’m still paranoid and turned off all the plugins before the upgrade and started [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged Wordpress |
