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I don't usually spend much time explaining metaphors. They are, after all,
metaphorical. They can be filled with whatever symbolism you choose. Written
well, we all come to some similar understanding of their meaning. But, I'll
depart today, contrary to my normal practice, to take a few minutes explaining a
recent metaphor.
I'm a Linux guy through and through. As a user, I see myself as right about at
the average on the curve. For love of the language and open source attitude,
though, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone with quite the same level of
enthusiasm. Put simply, there's very little about the Linux and broader open
source worlds that I don't like or believe in.
Take, for example, the practice of recursive acronyms. GNU ("Gnu's Not Unix"),
HURD ("Herd of Unix-Replacing Daemons"), WINE ("Wine Is Not an Emulator"), even
PHP ("PHP Hypertext Processor") - all carry on the tradition of recursion in the
Unix/Linux world. Goofy as it sounds, I love this stuff.
So it is that I set out to create a recursive metaphor last week. It could only
have happened on or about the 4th of July. In fact, it happened in the edition
of the 3rd. I wrote a piece about how we Americans spend more time over the
course of a year talking about what's wrong with our system than what's
right. I wrote it knowing full well that many of the responses I'd get would be
a) from readers outside the US and b) in sharp disagreement to my comments or
those of citizens of other countries. You're following me, right? People would
disagree with an article that said we spend much time disagreeing. This, of
course, would prove my point in a somewhat metaphorical way - the perfect
recursive metaphor. The point was to be made yet more perfectly by the eventual
inclusion in Penguin Shell of the comments of someone from outside the US
disagreeing with my take our argumentativeness as Americans. Ideally, they would
be comments that disagreed with our collective American perception of being
disagreeable. They would, of course, point out things about which citizens of
other countries can disagree with Americans on. By exercising the right to
disagree, we'd subtly agree that we have that right. Yet another level of
recursion and a final layer of metaphor.
The response to both my own and Johan Sauviller's comments was overwhelming. In
the main, I believe both were appreciated. Many commented on the balance of the
two pieces. Some readers were surprised, I think, to see a dissenting opinion
published so quickly, if at all. Overall, the ability to express honestly held
opinions, to agree and to disagree on a global level closed the circle on the
metaphor in a perfect way.
Things have, however, gotten a bit more ugly in the past few days. I'm not sure
whether some were slow in getting to the July 3rd issue, or whether it's just
been stewing since then. Take, for instance, these comments by a reader who will
remain mercifully nameless:
We get enough
America bashing from our left-wing whacko extremist press and schools here
in the USA that we don't wish to hear some (insert favorite adjective here)
from Belgium whining too!
Followed by:
... please don't let Tony single-handedly tarnish the fine reputation
of Lockergnome. I'm sure there are other articulate Linux experts out there who
would be able to replace him.
... and, in a later note on the topic ...
Censorship is to be encouraged in a
free-market society whenever and wherever it doesn't come from the
government.
Clearly, the metaphor just whizzed right over the heads of some.
Chris
has been great about allowing all his authors plenty of room in the editorial
piece at the beginning of each newsletter. This particular piece is no
exception. He's shown a quiet confidence in the face of some very shrill
comments. While we all generally stay focused on technical issues, Chris has
shown unwavering support for the notion that we geeks are, in the end, humans
with opinions and thoughts to share. I think it's one of the things that makes
the Lockergnome newsletters stand out from the pack - the personal touch.
So, despite the irrationality of some of this week's comments, I'll continue to
occasionally throw in a personal aside with the technical stuff.
Just watch out. Recursive metaphors are only funny until someone puts an eye
out.
Tony
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Win Apps in Linux?
Yesterday, I mentioned an interesting review of two products for Linux by CodeWeavers - CrossOver
Office and CrossOver Plugin. You've probably heard of both by now, as they've
garnered quite a bit of publicity both in and out of the Linux world. You'll
recall that I promised to try to secure copies for review this week. With the
help of a friendly sales rep at CodeWeavers, I was able to accomplish that task
this morning. True to the second half of the promise, we'll spend the next few
days looking at these two products and how they might impact your Linux use.
Let's take them in chronological order, starting today with CrossOver Plugin.
A bit of background is in order. CodeWeavers is, in their own words, " ... the
leading corporate backer of the Wine Project. Wine has been, for the past several years, an
ongoing project to port Windows applications to Linux. It's a tough goal, but
it's also one that's been undertaken by others in the past year or so. Though the progress has been
slow, the Wine project has managed to stay at the front of this development
realm.
CrossOver
Plugin marks a change in the philosophy of the Wine Project. Prior to its
release, Wine had taken a "full system" approach. Running Windows applications
in Wine required the installation of a sizeable daemon and no small amount of
configuration work. CrossOver Plugin has moved Wine away from the system-wide
approach to one that's much more modular. Rather than executing at system
startup, Wine is called as-needed, with the virtual Windows path to the called
program. When the program is closed, so is Wine. CrossOver Plugin has focused on
creating Linux functionality with one related set of Windows
applications: browser plugins.
The results stand as a clear indication that the change in philosophy is a
success. Off the top, CrossOver Plugin bundles QuickTime 5, Windows Media Player
6.2, Shockwave 8.5, Flash 6, and RealPlayer 8 into a Linux-accesible browser
plugin package. Throw in more esoteric apps like IPix, Trillian, Authorware Web
Player 6 and eFax Messenger 2, and you've got virtually every need plugin need
covered.
But this package doesn't stop there. Included in the CrossOver Plugin package
are viewers for Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as several
Microsoft-oriented fonts. Honestly, I was stunned at the range of applications
offered by the CodeWeavers developers.
Having had some experience with Wine, I was a bit leery about the install
process and about the ability to get all these great applications to work with
my RedHat setup. I've never been completely successful with Wine, but I hoped
for the best when I started the CrossOver Plugin installation. I really did want
these apps to work.
The installation was quite easy. By running the install-crossover.sh script from
the command line, I was able to install the installers for both CrossOver Plugin
and CrossOver Office, which we'll talk about tomorrow. I started the plugin
installs with QuickTime, a tool I've admittedly missed in Linux. In the
background, CrossOver Plugin had already created a virtual C:\ drive on my
machine. I clicked on the QuickTime install and immediately saw a familiar sight
- the Vise installer in its Windows format. CrossOver Plugin first checked for
feedback from the Windows binary, opened a virtual Windows window, then stepped
out while the Vise installer took care of the rest. Though the install failed
four times, it appeared to be a server failure rather than a failure of the
CrossOver program. I kept "retry"ing and, with some persistence, managed to get
a full QuickTime 5 install downloaded from the Apple servers. Quite literally,
the install looked and performed exactly as I've seem many times in Windows.
When the install was completed, CrossOver again checked for the Windows binary,
located the appropriate .dll files in the virtual C:\ drive and dropped the
plugins into the /home/tony/.netscape/plugins and /home/tony/.mozilla/plugins
directories.
The process was so smooth that I had to check the plugin listings in these
browsers - "Help", "About Plugins." Sure enough, the CrossOver QuickTime plugin
was listed. Quickly, I ran out to the Apple site and opened the "Men In Black
II" movie trailer. QuickTime performed flawlessly.
I followed with the Windows Media Player, Shockwave, Flash, IPix, and eFax
Messenger installs. Of those, the only ones that weren't self-contained in the
CrossOver install were IPix and eFax. Even at that, the installer pointed me to
the Windows download then found the .exe file when the download was done. Within
a half-hour, I had all installed and tested.
Then, just for grins, I installed RealPlayer 8 via CrossOver. This was despite
the recommendation in the installer screen to use the Linux version. It went as
smoothly as the others with one caveat - the player played media files at a much
faster speed than that in Windows. Fast enough to make me laugh, in fact,
reminded of Dave and Alvin the Chipmunk. Ah well, six out of seven is pretty
strong given my previous troubles with Wine.
I also installed a few fonts - Arial, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, and Veranda.
In every case, the install was quick and absolutely painless.
Wine has always held great promise. At times, it's been painful to watch the
tedious pace of development, only because that promise was so alluring. With the
backing of CodeWeavers and a fundamental change in the approach to development,
Wine has finally realized the goal of integrating Windows applications
seamlessly into the stable Linux environment. The results are so strong that, if
I didn't know better, I'd swear that a few of these plugins actually run better
in Linux than in their native Windows. Honestly, I didn't realize how much I
missed them until I started using them in Linux today.
Tomorrow holds a few surpirses, with a look at CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office
package.
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We're nine parts into the kernel configuration series, with quite a bit yet to
go. If you haven't been following along, we're breaking out the configuration
screens one at a time in an attempt to shed some light on the purpose and
function of each. With that knowledge, you should be able to make a clear
decision as to how to configure each section.
Today, it's the Parallel Port support section. This is pretty simple. If you
need parallel port support - such as for a printer - select this option either
as a driver built into the kernel or as a loadable module.
Most will use the PC-style hardware option in conjuction with a Windows printer.
But that's not all the parallel port can be used for. As an example, the builds
I did with the telescope company required parallel port support, as the
telescope cameras were attached to this port.
Be aware - this kernel configuration option only makes a driver available for
the parallel port. The computer's BIOS sets the mode for the port - ECP, EPP, or
Auto. On the majority of modern computers, the Auto mode is the default and will
work just fine. However, if you have problems communicating with your printer
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Scribbled by Karl Steenblik
"Dear Linux community at Lockergnome.
"I am the web master for largest health care camp in the State of Utah.
No not Cancer camp it is the Diabetic camp.
"The Foundation for Children and Youth with Diabetes serves about 900
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support, diet planning and most important is camp.  The place where kids
can learn about how to better manage their disease.
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Nurses and educators that make our camp possible.  Yes even me the lowly
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"ATT recently decided to pull access to our photo page due to a password
protection.  We give out a password to all parents so that they can see
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Last week, Axialis Software
released IconWorkshop v5.0 - arguably the most powerful icon
editor / manager for the Windows platform. Ever the icon addict, I
asked for your pixel-perfect creations. I have yet to receive one.
Perhaps you've been waiting for the right motivation? How about a
nice little contest involving some of the most powerful sites on
the Internet? Here's the deal: you create five (or more) icons
between now and the end of July 2002, upload them to your [FREE]
DeviantArt account (under Contests / Axialis Icon Contest), and
one of the five judges may pick it. The panel includes: myself,
MattEO from DeviantArt,
KarmaGirl from WinCustomize, Voodoo from
Neowin, and Marc from
Axialis. We'll each pick our favorite set. The winners will not
only receive one copy of IconWorkshop Corporate Edition, but some
of their icons will get bundled with a future version of the
software! Ownership is retained by the original author, so don't
hold back. Here's your chance at fame and fortune. Or, at least
fame and free software.
Ah, the life of a software junkie! Pieter just released the new
(unofficial) Google SearchTool
today. It's much more convenient than the official toolbar (sorry,
I just don't like browser add-ons). I also gave
Cacheman
another go; I haven't used it since Windows 98. It's always been a
great piece of shareware, but I didn't realize it was THIS good.
The speed increase has been quite noticeable (even on Storm Shadow,
my P4 2.5GHz machine). Outer Technologies is brilliant. And so is
Repligator 9.0. It gives
me access to instant special effects - a one-stop shop for digital
photo fun. I'm still debating whether or not to install the latest
Java runtimes. It seems to be unobtrusive on my test machine,
which is good to see; I don't want browser integration, I just
wanna run that awesome ASCII Art program. Oh, and "12 Mistakes
Executives Make When Planning Web Strategy" is available for FREE
with the purchase of ANY GnomeTome (including our 50
freshly-released OS X tips). Go grab it if your boss doesn't know
as much as s/he should.
There's a little bit of Oingo Boingo on Emusic now. They inked a
deal with Universal Music Group today - and I'm not paying any
more to get access to even more MP3s. This is the ONLY
way to go, and I hope and pray that more record labels will
eventually catch on to the craze. The Internet is more than a
place for a pseudo-interactive pamphlet; the Internet fosters
knowledge; the Internet is still in its infancy; the Internet has
encouraged creativity and commerce. The one thing the Internet is
NOT: a fad. Its potential is limitless, as long as it remains
flexible and not controlled by any one company. This
Palladium
thing has got me more than a little spooked. It, combined with the
service-oriented OS, could very well be the thing that drives
people away from the Windows platform in droves (as much as I hate
to admit it). Software and music pirates unwittingly created DRM.
I best not find out that you're part of the problem.
See You in August,              Chris Pirillo
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Everything is nicely divided into categories, too. Need a salad?
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was just looking at this new application. It shows a graphical
representation of every planet in our solar system (as opposed to
every planet in the Hoth system) and its moons. It also provides
detailed information such as the planet's distance from the sun,
its volume, mass, and gravity in relation to Earth. What I found
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your machine from everywhere provided that your machine is
connected to the Internet. VNC is free (released under the GNU
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original VNC distribution can be obtained at the AT&T research
labs site. Here you can find enhanced version of VNC, called
TightVNC (grown from the VNC Tight Encoder project), which is
optimized to work over slow network connections such as low-speed
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I found some really cool software to generate Web site navigation
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own. Here's a small write-up about it; perhaps you'd be interested
in running this in a future Lockergnome issue? We've all seen a
lot of really cool site navigation menus, with pop-up text, neat
mouseover effects, and the like. Most of them require a
combination of HTML and JavaScript to build, which is expertise
that goes way beyond some of us. At last, it's possible to easily
generate just such a menu with some very user-friendly screens to
enter the data you want to use.
Pop-Up Menu comes in a freeware version, or you can get a fully
licensed version ($34.95 for a Home User license / $129.95 for the
Web Designer license). The biggest difference? With the licensed
version, you get the ability to save a menu you've generated so
you can modify it later. Your only alternative, if you want to
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into the nuts and bolts of the code and modifying that). Be
forewarned: The JavaScript reads like a novel, so modifying that
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about the seeding rates for your wheat farm? Perhaps you
programmers out there need a nice HEX calculator. And, of course,
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EFFector       Vol. 15, No. 24       August 9, 2002      ren@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation	  ISSN 1062-9424
In the 224th Issue of EFFector:
* EFF Submits Letter to FCC Chairman Regarding BPDG Proposal
* Update on Intel Corp. v. Hamidi
* DeCSS Author Johansen's Trial Rescheduled
* Bunnie Presents Paper on XBox Reverse Engineering
* Thanks to DefCon!
* EFF Booth at LinuxWorld
* Deep Links: Baen Books' Releases Reader-Friendly E-Books
* Deep Links: Janis Ian on P2P
* Deep Links: Hometown Paper Discusses Rep. Coble's Support of
Berman P2P Hacking Bill
* Administrivia
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* EFF Submits Letter to FCC Chairman Regarding BPDG Proposal
The Honorable Michael K. Powell Chairman Federal Communications
Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Suite 8C453 Washington, DC 20554
BY FACSIMILE, ELECTRONIC MAIL, AND POSTAL MAIL
Dear Chairman Powell:
I am writing to you today in regards to the digital television
Broadcast Flag; specifically, I write in response to Sen. Hollings'
and Representatives Dingell and Tauzin's letters of July 19, which
urged you to mandate the Broadcast Flag proposal outlined in the
final report of the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a donor-supported
non-profit organization that works to uphold civil liberties
interests in technology policy and law. EFF has played a critical
role in safeguarding crucial freedoms related to computers, the
Internet and consumer electronics devices, defeating the restriction
on strong cryptography exports; securing the legal principle that
Internet wiretaps must only proceed in conjunction with a warrant;
and defending academics, researchers and commercial interests
against DMCA-related prosecution.
EFF was an active participant in the Broadcast Protection Discussion
Group. We attended the group's meetings and conference calls and
participated in the group's policy and technical mailing-lists. EFF
also maintains a web-site that was and is the only public source of
information on the Broadcast Flag negotiations and proposal. The
site can be found at  EFF devoted
thousands of staff-hours to publicizing the existence and nature of
the BPDG to the public, to civil liberties and consumer-advocacy
groups, and to entrepreneurial companies and software authors whose
products were threatened by the proceedings.
When you and I met at Esther Dyson's PC Forum last March, we spoke
briefly about the civil liberties interests that would be undermined
by the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group's mandate. The BPDG
proposal will have grave consequences for innovation, free
expression, competition and consumer interests. Worst of all, it
will add unnecessary complexity and expense to the DTV transition,
compromising DTV adoption itself.
As you are aware, technologists have traditionally manufactured
those devices they believed would be successful in the market, often
in spite of the misgivings of rights-holders. From the piano roll to
the PVR, technologists have enjoyed the freedom to ship whatever
products they believe the public will pay for; what's more,
innovation has always thrived best where there were the fewest
regulatory hurdles. NTSC tuners and devices are governed by precious
few regulations, and consequently we see a rich field of products
that interact with them, from the VCR Plus to tuner-cards for PCs to
the PVR. The Broadcast Flag proposal would limit technologists to
shipping those products that met with the approval of MPAA member
companies. No entrepreneur or software author will know, a priori,
whether his innovative DTV product will be legal in the market until
he has gone to the expense of building it and taking it around to
the Hollywood studios for review.
Consumers and industry alike have benefitted greatly from the "Open
Source" or "Free Software" movement, in which technologies are
distributed in a form that encourages end-user modification. From
server-software like the web-wide success-story apache, to operating
systems like GNU/Linux, to consumer applications like the Mozilla
browser, Free Software is a powerful force for innovation, consumer
benefit and commercial activity. The BPDG proposal implicitly bans
Free Software DTV applications -- such as the DScaler de-interlacer
and the GNU Radio software-defined radio program -- as these
applications are built to be modified by end-users, something that
is banned under the BPDG proposal. The tamper-resistance component
of the BPDG's "Robustness Requirements" will create and entire class
of illegal software applications, abridging the traditional First
Amendment freedom enjoyed by software authors who create expressive
speech in code form under one of several Free Software/Open Source
licenses.
The BPDG nominally set out to create an objective standard, a bright
line that technologists could hew to in order to avoid liability
when deploying their products. However, the end product of the BPDG
was a "standard" that contained no objective criteria for legal
technology; rather, the standard required that new technologies be
approved by MPAA member companies. Not uncoincidentally, the only
technologies that were approved by the MPAA -- and hence the only
legal technologies -- were those produced by the 4C and 5C
consortia, a group of technology companies that acted as the MPAA's
allies throughout the BPDG process. This is an harbinger of the sort
of regime that the BPDG standard will usher in: technology companies
will be able to shut their competitors out of the marketplace by
allying themselves with Hollywood, brokering deals to allow certain
technologies and outlaw others.
The marketplace is a proven mechanism for rapidly and efficiently
producing products that increase the value and desirability of new
technologies, such as DTV. A BPDG mandate would subvert the market
for DTV innovation. Competing companies with lower-cost DTV
technology alternatives would be restrained from bringing these to
market if they failed to assuage the MPAA's concerns about
unauthorized redistribution. Furthermore, the universe of
unauthorized-but-lawful uses for DTV programming will be shrunk down
to the much smaller space of explicitly authorized uses. The ability
of the public to make unauthorized-but-lawful uses of television
programming has been an historical force for increasing the value of
broadcast programming, from the VCR to the PVR.
Ironically, the inevitable damage that a Broadcast Flag mandate
would do to innovation, competition and consumer interests can only
slow down DTV adoption, by driving up the cost of DTV devices while
reducing the number of desirable features that an open market would
create. If the public is offered less functionality for more money,
they will not flock to DTV.
The most disheartening thing about the Broadcast Flag is that there
is neither a strong case that the Broadcast Flag is a necessary tool
for protecting copyright, nor that the Broadcast Flag would be
effective in that role. The existing practice of Internet
infringement of broadcast programming -- analog captures from
devices that satisfy the requirements of the BPDG proposal -- would
not be stopped by the presence of a Broadcast Flag.
Higher-resolution DTV signals will likewise present no challenge to
determined infringers, who can capture full-quality analog signal
from DTV devices and then re-digitize them, suffering only a single
generation's worth of loss-of-quality before the programming enters
the Internet.
Meanwhile, the underlying rubric for a Broadcast Flag -- that
infringement will undermine Hollywood's business to the point that
movies will no longer be available to the public, reducing the value
of DTV -- is no more than superstition. No credible study or
analysis, undertaken by a neutral party, has ever been presented to
Congress, the FCC, the CPTWG or the BPDG supporting this notion. The
public is being asked to sacrifice its rights in copyright; industry
is being asked to place its right to innovation in the hands of
entertainers; the US government is being asked to mandate
extraordinary, unprecedented regulation of the $600 billion
technology sector -- all on the uncorroborated opinions of a few
studio executives.
EFF welcomes the FCC's oversight of the Broadcast Flag issue. The
BPDG proceedings took place behind a shroud of secrecy, in a
looking-glass "public process" where only those participants the
organizers wanted to hear from were made privy to its existence,
where the co-chairs invented rules and processes on the fly to suit
the needs of the entertainment interests and the technology
companies that had privately secured a promise of a legal monopoly
for their products, where the press was banned.
The FCC has an admirable tradition of seeking and weighing public
opinion in its proceedings. As the FCC considers the Broadcast Flag,
EFF hopes that it will start anew, setting aside the findings of the
BPDG in light of the concerns raised by Microsoft, Philips, Sharp,
Thomson, and Zenith, as well as non-profit organizations including
EFF, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, the Free
Software Foundation, Public Knowledge, digitalconsumer.org, the
Center for Democracy in Technology, and the Computer and
Communications Industry Association.
Thank you for attention in this matter. Please let me know if we can
be of any further assistance to you.
Sincerely yours,
Cory Doctorow for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Links:
EFF's BPDG Blog:

An overview of our concerns with the broadcast flag:

Letter from Sen. Hollings:

Letter from Rep. Tauzin:

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* Update on Intel Corp. v. Hamidi
Intel Corp. v. Hamidi is now on appeal to the California Supreme
Court. EFF filed an amicus brief in support of Ken Hamidi on Aug. 6,
2002. The facts are simple: Over about two years, Hamidi on six
occasions sent e-mail critical of Intel's employment practices to
between 8,000 and 35,000 Intel employees. Intel demanded that Hamidi
stop, but he refused. Intel obtained an injunction barring Hamidi
from e-mailing Intel employees at their Intel e-mail addresses,
based on the common-law tort of "trespass to chattels." ("Chattel"
is a legal term that refers to personal property, as opposed to
property in land.)
EFF's amicus brief argues three main points.
(1) Intel did not qualify for relief under "trespass to chattels"
because Intel's e-mail servers were not themselves harmed by
Hamidi's e-mails. If Intel was harmed, it was because the content of
Hamidi's e-mails affected Intel employees, not because sending the
e-mails affected the functioning of Intel's servers.
(2) By focusing on unwanted "contact" with the chattel and ignoring
the harm requirement, the court of appeal turned "trespass to
chattels" into a doctrine that threatens common Internet activity
like search engines and linking. For example, if a website posted a
"no trespassing" sign, any "contact" by a search engine could be
considered a trespass even if it caused no harm.
(3) The court of appeal wrongly held that the injunction did not
infringe Hamidi's freedom of speech. The First Amendment limits
private parties' legal remedies in many areas of law, such as libel,
out of concern that private parties will use the law to suppress
criticism. The same principle should apply here, where Intel's
claims of harm stem from the meaning of Hamidi's speech.
Links:
The Intel v. Hamidi Archive:

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* DeCSS Author Johansen's Trial Rescheduled
The trial of Norwegian teen Jon Johansen, who created the
controversial DeCSS software, has been pushed back again. It is now
scheduled to be heard on December 9, 2002, in Oslo, Norway. In the
fall of 1999, Johansen and his team reverse-engineered the content
scrambling system (CSS) software used to encrypt DVDs in an effort
to build a DVD player for the Linux operating system. In January of
2002, the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (OKOKRIM) charged Johansen
with a violation of Norwegian Criminal Code Section 145.2, which
outlaws breaking into a third-party's property in order to steal
data that one is not entitled to. This prosecution marks the first
time the law will be used to prosecute a person for accessing his
own property (his own DVD). Johansen faces two years in prison if
convicted. The prosecution is based on a formal complaint filed by
the Motion Picture Association.
The trial had originally been scheduled to take place in June of
2002 but was rescheduled when the court could not find any qualified
judges to hear Johansen's case.  Now the case is scheduled to be
heard by a three-judge panel. Help Jon in his battle against
Hollywood movie studios, donate to his legal defense fund at:

Links:
The DeCSS/Johansen Archive:

Digital Rights Management Archive:

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* Bunnie Presents Paper on XBox Reverse Engineering
Paper Explains Flaw in Videogame Security System
Researcher Escapes Chilling Effect of Digital Copyright Law
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Advisory
For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 9, 2002
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased
to announce that former MIT doctoral student Andrew "Bunnie" Huang
will present a paper explaining a security flaw in the Microsoft
Xbox (TM) videogame system.
Huang will present his paper, "Keeping Secrets in Hardware: the
Microsoft X-BOX Case Study," at 5:25 p.m. PDT on August 13, 2002, at
the 2002 Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
(CHES 2002) in Redwood City, California (Aug. 13-15, 2002).
The Xbox security system is intended to allow people to play only
videogames authorized by Microsoft. Huang's paper "shows how a
person could defeat that system with a small hardware investment,"
said MIT Professor Hal Abelson, one of Huang's advisors. "More
importantly, the paper relates the security vulnerability to a
general design flaw shared by other high-profile security systems
such as the government's Clipper Chip and the movie industry's
Contents Scrambling System (CSS) for DVD players."
Huang contacted EFF in March after his advisors told him that his
preliminary findings raised potentially significant legal questions.
With the help of Boston College law professor Joe Liu, EFF worked
with Huang, Abelson, and MIT administrators to analyze the legal
issues and draft letters notifying Microsoft of Huang's research
findings and intended publication, one of the steps encouraged by
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Microsoft told Huang and Abelson that while it might prefer that the
paper not be published, it would be inappropriate to ask MIT to
withhold the paper.
"Microsoft deserves praise for making no attempt to control
publication," said Abelson. "Their response shows that they value
academic freedom, and that they appreciate the critical role of
unfettered research and publication in advancing technology."
Other companies have reacted otherwise, using the DMCA to threaten
researchers. The Recording Industry Association of America last year
warned Princeton Professor Edward Felten after his research team
exposed weaknesses in digital music security technologies. Last
month, Hewlett Packard (HP) threatened research collective SnoSoft
over exposing a security vulnerability in HP's Tru64 Unix operating
system. Soon after, HP clarified that it would not use the DMCA to
stifle research or impede the flow of information that would improve
computer security.
Huang said that while he is glad he can openly present his paper,
"The DMCA clearly had a chilling effect on my work. I was afraid to
submit my research for peer review until after the EFF's efforts to
clear potential legal restraints."
"Researchers should be analyzing security, not worrying about
getting sued," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien.
Links:
For this release:

For Huang's paper:
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/2002/AIM-2002-008.pdf
For the CHES program:
EFF "Unintended Consequences: Three Years Under the DMCA" report:

RIAA sues Professor Edward Felten over SDMI:

An article about Hewlett-Packard's threatening SnoSoft:

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* EFF Thanks Defcon
EFF thanks The Dark Tangent and other organizers of the DEF CON X
convention for their generous donation of exhibition space at DEF
CON ( DEF CON is an "underground" computer
security conference held each summer in Las Vegas.
Links:
Defcon Website:

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* EFF Booth at LinuxWorld
Come visit EFF at booth #488 at Linuxworld next week. We'll be
passing out information, good cheer, and a slew of new stickers.
When: August 13 - 15
10a - 5p
Where: Booth #5
Moscone Center
747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Links:
LinuxWorld Conference Website:

Floor Map and EFF Booth:

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Deep Links
Deep Links is a new department in the EFFector featuring noteworthy
news-items, victories and threats from around the Internet.
* Baen Books expands fair-use-friendly e-book program
Baen Books will bind a CD-ROM into the October 2002 hardcover
edition of *War of Honor,* the latest volume in David Weber's epic
Honor Harrington space-opera. The CD will contain at least 22
complete novels, all in open formats like html and RTF, with the
fair-use-friendly admonishment "This disk and its contents may be
copied and shared but NOT sold." Included on the disk are the entire
Honor Harrington series to date, as well as other titles from the
Baen line, including Keith Laumer's *Retief!* and Larry Niven and
Jerry Pournelle's *Fallen Angels*.
Baen has been a banner-carrier for fair-use in electronic
publishing, shipping text and html files that can be played on a
multitude of devices. Other publishers have chosen to publish their
material in copy-controlled formats that make it impossible to
legally loan or resell the titles you purchase, are locked to a
specific device, can't play on every operating system, and
occasionally lock out assistive technology like the screen-readers
employed by the blind.
Dmitry Skylarov, a Russian scientist, was arrested in July 2001, for
demonstrating how end-users could defeat the copy-prevention
employed by Adobe's e-book technology. Adobe asked the FBI to arrest
Skylarov for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
which makes it a crime to describe techniques for circumventing
copy-prevention technology. Though Skylarov was later released, his
employer, ElcomSoft, is still facing charges in the USA, and the
Russian government has issued an advisory warning Russian scientists
to steer clear of American technical conferences until the DMCA is
repealed.
Here is Baen's statement on the CD release:
You are about to start playing with a CD-ROM that has fairly
extraordinary content. As of this writing it includes twenty-two
UNENCRYPTED novels in several formats, the ten Honor Harrington
Novels, 3 Honor Harrington Anthologies and 9 novels by friends of
Honor, and by the time of distribution it may well contain more.
(More than twenty novels for free, and with no stupid codes to work
around. Think of that.) The reason for the plethora of formats is to
try to please the people who want to read the novels on their Palm
Pilots or other text-specialized palm-sized devices.
Links:
Baen Books's page for *War of Honor*:

Slashdot discussion of *War of Honor* release:

149
EFF documents on Dmitry Skylarov and ElcomSoft:

EFF documents on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

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* Singer/Songwriter Janis Ian on P2P Lucid article on the benefits of
peer-to-peer networks form an artists' perspective.

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* Hometown Paper Discusses Rep. Coble's Support of Berman P2P Hacking
Bill Column on how a good Representative can make a bad call.

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IN THIS ISSUE:
01. Secure IE
02. Disk cleanup on XP
03. Thanks but no thanks
04. Mouseless way home
05. Kartoo
06. XP time feature
07. Leaf Peeper Alert
08. Saving scraps
09. Quick access
10. Don't believe your email
And What's Coming Up Next Week in NNT Premium
01. SECURE IE.  For the past month or so, our Software Review Panel has
been giving a grueling test to Secure IE, a piece of software that blocks
Flash and pop-ups, prevents malicious file downloads, lets you customize
Security Zone settings as you browse dozens of Web sites simultaneously up
to five times faster with a tabbed interface, annotate Web page with sticky
notes and highlighter, and save complete Web pages, even secure server
(HTTPS) pages and archive online transaction receipts.  For what we believe
is one of the most thorough reviews ever conducted on a single piece of
software, check out what our Panel had to say at
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visit  .  And if this one sweeps you off your feet,
go to the NNT Store at  and get a super
deal, just $17.50 if you order before September 14.  With a 30-day
guarantee, what's to lose?
02. DISK CLEANUP ON XP.  Windows XP users can do some fast cleaning chores
with Disk Cleanup.  Access this tool from the Start menu by right clicking
on your hard drive.  Then select Properties and click on the Disk Cleanup
button to determine how many files can be safely deleted.
03. THANKS BUT NO THANKS.  Continuing our periodic feature of
less-than-useful sites on the Web:  The International Center for Bathroom
Etiquette at  gets our recognition this issue.  It says
it's working hard to bring you the latest in cutting edge research and
technology regarding bathroom etiquette.  We'll resist some obvious puns.
. . . . .
West Virginia's Diane Stratton recommended NNT to some friends and is now
enjoying QuicKeys 2.0, a great Windows management software package.  Diane
is our latest winner and you could be next.  Just go to the NNT Web site at
 and click on "Recommend NNT."  Nothing could
be easier.
. . . . .
04. MOUSELESS WAY HOME.  To go home quickly in Internet Explorer, touch F6
to highlight the Address Bar and type two periods (..) there.  The Enter
key then takes you home.
05. KARTOO.  Search engines are everywhere on the Internet but Kartoo at
 is quite unusual.  It's a meta search engine that
displays results on a map in the form of a ball.  The larger the ball, the
more relevant the result.  As you mouseover each result, site descriptions
are revealed.  If all that sounds confusing, the explanation is more
complicated than the service itself.  Just try it.
. . . . .
You should make it a habit to visit the NNT Store at
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there at a limited-time price much less than anywhere else on the Net.
Currently, you'll find excellent ebooks, a very effective popup stopper,
and the very useful utility described in item 01 above, along with the
usual opportunity to subscribe to NNT Premium and ArchivesExpress.  Check
us out, you'll be glad you did.
. . . . .
06. XP TIME FEATURE.  Windows XP added a nice feature that heretofore
required a separate software application.  It will connect, either at a
programmed time or manually, to a time server via the Internet and reset
that often erroneous internal clock.  Just click on the time in the systems
tray, go to Date and Time Properties and click the Internet Time tab.
07. LEAF PEEPER ALERT.  A bit early, but soon the changing colors of autumn
will begin here in the U.S.  For those who like to follow the display,
consider  for a comprehensive collection
of links and toll-free numbers to each state to determine peak color times.
08. SAVINGS SCRAPS.  Some oldies are worth repeating.  If you're working
with text in, for example, MS Word or WordPad, and would like a handy way
to save a portion for later easy retrieval, just select (highlight) it and
click/drag it to your desktop.  When the newly created icon is clicked on,
it will show the application with which the scrap was created, along with
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select Properties.  In the Shortcut key window, select any key you can
remember and click OK.  Ctrl+Alt and that key will open the application
whenever needed.
10.  DON'T BELIEVE YOUR EMAIL.  We've been asked about those emails with
virus attachments that appear to be coming from NNT, asking for a
confirmation of a subscription.  Don't believe it, and don't open the
attachments.  Maybe this exchange between NNT and Lyris (our mail manager)
will clear things up:
NNT: Is there anything that can be done about the current strains of virus
that implant on address books and randomly send email asking alleged
subscribers to verify their subscription (when they haven't subscribed at
all)? I've received some of these as well, and I know it's become a
widespread problem with other ezine publishers, creating a lot of ill will
all around.  Is there some configuration that we could change to keep
these from going out except to legitimate subscribers?
Lyris:  Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about this since it
isn't actually ListManager doing the sending.  The real problem is that
people sometimes will add the "join" address to their address book and
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07.10.2002 GnomeREPORT
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handprint on my forehead when I come to the realization that
I left something important behind. What will it be this
time, I wonder? I'll let you know on Thursday.
See You in August,              Randy Nieland
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Forwarding to Internet Address Fails

Client inquires about the possibility of forwarding all
internal and Internet email to his AOL mailbox when he's out
of the office, and I figure it's going to be a piece of
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identified problems with Microsoft Installer (MSI) 2.0, the
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Dean Truax mentioned the System File Checker as a
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improvement. It's still worth a mention, however, in case
you're not familiar with what it's there for. As you're
probably aware, XP contains a file protection scheme that
will immediate replace any system files that are deleted or
altered in any way, ensuring that XP is kept in a stable
state. Sometimes this system can get a little out of whack,
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used as the sanity check to determine if a system file has
been messed with. To access the SFC, simply launch a command
prompt and type "SFC" to display a list of options.
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Forwarded by JW

The next time you have a face-to-face with your elected
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EFFector Online Newsletter
EFFector      Vol. 15, No. 28      September 11, 2002      ren@eff.org
A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation     ISSN 1062-9424
In the 227th Issue of EFFector:
* Motions Filed in Morpheus Peer-to-Peer Case
* EFF's Second Annual Share-In This Weekend!
* Help With Our Internet Blocking in Schools Project
* Deep Links
* Administrivia
For more information on EFF activities & alerts:
To join EFF or make an additional donation:

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*Motions Filed in Morpheus Peer-to-Peer Case
Judge to Consider Legality of Gnutella Software
Los Angeles - Attorneys for StreamCast Networks, developers of the
popular Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software, filed
briefs in federal court on Monday seeking a ruling that distribution
of the software does not violate copyright law.
Morpheus is a popular file-sharing application based on the
decentralized Gnutella P2P networking protocol.
In their briefs seeking summary judgment, attorneys from the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the law firm of Brobeck,
Phleger and Harrison argued that distribution of the software is legal
because the product is capable of substantial noninfringing uses and
because StreamCast cannot control the various uses of the software.
Supporting StreamCast in the motion is nine time Grammy nominee Janis
Ian, who believes that peer-to-peer software represents important new
opportunities for artists.
On October 2, 2001, 28 of the world's largest entertainment companies
sued StreamCast for the allegedly infringing actions of users of its
product (MGM et al v. Grokster et al, Case No. 01-CV-8541 SVW).
Additional briefs will be filed in the months to come, with oral
arguments set for December 2, 2002, before U.S. Federal District Court
Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles.
Links:
For this release:

Documents related to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer v. Grokster case:

Janis Ian's "Internet Debacle" article:

- end -
*Electronic Frontier Foundation Holds Second Annual Share-In
John Perry Barlow, Mountain Girl Garcia Host Free Music Fest
San Francisco - Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and five Bay
Area bands for an afternoon of live music and outdoor fun at EFF's
second annual Share-In. The festival will be held in Golden Gate
Park's Music Concourse Bandshell on Saturday, September 14th from noon
- 5pm. The celebration of independent music will be hosted by Grateful
Dead lyricist and EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow and former wife of
the late great Jerry Garcia, Mountain Girl Garcia.
Artists participating in this event will permit recording of their
performances by those in attendance in support of EFFs Open Audio
License (OAL). Musicians performing at the event include: the Box Set
Duo - clown princes of folk-rock, the classic funk band Funkmonsters,
celtic world-fusion group Hy Brassyl, harmony based folk-pop band
Atticus Scout, and Berkeley-based party band Shady Lady.
In addition to music, the Share-In will feature performers including
Ashley Foster the One Wheeled Wonder, the Existential Circus,
Frantastic Hands, the Metronome Dancers, and Willy Bologna and his
Sideshow Circus. Bring your family and friends!
Ben and Jerry's will sell their famous ice cream, and Cartwheel
Catering will be on site with hot dogs, pretzels, and churros.
Proceeds from the Share-In will go directly to EFF's Campaign for
Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE), which oversees projects such as
the Open Audio License. CAFE empowers the creative community in
cyberspace by protecting the public's access to and use of audiovisual
technologies.
The Open Audio License is a tool that EFF has developed in order to
help artists share music more directly with their fans, without
sacrificing recognition for their creativity. The OAL encourages
collaboration, providing artists with an alternative to a business
model strictly driven by profit. Based on the open source and free
software initiatives for software development, the OAL encourages
artists to share with one another and their fans
Adoption of the OAL does not mean that artists go unrewarded for their
work. On the contrary, the OAL permits artists to share single tracks
or performances and gain widespread recognition for their work without
relying on intermediaries. EFF encourages new models of music
distribution in the digital world that benefit the artists themselves.
The Internet makes it possible to drastically reduce the overhead for
packaging and distributing music, which is where record companies
currently spend most of the money that could be going to artists. EFF
is committed to developing tools that empower artists to take control
over their own art and to be compensated appropriately for their works.
When: Saturday, September 14th, Noon-5pm
Where: Music Concourse Bandshell in Golden Gate Park, near the
Japanese Tea Gardens between MLK Drive and JFK Drive
More Information and Travel Directions:

Links:
EFF's Cafe Project:

The Open Audio License:

- end -
*Help With Our Internet Blocking in Schools Study
If you know of any public school students, teachers, school
administrators, school board members, parents, or recent public school
alumni in the United States who are willing to speak about the impact
of Internet blocking on educational opportunities, the EFF would like
to make contact with them. We are especially looking for people in or
near the following areas:
* Asheville, NC
* Boston, MA
* Nashville, TN
* New York City
* San Francisco, CA
Please have them contact:
Will Doherty
wild@eff.org
- end -
*Deep Links
Deep Links features noteworthy news items, victories, and threats from
around the Internet.
Community Wireless Allows People to Break Away from Czech Telekom
Another wireless community helps bring access to rural areas and those
who otherwise would not have access. See the story at:

- end -
Google Blocked in China
A populat search engine is blocked in China and internet traffic is
constantly being monitored. Read about it at:

- end -
iPod Clone Spoiled by DRM
Second generation USB speed rendered useless by DRM encryption used in
Toshiba's Mobilphile:

- end -
The Netizen in 2002
What does it mean to be a Netizen today? Contribute to the call for
submissions found at:
~doctorow/netizen.txt
- end -
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Tech Update Today
VITAL SIGNS FOR JULY 10, 2002
David Berlind
What to look for in your next smart phone
With PDAs and cell phones on the fast path to convergence, choosing the right
device is harder than ever. Before you buy one more handheld, see my prescription
for mobile happiness.
Reader: Kyocera is stepping stone to the perfect smart phone
Latest from ZDNet News
Microsoft eyes Visa users with Passport
No jitters here: IBM drives tap new tech
Telecom firm leaks student data to Web
Israel, Hong Kong hotbed for cyberattacks
Microsoft puts content software to the test
Micron: PC demand to boost chip sales
Flash! Macromedia tools speak up
Will Dell delve into printers?
More Enterprise News
Farber's Picks
DanFarber
Tackling tough issues in e-customer service
Identity services let e-commerce sites better serve customers and secure their
transactions. Both Passport and the Liberty Alliance offer merchants
some ability to recognize customers. Check out this overview of today's identity
services--and find out why PKI is not dead yet.
Read the full story
Toshiba releases monster notebook
Weighing in at 9.6 pounds, the new Toshiba Satellite 1955-S801 notebook
has a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor and a huge 16-inch display. The
desktop-replacement notebook category also includes the Satellite 1905
that Toshiba introduced last month, as well as products from Hewlett-Packard.
Gateway and Dell may be looking at the concept too.  The Satellite 1955 will
cost $2,499 and sports a few features not found in other desktop-replacement
notebooks, including a detachable wireless keyboard and wireless mouse.
Read the full story
Clone, clone, clone your disks
Imaging software can help you roll out new systems faster, right? The catch is that fine print requirement for "identical client hardware." But Tech Update's Lee Schlesinger says new technology from IBM may be a quantum leap for disk imaging.
Read his full commentary
Tech gets set for China breakthrough
It's one of the few words that can perk up a high-technology executive these
days: China. Companies have attempted to tap the country's enormous potential
for years, but it has become a far more attractive target recently as
the rest of the world remains mired in economic problems. Now, the People's
Republic of China has become one of the leading strategic opportunities for
Intel, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard and virtually every other multinational.
Read part one of this special report
Poll: What will be the primary role of TabletPC?
Tech Update readers see no shortage of applications for Microsoft's TabletPC.
Some of you want one, many of you say you need one. But what will be the primary role
of TabletPC: Vertical applications? A notebook/desktop replacement? Home use?
Or will it meet the same fate as previous tablet attempts?
Take our Quick Poll
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In part two of a Tech Update interview, Benoy Tamang, Caldera VP of
strategic development, discusses UnitedLinux's strategy regarding additional
members and competition in the enterprise Linux space.
FEATURE
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Want to get your feet wet integrating Web services? Find out how to integrate Web services on a small scale and how particular platforms can simplify your efforts.
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20020709 Lockergnome Apple Core
07.09.2002 GnomeREPORT
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getting mostly brand new content. This represents the first thing I've
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I'll be ecstatic. And hopefully, any of you who check out the tips will
find them useful. I know that figuring out how to do each of the 50 things
on the list has improved my personal OS X experience.
Although this newsletter started out with Chris, Randy, and I writing
sections of the newsletter, time constraints have limited the
contributions of the other two guys. This does not mean either of them is
truly less involved, it just means I'm doing more writing. Both Chris and
Randy regularly send me links to cool Mac stuff they find, much of which
will ultimately end up in upcoming issues. Since the writing will be
primarily mine, I've opted to eliminate the "Review by" links at the bottom
of each article. Unless otherwise noted, you can safely assume I wrote it.
If you need to send me an e-mail, the E-mail The Editors Link in the
sidebar will reach me, as well as putting your message in front of Chris
and Randy.
I've been doing some exploring of AppleScript over the past several months
and believe I'm finally confidant enough in writing scripts that I'm going
to add a section on scripting to the newsletter. I'm curious to know what
your level of experience with scripting is, because I can either start with
some really basic stuff, or skip the basics and dive into meatier scripting
topics. Either way, I'm open to some
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See You in August,              Jake Ludington
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possible to look for almost anything using Sherlock. Their Web site
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finding things online, including searches on your favorite Mac sites,
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verifications included in the pro version. Xnet runs on your
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you a message when those services go down. The interface allows
for user-defined services, with alert features for both an e-mail
account (mine alerts are going to my cell phone) and locally via
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GnomeTERMINAL
For OS X installs with multiple users, there may come a time when you
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