RIAA lawsuits continued…

By matt, on July 23rd, 2003%

From the Boston Globe Online (emphasis mine):
…like many students on college campuses in Boston, yesterday, the 19-year old said she’s going to keep downloading.”I would definitely have to know someone who got one” of the subpoenas, said Bedell-Healey, who lives in Needham. ”No, definitely not going to stop until I know someone who’s getting sued.” The . . . → Read More: RIAA lawsuits continued…

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Purple Polar Bear

By matt, on July 22nd, 2003%

Yes, a purple polar bear. Talk about unfortunate side-effects to medication! You can’t tell me that it doesn’t seriously mess up your internal schedule, too…

And, while I’m at it, one from my mother (just moments ago) via email:

At Heathrow airport today an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board . . . → Read More: Purple Polar Bear

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Perl weblogUpdates server

By matt, on July 22nd, 2003%


By weird chance (really) I stumbled on a description of Paul Hammond’s implementation of the weblogUpdates interface in Perl. His 14 line solution is reproduced here for my future reference:


#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP;
my $server = XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP::CGI
  -> dispatch_to(‘weblogUpdates’)
  -> handle;
 
package weblogUpdates;
sub ping {
  my ($class, $weblogname,$weblogurl) = @_;
  print STDERR “got ping from $weblogname at $weblogurl”;
  #
  # other code goes here
  #
  return {
    flerror . . . → Read More: Perl weblogUpdates server

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Time will say nothing, but I told you so…

By matt, on July 22nd, 2003%

What a prophetic line. I went looking for two technical reports, both published in the early/mid 80′s in the Yale CS department:

Johnson, L., Soloway, E., Cutler, B. and Draper, S. (1983) BUG
CATALOGUE: L Technical Report 286, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale
University, October.

Spohrer. J.C.. Pope, E.. Lipman. M., Sack. W.. Freiman, S., Littman.
D.. Johnson, L.. and Soloway. . . . → Read More: Time will say nothing, but I told you so…

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Continuous Flow Printers

By matt, on July 22nd, 2003%

A company (or individual(s)) modifying ink-jet printers to drink from a reservoir instead of aa tiny, expensive cartridge. These folks will probably get slapped with a lawsuit by Epson; modifying and reselling a product will, most likely, violate the DMCA, enrage the MPAA, and be declared an act of terrorism in 43 of the lower 48.

But, . . . → Read More: Continuous Flow Printers

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Next stop! Sotftware patents in Europe!

By matt, on July 1st, 2003%

Very little of a student’s formal education in computing involves the noise that comes in from the real world: constraints, politics, economics. Software patents are a beautiful example of something that your typical computer science graduate probably has opinions on, but doesn’t know nearly enough about how they came to be, why they’re here to stay, . . . → Read More: Next stop! Sotftware patents in Europe!

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