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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Read to Children: DENIED in Belgium
Yeah, things truly appear out of touch of reality with a headline like that. Unfortunately, the headline does reside in reality. It seems the comparable agency to the RIAA/MPAA for music royalties in Belgium, SABAM, decided to try and ban local libraries from enlisting volunteers to read books to kids. Yes, people reading books to kids in [...]
Posted in Creative Commons, literature, open source
Tagged Creative Commons, doctorow, education, lessig, media, MPAA, open source, RIAA, schools, zittrain
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Driver Identifier
Building images is a consuming job of any school technician. Once you build an image, you need to make sure you keep up with the drivers. A driver is a piece of software that communicates with the computer and a piece of hardware like a webcam, trackpad, printer, or any other number of devices. Keeping [...]
Fun ROMing My Tablet
Ok, maybe I do not represent the typical user of technology. Maybe Apple’s iPad is for the masses and folks like me are few and far behind. But there is just something about trying a variety of OSs, kernels, ROMs on devices. I guess it started with me in Linux back in ’06 (wow–I have [...]
Posted in Devices, Freeware, hardware, open source
Tagged android, apple, dell, education, evo, google, linux, open source, schools, tablet
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Apple And Price Fixing
Chalk this up to ‘I called it.’ It seems the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Department of Justice will soon sue Apple and major publishers for colluding to raise eBook prices. Apple? Price fixing? Boy, I would never guess that. Ok, sarcasm over. Seriously, are we just beginning to truly look at all [...]
Everything is a Remix
Why do those in charge of the laws of Copyright and intellectual property and patents continue to get things so wrong? Everything is a remix, as the video states. Look at Disney. Which popular Disney flick actually came from their own ideas? Not any of the princess series, that’s for sure. But look at how [...]
Posted in Creative Commons, Devices, Freeware, literature, open source
Tagged android, apple, Creative Commons, doctorow, education, google, internet, lessig, linux, media, microsoft, MPAA, Open Office, open source, RIAA, schools
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