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A week ago or so, I found a very interesting post, with a different view about FL/OSS on the Once More unto the Breach blog, called  Why the Economics of Open Source Software is so Important.
It’s a longish and very interesting article, with a short but important historical intro about software sharing, an overview of [...]

With phishing becoming so commonplace in the last couple of years, all major browsers and anti-malware programs have added anti-phishing filters to their lineup…and the phishers seem to have found a way around at least some of those browsers and anti-malware programs.
The Register has an article called Strange spoofing technique evades anti-phishing filters which talks [...]

Ok, just a short note to let whoever stuck around after the week of downtime that we are back up.
This blog is on the server of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon’s Linux User Group which is an old box running at the office of one of the members, and the stupid box has [...]

There’s a lot of authors out there who hate fanfic…they see it as either theft or the road to legal liability (Raymond Feist once said in a mailing list that he didn’t want to be sued by somebody because he writes something that ends up being similar to some fanfic out there).
On the other side [...]

I found these three articles while catching up with my feed reader today, and all of them are worth reading.
The first one is important for all Microsoft users…Security Fix says that there’s a New Attack that Piggybacks on Microsoft’s Patch Service. That means that we finally got the final MS killer app..virus and trojans installed [...]

Ok, Matt announced it in short 2.2 Dropped, which actually means…it’s out! :)
There’s a bunch of changes that should make things easier for everybody who uses WP, even for those like me who don’t use the WP posting interface all that much :)
So…I installed WP2.2 last night/early this morning…I didn’t find any problems, but…leave [...]

I may be slow, but I just found this site about the coming Robert A. Heinlein Centennial - Kansas City 2007 in which there’ll be a party in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 6, 7 and 8th.
July 7, 2007 - 07/07/07! - will be the birth centennial of American
author, futurist, philosopher and spaceflight advocate Robert [...]

I found this in CrunchGear, the Newsware, which is a portable toolkit for journalists, consisting of a camera, both still and video, a voice recorder and a note-taking tablet-like thingy that is double-sided, so you can actually have two screens going at the same time.
The sad thing is that neither CrunchGear nor its source, Yanko [...]

Well, it seems like E Ink Corporation has been tweaking their eInk displays (like the one in the Sony Reader), making them faster and enhancing the brightness, according to a report on EETimes.
“E Ink continues to be at the forefront of the electronic paper
revolution. This is a major improvement because the electronic ink in
the imaging [...]

Well, as you have probably been reading all over the blogosphere by now, Google Analytics got a facelift.
And it’s a nice-looking facelift.
My account got the update late yesterday, and I really like what I see. The graphs, the interactivity, the representation of the data…pretty nice stuff.
Yes, I know you can hear the “but…” coming already.
The [...]