The United States of America owns the internet.  We built it.  We maintain it.  And we own ICANN.  The internet is the single greatest gift the United States has given to the world, because it is the most effective weapon we have ever devised against the forces of tyranny. If the United Nations were to [...]

That Microsoft deprecated hyperterminal with no suitable replacement in Windows Vista. You know – the lacking of a lot of these petty little details that Windows XP had readily available to me doesn’t make me happy.   Especially since Windows Explorer has taken to crashing on me quite frequently.  It’s like Windows 98 all over [...]

Yet another example of why these two bit authentication schemed being employed by Microsoft and other large software companies should be avoided at all costs… As they say – a picture is worth a thousand words… Linux is the clear winner when it comes to the rights of the consumer. Microsoft’s (and a good number [...]

I wonder how Sun feels about all this stuff Mozilla is saying about Thunderbird… And here’s another thought…  What good is a web browser without a web editor?  How better to support web standards than to provide a standards compliant web editor… and it seems to me that if there is no room for Thunderbird, [...]

Mozilla is looking to kick Thunderbird out of the fold the same way that they did the Mozilla Suite… I am saddened by this development as I use Thunderbird at home and at work, and in fact, at work, I have forced Thunderbird upon everybody there (well, except for 2 people – who I forced [...]

Spammers are sorely abusing your service.  They’re inserting articles with redirects into it.  I am getting spam comments whose “homepages” are listed as being at NC Indymedia. All my attempts to e-mail NC Indymedia have bounced back (the contact page needs updating very badly).   Thus, I am making a public post. UNC Chapel Hill [...]

Here is my contribution to the open source community…. I have an ATI Radeon X1300 series graphics card in my computer – replacing the built in card. I installed Fedora Core 7 (I had to use the text installer because the X Server wouldn’t start on the ATI Card) It appears that Fedora was confused [...]

Apple has released Safari for Windows. You can download the Beta version already The browser wars rage anew. I wonder how many people will be more open to using a Mac after they get used to using iTunes and Safari on their Windows systems… I think this is a pretty shrewd move on Apple’s part. [...]

After Nintendo’s major blunder with the Game Cube of not producing any games that anybody with disposable income wants to play, they are now naming their new system “Wii“??? Do they want to go out of business? I first saw this at WRAL.com. It was odd enough to get me to Google it. Which led [...]

Regarding getting rid of software copy protection… Paying Customers Cheer, Pirates Don’t Notice a Thing