Monthly Archives: April 2003

Apple iTunes Store

Posted on 4/30/2003 by Ben

So Apple has launched their online music service with a lot of hype and many positive reviews. Unfortunately, it uses a digital rights management scheme (Apparently, not a very effective one, though). I like what The Register had to say … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Naming Weirdness

Posted on 4/26/2003 by Ben

Mozilla.org has released some branding guidelines for the projects formerly known as Minotaur and Phoenix. If you haven’t been following this story, Mozilla.org recently caused a little bit of uproar when it decided to rename its standalone mail and browser … Continue reading →

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Online music singing the contraction blues

Posted on 4/17/2003 by Ben

A review of the industtry wrangling among online music services. “My estimate is, a year from now, we’ll see everything being centralized. There will be about three or four big music services, all owned by the bigger companies,” Lee said. … Continue reading →

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Ask the White House

Posted on 4/16/2003 by Ben

Bush administration staffers will be participating in regular online chats on whitehouse.gov. Ask Chief of Staff Andrew Card your questions tonight from 7:00 to 7:30 EDT.

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Easter bunny attacked, man jailed

Posted on 4/15/2003 by Ben

You know that scene in Mallrats where they beat up the Easter Bunny? Well, it actually happened happened. Actually, it sounds like maybe this guy was imitating the movie.

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SWG Beta

Posted on 4/11/2003 by Ben

I’ve been playing the Star Wars Galaxies Beta a little bit. I can’t tell you anything about it because I’m under NDA, but Sony just put together this amusing gameplay video (19 meg WMV). Also, check out this outtake screenshot.

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BitTorrent

Posted on 4/6/2003 by Ben

BitTorrent has delivered over 13,000 copies of the Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs. I got my ISOs through BitTorrent and it was a pretty cool experience. I thought BitTorrent worked like the other file sharing apps, you run the client … Continue reading →

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Mozilla mitosis

Posted on 4/2/2003 by Ben

In a major revision to the Mozilla.org roadmap, the Mozilla suite is going to be broken up into the Phoenix browser and Minotaur mail client. Also, the Gecko rendering engine will be significantly re-architected. The Mozilla folks have obviously been … Continue reading →

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Desktop Linux

Posted on 4/1/2003 by Ben

Getting Linux on to the Desktop. A practical guide to transitioning your small business to desktop Linux.

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NWN Linux

Posted on 4/1/2003 by Ben

LinuxWorld: How to install Neverwinter Nights on Linux. Unfortunately, my desktop system is non-functioning. I’m not sure what’s wrong, I think my motherboard is hosed. Actually, this is probably a good thing. The last time I was unemployed I spent … Continue reading →

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