Recording Industry vs The People In SONY v. Arellanes, the Court has refused to allow the RIAA untrammelled access to the defendant’s hard drive, holding instead that only a mutually agreeable, neutral computer forensics expert may examine the hard drive, and that the parties must agree on mutually acceptable provisions for confidentiality Earlier, RIAA has [...]
Archives for October 2006
BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison
BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison at Torrentfreak > The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents. I wonder why most torrent sites move to other countries, [...]
Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame
Sun CEO sets open source Java time frame – Yahoo! News > San Francisco (InfoWorld) – SAN FRANCISCO – Demonstrating a perhaps more aggressive path than anticipated, Sun Microsystems is set to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Oracle [...]
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Released!
Ubuntu 6.10 Released Woot woot! Fire up those cd-burners and get installing!
Planning for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
Planning for Ubuntu 7.04 – the “Feisty Fawn” > In that spirit, the release will be be code named “The Feisty Fawn”. Nice one. =)
Edgy Release Notes
EdgyReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) has reached Release Candidate 1. Woot! I’ve been running it on my desktop machine for a few weeks, without any problems at all. The upgrade was almost smooth as well, just had a bit of python hassle.