Archives for October 2006

RIAA refused access to hard-drive

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 used their [...]

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, with a [...]

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 OpenWorld [...]

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.