Waiting

Waiting for folks to come down for a demo of a printer again.

Of course, this is the "beat to hell, on it's last legs, relegated to driver testing because we don't care how good the cards look" printer. But, the good printers are on a FedEx truck somewhere between New Orleans and here. So, suddenly, this printer is the best we've got.

Oh well.

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In the news:

Remember the Anti-Drug programs in school? Well, here come the anti-copyright infringement programs.

Reliance on MS is a danger to national security Shit, I could have told you that.

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In other news:
I'm going to play around with BeOSMax. I meant to play with Be in my youth and never really got there. I wish it had been more successful, but the problem is that it was a company, so Microsoft could kill it by shutting it out of the business (hence why they just won an antitrust lawsuit.) So, the code kind of went out into the ether, and some people got the source code, and are patching and modifying it to keep it alive. Other projects are trying to implement a Be-like OS (using the same type of design, but a new implementation) that is compatible with real BeOS, but runs on a Linux kernel. This avoids licensing issues, because it's all GPL-ed code + new code that can be licensed however they like.

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Plans for tonight: Hanging in the coffeehouse.