Government office adds Mac OS X to list The U.S. government is now officially recognizing and supporting Mac OS X as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released a revised version of its Technical Reference Model (TRM) that adds the operating system and Linux to its list of “supporting platforms,” according to Federal [...]

Teenager arrested in Blaster worm case A Minnesota teenager will appear in federal court in St. Paul Friday to face charges stemming from the release of a variant of the virulent W32.Blaster Internet worm that ravaged computer systems worldwide earlier this month.

Brazil – Brasil – BRAZZIL – News from Brazil – Free Software in Government and the Demise of Microsoft in Brazil – Brazilian Technology – August 2003 Brazil believes that free software is an excellent tool for the democratization of knowledge, foreign currency savings, and the optimization of institutional investments and costs. The model also [...]

CNN.com – Revealed: How RIAA tracks downloaders – Aug. 28, 2003 For example, the industry disclosed its use of a library of digital fingerprints, called “hashes,” that it said can uniquely identify MP3 music files that had been traded on the Napster service as far back as May 2000. Examining hashes is commonly used by [...]

Do to a request, I’ve added another XML feed with the full contents of my posts. It’s available up at the top under the imaginative name of “Full XML”. The original will stay with the excerpts because that’s my personal preference but hopefully this way everyone will be happy.

Individual challenges RIAA subpoena Glenn Peterson and Dan Ballard, lawyers with the Sacramento-based law firm of McDonough, Holland & Allen who are representing the “Jane Doe,” said in a statement that the RIAA’s subpoena campaign has far-reaching implications in terms of consumer rights and privacy. “The recent efforts of the music industry to root out [...]

The Register: Forget California, it’s time to recall Microsoft For the second time this year, Microsoft is the source of a major internet security event. First was Slammer/Sapphire in January that seriously impacted networks and corporations around the world, including shutting down ATM machines at some large banks. And now, we’ve got MSBlaster taking advantage [...]

Open Source Goes Mainstream From Library Journal, a good overview of what open source is. Open Source ILS- The Nelsonville Public Library is proud to announce the deployment of the MARC-compatible version of Koha , “the first open source integrated library system”. Check out the catalog link.

The Shifted Librarian Learning about NetGens in their Natural Habitats- These are the future tax-payers libraries will be relying on for support. Now is the time to catch their interest, before they get caught up in the cycles of schedule and habit. Better *Public* Libraries- Better Public Libraries illustrates through a number of case studies [...]

Recording, movie industries appeal file-trading ruling Late Monday, the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Music Publishers’ Association Inc. filed an appeal to a Los Angeles district court judge’s decision that said the operators of the Grokster and Morpheus peer-to-peer (P-to-P) services couldn’t know [...]