Another great day at work
Electricity went off about 5 times today. The UPS (which in this
case means Unpredictable Power Source) went off twice, the
last time frying my box. Life is beautifull!!
Creative Commons
Found this at Jeff Veen’s
blog. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that aims
at helping content providers to find a more suitable copyright
license. From their
Creative Commons is a non-profit corporation founded on
the notion that some people may not want to exercise all of the
intellectual property rights the law affords them. We believe there
is an unmet demand for an easy yet reliable way to tell the world
“Some rights reserved” or even “No rights reserved.” Many people
have long since concluded that all-out copyright doesn’t help them
gain the exposure and widespread distribution they want. Many
entrepreneurs and artists have come to prefer relying on innovative
business models rather than full-fledged copyright to secure a
return on their creative investment. Still others get fulfillment
from contributing to and participating in an intellectual commons.
For whatever reasons, it is clear that many citizens of the
Internet want to share their work — and the power to reuse,
modify, and distribute their work — with others on generous terms.
Creative Commons intends to help people express this preference for
sharing by offering the world a set of licenses on our Website, at
no charge.
From
A Tale of Revision
How to trim an article into a more desirable size. This might come
in handy when I start righting some papers for my
Brevity is achieved by selection rather than
compression. — Donald M. Murray
From
AOL awarded millions in spam case
AOL 1 - Spammers 0. This is good news for everyone using e-mail
(except for spamers of course). For the first time an ISP managed
to sue over a junk e-mail operation. As Randall Boe says in the
article:
It sends a clear, distinct message to spammers: AOL is
prepared to use all of the legal and technological tools available
to shut down spammers.
AOL, as other email service
providers like Yahoo!, use an
anti-spam technology based on users feedback:
It’s also played up spam-filtering technology in its
new Web access software, AOL 8.0, which launched in October. The
software lets subscribers report spam with the click of a button.
The process helps AOL bolster its filtering technology. Since the
software’s launch, the company said, AOL has been able to reduce
the amount of incoming spam by 20 percent as a result of members’
spam reports.
This is clearly
spam must be defeated, with the help of everyone involved. We
will win this.
From
Jeremy Zawodny’s: Java, day #1
Jeremy Zawodny is moving from a job at
Perl to Java.
Is funny to see someone that is used to use Perl try to understand
what all those classes are needed for 
blog’s description change slightly:
Linux, Perl, Java, MySQL, Open Source, and
whatever other random stuff catches my interest…
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