On April 27th Microsoft was granted patent number 6,727,830 which is basically a patent on double clicking. Surely someone can muster some prior art for this one? I can’t help but think this is getting silly. See Eurovote
The BBC has announced that they will be opening up their archive and applying Creative Commons licenses to the works. On the face of it this is fantastic news and could help spread awareness of what Creative Commons are trying to do. However, in light of one of slef’s recent blog posts here I have some concerns over the CC licenses. Under the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) the CC licenses are still non-free as described here. This has put a dent in my enthusiasm about Creative Commons.
Further to my previous post about small hard disks, Toshiba have just announced the release of a 60Gb 1.8″ hard drive and “Toshiba is currently shipping 350,000 of the 1.8-inch drives per month to Apple for use in the iPod”.
The 40Gb disk had two platters each holding 20Gb, the new 60Gb disk has increased that to 30Gb per platter bringing the total to 60Gb. This is astonishing when you actually hold an iPod which I did for the first time a few days ago. The things are tiny! And that’s not even the iPod mini. I can see iRiver coming up with the “iHP 1-60” soon too.
In other news, the trailer for Michael Moore’s new documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11 has been released but I’m having the usual problems with Windows Media Player and Quicktime and so far have only heard the sound!
Shareaza, a file sharing client I’d never heard of has just released its source code under the GPL. Having not been impressed by any file sharing clients at all recently I thought I’d give it a go (I like searching for CC licensed music to try). So far all it seems to have done is miraculously crashed my router several times! The mind boggles.
I got an application form through this morning for another part time ICT technician job. The pay is pretty lousy as usual but I like the look of this one.
lauperr has set up her new web site, EveryoneLoves.me.uk Click “[enter]” just above the soppy holding page image I made to have a look inside. Seeing as it’s hosted on tralk in my bedroom it has probably been a little temperamental recently due to my router problems but should be OK now.
I finished reading Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See last night. I’ve never had so many goose pimples from the ending of a book before, it was very thought provoking. It was still a much lighter read than the Bill Bryson book I read last which lead onto this one perfectly.
Plan for today: more maths and the job application.