Unlike AT&T, Verizon won’t monitor its network to block unauthorized copying. That would violate customer privacy, it says, and would be expensive too.
The RIAA wants to cut artist’s royalties from 13% down to 9%. Apple is pushing for the royalties to be dropped down to 4%. Is this the RIAA response to piracy? Do they plan to make up the money by giving less to the artists?
One of the things Ben and I want to do on the SideStream Media website is allow for category specific CSS files. The reason we want to do this is so we can move all of our podcasts to one site and still make each podcast’s page look a little different. Revision 3 does this with it’s show pages, http://revision3.com/tekzilla/ and http://revision3.com/systm/ as 2 examples. The way we solved this issue was by calling on a .css file based on either what category page you were on or what category the post you are viewing is in. The code for this is :
<? if (is_category()) { ?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<? bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/<?php single_cat_title(); ?>.css” type=”text/css” />
<? } elseif (is_single()) {?>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<? bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/<?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat)
{echo $cat->cat_name. ”;} ?>
.css” type=”text/css” />
<? } ?>
This code should go right after the link to you main CSS file. Once you have done this you just need to create CSS files in your themes folder by the same name as the category, and for most servers this will be case sensitive. You can see this code in action on some of the categories on this site. If you have any questions or know of a better way to do this please let me know.
After June 30th you will not be able to buy Windows XP unless you are buying at least 25 licenses. Also support for Windows XP will end on April 14th, 2009 meaning you won’t be able to get any more updates.
Source:Engadget
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Looks like Vista SP1 will be released on February 15. I have tried out the release candidate and Vista seemed to work a little faster so hopefully there will be even more improvements in the final.
Source:Engadget
Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site.
“Under the banner of “Hana Linux” – literally “One” Linux – the two countries have agreed to work on a groundbreaking IT development project that might shatter the final Cold War boundary. South Korea is one of Linux’s biggest converts. Since discovering the free operating system in 2003, officials have unveiled plans to switch all government-run”
Time Warner is planning to test charging customers based on the amount of bandwidth they use later this year. They claim a small amount of people account for 50% of all bandwidth usage. No details on what the bandwidth tiers will be but I’m sure I would be in the upper tiers.
Source:Wired