teenager Jon Johansen over the creation of DeCSS, the software he made so that he could watch DVDs on his Linux box rather than an industry-vetted player. The judge stated very strongly that as long as a DVD is legally obtained, no one could dictate which machine could be used to use it. Looks like a showdown will be coming on these issues between Europe and the US.
Still catching up:
Daegan has posted a lovely and moving memory of a Joe Strummer moment she had when she was 15. “And I remember finding myself directly behind Joe Strummer, and reaching out and touching his back before the song ended. What a strange, strange emptiness it is when heroes die.”
Steve Jobs’ Keynote
at Macworld has been over for a while now; they unveiled some very interesting things today. Most interesting to me in the short term is Safari, Apple’s new browser. As well, an Apple-born X11 system which is interesting to folks from the Unix world, a super-sized 17″ Powerbook and a super-small 12″ Powerbook as well. Jobs understands that the middle ground in laptops is cluttered – either end of the spectrum is where the good stuff lives. Also: 802.11g is being called Airport Extreme, they have released Jobs’ own pet software, Keynote, and some other stuff.
Maybe some of the huge announcements of past Keynotes were missing, but I like this one anyhow. It has that feeling of taking care of business.
Catching up:
Dial-Up Revelations, by Meg Hourihan on the O’Reilly Network. A nice look at web standards and alternate access methods to network data from the perspective of someone away from high speed Internet access for an extended period of time.
Earlier today, Zeldman wrote
a followup about mild upgrade notices on websites that are standards-compliant, that is, do not work well in NS 4.7 and the like. I decided against using such a beastie when I put up this design and I have had no complaints.
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