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26 March: A global day for document liberation

An excellent initiative by FSF: endsoftpatents.org.

Finally. I was waiting for this for a long time.

There is a way to stop junk mail in Canada: www.reddotcampaign.ca

Apparently HTML5 was specifying that browsers should support Ogg Vorbis audio and Ogg Theora video. If that sounds too good to be true, then it is. This requirement was recently removed, and according to Manuel Amador we can thank Nokia and Apple for this.

In a recent post Keith helped me diagnose a condition I have for quite a while: braincrack.

In Keith's words:
Braincrack consists of compulsive thoughts about cool creative potential projects, which build up in your head, lingering there unfulfilled, only to be replaced by new thoughts of cool creative projects.

Not even funny.

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-03--this-moder...

Here is a list of command line password generators, from:
http://debaday.debian.net/2007/11/14/gpw-generate-pronounceable-passwords/

• gpw
• pwgen
• apg

Tomorrow, Friday, October 26, from 4:30 PM till 7:00 PM there is a Media Democracy Fair. The event is at the Concourse in SFU Vancouver (Harbour Centre) 515 West Hastings Street.

If you care about independent media, try to show up.

More information at:
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/10/25/MediaDemocracy/
http://mediademocracyday.org/2007+Events#id416092

I finally got my RadioShark2 device working with Ubuntu, here are the details.

There are two different RadioShark devices, the original one and the newer RadioShar2. Even though they both have the exact same USB device Id, they have different control sequences. So, you cannot use the control program written for the original model if you have the newer one, you need the code specific for RadioShark2.

Every now and then when you boot up your Ubuntu machine (and this probably applies to most distros) fsck will be run to check your filesystem. Depending how fast you machine is and how large the filesystem is, this may take a while.

A script called AutoFsck allows this test to be done when you shutdown your system, this way you don't have to wait for it looking at a black screen.