Monthly Archives: July 2006

Future defen­dantFor­mer mayor Bill John­son is not happy with the state comptroller’s audit report. Only a cou­ple years late, unfor­tu­nately. Tags: Rochester ferry fiasco

Want to buy a book on Ama­zon using that pub­lic PC in the library? You might have to ask per­mis­sion from the librar­ian first. Won’t some­one please think of the chil­dren? Tags: pol­i­tics social net­work­ing stupid

Rochester City Coun­cil Pres­i­dent Lois Giess, one of those guilty of malfea­sance respon­si­ble for the ferry fiasco, claims it seemed like a good risk. Also, some­one needs to explain to her that “due dili­gence” does not mean “fire the guy … Read More →

Can bor­der agents search your lap­top? Yes, yes they can. No war­rant or prob­a­ble cause required. Feel safer yet? Tags: DHS secu­rity laptop

John Gru­ber argues con­vinc­ingly against Apple open sourc­ing major OS X apps. I agree, most of the prob­lems peo­ple have with them can be han­dled via scripts and plu­g­ins rather than com­plete replace­ments. Tags: Mac OS X open source

At O’Reilly’s Open Source Con­ven­tion Google announced host­ing for open source projects. Sim­i­lar in con­cept to repos­i­to­ries like Source­Forge, it’s not sup­posed to be in com­pe­ti­tion with them. Tags: Google open source SourceForge