Monthly Archives: May 2004

Safe blogging

By sindy | Published: May 31, 2004
I have been going back and forth on a possible job change and a few months ago I mentioned to a friend that I was considering working for Microsoft. To which she responded, in all seriousness, “I don’t know if I could be friends with you anymore. I mean, they read people’s blogs.” There are [...]
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When good computers go bad

By sindy | Published: May 28, 2004
So, I mistakenly thought I was qualified to install a CPU fan by myself. Silly me. My friend built me a custom computer about three years and it has been chugging along great all this time. However, the CPU fan was loud, so I bought (with his help in selecting one) a replacement with a [...]
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Educational freedom

By sindy | Published: May 20, 2004
Jason Schultz, an EFF attorney wrote an entry in his blog about Penn State’s presentation at the EDUCAUSE policy conference on its ban on students running servers and their new Napster program. Schultz gets it right when he points out the problem with Penn State’s approach to copyright problems– they’re simply taking computing tools away [...]
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