Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Day: <span>August 15, 2003</span>

Students from the RCFG symposium: I am working on getting those presentations up at the URL I provided during the sessions. They will be in PDF format, but I am specifically trying to get a hold of appropriate material to license these under either the GNU FDL, the Creative Commons …

This article discusses personal information and hidden text that can turn up in a variety of word processor formats, most notably Microsoft Word. I’ve been aware of this “feature” for a number of years and don’t use Word for publishing anything these days. Instead, I use either OpenOffice converted to …

I understand that in a few weeks, Buena Vista (the arm of Disney that does their media marketing) will be introducing the new EZ-D discs, which are simply DVD’s whose material is made to evaporate about 48 hours after you open the package. So you buy what you think is …