{"id":1401,"date":"2007-01-29T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2007-10-14T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T01:18:27","slug":"the-tech-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"The Tech-huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>eft over stuff from the weekend:\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurostechnology.com\/store\/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=DigitalInnovationsCatalog&#038;product%5Fid=6011000&#038;keyword=osd&#038;searchcat=products\">Neuros OSD<\/a>, which claims to be the first Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center for US$ 229.00 or something. It&#8217;s the buzz around now since it&#8217;s Linux-based and (evidently) a growing community of hackers developing software for it: from <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.neurostechnology.com\/index.php\/OSD_Projects\">FTP servers<\/a> to XMMS2 streaming servers.\n<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I noticed was the Debian Windows boot <a href=\"http:\/\/goodbye-microsoft.com\/\">loader\/Installer<\/a>: it&#8217;s brilliant, although I have my doubts about it. When I have time, I&#8217;ll do a test run.\n<\/p>\n<p>Windows Vista <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6309651.stm\">officially goes on sale today<\/a>, but as you guessed it, don&#8217;t expect line-ups. What is really new to it? Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/6309425.stm\">beta-testers<\/a> (the Windows fans as other would call them) don&#8217;t have me convinced. Better user-experience and productivity? They promised that since Windows 95, if you remember. And if Vista does break-even, what else can we expect in the future?<sup>1, 2, 3, 4<\/sup> I bet that there are hundreds of discussions going on about <em>that<\/em> within Microsoft. Listen: if I&#8217;m not allowed to make a legitimate copy of a file and listen it elsewhere on my own property and on my own hardware, count me out of your &#8216;Digital Revolution&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Michael Geist about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/content\/view\/1641\/135\/\">Vista&#8217;s DRM and fine print.<\/a><br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/07\/01\/29\/1811201.shtml\">Security researcher breaks Microsoft&#8217;s DRM.<\/a><br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Burnette\/?p=245\">Microsoft patents idea taken from professor<\/a><br \/>\n<sup>4<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1014_3-6154295.html?part=rss&#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-5&#038;subj=news\">Microsoft withdrawing patent-application.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left over stuff from the weekend: The Neuros OSD, which claims to be the first Open Source Linux Embedded Media Center for US$ 229.00 or something. It&#8217;s the buzz around now since it&#8217;s Linux-based and (evidently) a growing community of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[169,55,109,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}