“Monolith is a simple tool that takes two arbitrary binary files (called a Basis file and an Element file) and “munges” them together to produce a Mono binary file (with a .mono extension). Monolith can also reconstruct an Element file from a Basis file and a Mono file.”
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Monolith – a philosophical experiment in copyright
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Beatles take rival Apple to court over core business
“Apple Corps, owned by the former Beatles and their heirs, still owns the licensing rights to Beatles’ products. It is claiming that the introduction of iTunes broke a $26 million settlement under which Apple Computer agreed to steer clear of the music business, for which the Beatles’ company retains the famous trademark.”
Times Online via Juha
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What your public transportation system knows about you
“Most cities with mass transit systems now rely on some sort of electronic card to pay fares. Each of these cards has a unique serial number as well as a magnetized strip upon which its fare balance and expiration date are stored. When you swipe your card to get into the subway, information about when and where you swiped it is automatically recorded in a centralized transit database. And if you purchased your card with a credit or debit card, it will be traceable back to you. Access to transit databases is very carefully controlled, but police have used them in the past to investigate crime suspects by determining whether or not they could have been at the crime scene.”
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foobar 0.9
Version 0.9 of foobar2000 has been released (no idea when, since the changelog doesn’t have any dates, not even years). Looks like support for Windows 95/98/ME and NT4 has been dropped.
I wonder if 0.8 should be uninstalled prior to installing this. Can’t find any quick answers, so I think I’m gonna. Also wonder whether the Audioscrobbler plugin has been updated to work with this.
Update: Looks like it has, and there’s a 0.9-compatible version of AMIP, as well! Yi-pee!
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Crashed Linux
“Everyone is familiar with blue-screening kiosks and travel information displays, but this one was pretty new to me. The route display [running on Linux] on this Air Algerie Airbus a330 was visibly experiencing some disk issues.”
milliped’s photostream via Juha