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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Dispatches
CBC has recently made some of its excellent radio programming available as podcasts. You can see the list of podcasts here. Of particular note is Dispatches. This program offers short radio documentaries from reporters all over the world. The perspectives … Continue reading
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Open clip art
Yesterday I required some clip art for a document I am preparing. With a little searching I found the Open Clip Art Library. This project provides clip art in SVG (a W3C standard) format licensed under the Creative Commons Public … Continue reading
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Feds Face Digital Crossroads
Feds Face Digital Crossroads by Charlie Angus, NDP Heritage Critic. Wow, a federal politician that understands the problems in copyright reform. Bonus link: Rocking in free world
Tagged Canada, Copyright, Internet, Society
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Operating system design
The following article offers a nice introduction to some design techniques that may be used to create more reliable operating systems. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that microkernels—long discarded as unacceptable because of their lower performance compared with monolithic … Continue reading
Tagged Computer Science, Computers
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Net neutrality links
Why You Should Care About Network Neutrality The corporate toll on the Internet Neutrality of the Net by Tim Berners-Lee
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Net neutrality
If you are interested in arguments both for and against net neutrality you should read Net neutrality, take 2 from the Washington monthly. The comments are mostly worth reading too.
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