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TheQuirkyDuck is a 42 year old woman from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • http://www.labil.org/seitenpluscontent/lego/legogogo.htm

    Rated Feb 07 2008 • 4 reviews • humor • labil.org

    LEGO GOGO - electric chair
    Rejected (...why?) project for Lego.

  • Privacy Commissioner Criticizes Canadian DMCA - Slashdot

    Rated Jan 23 2008 • 1 review • law • slashdot.org

    "Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has criticized the proposed Canadian DMCA in a public letter to Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister of Industry. Specifically, she's asking them not to protect any DRM from circumvention that gathers and transmits personal data, because that would give abusive DRM makers a legal cudgel to use against anyone who exposes them. The proposed bill, which was recently delayed due to heavy opposition, is thought to contain DMCA-style anti-circumvention provisions that would make it illegal to investigate or remove intrusive DRM, even if that DRM was violating Canadian privacy laws."

  • Vista Named Years Most Disappointing Product - Slashdot

    Rated Dec 18 2007 • 1 review • computers • slashdot.org

    "No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC Magazine has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: 'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?... No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'"

  • http://www.digitalhome.ca/blog/2007/12/12/google-concerne...

    Rated Dec 17 2007 • 1 review • law • digitalhome.ca

    The Toronto Star is reporting today that search engine giant Google is concerned about Rogers decision to track, hijack and modify 3rd party webpages in order to send messages to its subscribers.

  • Rogers ISP antics rattle net neutrality supporters - Pag...

    Rated Dec 14 2007 • 1 review • web design • itworldcanada.com

    Rogers ISP antics rattle net neutrality supporters
    By: Rafael Ruffolo
    ComputerWorld Canada (12 Dec 2007)

    Rogers Communications Inc. plans to unveil technology that allows it to inject corporate content into any Web site its subscribers visit, but the move is generating outrage from net neutrality proponents as well as search engine giant Google Inc.

  • Hospital software vendor McKesson uses Linux to heal IT...

    Rated Dec 13 2007 • 1 review • internet • computerworld.com

    From the page: "With the Red Hat/McKesson systems, hospitals and medical offices run their back-office infrastructure on Red Hat Linux, while their front-end clients use Microsoft Windows -- at least for now, Simpson said. "Our hospitals aren't ready yet for Linux on the desktop, but it's coming" in another three or four years, he said. "If you look at the total costs of hospitals and the pressure on hospitals to continue to lower their costs, it's coming.""

  • Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft - Slashdot

    Rated Dec 11 2007 • 1 review • open source • slashdot.org

    From the page: "sends word of a discussion coming up Wednesday in the parliament of The Netherlands that could result in mandated use of Open Document Format at government agencies there. If the plan is enacted, public-sector organizations, as well as the government, would have to transition to using ODF by 2010. Microsoft Netherlands has lobbied hard against the provision. Backers say it doesn't exclude Microsoft, because ODF can be produced out of MS Office via the use of plugins. A funder of the OpenDoc Society invited Microsoft to join that organization, saying: "This plan is not about Microsoft, it's about ensuring the perpetual availability of data without any obstacles.""

  • ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words Chapter 3 -...

    Rated Dec 11 2007 • 1 review • open source • consortiuminfo.org

    What a Difference a Decade Can Make

  • Vista Branding Confusing Even To Microsoft - Slashdot

    Rated Nov 30 2007 • 1 review • windows • slashdot.org

    "Lawyers are now arguing a case brought against Microsoft over Vista's marketing. The software giant is being dinged for allegedly not telling the truth when it put the 'Vista capable' logo on PCs that would only be capable of running Vista Home Basic. Case in point - even the software giant's marketing director Mark Croft was confused by the pre-launch campaign in the United States. Croft's explanation was that "'capable'...has an interpretation for many that, in the context of this program, a PC would be able to run any version of the Windows operating system". After a 10-minute break to talk to Microsoft's lawyers, Croft admitted he had made 'an error', and retracted his previous statement, saying that, by 'capable', Microsoft meant 'able to run a version of Vista'."

  • Nerdica & Building a BitTorrent Box

    Rated Jul 09 2007 • 5 reviews • internet • nerdica.com

    From the page: "Building a BitTorrent Box

    Published by Ross on June 30, 2007 05:54 pm under Internet, Linux
    Why?

    While most of our time on the Internet is spent IMâ€ing, e-mail, or just browsing the Web, you may run in to situations when you need to do some powerful file transfers. If you use a laptop, youâ€re use to getting up, suspending your laptop, and running out the door all of the time. But, sometimes you know you just need something dedicated to get work done. Youâ€ll need a solution to retrieve files and serve data when you need it. In this guide, youâ€ll learn how to set a small headless Ubuntu server used to retrieve BitTorrent files, while even saving them to a external USB hard drive that can be disconnected on the go. You even discover how to remotely administer your server from the Web using SSH, VNC, and an intuitive HTML UI, while being able to retrieve files while youâ€re away from home."