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Doublespeak, prior judgement and Soviet tactics: IMPI (Instituto Mexicano de Propiedad Intelectual)

I just sent a letter to the very well-known national newspaper El Universal. At least I think I did, as their contact form is a sad excuse of unusability.

How not to move an iTunes library

I now have several tips on how not to move an iTunes library from a
Windows machine to a Mac. The presmise is simple; firstly request
iTunes consolidate the library on the source machine and then move the
c:\Documents and Settings\username\My Music\iTunes folder to
~/Music/iTunes on the Mac.

So, what I would reccommend not to do:

LaunchALabel, $100 Label, Open Source and A Swarm of Angels

So, I've heard about LauchALabel [1], a web community somewhat simmilar to SellABand [2] that intends to coordinate people to create a label, instead of coordinate people to fund an album. The thing is, those 50.000 people that will pay $25 to create the label (against the 5.000 $10 parts needed to launch a bands' record on SellABand) will have a little few to have with the label itself: there's no plan of ROI for those "shareholders", those people can only decide five bands to release (heck, with that money you release 25 albums via SellABand), and they don't really have a stake on the labels management. The core idea was good, but with half the money it would be really easy to do a lot more...

Stuff V

  • I have started looking into SELinux on Debian recently. SELinux provides mandatory access control for Linux, which gives you great control over which process may do what with which files, other processes, network connections etc. I've still got a lot to learn and read (more posts will probably follow), but if you're inclined to try it yourself here are a few tips: