That's right, according to an article from EETimes, SCO (everyone's favorite whipping boy) thinks they deserve $32 for each product with a copy of embedded Linux containing post-2.4 Linux Kernel.

Let me be the latest reviewer to jump on the bandwagon for Seabiscuit and give it a strong recommendation. The horse tale where "our horse is too small, our jockey is too big, our trainer is too old, and [the owner] is too stupid to know the difference" is a …

A new film into which Mel Gibson has poured over US$25M is causing contention among Christians and Jews even before its release scheduled for next March, according to an article in the New York Times. The Passion, is a retelling of the final hours of the life of Jesus …

Makayama software (makers of video encoding software for handheld phones) have released software to compress movies using Apple's QuickTime so that they can be watched on a Sony Ericsson P800. The software costs $9.99 and can be purchased online. A two hour movie can be compressed to fit on …

Since I've got a DVD version of the 2003 Electronic Theater presentation, I figured I'd do a showing of it before I leave to go to the Canyon. The plan is to do the showing next Sunday (8/10) afternoon at 5pm. Please RSVP if you are interested in coming …

I know, you're sick of hearing me complain about these guys, but here are some more choice complaints from users and musicians. A lengthy article of complaints from a Windows 2000 user who has bought tracks from BuyMusic.com enumerates the following problems: You must download each track in an …

Day three (Tuesday) is a day of papers and video for me. Tonight is the first gala theater event and I'm looking forward to actually making it this year (last year, I got screwed out of it because the fire marshal decided the capacity of the auditorium was overrated). Since …

An article in the Washington Post takes on MusicMatch (one of the most popular Windows programs for managing music, and Apple's partner for their iPod device on the operating system) and BuyMusic.com as being misleading and difficult to use. In particular, her calls attention to misleading advertising on the …

Do you ever get that feeling that you didn't see the same movie that everybody else did? That's certainly the case for me after reading reviews of Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life. I don't know what these people saw, but I want to see that movie, because …

Robert Cringely of PBS has a proposal that he wants people to look at for creating a commercial music service that keeps the simplicity of Napster without the legal problems. I'm not so certain that it would be successful in court, but it's a nice exercise in thinking outside of …

The (presumably biased) Dr. Mac from the Houston Chronicle seems to think so. In this article, he smashes the advertising, ease-of-use, and licensing of the new site. However, the best line was definitely in this selection:"The site is called BuyMusic.com. At first glance it looks a lot like …

Remember the 45? No, not the .45 caliber, the 45 RPM record. They were small, came sheathed in an uninteresting piece of white paper, and contained only two songs. Often in the 1950s,1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, you could find them in record stores (you remember, the places that used …

Pearl Jam has announced a contest to find the favorite versions of each of a dozen or so tunes that they have posted to iTunes after each concert on their current tour. Pearl Jam has taken the novel approach of posting an "album" after each concert so that attendees (or …

Winged Migration (or Le Peuple migrateur, as it was originally titled) is a wonderful film from France about the migration of birds. Lasting 98 minutes, it is one of the shorter films that we've seen this year, and certainly the most documentary of them. The photography is absolutely breathtaking (to …

Not wanting to be left out of the online music game, buy.com will introduce today their BuyMusic.com service, intended to compete with Apple's iTunes Music Service, according to this report from the Associated Press (carried by Yahoo!). When I am able to actually access the system, I will …

According to an article from Macworld UK, analysts from Needham and Company believe Apple is poised to take 20% of the online music market. The article goes over the various numbers, including the analysts estimates of what Apple makes per song (they think it is between 5 and 10 cents …

Whatcha gonna do when a sequel like Bad Boys II comes out? Well, that's going to depend on how much you believe in the chemistry between Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. If you liked the two in the first movie, Bad Boys, you will probably like them in this one …

Wired has a good article about a new bill proposed in Congress that would "clarify" that uploading a single copyrighted file to a P2P network would make you eligible for a 5 year prison term and $250,000 fine. The proposed bill (sponsored by two Dem's, John Conyers, Jr. (MI …

In what I strongly hope will not be a trend, Quentin Tarantino will be releasing his next film voyage Kill Bill in two parts, according to an article from the New York Times. The supposedly three-hour film is slated to be released in two installments starting this fall with a …

In May of 2002, I sold my 15" PowerBook to a lady named Jenny Hedley (a transplanted Californian living in New Zealand at the time). She had purchased it to work on a surf film "by women and for women." I emailed back and forth with her over a couple …