Last week, the Library of Congress hosted the Preserving.exe conference to discuss the preservation of software and its history. There are quite a few organizations that…
OPLIN 4cast #336: Save the software
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Last week, the Library of Congress hosted the Preserving.exe conference to discuss the preservation of software and its history. There are quite a few organizations that…
If you get really annoyed by people talking on their cellphones while they are in the library, then you are certainly going to love this…
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Digital information and copyright law often do not play well together, so much so that it looks like Congress may be ready to start a…
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Over a year ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that is responsible for coordinating Internet domain names and IP…
At this time of year, as people get more serious about planning summer vacations, travel guidebooks become a popular item at the library, though perhaps…
People who work with Internet security have for some time advocated the use of “two-factor authentication” instead of a simple password control over access to…
We seem to have a posting about smartphones once every six weeks or so, which is probably a good indication of how much that topic…
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In the technology world, success can be a problem. If a technology is good enough that users don’t want to give it up and move…
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The search for better ways to search for information continues as the Internet “heavyweights” — Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. — increasingly find themselves in direct…
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This week, we had to make a choice. Should we do a sagacious blog post about computing based on quantum mechanics? Or should we write…