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FYI:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2002-September/049672.html

    "I've just had the nice Scottish lassies from the ODTR's office back
    on to me. As of last Friday (and no, I don't know what changed last
    Friday) you DO NOT have to buy your ADSL CPE (customer premises
    equipment - modem, router or whatever) from Eircom. Eircom was very
    apologetic that I had been told this today by one of their staff and
    it was all just a misunderstanding.

    So if you're ordering ADSL you don't have to buy a modem or router
    from Eircom (but they still advise it for compatibility yada yada
    yada). If you get a sales droid who says that you do, point out to
    him that the ODTR has confirmed that you do NOT have to buy any
    equipment from them."

FYA:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2002-September/049699.html
    >> True. But eircom is a big company. It does get some things right.

    It's somewhat like Microsoft : they do good mice, you just wish
    they'd try to get the sofware right.


############### Eircomtribunal ###############################


Eircomtribunal.com have started their first action, a
petition to the two ministers and the regulator in charge of
Telecommunications.
Click "petition" on http://www.eircomtribunal.com, sign and submit it.

Esat BT has become the second ISP in recent days to begin selling a limited
flat-rate Internet product in Ireland (UTV internet being the first).
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27040.html


####################### DRM ##################################


Notes on Palladium (Microsoft's new Digital Rights Management
initiative):
    http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-07-05.html
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html 


################### Security #################################


PGP app yields remote root on Windows
Patch early, patch often
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26998.html

IE 6 SP1 omits fixes for 20 outstanding flaws In the frame
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27048.html
    "Researchers have discovered that inadequate security restrictions
    in Internet Explorer make it possible for an attacker to execute
    script on any Web page that containing frames."

Forgot to renew your domain? Never mind, it did it itself
The Register.com road to customer retention
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27006.html


################### Captain Cyborg ###########################


Chip 'em:
    Kevin Warwick and his child chipping shenanigans...
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27003.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26908.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27071.html
The Register "feel a 'how many laws would he be breaking' comp coming on..."


################### Music ####################################


Ogg:
    "The Ogg Vorbis format came out far ahead of MP3, MP3Pro, RealAudio
    Surround, and Windows Media 9 Beta in a comparison of different audio
    formats by Germany's respected computer magazine c't. More than 6,000
    people took part in the test. Heise says Ogg's dominance was most
    pronounced with 64 kBit/sec samples; the full magazine article (out on
    Monday) mentions that in pre-tests, some people actually mistook the
    128 kBit/sec Ogg samples for the uncoded version. Let's hear it for
    those strangely named open source file formats!"
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/09/0045223&mode=nested&tid=141
    http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/
    http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.09.02-000/


############# Some stuff from ZMag ###########################

   
What Did Bush Know, When?
    http://www.zmag.org/content/TerrorWar/albertbushknow.cfm

Feuding in SA:
    http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-09/01bond.cfm
    "Ironically, at the same time, the ANC was reeling from universal
    criticism in a backlash over use of the word "Zanufication." Earlier
    in the year, Communist Party deputy leader Jeremy Cronin had
    responded to leftist criticism by Canadian academic John Saul in
    Monthly Review magazine by conceding, in an obscure web interview,
    that the ruling party leadership suffered authoritarian Mugabe-style
    tendencies that included silencing genuine left critiques"
The "obscure web interview was, oddly close to home, here in fact:
    http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/sheehan.htm

Peace:
    "Relatives of the victims of the September 11 attacks brought a packed
    Baptist church to its feet in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the
    anniversary, with calls against a war on Iraq. The meeting was one of
    many addressed by relatives of those who died but who are opposed to
    military action in retaliation."
    http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2329

Albert Interviews Chomsky on Iraq:
    http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-09/05chomsky.cfm


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