Entries from April 2007

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

AIM encryption

I can’t believe I forgot to write about this sooner.
I received some official confirmation the other week that Boston University will intercept and monitor incoming and outgoing AIM messages sent to and from the BU internal network. Supposedly they only do this when they have, as Jim Stone puts it, “just cause”, but these seems […]

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

dX

..Jesus, I’m such a nerd. We started playing DnD and didn’t have any dice, so I wrote the dX Online Dice Roller. That’s pretty much all I’m gonna say about it.
So apparently Norway is awesome for a new reason besides fjords and black metal! The Liberal Party there is now advocating legal filesharing for non-commerical […]

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

RIAA Sorter

The Recording Industry Association of America likes to sue college kids and old ladies and little kids who share music files over P2P networks. RIAA Sorter is a simple program written in Python which will sort a directory of music into RIAA and Non-RIAA folders. Then, you can feel safe about sharing your Non-RIAA music […]