Off you go… into the purple yonder!

So Xen 3.2.0 was released last week.
Oddly enough there are no precompiled 64-bit binaries anymore. That does not make much sense to me - running Xen on 32 bit is just… painful. Problems with accessing ram beyond 4GB, issues with libc6, etc. On 64 bit all that stuff just works.
Sadly, the 3.2 release is broken. [...]

Thanks to the WP-OpenID plugin, this blog now supports OpenID. Woohoo!

Another sane message about copyright - this time from the European Free Alliance in the European Parliament (the Greens): I wouldn’t steal.
This site touches on two points that have irritated me for a very long time in the whole copyright debate: copying is not stealing, and if the media industry would simply start selling quality [...]

The ever amazing Michael Geist published a great list of “fair copyright for Canada” principles, which he thinks should be adhered to in the drawing up of new Canadian copyright legislation.
A lot of it applies world-wide, in my opinion. This is great stuff, worth a read.

Sometimes Google Finance has its issues - check out INTC’s listing this morning:

Via Hack-a-day, this is a great (video) introduction to surface mount (SMT) soldering.

Sony/BMG has finally announced it is going to drop DRM for at least part of its catalogue. Original source: Businessweek. They were the last holdout among the four big labels.
That’s it for music, now on to video

Alexander Wolfe over at Information Week has an article up with a great suggestion: deal with the RIAA as we do with misbehaving children: take away their privileges. He proposes shortening corporate copyrights from the current 125 years to 5 years, because they are clearly being abused - cf. the RIAA’s legal carpet bombing of [...]