Our servers were down for almost seven hours today. This is really unprecedented. At first I thought I’d somehow caused it, but fortunately (or not) it was not my fault. Apparently the DOT cut some fiber optic lines right near where the servers were housed, making the fact that ServInt has redundant pathways to the …
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by Meredith Farkas on 11/17/2004 with Comments Off on If it didn’t work for the RIAA…
The MPAA has filed their first bunch of lawsuits against people who offer movies for download. Apparently they were inspired by the rousing success of the RIAA’s campaign to sue music sharers into oblivion (hmmm… how’s that going?). Slightly more scary is the Intellectual Property Protection Act which contains a slew of measures including criminal …
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by Meredith Farkas on 11/17/2004 with Comments Off on Glad they didn’t have these when I was in school!
Cutting class — almost a right of passage in high school — is no longer an option for Houston area students. According to the NY Times, children in Houston area schools are being equipped with RFID tags that monitor their movements. While this particular project was designed for benign purposes (to prevent kidnappings), it isn’t …
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As a distance learning student who is about to graduate with an MLS, I think I may have some qualification to talk about distance learning programs in library science. While I can’t speak for every program, I can certainly speak for the one I was affiliated with. I think right now, many distance programs are …
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Welcome to my new and improved blog. I’d really wanted to keep the old one, but alas, I had to upgrade and am far too lazy to move my old posts over. I promise to replace them right away with new and exciting links and commentary. I was really disturbed by this story out of …
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