4th November 2006 Archive

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How to gag your enemies using the DMCA

Games people play

The Register received our first DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down notice in September. We had in good faith published a photograph supplied to us by the subject of an otherwise uncontroversial article. A few days later, one very annoyed photographer emailed us claiming copyright for the picture and demanded its …

Music and Media 4 Nov 2006, 01:00
HP gets all clustered over Windows

SC06 Low noder

HP continues to think there's a big market out there for Windows clusters. The company has backed up yesteryear's chatter by certifying the Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 operating system for its server cluster packages. In addition, HP has brought HP-MPI (message passing interface) to Windows CCS and added a new …

Servers 4 Nov 2006, 01:22
Null points for BBC Horizon's junk science

Not just Horizon, you say

Last week, the BBC Horizon's science show drew exclusively on New Age cranks for a programme entitled "Human v2.0". We thought it may have been made by a cult - but you were even less impressed. A new low for the BBC, or a part of a trend...or both? Here's what you think of the "singularity" special - and the corporation's …

Letters 4 Nov 2006, 08:02
Apache packages: creating a support vacuum

Comment OSS in the real world

Right at the end of OSCon in September, I got the opportunity to harangue Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth about the support vacuum distros such as his create. He didn't have an answer. OK, I was putting him on the spot, but I don't think he'd have done much better if he'd had notice of the question. Frankly, I don't think there is an …

Developer 4 Nov 2006, 08:02