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Comment Re:Too Bad (Score 1) 262

Dick never saw the film. In fact he died before it wrapped. He loved the dailies Scott showed him because he felt they captured the feel of the novel very well and he was supportive. He also said he thought Sean Young was perfectly cast. I'd be surprised if he would have been happy with the finished product. It just wasn't his style to accept other people's interpretations of his work. He was very critical of Ursula Le Guin on that point. She OTOH was incredibly supportive of him, calling him "our own home grown Borges." Dick also had a big fight with the studio because they wanted him to write a novelization of the film.
Music

Submission + - Les Paul Releasing Restored Historic Footage

good soldier svejk writes: Les Paul, inventor of overdubbing, delay effects, phasing, multitrack recording and the solid-body electric guitar, is releasing a DVD of restored episodes of the groundbreaking Les Paul & Mary Ford at Home TV show.

"The shows were all made in our home here, which was also our studio. What makes them different is that there was only Mary and me, just two people," he says. "And we did all of the music, the complete show, with one quarter-inch Ampex tape machine that I had adjusted to do sound-on-sound recording. This was prior to the multi-track, which I also invented. So for this show I did the engineering, directing, writing, the whole thing."

The restoration was done on a Mac Pro running Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro. The 92 year old Paul apparently endorses Apple, which is hosting a sample video. The restoration is quite impressive, as of course is the music.
Businesses

Submission + - Harvard Med CIO Tests Ubuntu in the Enterprise

good soldier svejk writes: The final installment of John Halamka's Laptop OS shootout is up on CIO Magazine's web site.

"Halamka's month with Ubuntu concludes his formal operating system evaluations. What follows are the details of his experience running Ubuntu and his plans for his company's enterprise desktops and laptops moving forward. Will he finally replace Windows forever with OS X or Linux? You'll see..."
OS X

Submission + - Large Auto Warehouser Switches to OS X

good soldier svejk writes: Computerworld reports that, "Over the next 60 days, AWC (Auto Warehousing Co.) will begin systematically pulling the plug on all Windows-based PCs in its cavernous auto processing shop and power up Macs to execute virtually all of its revenue-generating operations. The move comes on the heels of a quiet wholesale replacement of Windows-based servers for data storage and Web operations, which are now running on Apple Inc.'s Xserve RAID machines."

Apparently, the company tested OS X and was impressed with the feature set and long term return on investment.
United States

Submission + - DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript

good soldier svejk writes:
It could be a scene from Kafka or Brazil. Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked "top secret." And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and wonder what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door, demands the document back and orders you to forget you ever saw it.
That is what happened to Washington D.C. attorney Wendell Belew. His lawsuit takes on special significance given today's Sixth Circuit Court ruling that surveillance victims can only sue the DOJ if they can prove they were affected. Also in light of that decision we can safely add Catch-22 to the list of literary references above.
Operating Systems

Submission + - World Famous Librarian Endorses Ubuntu

good soldier svejk writes: From the opening obvious markets department... Metafilter moderator, globetrotting blogger, librarian and free speech advocate Jessamyn West decided to refurbish one of her libraries Ubuntu style. She made a little movie about the process and judging from her behavior at the end, was very happy with the results.

Jessamyn is a free speech nerd. Her father is Tom West of Data General fame.

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