Category Archives: Daily Musings

When I just write something about an event or thought that comes to mind.

Chinese 7″ ARM Netbook running Android

So I bought a crazy 7″ Windows CE netbook from ebay just for something to hack around with. One day I came across this recovery image which can re-write your netbook’s flash to boot Android OS 1.6. Well I just had to try it out, so I did. I found in the ZIP file you …

August 22nd, 2010 – 3:57 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (0)

Free Public WiFi

One day I decided to take my 11 megabit 802.11b access point by Belkin with me to school. This was in 2004/2005. When I set up the network I made it an ad-hoc network called Free Public WiFi. I wanted to give my laptop access, and students as well who had laptops with WiFi. The …

August 15th, 2010 – 12:47 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Comments (1)

Portfolio Piece: ExpoDisplays.ca

I’m still a proud of this one. Design is by Corby Simpson and the PHP custom CMS and front end coding is all me. It was a fun project to work on, and not terribly complex but it looks nice.

August 5th, 2010 – 12:35 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Future of Copyright: The Web of Trust

This proposal is an alternative to the “digital locking” measures in Bill C-32 (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5080/125/). It is intended to preserve the right of fair use while preventing unauthorized republication of the work of artists. The only way to extend copyright to embrace the distributed nature of the Internet is to extend the “web of trust” to …

June 30th, 2010 – 11:21 pm | By ryan | Posted in Canadian Politics, Copyright, Daily Musings | Comments (0)

Fair and Balanced Copyright for Canada

This is an open letter from my good friend Ryan Oram to the lawmakers in Canada reposted with permission: The recording industry has begun to astroturf to get support for Bill C-32 and the digital lock provisions. http://balancedcopyrightforcanada.ca/ http://www.facebook.com/balancedcopyright The Minister of Heritage has also called everyone against the bill “radical extremists”. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/23/copyright-heritage-minister-moore.html http://video.itworldcanada.com/?bcpid=7044989001&bctid=101481423001 —– …

June 24th, 2010 – 3:52 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)