Quick notes yet again (updated)

[kinzel]

1. I'm home. Is good.
2. Reunion was good. The internet connection at the Westminster location was better than nothing but ...extremely frustrating when the damn Dell rebooted itself without warning. Me, I was reluctant to trust the WiFi with much more than quick surfing, so there's catch=up needed in email and other stuff web-related.
3. Visited a number of bookstores on SRM Publisher and Lee&Miller business, with mixed results.
4. My last post sparked some discussion of/about Apple's business model. Guess what -- Apple is really causing people problems now and it'll get worse:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/18/apples_new_macbooks_have_built_in_copy_protection_measures.html
... the more I see of these DRM schemes the more it smacks of locking people in for life. We'd discussed getting Sharon a Mac, but I hope she won't go there.
5. Boskone 2009 dropped us a note inviting us to participate in programs. See you there?
6. This post brought to you by "time to take clothes from the washer and put them in to dry, take 2."
7. Back to the other keyboard work, yessir.

Right, I forgot, these links of Lee & Miller interest provided by a friend --- sigh, forgetful in my old age am I!

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=8866

http://www.sablelitreviews.com/barbara-karmazin-writers-life/

http://www.buchtips.net/rez3655-der-agent-und-die-soeldnerin.htm

http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2008/11/blast-off.html

http://sausconys-books.livejournal.com/61445.html

http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/

Comments

Macs

[wdonohue.livejournal.com]

Actually, now would be the time to pick up a refurbed Mac mini or MacBook - they don't have the hardware that makes the HDCP lock-out possible. We're running our media center on a mini, I'm running Adobe CS3 and Windows XP under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook. That said, this is just the sort of DRM stupidity I've feared appearing on the Mac side - Microsoft has already baked this into Vista.

-- Brian out --

If you're against DRM...

[adamek.livejournal.com]

Does that mean I could get a DRM free ebook of I Dare to replace my CSpotRun DRM'd copy on my old Palm? The Palm doesn't work anymore and I don't have anything else that will read that PDB file.

Re: If you're against DRM...

[wdonohue.livejournal.com]

Lexcycle Stanza (available for PC/Mac/iPhone-Touch) will read PDB format, but not if it has DRM:

http://www.lexcycle.com/supported-formats

It will also do some format conversions - of course these are also limited by DRM.

Re: If you're against DRM...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Here you go:
http://www.webscription.net/p-629-i-dare.aspx