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Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans. Here's mine for example. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article if you give my article a reciprocal link. Please follow the instructions given here

Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans, for example my friend Rick Walker. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article if you give my article a reciprocal link. Please follow the instructions given here

Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans, for example my friend Rick Walker. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article if you give my article a reciprocal link. Please follow the instructions given here

Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans, for example my friend Rick Walker. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article if you give my article a reciprocal link. Please follow the instructions given here.

(I just posted a new draft if you read it before.)

Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans, for example my friend Rick Walker. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article if you give my article a reciprocal link. Please follow the instructions given here.

(I just posted a new draft if you read it before.)

Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans, for example my friends the Divine Maggees. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article. Please follow the instructions given here.

Many unsigned musicians provide free downloads of their music on their websites as a way to attract more fans, for example my friends the Divine Maggees. Many such musicians, while relatively unknown, are as good as any major label band and certainly an improvement over the pablum they serve up on ClearChannel.

You can find many more examples in my new article:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

If you're a musician who offers downloads of your music, I can link to your band's website from the article. Please follow the instructions given here.

I'm working on an article I hope to publish at Kuro5hin soon. You may find it helpful. In return, I would like your comments on how to improve it. I want to do the very best job I can so that it will be sure to get voted to the front page by the K5 moderators:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

Send your comments to crawford@goingware.com

Thanks for your help.

I'm working on an article I hope to publish at Kuro5hin soon. You may find it helpful. In return, I would like your comments on how to improve it. I want to do the very best job I can so that it will be sure to get voted to the front page by the K5 moderators:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

Send your comments to crawford@goingware.com

Thanks for your help.

I'm working on an article I hope to publish at Kuro5hin soon. You may find it helpful. In return, I would like your comments on how to improve it. I want to do the very best job I can so that it will be sure to get voted to the front page by the K5 moderators:

• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads

Send your comments to crawford@goingware.com

Thanks for your help.

I agree with your logic. I guess individual choice of license comes down to an individual's priorities. One could also argue that choice of license is part of an opinion and so part of an artistic work! (maybe I'm stretching it here?!?)

(I can't get through to your article at the moment. Might be all those Cisco routers crashing! :-) )

As a general rule, I don't believe that it is essential for people to have permission to modify all sorts of articles and books. The issues for writings are not necessarily the same as those for software. For example, I don't think you or I are obliged to give permission to modify articles like this one, which describe our actions and our views.

However, this has caused friction with the Debian community, because they feel that the fact that the GNU Free Documentation License provides for Invariant Sections and mandatory Cover Texts makes it non-free. They're working on a policy statement to this effect, and getting ready to move all the GFDL'ed documentation from main to non-free. You can find out more about that in Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL.

I observed some of the debate between the Debian developers and RMS on the debian-legal list, and while there are other significant issues, the main sticking point seemed to come down to whether or not political activism had any place in technical documentation. You can imagine Stallman's position on that. I come from way before "Open Source" was ever heard of, so I personally share Stallman's position.

It's an issue for me because I have some articles which use the GFDL, so I discussed the issue at some length in Which License for Free Documentation? The followup discussion has been very helpful.

Now why is this relevant to music?

The issue of whether it is moral (from Stallman's perspective) to forbid alteration of a work I believe comes down to whether the work is primarily functional in nature, or expressive of a personal opinion. The obvious utility of software, and the ability to combine code from different packages into new programs tips the balance heavily towards the side that says one must allow software to be altered. But that's not so clear with writing, which may be either unexpressive technical documentation, or impassioned political expression.

Music is much more like writing than software. Someone who is not a musician might not see it this way, but I feel that my music is an expression of my opinion. I can well see that there is other music that could not possibly be considered that way, and so I would support Stallman's position that not only copying but modification of such music must be permitted.

However, I don't think Stallman has completely thought this through when considering music explicitly. Have a look at his piece Regarding Gnutella.

• Is This the America I Love?
• Impeach Bush
• DeCSS - Content Scrambling System Decryption

I'm getting ready to move to Canada by the way. I can do that because my wife is a Canadian citizen. When I get there, I'm going to make it a priority to move somewhere I can get broadband - it's much more widely available there than in the U.S. When I do, I'm going to set up a FreeNet node and give it a 80 gig hard drive or so.

And sometime soon I should be mirroring my essays at a server physically located in Holland. Or Sealand if I can find someone who will host a small site - I can't afford their charge for a colo.

• Is This the America I Love?
• Impeach Bush
• DeCSS - Content Scrambling System Decryption

I'm getting ready to move to Canada by the way. I can do that because my wife is a Canadian citizen. When I get there, I'm going to make it a priority to move somewhere I can get broadband - it's much more widely available there than in the U.S. When I do, I'm going to set up a FreeNet node and give it a 80 gig hard drive or so.

And sometime soon I should be mirroring my essays at a server physically located in Holland. Or Sealand if I can find someone who will host a small site - I can't afford their charge for a colo.

• Is This the America I Love?
• Impeach Bush
• DeCSS - Content Scrambling System Decryption

I'm getting ready to move to Canada by the way. I can do that because my wife is a Canadian citizen. When I get there, I'm going to make it a priority to move somewhere I can get broadband - it's much more widely available there than in the U.S. When I do, I'm going to set up a FreeNet node and give it a 80 gig hard drive or so.

And sometime soon I should be mirroring my essays at a server physically located in Holland. Or Sealand if I can find someone who will host a small site - I can't afford their charge for a colo.

Yes, it is still possible to get work without recruiters. And it has the same fresh clean taste as air does when you quit smoking.

When you're done reading that, read Fighting Age Discrimination and Buzzword Bingo in the Software Industry.

Thank you for your attention.

While air travelers can bring SARS with them halfway around the globe in hours, they can't bring their Dell laptop. Not legally anyway - Dell customers have a contractual obligation not to do so.

I don't know if that's still the case, but it was when I decided against purchasing a Dell so I could work during a long trip to Canada. I lived in California at the time.

Compaq, on the other hand, will not service a U.S. purchased unit outside the U.S. I was very happy doing my development on my Compaq Presario 1800T while living in Newfoundland the year of my wedding, but the unit failed and I had to send it back for service.

Good thing I had a recent backup.

First, Compaq Canada wouldn't service it because, although Compaq sells Presarios in Canada, they didn't sell that model. They connected me to the U.S. support center.

The U.S. support center wouldn't accept shipment from Canada, not even if I paid the shipping. There was no question of them expediting me a shipping container and getting it picked up after I packed my laptop. They simply said it had to be shipped from within the U.S.

Newfoundland is a long way from anywhere in the U.S. While it is geographically considered part of North America, it is actually an island separated from the mainland by a seven-hour ferry ride. Air travel to the U.S. from Newfoundland is quite expensive.

What I did was ask my client very nicely to FedEx me a check, paying me in advance for work I hadn't done yet, then I bought a brand-new Pentium III box from a screwdriver shop in St. John's. I restored my backup onto it and continued work until my next trip to the U.S., several months later.

I finally brought my dead Compaq to my parents' when I visited them for thanksgiving, in the U.S. Only then would Compaq agree to repair my laptop. But I had to fly back to Canada before Compaq returned it. They wouldn't return it to Canada either - they sent it to my parents' house. Then I had to ask my mom to FedEx me the laptop. FedExing a laptop is expensive.

The icing on the cake was that although Compaq had agreed to do a warranty repair, they said I voided my warranty by installing Windows NT, BeOS and Linux on it - the Presario came with Win98. They charged me $400 for a new motherboard.

They did so just as the dot-com crash started to affect my consulting business. It took several months for me to raise the money for the repair, during which my dead laptop was stored in Compaq's repair facility. They telephoned me periodically to ask about the money, and each time I said I was working on it.

Then, when I finally sent them their damn check, they asked for my authorization to "rebrick" my laptop. They wanted to erase my hard drive and put a factory-fresh Win98 installation on it. I had lots of files (not my development work) that weren't backed up. I didn't give them permission, but was very anxious until I got the laptop shipped by my mom, with my files, Windows NT, Linux and BeOS still intact.

By the time I was able to pay for the repair, I'd moved back to the U.S., to Maine. But they wouldn't ship to anywhere but the address the laptop came from. So my mom had to FedEx the laptop from Washington to Maine.

I will never, ever purchase a Compaq product again.

The way I have been getting by is working as a consultant for remote clients. I also did it for a couple years before I moved away from California. Now, it's more difficult than holding a regular job, and it's not secure, but it has many advantages, one of which is that you can live in a nice place - for example, Not In Silicon Valley.

I'm sorry to see the LRP die. I subscribed to the list around the time I moved to Maine, and I think they're a great bunch of people. But I don't believe that there's no way that one can make a living in programming anymore.

If I can do it from Maine, he can do it from Florida.

Since I left California, I haven't had any clients from anywhere near where I lived. They've been from Kansas, New Jersey, The Bahamas, California, and Ontario. Just last week I got inquiries from Germany and Taiwan.

If you want to know how I find clients, read Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants, How to Promote Your Business on the Internet and You Can Help by Referring Clients.

It's certainly not easy, in fact it's downright crazy sometimes, but I have been working steadily throughout the economic downturn, I still own my house, and I eat more or less regularly.

And I live in a nice place.

The way I have been getting by is working as a consultant for remote clients. I also did it for a couple years before I moved away from California. Now, it's more difficult than holding a regular job, and it's not secure, but it has many advantages, one of which is that you can live in a nice place - for example, Not In Silicon Valley.

I'm sorry to see the LRP die. I subscribed to the list around the time I moved to Maine, and I think they're a great bunch of people. But I don't believe that there's no way that one can make a living in programming anymore.

If I can do it from Maine, he can do it from Florida.

Since I left California, I haven't had any clients from anywhere near where I lived. They've been from Kansas, New Jersey, The Bahamas, California, and Ontario. Just last week I got inquiries from Germany and Taiwan.

If you want to know how I find clients, read Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants, How to Promote Your Business on the Internet and You Can Help by Referring Clients.

It's certainly not easy, in fact it's downright crazy sometimes, but I have been working steadily throughout the economic downturn, I still own my house, and I eat more or less regularly.

And I live in a nice place.

The way I have been getting by is working as a consultant for remote clients. I also did it for a couple years before I moved away from California. Now, it's more difficult than holding a regular job, and it's not secure, but it has many advantages, one of which is that you can live in a nice place - for example, Not In Silicon Valley.

I'm sorry to see the LRP die. I subscribed to the list around the time I moved to Maine, and I think they're a great bunch of people. But I don't believe that there's no way that one can make a living in programming anymore.

If I can do it from Maine, he can do it from Florida.

Since I left California, I haven't had any clients from anywhere near where I lived. They've been from Kansas, New Jersey, The Bahamas, California, and Ontario. Just last week I got inquiries from Germany and Taiwan.

If you want to know how I find clients, read Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants, How to Promote Your Business on the Internet and You Can Help by Referring Clients.

It's certainly not easy, in fact it's downright crazy sometimes, but I have been working steadily throughout the economic downturn, I still own my house, and I eat more or less regularly.

And I live in a nice place.

After I rest up, look for FWDemo here.

FWDemo wasn't really meant to be a brilliant hack, so much as to be sample code for my talk on device drivers. But I didn't have a proper hack, so I showed off FWDemo.

(What it does is use a kernel extension to work around OS X' exclusive hardware access policy, to do a little SCSI I/O to a mounted FireWire disk via SBP2. To be safe, it just does an inquiry, but you can use your imagination to do more creative things.)

I'm planning to write a couple more chapters in the next couple weeks, and intend to complete it by the end of the year.

• Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations

And to show that I walk the walk, I invite you to read my recent article, "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder" parts I, II and III.

Yes, I mean you. And not just you computer geeks. Your mom should be using encryption too.

Another page of interest is Is This the America I Love?

Thank you for your attention.

Yes, I mean you. And not just you computer geeks. Your mom should be using encryption too.

Another page of interest is Is This the America I Love?

Thank you for your attention.

You may also be interested to read my pages Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants and GoingWare's Policy on Recruiters.

You may also be interested to read my pages Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants and GoingWare's Policy on Recruiters.

• Pointers, References and Values
• Properly Managing Memory Returned by transcode() in the Xerces XML Library (really about refactoring)
• Pointers to C++ Member Functions

• Pointers, References and Values
• Properly Managing Memory Returned by transcode() in the Xerces XML Library (really about refactoring)
• Pointers to C++ Member Functions

You may also be interested to read my resignation from Live Picture after they announced they were moving the company from Santa Cruz County to Silicon Valley.

Having both these pages on my consulting business' website might well be losing me some business. I'll never know - if a potential client thinks I'm a troublemaker after reading them and decides not to hire me, they just click away from my site and never say anything to me.

However, one of the reasons why I am self-employed is so that I can live in a way that is true to my conscience, which was never really fully possible when I worked for corporations.

Also I feel that I'm doing a valuable public service. For example, I can tell from my server logs that many of the people who find my resignation on search engines are looking for examples of resignation letters, I imagine so they can figure out how to write one of their own. I'm glad that I'm able to be helpful that way.

A number of the other responses say that one should only make a moral stand if you have money in the bank, or if you have another job lined up. Certainly not having those things will make your decision more difficult, but I should point out that history is full of courageous people who took moral stands despite knowing full well the terrible consequences that would befall them. We all, as a society, would be better off if more people would do that, but it would come at the cost of much sufferring for a few brave individuals.

I can't say it's been easy being a consultant the last couple years, and I'm pretty sure those pages have made it harder for me. But I think it's the right thing to do. Money is tight but I'm sure I'll manage one way or another. At least I am able to make peace with my conscience by doing such things.

Here's a couple other things I wrote to check out while you're at it:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Important Note for Recruiters and Contract Agencies

You may also be interested to read my resignation from Live Picture after they announced they were moving the company from Santa Cruz County to Silicon Valley.

Having both these pages on my consulting business' website might well be losing me some business. I'll never know - if a potential client thinks I'm a troublemaker after reading them and decides not to hire me, they just click away from my site and never say anything to me.

However, one of the reasons why I am self-employed is so that I can live in a way that is true to my conscience, which was never really fully possible when I worked for corporations.

Also I feel that I'm doing a valuable public service. For example, I can tell from my server logs that many of the people who find my resignation on search engines are looking for examples of resignation letters, I imagine so they can figure out how to write one of their own. I'm glad that I'm able to be helpful that way.

A number of the other responses say that one should only make a moral stand if you have money in the bank, or if you have another job lined up. Certainly not having those things will make your decision more difficult, but I should point out that history is full of courageous people who took moral stands despite knowing full well the terrible consequences that would befall them. We all, as a society, would be better off if more people would do that, but it would come at the cost of much sufferring for a few brave individuals.

I can't say it's been easy being a consultant the last couple years, and I'm pretty sure those pages have made it harder for me. But I think it's the right thing to do. Money is tight but I'm sure I'll manage one way or another. At least I am able to make peace with my conscience by doing such things.

Here's a couple other things I wrote to check out while you're at it:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Important Note for Recruiters and Contract Agencies

You may also be interested to read my resignation from Live Picture after they announced they were moving the company from Santa Cruz County to Silicon Valley.

Having both these pages on my consulting business' website might well be losing me some business. I'll never know - if a potential client thinks I'm a troublemaker after reading them and decides not to hire me, they just click away from my site and never say anything to me.

However, one of the reasons why I am self-employed is so that I can live in a way that is true to my conscience, which was never really fully possible when I worked for corporations.

Also I feel that I'm doing a valuable public service. For example, I can tell from my server logs that many of the people who find my resignation on search engines are looking for examples of resignation letters, I imagine so they can figure out how to write one of their own. I'm glad that I'm able to be helpful that way.

A number of the other responses say that one should only make a moral stand if you have money in the bank, or if you have another job lined up. Certainly not having those things will make your decision more difficult, but I should point out that history is full of courageous people who took moral stands despite knowing full well the terrible consequences that would befall them. We all, as a society, would be better off if more people would do that, but it would come at the cost of much sufferring for a few brave individuals.

I can't say it's been easy being a consultant the last couple years, and I'm pretty sure those pages have made it harder for me. But I think it's the right thing to do. Money is tight but I'm sure I'll manage one way or another. At least I am able to make peace with my conscience by doing such things.

Here's a couple other things I wrote to check out while you're at it:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Important Note for Recruiters and Contract Agencies

You may also be interested to read my resignation from Live Picture after they announced they were moving the company from Santa Cruz County to Silicon Valley.

Having both these pages on my consulting business' website might well be losing me some business. I'll never know - if a potential client thinks I'm a troublemaker after reading them and decides not to hire me, they just click away from my site and never say anything to me.

However, one of the reasons why I am self-employed is so that I can live in a way that is true to my conscience, which was never really fully possible when I worked for corporations.

Also I feel that I'm doing a valuable public service. For example, I can tell from my server logs that many of the people who find my resignation on search engines are looking for examples of resignation letters, I imagine so they can figure out how to write one of their own. I'm glad that I'm able to be helpful that way.

A number of the other responses say that one should only make a moral stand if you have money in the bank, or if you have another job lined up. Certainly not having those things will make your decision more difficult, but I should point out that history is full of courageous people who took moral stands despite knowing full well the terrible consequences that would befall them. We all, as a society, would be better off if more people would do that, but it would come at the cost of much sufferring for a few brave individuals.

I can't say it's been easy being a consultant the last couple years, and I'm pretty sure those pages have made it harder for me. But I think it's the right thing to do. Money is tight but I'm sure I'll manage one way or another. At least I am able to make peace with my conscience by doing such things.

Here's a couple other things I wrote to check out while you're at it:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Important Note for Recruiters and Contract Agencies

I wrote it in late October 2000, as the meltdown had already begun to happen but before I had become fully aware of it. I came to a deep understanding of the depth of trouble we were all in when I was out of work the following month, and passed the time by emailing a few thousand resumes without getting any response.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

I didn't pay a search engine optimization service to make this happen. I didn't use any tricks like "doors" either. It cost me no money, but it did take time and hard work to achieve it.

I explain everything I did in How To Promote Your Business On the Internet.

What's my secret? No secret at all:

• Put stuff on your site that people find interesting and useful
• Ask people for links, and give them reciprocal links in return.

Other pages I have that you may find helpful are:

• Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
• Search Engine Submission Form Index

and finally, from my K5 diary, A Webmaster's Strange But True Tale.

Thank you for your attention.

• http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/

It supports Mac OS (68k, PowerPC, classic and Carbon), Win32, BeOS x86 and Linux. It would not be hard to bring it to a totally new platform.

It is in C++, is multithreaded, and provides a complete solution - not just GUI but TCP networking, file I/O, streams and persistent storagge.

If you use it, I suggest you use the version in CVS as a lot of work has been done since the last release. A new release is planned soon.

I have started writing a tutorial called The ZooLib Cookbook.

ZooLib is under the MIT License and the Cookbook is under the GNU Free Documentation License.

ZooLib has actually been around longer than even wxWindows, but it was only placed into open source in the fall of 2000. Among the applications written with it is Knowledge Forum.

It is a sector-level hard drive encryptor that aims to be very easy to use as well as portable. It uses the Advanced Encryption Standard's Rijndael Algorithm.

It is easy to use because the only software the user needs to install is a simple applet that allows entry of the passphrase. There is no complicated operating system-level software to install or configure.

The encryption implementation itself is entirely contained within a FireWire to IDE bridge.

The FireWire connection also makes the product portable, because FireWire is an external hot-pluggable serial bus.

MacCentral covers the FireWire encrypt here. You can read WiebeTech's press release about it in Microsoft Word format here.

I issued a press release (my first ever!) to annouced that I developed the software for WiebeTech. I posted the press release at http://www.wiebetech.com/press/. Sorry I just have Word format available at the moment, but I will post it in HTML in a little while. I'm tired!

I have more technical details on the product in my Kuro5hin diary.

WiebeTech is demonstrating FireWire Encrypt working with Mac OS X at the show, but we plan to support the product on Windows, Linux and classic Mac OS by the time the product is released to the public. (I personally run Slackware on my x86 box and Debian on my PowerPC Macintosh 8500).

Thank you for your attention.

So I went there to register The ZooLib Cookbook, but found that they only provide for registration of books licensed under one of the licenses that they themselves publish.

The ZooLib Cookbook is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, so I can't register it there. I really don't want to change the license just to register my book.

Bruce, may I suggest you recommend to people that they register at The Assayer instead?

The Assayer also allows readers to post reviews.

And perhaps you could lobby the folks at the creative commons to allow the registration of books on their site that are under other licenses, as long as the licenses are compatible with their aims.

I only have a few chapters written so far, and have a lot of work left to do to complete it, but I have made it my New Year's Resolution to complete it by the end of the year.

To make it more convenient to write, I have used Fink to install DocBook, OpenJade and psgml on my iBook. (Note - fink's psgml is in unstable).

ZooLib is a multithreaded C++ cross-platform application framework. You can write a single set of sources and compile native applications for Mac OS (classic, 68k and OS X native), Windows, BeOS and Linux, with very little need for platform-specific client code.

ZooLib itself is fairly portable, it could be brought to a completely new platform in a few weeks of work by someone experienced with it.

A brief introduction to ZooLib is on it's homepage at http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/.

Thank you for your attention.

I started out wanting to be a scientist. Then I became a programmer, which I've been doing for fifteen years.

But I got into writing I think mainly by writing email and usenet posts, and more recently web pages.

Here are a few of the things I have written:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Why I Write
• Pointers, References and Values

The wonderful thing about the web is that just anyone can publish and anyone can read what you write. I get thousands of people reading my writing at my website each month. I think that's just wonderful.

One more - my New Year's Resolution is that by the end of the year I will finish writing The ZooLib Cookbook.

I started out wanting to be a scientist. Then I became a programmer, which I've been doing for fifteen years.

But I got into writing I think mainly by writing email and usenet posts, and more recently web pages.

Here are a few of the things I have written:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Why I Write
• Pointers, References and Values

The wonderful thing about the web is that just anyone can publish and anyone can read what you write. I get thousands of people reading my writing at my website each month. I think that's just wonderful.

One more - my New Year's Resolution is that by the end of the year I will finish writing The ZooLib Cookbook.

I started out wanting to be a scientist. Then I became a programmer, which I've been doing for fifteen years.

But I got into writing I think mainly by writing email and usenet posts, and more recently web pages.

Here are a few of the things I have written:

• Is This the America I Love?
• Why I Write
• Pointers, References and Values

The wonderful thing about the web is that just anyone can publish and anyone can read what you write. I get thousands of people reading my writing at my website each month. I think that's just wonderful.

One more - my New Year's Resolution is that by the end of the year I will finish writing The ZooLib Cookbook.

I think the phrase you're looking for is Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations.

• Is This the America I Love?
• Copy posted at Kuro5hin which has the advantage of a (rather thoughtful) followup discussion

I'm going to keep posting the link until it makes a real difference.

And I'm going to keep writing stuff like that.

Thank you for your attention.