March 6, 2001

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It's amazing how crowded a library can be a few days before a major English project is due.

Yet another example of the crap Microsoft pulls that most people never know about. They tried to hide benchmarks that said a major database application performed better on NT4 than on their newer (and more expensive) Windows 2000. They threatened legal action when the publication was going to publish the results. And still most Americans think Microsoft is a gift from God or something.

In a very nice twist of irony, Aimster has created an encryption scheme to rename Napster files so get around the filter software that Napster put in over the weekend. The catch is that if you tell someone how this form of "pig latin" works, then you could be in violation of the DMCA, for trying to crack an encryption device. Sweet sweet irony, as this is similar to what the DVD hackers did to crack CSS.

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