http://digital-rag.com Real World Information in a Virtual World admin@pacdat.net admin@pacdat.net Copyright 2010 The Digital Rag glFusion Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:32:21 -0700 en-gb http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Access-Copyright-Collective-Tariff http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Access-Copyright-Collective-Tariff Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:58:48 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Access-Copyright-Collective-Tariff#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>Howard Knopf, whom I met while in Ottawa to speak in front of the Copyright Board back a few years ago, <a href="http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2010/08/access-copyrights-excessive-45-per.html">writes about the most recent outrage of a cop ...</a></p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Access-Copyright-Collective-Tariff http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Discovery-Channel-Internet-Screwup http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Discovery-Channel-Internet-Screwup Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:53:11 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Discovery-Channel-Internet-Screwup#comments Richard Pitt Video On the Internet <p>Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel (DC) is not my cup of tea. There are lots of other things to wile my time away with, but some people love it.</p> <p>There are fan sites on the net all over the world - but one in particular seems to have d ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Discovery-Channel-Internet-Screwup http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Statistics-Canada-Long-Form http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Statistics-Canada-Long-Form Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:00:45 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Statistics-Canada-Long-Form#comments Richard Pitt Our Masters (government) <p>I met my wife while attending Simon Fraser University as a &quot;mature&quot; student just over 30 years ago. We used to sit together in Statistics class. Since then I've done very little with this particular subject but at least you know I've ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Statistics-Canada-Long-Form http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Backup-Backup-Backup http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Backup-Backup-Backup Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:57:10 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Backup-Backup-Backup#comments Richard Pitt Computers in Use <p>A friend of mine tells a sad tale of his wife's web business.</p> <p>He is a very competent Windows system administrator, able to deal with both the hardware and software. He shops at garage sales for bargains and makes a reasonable living off ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Backup-Backup-Backup http://digital-rag.com/article.php/GLFusion-Tidbits-Hor-MooMenu-Width http://digital-rag.com/article.php/GLFusion-Tidbits-Hor-MooMenu-Width Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:20:19 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/GLFusion-Tidbits-Hor-MooMenu-Width#comments Richard Pitt Content Managed Systems <p>In playing around with the default font size for a site I noticed that the drop-downs on the top horizontal menu were no longer properly lining up.</p> <p>A bit of sleuthing shows that this width is hard coded at 177px, whereas to work correct ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/GLFusion-Tidbits-Hor-MooMenu-Width http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Soot-Global-Warming-Key http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Soot-Global-Warming-Key Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:48:25 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Soot-Global-Warming-Key#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>I'm on all manner of RSS/Syndication feeds, from science to copyright to video to politics - a list that I've cultivated over the past few years to get rid of the huge numbers of email lists I used to be on and the number of Usenet News groups ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Soot-Global-Warming-Key http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Digital-TV-Converter-Canada http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Digital-TV-Converter-Canada Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:29:29 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Digital-TV-Converter-Canada#comments Richard Pitt Video On the Internet <p>This isn't really about Videon on the internet - but it is about digital TV and the fact that here in Canada the government is dropping the ball in telling people, especially out in rural Canada, that their old &quot;analog&quot; TVs won't wor ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Digital-TV-Converter-Canada http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WatchOCR-Linux-OCR http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WatchOCR-Linux-OCR Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:37:42 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/WatchOCR-Linux-OCR#comments Richard Pitt System Administration Tidbits <p>Sometimes serendipity steps in just as you think you're going to have to re-invent the wheel or (shudder) pay for some proprietary software and run it on Windoze.</p> <p>This happened late last week as I looked around for ways of converting th ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/WatchOCR-Linux-OCR http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Bill-C32-Reply-To-MP-Randy-Kamp http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Bill-C32-Reply-To-MP-Randy-Kamp Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:19:38 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Bill-C32-Reply-To-MP-Randy-Kamp#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>Yesterday I received a reply to my letter to my local MP, Randy Kamp (Conservative, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission)</p> <p>My original letter, along with other items, included much of what is presented in ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Bill-C32-Reply-To-MP-Randy-Kamp http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Fighting-Back-Email-List-Complainers http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Fighting-Back-Email-List-Complainers Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:13:00 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Fighting-Back-Email-List-Complainers#comments Richard Pitt Computers in Use <p>A good friend of mine and long-time customer, business partner, co-host and all-round great guy runs an e-mail list through my facilities. To this list (of about 10,000 addresses), he sends the results of his answers to people about their tax ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Fighting-Back-Email-List-Complainers http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Mouse-Troubles http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Mouse-Troubles Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:51:24 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Mouse-Troubles#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>I cleaned my mouse today (minor aside - have you ever tried to find a bathtub small enough for a mouse?)</p> <p>It's not that the top was dirty - nope, no spilled coffee or other nasty stuff - but I happened to turn it over and was disgusted b ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/Mouse-Troubles http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TakeTurnsSign http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TakeTurnsSign Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:18:01 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/TakeTurnsSign#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>I drive quite a bit. Not only that, I drive all over the place instead of just back and forth on the same route. Because of this I see all manner of road setups and signage that bugs the heck out of me.</p> <p>I get into some industrial areas ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/TakeTurnsSign http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ImbalanceInCopyright http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ImbalanceInCopyright Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:01:36 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/ImbalanceInCopyright#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p><span style="display: none; " id="1264704195612S">&nbsp;</span><span style="display: none; " id="1264704199767S">&nbsp;</span></p> <div style="margin-left: 40px; "><em><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128); ">&quot;For it is certain, that neith ...</em></div></span> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/ImbalanceInCopyright http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DigitalAdvocacyGetsReaction http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DigitalAdvocacyGetsReaction Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:17:26 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/DigitalAdvocacyGetsReaction#comments Richard Pitt Our Masters (government) <p>I recently joined, along with about 100,000 (and counting) people, in a Facebook group - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=260348091419&amp;ref=ts">Canadians Against Progroguing Parliament</a>. I also joined one ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/DigitalAdvocacyGetsReaction http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BillC32CanadianCopyrightTPM http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BillC32CanadianCopyrightTPM Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:58:38 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BillC32CanadianCopyrightTPM#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>The (minority) Conservative government has again introduced a copyright bill, C-32.&nbsp;</p> <p>All in all, I'm not averse to what they've put in it with one exception, enshrining Technical Protection Measures (TPM or DRM) in the bill in such ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/BillC32CanadianCopyrightTPM http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EchoInTheOffice http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EchoInTheOffice Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:06:50 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/EchoInTheOffice#comments Richard Pitt Musings on life <p>I work from home - so my office is sacrosanct. It's my environment separate from the home - has to be, otherwise I'm &quot;not at work&quot; psychologically.</p> <p> ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/EchoInTheOffice http://digital-rag.com/article.php/LibrariesCostPublishersBillions http://digital-rag.com/article.php/LibrariesCostPublishersBillions Sun, 30 May 2010 12:01:08 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/LibrariesCostPublishersBillions#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6714772.html?nid=2286&amp;rid=#CustomerId&amp;source=link">According to this</a>, publishers could be losing out on billions of dollars due to online book piracy. Do you really think so?</p> ... http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/LibrariesCostPublishersBillions http://digital-rag.com/article.php/GoldwingGone http://digital-rag.com/article.php/GoldwingGone Sun, 30 May 2010 09:40:23 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/GoldwingGone#comments Richard Pitt Motorcycling <p>Last weekend I sold the 2003 Goldwing.</p> <p>Today I'm without a motorcycle for the first time in 14 years. Well, not quite without - my son's &quot;crotch rocket&quot; is in the back yard but it lacks insurance and I'm not really all that fo ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/GoldwingGone http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BusinessOrPersonalTaxNexus http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BusinessOrPersonalTaxNexus Sat, 29 May 2010 11:33:55 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/BusinessOrPersonalTaxNexus#comments Richard Pitt Our Masters (government) <p>My good friend, David Ingram, has just sent out an email newsletter in his CEN-TApede series about &quot;when do I have to file a State tax return?&quot; and then he called me to discuss it. ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/BusinessOrPersonalTaxNexus http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CopyrightVsUsageright http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CopyrightVsUsageright Fri, 21 May 2010 10:22:06 -0700 http://digital-rag.com/article.php/CopyrightVsUsageright#comments Richard Pitt Copyright <p>Copyright has outlived its usefulness.</p> <p>There, it's been said in public. All the Copyright law in the world is archaic in the face of digital technology.</p> <p>Copying is a part of the fact of digital use of anything that is distributed ...</p> http://digital-rag.com/trackback.php/CopyrightVsUsageright