Columbia Pictures Nukes “Holmes and Watson” Posters Off The Internet
The DMCA is a particularly useful tool for copyright holders who want to make sure that infringing copies of their work are not widely distributed. Whether it’s a copy of a pirated song, an ebook, or a photo, the DMCA covers it all. The majority of the takedown requests filed on an average day are fairly mundane. However, there are those that raise eyebrows, which includes the recent efforts of Columbia Pictures. The movie...
US and Mexico Modernize Copyright Protection in New Trade Deal
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was negotiated a quarter century ago. Over the past twenty-five years, trade has changed drastically, especially online, so the United States planned to modernize the international deal. Several negotiation rounds have taken place with all three parties. However, it appears that things are now moving ahead without Canada, which hasn’t...
Getting started with the i3 window manager on Linux
In my article 5 reasons the i3 window manager makes Linux better, I shared the top five reasons I use and recommend the i3 window manager as an alternative Linux desktop experience. In this post, I will walk through the installation and basic configuration of i3 on Fedora 28 Linux. 1. Installation Log into a Fedora workstation and open up a terminal. Use dnf to install the required package, like this: read...
Add GUIs to your programs and scripts easily with PySimpleGUI
Few people run Python programs by double-clicking the .py file as if it were a .exe file. When a typical user (non-programmer types) double-clicks an .exe file, they expect it to pop open with a window they can interact with. While GUIs, using tkinter, are possible using standard Python installations, it’s unlikely many programs do this. What if it were so easy to open a Python program into a GUI that complete beginners...
4 open source monitoring tools
Isn’t monitoring just monitoring? Doesn’t it include logging, visualization, and time-series data? The terminology around monitoring has caused a lot of confusion over the years and has led to some poor tools that tout the ability to do everything in one format. Observability proponents recognize there are many levels for observing a system. Metrics aggregation is primarily time-series data, and that’s what...
