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#1047 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:51 pm
Subject: The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box
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The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box is a toolkit that lowers the entry
level for NGOs, non-profits and media activists wanting to use audio and
video for social change. It is a collection of Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS) tools, documentation and tutorials that introduce you to
the world of FOSS and the low-cost technology that is transforming the
balance of forces in the realm of media production.

http://av.ngoinabox.org/


What is the Audio/Video Edition of NGO-in-a-box?
The Audio and Video edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS), documentation and tutorials for NGOs, non-profits
and media activists.

Traditionally audio and video production and distribution have been cost
prohibitive for most people, particularly for those in developing
countries. New technologies are changing that. Tactical Tech and
EngageMedia have collaborated to put together a kit that lowers the entry
level for NGOs and individuals wanting to use audio and video, introduces
you to the world of FOSS as well as low-cost technology and its
possibilities for transforming the balance of forces in the realm of media
production.

Audio and Video are both extremely powerful communication tools that can
be used extensively for documenting and monitoring, campaigning, lobbying,
education, awareness raising and outreach. The A/V edition of NGO-in-a-box
is aimed at activist and advocacy organisations in which audio and video
is a significant aspect of their work or those groups or individuals
interested to explore further how these tools might assist them. The box
is not aimed at experts but hopes instead to make these often complex
tools accessible to a broader user base.

We envision the Audio and Video edition of NGO-in-a-box within a
trajectory of citizen journalism and advocacy work, a toolkit for DIY
media makers to find their voice and affect change.

The A/V NGO-in-a-box is a selection of what we believe are the best FOSS
audio/video tools currently available covering editing, streaming,
encoding, distribution and more. We have also provided documentation on
how to use these tools and a range of tutorials on various aspects of
audio and video production.

The hard copy of the second edition includes the multimedia Linux
distribution Dynebolic as well as the OpenCD, a collection of open source
programmes for day to day activities.

#1046 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:19 pm
Subject: How to Create a Website: Guiding Principles
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How to Create a Website: Guiding Principles
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1121144?intcmp=700
This book was published by UNESCO's India Office with comprehensive
guidelines on
how to create a website. 2005. (PDF, 244 pages)
Contributed by John Daly on 20 November, 2007

#1045 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:23 pm
Subject: The Digital Photography Show
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http://digiphoto.thepodcastnetwork.com/

Your hosts Scott Sherman and Michael Stein bring you the latest news on
digital cameras, tips and tricks to improve your image-making, and
interviews with famous photographers, authors, and bloggers in the field
of digital photography.

Also available via iTunes store

#1044 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Fri Nov 9, 2007 8:09 am
Subject: Who are the morons who respond to junk-mail offers, thereby keeping spammers in business?
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* Who are the morons who respond to junk-mail offers, thereby keeping
spammers in business?


--"That would be my sister."


--"My mother, O.K.? Now you know."


--"Statistically speaking, half of ALL people are
below-average intelligence. That fact can explain MANY
things."


--"Naive people, like recent immigrants; old people whose
adult children just set them up with a computer for the
first time; and the truly desperate who've already tried
other methods of penis enlargement."

- From the Desk of David Pogue -
----------------------------------------

Readers Answer Some of Pogue's Imponderables
By DAVID POGUE
Circuits
The New York Times
Thursday, November 8, 2007
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To view this email with images, go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/11/08/technology/circuitsemail/index.html?8c\
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#1043 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sat Nov 3, 2007 5:35 am
Subject: New Website Available - ArcticStat
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New Website Available - ArcticStat

ArcticStat, a socioeconomic circumpolar database covering thirty arctic
regions in eight countries, is now available online.

ArcticStat is a permanent, public, and independent statistical database
dealing with the countries, regions, and populations of the circumpolar
Arctic. ArcticStat intends to facilitate comparative research on the
socioeconomic conditions of the peoples of the Arctic by bringing together
already existing data, which are otherwise dispersed and often hard to
find. For the most part, the data indexed in ArcticStat come from national
statistical agencies of the countries of the Arctic or their regional
offices. These public data are produced on a recurrent basis and are
methodologically valid.

ArcticStat was created by the Canada Research Chair on Comparative
Aboriginal Condition of Universite Laval. It is officially supported by
the Arctic Council and is an official activity of the International Polar
Year. The core financial contribution was provided by the Canada
Foundation for Innovation, with additional financial contributions from
the Louis-Edmond-Hamelin Chair for Northern Research in Social Sciences
and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. ArcticStat is located at the
Faculte des Sciences Sociales, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Objective
ArcticStat is a permanent, public and independent statistical database
dealing with the countries, regions and populations of the Circumpolar
Arctic.

ArcticStat was born out of the desire to facilitate comparative research
on the socioeconomic conditions of the peoples of the Arctic by bringing
together already existing data which are dispersed and often hard to find.

Sources
For the most part, the data indexed in ArcticStat come from national
statistical agencies of the countries of the Arctic or their regional
offices. These data are made public, produced on a recurrent basis, and
are methodologically valid. In some cases, tables using data provided by
statistical agencies were produced by the ArcticStat editorial team.

Design
ArcticStat database is a portal that takes users directly to the table
they are looking for, whether it is located on the web site of a
statistics agency or in the ArcticStat database. A map and a list of
easy-to-use indicators help users to do research.

Limitations
ArcticStat is updated periodically to contain, wherever possible, the most
recent data available. While ArcticStat brings together data on a wide
range of socioeconomic realities of Arctic regions, it does not cover all
possible aspects. The data included in the databank follows ArcticStat's
editorial orientations.  However, these data are limited by statistics
agencies' production and the availability of data free of charge and
accessible in english.  ArcticStat is not responsible for the policies and
practices of statistics agencies, the errors in the tables originating
from these agencies, or the use made of such tables. Users are asked to
consult the methodology notes which are directly accessible via hyperlinks
found in the tables and on the metadata page.

For further information and to access the website, please go to:
http://www.arcticstat.org/

  For any questions or comments:
arcticstat@...

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#1042 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Fri Nov 2, 2007 1:47 pm
Subject: The Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
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The Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines

http://www.updig.org/guidelines/index.php

These 12 guidelines — provided as a Quick Guide plus an in-depth Complete
Guide — aim to clarify the issues affecting accurate reproduction and
management of digital image files. Although they largely reflect a
photographer's perspective, anyone working with digital images should find
them useful.

Table of Contents

A. Quick Guide
     The executive summary

1. Color Management
     Using and embedding ICC color profiles

2. Monitor Calibration
     Hardware calibration and profiling; monitor soft-proofing

3. Color Spaces
     Camera settings; image editing; offset printing; CMYK conversions;
photo lab prints

4. File Formats
     Camera RAW; DNG; formats for the web; formats for print

5. Naming Files
     Cross platform compatibility; avoiding duplicate file names

6. Resolution
     How to describe; optimizing for the screen; for inkjet prints; for
continuous-tone printing; for offset printing

7. Sharpening
     Capture sharpening; process sharpening; sharpening tools; dealing with
noise; output sharpening

8. Metadata
     IPTC Creator and Copyright; keywords; the importance of metadata

9. File Delivery
     Media; methods; file info; ReadMe files

10. Guide Prints and Proofs
     Print and proof viewing

11. Archiving
     Who; what; where

12. Workflow
     Matching to needs; what it should do; choosing the right tools

#1041 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:44 am
Subject: Uruguay buys first $100 laptops
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* Uruguay buys first $100 laptops *
Uruguay becomes the first country to  place an order for the low-cost
children's
laptops.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/7068084.stm

#1040 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:47 am
Subject: UK Schools warned off Microsoft deal
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* Schools warned off Microsoft deal *
UK technology agency Becta lodges an official complaint over Microsoft's
school
licensing agreements.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/7063716.stm

#1039 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:35 pm
Subject: Nunavut's internet appetite creates bandwidth concerns
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Nunavut's internet appetite creates bandwidth concerns

Fri Oct 12, 7:30 PM

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/12102007/3/canada-nunavut-s-internet-appetite-creates\
-bandwidth-concerns.html


The growing demand for broadband internet service in Nunavut is causing
some bandwidth bottlenecks for the territory's high-speed provider.

Since launching its satellite-based broadband service in 2005, the Nunavut
Broadband Development Corp.'s Qiniq service has had more subscribers than
expected. At this time, about 3,700 Nunavut residents are Qiniq customers.

"The numbers have more than exceeded our expectations," NBDC chairman
Darrell Ohokannoak told CBC News on Thursday.

"In our initial projection, we thought that 2,000 would be sufficient, and
we've way exceeded that and gone into our ninth-year projections."

Qiniq's success has created the development corporation's biggest
challenge, project manager Lorraine Thomas said: how to deal with the
growing bandwidth demands of such a large number of users.

Unlike most broadband services in the southern provinces, which rely on
fibre-optic cable to transmit data from one point to another, Qiniq must
rely on satellites as the backbone of its service.

That results in already limited bandwidth that has been spread thin with a
growing customer base, Thomas said.

"If you imagine that you lived in a desert, you would become very good at
managing your water, right? Because it's your biggest, most difficult
thing, expensive thing. You don't waste it," she said.

"That's what it's like in Nunavut. Our biggest, most expensive, difficult
thing to access is satellite bandwidth. It's hundreds of times more
expensive to transfer data over satellite than it is over a fibre line
between Ottawa and Toronto."

The NBDC has received subsidies from the federal government to pay for its
bandwidth, but that funding only supports 2,000 subscribers.

'It makes a big difference'

Both Thomas and Ohokannoak said Qiniq's bandwidth issues will be addressed
in the near future.

Despite concerns about bandwidth, Thomas said the corporation is very
proud of how well it has done.

"I'm so pleased to have had the opportunity to meet so many people who've
said, 'This is a great thing, you know. It makes a big difference. I can
sell more art, I can do this, I can do that, my kids are on it learning
new things,'" she said.

"It's just a great, exciting thing to see this happen. Now, we've got lots
of bumps and lumps to fix yet."

Copyright © 2007 CBC

#1038 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Thu Oct 4, 2007 5:38 am
Subject: Arctic area `torn to pieces' as heat triggers Melville Island landslides
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Toronto Star, Wed, 03 Oct 2007 1:46 AM PDT
Arctic area `torn to pieces' as heat triggers landslides
http://www.thestar.com/article/263105
Queen's University researchers watched in awe and dismay this summer as
landslides
blamed on climate change mangled wide swaths of a remote Arctic valley in
mere
hours.

Upheaval serves as warning about climate change as northern ecosystem
suffers, researchers say
Oct 03, 2007 04:30 AM
Peter Calamai
Science Writer

Queen's University researchers watched in awe and dismay this summer as
landslides blamed on climate change mangled wide swaths of a remote Arctic
valley in mere hours.

"When a week was up the landscape had been torn to pieces in dozens of
places. We were surprised by both the speed and the scale of the changes,"
said geography professor Scott Lamoureux.

He warned that such large-scale environmental upheaval could throw fragile
Arctic ecosystems off-kilter by interfering with the flow of vital organic
material and nutrients carried by water during the brief summer months.

"We expected this would happen in the future to some extent but to see it
taking place already is a bit of a shock," Lamoureux said.

Lamoureux leads a Queen's University research team probing the impact of
climate change on water quality in a 20-square-kilometre region at the
southern end of Melville Island in the western Arctic.

The study began in 2003 and this spring expanded to include scientists
from the University of Toronto.

The findings sound a warning for other areas of the Arctic, some warmer
than the Melville Island locale.

Federal government surveys have concluded permafrost lies beneath about
half the land mass of Canada, extending as much as 700 metres deep in the
Arctic archipelago.

Lamoureux said the landslides were triggered in the last week of July
after unprecedented high summer temperatures caused the permafrost on
Melville to melt down as far as a metre, 20 times deeper than normal.

This excess water acted like a layer of ball bearings, letting the soil on
top slide down the valley slopes.

"It was like a rug coming down and then piling up in the river channel in
folds.

"Along one 200-metre stretch, it shifted the entire river bed to the other
side," Lamoureux said.

Records going back to the 1950s show daytime highs averaging about 5C in
July, but this past summer, temperatures regularly reached 15C and
sometimes 20C, Lamoureux said.

"There were dozens of these slow-motion landslides. You couldn't see them
move over a period of minutes, but they covered 50 or 60 metres in a day.

"One flowed down a good two kilometres from a ridge to the valley floor,"
he said.

The ecological upheaval most probably continued after the Queen's
researchers left on Aug. 1, Lamoureux said, but he has been unsuccessful
in obtaining satellite images to check on the final extent of the damage.

The geography professor said having before and after measurements of water
flow and quality from the site is "scientific serendipity."

"From an experimental standpoint, we couldn't ask for a better situation,"
he said.

Also excited by the development is U of T professor Myrna Simpson, a
specialist in environmental chemistry who joined the Melville Island
project this year when the federal government provided nearly $700,000 as
part of International Polar Year funding.

In her lab on the university's Scarborough campus, Simpson analyzes how
carbon-based organic material ages differently in the Arctic compared to
temperate zones.

"We're learning a lot of really new things," she said.

#1037 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:07 pm
Subject: Don't Call Me Eskimo - A YouTube video
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A YouTube video from Arctic Bay Nunavut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8RZcKQwBA

#1036 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:24 am
Subject: NUNAVUT: Qiniq: from high speed to no speed?
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August 10, 2007
Qiniq: from high speed to no speed?
“I’m really worried as a community service provider and as a customer that
a Crown corporation is taking such a position”

JIM BELL

http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/70810_394.html


More than 3,700 users of Nunavut's highly-praised Qiniq high-speed
internet system will soon see their service deteriorate because of a
dispute that prevents technicians from repairing equipment located on
property controlled by the Qulliq Energy Corp.

The complex dispute is rooted in business deals alleged to have been made
as far back as 2000, involving the Qulliq Energy Corp., the Nunavut
Broadband Development Corp, and SSI Micro. SSI Micro is the Yellowknife
firm contracted to operate and maintain the Qiniq network on behalf of the
broadband corporation.
Darrell Ohokannoak, chair of the Nunavut Broadband Development Corp.,
speaks at an event held in Iqaluit this past March to promote the popular
Qiniq network’s need for more bandwidth to host new services they want to
run on their network. Those plans are now on hold because of a nasty legal
dispute with the Qulliq Energy Corp.
(FILE PHOTO)

It boiled over this past May 7, when the power corporation told SSI Micro
that its technicians are now barred from entering QEC property, which the
broadband corporation uses in 25 communities to house servers and wireless
base stations.

This means SSI Micro staff cannot conduct a $500,000, 25-site network
maintenance tour that was set to start June 15 and continue for 60 days.
SSI Micro is now stuck holding $300,000 worth of replacement equipment,
including new servers, that cannot be installed.

In a lawsuit filed against the QEC on June 13, the broadband corporation
alleges the QEC's actions jeopardize at least $15 million worth of
investment.

"Many, if not all of the 3,700 subscribers throughout the 25 communities
in Nunavut stand to lose all access to Internet Broadband service,
community by community, as system failures occur," the broadband
corporation's statement of claim alleges.

Those 3,700 customers include businesses, government and non-government
organizations, MLAs, and ordinary people, representing more than 35 per
cent of internet users in Nunavut.

The dispute also means the broadband corporation cannot offer new services
that could generate badly-needed new revenue, such as VOIP (a type of
internet-based phone service) and wireless hot spots at restaurants,
hotels and other places.

In addition to the June 13 statement of claim, the broadband corporation
filed a request for an injunction on July 5.

In it, they want the Nunavut Court of Justice to issue an order saying the
QEC must grant them unrestricted access to broadband equipment located on
QEC property, at least until after the lawsuits have been resolved.

It's not clear when the motion for an injunction will be heard. On July
25, the QEC's in-house lawyer, Calvin Clark, filed a statement of defence
and counterclaim against the broadband group.

In it, the QEC denies most of the broadband corporation's allegations and
seeks compensation of its own. None of the allegations contained in either
the statement of claim or the statement of defense and counterclaim have
been proven in court.

Meanwhile, broadband corporation employees and board members say they're
deeply disappointed by the QEC's actions.

"I'm really worried as a community service provider and as a customer that
a Crown corporation is taking such a position," said Bob McLean of
Sanikiluaq, who serves as the broadband corporation's vice-chair.

The broadband corporation is a non-profit coalition, made up mostly of
small businesses that provided various forms of internet access in the
past.

After forming in 2003, the broadband corporation built its Qiniq high
speed network in 2004 and launched it in 2005, financing the system with
grants from Industry Canada and loans from the Atuqtuarvik Corp. and the
Nunavut Business Credit Corp.

In 2003, the broadband corporation had selected SSI Micro from a group of
six bidders to operate and maintain the Qiniq network.

"We have invested millions of our own money into the Qiniq network and we
provide services to thousands of clients across Nunavut. The recent action
by the QEC has significant implications for the network and makes no sense
to me whatsoever," Jeff Phillips, president and CEO of SSI Micro, said in
a news release.

Allegations set out in the broadband group's statement of claim suggest
the dispute is likely rooted in an earlier joint-venture agreement - dated
April 1, 2000 - between SSI Micro and the QEC.

Under that deal SSI Micro was to have built a satellite network for the
power corporation in Nunavut's 10 largest communities, and the two
companies would split ownership of satellite equipment on an agreed
percentage.

But in 2003, QEC - which by then had run into financial trouble - told SSI
Micro they could no longer honour the deal. The broadband corporation
alleges in its statement of claim that "QEC failed to pay for all its
obligations" and "continues to remain liable for unpaid invoices and
costs."

To fix that, the broadband corporation proposed in 2004 that SSI Micro
give them its share of the old satellite equipment. At the same time, they
began negotiations for purchase of QEC's share of the same equipment.

Also under the proposed agreement, the broadband group would have entered
commercial tenancy agreements with QEC worth $1 a year for 15 years, for
each community broadband site located on QEC property.

But the parties were never able to set a final price for the old satellite
equipment, so a final deal never closed. In any event, the broadband
corporation now alleges those proposed arrangements are now legally
binding agreements because of certain letters written in 2004.

For its part, the QEC denies the existence of any legally-binding
agreements that may have been reached in 2004.

And in its statement of defence, the QEC alleges the broadband corporation
hasn't paid for its use of QEC assets, including: electrical and cooling
costs, space rental, labour costs, use of ground station equipment, and
connection services.

The Qiniq network has been widely admired as a model for providing
internet access to remote areas. In 2006, the Qiniq network was named by
the Intelligent Community forum as one of the top 21 "smart communities"
in the world that year.

And in 2005, the Conference Board of Canada said Qiniq may turn out to be
the best infrastructure investment ever made in Nunavut.


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#1035 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue Aug 7, 2007 2:59 pm
Subject: NNSL music website looking for Northern musicians to promote
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http://www.nnsl.com/nnslmusic/nnslmusic.html

This is a free service

If you are a new and upcoming musical band or a established band in the
Northwest Territories or Nunavut and would like to have your profile on
Godsons Picks of the week, send an email to Doug Wiseman at
nnslweb@... with your name, address and telephone number. We will
call you for further information.


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Subject: NNSL music website looking for artists
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Date:    Wed, August 1, 2007 11:01

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The following announcement was received for distribution:

>NNSL music website looking for artists
>Northern News Services Limited's (NNSL's) most recent addition to
>its website
  [ http://www.nnsl.com]
> is a page dedicated to musicians all over Northwest Territories and
>Nunavut.
>Yellowknife musicians who would like to be featured on the site are
>encouraged to send in their stuff to Doug Wiseman, a web designer
>for NNSL.
>Yellowknife rapper Godson has been picking an artist every week to
>be featured on the site. So far a few Yellowknifers have been
>featured such as Sandy Pringle and Pat Braden.
>Artists who want to be a part of the new online feature must send in
>a bio, a photo and a sample of their music to nnslweb@....




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#1034 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sat Aug 4, 2007 5:47 pm
Subject: Devon Island, Nunavut: Reports from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station
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FMARS 2007
Reports from the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station
http://www.fmars2007.org/blog/

This is the blog for members of the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station
(FMARS) 2007 field season crew and support teams. Scientific reports,
observations, and commentary will be posted here, covering mission
preparation, the actual expedition itself, and followup after the crew
returns in August of 2007.


The FMARS 2007 field season
http://www.fmars2007.org/


FMARS Web Cams
Thanks for checking in to see what is happening
NOW at the FMARS hab.
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#1033 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:35 am
Subject: '$100 laptop' production begins
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Last Updated: Sunday, 22 July 2007, 23:09 GMT 00:09 UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm

[excerpt]

  '$100 laptop' production begins
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop
is poised to go into mass production.

Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production
of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost
machines.

Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required
orders for 3m laptops to make production viable.

The first machines should be ready to put into the hands of children in
developing countries in October 2007.

"There's still some software to write, but this is a big step for us,"
Walter Bender, head of software development at One Laptop per Child
(OLPC), told the BBC News website.

#1032 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:38 pm
Subject: ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD GOES INTO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION
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ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD GOES INTO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION
Five years after the concept was first proposed, the
so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.
Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to
ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build
millions of the low-cost machines. Previously, the
organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders
for 3 million laptops to make production viable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm



BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 7/23/2007

Compiled by Professor Michael Geist, BNA Consulting Editor.
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#1031 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:34 pm
Subject: SIX MONTHS LATER, A REPORT CARD ON VISTA
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Nearly six months after it launched, gripes over what does
not work with Vista continue, eclipsing positive buzz over
the program's improved desktop search, graphics, and
security. With Vista now shipping on most new computers, it
has all but guaranteed to become the world's dominant PC
operating system eventually.
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#1030 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2007 8:44 am
Subject: CAP funding for 2007-2008
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Subject: [CPI-UA] CAP funding for 2007-2008
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Hi,
Here's an June 6, 2007 Industry Canada press release and backgrounder
regarding CAP funding for 2007-2008. There is no information about the
amount of funding. The 2006-2007 funding from the Liberals was
approximately half of what was provided the year before.
Eric Lilius

http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/0/85256a5d006b9720852572f2005128b5?OpenDoc\
ument



     Canada's New Government Ensures Support for the Community Access Program

*OTTAWA, June 6, 2007* — The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of
Industry, today announced that Canada's New Government will extend its
support of the Community Access Program
<http://cap.ic.gc.ca/pub/index.html?iin.lang=en> (CAP) by providing
funding for 2007-08.

"Canada's New Government has pledged to work to improve opportunities
for all Canadians," said Minister Bernier. "We are proud to contribute
to a community-driven program such as CAP that has so many positive
benefits across the country."

A Government of Canada initiative, administered by Industry Canada, CAP
provides Canadians with affordable public access to the Internet and the
skills they need to use it effectively. It operates through the combined
efforts of the federal, provincial and territorial governments,
community groups, social agencies, libraries, schools, volunteer groups
and the business community.

Under CAP, public locations such as schools, libraries and community
centres act as "on-ramps" to the Internet for people who might not have
computers or Internet access in their homes or workplaces. CAP also
provides affordable access to skills training, job searching and
government online services. The program supports the goals of /Advantage
Canada/, the Government of Canada's plan to help all Canadians improve
their quality of life, reach their full potential, and create strong
communities.

"Federal funding for CAP will allow the CAP networks across the country
to continue their valuable work in helping Canadians take advantage of
emerging opportunities in the global knowledge-based economy," said
Minister Bernier.

CAP is also complemented by the Community Access Program Youth
Initiative (CAPYI), which provides employment opportunities each year to
more than 1500 young Canadians between the ages of 15 to 30 at various
CAP sites across the country.

For more information, please contact:

Isabelle Fontaine
Office of the Honourable Maxime Bernier
Minister of Industry
613-995-9001

Media Relations
Industry Canada
613-943-2502

------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Backgrounder
Community Access Program*

The Community Access Program, (CAP) an Industry Canada initiative,
provides residents of rural, remote and urban communities across Canada
with affordable access to the Internet and the opportunities to develop
the skills to use it effectively. Established in 1994, CAP provides
Canadians with new ways to communicate, learn and do business in today's
knowledge-based economy, with the broader aim of improving the economic,
social and cultural well-being of communities across the nation.

CAP objectives include the following:

     * promoting public awareness of the benefits and opportunities of
       using information technology and services;
     * supporting online delivery of government programs and services;
     * helping citizens become better informed through the exchange of
       ideas and information;
     * providing training for individuals in the use of information
       technologies; and
     * conducting online learning and research.

The primary services provided are Internet access, access to email, and
employment and job-related activities, followed by access to software
applications, government information, administrative support/services,
and education.

Although CAP serves all Canadians, its main focus is on those most
affected by the digital divide. Statistics Canada's General Social
Survey (2000) identified low-income Canadians, residents of rural areas,
older Canadians, minority language communities, and Canadians with
limited education as being less likely to use the Internet than the
general population.

In 2005-06, an estimated 15 million visitors made use of CAP sites, with
eight million repeat users.

CAP is managed by Industry Canada's national headquarters with delivery
assistance from regional offices across the country. CAP is delivered
through 88 networks, which also include six provincial and territorial
partners that match federal funds.

CAP networks have become early adopters of technology and experts in the
application of technology in a manner that meets broad-based community
goals. The program has a significant impact at the grassroots level and
has become an important community economic and social development tool.

CAP sites contribute to community economic development by providing
information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure,
developing ICT skills among community members, improving social capital
through the many partnerships needed to keep the sites functioning, and
helping small businesses to use the Internet. CAP sites are also used
for e-literacy training and to access formal and informal education over
the Internet.




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#1029 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Wed May 30, 2007 6:39 pm
Subject: Low Cost Software from TechSoup Stock Canada
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#1028 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Wed May 23, 2007 4:44 am
Subject: The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer
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The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer
You can use the Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer to change the
age, race or sex of a facial image, to transform it to the style of a
famous artist, to make an exagerated caricature or even make an ape of
yourself!
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk//


Face Transformer
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk//Transformer/index.html

Other Perception Lab Experiments
http://perception.st-and.ac.uk/expt/Oct2001/lab/intro1.html

Perception Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews,
Scotland
http://www.perceptionlab.com/

#1027 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Wed May 23, 2007 4:07 am
Subject: Are cellphones and the internet rewiring our brains?
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Are cellphones and the internet rewiring our brains?
May 21, 2007
By Sabrina Saccoccio, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/internet-brain.html

[excerpt]

Try reading this article to the end without checking e-mail. Find you
can't? Before making assumptions of addictive behaviour, you should know
there's a positive side to switching tasks often.

You may actually be training your brain to become faster and stronger.

Studies are beginning to show that cellphone-toting execs and
Facebook-friendly teens may be multi-tasking their way into taking on even
more, by rewiring their brains to handle it.

The action of using a cellphone or e-mail has an immediate affect on the
brain. Answering calls and thumbing texts prepares the human brain to take
on such tasks — because its circuitry adapts to the environment it's
presented with.

#1026 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue May 8, 2007 1:57 pm
Subject: Mac vs. PC on YouTube
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#1025 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue May 8, 2007 12:56 pm
Subject: Flickr Pushes Yahoo Photos Out of the Picture
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INTERNET: PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVING WEBSITES:
Flickr Pushes Yahoo Photos Out of the Picture


Flickr Pushes Yahoo Photos Out of the Picture
Yahoo has decided to close Yahoo Photos and make Flickr its only photo
management service
Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service) 07/05/2007 09:59:16
Computer World Australia
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/
index.php/id;710941350;fp;4194304;fpid;1>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/yp5hmm>


To eliminate overlap in services, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos
service in favour of photo sharing darling Flickr, acquired by Yahoo a
little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0
wave of Internet innovation.

"People are changing the way they use photography, and we have decided to
shift our focus accordingly. [Digital photography] is evolving from its
original purpose as a means to preserve memories into a social activity
that allows people to communicate and connect," a Yahoo spokeswoman said
via e-mail.

The move doesn't come as a complete surprise. Yahoo underwent a
significant reorganization in December to better focus its efforts. Weeks
before the reorganization, a scathing internal memo had leaked. It said
Yahoo had to stop spreading a thin layer of "peanut butter" across myriad
opportunities and instead focus on key areas. In that memo, Yahoo Photos
and Flickr were specifically highlighted as an overlap example.

Still, until now, Yahoo executives had maintained publicly that Yahoo was
big enough for the two services because they served two different types of
users.


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#1024 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue May 8, 2007 5:10 am
Subject: Broadband entrepreneur bridges the Arctic wilderness
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Broadband entrepreneur bridges the Arctic wilderness
Ottawa Business Journal - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
"A few businesses had accounts from the south in Yellowknife. They were
racking up quite a few bills. The average person in an office here was
racking up ...
<http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/288829528613428.php>

[excerpt]


Broadband entrepreneur bridges the Arctic wilderness
By Julie Fortier, Ottawa Business Journal Staff
Mon, May 7, 2007 12:00 AM EST

Over a crackly telephone connection, it is clear that Cambridge Bay is a
world away from Ottawa.

"It's quite nice out there actually," says Darrell Ohokannoak, manager of
Polarnet, a community service provider of broadband Internet for the
Nanavut community and chairman of Nunavut Broadband Development Corp.
(NBDC) when asked about the weather. "It's only about - 14, I think. The
sun is out, but I think we're expecting a little bit of snow later on."

The hamlet of Cambridge Bay is located just north of the Arctic Circle on
the south coast of Victoria Island, and is the largest community in the
Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut with a population of around 1,350.

But it's not so different from Ottawa in terms of the population being
tech savvy. A life-long resident of Cambridge Bay, Mr. Ohokannoak has been
running Internet service in the region for about 10 years and started out
with dial-up.

"A few businesses had accounts from the south in Yellowknife. They were
racking up quite a few bills. The average person in an office here was
racking up $800 per month in Internet bills. With the wireless we have
now, it's about $60 per month," says Mr. Ohokannoak.

From Nunavut's biggest community, Iqaluit (population 7,500) to its
smallest, Grise Fiord (population 200), all the villages are connected.
With communities just outside of Ottawa still waiting for broadband, it
seems almost impossible that it is being offered to these tiny northern
hamlets, especially at such a reasonable price.

This feat was made possible with the tireless effort of Kanata resident
David Smith, president of NBDC.

With years of experience in the government procurement sector and raising
venture capital for start-ups, Mr. Smith's most recent achievement has
been planning, obtaining financing for and managing the implementation of
the Nunavut broadband network, Qiniq. Amazingly, this network provides
wireless broadband service to every home and building in Nunavut. Qiniq is
located in Yellowknife, managed centrally by SSI Micro, and its satellite
broadband is linked with the NBDC primary control centre in Ottawa.

#1023 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue May 1, 2007 5:58 am
Subject: Nunavut elder remembered for Inuktitut innovations
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Nunavut elder remembered for Inuktitut innovations
CBC North - Canada
She was also one of the founding members of what is now Inuit Tapiriit
Kanatami, Canada's national Inuit organization. In Iqaluit, Cousins earned
a Bachelor ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/04/30/nu-cousins.html>

#1022 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Tue May 1, 2007 5:52 am
Subject: Videos from Everyone Sought for FriendsBeyondBorders Darfur Project
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Videos from Everyone Sought for FriendsBeyondBorders Darfur Project

FriendsBeyondBorders, in association with the Crystal Awards FilmFest,
wants short internet videos from people everywhere, which will be shared
with refugees from the Darfur crisis living in temporary camps in Chad, as
well as over two-way webcams in New Guinea, Bhutan, Brazil, and an Inuit
village in northern Canada.

Iruturbi, Chad (PRWEB) April 30, 2007 -- In an effort to create real human
connections between Darfur refugees and the rest of the world,
FriendsBeyondBorders is creating a video exchange as well as a two-way
webcam hookup with a refugee camp and the rest of the world.

They want videos which express who you are, what values you live for, what
you find beautiful, funny, profound, meaningful, or uplifting.

These will be shown, via laptops carried by roving aid workers, to some of
the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the fighting and
genocide in Darfur, Sudan, where 200,000 have already died. They will also
be seen by children at the U.N.'s field school at the Iruturbi refugee
camp in Chad. Two-way webcam connections are also being planned between
the camps and universities and coffee houses in Europe, North America, and
Asia (Future webcam stations are planned for a Stone Age village in New
Guinea, a marketplace in Bhutan, an Inuit village in the Yukon, a Yanomamo
Indian encampment in Brazil, Davis Research Station in Antarctica, and a
Uigur village in Mongolia).

The goal is to create human connections between refugees and real people
in the rest of the world. The refugees' immediate physical needs are met
by UNHCR, OxFam, CARE, WorldVision, and others, but this project is meant
to bolster their spirits emotionally, and create a human connection
between them and complete strangers from all over the world.

A documentary film is planned about the project, and submitted videos may
be included in it. Videos of refugees themselves will also be made, and
uploaded to the website. There is no fee to submit a video.

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#1021 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Mon Apr 9, 2007 3:02 pm
Subject: Nunavut home-seeking website goes live
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Nunavut home-seeking website goes live
The Nunavut Housing Corp. has introduced a residential listing section on
its website, so that anyone looking to buy, sell or rent a home can find
listings across the territory in one place.
Full Story: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/04/05/nu-housing.html

Search for a home in Nunavut here...
http://www.nunavuthousing.ca/apps/fusebox/?fa=c_map.Pick

#1020 From: "George Lessard" <media@...>
Date: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:35 pm
Subject: MS Windows and Daylight Savings changes
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[Note: I tried to do this last night and had a problem... now my  MSXP
computer is no longer recognized as having a history of updates at the MS
Update webpage and I do not know if I will be able to update the operating
system again. But on the other hand... it worked fine when I updated my
MAC OSX computer. George]


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                 8 March 2007 - Vol. 12 No. 9



1. It's Daylight in America
2. [snipped]
3. What's happening
4. For desktop users
5. Outlook patch
6. New time zones
7. Order of events
8. Small Business Server
9. Windows Mobile / Pocket PC
10. Exercise caution
11. Could Microsoft have done better?
12. [snipped]
13. News.Office-Watch.com
14. [snipped]
15. Administrivia


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_______

1. IT'S DAYLIGHT IN AMERICA

Time is running out for people to update their computers to handle the
daylight savings changes in the US.

This coming weekend, daylight savings time starts in much of the US and
Canada, instead of early April in the past.  As readers of Office Watch have
known for many years, time zone updates for Windows and Office are not as
smooth as you might hope.

In this case there's a series of patches to apply to Windows, (desktop and
server), server programs and Office itself.  Not only are the patches
important but the order in which you apply them is also vital.

As usual, the articles in Office Watch are also available online - in this
case http://news.office-watch.com?471


2.  [snipped]

3. WHAT'S HAPPENING
The US Energy Savings Act mandated an early start and late finish to
daylight savings - from 2007 it will be from the second Sunday of March to
the first Sunday of November.

It applies to most of the US and Canada (which passed similar laws).

It does NOT apply to Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
and American Samoa.

It does not apply to Mexico.

The changes matter not just to people who live in these areas but also
anyone who travels to or schedules appointments in US time zones.
_______


[snipped]

_______
4. FOR DESKTOP USERS
If you're running Office on a standalone computer (ie not connected to
Exchange Server) at home or in a small office then the updates are simple
and may have been done already.

You should update Windows then Office, in that order.

Windows Vista shipped with the new time zones so that's not a problem.

Windows XP SP2 users only can apply the patch at
http://office-watch.com/kb?931836

Windows XP SP1, Windows XP and Windows 2000 are pretty much on their own.

Windows 2000 users with an extended service package can get a patch, but
without the support arrangement that can be expensive.

The alternative for desktop users without Vista or Windows XP SP2 is to
manually update their time zone settings.  The imposing
http://office-watch.com/kb?914387 has details, for single computer use
'Method 2' with the Time Zone Editor tool provided by Microsoft.


5. OUTLOOK PATCH
There's a separate patch for Outlook users to adjust appointments during the
changeover period.  It should be applied immediately after the time zone
patch mentioned above.

This is important because any appointments entered after the time zone patch
is applied but before the Outlook update could be adjusted incorrectly.

Download the free update from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=%20E343A233-B9C8-4652-9\
DD8-AE0F1AF62568&amp;displaylang=en

It applies to Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2002 (XP) details at
http://office-watch.com/kb?931667


6. NEW TIME ZONES
As we mentioned above, the daylight savings changes don't apply in Arizona,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa or Mexico.

That means you should check the time zone set in Windows for these regions
to make sure it is set for exactly the right place.  Some new time zone
settings have been added.

For example a computer might have been set for US Central time when it's
really in Mexico - on the basis that the times are the same (ie '-6 hours
from UTC).  That will have to be changed to a specific 'Mexico' zone so the
daylight savings shift on the correct day.

Same applies to Tijuana which, until now, was combined with US Pacific time
under a single time zone listing in Windows.  Now there are separate entries
for US Pacific Time and Tijuana/Baja California.


7. ORDER OF EVENTS
For administrators of Windows servers and server technologies it is much
more complicated.  There are patches for the operating system and systems
like Exchange Server and Sharepoint as well as updating client computers.

The vital point is to apply the updates in the correct order and preferably
without delay between each patch.

We've been hearing from people who have called MS support and some frazzled
Microsoft support people the common story is patching in the wrong order or
patching with too much time elapsed between each stage.
The Microsoft web site has a guide for Network admins - pay close attention
to the chapter "General sequence of update actions and special
considerations" at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues with a list
of the server programs to be updated and the order of events.


8. SMALL BUSINESS SERVER
For Small Business Server, Microsoft very misleadingly says "no update
needed' then in the fine print " there may be updates required to several
SBS components (Windows Server, Exchange Server, Outlook 2003, Windows
SharePoint Services, SQL Server)." - for 'may' it should read 'almost
certainly'.

Small Business Server 2003 users should follow the Windows Server 2003
instructions for desktop and server machines then the Exchange, Sharepoint
and SQL Server (for SBS Premium) patches as listed at
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_topissues

SBS systems are often run by a business owner and it's a shame Microsoft
didn't bother to give these customers instructions specific to them (even if
that's a re-statement of the advice for other customers who have the
individual products that make up SBS).

Small Business Server is sold and usually supported as an integrated unit -
that should have happened here.


9. WINDOWS MOBILE / POCKET PC
For Pocket PC's you need to first totally update your computer and Outlook
as described above.

Make sure you're using ActiveSync 4.5 or later.

Then you can install the Daylight Saving Time 2007 Update Tool for Windows
Mobile update.

Details and links at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving/default.mspx
_______


[snipped]


________
10. EXERCISE CAUTION
Microsoft makes suggestions for extra caution during the transition period
(ie the next month and the final week of DST in Oct/Nov).

One of them is a recommendation we've made for years - put the date of
non-standard (ie not-standard for you) time zone appointments into the text
of the appointment (ie the location).  This gives all the people involved an
unchanging reference.  For example a phone conference can have in the
location field '3:15pm US West Coast time' .

We also suggest you print out the appointments for the period from 18 March
to early April before applying the patches.  Then check them after patching
to make sure they have been updated correctly.  Pay special attention to any
recurring appointments that occur during the cross-over period.


11. COULD MICROSOFT HAVE DONE BETTER?
This whole situation is a mess and comes as no surprise to anyone who has
read about past time zone problems in Office Watch.  Microsoft's support for
time zone changes in Windows and other technologies is long overdue for a
comprehensive overhaul.

It's clear that each division of Microsoft (Windows, Office, Exchange Server
etc) has their own plan  to handle time zone issues.  The application of
various patches in exactly the right order is primitive and extremely
difficult for Microsoft's customers.

It makes a mockery of Microsoft's line about the 'advantage' of using all
Microsoft products on your servers.    Where the 'Microsoft Advantage' when
a fundamental issue like time is handled in such a piecemeal fashion?

Every time there's a major time zone update we go through these troubles.
It only seems worse this time because it involves North America with so many
more customers and media attention.  The underlying problems have been there
for years and each time customers are put through these troubles.  Microsoft
fails to learn from past mistakes and lives in the vain hope that time zone
changes will never happen again.
A team at Microsoft needs to be setup to investigate and develop a proper
time zone strategy, not just for Windows but all Microsoft products.  A
single patch approach would be ideal.  In addition the core Windows system
needs upgrading to handle 'one-off' time zone changes (ie changes that occur
once then revert to the standard pattern).  Time zone options need to exist,
not just for current, but likely regional variations in the future (eg
Tijuana and US West Coast should never have been combined into a single TZ
element). The team needs to be lead by someone with enough authority to bang
division heads together and force a unified approach.

Oh yeah - and someone near the top of the Microsoft pecking order needs to
sit on the Outlook team to finally fix the 'all day event' debacle.  With
all the neat stuff in Outlook it's silly that an 'all day' event should span
two days if you change time zones.  Outlook could easy distinguish between
an event that goes from midnight to midnight and an event that occurs on a
nominated calendar day - the only thing that's preventing it is a lack of
will at Microsoft.

I know that older operating systems are no longer officially supported - but
would it have killed Microsoft to supply a registry patch to update earlier
versions of Windows?  The current manual instructions are complicated and
liable to be done incorrectly.  The result is annoyed Microsoft customers
who'll blame the company for the hassles.

We would have liked to see a simple patch with a note that while the
operating systems are no longer supported, Microsoft is providing the update
as a courtesy.  That would have done wonders for Microsoft's customer
relations and cost so little.   The patch could have been issued on a 'no
support' basis just like Microsoft Powertoys.  It was pure bloody-mindedness
that nixed the idea.  Failing to provide a simple update is only likely to
annoy people and set them more against Microsoft - it's hardly going to
cause a stampede of people upgrading to Vista.

It has to be said that we customers do have to shoulder some of the
responsibility.  Much of this could have been done months ago but instead is
being done in a last minute panic.



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