Safely remove a USB drive

If you pull the USB out of a computer without "safely removing", you can damage the drive or the computer.  So, what if you get the dreaded message, "This device is currently in use."

Here's your solution on "How to safely remove a USB drive even when Windows says it isn't safe to do so."

Campus workshop on digital piracy, copyright

There was a discussion of digital piracy and copyright on campus recently. It's an interesting read about movie and music piracy. Mentioned is a new "six-strike copyright alert system" introduced earlier this year, through copyright holders and ISPs, not the government. This article asserts the new rules don't take fair use into account, and will lead to ISPs being more intrusive of user's contents. I wonder if this may effect computers on campus being shut off due to copyright violations, if will people now get warnings instead of being shut down.

University seeking social media interns

Just thought I'd pass this along: the University is looking for students for social media internships this summer including video production. The article in UDaily doesn't indicate whether or not it's paid. Deadline this Friday.