Vitanuova for 2007 February

A Latin copyright notice

I was just cataloguing a 1949 edition of the Summa Theologica and noticing the imprimatur page. At the bottom of the page, I came across the following text:

Ius proprietatis vindicabitur (24-x-49)

I think that's the first copyright notice I've ever seen in Latin. Most Latin-language books I have either have no copyright notice or else a copyright notice in English. The stated copyright date is October 24, 1949 (following Italian, not ancient Roman, usage).

CryoPID

I wish I could remember where I recently heard about CryoPID. This is super-awesome.

CryoPID consists of a program called freeze that captures the state of a running process and writes it into a file. The file is self-executing and self-extracting, so to resume a process, you simply run that file.

It works astonishingly well. (I bet it will be tempting for people who like to cheat at video games...)

Reading the dictionary

The best ever Logos Quote, in my opinion.