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[osdn starter] December 01, 2002
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 03:00:54 EST
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Slashdot
National Virtual Observatory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/0243214
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]According to this Technology Review article,
U.S. astronomers (compliments of a $10M grant from the National Science
Foundation) are building a [2]National Virtual Observatory to make
accessible terabytes of astrononomical data to a web browser. One
interesting challenge is how the scientists are going to query so many
*different* distributed databases (which they're leaving in their
respective places to avoiding clogging network bandwidth)."
Links
0. mailto:scubacudaNO@SPAMiname.com
1.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_essex112202.asp
2.
http://www.us-vo.org/
Sega Master System is Reborn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/0115228
Nick of NSTime writes "Various [0]sources are reporting that a
Brazilian company is releasing a new version of the venerable Sega
Master System, dubbed the Sega Master System III. The case is a radical
departure from the old SMS and SMS II. The thing to get excited about:
it will include [1]74 games built-in. The translated page can be found
[2]here."
Links
0.
http://www.classicgaming.com/
1.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.tectoy.com.br/consoles/master/jogos.html&prev=/language_tools&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
2.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tectoy.com.br%2Fconsoles%2Fmaster%2Findex.html&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
Ogg/Vorbis on Palm OS
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/019235
[0]loshwomp writes "We have built an audio player for [1]Palm OS, and a
public beta is [2]available now. The beta includes support for
[3]Ogg/Vorbis audio, and a future beta will include plug-ins for more
formats, as well as the plug-in SDK itself."
Links
0.
http://www.AerodromeSoftware.com
1.
http://www.palmsource.com/
2.
http://www.aerodromesoftware.com/
3.
http://www.vorbis.com/
DreamHack Winter 2002
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/216220
[0]JJC writes "[1]DreamHack, a huge LAN party, is taking place this
weekend in Sweden. Here's some [2]information in English and a [3]daily
report from sponsors ASUS. [4]This and [5]this ought to give you an
idea of the scale of the thing. Here's the [6]obligatory webcam and
their [7]Internet bandwidth graph. It's a massively impressive event,
wish I was there! :-)"
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~JJC
1.
http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/index.php4
2.
http://event.asus.com.tw/se/dreamhack2002/
3.
http://event.asus.com.tw/se/dreamhack2002/daily.htm
4.
http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021125_bordsbygge.jpg
5.
http://www.dreamhack.org/dhw02/foton/021126_jolt.jpg
6.
http://194.0.4.238/cam0.html
7.
http://stat.event.dreamhack.org/
Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/2222225
Jagasian writes "The classic computer space adventure role playing game known as [0]Star Control 2 has been officially ported from its obsolete mono-platform source code to modern multi-platform C++/SDL source code. The game is open source, and compiles and runs on Linux! The alpha release binaries are available for [1]download now!" Links
0. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
5 Predictions for 2012
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/212259
[0]Structured Audio writes "Mike Langberg of the Merc put up his 5
technology [1]predictions for 2012. Well chosen, although of course in
2012 speech recognition will still be 10 years away :-)."
Links
0. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html
Equilibrium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/2019211
The_Hiro writes ""Farenheit 451 - meets - Brave New World - meets -
Matrix" (minus the overdone wire work). Created on a limited budget,
Equilibrium combines the best of sci-fi with the action genre.
Unfortunately, the marketing droids at Dimension have neglected to
promote the film (release date: Dec. 6th). [0]Chud.com has a [1]glowing
review of the film and some pretty pictures. Check out the [2]trailer
also."
Links
0.
http://www.chud.com/
1.
http://www.chud.com/news/oct02/oct28equilibrium.php3
2.
http://www.hollywood.com/multimedia/popup_Main.asp?media=1701124TMDC5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/2015233
[0]TMDC Organizing writes "There's less than two weeks left to the
[1]fifth pseudoannual text mode demo compo submission deadline. The
web-submission system is finally online, and you can also chat about
[1]TMDC5 on ircnet #tmdc5. Even if you haven't started on an entry yet,
there's still time!"
Links
PostgreSQL 7.3 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1815200
[0]rtaylor writes "Nearly a year's worth of work is out. The new
[1]tricks include schema support, prepared queries, dependency
tracking, improved privileges, table (record) based functions, improved
internationalization support, and a whole slew of other new features,
fixes, and performance improvements. [2]Release Email - [3]Download
Here - [4]Mirror FTP sites (at bottom)."
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@rbt.ca
1.
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-7-3
2.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2002-11/msg00004.php
3.
http://advocacy.postgresql.org/download/
4.
http://www.postgresql.org/
Immobile Robots
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1738214
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Wade Roush wrote a long and
well-documented article for the Technology Review about this new
concept, the immobot, short for "immobile robot." He gives different
industrial examples, from NASA to the water utility in Porto Alegre,
and from Toyota cars to some new Xerox photocopiers. And he looks at
the programming model behind the immobots. No "heuristic" programs
here, but model-based programs instead. [1]Check this column for
details." The [2]original article has more information.
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2002/11/30.html
2.
http://techreview.com/articles/roush1202.asp?p=0
Linux.com
GNU Bayonne extends support for synthesized voices
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/199244
David Sugar writes: (November 30th, Bayonne, NJ) With the latest GNU Bayonne beta release (1.1.2), we have greatly expanded support for and integration of automated text to speech synthesized voice systems. Using "flite" based text to speech synthesis engines, initially developed through Carnegie Mellon University, and commercial derivatives of "flite", such as Cepstral's Theta, it is now possible to have fully automated high quality voice ...
Window Managers (introduction)
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1410258
In recent times, the desktop Linux world has been enriched beyond recognition by the KDE and GNOME projects, but window managers are still at the heart of these environments, as well being used widely on their own. In this review, I'll delve into this exciting world and look at the development and the state of the art of some of the most significant and most popular window managers.
Finally, Linux With a Lot Less Fuss
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/147214
Over the past few weeks, I've installed Linux on three computers without breaking into fits of cursing. That's a novel development in my experience with this open-source operating system.
Linux future scales out
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/140236
AS DOMINANT SYSTEMS and software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed, network-based operating system.
ApacheWeek Issue #315
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1344230
In this issue: * ApacheCon 2002 Las Vegas * Under development * Featured articles * Book Reviews * Apache Week giveaway
Three Minutes With Paul Otellini
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1341218
Intel president looks forward, sees 64 bits on the desktop, Internet-on-a-chip, and Linux (sort of).
Petition for Aegir CMS license change
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1339259
Nov 29th 2002 -- We're now gathering signatures to a letter to Hong Kong Linux Center to ask them if we can change Aegir CMS license to the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The Real Battle at Comdex: Intellectual Property v http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1331242
In his third report on Comdex Fall 2002, Doc covers the second Great Debate and the conflict between technologists and the entertainment industry--which now may include Intel and Microsoft.
LinuxQuestions.org announces weekly contest http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1328234
jeremy writes "Starting immediately LinuxQuestions.org will have a weekly contest with two winners every week. Prizes include boxed Red Hat 8.0, boxed Mandrake 9.0/8.2, autographed copies of "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman" and more. Visit for more information including how to win and contest rules."
mozilla.org Issues Product Recall
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/1327206
Anonymous Reader writes "The recently released Mozilla 1.2 has a nasty bug in it that can cause DHTML on some sites to fail. The problem was caused when some code was incorrectly backed-out from the 1.2 branch. A revised Mozilla 1.2.1 will be issued shortly.
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Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
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Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
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