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[osdn starter] December 06, 2002
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 03:00:54 EST
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December 06, 2002 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/040241
[0]peter_gzowski writes "[1]Anime News Network is [2]reporting that,
'The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan
have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the
Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away.' Japanese consumers who
purchased the Spirited Away DVD were very disappointed when they
discovered a red tint to the film. A hundred thousand consumers
complained, but Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan (a subsidiary of
Walt Disney) pretended [3]nothing was wrong with the disc. The original
source of news of the suit can be found (in Japanese) at [4]Mainichi.
No response from Disney yet."
Links
0. mailto:peter_gzowski@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/
2.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=2884
3.
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/newspro/arc6-2002.html
4.
http://www.mainichi.co.jp/news/selection/20021203k0000m040155000c.html
End In Sight For Alpha
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0326217
[0]minektur writes "[1]news.com has an article stating that DEC ... I
mean Compaq .... Uh, I mean HP has decided to [2]EOL the once mighty
Alpha architecture. Let's all take a moment of silence." I was lucky
enough to have access to a 533 MHz Alpha back when the fastest Pentiums
were only around 200 MHz, and the Alpha architecture earned a special
place in my heart. It will be missed.
Links
0. mailto:junk@cl[ ].org ['ift' in gap]
1.
http://www.news.com
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-976211.htmlShocker: Despicable Conduct From a Disney Lawyer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0614253
An Anonymous Coward writes: "[0]Phil Lelyveld, ([1]email) a senior
intellectual property attorney for Disney, has written to the FCC to
tell them to ignore [2]Digital Consumer's comments on the [3]Broadcast
Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn
over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs --
under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television
technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood's
permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC -- who are [4]taking comments on
the proposal -- without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that
Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000
members, is nothing more than a "two dot.com millionaires" working to
create a world "where we are all artist/waiters." Joined the [5]EFF
Yet? (or is it time to renew?)
Links
0.
http://www.siimage.com/press/03_14_00.asp
1. mailto:phil_lelyveld@corp.disney.com
2.
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/
3.
http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/
4.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-225218A1.txt
5.
http://eff.org/join.html
New Look at ADSL2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0231213
[0]genrader writes "[1]broadbandreports.com just posted a [2]news
article which had an interesting story about the new ADSL2, which
should be approved in 2003. They say it should be backward compatible
with current hardware. It seems pretty interesting. [3]ISP-Planet has
the featured in-depth look at it, so you might want to see if it is of
any intrest to you."
Links
0. mailto:genraderNO@SPAMfrozenzero.com
1.
http://www.dslreports.com/
2.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/24111
3.
http://isp-planet.com/Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/2051226
Jahf writes "This [0]News.com article talks about how Sony is adopting
Sun's [1]Star Office suite over Microsoft office in some areas. It's
nice to see it being adopted, maybe this is the beginning of a trend.
While Star Office is still not as optimized as it could be (read: it
eats memory and can be a little slow even compared to MS Office), it
has all the features most people need and then some at a much better
price." Specifically, as reader [2]Yacoubean points out (pointing to
[3]coverage at InfoWorld),"The PCs will be sold in the United Kingdom,
France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland."
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-976239.html
1.
http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
2.
http://www.techfeed.net/
3.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/04/021204hnsonystar.xmlTheater Morphing Into Multi-Player Gaming Arena http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/221244
J3zmund writes "This [0]article highlights the attempt by ESports Arena to bring gaming to the masses. They're building what looks like a command center with gaming equipment, comfy chairs, and big screens to follow the action. For the price of a movie, patrons can frag to their hearts' content for 2 hours (extra time available, of course). This could sprawn some interesting events (once gaming goes beyond 'kill'). With The Sims ready to go online this month, it could open this up to a much larger audience than the "young males" they currently identify. How 'bout some Sim Rocky Horror Online Saturday nights..." Links
0. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20021205-9999_1b5gaming.html
Kid-Safe Domain Created
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/2255231
Jadecristal writes "The [0]Washington Post announces that [1]President
Bush has [2]signed legislation to create a .kids.us domain. The
legislation mandates that those with a .kids.us site not be allowed to
link to any site outside the .kids.us domain." At the very least, it
makes filtering easy.
Links
0.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
1.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8016-2002Dec4.html
Slashback: TIPS, FatWallet, MPlayer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/04/2018254
Slashback with words on the demise of TIPS, MPlayer's newest add-in, Revolution OS on DVD, Wal-Mart blinking first in their fight with FatWallet, and more. Read on for the details.
Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1942236
[0]andyring writes "[1]CNN.com is [2] reporting that sales of the $199
PCs have exceeded expectations. Although CNN terms them "full fledged,
if low power," it seems customers don'd mind all that much if their
computer does not run Windows and doesn't carry an Intel processor.
Slashdot covered [3]two reviews of those machines July 4."
Links
0. mailto:andyring@inebraska.com
1.
http://www.cnn.com/
2.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/05/sproject.hs02.cheap.pc.reut/index.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/04/1151228&tid=163How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/05/1257234
[0]DosGusanos asks: "I was curious how much people around the U.S. and
around the world pay for hosting. Obviously size in cabinets/rack
units/square feet, included features such as bandwidth, UPS/generator,
management, etc. factor in. The configuration I am particularly
interested in is three machines, one www, one search, and one database.
The machines would be hooked up to a T1 and networked to one another
over Ethernet. Anyone paying for colo or hosting in this same ballpark?
How happy/upset are you with your provider?"
Links
0. mailto:agelina@REMOVETHISmobsters.com
Linux.com
Linux puts fear of God in Microsoft
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1043245
Companies such as Red Hat and Xandros are challenging Microsoft’s dominance with user-friendly versions of Linux that allow users to check e-mail, surf the web and run applications on a desktop.
More Linux desktops on the way
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1042206
Entering a market that has attracted the likes of Sun Microsystems and raised an alarm at Microsoft, Penguin Computing announced Thursday a new desktop PC for businesses that runs on the open-source Linux operating system.
Some thoughts on the future of 'geek lobbying' http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/0241253
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller -This is a cynical but realistic view of the U.S. regulatory and lawmaking process that will make you sad -- and will show you why "Geek Activism" projects must be ongoing efforts if they are going to succeed. I'm sure things are similar in other countries, but I know the U.S. system best so that's the one I'll talk about here.
Oracle Touts Linux Support
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1038240
Oracle Corp. Vice President of Marketing Rene Bonvanie opened the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2002 by demonstrating an "unbreakable" eight-node cluster running the company's Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Cluster) technology on top of Linux.
CNET talks to Bruce Perens about Open Source http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1035202
Crippling for-profit software companies isn't our goal. But this question takes a myopic view of the industry of software. Ninety-five percent of software is written for internal company use and is never sold. A horrible lot of it duplicates things written at the company down the street. That is the real software industry. That industry, the user-driven software development, is the one that can profit most from open source.
Meet the "mine" -- a Linux-based data storage/record/playback device http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1030206
The PowerPC and Linux powered device's built-in 10 GB HDD can hold thousands of digital photographs and audio tracks, plus lots of other data.
Charity picks Linux for secure email
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1028208
Emotional support charity The Samaritans has installed Linux-based security software from Trustix to offer a secure email service for people in distress.
Server OS wars: Linux and .Net to trounce Unix http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1026205
The future is anything but bright for proprietary Unix operating systems. According to a new report, flavours of Unix from the main vendors - hardware heavyweights HP, IBM and Sun - will lose out to Linux, and even Microsoft's emerging .Net.
Free Software, Free Society
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0217246
Slashdot book review begins, "I've heard a lot of people describe Richard Stallman as 'unreasonable.' I find Stallman instead to be one of the most persistently, relentlessly reasonable..."
Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 Coming to America, but not from Sharp http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/0216237
LordDavon writes "It is official. Dynamism.com is teaming up with the Open Source Community to bring the Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 to America. This is the 400Mhz X-scale, clam-shell with a 640x480 screen that Sharp is still testing the American market for. Dynamism is going to release this in December.
Thinkgeek
Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59cc.shtml
Caffeine: Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a35.shtml
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers) http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml
Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
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