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Slashdot
Bridging Unix and Windows At NASA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/006238

[0]slashdotess writes "[1]Information Week reports: "About a year ago,
    Patrick McCartney, a Johnson Center project manager, created a Linux     desktop environment that could also run government-mandated Microsoft     apps. This let his team of 30 engineers continue to program in a     Unixlike environment and create Word documents and Outlook E-mail all     on the same PC. This mixed-use scenario is slowly taking hold,     encouraged by a growing number of applications for running Linux on PC     desktops." Score another one for Linux on the Desktop." Links

    0. http://home.rgv.rr.com/explodingpony

1. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021223S0001

New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0124218

[0]rmohr02 writes "New Jersey has [1]just enacted legislation that
    would require all handguns to be able to recognize their owners and     only fire when their owners grip them. Gun manufacturers will be     required to implement this within three years of the NJ Attorney     General's approval of an acceptable, commercially available model. One     critic says 'No technology is foolproof--anyone who has a computer     knows how many times it crashes.' I'm sure fellow /.ers will have     something to say about that. Also on [2]Google News" Links

    0. mailto:mohr.42@osu.edu
    1. 
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/Sci_Tech/story_44151.asp
    2. 
http://news.google.com/news?q=new%20jersey%20gun%20law&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G&scoring=d

Satellite Imagery Used to Trace Lewis & Clark Route http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0052258

    Woogiemonger writes "To commemorate the 200 year anniversary of the     Lewis & Clark expedition, NASA and other researchers are using     satellite and aircraft remote-sensing technology to accurately
[0]reconstruct the path of the Lewis & Clark expedition, down to the
    precise location of each encampment. Considering many parts of the     landscape along the path may have changed dramatically, this is no easy     task. The final result will be a 3D interactive map publicly available     on the WWW."
Links

    0. http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/lewis_clark_121223.html

China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0040257

[0]Dynamic Drive writes "There's an interesting article on Cnet
    regarding China's eager attempts to lessen her dependence on foreign     technology when it comes to CPUs. The latest endeavor is a [1]homegrown     chip named 'Dragon', which apparently is roughly equivalent in speeds     to those of Intel chips made between 1995-1997, or 200-260MHz. While I     think such an audacious effort is most certainly commendable, I can't     help but wonder what the potential things that could go wrong with     designing a CPU are, such as software incompatibilities etc." This is     the [2]same processor mentioned in September, only now more than 10,000     of the chips have been made.
Links

    0. 
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
    1. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978693.html
    2. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/28/2324243&tid=137

Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/2257229

    An anonymous reader was the 17,232th person to submit that "Microsoft     has been ordered to include Sun's Java runtime in Windows. Coverage     from [0]AP (via Yahoo), [1]Reuters (via news.com), and, let's say,
[2]the BBC."

Links

    0. 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021223/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_sun_3
    1. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978756.html?tag=fd_top
    2. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2602753.stm

Modding A Paper Shredder
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/134243

    detaks writes "The [0]university of alberta's [1]undergraduate
[2]computing science [3]student group [4]modded the office shredder,
    with duct tape, 110volt case fans, and a athlon fan, to increase the     speed of the paper shredder from 12 to 37 pages shredded before     overheating. You can also read it in the [5]google cache" Links

    0. 
http://www.ualberta.ca/
    1. 
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/
    2. 
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/
    3. 
http://www.uacs.ca/
    4. 
http://www.ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder.html
    5. 
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:_KKZiyocJMYJ:ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder.html+uacs+paper+shredder&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The Pentagon, MMORPGs, and Catching Osama http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/2115241

[0]MarkRH writes "I know, it looked like a troll to me too. But
    apparently a Pentagon-funded group, the Highlands Forum, is
[1]investigating the possibility of fighting terrorism by postulating
    that terrorist networks are similar to the online communities found in     MMORPGs. By studying interaction within a community like Everquest, the     military hopes to find hints on how to crack Al Qaeda." See also the
[2]"Uncloaking Terrorist Networks" post of several months back.
Links

    0. mailto:mark_hachman@ziffdavis.com
    1. 
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/22/IN244067.DTL
    2. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/1225226&tid=172

Linus Is A Hero
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/1259217

    oever writes "The dutch broadcaster [0]KRO has chosen [1]365 modern     saints or heros. One of them is [2]Linus Torvalds, chosen for his work     in on Linux and 'Open Source'. Too bad RMS or [3]Saint Ignuciuis he     wasn't chosen, even though he was [4]recommended." Links

    0. 
http://www.kro.nl/
    1. 
http://www.kro.nl/gevoeldelen/helden/stemmen.html
    2. 
http://www.kro.nl/gevoeldelen/helden/view.php?start=301
    3. 
http://www.stallman.org/saintignucius.jpg
    4. 
http://www.kro.nl/gevoeldelen/helden/held.php?heldid=1419&held=Stallman,%20Richard%20M.

New Red Hat Beta
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/180201

[0]Alkini writes "[1]Red Hat just [2]announced a new beta, codenamed
    Phoebe. Their highlight list includes Mozilla 1.2.1 with Xft     antialiased fonts and glibc-2.3.1. The new beta can be downloaded from
[3]RH's FTP site or one of the [4]mirrors."
Links

    0. 
http://www.linuxgames.com/alkini/
    1. 
http://www.redhat.com/
    2. 
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phoebe-list/2002-December/000001.html
    3. 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
    4. 
http://redhat.com/download/mirror.html

Yahoo Buying Inktomi
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/194204

[0]soldack writes "Byte And Switch has a story about [1]Yahoo buying
    Inktomi. I imagine they will stop using Google. What does this mean for     both Google and Yahoo? How much of Google's traffic came from Yahoo?     How much is going to come from AOL using Google?" [2]markpapadakis adds     a link to [3]CNET's story on same.
Links

    0. mailto:soldacker@nOSpAm.yahoo.com
    1. 
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=26183
    2. mailto:markp@phaistosnetworks.gr
    3. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978692.html?tag=fd_top

Linux.com
Mandrake 9.0 &amp; Xoops revisited
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1235200

    Although Mandrake 9.0 is a breeze to install, there are a few important     things that Debian does better

Linux studies have major flaws
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1234237

    Recent IDC and Aberdeen Group studies on Linux are either being taken     out of context or are seriously messed up.

Finding an opening
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1234216

    Open-source databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, are marching     into the enterprise via their inclusion in major Linux distributions,     which are quickly growing in usage on middle-tier servers and back-end     clusters.

Old folks pick up Open Source
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1137254

    Senior citizens from a community group in SS3 here have greatly     impressed their trainer Colin Charles by quickly learning how to     install and configure the Linux Red Hat 8.0 operating system.

Microsoft and Linux: Readers Weigh In
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1132256

    We ended last time with the question, "Does Microsoft need to own the     OS in order to make its killing?"

Linux Guide
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/1129221

    Linux has over a hundred different offerings, each with its own     strengths and weaknesses. WhatÃ&#x201a;Â&#x2019;s right for an organization or     corporate environment may not be suitable for home use. This guide     offers a short description of the qualities that each major     distribution can provide.

Advocating Linux and Open Source in Amman, Jordan http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0349250

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - On December 15 and 16, 2002, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan held an Open Source Software Workshop, sponsored in part by the U.S. Agency for International Development. I was one of the speakers. Two gentlemen from Microsoft also spoke. I was in favor of Linux and Open Source. They weren't.

Screenshots of Red Hat Linux 8.0.92 Installation http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0254242

    LPH writes "Red Hat released their beta this morning. The Tux Reports     Team has download the 3 iso images, burned the CDs and has done the     default desktop installation. They are now working on a second install,     adding in the K Desktop Environment. You may view their notes here and     screenshots here."

MS must ship Sun's Java - Judge
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/24/0253245

    Sun has won a preliminary injunction in its private antitrust case     against Microsoft, requiring the monopolist to carry Sun's Java and not     Redmond's feral version.

There Ain't No Business Like Benchmarking http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/23/222223

     An old Net adage is that the best way to get a quick answer to your     question is to post a wrong answer to it. Nothing draws the lurkers out     like the chance to correct someone else's mistake.

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