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[osdn starter] December 28, 2002
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 03:00:54 EST
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December 28, 2002 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
Melting Away Ice Hazards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/226221
RadioheadKid writes "Dartmouth College Professor [0]Victor F. Petrenko is getting a grip on ice. He and his colleagues have found ways to take advantage of the "protonic" semiconductor properties of frozen water. They see many applications of this discovery from [1]melting ice on power lines to [2]electronic speed control for skis and snowboards. I guess those [3]Petrenkos just love the ice." Links
0.
http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/thayer/faculty/victorpetrenko.html
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993209
2.
http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/thayer/research/ice-engg.html
3.
http://www.championsonice.com/skaters.php?Skater=9&Tour=0
How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/0255216
An anonymous reader writes "In what appears to be a not-so-legal move,
Mexico's equivalent of the RIAA used federal police to raid the
installations of Grupo Mekong, responsible for 200 of the 400 million
virgin CDs imported each year, accusing them to be "capos" of the
Piracy bussiness in Mexico. What is the rationale? Record companies buy
only 20% of Mekong merchandise, so the other 80% must be going to
pirates! Yeah, Never mind computer users ,independent labels or other
legal uses. You can see the article [0]here but what amazes me is the
behaviour! What will the next step be? Raid the truck companies who
deliver the CDs? "
Links
0. http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/256682/
Virtual Volunteering
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/2159229
An anonymous reader writes "Virtual Volunteering is new to me, so I thought that I would pass the info. along. Given the downturn in employment and the need to keep an active resume or CV, becoming a 'Virtual Volunteer', may be just the way to refresh your outlook and your resume. A [0] PC World article talks about two sites which list numerous opportunities; [1]Volunteer Match lists 41,538 opportunities associated with 23,359 organizations, and [2]World Computer Exchange which 'is a global nonprofit organization committed to helping the world's poorest youth bridge the disturbing global divides in information, technology and understanding. WCE does this by keeping donated PCs, Macs, and Laptops out of landfills and giving them new life connecting youth to the Internet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.' There are most likely more organizations like this out there, anybody have a special one that they are associated with?" Links
0.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108190,00.asp
1.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/
2.
http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/
Military Healthcare Data Stolen
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/2148237
An anonymous reader writes "TriWest, a federal contractor providing healthcare to the military, had computer hardware stolen from one of their offices. Social security numbers, credit card numbers, and healthcare information about 500,000 US military personnel and their families is contained on the stolen hardware. The [0]AP picked up the story. The theft is also being covered by the [1]Salt Lake Tribune and the [2]Arizona Republic. This opens the door to speculation about who would be interested in the data held by a military contractor and what they will do with the information." Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Records-Stolen.html?ex=1041995809&ei=1&en=9f4bf2a3b812c451
1.
http://www.sltrib.com/2002/dec/12272002/utah/14893.asp
2.
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/1227recordtheft.html
2003: Year of Linux in Asia?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/2024234
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The Register has a [1]story about traveling
to a magical country where seeing Linux laptops displayed in stores is
perfectly normal. The author then goes on to predict that this year
will see much more desktop action coming not from Red Hat or
Euro-Distros, but from China and India. Makes sense to me."
Links
0. mailto:zhunt@zee4.com
Spam Conference in Boston
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1847254
bpfinn writes "Are you working on your own anti-spam solution? Would
you like to compare notes with other coders? You'll get your chance at
the [0]Spam Conference in Cambridge on January 17, 2003. Among the
speakers are: Paul Graham (of [1]"a plan for spam" fame), [2]ESR, John
Graham-Cumming (of [3]"POPFile" fame), and Matt Sergeant from
[4]MessageLabs. According to the homepage, this conference will be very
informal: "no fees, sponsorships, proceedings, luncheons, contests,
etc. Just a series of quick, concentrated talks, and then we all go off
and get Chinese food." Slashdotters who are peeved about spam can
[5]register here."
Links
0.
http://www.spamconference.org/
1.
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
2.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
3.
http://www.usethesource.com/Software/02/08/30/1734204.shtml
4.
http://www.messagelabs.com/
5.
http://spamconference.org:4000/servlets/spamreg?r
The Humane Environment
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1835214
[0]rael9real writes "Jeff Raskin, developer of the MacOS and author of
The Humane Interface [ed.: which was [1]reviewed last year], has been
hard at work with several others coding [2]The Humane Environment. They
have a developers edition out for Christmas. It runs on Mac OS 9/X.
Reading the manual, it is basically a text editor/Python IDE, but it
does seem to incorporate some neat ideas in the field. I can't wait to
get home and try it out!"
Links
0. mailto:rael9 at (nospam) earthlink.net
1.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/12/2259254&tid=156
2.
http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/
Open Source, Closed Documentation?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1931250
[0]sunset asks: "Recently I was motivated to look at [1]WebGUI which
looks like a pretty cool open source project. However I was having
trouble making it work with Red Hat 8.0 which includes Apache 2.0. This
seems like a reasonable thing to want, as Red Hat 8 has been out since
September and Apache 2 has been publicly released for close to a year.
Checking the WebGUI community discussion forum, I found that [2]
someone else had already inquired about this. Following the rest of the
thread, you learn that the product's vendor considers this information
to be proprietary, and that you must pay $50 to join their Support
Forum to get the information. It gets better. The associated
[3]Membership Agreement for the Support Forum includes the clause 'You
shall not to share [sic] the information contained herein with any
other party.' So if I join up, I am locked out of sharing valuable
information with the open source community about how to install this
open source product. In the end I found out what I needed to know
without giving up my rights or my hard-earned bucks, but frankly this
attitude from the vendor pisses me off. Am I alone in this? What do you
think?"
Links
0.
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
1.
http://www.plainblack.com/
2.
http://www.plainblack.com/discuss?func=showMessage&mid=100318&wid=4
3.
http://www.plainblack.com/support_programs
PHP 4.3.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1729248
[0]aftk2 writes "[1]PHP.Net has just reported the release of PHP 4.3.0.
The update sports a unified method of handling files and sockets, a
bundled GD library (for working with images), and finalizes PHP's
command line interface. For other information, check out the
[2]ChangeLog."
Links
0.
http://www.electricstate.com
1.
http://www.php.net/
2.
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.phpEverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1748252
[0]dsanfte writes "If you’re reading this, you may be considering
picking up EverQuest. Most likely you’ve heard from friends how great
this “addictive” game is, how in-depth it can become, and how much
fun you’ll have playing it. As usual, however, you aren’t getting the
straight deal. So before you pick up that EverQuest box, let me tell
you the other side of that euphoric story." The rest of Sanftenberg's
excellent article is below.
Links
0. mailto:palad@sympatico.ca
Linux.com
Interview with the Gnomemeeting Team
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1627226
mangeli writes: We put the Gnomemeeting team in the Interview Chair to find out what, and who is behind the program.
A Peek at History, Piracy-Free
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1354223
Media company British Pathe, which produced 3,500 newsreels between 1910 and 1970, puts its entire collection online. But rather than adding digital copyright protection, the company simply stamped its logo on each downloadable clip.
Linux runlevels
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1353245
When a Linux system is booted it passes through several distinct stages, known as runlevels, before the system has completed booting and is usable. Likewise, when a Linux system is shut down it passes through another set of runlevels before the system is ready to be turned off. In this column, we are going to examine runlevels and show you some tricks that can be used to avoid unnecessary reboots of your Linux system.
Ex-Computer Hacker Granted Radio License http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1353213
The man the federal government once labeled ``the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history'' has won a long fight to renew his ham radio license and next month can resume surfing the Internet.
Linux Advisory Watch - December 27th 2002 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/123255
By: Benjamin D. Thomas Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for bind, perl, canna, klisa, cyrus-imapd, wget, kde, and fetchmail. The distributors include Caldera, Debian, Gentoo, and SuSE.
Finding an opening
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1035249
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.
Raising top-quality rabble
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1032227
Rick calls himself "a software generalist" in the Linux community, who answers technical questions on-line, concerning all aspects of Linux. He does this on the mailing lists of various Linux user groups (without respect to geographical boundaries - he is very active on the Linux Users of Victoria list), on Usenet newsgroups, and as a member of the answer gang of the monthly e-magazine Linux Gazette.
A couple of tips and tricks for new XFree86 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1029243
For those of you who have just grabbed the lastest XFree86 from Cooker (XFree86-4.2.99.3-0.20022312.1mdk - yikes! You thing they made it destinctive enough?), you'll immediately notice the different, large, semi-transparent red cursor. If you're anything like me, you'll play around with your new cursor for a while, and then get annoyed that it is different, large and red (the semi-transparent can stay, that's just plain old cool.... ).
Availinux launches its Online Community
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1026238
Availinux writes "Availinux has launched its High Availability online web-portal, www.availinux.com geared towards professional users with mission critical needs."
Bluefish-gtk2-0.8 At-A-Glance
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/1025257
LPH writes "Individuals wanting to learn a little more about Bluefish might be interested in this At-A-Glance written by the Tux Reports Team. Two screenshots are included to show the new file selector and the syntax highlighting by PCRE."
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