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[osdn starter] December 29, 2002
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 03:00:54 EST
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December 29, 2002 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
New Amazon Patents on Content Personalization
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2147252
[0]theodp writes "Defending its decision to [1]concoct recommendations
to steer customers to buy items at Amazon's new Apparel Store, a
spokeswoman said Amazon "felt it would be evident to people that since
the store was so new, we wouldn't have the transaction history to
create database similarities." But in this [2]just-published patent
applicaton, Amazon earlier told the USPTO it's able to use product
viewing histories to determine the similarity or relatedness between
products for which little or no purchase history data exists. So which
claim should you believe?"
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20021204S0009
2.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20020198882.PGNR.&OS=dn/20020198882&RS=DN/20020198882
U.S. Pushing Conservative Science
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2132223
mozumder writes "Does abortion lead to breast cancer? Does condom use
lead to increased sexual activity? According to the government, the
answer is now inconclusive. The New York Times has a [0]story on how
the government is altering low-level scientific conclusions to satisfy
conservatives. Will this lead to a mistrust of the government? Or is
the government now correct?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/politics/27ABOR.html
New Phrack
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2046258
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "A new issue of the Phrack Magazine, #60 has
been released today. It details some decent technique about kernel
exploitation (OpenBSD), Cisco remote exploit, how to backdoor a core
bzimage kernel and other stuff. The ascii based magazine is available
at [1]phrack.org."
Links
0. mailto:rm@ingsoc.org
Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/2011217
An anonymous reader writes "PCstats has a review of what should have been under my Christmas tree - a [0]42" plasma display from Samsung Since Santa couldn't have possibly brought this monster down the chimney, we'll just have to be satisfied with the review. They even hooked it up to a computer and played games on it...." Links
0. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1309
What's Your Earliest Memory?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1924216
spazoid12 writes "I've been curious lately about memory. For example, why is it that my earliest memory is from about 7 years of age? (I'm mid-30's now) Most people I know remember much further back. How far back can a person remember? Is there a theoretical limit? What are the requirements for acquiring memories? I've read that oxygen is one; as in actual breathed-in stuff. This is supposed to explain why you can't remember anything from within the womb. That seems silly to me. My own theory (with nothing to back it up) is that language is required. We spoke mostly Brasilian Portuguese and some Russian in the home up until I was about 5 or 6. We moved to Brasil for a year when I was 8 and I barely remember anything from that trip. I really don't know either language today-- could this explain why I have no memories of those years? What if I re-learned those languages now, 30 years later? Would memories flood back?"
Techies Working for Peanuts
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1922212
The San Francisco Chronicle has a story about laid-off techies getting
[0]desperate and going to work for, well, nothing. No offense to these
people, if you're up against the wall you do whatever you can, but I
hope they're aware that most of them are not going to get even the
slightest compensation for their time.
Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/22/BU63139.DTL&type=tech
The Year in Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1824239
[0]bedessen writes "It's that time again, when we look back on the year
in summary. New Scientist has an article [1]"2002, The Year in
Technology", as well as [2]"The Year in Medicine and Biology." Popular
Science brings us [3]"The 15th Annual Best of What's New.""
Links
0.
http://www.dessent.net
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215
2.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993212
3.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown/
To the Moon and Beyond
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1752254
[0]isorox writes "The BBC is [1]reporting that 'Europe is considering
sending humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond within the next few
decades', although the UK government 'does not support human space
flight and will not fund UK citizens to go through the official
European astronaut training programme'. However while plans are made
for the next 30 years, [2]Rosetta is due to launch in 2 weeks time,
ready to rendevous and land on a comet in 2011. Assuming it doesn't
[3]blow up on launch."
Links
0. mailto:slashspam@isorox.co.uk
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2580817.stm
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2558107.stm
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/233233&tid=160
Hardware Bytes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1751258
Zygo writes "Hey everyone Merry Christmas! (Yes I'm a bit too late)
Here's some Hardware & Modding news! : At [0]WinHQ the Xoxide X450
Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights [1]over here, nice MX mouses at
[2]LANParty, At [3]ClubOC the Swiftech MCX462+T, Some shocking
Shockwave Fangrills over at [4]ExtensionTech, Playing Mp3 with the
iRock 530 [5]here, a Big cooler [6]here, [7]OCIA brings you the
Solarism LM-1711 17" LCD screen, Vantecs Fan Controller at
[8]ExtremeMHz, and a 8x GF4 Ti4200 at [9]Viper's Lair"
Links
0.
http://www.winhq.net/showdoc.php?dtype=reviews&id=25&page=1
1.
http://www.dvhardware.net/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=11
2.
http://www.lanparty.com/articles/mx500_mx700/
3.
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/heatsinks/swiftech/mcx462t/index.htm
4.
http://www.extensiontech.net/reviews/cooling/accessories/shockwave.shtml
5.
http://www.inside-hardware.com/reviews/irock530/
6.
http://www.myworld.com.my/v2/reviews/HSF/zalman/cnps3100/
7.
http://www.ocia.net/reviews/solarism17/solarism17.shtml
8.
http://www.extrememhz.com/nexusfc-p1.shtml
9.
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/msi/geforce4/ti42008x/ti42008x_1.shtml
Build a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1741222
[0]FridayBob writes "For those of you tired of waiting around for
someone else to achieve the holy grail of physics, now's your chance to
beat 'em all to it. All you need is some basic engineering skills, [1]
this site and the inspiration necessary to make your very own 'fusor'
produce more energy than it consumes. Hopefully, you'll have more luck
than its inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth, who first built it in the
1950's after inventing the television some 30 years earlier. If you run
into problems you'll be able to count on a enthusiastic support group,
as the contraption seems to have developed a cult following over the
past few years. Okay, so I'm skeptical that this approach will ever
really work, but at the very least it sounds like a really cool science
project!"
Links
0. mailto:jwinius@umrk.to
Linux.com
Red Hat 8: A glimpse of the desktop future
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/0128220
Anonymous Reader writes "This article looks at Red Hat 8.0 and the direction that is sets for the future of the Linux desktop. It makes the case that Red Hat should produce the single best desktop environment that it can with its limited resources."
Open Source, Closed Documentation?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/28/1510236
sunset asks: "Recently I was motivated to look at WebGUI which looks like a pretty cool open source project. However I was having trouble making it work..."
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.... ).
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