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[osdn starter] January 16, 2003
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 03:00:54 EST
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Slashdot
DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/1311232
boijames writes "In the latest bit of DMCA lunacy, copyright guru David
Nimmer turned me onto a case that his firm is defending, where a garage
door opener company (The Chamberlain Group) has leveled a DMCA claim
(among other claims) [0]against the maker of universal garage door
remotes (Skylink)."
Links
0. http://www.politechbot.com/p-04319.html
Banana to be Sequenced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/028227
[0]GodsMadClown writes "New Scientist [1]reports that a global
consortium plans to sequence the genetic code of a wild banana from
east Asia. Because bananas are triploidal instead of diploidal, they
are only able to reproduce asexually, which means that it adapts slower
than organisms reproducing sexually. 'One rule of joining the
consortium is that any invention developed through the project and
protected [by patent] will be made available to smallholders through a
royalty-free license,' says Emile Frison, director of the International
Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain."
Links
0. http://wfindl1 AT yahoo DOT com
Ferroelectric Storage Density Tops 20KDVDs/Cubit^2 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/021202
[0]DeAshcroft writes "As [1]reported in [2]Technology Research News,
researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for
Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation have demonstrated a
prototype ferroelectric (as opposed to ferromagnetic) storage mechanism
with density of 1.5 trillion dots per square inch. No word on why
Japanese researchers are using square inches, but the new storage
benchmark is the DVD. This is 47 DVD's in a square inch, or over
20KiloDVD's per square cubit. Original paper appeared in the Applied
Physics Letters."
Links
0.
http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/
1.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/011503/Device_demos_terabit_storage_011503.html
2.
http://www.trnmag.com/Wireless Internet Launched on Lufthansa FRA - IAD http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0148236
[0]JpMaxMan writes "On flight LH 418 from Frankfurt, Germany, to
Washington, DC, Lufthansa AG began on Wednesday a three-month trial for
a new [1]onboard wireless broadband service that allows travelers to
connect to the Internet some 10,000 meters in the sky."
Links
0. mailto:Maxwell@DataTomato.com
Data Mining Used Hard Drives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2345217
linuxwrangler writes "One hopes the /. crowd knows the perils of discarding storage with sensitive data but [0]this article drives home the point. Two MIT grad students bought used drives from eBay and secondhand computer stores. Among the data found on the 158 drives were 5,000 credit-card numbers, porn, love-letters and medical information." Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/01/15/national1617EST0765.DTL
SMS Messaging Unreliable
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2154225
[0]Lovejoy writes "From a [1]Reuters story: [2]Keynote announced today
that in its two-week, 26,000 message test-period [3] 7.5% of its text
messages never reached their destinations Ouch. I don't have SMS - Is
this report consistent with your experience?"
Links
0.
http://www.oc.edu/staff/dan.lovejoy
1.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2045841
2.
http://www.keynote.com/
3.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/15/telecoms.keynote.reut/indexhtmlSpeak & Spell Hacking For Fun And Profit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1959259
[0]Bowie J. Poag writes "Pete Casper has created a number of truly
bizarre [1]Speak & Spell hacks, and case mods (!) suitable for live
performances. The highly modified Speak & Spell can be controlled
either by the membrane keypad or using an Atari joystick of all things.
Tons of photographs and MP3 samples included.. I want one. Now."
Links
Taking Linux to New Heights
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1829244
JimDog writes "Literally. I've created a web site documenting the
[0]construction and launch of a high altitude 'weather' balloon, with a
payload that runs Linux. The project was a great success, reached an
altitude of 80,000 feet, and took some really amazing aerial photos."
Links
0. http://speed.vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/
How Close is the Open Entertainment Center? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/0258205
why-not-now asks: "Recently there's been a lot of talk about open
source/free software that enables your PC to act as a [0]DVR,
[1]all-purpose media player, DVD player, CD player, MP3 player, etc...
not to mention the ability to play [2]all [3]sorts [4]of [5]video
[6]games (if you know where to look). The idea of the [7]set top MAME
console is nice, but with a little TV/Audio out, a little know how and
the right software, are we currently able to put together a free
version of the big convergence media center others are [8]trying to
do?"
Links
0.
http://www.mythtv.org/
1.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
2.
http://x.mame.net/
3.
http://www.zsnes.com/
4.
http://www.epsxe.com/
5.
http://www.linuxgames.com/
6.
http://www.transgaming.com/
7.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/12/1616252&tid=127
8.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/
New Substrate Tech Creates System LCDs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1730256
[0]smartalix writes "[1]Sharp Microelectronics has recently developed a
new LCD substrate technology called Continuous-Grain Silicon
(CG-Silicon), that enables device integration on a scale previously
impossible. The technology enables the creation of System LCDs that
integrate all driver and operation circuitry -- including digital
logic, LCD driver, power supply, I/O interfaces, and signal-processing
circuitry -- onto the glass itself. Eventually even the device's CPU
will be included on the substrate. A key SLCD feature is the ability to
dynamically control the resolution and color depth, providing output in
multiple-resolution modes while lowering overall power consumption. A
3.7-in. SLCD created with CG-Silicon had a power consumption of 14 mW
for color VGA, 8 mW for color QVGA, and 2 mW for monochrome QVGA. The
first commercially available product that incorporates the System LCD
architecture is Sharp's Zaurus SL-C700 PDA, recently released in
Japan."
Links
0. mailto:smartalix@yahoo.com
Linux.com
Desktop Dreams in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/100256
Timothy R. Butler writes "Linux's dreams for the desktop died today with Mandrake's bankruptcy filling. Yes, it was a worthy cause, and we fought hard, but now it is time to admit it -- it is over. No more. Finished. Done. Kaput. GNU/Linux's true place is on the server, and its time for everyone to recognize that. Is everyone with me?"
MS goes open in Sweden
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0959231
Mikael Pawlo writes Swedish Gnuheter today reveals that Thursday's issue of Dagens Industri will carry the following headline on its front page: "Microsoft Surrenders" ("Microsoft viker sig"). It appears that Microsoft has been under heavy pressure from several huge public offices. Microsoft will therefore relase the source code to Windows and other applications to the Swedish government."
NetBSD announces plans for merging branch implemen http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0958214
Jan Schaumann writes "A plan for the long anticipated merging of the nathanw_sa branch into NetBSD -current has been announced. The nathanw_sa branch implements scheduler activations and provides native support for pthreads. The vast majority of the work on this branch has been done by Nathan Williams. Please see Jason's mail to current-users for details."
Open Source Security: Better Protection at a Lower Cost http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1659246
Steve Schlesinger, Astaro Corp. At first glance, the idea of using open source software for a firewall or other security application seems counterintuitive, even absurd. Why would a corporation use code that's available to anyone - hackers, cyber-terrorists, disgruntled employees
- to protect their most vital information assets? Yet that's what's happening at places like Stanford University, EDS, and Los Alamos National Labs, to name but a few ...
HP sponsors GRIDWARS Championship - Prizes announced http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1935235
Anonymous Reader writes "Hewlett-Packard is sponsoring the GRIDWARS parallel programming challenge with prizes and systems. In GRIDWARS participating developers submit CxC battle programs that will fight against each other for control of parallel processors. The GRID WARS Championship takes place in February on an HP Intel® Itanium® 2 cluster computing system running Linux. The battle programs are developed under Windows. The HP-sponsored prizes ...
Installgen 1.72 - automates Oracle 8.1.7 installs http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1933251
David Simpson writes: Version 1.72 of Installgen generates the scripts required to automate the installation of Oracle 8.1.7 databases on 8 releases of Red Hat Linux.
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership – a case for Linux in http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1931223
Anonymous Reader writes "Amidst the brouhaha over the Microsoft sponsored study that reflected the act that “in the long run, the TCO for systems running Linux as OS would be considerably higher than ones running on MS platforms”, one item that got lost is the usage of the word TCO. TCO as defined by the above mentioned IDC study relates to the cost of ownership, however in this case the author would like to evaluate TCO as Total Cost of ...
Analysis of the "Truce" Between RIAA, BSA, http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1930210
Ernest_Miller writes "LawMeme analyzes the seven "policy principles" put forward by the RIAA, BSA and CSPP yesterday. The analysis shows that there is much less to the "principles" than claimed."
MandrakeSoft in French Equivalent of Chapter 11 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1927220
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Despite the happy-talk statements made to NewsForge by Mandrake co-founder Gael Duval on January 14, it seems the company has gone, as our friends at The Register would put it, "tits up." Not only that, the filing was made on January 13, even though Mr. Duval told us on Jan 9 and Jan 10 that rumors that the company was bankrupt were just that: rumors.
Supreme Court upholds retroactive extension of copyright http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1623200
Anonymous Reader writes "In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the Sonny Bono copyright act (aka - the Mickey Mouse Act b/c Disney was the primary advocate of the act)."
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