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[osdn starter] January 19, 2003
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 03:00:54 EST
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Slashdot
Neverwinter Nights Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0456234
nyquil superstar writes "Just thought everyone might like to know, there are a whole bunch of updates at [0] Bioware's NWN Linux Client Page. Includes goodies like the timing of future releases and betas, how to install the Linux client and future(!) expansions, and updates on the movies and sound issues. The quick version: sound is in and they will release a Linux client before they integrate a movie player. Oh, and you'll need to download the game's resource data or use a Windows install, the CD is only good for the reg. key and Windows install. Good news though, because it sounds like it's getting close." Links
0. http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
Newsbooster Creates P2P Newsbrowser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0455242
[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Newsbooster, the Danish company that [2]got
busted for deep-linking to newspaper stories, [3]has created a new P2P
version of its service to get around European law. Newsbooster's
"[4]Newsbrowser" software works like Kazaa - users download the
software and it networks their computers together, instead of serving
up files from a single server."
Links
0. mailto:scubacuda@inMENCKEName.com minus author
1.
http://www.newsbooster.com/
2.
http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/07/05/newsbarred.html
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57230,00.html
4.
http://www.newsbooster.com/?lan=dkBushfires Destroy Historic Mt. Stromlo Observatory http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0327242
[0]Anthony writes "The historic [1]Mt Stromlo observatory has been
destroyed by fires. Unfortunately [2]Google cache and similar archives
are the only available detailed information. Looks like the web site
was housed at the observatory. [3]Telescopes housed there were 74" and
50" reflectors along with the "Oddie" 9" refractor used by the Canberra
Astronomical Society. Also destroyed were a number of student houses
and workshops. The view from the air is one of molten domes and twisted
metal. with the "Oddie" 9" refractor used by the Canberra Astronomical
Society. Also destroyed were a number of student houses and workshops.
These [4]fires have already destroyed 388 houses in the suburbs of
Canberra. Luckily the winds have not picked up today, but the danger is
still high."
Links
0. mailto:adavid@adavid.com.au
1.
http://www.anu.edu.au/pad/50th/history/mssso.html
2.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:u0lXmkqhHKcC:msowww.anu.edu.au/+anu+stromlo&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
3.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011125000347/msowww.anu.edu.au/observing/
4.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003/01/item20030119054139_1.htm
MIT Spam Conference Conclusions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0255228
[0]RT Alec writes "The [1]2003 Spam Conference has concluded,
[2]reports [3]InfoWorld. (related read: [4]abstracts of the conference
discussions). I was unable to attend the conference, but it appears all
that was discussed was filters (client and server). I think the key
problem is ISPs that do not block egress traffic on port 25. If you
need to send mail through a different SMTP server than provided by your
ISP, the admin of that server ought to provide you with a means of
using it with authentication on a port other than 25 (you do have
permission to use that SMTP server, don't you?). It is not too tough to
set up an SMTP server to require authentication, or at a minimum to run
off a different port. I am suprised that this is never mentioned as a
cure for spam. If just AOL blocked port 25, this could reduce spam by
50% (I base this figure on close examination of the headers of the spam
I receive). I was pleased to see that Barry Shein, president of [5]The
World (a Boston based ISP) was included in the talks. I am not sure by
the abstract (see link above) posted if he mentioned blocking port 25.
In a recent [6]interview he did not mention it."
Links
0.
http://www.restontech.com/
1.
http://spamconference.org/
2.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/17/030117hnspammit.xml?s=IDGNS
3.
http://www.infoworld.com/
4.
http://spamconference.org/abstracts.txt
5.
http://www.std.com/
6.
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/INW20021219S0003Should The Next Windows Be Built On Linux? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/0246211
[0]scrm writes "The next version of Windows should be built on top of
Linux, according to [1]this article by [2]Robert Cringely of PBS." If
Microsoft wanted to, they could be the world's largest vendor of Free
software .. couldn't they?
Links
0.
http://www.scandal.org
1.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030116.html
2.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely
A Community Takeover of Mandrake?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2219215
sombragris writes "[0]Ben Reser wrote an [1]interesting opinion about
MandrakeSoft's [2]current financial woes. Reser maintains that there's
no great value in MandrakeSoft's current business model and that the
best course of action for Mandrake Linux would be a community or
non-profit takeover of the Mandrake distribution. Sounds definitely
interesting..."
Links
0.
http://ben.reser.org/
1.
http://ben.reser.org/rants/invisible.cgi?month=01&day=15&year=2003&t=00
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1727240&tid=147Electromagnetic Ship Docking System Debuts http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2014230
Makarand writes "A system that uses electromagnets for docking ships is
getting ready to be tested at a port in the Netherlands according to
this [0]article in the New Scientist. Magnetic docking systems were
never used in the past as magnetic fields posed dangers to sensitive
cargo like TVs and monitors. Researchers at the Delft University of
Technology have developed electromagnets whose magnetic fields do not
penetrate far into the ship for this special application. The magnets
can be periodically switched off and on rapidly to allow ships to rise
and fall with the tide."
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993270
Lindows' Heavy Hand Leads to Summit Dropouts http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2011207
[0]shawk writes "With Lindows becoming more popular the company's
confidence seems to be growing. According to a [1]news item on
Desktoplinux.com Lindows unilaterally adjusted the agenda of a planned
vendor-neutral summit in a way that is not tolerable for others
supporting the conference. A related [2]article on CNET reports HP
having withdrawn from the summit as well."
Links
0. mailto:shawk@gmx.net
1.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4417146902.html
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-981257.html?tag=fd_topRosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/2116255
iconian writes "Hillary Rosen of RIAA wants to impose a type of [0]fee
to ISPs which in turn will be passed to all their customers
indiscriminately to recoup supposed damages done by file-sharing. The
RIAA considers downloading music illegally over the Internet to be the
moral equivalence of stealing. I wonder then what is the moral
equivalence of the RIAA taking realized cash from people who do not
download music?"
Links
Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/169202
[0]kongjie writes "Cleveland's [1] The Plain Dealer has a [2]story in
the business section about a [3]pest-control web site that is suing
someone who obviously has a particular bone to pick with exterminators:
he is accused of being a "troll" who "constantly leaving obnoxious and
offensive messages" on their pest-control bulletin board. The suit is
for $5,000 and is for "violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act.""
Links
0. mailto:kongjie@mac.com
1.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/
2.
http://www.cleveland.com/tech/plaindealer/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fbusiness%2F104288693631280.xml
3.
http://www.pctonline.com/
Linux.com
Qlusters Introduces ClusterFrame™ for Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1150224
Ofer Shoshan, Qlusters, Inc. writes "Menlo Park,California (January 21, 2003) - Qlusters has today announced the release of ClusterFrame™. Qlusters' ClusterFrame product brings mainframe features and capabilities to business applications and traditional compute-intensive environments."
NGO launches long-term open source research http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1149211
Kodek writes "A new two year study by NGO Bridges.org and SchoolNet Africa hopes to provide an unbiased view of the benefits and pitfalls of using open source software in Africa."
Why the Supreme Court is wrong on Eldred v. Ashcrost http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1148253
Anonymous Reader writes "The 'exclusive Right to their respective Writings' that is conferred by Copyright law is not the whole story. The taxpaying public is obligated to police and defend the monopoly of the copyright holder. In return for that favor, the written work goes into the public domain after a limited time. By this decision, the Supreme Court seems to be only enforcing one side of that bargain. Read the whole story at Librenix."
NetBSD now has native pthreads!
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1148225
Jan Schaumann writes "Jason Thorpe has merged the nathanw_sa branch with -current. NetBSD now has a high performance, modern kernel thread implementation using Scheduler Activations in the main source tree. This work was performed by Nathan Williams with contributions by several other developers."
Interview with Shamyl Zakariya on SlicKer development http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1351242
mangeli writes "As the second victim in the TinyMinds interview series we have picked the SlicKer project as our target. SlicKer aims to someday replace Kicker in KDE with its own more taskoriented approach. Today we talk to one of its developers; keyboard cowboy Shamyl Zakarika.
Why Microsoft Should Build Its Next Version of Windows on Top of Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1340236
I was exchanging e-mail recently with my friend Mike Class, SJ, who is associate dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mike, who is a Jesuit priest and therefore naturally drawn to the whole idea of conversion, wants Microsoft to build its next version of Windows on top of Linux. And you know, it actually makes some sense!
How does Linux stack up against Windows XP? http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1336208
Shortly after I lost the ALT-F-S feature in Microsoft Word last fall, I made a New Year's resolution to try out the Linux operating system.
Will Silicon Valley get its mojo back?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1327200
Will Silicon Valley--mired in a post-boom crisis of confidence--ever regain its status as an economic powerhouse and its place at the center of the high-tech universe?
Intellectual property issues everywhere
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1323227
While I suspect that everyone's heard of this week's Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision , there are also some interesting developments on the patent front, including trouble in Web Services and a pointed comment from Microsoft on the W3C's latest Patent Policy draft .
EFF Pioneer Awards Call for Nominations
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1318240
It's time to recognize the people who have done the most for freedom in the past year.
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