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[osdn starter] February 21, 2003
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Giant Mecha News
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/0045222
[0]da3dAlus writes "Starting next week, Monday Feb 24th, from 4-5pm est
Cartoon Network's Toonami starts a [1]Giant Robot Week. The lineup
currently includes episodes of Nadesico, Dia-Guard, Robotech, and
Evangelion (yes, NGE is slated for the block, but only on Mon/Tues).
Also in Evangelion news, AnimeNewsNetwork reports Gainax is
[2]finalizing the re-release of the boxed set of NGE. This set includes
re-worked (audio/video enhanced) versions of the original 26 episodes,
the 4 'remake' eps from laser disc, and a bonus disc with creditless
opening/closing video, trailers, and live-action edition of the film.
The final cut of the Evangelion movie-- Death(True)2, Air, and Magokoro
wo Kimi ni--will also be included. The discs will be in a limited
edition art box, and will retail for ~$322 on or about June 25th, with
a reservation deadline of April 14th. After that, the new set will be
released separately without the box."
Links
0.
http://dgrau&spsu,edu
1.
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/promos/giantrobot_022003/indexhtml
2.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3212How Configurable Should a Desktop User Interface be? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/003225
[0]The Original Yama writes "In the world of user interface design
there are two main schools of thought. The former maintains that the
environment must be flexible and configurable enough to adjust to a
user's needs. The latter takes the opposite perspective, arguing that
many of today's user interfaces have become bloated and overloaded with
features, and consequently have become difficult to maintain and use.
KDE developer [1]Mosfet shows how the KDE Project has managed to
[2]bridge the gap between the 'highly configurable' and 'less is more'
camps."
Links
0.
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/
1.
http://www.mosfet.org/
2.
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4505Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/2341219
Skyshadow writes "Vermont Bookseller [0]Bear Pond Books has announced that they will [1]purge their sales records at the request of customers . This would effectively sidestep typically insideous a provision of the [2]PATRIOT Act which allows government agencies to secretly seize sales records. The store's co-owner, Michael Katzenberg, put it this way: 'When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it... That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're reading.' Now if only [3]certain [4]other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here." Links
0.
http://www.bearpondbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
1.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/02/20/national1453EST0691.DTL
2.
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html
3.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
4.
http://www.amazon.com/
BIOS' Days Are Numbered
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/189208
[0]Ninja Master Gara writes "While [1]this article shows Phoenix
expanding the uses of the bios, [2]ZDNet UK reports [3]Intel is looking
to get rid of it altogether, to be replaced with the Extensible
Firmware Interface (EFI) as announced at the Intel Developer Forum. EFI
promises a considerable amount of flexibility to system control and
startup, legacy support, and programability. And it gets rid of text
mode only start up too."
Links
0.
http://anime.oddball.net
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/2228255&tid=185
2.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/
3.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html
Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/0944234
Slashback with more on Bill Gates' comments on bugs in Microsoft's code, the recent compromising of millions of credit card numbers, more .uk domain waffling, and more, including a foolproof way to stop anyone from reading data off of your discarded hard drive's platters.
U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/2257227
mk2mk2 writes "[0]News.com has an [1]article on how they're preparing to shut down P2P sharing of copyrighted content: 'For months, the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or "Friends" episode.'" It's scary until one realizes that most P2P traffic isn't encrypted, like back when everyone still used telnet. Links
Mixing the Unmixable
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1411202
markthebrewer writes "From [0]an article in the [1]New Scientist:
Conventional wisdom every 15 year-old knows says that you can't mix oil
and water without some kind of [2]surfactant. However a team lead by
[3]Richard Pashley from the[4] Australian National University in
Canberra [0]have done it simply by first removing all dissolved gases
from the water. Apart from the obvious potential improvements in salad
dressings, it could have an impact on the manufacture of everything
from drugs to paint - anywhere an [5]emulsion is required. Apparently,
it will also give some insight into the mysterious 'long-range
hydrophobic effect' (or why oil droplets coalesce over surprisingly
long distances)." Keep in mind the usual scientific caveat: this
experiment doesn't seem to have been replicated by other experimenters
yet.
Links
0.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993408
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/
2.
http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1085340
3.
http://rsc.anu.edu.au/RSC/ChemResearch/Chemists/pashley.html
4.
http://www.anu.edu.au/
5.
http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=231151
Understanding Moore's Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1744250
[0]S. Blocher writes "[1]Ars Technica has a great article up,
'[2]Understanding Moore’s Law', that I think most geeks should read.
The misrepresentation of Moore’s Law in the media has always been a
real pet peeve of mine, and this article does a great job of looking at
the flipside of the 'bigger and faster' thesis to show how the Law
isn’t really just about doubling computer power."
Links
0.
http://www.dieterblocher.ch.vu/
1.
http://arstechnica.com/
2.
http://arstechnica.com/paedia/m/moore/moore-1.html
Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1956229
in4mation writes "The folks at [0]LASEC have found a [1]flaw in the SSL protocol. Quoting Professor Serge Vaudenay from a [2]BBC article the security problem is in 'the SSL protocol itself and not in how we use it or how we implement it.' Apparently the flow only affects webmail and not banking or credit card payments and took less than an hour (160 attempts) to crack." Update: 02/20 20:52 GMT by [3]T: Kurt Seifried writes to say that this is almost exactly wrong: "The flaw is in IMPLEMENTATION, NOT THE PROTOCOL. Due to the way error checks are handled an attacker can find out which error condition occurred by measuring the response. The solution is trivial, a path that forces OpenSSL to do the second check even if the first one fails, thus denying the remote attacker any information as to which exact error condition occurred." He includes a link to the [4]security advisory at openssl.org. Update: 02/20 21:49 GMT by [3]T: Read on below for some more information from SSL 3.0 designer Paul Kocher. Links
0.
http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/
1.
http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/memo_ssl.shtml
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2785145.stm
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4.
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030219.txtFCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1848232
raygundan writes "According to Reuters, the [0]FCC today decided to
greatly curtail the laws that force incumbent phone companies to share
their lines with their competition at cost. This does not bode well for
companies like [1]Covad Communications who provide DSL using phone
lines to bridge their data networks over the "last mile" to customers.
The new rules do force line sharing as long as companies are willing to
offer voice service, but this essentially states that if you are not
already a phone company, you cannot offer DSL. The existing rules will
be phased out over three years. There is still some hope, however, that
a federal court might strike down the FCC ruling. Oddly, the news
agencies seem to be reporting this as a [2]minor change to the rules,
rather than an end to all non-ILEC competition in DSL." The [3]FCC's
front page has links (luckily PDFs as well as Microsoft Word files)
about the decision, including statements from each of the
commissioners.
Links
0.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030220/telecoms_fcc_broadband_1.html
1.
http://www.covad.com/
2.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BEBBF1F73-DE42-46BA-ACA7-05ECF9AF87F6%7D
3.
http://www.fcc.gov
Linux.com
Possible data write corruption problem on Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/0540225
Andy Tai writes "According to this report on sr5tech.com, current GNU/Linux file systems (such as ext3 and reiserfs) suffer from possible data corruption on IDE drives with write-back caching turned on. Even though these file systems are journaled, the IDE controller may fool the OS into thinking an I/O operation has been completed even though the data are still in the drive buffer waiting to be written to disk. The problem becomes more severe ...
Multiple vulnerabilities in KDE
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/009225
It is recommended that all KDE users upgrade their packages. Please note that after the new packages instalation, you must restart KDE in order to run the new version.
Future fuzzier for Mac, Linux as MS buys Connectix http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/216248
Linux fell off the roadmap yesterday when Microsoft announced it had bought Connectix's virtual machine technology, and in characteristic style pitched it as meaning that existing Windows users would now be able to upgrade faster to new versions by running old windows virtually on new Windows. Products differently-purposed from Connectix's Virtual PC for Windows would therefore seem to us to stand in some considerable peril, particularly as ...
FSF Announces Associate Membership Meeting http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/2040241
FSF is hosting its first annual Associate Membership Meeting on Saturday, March 15th, in Boston, Massachusetts, from 10:00am to 4:30pm. In order to attend the meeting, one has to be a registered Associate Member of FSF. You can sign up at member.fsf.org. The Annual Meeting will be an opportunity for the Associate Members and the Board and Staff to meet each other and for members to learn more about the work and philosophy of the Foundation.
Mandrake Linux 9.1 is getting closer
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1955218
djoka03 writes "The first Release Candidate of Mandrake Linux 9.1 is now available for download and testing. RC1 offers many new goodies such as automatic network configuration (zeroconf), NTFS resizing, a new Mandrake theme, and lots more. The release notes are available here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/91beta.php3"
Summit: DMCA Blocks Tech Progress
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1953203
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is threatening innovation in Silicon Valley, and it's time for businesses and consumers to mobilize to change the law.
Gnome previews free Linux fonts
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1920259
Bitstream's beta version of the freely available fonts -- the result of a recent agreement with the GNOME Foundation, are now available for a preview. The final version is due in March 2003 and will have a generous copyright that allow derivative works.
EnGarde Secure Linux Advisories: MySQL, MySQL-client, MySQL-shared, openssl, openssl-misc http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1916234
This update fixes a double free() bug in the MySQL daemon that could allow an attacker, with a specially crafted MySQL client, to crash the server. The attacker also requires a valid user account.
Linux marches on Whitehall
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/195203
The UK government is seriously considering the use of open source software in a major Whitehall IT project for the first time.
CirTran Receives Major Follow-On Order from Linux NetworX http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1848258
CirTran Corp., a full-service contract electronics manufacturer of printed circuit board assemblies, cables and harnesses, today announced that it has received a major follow-on order from Linux NetworX. The latest order is valued at approximately $160,000 and follows an initial order from Linux NetworX for cable assemblies earlier this year.
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Electronics: Mustek Gsm@rt Mini 3
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Tshirts: I Didn't Get the Memo
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Tshirts: Esc
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Tshirts: Network Security Staff
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Cube Goodies: Meetings
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Cube Goodies: Indifference
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Cube Goodies: Motivation
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Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
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Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
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