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[osdn starter] February 24, 2003
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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February 24, 2003 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
Blog From Your Cellphone?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2047233
[0]seldo writes "The BBC has an article up about [1]blogging from your
mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but the interesting part is
the host of links to interesting new (free) software that lets you do
it, including: [2]Manywhere Moblogger (Java), [3]WAPBlog (Perl), and
[4]KABLOG (J2ME mobile Java, runs on devices like Palms, the Treo and
Blackberries). All three of these interface to also-free server side
tech which you need to set up yourself (KABLOG interfaces to the
popular MovableType server and compatibles). The article also mentions
the proprietary [5]foneblog service which seems very easy to use, but
it is software intended to be run by cellphone companies for their
users."
Links
0.
http://www.gaygeeks.org
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2783951.stm
2.
http://www.manywhere.com/Moblogger.html
3.
http://www.postneo.com/projects/wapblog/
4.
http://www.rawthought.com/projects/kablog/
5.
http://www.newbay.com/products_general.html
Game Theory at 190mph
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2024231
cameronm writes "A recent article in [0]Slate discusses the value of
NASCAR racing as a tool to study Game Theory. You can view the original
study at [1]FirstMonday."
Links
0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2078672/
Compiling Under Wine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1939225
[0]now3djp writes "Interesting article over on CodingStyle that
demonstrates how I successfully [1]eliminated wasted time maintaining
an MS-Windows computer when I could build natively from my GNU
computer! /. has [2]followed other cross compilers in the past. This
article is different because I used MS's own compiler! This allowed me
to get on with real games porting; with only a proportional increase in
compile time. Wine has really come a long way in supporting simple
apps, let us hope it reaches a 1.0 soon."
Links
0.
http://jguk.org/
1.
http://codingstyle.com/articles/using-ms-vcpp-with-gnu-wine.html
2.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1323238&tid=106
More on Columbia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1837253
RodeoBoy writes "It seems that regardless of what NASA and Boeing
[0]wants the public to believe there are still questions about damage
to the shuttle's left wing. Some Boeing engineers have [1]raised
concerns that [2]proper analysis of the damage was not done at the
time, due to changes and cutbacks in Boeing. It is also coming out that
more than [3]one chunk of foam might have hit and damaged the wing.
With Boeing [4]having some financial troubles and NASA under public
scrutiny again, what is the future of the space shuttle program..."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20030221/ts_usatoday/4888537
1.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5241209.htm
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49819-2003Feb22.html
3.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1775/3668442.html
4.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4501-585574,00.html
Salon Asks for Help
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1830217
[0]Henry V .009 writes "Salon.com is [1]appealing to the community for
help. They haven't been able to [2]pay the rent since December. To
date, they've lost about $80 million dollars. A cause of [3]rejoicing
for some. But their many readers are understandably sorry to see them
in such desperate straits. Personally I hope they stick around, I think
they are one of the best sources of independant journalism on the
web--even if I happen to agree with less than 10% of what they have to
say. I also think that it would be a shame for them to close now that
they've finally created an advertising scheme that has a snowball's
chance in hell of working on the web. I can actually recall some of the
adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about?
Salon says that if they get another 50,000 subscriptions (they
currently have 50,000) they'll break even for the year." In the old
role-playing game "Paranoia", there was a nice quote about what would
happen when the player characters (who had never been outside of their
enclosed city complex) made an attempt to swim in water over their
heads: "delaying drowning".
Links
0. mailto:marstrailNO@SPAMhotmail.com
1.
http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2003/02/22/raise_limbaugh/index.html
2.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/gtnews/TGAM/20030219/MESALO
3.
http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030221/72/3827p.htmlUK to "get serious" About Renewable Energy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1825234
Bob Dobbs writes "Tomorrow the UK government will [0] announce
([1]observer.co.uk) it's going to "get serious" about renewable energy;
in the bleakest look at global warming so far Tony Blair will warn that
extreme weather will wreak £150 billion worth of damage across Europe
within a decade and the current situation is "unsustainable". On the
bright side, it's mentioned that sustainable energy sources are less
susceptible to terrorist attack."
Links
0. http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,901189,00.html
A Music Industry Case Study
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1812235
spmkk writes "The [0]NY Daily News has an [1]uplifting look at the fate
of a (hypothetical) 4-piece band "making it big" in today's
[2]RIAA-driven music industry. The condensed version: A band that sells
500,000 records for $8,490,000 gross ends up (after a few iterations of
the new math) with $161,909 in their pocket. Split four ways, that's a
whopping $40,477.25 each for a record that probably took close to a
year to produce. And this is for a record that goes gold (as per the
article, only 128 of some 30,000 records released in 2002 were so
privileged). And I bet you wanted to be a rock star when you were a
kid..."
Links
0.
http://www.nydailynews.com/
1.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/60991p-57008c.html
2.
http://www.riaa.com/
AOL's Merlin Compromised?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1616206
[0]Neophytus writes "[1]The Inquirer reports that AOL's central
customer database, Merlin, may have been been compromised by crackers.
This, even though it required 'a user ID, two passwords, and a
specialized ID code' to gain access to. That's 35 million user's names,
addresses, emails and credit card details - a goldmine for spammers and
fraudsters alike. As they they put it, 'AOL can now add another
accomplishment to its list: Biggest security disaster in ISP history.'
[2]The Register is also running a story explaining why this is not
particularly likly, though." Here's the [3]original Wired story.
Links
0.
http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/
1.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7928
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29433.html
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57753,00.html
Unreal History of the Atari 2600
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1621212
Such_a_geek writes "[0]Atari fans, do you remember playing [1]Gunther
Gebel Williams' Cage Cleaner, [2]Typing Tutor, and [3]Peabo Bryson's
Cow Tipper on your 2600? How about playing the [4]interactive Foghat
8-track while playing with your [5]Pong action figures? Yeah, me
neither. But thanks to this totally fake but quite convincing
screenshots in this [6]alternate history of 2600 games, I almost find
myself remembering these things."
Links
0.
http://www.atari.com/
1.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/best08_cagecleaner.html
2.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/best04_typing.html
3.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/best03_peabo.html
4.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/inter8tracks.html
5.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/pong.html
6.
http://www.vgg.com/2600/Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1610250
[0]tdiman writes "The world's first [1]digital guitar, using Gibson's
MaGIC digital transport standard, was introduced February 20th at the
Intel Developers Forum." We've been following this one for awhile, I'm
really curious to see what something like this can do.
Links
0. mailto:pink@gehennom.net
Linux.com
Happy Fifth Birthday to mozilla.org
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1930258
Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine reports that mozilla.org is five-years-old today."
India Gets Its First Linux Publication
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1424202
India's first Linux magazine recently hit the stands, and free software enthusiasts are looking to the Delhi-published magazine to help build interest in non-proprietary software in a country that likes to call itself a (potential) software superpower.
The Danger of Software Patents
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1224243
A.Guru prasadh writes "Speech by Richard M. Stallman at Government Model Engineering College,Kochi, India on 18th Feb 2003"
HDTV via GNU Radio
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1222220
Discussion: NortonDC writes "High Definition TV has been successfully captured in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software defined radio...
NewToLinux looking for translators
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1220252
Tom Chance writes "NewToLinux are looking for people to translate out tutorials and articles into languages other than English, to increase accessibility for those whose first language isn't English. Anyone who would feel confident translating into other languages is welcome and encouraged to help out."
New ``topdown'' uvm in NetBSD-current
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1219231
Jan Schaumann writes "Andrew Brown has committed changes to -current implementing a new ``topdown'' uvm. With these changes, the areas for heap growth and mmap(2)'ed be separate, are now one and the same, allowing either one to grow much larger than before.
Africa prepares for open source launch in Geneva http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/1215221
Anonymous Reader writes "Africa took centre stage in Geneva on Friday with the launch of the Open Source foundation for Africa at the World Summit on the Information Society."
HOWTO: Using OpenOffice.org
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1415252
Tips for working with this free office suite so you can have Linux in the Workplace.
QUIK Computing announces release of Ace Operator v 1.0b http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/148248
QUIK Computing is pleased to announce the release of Ace Operator version 1.1.0b. Ace Operator is an instant messaging call center solution that can be accessed from web pages.
Book Review - Cisco Secure Virtual Private Network http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/144200
Mirko Zorz writes "This publication is designed to give the readers basic knowledge of planning, administering and maintaining Virtual Private Networks. It does provide some general VPN related information, but as it is a written reference for the Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks courses, book will be of a great use to the readers wanting to enable VPN with their Cisco products. Read more at Help Net Security."
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