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[osdn starter] February 25, 2003
Date: Tue Feb 25 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/0316231
(ok.whatever) writes "A former suicide prevention counselor is employed full-time by a data recovery firm to console its callers. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: 'When the company receives a call from someone who's clearly lost it -- which can happen several times an hour
- [0]Chessin comes on the line to help the caller rediscover their happy place.' Good grief!" Links 0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/23/BU244981.DTL&type=business
Sun To Use AMD Mobile Processor In Blade Servers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/0310244
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like AMD is finally making some
headway into supplying 1st tier business computer makers which the
announcement that [0]Sun will use their chips in upcoming blade
servers. Apparently CNET can't help but speculate what this means for
AMD's 64 bit Hammer."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-985733.html
Computer Made Fom DNA And Enzymes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/025215
[0]develop writes "Some folks from Israel have created a computer that
runs on DNA and enzymes and is supposedly 100,000 times faster then
today's PCs. Information at [1]National Geographic, [2]Telegraph UK and
[3]United Press." According to the National Geographic story, this
DNA-based computer "can perform 330 trillion operations per second,
more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC." However, be aware
that most of this is still future tense, and what these researchers
have now is just a proof-of-concept.
Links
0.
http://www.durrow.com
1.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html
2.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/25/wdna25.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/02/25/ixworld.html
3.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030224-045551-7398r
Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/011217
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "As a follow up to the earlier story
[1]"Intel: No Rush to 64-bit Desktop"... In words that Intel are likely
to be far from happy with, the Finnish luminary has stuck the boot into
Itanium. His responses to some questions on processor architecture are
sure to be music to AMD's ears. Linus, in an [2]Inquirer interview
concludes: "Code size matters. Price matters. Real world matters. And
ia-64... falls flat on its face on ALL of these."" Of course, Linus
works for a chip maker ;)
Links
0. mailto:coward@example.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/23/2050237&tid=118
2.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7966Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/2158258
TastyWords writes "According to this link, [0]it's possible to apply
the 'junk fax law' to successfully sue a spammer in small claims court.
For those who are stuck in states which either have worthless (or
near-worthless) anti-spam legislation, this creative approach of the
law presents a creative method of turning the table on those who choose
to spam first and ask questions later. All of the details are available
for enterprising anti-spammers!" Update: 02/25 00:30 GMT by [1]T: OK,
so it's Michigander, not Michiganian. Too long as a Texon, Marylandite
and Tennesseenaut.
Links
0. http://www.linxnet.com/misc/spam/mi_spamsuit.html
Linux in High School Labs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/2130246
lexbaby writes "The [0]Salt Lake Tribune has a story about how [1]Logan
High School (Logan, Utah) is [2]using Linux in their student
programming lab. The main use is for robotics. There is the old
discussion about if Linux is truly cheaper to operate in the long run.
Is Linux a legitimate solution to school districts facing a financial
crunch?" I hope some of the students involved post pictures of the
robots they're building in class.
Links
0.
http://www.sltrib.com/
1.
http://www.lhs.logan.k12.ut.us/
2.
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Feb/02242003/monday/32333.asp
Berman Bill Dead in the Water?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/2115216
Masem writes "Last summer, Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) [0]introduced a bill that would legitimize computer attacks by copyright owners on those users that they believed were illegally trading copyright material; the bill recieved a fair amount of criticism for the potental viligante tactics it suggested. That session of Congress ended without resolution of the bill, though Rep. Berman promised to reintroduce it this session. However, the LA Times reports that [1]support for the bill is nowhere as strong as before, and many believe that laws already exist that allow copyright owners to punish illegal traders; as a result, Berman appears to be unwilling to support the bill further. For example, while the MPAA supported the bill, some of the liabilities introduced into it to punish those copyright holders that went too far in their attacks were too much for the Hollywood group." Unfortunately, the LA Times site requires registration. Links
0. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/190235&tid=123
Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1956237
[0]TheTheologian writes "In his [1]InfoWorld column, Chad Dickerson
says 'there is a level of quiet discomfort between the "scripting"
versus "programming" factions in some corporate development
environments in which I have participated. In some instances,
executive-level technology management has held scripting languages in
disdain as not being "real" languages for day-to-day problem solving,
which has discouraged highly talented scripters on staff from
practicing their craft. In such an environment, scripters are relegated
to the lower ranks ... ' He goes on to say that some companies will
assign Java and C++ programmers tasks that take them weeks but could be
done by Perl or Python programmers in a few hours. Is it true that some
companies are so overcome with code bias they'd assign weeks of
unnecessary work rather than give it to the scripting untouchables?"
Links
0. mailto:thetheologian@hotmail.com
Using WiFi to Bridge the Digital Divide
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/1817243
andori writes "[0]CNN is running a story about how [1]WiFi is enabling low-income residents Internet access. The project is set at a public housing development in Boston, Massachusetts. Residents buy the WiFi NIC, and the access if free. It is nice to see people making an effort to expand the reach of the Internet to a broader audience." Links
Microsoft At Middle Age
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/24/184205
gordyf writes "The Seattle Times has an interesting article concerning
[0]Microsoft's current position in the market. It describes how its
customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics, and how
'you can point to Linux being one of the major drivers for this
decade.' An interesting read."
Links
0. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134639839_microsoft23.html
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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