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[osdn starter] March 03, 2003
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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March 03, 2003 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
Europan Life In Doubt
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0431230
ceejayoz writes "A newly discovered gas cloud around Jupiter, created by ion radiation hitting the surface of Europa, has [0]cast doubt on possible life on the moon. [1]Google News has more ..." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993450
Helms Deep Battle Recreated In Doom
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0339208
[0]Failure Guy writes "Its been over five years now since [1]id
released the source code to Doom. What have people been doing with the
source in the time since then? Apparently, [2]recreating the battle of
Helms Deep!. Acclaimed mapper [3]Cyb recently released his [4]Helms
Deep reenactment wad. You can find [5]screenshots here." The IRC review
on Cyb's site is ... mixed.
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~failure+guy
1.
http://www.idsoftware.com/
2.
http://www.doomworld.com/php/topstory.php?id=1834
3.
http://cyb.vect.org:8080/
4.
http://www.doomworld.com/d_underg/idgames.shtml/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/helmsdeep.zip
5.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdh300/helmsdeep/
Free CD-Quality Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2229234
[0]Scaife writes "I make a video project for school each year, and this
year we want to produce it on DVD and sell it. The only catch is that
we don't have the time or money to get copyright permissions for the
100+ songs we use for it. I'm wondering if there is a large repository
of CD-quality royalty-free music somewhere. Whenever I try and take one
of the royalty-free MP3s available on the web and use it on a DVD, the
quality is awful as it pops and hisses. I suppose this is because of
the lossy compression. Any ideas?"
Links
0. http://nolen -at- scaifeservices.com
OSDL Releases TPC Benchmark Tests For Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0121255
trialsboy writes "A news.com article announces that [0]ODSL has
released [1]a set of workloads and test frameworks which conform to the
[2]TPC benchmark specifications." (Slashdot parent company VA Software
is [3]one of the OSDL sponsors.)
Links
0.
http://www.osdl.org/
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1010-990673.html?tag=fd_top
2.
http://www.tpc.org/
3.
http://www.osdl.org/sponsors/
Intel's Open Runtime Platform Specs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2343258
[0]prostoalex writes "The new issue of [1]Intel Technology Journal has
a lengthy article on a new platform, developed in Intel labs. [2]The
Open Runtime Platform: A Flexible High-Performance Managed Runtime
Environment describes the platform that is capable of running both Java
VM and Microsoft's CLI, on both Windows and Linux platforms. [3]Full
PDF version is also available."
Links
0.
http://moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/
2.
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue01/art01_orp/p01_abstract.htm
3.
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue01/art01_orp/vol7iss1_art01.pdf
Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2349258
ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp
project has [0]renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially
a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for
moving pictures." We've [1]mentioned Film Gimp several times lately;
it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more
polished.
Links
0. http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/press/cinepaint.pr.2003.3.1.html
International Connectivity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2228240
[0]Steve Suppe writes "As an American who is going to be living
overseas for a few years (Germany, to be more exact), I'm curious as to
what advice/information Slashdot could provide people like me. How much
can I expect to pay for dial-up/broadband, and from who? I'd be
interested to hear how it differs around the world. Any good reference
sites? Thanks!"
Links
0. mailto:c03steven.suppe@usafa.af.mil
Computer Error Grounds Japanese Flights
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2123253
[0]zephiros writes "Mainichi Daily News [1]reports that a "computer
glitch" in Tokyo air traffic control systems resulted in the
cancellation of 203 flights this weekend. At 7am Saturday, the error
"caused the names of airlines and flight numbers to disappear from
radar screens." A [2]Japan Times article suggests the problem may be
related to upgrades on a system which exchanges flight plans with the
Defense Agency. Makes one wonder about the integration and maintenance
risks of systems like [3]CAPPS II."
Links
0. mailto:joseph at dreamlands.org
1.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200303/01/20030301p2a00m0dm002000c.html
2.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030302a1.htm
3.
http://www.privacyactivism.org/Item/48
Cyberbees Score MIT Prize
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2033207
[0]DeAshcroft writes "The Boston Globe has a nice story on the
[1]winner of this year's Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. 125
infrared-communicating 4.5-inch swarming bee-like robots.
[2]Businessweek even covered this one here. Next year's prize may go to
the creator of 4.5-inch long swarming cockroaches."
Links
0.
http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/
1.
http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/058/metro/MIT_student_honored_for_robot_design+.shtml
2.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/986190.htmWhat is Wrong With Game Development? (duplicate) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1811239
[0]Warrior-GS writes "Seamus Blackley, who has done everything from
work at Looking Glass Studios to evangelize for the Microsoft Xbox,
sounds off on [1]what's wrong with the relationship between developers,
publishers and their audience. Also, as part of coverage of the
[2]D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, GameSpy has chats with [3]Miyamoto
about The Wind Waker and [4]Yu Suzuki about his gaming influences. Some
interesting reading." As an aside, I was recently rereading crawfords
1982 opus, [5]Art of Computer Game Design and found it scarily
prescient.
Links
0.
http://www.gamespy.com
1.
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/seamus/
2.
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/
3.
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/roundtable/
4.
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/audience/
5.
http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
Linux.com
Film Gimp Changes Project Name
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0116253
As unanimously decided during the recent Film Gimp panel discussion in Los Angeles during the Linux Movies conference track, the name of Film Gimp is being changed. This change will present a more professional name as well as eliminate confusion with the separate GIMP project. What wasn't decided at the panel meeting is what the our name should be. A call for suggestions was put forth on the mailing list to the Film Gimp community. The new name ...
CollegeLinux Released to the Public
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1250212
"It seems that the Swiss Robert Kennedy College (with the aptly named website) has released CollegeLinux, a Linux distribution based on ..."
Mandrake 9.1 RC1 - Desktop, Laptop, Small Server http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1249225
ladislav writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC1 was released without fanfare on Tuesday 18 February afternoon in Paris, and as the ISO images percolated through the various mirrors worldwide, I prepared my hardware for another review of the latest pre-release of MandrakeSoft's "swiss-knife" Linux distribution. My previous articles have dealt exclusively with Mandrake's use on the desktop. This time around, I tested Mandrake 9.1 RC1 on three different ...
2003 GCC Developer's Summit
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1247224
After months of planning the first (hopefully) annual GCC Developer's Summit will be happening in Ottawa, Canada from May 25th-27th, 2003. The event is for both those interested in and working on compiler internals (GCC, G++, GJC, etc), associated tools such as Binutils, and for those developers who use these tools in their daily work.
Federal Government: Still Crazy About Data-Mining http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1246225
Jason writes "Data-mining is all the rage in D.C. these days. Not satisfied with Poindexter's "Total Information Awareness" (TIA) and then Transportation Security Agency's Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II), two more data-mining programs have recently attracted attention from critics: the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (FTTTF) and the Terrorism Threat Integration Center (TTIC). What is FTTTF?"
SCO Group On the Licensing Warpath?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1245227
Anonymous Reader writes "CEO Darl McBride now acknowledges that SCO has hired attorney David Boies to investigate a complex set of legal issues, in particular whether the company has legal claims against other operating system vendors (including Linux and Microsoft) based on its Unix intellectual property. McBride says the collection of royalties from unlicensed SCO shared libraries is "the tip of the iceberg as there are so much IP we're ...
LUFS
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1242256
Wouldn't it be convenient if Internet resources (like FTP directories and SSH servers) appear as though they're part of your local filesystem? That's where the Linux Userland Filesystem (LUFS) enters the picture.
U.S. Army's Future Combat System Will Run Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1241236
"In 2001 Boeing was chosen to be the lead system integrator for the Army's Future Combat System ... a little known fact is that the OS for FCS will be Linux"
Next from Open Source: Killer Apps?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1239252
"INEVITABLE MIGRATION." In a sense, the systems integrators that often implement big software installations have already set the table for low-cost, open-source applications: Increasingly, these service companies "give away" software -- or at least include its cost in long-term maintenance and outsourcing contracts.
Running Commands on Many Nodes
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1237213
The Cluster Command and Control (C3) toolkit is a collection of Python scripts that perform rudimentary tasks across every node in a cluster. Included as a component of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) tool set (http:// oscar.sourceforge.net), put together by the Open Cluster Group (http://www.openclustergroup.org), the C3 scripts are designed to make the task of administering identical nodes in a small- to medium-sized ...
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