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[osdn starter] March 05, 2003
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Building a Local Cellular Phone Carrier?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0646224
[0]Netsuj asks: "I'm doing some work for a firm which operates in
[1]B.F.E. Many miles before even arriving, I loose signal on my GSM
phone. What is the feasibility of creating a limited-area wireless
telephone network? As it is outside the area of repeater technology (I
believe), is there such thing as a simple cellular-to-wireline system?
What are the possibilities of this operating on a break-even basis for
employees (i.e. charging minimal roaming fees)? Any ideas? Sadly,
something like this appears to be the only option; contacting any of
the mobile network operators in the larger area resulted in absolutely
no interest in expanding their coverage." Unfortunately, along with the
technical problems, there is also paperwork. What kind of permits and
other red-tape-hurdles would be necessary to satisfy all of the
lawyer-types?
Links
0. mailto:edu@marshall.jrdeal
Canadian Surgeons Perform Telerobotic Surgery http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/221221
AndroidCat writes "While the equipment used isn't new, this
[0]operation was different because one of surgeons was 400km away. Dr.
Mehran Anvari in Hamilton Ontario tele-operated instruments in North
Bay General Hospital, supervised by Dr. Craig McKinley on site. The
link was over a high priority routed Bell Canada connection. The
patient, Ms. Fortier is doing quite well. Don't try this from home with
a dialup connection."
Links
0. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030304.gtrobot/GTStory
Survey says: ELC platform spec will expand use of http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0122201
An anonymous reader writes "According to a [0]"quick survey" taken
during the past two weeks of visitors to LinuxDevices.com's website,
developers overwhelmingly believe that the Embedded Linux Consortium's
recently released embedded Linux platform specification is valuable,
and that it will help accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded
systems and devices."
Links
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5332464766.html
Europe Heads for the Moon in July
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/189254
Orlando writes "The BBC are [0]reporting that [1]Arianespace are all
set for sending [2]Smart1 to the Moon in July. The mission's primary
objectives are testing planetary exploration technologies. This is
particularly good news after the recent Arianne [3]rocket explosion."
China's [4]also planning a moon mission. The U.S. is planning to sit
around and watch.
Links
0.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2818551.stm
1.
http://www.arianespace.com/site/index2.html
2.
http://sci.esa.int/home/smart-1/index.cfm
3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2565387.stm
4.
http://space.com/missionlaunches/china_moon_030304.html
Quake II Mods for Engineering Students
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0015231
[0]gleeklet writes "Has anyone else seen that there is a need for
inexpensive 3D visualization software for presentations and classroom
lectures? There is a [1] Chemical Engineering package available but
compared to video game software, the graphics are a bit lacking. My
[2]goal was to create a chemical plant with the process control
algorithms coded into the Quake II source. As a short demo I spent
several hours creating a unit cell demo [3] Quake II level to
demonstrate the use of open source video game technology, which I found
was well received by undergrads. Has anyone used video game technology
as an education tool for science or engineering?"
Links
0.
http://mozart3.engr.utk.edu
1.
http://www.vrupl.evl.uic.edu/vrichel/index.html
2.
http://mozart3.engr.utk.edu/
3.
http://mozart3.engr.utk.edu/Newmap3.bsp
Another Garbage Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2216205
[0]*no comment* writes "Literally "garbage patent" that is, [1]Apple
was rewarded a patent for the [2]"Garbage" icon in Mac OS X. The patent
documents can be found at the USPTO by clicking [3]here. More on this
and other Apple patents are in [4]this article over at the
[5]macobserver."
Links
0.
http://(moc.ytirgetni) (ta) (daehttub)
1.
http://www.apple.com/
2.
http://www.macobserver.com/images/news/2003/20030304patents/image001jpg
3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=D470,860WKU.&OS=PN/D470,860&RS=PN/D470,860
4.
http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml
5.
http://www.macobserver.com/
Convergence of P2P and Grid Predicted
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/237235
[0]tom_conte writes "From the proceedings of the 2nd International
Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems ([1]IPTPS'03), [2]"On Death, Taxes,
and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing" compares the
two current popular incarnations of distributed computing technology,
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid Computing. It also predicts the convergence
of the two technologies: "The complementary nature of the strengths and
weaknesses of the two approaches suggests that the interests of the two
communities are likely to grow closer over time." This paper is worth
reading if you want to clear up the marketing cloud that surrounds
these two technologies and sometimes makes them hard to distinguish."
Links
0.
http://www.pas.net/
1.
http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/
2.
http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/final-papers/death_taxes.pdf
Joel on Community Forums
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/223220
Evil Grinn writes "In [0]Building Communities with Software, Joel Spolsky starts with a lament about the lack of real-life community among programmers, but rapidly seques into an explanation of why he thinks his own forum system is better than Usenet or Slashdot. I really don't participate in Joel's forums enough to comment, but they are pretty basic. No registration system. No branching (you can only add comments to the end of a conversation, not reply to comments in the middle). No mod points. Quoting in replies is strongly discouraged. All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features." Links
0. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html
Second Episode of The Animatrix Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2214232
murphyslawyer writes "The second episode of Animatrix is now available.
Download it [0]here"
Links
0. http://www.intothematrix.com/rl_cmp/animatrix_site_program.html
CT Lottery to Offer PC Game
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2033215
[0]nstrom writes "The [1]Connecticut State Lottery is giving out a PC
game (for Windows, presumably) with their new scratch-off lottery
tickets which offer a chance of winning $25,000 by playing. This
[2]news article from the [3]Hartford Courant mentions that the game
might be targeted at children, but there's no mention of any problems
involving software cracking, which is what I immediately thought of.
I'm sure there are some bored crackers out there who'd tackle this for
a chance at some cash. What do you think?"
Links
0. mailto:nstrom@ananzi.co.za
1.
http://www.ctlottery.org/
2.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-treasuretower.artmar04,0,129135.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
3.
http://www.ctnow.com/
Linux.com
SCO-Caldera & the GNU/Linux Community: Part 2
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0016241
An Anonymous Reader writes "Are Linux or C++ on SCO-Caldera's IP Hit List? SCO-Caldera's Blake Stowell, MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo, plus Open Group's Allen Brown, Kernel.Org's Richard Gooch, and GNU's Richard Stallman discuss SCOsource intellectual property (IP) issues. At issue are (1) SCO-Caldera claims that Linux is a derivative of SCO-Caldera's UNIX source code, (2) SCO's ownership of C++ code, (3) the impact and ...
Maringo Tree Technologies and LinuxCertified Inc, announce partnership http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2320232
Rajesh writes "Singapore, 5 March 2003. Maringo Tree Technologies Pte Ltd, consulting services provider in Open Source technologies, today announced the partnership with LinuxCertified Inc to provide Linux and Open Source Technology Education Services in Singapore and rest of South-East Asia region.
Chimera Renamed to Camino
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/0011202
Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine reports that Chimera has been renamed to Camino. This change was made for legal reasons (namely, an older UNIX browser called Chimera). Camino 0.7 will be released soon."
Digital CD playing in Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2311219
A_Happy_User writes "I always wanted to enable the various special effects of XMMS during audio CD playback, but enabling the options did not seem to have any effect. However, this article showed how to use the "Digital CD playing" feature in XMMS, and now can listen to The 9th Symphony in all its glory."
MMOG FPS Open Source
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2310210
Steven Winston writes "Global Gaming Innovations is pleased to announce Urban Dominion http://www.global-gaming.com/Dominion/, a Massively Multiplayer First Person Shooter. The engine is loosely based upon the Quake 2 engine, and is significant because it is a first run release that is Open Source (GPL). This game is made Massively Multiplayer via our PDMS (Parallel Distributed Management System). This system enables any game to be a massively ...
Serious Sendmail flaw ripe for exploit
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2246223
Michael S. Mimoso writes "A newly discovered vulnerability in Sendmail could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on affected systems. While an exploit to take advantage of the flaw isn't in the wild, users are urged to patch their systems as soon as possible."
Linux isn't free but it does pay
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2225241
Kodek writes "Linux isn't free, says IBM's arch Linux advocate. Businesses will pay upfront but they will also reap the substantial rewards further down the line, says Richard Voaden."
Software group puts focus on Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/2049216
NASHUA The Greater Nashua Software Entrepreneurs Group knows that any talk about Linux, the open source operating system, is a perennially popular subject in the area, and so it will be the subject of the meeting tonight at 7 at the Nashua Public Library.
Moving to Linux: A Small Business Introduction to Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/182213
A radical change is resulting in ever strengthening momentum to Opensource software use. Most importantly, this beneficial change is happening in significant numbers not only here in the United States, but through out the world.
Vexira Antivirus, Linux To Protect Over 100,000 E-mail Users From Viruses http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/04/1721203
Central Command, a leading provider of antivirus solutions and computer security services announced today that the Internet Service Provider (ISP) ISNET A.S. in Turkey has selected Vexira Antivirus to protect over 100,000 of their email users from virus attacks.
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