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[osdn starter] March 07, 2003
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Proposed Usenet Death Penalty for Australia's Largest ISP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/0159207
supine writes "David Ritz has issued a [0]request for discussion on
applying a [1]Usenet Death Penalty to Australia's largest ISP,
[2]Bigpond (and it's parent company [3]Telstra)." This brought back to
memory the time when AOL was facing [4]similar charges.
Links
0.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&client=googlet&selm=nana1.dritz-990DE9.02081106032003%40news.supernews.com
1.
http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/faqs/udp.html
2.
http://www.bigpond.com/
3.
http://www.telstra.com/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/05/28/132232&tid=120
Cowboy Bebop Movie comes to the States
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/0252232
[0]birdman666 writes "According to the [1]movie site the movie of the
popular anime Cowboy Bebop has finally been set to release in the
states in a handful of cities including LA, NY, SF, Seattle and others
on April 4. It features all the same voice actors as the Cartoon
Network series and is big news for all those Bebop fans out there. As a
note the Japanese title of the film was 'Cowboy Bebop: Knockin On
Heaven's Door', but has been changed simply to 'Cowboy Bebop: The
Movie' for the states." We had a note about the [2]American premiere
last summer, but now it's finally open for general admission.
Links
0. mailto:ericreid@mac.cMOSCOWom minus city
1.
http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/cowboybebop/
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/1328205&tid=168SCO Sues IBM for Sharing Secrets with Unix and Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/0234251
bstadil writes "The information is still sparse but the [0]expected
lawsuits from SCO over Unix/Linux patent infringements has been
[1]filed." SCO is asking for a billion dollars. [2]News.com and
[3]Forbes are also covering the story.
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/188234&tid=155
1.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&T=markets_box.ht&middle=ad_frame2_all&s=APmfr7BXWQ2FsZGVy
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-991464.html?tag=fd_top
3.
http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/03/06/cs_qh_0306unix.html
Review of First 10K IDE Drive
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/0138220
[0]Sivar writes "[1]StorageReview has a review of the [2]first 10,000
RPM IDE hard drive. Despite the speed that other technologies are
improving, this is the first rotational speed increase in almost six
years for standard IDE drives." The review is pretty thorough, but also
warns to keep in mind that the reviewed unit is only beta hardware.
Links
0. mailto:sivar@noSpaM.email.com
1.
http://www.storagereview.com/
2.
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200303/20030305WD360GD_1.html3D Display a Little Bit Closer to Reality http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/011228
[0]arielsebbag writes "According to [1]CNET, Several high-tech
companies including [2]Sony and [3]Sanyo have officially unveiled a
consortium to create technical and safety standards for bringing
three-dimensional displays to desktops, laptops and cell phones. They
are probably focusing their efforts on the [4]technology developed by
Sharp. It looks like they are actually good to go and hopefully the 3D
display will hit the market by 2004."
Links
0. mailto:arielsebbag@uol.com.br
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1041-990866.html?tag=cd_mh
2.
http://www.sony.com/
3.
http://www.sanyo.com/
4.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-978499.html
Net Speed Record Smashed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/2211227
[0]BrianWCarver writes "The BBC [1]is reporting that scientists have
set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data
(the equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies) across 10,978
kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in
Holland, in less than one minute. Average speed: more than 923 megabits
per second, or more than 3,500 times faster than a typical home
broadband connection. The data was sent across the Internet2 network.
[2]Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Slac) Computer Services
participated in the record-breaking event. Slac has an interest in such
high-speed transfers as they have accumulated the largest known
database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day."
Links
0.
http://home.earthlink.net/~bwcarver/home
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2822333.stm
2.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/
Jupiter's "Mini-Me" Solar System Grows
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/2120235
An anonymous reader writes "University of Hawaii's robotic telescopes
have [0]discovered 8 new moons for Jupiter, thus bringing its mini
solar system to 48 total. No one knows how Jupiter dissipates the
energy of these likely asteroid captures, unless it once had a
massively larger atmosphere. Indeed, its [1]ion cloud today seems to
spell doom for what Sir Arthur C. Clarke indicated, is another reason
to avoid probing life on Europa. ('All these worlds are yours--except
Europa. Attempt no landings there.'-- 2010: Odyssey Two). As an aside,
one of those NASA sites seem [2]technically to be doing
[3]text-to-speech in a very familiar-sounding, Stephen Hawkings version
[MP3] of those articles."
Links
0.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article392.html
1.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0431230&tid=160
2.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/098256&tid=185
3.
http://www.astrobio.net/audio/392.mp3Bad Behavior on the 'Net - Who Pays the Bandwidth Bill? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/204235
rakolam asks: "I am involved with network management in the hosting department of a fairly large ISP. Constantly we have customers who dispute inbound bandwidth spikes and demand service credits on their burstable connections. Events such as the Slammer Virus literally have everyone knocking on their salesperson's door at the end of the billing cycle. My position is that the internet is a public space, and by placing themselves in that space, one has to realize the consequences (and the implications of burstable billing). I'd like Slashdot's perspective on this. Should ISP's ultimately eat the costs of malicious behavior? Is the customer ultimately responsible for the bandwidth they've generated, regardless if it's desired or not? Is this a new frontier for insurance companies?"
Cornell Implementing Bandwidth Charges
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1610252
Sabalon writes "[0]Cornell University is planning on implementing a
plan where if faculty, staff or students use more than 2GB of bandwidth
a month, they will be [1]charged for the additional bandwidth usage.
The article mentions that last year over 100,000GB worth of files were
sent from Cornell's network. I'm sure this is not the only school doing
this or moving to this. I'm sure the conspiracy theory people will see
this as a suggestion by Microsoft to stop students from getting those
pesky Linux iso images. At least, according to the RIAA, CD sales
around Cornell should now skyrocket :)" It'll be interesting to see how
this plays out. Since students often have accounts on several different
university machines, I suspect the more rebellious ones will be running
an assortment of proxies and redirections to get around the
restrictions.
Links
CIPA Before The Supreme Court
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/2024218
Jim Tyre pointed out the excellent [0]collection of links on
censorware.net to coverage of yesterday's oral arguments before the
U.S. Supreme Court about the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA),
as [1]promised by this story last month. There's also a link to the
place where transcripts of the oral arguments will show up about three
weeks from now.
Links
0. http://censorware.net/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/0238210
Linux.com
SCO sues IBM for billions
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/0450221
- By Eric S. Raymond - I have been given a copy of an article, supposedly to run in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow, which reports that Caldera Systems (which now does business as the SCO group) has filed suit agaist IBM for multibillion-dollar damages over supposed disclosure of SCO's intellectual property to what SCO calls the "free software community".
Embedded software market growing despite gloomy economy http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/2210202
Anonymous Reader writes "Despite the current gloomy economy, market analyst firm VDC projects that the embedded software OS and tools market will grow steadily over the next five years, with segment growth rates ranging from 9.5 to 24% CAGR. This news item and white paper at LinuxDevices.com present VDC's estimates of 2007 revenue and growth rates for the specific embedded software market segments tracked by VDC, along with a number of other ...
New 'net transfers speed record
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/2024254
Does 923 megabits per second sound tasty? That's the average rate of a data transfer that was achieved between Sunnyvale, CA and Amsterdam, NL.
RHN Support: A worthy service
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1715225
Voodoo Press writes "I have read Jon Lettice's article detailing how getting Red Hat network support for free has become "harder". John has some points to make, but I do think there is a valid reason for what Red Hat is doing. It has nothing to do with "squeezing" the little guy as far as I can see."
ScratchAmp Drive Source Code Released
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1712242
Rick van Lieshout writes "The people at N2IT and Stanton Magnetics decided to release the source code of the Linux ScratchAmp driver being used in their product called 'FinalScratch'."
AMD: Too Smart for Its Own Good?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1655233
It's banking on Clawhammer, the first 64-bit chip for desktops, but analysts fear the revolutionary processor may be ahead of its time.
Is ANY Certification Worth Pursuing?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1651214
In the midst of a series of articles on Sun certification, it has become imperative to take a short break and address the question I am most commonly asked -- Is it worth getting certified?
Linux options still boxed in
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1645232
For some, there is a driving urge to live without Windows, a digital-age-old quest to shed the Microsoft coil worn by most who have ever used a computer.
Alternative Licensing for Music
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1627205
The recording industry has always tried to control innovation of technology to meet their interests, and make maximum profits. This has worked in the past, with traditional distribution, such as radio, record stores, and the like. The industry has always wanted you to buy what they are promoting. They have done this by limiting the selection in stores, and using payola to indie promoters to get the radio to include their promotions in your ...
School Laboratory Management Blues
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/1621220
One of the main challenges in running a school computer laboratory is managing the software running on the different PCs allocated for use by students. System administrators face various scenarios, all stemming from the nature of a learning environment in which users all have superuser access to their machines.
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