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[osdn starter] March 13, 2003
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Jupiter's Great Dark Spot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2146227
[0]Edball writes "For more than a century astronomers thought that the
Great Red Spot was the biggest thing on Jupiter. Not anymore. Images
from NASA's [1]Cassini spacecraft have revealed something at least as
large, [0]The Great Dark Spot."
Links
0. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/12mar_darkspot.htm?list635374
Great Surplus Stores?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/226219
An old friend of mine, Todd San Martin, passed on a link to me of a
great surplus place in Orlando that has lots of old nasa gear and more,
and it made me think that it's probably time to talk about great
surplus shops again. Not just the aforementioned [0]skycraft or the
well known [1]Weird Stuff , although feel free to dicuss those too, but
I thought it would make a cool post as a jumping off point for people
to talk about their favorite shops especially those near aerospace
facilities, both online and off.
Links
0. http://www.skycraftsurplus.com/skycraftpictures.htm
Germany Mulls A Copyright Levy + VAT For PCs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2024205
[0]Willard B. Trophy writes "How does a US$13 plus an extra 16% tax on
computers sound? That's what intense lobbying by publishing industry
groups has forced the German government to consider. [1]UPI has the
story."
Links
0. http://www3.sympatico.ca/scruss/
Major League Baseball Releases Webcasting Plans http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2150242
[0]TopShelf writes "With spring in the air, it's time to discuss the
(US) national pastime. According to [1]this story at CNN, Major League
Baseball is planning to webcast 1,000 games this season. The
interesting part is that in order not to violate TV blackout rules,
they'll try to deny service to viewers who instead have local
broadcasts available, using [2]Quova's user-location service. At last,
an opportunity to see my hometown Detroit Tigers more than once a
year!"
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~TopShelf/journal
1.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/12/baseball.net.ap/index.html
2.
http://www.quova.com/
AMD Releases 12 New Chips at CeBIT
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1655237
[0]SuperDuG writes "[1]AMD now offers three categories of processor for
notebooks grouped under the Athlon XP-M brand. It labels them "desktop
replacement," "standard," and the new "low-voltage". [2]AMD plans to
make a desktop replacement in the notebook computer market using [3]the
Barton Core, a technology designed to double the CPU Cache. Looks like
yet another case of [4]AMD being one-up on [5]Intel."
Links
0.
http://www.eclec.tk/
1.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109783,00.asp
2.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~68176,00.html
3.
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reports/4634/1/
4.
http://www.amd.com/
5.
http://www.intel.com/
Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2050257
[0]jhouserizer writes "New Scientist is reporting that an [1]artificial
hippocampus is ready to undergo testing. The leader of the team of
scientists is Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles. They hope these artificial hippocampuses can replace
damaged (stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) portions of your brain. I wonder
what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family &
friends? I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs, such as
in this [2]story by Cory Doctorow?"
Links
0.
http://www.homestarrunner.com
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
2.
http://www.craphound.com/down/
A College Without Microsoft?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/0548224
An anonymous reader asks: "My grandfather is the president of a well-known undergraduate-only college of about 7,000 students. He tells me that an alumnus has agreed to donate $2.4 million initially (and up to $800,000 each succeeding year for 10 years) to the school for computer equipment and staff if the school agrees not to renew any contract and to buy no products or services (either directly or through an intermediary like Gateway) from Microsoft. I'm told that this isn't the enormous amount of money that it sounds like and that a change-over to non-Microsoft products would be costly. I think it'd be great for college students to use computers apart from Microsoft, but I'm told that the board will look at the decision in terms of cost, not for benefit to the students. Does the Slashdot community have any points that I can give my grandfather to present to the Board next month?"
100mbps Fiber Service To Your Door
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/206256
BitHive writes "With all the talk on /. about the last mile, it looks like people in Mason County, WA may get what I've wanted for years--a 100mbps fiber connection straight to their home. The ISP, [0]DONOBi claims the personal account is 'unlimited,' but since they don't allow servers, and have a business account which is capped at 5Gb/month ($3/Gb addtl), I think we can guess at what their idea of 'unlimited' is. Their [1]service offerings can be found here. Is anyone on this service or knows something they can report?" Links
A Hydrogen-Based Economy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1729248
[0]Glog writes "Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall of Wired magazine have
written an amazing article explaining [1]why we need to transition to a
hydrogen economy. Lots of info there, estimated cost and benefit ...
very good solid reasoning for whatever floats your boat - national
security, environment, super-duper-charged automobiles."
Links
0. mailto:nospam@nospam.com
E.U. Commission: More Antitrust Trouble For MS http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/181215
[0]Tidal Flame writes "[1]According to Wired news, Microsoft appears to
be in hot water over antitrust issues again. The European Commission
says it will require Microsoft to 'share more proprietary information
with its rivals' and 'uncouple' it's Media Player audiovisual software
from the Windows operating system." iCoach points to this [2]article at
The Register covering the same.
Links
0.
http://www.tidalflame.net
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57998,00.html
2.
http://theregister.com/content/4/29725.html
Linux.com
Michael Robertson: the Steve Case of Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1819238
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - AOL sucks. There are many better, lower-cost ISPs. And Lindows sucks. There are many better, lower-cost Linux distributions available. These are articles of faith among sophisticated Internet and Linux users. But the Internet as a whole owes a lot to AOL and Steve Case, and Lindows is doing as much for Linux as AOL has done for the Internet, whether you like it or not.
A tale of two licenses: Part 2 (GNU GPL) http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2245216
rjmatm writes "The GPL is not without faults, as most software developers will tell you, there is no one perfect software license. However, the majority of complaints about the GPL do not come from individual developers or those who use software developed under the GPL. It comes from companies who want to restrict software use and distribution."
Debian Weekly News - March 11, 2003
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/176212
Welcome to this year's 10th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. It seems to have been a big week in Linux kernel development. Recent work promises to make exciting improvements for desktop users. Meanwhile, Openstuff.net has recently released a new range of low cost Debian fun stuff, including t-shirts, polo shirts, sweat shirts and suitcases.
MidCOM - Midgard Components Framework 1.0 released http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1831200
Henri Bergius writes "MUENCHEN, Mar 11th 2003 -- Linksystem Muenchen has released version 1.0 of the Midgard Components Framework (MidCOM). MidCOM provides a framework for creating reusable and configurable components for web applications using the Midgard Content Management Framework.
The Case of SCO v. IBM
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1828239
Anonymous Reader writes "Just about everyone who has been to the Linux and Technology news wires lately has heard of the case of SCO versus IBM. SCO has sued IBM for at least $1 Billion over UNIX and Linux as detailed in this article. The goal of this article is to not tell another tale of SCO suing IBM, but to inform the Linux community of the case, disect the case filed, and bring light to facts and statistics that help the case against IBM."
Snort survives first vulnerability
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1816204
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Snort, the immensely popular open-source intrusion-detection system, is no longer confined to cult status. Since going commercial in 2001 with the formation of Columbia, Md.-based Sourcefire, Snort's reach has extended into enterprises and deep into the federal government. Lauded for its stability, Sourcefire had its first million-dollar quarter in Q4 '02, has grown revenues 1,000% since '01 and has more than doubled ...
Reinventing Computing Blah!
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1814245
ksergio writes "We have been told again and again that sofware sucks, because development methodologies are not mature enough. Well, it is time to recognize software is hard to write, and that no single methodology can lead to bugless, easy to use, fast software."
New Linux editions signal start of a war on Unix http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1714231
The stage is set for a battle royal over which server operating system will dominate IT departments in coming years. On the one hand are the upstart Linux distributors armed with last year's new releases, on the other established purveyors of proprietary Unix, many of whom are backing Linux as well. The decision is an important one for the large companies that need server operating systems because of its implications for the cost of IT.
Searching for the perfect Linux office
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/178225
After using and testing Linux over the last 14 months or so, I am more than ever convinced that it is a truly great operating system. It's stable, user friendly, powerful, and it doesn't crash every five minutes.
OSI: Brief of Amicus Curiae in SCO vs. IBM (draft) http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/2030207
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational association with offices in Palo Alto, California. OSI is one of the principal advocacy organizations of the open-source community, which is alleged in SCO's complaint to have been beneficiary of tortious and illegal behavior by IBM.
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