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[osdn starter] March 24, 2003
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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March 24, 2003 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
GDDR2 Emerging As A Real Standard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/0154205
An anonymous reader writes "I [0]noticed here that EE Times is reporting that the [1]GDDR2 standard is finally becoming a reality. Both NVIDIA and ATI's latest chips offer support. ATI helped spearhead the initiative to develop the standard. The significance of this is great, since it may very well mean that every 18 months or so a new graphics memory standard will be released." Links
0. http://www.hardwareaccelerated.com/
Top Ten Dying Game Genres
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2242235
[0]Ant sent us a fun link to an article running over at GameSpy
discussing the [1]Top 10 Dying Game Genres. Although I don't think
Puzzle games have died - I think they've transformed: Pikmin is just a
fancy puzzle game, after all ;) But I still want Dr Mario for my GBA.
Links
Apple to Announce new MacOS X version in June http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2212244
swiert writes "Apple has announced that the WWDC conference has been rescheduled in order to present the new version of OS X, codenamed "Panther". Unfortunately, [0] Apple haven't given any details about what to expect from Panther, but after Jaguar this looks promising." Links
0. http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/index.html
Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' Wins Best Animated Picture http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/021242
[0]DavidBrown writes "Moments ago, Hayao Miyazaki won the [1]Best
Animated Picture award for '[2]Spirited Away.' It's about time."
Links
0. mailto:davidiusbrown@cs.com
1.
http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners.html
2.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0245429
Why Port To PC? Shareware Still alive!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/236226
An anonymous reader writes "Here is an interesting [0]interview with
Tom Anthony, describing why Ambrosia Software are porting their Mac
games to the PC market. Do you think their games can really sell after
being ported? I thought shareware was dead, but all their games are
still using shareware as well."
Links
0. http://www.hardwareaccelerated.com/content/interviews/ambrosia/indexphp
Anything Box Releases An Album To Share
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/228210
cats writes "[0]Anything Box, the synthpop band from the 80's who had a hit with 'Living in Oblivion' have released an introspective albumn in mp3 format under a 'freeware' style license. Anyone who has ever seen these guys perform know they are just a bunch of nice people trying to make ends meet as musicians. I had the opportunity to hang with Claude before his show in NJ at The Pipe back in 1998. He had some interesting asides about how the music business in general operates. They manipulate the artists' work as well as take huge cuts of musicians' profits. The album is available via [1]download as one big zip file including artwork and is in mp3 format. Very cool." Links
0. http://www.anythingbox.com/
The Thin Line Between Reality and Video Games http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2144215
[0]Boomzilla writes "San Jose Mercury news is carrying [1]an article
about a 2-year-old Silicon Valley start-up called [2]Keyhole and their
product Earthviewer. The Mountain View company makes interactive 3-D
maps that fuse high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, elevation
data, GPS coordinates, and overlay information about cities and
businesses to deliver a streaming, 3D map of the entire globe. Since
the start of the war, many news networks have been using the maps to
zoom in on, over and around the Iraqi landscape to help viewers see
where the war is being fought. Keyhole is financed by Sony Broadband
Entertainment, graphics-chip maker [3]Nvidia and others. Keyhole uses
satellite images, aerial photos and other data to create 3-D maps that
perform much like high-quality video games. Way cool!"
Links
0.
http://www.boomzilla.com
1.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5455940.htm
2.
http://www.earthviewer.com/
3.
http://www.nvidia.com/
The Status Quo Of Computer Vision
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/1939241
[0]prostoalex writes "The Industrial Physicist sums up [1]the recent
advances and developments in the world of computer vision. They mention
[2]an application for human-computer interfacing using a Webcam,
Philips Research Lab [3]Seeing with Sound product, which augments
vision for visually impaired, as well as [4]various frontal face
detection applications."
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/jobs/
1.
http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-9/iss-1/p18.html
2.
http://www.cv.iit.nrc.ca/research/Nouse/
3.
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
4.
http://vasc.ri.cmu.edu/demos/faceindexA Hotter Sun May Be Contributing To Global Warming http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2038250
[0]no reason to be here writes "The sun seems to be getting hotter.
Total radiation output has increased .05% per decade since the 1970s.
[1] This article over at Yahoo! News has the scoop. Though .05% may not
seem like much, if it has been going on for the last century or more
(and circumstantial evidence suggest that it has), it could be a
significant factor in the increase in global average temperature
noticed during the 20th century."
Links
0. http://<ten.epacsten> <ta> <ddotolif>
Andy "Gollum" Serkis Speaks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/1624258
[0]Jondor writes "The BBC has an article in which Andy Serkis
[1]answers questions about his roll as Gollum. Can't wait so spend a
whole 9 hours watching for the full DVD release of LOTR!"
Links
0. mailto:gerhard@frappe.BOHRxs4all.nl minus physicist
Linux.com
'Lock in Software,' not 'Proprietary Software'
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1230223
- By Brendan Scott - In July last year I wrote a paper which argued that the total cost of ownership of free software would, in the long run, always be lower than that of equivalent software created under different models. One of the problems I grappled with when writing that paper was how to name those different models. At the time I adopted a term which appeared to be used widely, that of “proprietary software”. I now ...
MH Linux Site Update
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2241200
Chris Drane writes ""MH Linux" has taken the steps to become more professional and offer better support to its users. We have changed out name from "CZ Linux" to "MH Linux" as many members thought we were a Czech Linux site. We have also moved our forums from phpBB2 to vBulletin as well as adding many new features to the site and changing the Domain Name to match the new Site name. MH Linux Homepage"
Red Hat Linux Advisory: evolution
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2231202
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Ximian Evolution email client. These vulnerabilities make it possible for a carefully crafted email to crash the program, cause general system instability through resource starvation and get around security measures implemented within the program.
WinTel trips on Linux?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2122225
As a marriage of convenience the WinTel alliance used to work pretty well. Intel lived up to Moore's Law by building ever larger and more complex chips, while Microsoft executed Gate's Law by churning out ever more bloated and serially incompatible versions of its software.
Update on the RTLinux/RTCore dual kernel real-time operating system http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1959233
The RTLinux dual-kernel operating system was first introduced back in
- Today, RTLinux is well known worldwide as a means to gain "hard real-time" performance from a Linux-based system environment. In this article, Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, and Cort Dougan -- three key figures in the creation, evolution, and maintenance of RTLinux -- summarize the state of RTLinux eight years later.
McNealy: It's mankind vs. Microsoft
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1910214
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was in fine fighting form as he traveled through Asia this week, uttering scathing sound bites about rival Microsoft.
Appro Linux Clusters Shatter Scalability, Supercomputing Performance http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1755258
Appro announced that its new HyperBlade Server Cluster, 1U, 2U, dual, and quad servers will be available for purchase after the AMD Opteron launch on 4/22/03.
Key Linux group faces split
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/171244
The XFree86 project, key to developing graphics technology for Linux and other operating systems, has ejected a central member and is facing new criticism
Linux co-developer warns of serious flaw http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1639231
A developer who helped write the original Linux kernel is warning of a flaw in some versions of the operating system that could allow a malicious local user to gain root control of a Linux computer.
Betting on Linux for Business
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1554237
Linux is becoming popular in places where the prospect of greater interoperability and security can translate into tangible return on investment.
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