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[osdn starter] April 02, 2003
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 04:00:55 EST
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Slashdot
Jon Johansen To Be Retried On Piracy Charges
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/024253
[0]cecil36 writes "Yahoo has the scoop on 'DVD Jon's' latest trial
regarding DeCSS being used as a piracy tool. The article claims that
Hollywood is losing $3 billion a year due to piracy *yawn*, but
Johansen's lawyer believes the acquittal from the previous trial may be
enough for him to win the case. The [1]case is set to go again on
December 2nd this year. What are the prospects of Johansen winning a
second time?"
Links
0. mailto:webmaster@jeffersonumc.org
Community Networking Made Easy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/0052236
[0]Rob Flickenger writes "I for one am sick and tired of all of the
work it takes to build out wireless community networks. Evidently, so
was the [1]Linksys Community Network: a Real Network project for the
masses. It's about time somebody did something to bring Wi-Fi to the
People."
Links
How To install Neverwinter Nights on Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1626226
[0]Joe Barr writes " As soon as I saw the news that BioWare released a
beta of a Linux client for its popular and successful Neverwinter
Nights title, I downloaded the beta (registration required) and went
shopping for the prerequisite retail Windows version of the game.
Before I proceed, let me offer this brief warning: Neverwinter Nights
is the mother of all timesinks. Do not follow my path unless you have
nothing important you want to get done for the next week or so.
[1]http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0331.barr.html"
Links
0. mailto:joe.barr@linuxworld.com
RotK Delayed Until May 2004
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/232258
An anonymous reader writes "New Line Cinema’s The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King, will be [0]held for domestic release until
Wednesday, May 12, 2004. The effects work on this third and final film
of the trilogy will surpass its predecessors in scope and intensity,
and the producers as well as director Peter Jackson feel that the extra
time will cement the film’s status as the king of fantasy films and
the crowning jewel of New Line’s massive effort to bring J.RR.
Tolkien’s epic to the screen."
Links
Top 100 Hoaxes of All Time
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2154213
Kaz Riprock writes "Did you know that Taco Bell bought the Liberty
Bell? Or that Spaghetti grows on trees?? Here is a pretty interesting
website that compiles [0]100 of the best hoaxes perpetrated through the
ages."
Links
0. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/top100.html
FSF Debuts "Shared Source" Initiative
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2346202
[0]matty_x points to coverage at NewsForge of the [1]Free Software
Foundation's new 'Shared Source' program. Cynics might call this
selling out, but it actually makes a lot of sense for the FSF to listen
to customers about what they really would like and benefit from, rather
than only to developers and freeloading users. Bravo!
Links
0. mailto:matty_x@hotmail.com
TCP/IP Header Bit Added to Improve Security http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/175255
J0e 1337 wrote in to tell us about a recent development in the TCP/IP header RFC. He says "According to the just-released [0]RFC, conveniently labeled number 3514 for easy rememberance, a new bit will be added to enhance security. This new evil bit will make it possible to route based on the evil status of any given packet. It's about TIme!!" You might want to read [1]A [2]Related [3]Slashdot [4]Story in order to more fully understand the scope of this exciting new RFC. Links
0.
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1440230&tid=172
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1434209&tid=95
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/133217&tid=95
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/0218226&tid=172
GTA: Sin City Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2051216
Anonymous Howard writes "According [0]to Shacknews, Rockstar has announced Grand Theft Auto: Sin City, a new GTA game that incorporates Frank Miller's Sin City universe. Sounds awesome to me." Links
0. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/25737
Technical Review for Red Hat Linux 9
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/2043227
[0]ewilts writes "Dax Kelson from Guru Labs has posted a [1]technical
review for Red Hat Linux 9. It's a definite read if you want to get
away from the marketing fluff that focuses on eye-candy and instead
read about the release from a sysadmin's point-of-view."
Links
0. mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org
>From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/184227
Untimely Ripp'd writes "The latest issue of Discover Magazine reports that any day now a plant will go online in Carthage, Missouri that processes turkey guts into high grade oil, natural gas, some minerals, and water. Unfortunately, the Discover article isn't online yet, but here's a [0]newspaper article. The system, developed by [1]Changing World Technologies uses thermal depolymerization and apparently works on almost any and every kind of organic waste. They assert that applying it to 100% of the US' agricultural waste would produce about 4 billion barrels of oil per year -- about the amount we currently import. It sounds too good to be true, it sounds like one of those fly-by-night-in-the-face-of-the-second-law deals, but it isn't happening in somebody's basement -- it's happening in a multi-million dollar facility developed with Con-Agra." Links
0. http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/projects/stewardship/turkey120402.html
Linux.com
How open source developers can get more U.S. government contracts
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1539222
- By Alexander Perry - Why is government procurement a challenge for Open Source? Ironically, it is because the US government's acquisition policy has been shaped over many decades to try to get the best value for money. For-profit corporations with proprietary solutions are expected to try to make as much money as they can from a limited amount of development. Thoughtful tinkering and optimization, over many decades, has built stacks of ...
Mozilla 1.4 Alpha Released
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/0513253
Asa Dotzler writes "Mozilla 1.4 Alpha is out. This release features dynamic image and table resizing in Composer, smooth scrolling (see release notes for enabling this feature), and usability improvements to spam filtering. In addition to these feature improvements, 1.4a also contains fixes for performance, stability, standards support and website compatibility. This is an alpha release, so expect bugs, and don't use it unless you are willing to ...
Opinion: As Good as It Gets for Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/201233
Remember the scene in that Jack Nicholson movie in which he opens the door to a psychiatrist's waiting room and says to the waiting crowd, "What if this is as good as it gets?" That question came to me in thinking about all the recent announcements from hardware and software vendors that are jumping on the Linux bandwagon.
The story behind the Linux operating system http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1910200
How a young student in Helsinki created a Unix system that has an eager and growing following across the globe.
Free software gives hackers taste of own medicine http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1831204
IT security specialist Backfire Security today announced the availability of a software download as a discrete desk-top client application which wreaks revenge on those hackers and culprits attacking your network or infecting users with worms and/or viruses.
Eclipse.org introduces more open source tools http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1827215
Momentum toward an open source web-oriented integrated development environment for connected devices and systems continues to build as members of the Eclipse.org C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project team on Monday (March 31) announced immediate availability of CDT 1.0.
Aonix: Linux version of Software through Pictures modeling tool http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1816248
Aonix announced the immediate availability of Software through Pictures (StP), version 8.3.1 for Linux.
Microsoft seeks tougher laws
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1730202
Microsoft has asked the Federal Government to take tougher steps against piracy following the Senate's approval of controversial parallel importation legislation.
JBoss spreading faster than Linux?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/181215
Back in 1999, Marc Fleury was just another Java software engineer working at Sun Microsystems. When he got tired of his day job, he started exploring the idea of an open-source application server based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification.
Sun: Linux desktop on track
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1617231
Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said.
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