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[osdn starter] April 06, 2003
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Steam Heat to High Speed Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/0022247
[0]jrmski writes "Thom Greco, an astute businessman from the crumbling
town of Wilkes-Barre is betting the future of its downtown on a new
[1]state of the art fiber optic network. He recently purchased the
former Steam Heat Authority, and the underground pipes associated with
it. The pipes provide clear advantages in connecting every downtown
building with access faster than what's currently available in
[2]Philly."
Links
0. mailto:jrmski@dfnow.com
1.
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=1180382
2.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7395090&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=456223&rfi=8
Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/2126249
[0]aheath writes "The [1] New York Times has a story about the 30th
anniversary of the [2] Xerox Alto computer: [3] How Digital Pioneers
Put the 'Personal' in PC's. According to the [4] PARC Factsheet "The
Alto Computer (1973/1980) included the Graphical User Interface (GUI),
WYSIWYG editing, bit-mapped display, overlapping windows, and the first
commercial use of the mouse." The concepts prototyped in the Xerox Alto
contributed to the development of the [5] Xerox Star, the [6]Apple
Lisa, the [7] Apple Macintosh and [8] Microsoft Windows 1.0."
Links
0. mailto:aheath@attbi.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2.
http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=337
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/technology/circuits/03alto.html
4.
http://www.parc.com/company/factsheet.html
5.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/index.html
6.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/apple-lisa2xl/
7.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/mac-128k/index.html
8.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/microsoft/windows10/page_01.htm
The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/2138238
overshoot writes "Just what we've always (said we) wanted: people who
are fed up with Microsoft and are willing, even eager, to [0]give Linux
a real try. Well, she did. And did. And did some more. Not only that,
she's a technical writer and she took notes. Not fun reading, but worth
reading anyway."
Links
0. http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0401.tsu.html
Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/2146210
[0]14ghz writes "Microsoft gave out copies of .NET Visual Studio Pro to
attendees of the Microsoft .NET Student Tour. Despite the discs saying
"UNLICENSED SOFTWARE -- Illegal without separate license from
Microsoft", the freebie didn't contain any license document, and one
guy decided to ask the MS conference rep about it. Read the
[1]in-progress story."
Links
0. mailto:bobz@adelphia.net
Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1950246
[0]Randolpho writes "Whether you like the city or not, you can't say
Los Angeles doesn't have a fault. It does, and it's one of
earth-shattering proportions. [1]Geologists have confirmed that LA was
built right over a faultline, which they're calling the Puente Hills
Blind Thrust System; it runs from northern Orange County through Los
Angeles on up to Beverly Hills, and has a habbit of ripping earthquakes
as large as 7.5 on the Richter Scale every 10 thousand years or so. And
the last one was about 8 thousand years ago."
Links
0. mailto:randolphothegreat@yahoo.com
RIAA Seeks Estimated $97.8 Billion From MTU Student http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1931233
[0]theodp writes "The Detroit Free Press [1]does the math on the
damages [2]sought by the RIAA from the Michigan Technological
University student. The total? About $97.8 trillion--yes, trillion with
a T--or enough money to buy every CD sold in America last year over
again for the next 120,000 years, according to RIAA statistics."
Update: 04/05 21:58 GMT by [3]M: The Free Press can do the math, but
not very well: the numbers provided show the RIAA is seeking some $97
billion dollars, not trillion. I'm sure the student is *much* happier.
Headline updated.
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/newman5_20030405.htm
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/2312220&tid=141
3. mailto:michael@NoSpam.slashdot.org
OpenOffice.org SDK Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1853211
[0]Jules V.D. writes "The [1]OpenOffice.org group on Friday
[2]announced a [3]kit that lets programmers build new modules for
open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.This new [3]SDK
is an add-on for OpenOffice.org 1.0.2. It provides the necessary tools
and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating
your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org."The highlight
of this [3]SDK is the new Developer's Guide. This comprehensive guide
provides, in 900 pages, a detailed description of the OpenOffice.org
API concepts, the OpenOffice.org UNO component model and how to use the
API in the context of the different application areas.""
Links
0.
http://jules.vo-dinh.com
1.
http://www.openoffice.org/
2.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-995570.html
3.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/index.html
The FCC and Media Consolidation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1848230
An anonymous reader writes "A story on this evening's [0]All Things
Considered but also at [1]Now with Bill Moyers reports this June, the
FCC will choose whether to keep or drop longstanding rules limiting the
number of media outlets (radio stations, TV stations, etc.) a company
may hold in a single area. That means all the radio stations in your
area, for example, may one day be controlled by one company, like
Clearchannel or Rupert Murdoch's FOX Communications. One irony is
virtually no news outlet is covering the story. Another is the
justifying argument for this move comes from the emergence of new
media, like the Internet and Cable/Satellite. Yet with all 100's of new
TV channels available, there are only five major media companies out
there controlling them all, and recent copyright rules applying to the
Internet have all but squelched-out Internet radio. So the old rules
might not be so outdated after all. But the only voices being heard in
this argument are coming from the media giants." In a related story,
AOL/Time-Warner is [2]petitioning the FCC to lift the restriction
forbidding AOL from launching "advanced" IM services without letting
others access the IM network.
Links
0.
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/index.html
1.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/bigmedia.html
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995595.htmlHabeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1644249
Remember the company who started [0]using haiku to fight spam? According to a [1]news.com article, it will [2]now be tested in court. Habeas is suing two internet marketers, saying that they've included Habeas' haiku in their mail, thereby [3]lowering their SpamAssassin score by [4]6 points, but allegedly violating the trademark. It's interesting because the end effect of this will be more or less spam, but it's based on trademark law. It'll also be interesting to see how well this holds up across national boundaries. Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/20/132202&tid=111
1.
http://news.com.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-995568.html
3.
http://www.habeas.com/support/spamassassin.htm
4.
http://spamassassin.org/tests.html
Hubble Captures a Protoplanetary Disk
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/161227
[0]Astroturtle writes "The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera
for Surveys (ACS) has captured a [1]detailed image of spiral rings in a
distant protoplanetary disk -- the pancake-shaped cloud of gas and dust
around a young star in which planets are expected to condense. But
contrary to earlier suggestions, the intricate structure of this
particular disk is probably caused by a nearby companion star rather
than by embedded planets starting to form."
Links
Linux.com
Too Much Free Software
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1521221
The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united.
CA turns to Linux for integrated security http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1515259
Nudging Linux toward adulthood, Computer Associates is ramping up efforts to portage its core management products to the open-source platform.
GNU & Linux - Setting the Record Straight http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1527206
- Clinton Goveas - I was reading Richard Stallman's interview in a local Linux monthly the other day and was struck by an important point he was trying to make. The operating system we have all come to love, is not Linux! Let me explain...
The Linux Test Project ltp-2003DD released http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2232239
Robbie Williamson writes "The Linux Test Project test suite ltp-full-20030404.tgz has been released. Visit our website (http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of the testsuite that contains 1000+ tests for the Linux OS. Our site also contains other information such as: test results, a Linux test tools matrix, an area for keeping up with fixes for known blocking problems in the 2.5 kernel releases, technical papers and HowTos ...
IndLinux.org releases Hindi interface for Gnome http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2050257
Kodek writes "More news from the translation front. IndLinux.org has released a Hindi version of the Gnome interface, opening open source software up to the more than 400 million Hindi speakers globally."
Linux Advisory Watch - April 4, 2003
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2018249
- Benjamin D. Thomas - This week advisories were released for sendmail, dietlibc, krb4, mutt, lpr, kernel, apcupsd, samba, eterm, evolution, dhcp, openssl, vsftp, kerberos, eog, enetbpm, and mysql. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Gentoo, Immunix, Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Trustix, and Yellow Dog.
Publisher's Books so Good They Get "Hacked" http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1734216
Anonymous Reader writes "Linuxlookup.com is running a story on a popular publisher recently discovered that two of their books have been illegally circulated on the Internet. Because this was the result of anti-copying circumvention by the perpetrator, they could have pursued legal action under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. However, they have chosen not to, and outline their reasons why in the story."
High-Availability.Com introduces RSF-1 on Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1715253
Grenville Whelan writes "High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has released an aggressively-priced "all-in" RSF-1 solutions package to provide High Availability for Linux systems.
Does an organization have anything to gain from .Net? http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1647215
Despite a vaguely defined purpose, no track record and several known risks, organizations are starting to implement projects based in .Net. Carmine Mangione delves into the .Net enigma and explains why jumping on the .Net bandwagon -- like blindly adopting any technology without first weighing the pros and cons -- could potentially sink your organization.
Securing Linux for Java services
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1641238
Anonymous Reader writes "With proper precautions, Java server applications running on Linux can provide a very high degree of security -- even higher than native applications -- because Java technology eliminates many of the common sources of vulnerabilities in server applications. This article shows you how Java server technologies fit with Linux, then gives pointers on setting up the Tomcat Java servlet engine on Linux -- securely."
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