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[osdn starter] April 09, 2003
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Have You Really Read Your ISP's TOS?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/018236
NewtonsLaw writes "[0]XTRA, New Zealand's largest ISP is in the process
of losing customers in droves after it announced its new [1]Terms of
Service which seek to claim rights over customers intellectual property
(see the [2]Slashdot discussion). Now, if that wasn't enough,
[3]Aardvark Daily reports that the ISP is also banning its users from
saying bad things (anything 'detrimental to our reputation or to our
brand') about it. I wonder how many slashdotters have actually read
their own ISPs' terms of service in detail? Is this type of IP-grab and
clampdown on free speech is unique to Xtra or is it slowly pervading
the whole industry, right across the globe?" Read on for Xtra's
amendments to the original IP-grab terms, though.
Links
0.
http://www.xtra.co.nz/
1.
http://xtra.co.nz/help/0,,4932-580616,00.html
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0243239&tid=158
3.
http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/0409.shtml
Are Printers What They Used To Be?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0249245
[0]Fifster asks: "Has anyone noticed any trends in terms of printer
quality nowadays? Perhaps it's just me being nostalgic, but I used to
have an old HP Deskjet 500 maybe...ten years ago, and it worked for
years. Sure, it wasn't colour, and it was noisy and somewhat slow, but
it never died. After I decided to retire it and buy a fancy new colour
printer with features I don't really need, I've gone through about a
printer a year. I finally decided to get a [1] Brother HL-1440 laser
printer to avoid the cost of cartridges after my last HP died after I
replaced an expensive cartridge. Has anyone else noticed this trend of
poorer and poorer quality printers, at least in terms of life
expectancy?"
Links
0. mailto:kidfifi@earthlink.net
Sun May Use Opteron Chips
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0156259
Runnin_Rob writes "[0]CNET Nets.com is [1]reporting that Sun is likely (not definite, but likely) to start using AMD’s Opteron in the near future. The article also discusses how Linux is pushing for greater acceptability of Solaris x86 because 'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'" Links
Gas Clouds As Giant Telescopes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0135211
[0]allrong writes "Astronomers have found a way to harness clouds of
gas in space to make a natural 'telescope' more powerful than any
manmade telescope currently in operation. Read the [1] press release or
take a look at the [2]images and description of the process."
Links
0.
http://www.allrite.net/
1.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/news/press/gasclouds.html
2.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/news/press/images/gascloud/
Slashback: Taplight, Handheld, Samba
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/2332216
Slashback is packed tonight with updates and clarifications on several fronts: read on below for, among other things, BitTorrent download stats after the recent Red Hat 9 release, the BSA's questionable statistical methods when it comes to calculating incentives and losses in the source-secret software world, and (can you believe?) yet another way to assemble an eerie pulsing light fixture.
A Title To Replace "Systems Administrator"? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/2237213
sjanich writes "A discussion has begun at SAGE on an updated title to replace "Systems Administrator". I figure more sysadmins are reading Slashdot than are reading SAGEwire. Rob Kolstad of SAGE wrote: 'What in the world do we call the collective group of those people who make computers work properly? I'm not talking about users, and I'm not talking about software developers. I am thinking of: system administrators, LAN administrators, network administrators (both kinds!), security administrators, e-mail administrators, desktop support groups, database administrators, and all the other kinds of support that keep the IT function of an institution running -- what is this huge group called?' My favorite options are "Computer Infrastructure Practitioner" or "Computer Infrastructure Specialist". The original discussion can be found [0]here at SAGEwire." Links
0. http://sagewire.sage.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2350226&mode=thread
Chinese Sites Band Together To Counter Google http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/217230
egoff writes "[0]The China Search Alliance is a coalition of over 200
Chinese internet portals that have joined together to try to capture
the Chinese search market before Google can [1]"invade." Started by
[2]China.com.cn, an official government portal, the CSA has now
expanded to include mainly commercial, non-governmental, Chinese sites.
According to Guangzhou-based New Express News, Google has [3]already
approached several Chinese firms about forming a partnership. Being
that it started in the government, this looks like a tool for
[4]greater control while appearing to be in open competition with
Google."
Links
0.
http://www.chinasearch.com.cn/
1.
http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Chin&pg=0&id=5630317&req=
2.
http://www.china.com.cn/
3.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/thestandard/news_detail_frame.cfm?articleid=38154&intcatid=2
4.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/2021257&tid=153Intel Pushes 802.16a Wireless MAN Standard http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1955248
An anonymous reader writes "The 802.16a standard, approved in January
of this year, is a [0]wireless metropolitan area network technology
that will connect 802.11 hot spots to the Internet and provide a
wireless extension to cable and DSL for last mile broadband access. It
provides up to 50-kilometers of range and allows users to get broadband
connectivity without needing a direct line of sight with the base
station. The wireless broadband technology also provides shared data
rates up to 70-Mbit/s."
Links
0. http://www.ebnonline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8600222
Networked Refrigerated Microwave
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1942229
shades6666 writes "BBC news is reporting that [0]Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens has developed a [1] refrigerated microwave that can be controlled over the net or by mobile phone. The prototype uses a Peltier cooling device. It expects the appliances to be ready by the end of the year, costing around $2,000." Links
Deus Ex Writer Discusses 'Dangerous Technology' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1746213
[0]Dan Weaver writes "One of the writers for the exceptionally good
action RPG [1]Deus Ex has authored a [2]rather thought-provoking Salon
article on the Bill-Joy theme of dangers posed by emergent technologies
and the difficulties that police states (both pleasant and
not-so-pleasant) encounter in dealing with them. In the light of
revelations about China's tardiness and confusion in addressing the
SARS epidemic, this article is particularly timely."
Links
0.
http://www.rdwarf.com/kioh
1.
http://www.deusex.com/
2.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/31/knowledge/index.html
Linux.com
Oracle executive: Linux is not a homemade television
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0353254
Michael S. Mimoso writes "NEW YORK -- Oracle Linux executive Dave Dargo told attendees of the Linux on Wall Street Conference on Monday that IT needs to start treating Linux as an enterprise product. We need to stop looking at Linux as a starting point -- as a Heathkit, a box of bits," said Dargo, vice president of Oracle's Linux Program Office."
Perl Booth by Israel.pm at GO-Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0459203
On 10th of April 2003 there will be a commercial Linux conference in Tel Aviv, Israel called GO-Linux.
Ellison an oracle for open source?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2129211
- Lee Schlesinger - Larry Ellison is putting his money on open source development. Over the last couple of weeks headlines quoting Oracle Corp.'s chief executive officer have included "Oracle ups Linux efforts with ISV program" and "Linux will wipe Microsoft out of data center." What's his rationale?
Grady Booch looks at software development's past, present, and future http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0416230
Anonymous Reader writes "The new The Rational Developer Powerpack has been released, it includes XDE - Java Platform, XDE - .NET Platform, Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, Rational Rose RealTime, PurifyPlus, software evaluation guide, technical articles and whitepapers, valuable code snippets and reference applications, a handy quick-reference posters and much more. Also take a look at this interview with Rational Chief Scientist Grady Booch, ...
Updated Mandrake boot disks
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0457218
PC owners with more than 1GB of memory or with Promise IDE controllers might be interested to know that there are some updated boot disks for Mandrake 9.1 available which fix a couple of problems with those configurations.
icepack-linux infos about the next releas (i3) http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0413243
Ralf Schülke writes "2003-04-04: icepack login manager 2.9.1 released, next: icepack linux 2.91 release.
Open source versus open standards
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0455226
The term "open" has been used and abused by the purveyors of technology for a couple of decades now, so it should come as no surprise that technology users are taking their turn. Today, the term has become associated with software source code, industry standards, developer communities and a variety of licensing models--four distinct phenomena that are often intermingled in indistinct ways.
Redback Networks Selects DinoStor TapeServer and Reliaty Backup to Optimize Availability of Critical http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0410246
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and AMHERST, NH April 7, 2003 DinoStor, a pioneer in network enabled backup solutions, and Reliaty, a prominent developer of advanced data protection solutions, announced today that Redback Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: RBAK), a leading provider of next-generation networking equipment optimized for IP service delivery, has selected DinoStor TapeServer and Reliaty Backup to protect Redbacks business critical data, improving the ...
Sometimes, More Is More
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0452231
I've written in the past that I prefer KDE to GNOME as a desktop environment, and after reviewing the latest versions of these two environments, both in their vanilla and Red Hat-tweaked forms, my preference for KDE has held fast.
Interview with Jeff Nguyen of ASL
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/0329201
jeremy writes "In an interview with Jeff Nguyen, the CEO of ASL, LinuxQuestions.org asks where Linux is going, what Linux is missing, and what ASL has done to be able to survive and flourish while so many other Linux hardware vendors have gone under."
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