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[osdn starter] April 10, 2003
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Cell Phones Companies Fight Number Portability
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2314233
andy1307 writes "[0]The Washington Post is [1]reporting that wireless companies are opposing mobile number portability. According to the law as it is being written, customers would be able to transfer wired phone numbers to a wireless service. Not surprisingly, Verizon is the wireless company opposing the law." Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
WLANs As Spam Conduit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2021212
[0]Saint Aardvark writes "According to [1]this article, a honeypot was
recently set up on two wireless LANs. 25% of the connections observed
were deliberate, and 71% of those were to send spam. Even more reason
to take care of your ether." These statistics should be taken with a
salt lick...
Links
0. http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com
Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2321254
[0]zurab writes "A federal judge in Boston threw out a challenge to the
DMCA brought by the ACLU for a Harvard Law School student. Ben Edelman
decided to ask court's permission to reverse-engineer the Internet
filtering software made by [1]N2H2 in fears of being sued by the
company. Of interest is a quote from the ruling: "there is no plausibly
protected constitutional interest that Edelman can assert that
outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted material from an
invasive and destructive trespass." [2]Full story on Yahoo."
Links
0.
http://www.active-link.com/
1.
http://www.n2h2.com/
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20030409/ap_on_hi_te/digital_copyright_acluWhen Should a Consultant Question Decisions? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2134202
bay43270 asks: "Presumably, companies hire consultants because they need technical expertise. At some point (if not on a daily basis) a consultant is asked to do something that isn’t in the best interest of the company (and therefore may not be in the best interest of the consultant in the long run). The consultant must ask 'do I just say "yes sir" and go to work, or do I try to explain things? If so, how hard do I push?' When should a good consultant question a decision, and how does the situation differ with contract programmers?"
Implementing VisiCalc
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1930248
David Leppik writes "The author of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, has [0] an article about how it was designed. VisiCalc is why businesses started to take the Apple ][ (and personal computers in general) seriously. It also changed accounting forecasts forever, which triggered the investment boom that brought us the "greed is good" era. Oh, and you can still [1] download VisiCalc in case you run DOS or Windows and have 27,520 bytes to spare." Links
0. http://www.frankston.com/?name=ImplementingVisiCalc
Microsoft Commits to Using Opteron
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1852221
the_1000th_Monkey writes "According these articles at [0]The Inquirer,
[1]Infoworld, and [2]The Register Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
will support AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. Beta releases can be
expected in the middle of this year. Here is MS's official [3]press
release."
Links
0.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8827
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/09/HNwinopteron_1.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/30171.html
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Apr03/04-09AthlonOpteronPR.asp
Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1534234
955301 writes "As if it was unexpected, the New York Times (free
reg...) has an article on attempts by our Congressional Republicans to
[0]eliminate the expiration of the Patriot Act. Everyone may thank
Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah for getting this 9/11 snowball rolling, and
the general population for our current leadership." There's another
story in the [1]SF Chronicle.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09TERR.html
End of The Von Neumann Computing Age?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1824253
olafo writes "Three recent Forbes articles: [0]Chipping Away,
[1]Flexible Flyers and [2]Super-Cheap Supercomputers cite attractive
alternatives to traditional Von Neumann computers and microprocessors.
One even mentions we're approaching the end of the Von Neumann age and
the beginning of a new Reconfigurable computing age. Are we ready?"
Links
0.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0414/206.html
1.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0414/206a.html
2.
http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/03/25/cz_dl_0325star2.html?partner=altavisSell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1711238
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Licensing 6.0 requires a company to pay up on software maintenance when the computers that are covered under the license are sold off. Here's the kicker though: MS is no longer obligated to provide maintenance even though the contract is paid up! Read the [0]Infoworld article." Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/04/14gripe_1.html
WSJ Reviews High End Universal Remotes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1450204
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Walt Mossberg is at it again - this time comparing the [1]Philips Pronto and the [2]Harmony SST-768. These remotes have [3]both [4]been featured on Slashdot before." Links
0.
http://ptech.wsj.com/solution.html
1.
http://www.pronto.philips.com/
2.
http://www.harmonyremote.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/10/10/1649256&tid=126
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/17/1423219&tid=129
Linux.com
SuperH, TimeSys partner for SH-4, SH-5 embedded Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/0531240
SuperH Inc. and TimeSys Corp. announced that they have formed a stratregic partnership for embedded Linux support for the SuperH CPU cores. SuperH will include TimeSys Linux Standard Edition software development kits (SDKs) with its SH-4 processor cores, and the two companies will collaborate to develop an embedded Linux platform for upcoming SH-5 processor cores, the companies said.
Desktop Linux hits enterprises
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/0528237
Confirming the hype, small pockets of desktop Linux deployments exist in Australian enterprises, according to research conducted by S2 Intelligence. Responses to an email survey in latter part of March suggests about 3 per cent of large Australian enterprises have rolled out desktop Linux.
Anonymous backer funds patent foe
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/0520243
A sponsor has provided Perens with a $50,000 annuity to support his advocacy for open-source organizations and his opposition to the software patents that he says are stymieing industry standards on which open-source groups depend.
Rolling Your Own Firewall
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/0522257
How to use Pebble, a Debian-lite distribution, to get your homemade firewall up and running.
Linux 2.6: Can You Break It?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/0517237
A preview of the 2.6 kernel and the audio excellence of Linux.
GNU-Darwin shell accounts
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/0158257
proclus writes "Shell accounts have been enabled for all GNU-Darwin internet service users. The shell-only server includes a full GNU-Darwin Office-x86 installation, Darwin-6.0.2, compilers, and fetchmail access to your mail account. SMTP-on-LAN has also been provided. The shell server should be very secure with firewalled, ssh-only access, and this resource will hopefully accellerate development on the Darwin platform including x86. Here are ...
IBM releases complex spreadsheet generator for Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2349238
Anonymous Reader writes "SheetPages is a technology that provides a simple HTML front end for complex spreadsheets on muliple operating systems including Linux. With the template deployed in a Java Server Page (JSP), spreadsheets can be made available either in view or update mode for multiple users, as needed. The advantage of SheetPages is that complex spreadsheets can be viewed on a wide variety of clients. Many browsers can be used to view ...
Red Hat 9 Marks Strategic Shift
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1911242
Red Hat has become one of the most widely deployed Linux distributions in the Enterprise space, and has long been a favorite of Linux devotees. Red Hat 8 introduced a new Gnome-based GUI that gave the OS a unique look and feel, and the company has continued to add more proprietary configuration tools designed to make system tweaking a graphical, rather than a command-line process.
Honeywell adds Linux to building automation http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/196259
Honeywell is expanding its building automation solutions program with the addition of a Linux-based controller, reports European software firm SYSGO (Mainz, Switzerland). SYSGO said it recently completed the development of Linux-based system software for the Honeywell Excel Web, a new member of Honeywell's Excel 5000 Open family. The new Linux-based building automation device will begin shipping in early 2004, SYSGO said.
Top Tip: Music in Linux?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/195256
"Okay, I know I'll get a lot of grief over this one probably, but is there a program that will play wma files in Linux?
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