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[osdn starter] April 15, 2003
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Parallel Universes Are Real
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/238217
It's in Scientific American, it must be true. This month's cover story:
[0]Parallel Universes. "The simplest and most popular cosmological
model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the
1028 meters from here." That number's a lot bigger than 10 to the
101.42 meters, which are the farthest observable objects in what we
call our universe. And anyway, twin or not, anyone outside my
light-cone is dead to me. That's just a rule I have. If you're
skeptical of the multiverse, go read our discussion of a similar
article from [1]two days ago.
Links
0. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000
Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/0137251
[0]blazerw11 writes "[1]Phoenix and [2]Minotaur have been officially
[3]renamed to Firebird for the browser and Thunderbird for the mail
client. Interestingly, they're both named after cars I often see in my
neighbors' lawns. At least these cars were pretty fast before they were
put up on cinder blocks. Personally, I like the names and the browser
is great. I'm writing this with one of the last Phoenix Nightlies."
Links
0.
http://blazerw AT bigfoot DOT com
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/
3.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075
The 69/8 Networking Problem
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2249203
[0]jaredmauch writes "A number of networking providers who receive
address space from [1]ARIN have been having problems with their recent
IP space allocations. This is a result of outdated filters that applied
a few years ago during the boom time of the net, but have not been
updated to reflect the current state of the network. Here is a paper
that documents some of the [2]problems this filtering is causing
providers."
Links
0.
http://puck.nether.net/~jared/
1.
http://www.arin.net/
2.
http://puck.nether.net/~jared/papers/69-paper.html
Slashback: Folding, Cursing, Exporting
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2017251
Slashback tonight brings updates and clarifications on the odds of Apple Computer buying Universal Music, the Evil Bit RFC, and more, including Niels Provos' reasons for moving his cryptographic research tools off-shore.
Building a Town-Wide LAN?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2218236
[0]The Mainframe asks: "My town ([1]Hanover, NH, home of [2]Dartmouth
College, the [3]Dartmouth Medical School, and [4]Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Hospital, non-college population approx. 9K people, double that with
the college) is conducting a feasibility study on building a town
network. They'd like to deliver fiber to every home within town limits.
This fiber will carry (certainly) the internet and (probably)
cable-like television programming access. They're estimating that it
will cost $40 per month per household. I just filled out and returned
my survey (one sent to every Hanover household) in which they asked a
number of questions like: 'What would your primary use of this service
be?' and 'Would you be willing to pay $40 a month for this service?'.
What reasons, other than the obvious benefit of having fiber to one's
house, can you think of for making this kind of commitment to the
infrastructure?
Links
0. mailto:mainframe@3 l l l a m a .com
1.
http://www.hanovernh.org/
2.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/
3.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/
4.
http://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/
More Thoughts On How to Wire Senegal
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2158244
An anonymous reader submits "Last month Slashdot published a story on the [0]Peace Corps' plans to wire Senegal. Now [1]Peace Corps Online has [2]published an article by a volunteer who taught computers in West Africa for two years who recommends that the White House's [3]Digital Freedom Initiative abandon the Western paradigm of '[4]a computer on every desk' and borrow a lesson from telephony in third-world countries. Since a residential telephone line is a luxury item in West Africa, the 'communication center' has flourished as a private business even in the smallest of towns where it generates profits while sharing the high cost of telecommunication among the whole community. This user model coupled with deregulation of VoIP can be the key to implementation of computer technology in poor countries." Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/06/143216&tid=99
1.
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/board-topics.html
2.
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/2013080.html
3.
http://dfi.gov/
4.
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/articles/profile.asp
Linux On Unmodded Xbox, Improved
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/211239
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like pSyCo from [0]XEmulation.com
Has found a way to boot Xbox Linux Live on an unmodified Xbox with
nothing but an Xbox and Linux PC (no memory card of any kind, etc).
Also a guide to using this method to flash your Xbox's onboard TSOP
with the bios of choice, making the Xbox modded without an actual
mod-chip. $5 to rent 007 to mod my xbox sounds nice =) Check it out at:
[1]XEmulation.net Forum or [2]XboxHacker.net BBS. *Wonder what the DMCA
would think about this...*" This builds on the [3]"007"-based method
discussed earlier. Update: 04/15 01:11 GMT by [4]T: XEmulation.com, not
.net. Sorry.
Links
0.
http://www.xemulation.com/
1.
http://www.xemulation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=738
2.
http://www.xboxhacker.net/forums/index.php?s=98a5983e3e8e6a781aff43d6c6cef780&act=ST&f=12&t=10867
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/1337234&tid=106
4.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1745258
[0]bigal3du writes "[1]Hardware-Unlimited has posted new information
from Intel that they will be delaying the shipment of the new Pentium 4
3Ghz with an 800Mhz FSB. An Intel spokesman contacted
Hardware-Unlimited early this morning to let the publication know that
performance "anomolies" have been discovered, at the last minute, in
validation testing and the processor will be temporarily delayed for
shipment. Full details on [2]Hardware-Unlimited.com Forums..." ninenet
points to this [3]PC Magazine article which explains the things that
characterize the new chip and also mentions the delay.
Links
0.
http://www.hardware-unlimited.com
1.
http://www.hardware-unlimited.com/
2.
http://forums.3d-unlimited.com/viewtopic.php?p=243
3.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1022407,00.aspBlackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1846250
On Saturday night, Virgil and Acidus, two young security researchers,
were scheduled to give a talk at [0]Interz0ne II on security flaws
they'd found in a popular ID card system for universities. It's run by
Blackboard, formerly by AT&T, and you may know it as [1]OneCard,
[2]CampusWide, or [3]BuzzCard. On Saturday, instead of the talk,
attendees got to hear an Interz0ne official read the [4]Cease and
Desist letter sent by corporate lawyers. The DMCA, among other federal
laws including the Economic Espionage Act, were given as the reasons
for shutting down the talk (but -- update -- see the P.P.S below). I
spoke with Virgil this morning.
Links
0.
http://www.interz0ne.com/
1.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Blackboard+OneCard
2.
http://www.google.com/search?q=CampusWide+card
3.
http://www.buzzcard.gatech.edu/
4.
http://www.interz0ne.com/events/interz0ne_cease_order.htmlTiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1445220
Smaz writes "With future CPUs expected to generate as much as four times the heat of today's processors, wicking away that heat remains one of the biggest engineering hurdles in the biz. Researchers at Purdue have developed a [0]pumpless liquid-cooling system that removes nearly six times more heat than existing systems. The trick, it seems, is in the tiny bubbles. From the [1]Science Blog." Links
0. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article1470.html&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Linux.com
IBM Dives Deeper Into Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/0413208
IBM next month will extend the reach of its Directory Server and Directory Integrator across additional Linux hardware platforms when it adds versions for the IBM i-Series and p-Series servers.
Improve Linux performance
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1514251
Anonymous Reader writes "Performance breakthroughs seem to come in two varieties: easy and hard. That's no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear. Although in some cases it has taken considerable genius to realize their first application, they're easy to understand. The other kind involve careful measurement, specific knowledge, and a fair amount of tuning. Good programmers can operate in either the "hard" or "easy" mode. ...
Phoenix's New Name: Firebird
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/035214
Anonymous Reader writes "mozilla.org's Phoenix browser has been renamed to 'Firebird'. 'Thunderbird', the proposed future name for the Minotaur mail client, has also been approved by the lawyers."
The Big Cheap Chance
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2221216
At Fry's Electronics, a California store chain, you can buy an elephant's memory's worth of disk space--a 120-gigabyte hard disk drive from IBM/Hitachi--for $113. Welcome to the Cheap Revolution! The sum of this revolution is greater than its parts, as you'll see.
AMD Unveils RDK For Communications Access Equipment Apps http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2214243
AMD has just taken the wraps off a new Access Equipment Reference Design Kit (RDK) for developers of a wide range of access equipment, including data- and voice-enabled wireless access points (WAP), gateways, and router-firewalls.
eCos 2.0 Breaks Out of Red Hat Red Tape
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2213220
Free of the shackles imposed by Red Hat Inc., maintainers of the open-source eCos real-time operating system said in mid-March that version 2.0, now in beta, could be generally available around April 15. The new version will add an all-new bootloader with remote debugging and full POSIX compliance, giving it the ability to run many Linux and Unix applications with just a recompile.
Linux Casts Shadow Over Sun
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/223249
Sun Microsystems has changed its mind on Linux more often than a 16-year-old flipping through outfits. Yet another shoe dropped at Sun with its announcement at the end of last month that it will be killing its Sun Linux 5.0 distribution.
Novell Drives Open, Cross-Platform Computing at BrainShare 2003 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/201206
Delivering on its promise of a world without information boundaries, Novell made a series of announcements today at its annual customer conference around new solutions to help customers move to open, cross-platform computing quickly and cost effectively.
Tuning and Optimizing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for Oracle9i Database http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/223212
Anonymous Reader writes "This procedure is a step-by-step guide with tips and information for tuning and optimizing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for Oracle9i."
Open source starts licencing ripples
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1812221
Growing interest in open-source software could force vendors to change their licensing tactics. S2 Intelligence managing director Bruce McCabe says vendors can no longer squeeze customers as much as they once did.
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