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Slashdot
AOL Blocks Telstra Bigpond Mail
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/047236

    frodmann writes "Australian IT reports here that AOL has been
[0]blocking email from Telstra bigpond mail accounts. This is possibly
    attributed to AOL's new white list policy as reported earlier on     Slashdot. Although this article is a few days old I can verify that     this is still happening. (For those outside of Australia, Telstra is     one of our largest ISPs.)"
Links

    0. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6325325%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

Telemarketer Blows Whistle on Tape-Altering Scam http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0037215

    Recently, Florida-based telemarketing firm Epixtar is frequently     accused of cramming an extra $30 onto phone charges of small     businesses, yet has proof of legality by recording their calls. Until     they laid off some people, one of whom has [0]blown the whistle. The     companies' cramming tactics become "legal" by altering those taped     recordings to include a quick statement about the $30 charge. MSNBC has     the article, including a short audio clip of a sample call. Links

    0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/896884.asp?0cl=cR

An Affordable Air Purifier For Dusty Computer Labs? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0215240

    Alcimedes writes "Our lab has a serious issue with dust. I've had a     number of power supplies stop working because of dust clogging up the     fans, and it's getting annoying. So I'm looking into some kind of small     (under $500) air filtration system, and was wondering if anyone else     out there has already gone down this road. If so, what did you buy and     would you buy it again? I'd prefer something where I don't have to keep     buying filters, but that may just be a pipe dream." Anyone with cats     knows the feeling. Can you suggest a reasonably priced answer to     dust-borne failure?

A Timeline Of Spam And Antispam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0028204

    Haak writes "American Scientist has a fine article by Brian Hayes     summing up the [0]history of spam and proposed measures to deal with     it." A [1]shorter article along the same lines is running at The     Economist.
Links

    0. http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-05Hayes.html

1. http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1734216

Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/2313248

    pissoncutler writes "Intel has announced that they will be releasing a     software emulation product to allow 32-bit x86 apps to run on Itanium     Processors. According to these stories ([0]story 1, [1]story 2), the     emulator is capable of the x86 performance of a 1.5Ghz Xeon (when run     on a similar speed Itanium.) Who said that no one cared about x86     anymore?"
Links

    0. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9300072

1. http://news.com.com/2100-1006-998420.html

MP3 Player In An AK-47 Magazine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/2142217

    Comrade Pikachu writes "[0]These guys have apparently fit a hard drive     based MP3 player into a Kalashnikov ammunition clip. They are accepting     pre-orders now. It fits into a standard AK-47 and comes pre-loaded with     over 200 audio books. Listen to Poe on your assault rifle!"     Audiobooksforfree also is one of the few places I've found online with     free (low-fi) audiobooks -- for greater fidelity, you can buy files or     pre-loaded hard drives, or (at long last) this unorthodox player. Links

    0. http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/kalashnikov/ak-mp3.asp

Calling Software Reliability Into Question http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/2026257

    phillymjs writes "CNN is running a [0]story on software reliability,     and how the lack of it may cost more and more lives as technology     creeps further into everyday products. It appears a debate is finally     starting amongst everyday (read: non-geek) people about vendor     liability for buggy software. Some opponents of the liability push are     unsurprising: Says the story, 'Microsoft contends that setting
[reliability] standards could stifle innovation, and the cost of
    litigation and damages could mean more expensive software.' The article     also says, however, that consumers' favortism of flashy products over     reliable ones is partly to blame for the current state of software." Links

    0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/04/27/buggy.software.ap/index.html

Sensor Networks For Surveillance And Security http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1828224

[0]gpmap writes "Small Times has an article on the [1]coming age of
    all-pervasive sensor networks that will feed information of all sorts     to monitoring networks. Technology advances have generated intense     interest in sensor networks: 'the magic words are surveillance and     security.' The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) hosted the second     Information Processing in Sensor Networks workshop this week amid     anticipation of significant funding grants from the National Science     Foundation. Most believe miniaturization, whether through conventional     methods, MEMS or nanotech, will drive the spread of sensor networks.     But plenty of issues need working through, on the hardware, software     and social fronts."
Links

    0. mailto:g2002@prisco.info

1. http://smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=5904

Remote Direct Memory Access Over IP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1652245

    doormat writes "Accessing another computer's memory over the internet?
[0]It might not be that far off. Sounds like a great tool for
    clustering, especially considering that the new motherboards have     gigabit ethernet and a link directly to the northbridge/MCH." Links

    0. http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030425S0043

Protein-Packed Hard Drives Promise High Capacity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1616200

    Digimax writes "The [0]New Scientist has an interesting article on a     technology being developed by [1]NanoMagnetics which [2]involves using     a protein responsible for storing iron in the body to store data on a     hard drive. Is this the start of the BioTech revolution?" Links

    0. 
http://www.newscientist.com/
    1. 
http://www.nanomagnetics.com/
    2. 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993664

Linux.com
A Linux app that doesn't exist
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0311252

    Anonymous Reader writes "There are multiple Linux applications in just     about every category, including some very obscure ones. So why is there     no user-configurable, console-mode login manager and menuing program?"

Running cfdisk
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0310243

    jleveille writes "There are many times we might need to view, delete,     or create new partitions on our GNU/Linux system, if a new drive is     installed we first need to create a partition and file system before it     can be mounted and data stored on the disk. One of my favorite     utilities to accomplish this is cfdisk."

IBM brings new Linux watch technology to GITEX Saudi Arabia 2003 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1526249

    Riyadh, KSA - The Ã&#x201a;Â&#x2018;WatchPad' will be showcased at GITEX Saudi Arabia     this year: a prototype of the Linux watch technology being jointly     developed by IBM Research and Citizen Watch. The Linux WatchPad on the     SBM stand brings to the region the latest technologies still emerging     from IBM's labs around the world.

Thread designs divide chip makers
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1523255

    The makers of the world's fastest microprocessors are engaged in a     theological debate: Which are better, fat threads or skinny threads?

LA Judge - P2P Services Legal!
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1430230

    Anonymous Reader writes "A dramatic victory was handed to the file     trade community Friday when a federal judge ruled that two P2P     companies were not liable for the content exchanged on their services."

TV Tuner Configuration
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1427258

    Manish Kumar Arya writes "Mutimedia on Linux Box is becoming a reality,     Configuring TV tunner card on Linux is fairly easy, you can enjoy TV on     Linux Desktop with much better picture quality compared to Windows"

LinuxInstall.org launches Support Forum
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1426249

    Thomas Chung writes "Hello, We have just launched a Support Forum Web     Site for LinuxInstall.org at: http://linuxinstall.org/forum/."

Linux and the Knowledge Worker
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1917256

    This article is intended to hopefully give insight into the state of     desktop Linux as it pertains to the business market. One of the     oft-stated goals of Linux developers is adoption by businesses for both     server and desktop for technical and non-technical staff alike. I took     it upon myself to use Linux daily for my job (most staff uses Windows     98 or XP) for a variety of reasons. In this (and future) article(s) I     would like to share my ...

Red Hat warms to Itanium-booster plan
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/146257

     Leading Linux seller Red Hat is looking fondly at an Intel technology     that improves the ability of the chipmaker's Itanium processor to run     older software written for Xeon or Pentium chips.

Linuxbeginner IRC on freenode.net
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/141243

    jleveille writes "#linuxbeginner is live on irc.freenode.net, stop in,     we will be happy to help GNU/Linux beginners out."

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