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[osdn starter] April 29, 2003
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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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
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
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
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
Metaphors make the operating system
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1958212
- by Lee Schlesinger - Linux per se is not a specific set of ones and zeroes, but a self-organizing Net subculture. -- Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson is a science fiction author perhaps best known for his magnum opus Cryptonomicon. I recently read and enjoyed a couple of his novels, so I was interested to discover his 1999 essay In the Beginning was the Command Line, which discusses the state of the operating system market four years ago from ...
Dan Gillmor: Grants promoting unfettered innovation http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/0218208
Last Monday, the Open Source Applications Foundation reached an important milestone. It posted some software code on the Internet and invited programmers around the world to offer suggestions and improvements.
LynuxWorks Powers Advanced Biometric Security Solutions From Cogent Identification Systems http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1958256
Julie Crabill writes SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, April 23, 2003 LynuxWorks™, Inc., today announced that its real-time operating system (RTOS), LynxOS®, has been chosen as a preferred software platform for Cogent Systems® high-performance biometric identification products and services. LynxOS will provide the high levels of determinism and interoperability required by Cogents unique security systems for ...
'Easy' and Other Lies
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1954242
No word in the computing industry is more abused than the word "easy."
Intel releases open source lip-reading software http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1814225
Intel announced that it has released software under an open-source license that allows developers to build computers that see and "read lips" the way humans do to better understand spoken commands. The lip-reading approach is immune to the inevitable inaccuracies that occur when speech recognition algorithms are employed in noisy environments such as public places. The software is released under the BSD open source license and currently ...
SCO Clears Linux Kernel but Implicates Red Hat and SuSE http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1743242
In an e-mail discussion that took place 24 and 25 April, SCO-Caldera Senior Vice President Chris Sontag told MozillaQuest Magazine that there is SCO-owned code in Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions. He also told MozillaQuest Magazine that the tainted code is not in the Linux kernel that Linus [Torvalds] and others have helped develop. We're talking about what's on the periphery of the Linux kernel.
DRM is still a bad idea
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1730207
Agent Orange writes "Even with the support of no less of a personality than Linus Torvalds, I believe that DRM is still a bad idea. The idea behind DRM is not merely a matter of trust. It is a matter of control. Control of what you can do with software, control over what you can do with content, and control over the distribution of information."
Calypso Technology adds support for Linux to trading system http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1727241
San Francisco-based Calypso Technology has upgraded its trading and processing platform to run on the Linux open source operating system.
Linux gains support for latest DiskOnChip flash technology http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1626233
SnapGear announced that it has developed the first open source support for the M-Systems "Millennium Plus" DiskOnChip flash memory devices and INFTL (Inverse NAND Flash Translation Layer) flash management technology. The new Linux MTD (Memory Technology Device) subsystem driver support allows using M-Systems' latest flash storage devices, which range from 8MB to 1GB in capacity, like standard hard disks in Linux. Previous to this, there was no ...
64 Reasons to Opt for Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1557222
Linux enthusiasts love to hate Windows, and Microsoft often disparages the very concept of free and open-source software. But if you're running a high-end server, you probably stay above the fray. Many Unix users still look down on Windows and Linux, seeing one as a bug-ridden overlay to DOS and the other as something hacked together by amateurs.
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