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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
Opera CEO says Linux is a big part of the company's future http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1310230

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Opera Software CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner says the ratio of Windows to Linux Opera downloads is eight to one. This either means Linux is on 12.5% of computer desktops (unlikely) or that Linux users are far more likely than Windows users to download Opera.

    Review: User-Mode Linux April 2003
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1826239

     I've always been fascinated by the idea of running an operating system     under another operating system. It's a cool hack to make a piece of     hardware do double (or triple, or quadruple...) duty by running virtual     machines. I've been hearing such good things about User-mode Linux     (UML) that I had to give it a whirl.

Third Open Source Content Management Conference http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/181218

    Gregor J. Rothfuss writes "Leveraging content with CMS: authoring and     syndication towards the semantic web Open Source CMS Conference 3,     Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, May 28-30,     2003, Cambridge, MA: OSCOM is proud to announce that registration for     OSCOM 3 is now open, at $200 for three days.

Tech's top-ten hype-notic spells
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/170258

    It doesn't often happen, but I recently found myself agreeing with     Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Ellison     was quoted saying, "We became the largest industry in the world by     selling things that people didn't want to buy."

WineX 3.0 with Point2Play Review: No More Wine From the Command Line? http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1757216

    GonzoJohn writes "With the release of WineX 3.0 from Transgaming on     April 17th this year, it looked like it was time to revisit the     wonderful world of Wine. This time around, Transgaming WineX 3.0 has     some new tools as well as improvements in the number of games supported     and gaming speeds. In this article, we're going to take a look at the     new features of WineX 3.0, with a focus on their new GUI installer     called Point2Play."

Linux' New Best Friend: Microsoft Licensing 6.0 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1650202

     Ultimately, Microsoft's best friend is corporate inertia. IT     departments that want to ditch Microsoft will have to make a strong     case to executives that replacement costs will be recouped in a timely     manner.

Linus Torvalds blesses DRM, and nothing happens http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1549202

     Last week Linus Torvalds said share denial technology, or DRM (Digital     Rights Management) is OK. He did so on a linux kernel mailing list and     so anticipating the reaction, with the Subject line: Flame Linus to a     crisp!, he wrote: "I'm going to just hunker down for some really     impressive extended flaming, and my asbestos underwear is firmly in     place, and extremely uncomfortable." Continuing the dramatic costume     theme, Linux IDE subsystem guy ...

Mosaic Blows Out 10 Candles
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1544214

     Grunge was fashionable. Version 1.0 of the Linux kernel was about     ready to make its debut. Intel's snappy new 66-MHz Pentium processor     had just been introduced.

Leading software vendors ensure the future of Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1539228

     The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even Microsoft     have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the enterprise.

CA Rolling Out On-Demand Offerings
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1527244

     Computer Associates International Inc. today is expected to unveil its     entry into the nascent market for on-demand computing products and     services, attempting to one-up established rivals such as IBM Corp. and     Hewlett-Packard Co. with an a la carte offering that can be used across     various computer platforms.

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