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[osdn starter] May 04, 2003
Date: Sun May 04 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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May 04, 2003 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
The MPAA's Lobbying-Fu is Stronger Than Yours
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1636227
[0]georgelazenby writes "The Frisco Chronicle [1]reports: While the
music industry has been clumsily bullying its way through the federal
government, the movie industry has taken a more subtle -- and more
effective -- approach. The MPAA has been lobbying individual state
legislatures to pass laws reaching far beyond the original DMCA. The
proposed laws would permit cable TV companies to 'limit subscribers to
using only certain brands of VCRs and could ban TiVo in favor of their
own proprietary PVR technologies.' According to one expert, the bills
are 'tremendously open-ended and create theoretical and potential
criminal liabilities for just about anybody on the planet.'"
Links
0. mailto:georgelazenby@livejournal.com
Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1851231
fishermonger writes "Trying to imoprove relations, the french KDE team
[0]invited RMS to tea at Linux Solutions 2003. From the piece: 'He
asked whether KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux", and
Open Source or Free Software. I told him some of us are using
KDE/Gnu/Linux which pleased him as an answer.' Many pearls in the
article."
Links
0. http://phil.freehackers.org/writings/tea-with-stallman.html
Exec Shield for the Linux Kernel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1848218
DarkOx writes "There is a new patch from Ingo Molnar which can prevent overflow attacks. The scoop from [0]KernelTrap is as follows: Ingo Molnar has announced a new kernel-based security feature for Linux/x86 called '[1]Exec Shield'. He describes the patch, which is against the 2.4.20-rc1 kernel, as: 'The exec-shield feature provides protection against stack, buffer or function pointer overflows, and against other types of exploits that rely on overwriting data structures and/or putting code into those structures. The patch also makes it harder to pass in and execute the so-called 'shell-code' of exploits. The patch works transparently, ie. no application recompilation is necessary.'" Links
0. http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=644
SCO DOS'ed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1729259
[0]Thomas Cort writes "[1]BusinessWeek has an [2]article about a DDoS
attack against SCO. "At 10:45 a.m., the Unix and Linux seller was hit
by a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that hampered its
Internet operations, said SCO spokesman Blake Stowell ... the
Utah-based company has incurred the wrath of many Linux enthusiasts
infuriated with its lawsuit against IBM ... SCO's Internet service
provider, ViaWest, told SCO that about 100 high-speed T1
data-transmission lines of network capacity--about 90 percent of its
total bandwidth--was being consumed in the attack.""
Links
0. mailto:tcort@cs.ubishops.ca
1.
http://www.businessweek.com/
2.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999584.htm
Mementos as Document Retrieval Keys
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/175248
[0]Dekaner writes "The [1]BBC is running a [2]story that BT has
demonstrated a scanner that can be used to retrieve digital documents
by associating them with a physical object. When the digital files are
stored on the server, they are associated with a scanned image of the
object, for example a seashell. Later, when the user wants to retrieve
the files, the memento is again placed on the scanner. The resulting
image is used as the retrieval key."
Links
0. mailto:dekaner@outeractive.com
1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2985063.stm
RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/204241
[0]Richie Z writes "This article at the [1]New York Times talks about
[2]new anti-piracy efforts from the music industry, some of
questionable legality. One idea simply redirects users to a website
with legal downloads. But two other programs freeze the user's system
or delete music files determined to be illegal. Another proposed idea
is basically a DoS attack against downloaders. I guess the RIAA
believes the law only applies to their enemies." They had a [3]solution
to illegality planned.
Links
0. mailto:punishinglemur@mail2stalin.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/04MUSI.html?ex=1052625600&en=dadf74c45d5ecb89&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/15/138258&tid=158
Cell Phones and Air Safety
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1633239
Cutie Pi writes "On the heels of this recent Slashdot story discussing
[0]Wi-Fi use on airplanes, the BBC is reporting about new evidence
indicating that [1]cell phones can interfere with airplanes' navigation
systems. From the article: "In tests, compasses froze or overshot,
navigation bearings were inaccurate and there was interference on radio
channels." Look like like Wi-Fi and airplanes just don't mix."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1258259&tid=193
Spam Meeting Wrap-up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1529223
[0]wendigo2002 writes "Get used to that daily flood of e-mail come-ons,
Viagra offers and lucrative enticements to invest in Nigerian pyramid
schemes. Internet gurus, software designers and lawyers today [1]ended
a three-day Federal Trade Commission discussion on combating spam by
concluding neither technology nor laws are yet capable of completely
dealing with the plague."
Links
0. mailto:wendigo2002@attbi.com
Harry Potter with Guns
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1517224
[0]kauff writes "Slate has recently released a [1]somewhat-inspired
article about what the Matrix was. You have to read it for yourself.
Good way to hype yourself up before Reloaded on May 15th."
Links
0. mailto:kauff@kauff.minidns.net
Credit and Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1825247
Hans Reiser - you're thinking [0]ReiserFS, and you'd be right - has a proposal to [1]slather Free Software with credits for its authors. Good? Bad? This is something the community has generally [2]moved away from, but maybe Reiser has a good point. Newsforge is part of OSDN. Links
0.
http://www.reiserfs.org/
1.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244
2.
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
Linux.com
SCO, DRM, Spam, Privacy
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1855240
Anonymous Reader writes "Linux and Main's The Week That Was: SCO proves conspiracy theorists right; Linus says Linux is DRM agnostic; Spam draws unprecedented attention; Internet privacy? Think again"
Time for a new installation paradigm, Part 4 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1629258
If developers and packagers flesh out the details of these suggestions, modify them to iron out wrinkles and then adopt the practices, most if not all Linux software installations will be trouble-free and distribution-agnostic. (3,250 words)
Sun rises on acquisition speculation
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1627226
SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Sun Microsystems, which have fallen 92 percent in the past three years, rose 12.3 percent on speculation the company might be bought by a larger computer rival, an analyst said.
Penguin cracks Windows servers
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1624239
The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even Microsoft have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the enterprise.
Marist to test digital media
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1623213
Marist College will help pioneer a new generation of online digitized media through a research partnership with IBM Corp., both announced Friday at the Town of Poughkeepsie college.
SCO vs. IBM lawsuit: SCO has a problem
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/141259
Anonymous Reader writes "This article makes the point that, even if the trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against IBM has merit, SCO themselves have knowingly redistributed that same code under the GPL. And, of course, they can't relicense the code without forfeiting their own rights to Linux under the GPL. It would appear that Red Hat and SuSE are in the clear after all and the Linux kernel remains clean."
How to use make with WPP
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/140210
This article is not a WPP tutorial. If you want to learn WPP basics, read the fine manual on the home page. This text is just a bunch of advices on how to integrate make and WPP to make your life easier. It describes the process of creating makefile from scratch, but if make syntax is already familiar to you, you could still find some interesting tips in it.
It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0339241
Timothy R. Butler writes "Well, it seems to be official. After more rumblings, denials of rumblings, rumblings about the denials of rumblings, SCO is now playing hardball (or is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly known as Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the Linux kernel, but will not release the information Free Software developers need to try to fix the problem. Instead, SCO CEO Darl McBride ...
Book Review - Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0326213
LogError writes "Brian Behlendorf, one of the co-founders of Apache said about the author of this book - "Ryan Bloom (the book's author) knows the internals of the 2.0 HTTP server at least as well as Linus Torvalds knows his way around the Linux kernel". Is the book really that good? Read on to find out."
Aussie leads development of open source O-S for lawyers http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/2331213
Perth lawyer and IT consultant, Jeremy Malcolm, is leading the development of an open source operating system specifically designed for use in legal practice. The system, Debian-Lex, is based on Debian/GNU Linux, a free Linux distribution.
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