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[osdn starter] May 09, 2003
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Floppy the Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/0537237
[0]Alien54 writes "Build your own Robot for almost Free..... [1]As seen
here where there are complete plans [and pictures] to build a robot
from a 3 1/2" floppy drive without taking it apart. The floppy drive
has all of the motors and electronics you need to get started and
compete in a robot contest. With some old 5.25 inch drives, you can
really get some power."
Links
0. http://www.radiofreenation.net
White Hat Hacker Breaks Silence
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/0313212
[0]Flackboy Kevin writes "The nation's hackers are about to come out of
their shells on Friday as one of the most notorious 'good guys' in
Manhattan makes a rare-yet-cyber public appearance on [1]USA Today's
online chat. Gary Morse, Manhattan's white hat hacker and good friend
of every Chief Security Officer in the financial world agreed to an
online chat regarding security. Morse's uncanny knowledge of how
Manhattan is wired helps keep him one step ahead of hackers and has
kept him in high disregard in most hacker communities. Morse's company,
Razorpoint Security Technologies does not employ hackers who've decided
to come in from the cold."
Links
0. mailto:kevin@yeahwhatever.com
TiVo Basic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2211247
[0]Keith Russell writes "TiVo has announced a new TiVo Basic service. (
[1]Press release here, [2]CNet story here) The Basic service only
offers a 3-day program grid, and doesn't include title searches, season
passes, or wish lists. There's no subscription fees for Basic, however,
and it can be upgraded to a full-on Series 2 unit by the usual payment
options ($12.95/mo. or $299 lifetime). The first product to include it
is a Toshiba DVD player with an 80 GB hard drive and progressive-scan
output of both DVD and Tivo content."
Links
0. mailto:kwrussell@speakeasyPERIOD.net minus punct
1.
http://www.tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=177
2.
http://rss.com.com/2100-1041_3-1000591.html?tag=fd_topXbox Hacking Book Prepares to Fly Off Shelves http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2058224
[0]SecurityFocus posted an article today about a new book that covers
[1]hacking the Xbox. The book's author, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, reports
that it's selling well, even though the release date has not yet
arrived. Presumably, this is because the book covers soldering
techniques and adding features like blue LEDs and modchips to Xboxes,
most of which violate the DMCA. If this stuff is interesting to you,
you can order a copy from [2]Huang's site. It amazes me that a book
such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in
most bookstores.
Links
0.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
1.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4580
2.
http://hackingthexbox.com/
Windows Security Through Annoyances?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2047227
techmuse writes "According to News.com, Microsoft's next version of
Windows will [0]let you know that you are looking at (supposedly)
secure data by putting personalized text, such as the names of your
dogs (a null list in my case), in window borders, and will also hide
the data unless the window has no others on top of it. That should make
it very usable, and speed adoption of security features -- especially
among people who need to be able to see the data in two partially
overlapping windows at once."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1000584.html?tag=fd_top
Sniffing Out Cancer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1638247
Makarand writes "Researchers at the Univeristy of Rome are developing an [0]electronic nose that can sniff out cancer by sampling people's breath. The instrument uses sensors that respond to the presence of chemical compounds in the patient's breath. For example, lung cancer patients exhale alkanes and benzene derivatives which the electronic nose will try to detect. The sensors are quartz crystal sensors coated with a substance that binds to a range of organic chemicals. If certain molecules in the breath bind to this surface coating they change the natural vibration frequency of the crystal." Links
0. http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=524232003
Mass Storage Leaves Microchips in the Dust http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/199218
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "This [1]article from Wired Magazine looks
at storage with a new angle. 'Right now I am sitting in front of a
whirring 60-gigabyte hard disk that cost less than $100. Do the math:
If back then 10 megabytes cost $1,000, then 60 gigabytes would have
cost x, where x = $6,000,000 and "back then" = 18 years ago. I'm
sitting in front of $6,000,000 worth of mass storage, measured at
mid-1980s prices. We have Moore's law for microprocessors. But who's
coined a law for hard disks? In mass storage we have seen a 60,000-fold
fall in price -- more than a dozen times the force of Moore's law.'
DeLong also looks at a non-distant future when a $100 mass storage
device will hold a full terabyte. He also thinks that with disk space
becoming cheaper and cheaper, we'll be tempted to archive everything
about ourselves, including pictures and videos. This is in fact the
goal of the Gordon's Bell project, MyLifeBits. You can learn more about
the MyLifeBits project by reading this [2]NewsFactor Network article.
Check [3]this column for more details."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/view.html?pg=5
2.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20064.html
3.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/05/07.htmlRIAA Nightmare: Pro-level Portable Hard Disk Recorder http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2021247
[0]ratfynk writes "Anybody interested in creating their own MP3 or WAV
recordings should take a look at this device. It is a compact hard
drive recorder that looks like it is the next logical step beyond ADAT.
My interest is fair use, the ability to record my compositions and
performance with studio grade equipment at a reasonable cost. This
device seems to fit the bill. [1]Specs are available at micsupply.com.
This device looks so good that the RIAA might try to make it illegal."
For a not-cheap but cheaper alternative, check out the updated-weekly
Core Sound page on their [2]PDA-based recorder [3]mentioned a few
months ago.
Links
0. mailto:jojo2@telus.net
1.
http://www.micsupply.com/722.htm
2.
http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html#NEWS
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1948203&tid=184
Life on Mars? Why Not?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1351200
[0]Guillaume Filion writes "[1]IEEE spectrum has an interesting
[2]article about a new probe sent to Mars searching for life: 'Recent
missions to Mars have focused on the search for water, past or present,
as a surrogate for life itself. But now a British-led team is working
to renew the search for life directly, fueled by doubts about the
equipment that prompted NASA to declare Mars a dead world some 26 years
ago.'"
Links
0.
http://guillaume.filion.org/
1.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/
2.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/may03/mars.htmlRevising the Internet Email Infrastructure http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1559216
[0]Lauren Weinstein writes "People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR)
today released a white paper aimed at starting [1]discussion and work
to fundamentally revamp Internet e-mail systems to control spam,
forgeries, and a range of other problems, while empowering e-mail users
rather than ISPs." Excellent start.
Links
0. mailto:lauren@pfir.org
Linux.com
Big companies save big from open source http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/2047205
Large companies can save a substantial amount of money by using open source software products, according to a study published Wednesday by the Swiss consultancy Soreon Research.
The Four Degrees of Freedom
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/209248
Suresh Das writes "The past two years (2001-2003) have been one of rollercoaster events for the Free Software community in India. Media spotlight was never lacking for community based software development efforts like this, what was lacking however was the critical mass of public opinion. In these 2 years the philosophy of Free and Open Source Software has managed to attain that much needed momentum, and currently can be proud to have initiated ...
"Hacking Exposed Linux, Second Edition" Book Review http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1959229
LogError writes "The Hacking Exposed security titles don't need any introduction. Written by the experts in the security field, they provide loads of information as seen from both perspectives related to a system administrator - securing and hacking. As the security scene is actively progressing, the books from the Hacking Exposed series receive upgrades in the form of new editions. Today, we take a look at second edition of the successful ...
Fujitsu and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership to Offer Mission-Critical Linux Solutions http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1440242
Fujitsu Limited and Red Hat today announced that they have signed a global partnership agreement to technically enhance and market Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions for enterprise customers running mission-critical applications on Fujitsu's Intel-based servers powered by Intel® XeonTM and Itanium® processors. The agreement significantly expands the scope of the companies' cooperative relationship to date.
Iyonix Linux port established
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1830212
The developers of the XScale powered Iyonix, Castle Technology, have this afternoon launched their Linux for Iyonix project in order to provide a port of the Linux kernel to Iyonix users. We've learnt that Castle are "commited to producing a full Debian Linux distribution for the Iyonix".
A Conversation with Jim Ready
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1744201
Linux may well play a significant role in the future of the embedded systems market, where the majority of software is still custom built in-house and no large player has preeminence. The constraints placed on embedded systems are very different from those on the desktop. We caught up with Jim Ready of MontaVista Software to talk about what he sees in the future of Linux as the next embedded operating system (OS).
Novell open-sources UDDIv2 server code ... http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1740204
Vijay KN writes "Novell Nsure UDDI Server is a UDDI 2.0 registry built on Directory Services technology. It offers a secure access to the registry contents (authentication and authorization), unified account management, and distribution of the registry by leveraging Directory Services. It works with any LDAP(V3) based directory backend. When integrated with Novell eDirectory, it gives the best performance and added features for Enterprise ...
Interview with Eric Pouech
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1616237
This week's interview is with Eric Pouech. Eric hails from France and has been involved with Wine for a number of years. His involvement has centered around multimedia work, the wine console, and the debugger. Most of the questions below center on one of those areas.
Big companies save big from open source http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1521209
Large companies can save a substantial amount of money by using open source software products, according to a study published Wednesday by the Swiss consultancy Soreon Research.
Catapult Ships Linux Test Systems to Fujitsu Limited http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/1437208
Catapult Communications Corporation today announced the first shipments of LANCE, its new Linux-based telecom test system, to Fujitsu Limited in Japan. LANCE is a single-user test system that can be used for design and feature verification, interoperability, and acceptance testing -- functions that almost all telecom companies need.
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