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[osdn starter] May 12, 2003
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
3dFestival's International 3D Award Winners
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/0241252
[0]GlobE 59 writes "[1]3D Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark announced the
winners of their 1st Annual International 3DAwards this Friday (9/5).
Take a look at the [2]nominees and winners here! 3D Festival, Game
Developers World and Architectural Visualization Conference is a joint
conference/expo combining interests in 3D-graphics and visualization."
Links
0. mailto:globbe@d4rkn3ss.net
1.
http://www.3dfestival.com/
2.
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=61537
The Disappearance of Saturday Morning
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2345242
[0]Ant writes "Saturday morning [1]no longer means kids in front of TV
sets across the country, glued to the latest in hip cartoons. Why?
Gerard Raiti investigates the death of an era." As a former Saturday
morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
Links
Verizon To Offer WiFi At Pay Phones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/0033201
Makarand writes "Verizon has ambitious plans to catapult pay phones
from the pre-cellular era to the WiFi era by [0]creating hotspots
around pay phones using an extension of their DSL service. The current
plan is to upgrade 200,000 pay phones in the New York metro area to
provide a WiFi service. Although major metros are spotted with
hotspots, finding them is usually a big problem. Verizon thinks that
specially marked WiFi enabled pay phones would solve the problem of
locating the hotspots." Sounds similar to [1]Bell Canada's move to do
the same.
Links
0. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-8/105254859347540xml
- //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/11/1628257&tid=95
Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2340214
[0]gooofy writes "Freshly (im)ported from [1]ffmpeg, [2]xine 1-beta12
finally has native support for Sorenson SVQ3 video. This means that
you're finally able to watch the latest quicktime trailers on any xine
supported hardware platform, not just on x86. Other goodies in this
release include support for ogg/theora, playback of cd/dvd over the
network, improved handling of mpeg-2 files (resyncing) and many detail
improvements."
Links
0.
http://xine.sf.net
1.
http://ffmpeg.sf.net/
2.
http://xine.sf.net/Last-Mile Solution For A Rural Land Co-op? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/2139219
[0]macguys writes "My [1]community consists of about 150 households
spread out over several hundred acres in North Florida. We are far
enough away from the nearest city that broadband cable and DSL services
don't make it here. We're well organized, and used to working together
on projects. We have a lot of home based business offices here and high
speed access something that many of my neighbors are hungry for. We've
looked at projects like [2]http://www.magnoliaroad.net and know that
others have addressed the issue with 802.11b/g/etc. There is no big
problem getting a T-1 to the community. That part is easy. The hard
part is distributing the bandwidth among those here who want to
participate. Wireless works in places but in general this land is
covered in hardwood and pines and the signal drops off quickly. We have
a long history (community is 25 years old) of working together to solve
problems. Running copper or coax is not out of the question if we can
find a reasonable way of distributing the bandwidth. Any suggestions
are welcome."
Links
0.
http://homepage.mac.com/macguys
1.
http://www.ic.org/
2.
http://www.magnoliaroad.net/Install An Xbox/Linux Media System In Your Car http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/213240
[0]AltGrendel writes "Bored during those rush-hour traffic jams? An
enterprising UK geek has installed an [1]Xbox/Linux system in his car.
With a mod chip, [2]Freevo, a LogiTech Wingman, and a 40 gig hard
drive, he has access to music, video, and games during drive time.
[3]Details and pictures are here."
Links
0. mailto:ag-slashdot@exiCOFFEEt0.us minus caffeine
1.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/
2.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
3.
http://www.target-earth.net/xbox/
IT Growth: Exponential No More
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1850249
BreadMan writes "The Economist has has an article about growth in the IT industry [0]coming off a period of unsustainable growth. Compares IT to growth industries of the past like railroads and automobiles." Links
0. http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1747329
Mozilla 1.4b Loosed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1731228
An anonymous reader writes "The fine Mozilla folks have decided to bless us with the release of Mozilla 1.4b this weekend. Highlights include support for NTLM authentication, usability improvements, and lots of performance, stability, and site compatibility fixes. As always, the [0]release notes have more detailed info on changes." Links
0. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4b/
Dreamcast Web Server Running Off Memory Card http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1654206
Adrian writes "I have written a [0]new file system for Linux - to read and write files on the [1]Sega Dreamcast's [2]visual memory unit (VMU)- a small slab of flash memory used by the console to save game files. To see it in action - and see a DC serve some html, [3]go to the Landslide test server - though I have no doubt that [4]micro_http, the web server I am using (said to be the world's smallest), will result in the quickest Slashdotting in history :)" Gentlemen, start your mirrors now. Links
0.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxdc/linux-sh-dc/fs/vmufs/?only_with_tag=linux-sh-dc-2_4-branch
1.
http://www.linuxdc.net/
2.
http://mc.pp.se/dc/vms/flashmem.html
3.
http://www.landslide.ath.cx/
4.
http://www.acme.com/software/micro_httpd/
How to Become A Spammer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1648253
[0]permeablepdx points to this story in The Oregonian about [1] how to
become a spammer. Summary: "Local Oregon boy makes big bucks after
learning from the Spam masters."
Links
0. mailto:permeablepdx@yahoo.com
Linux.com
DRAM Pricing: The Fix Is In
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/0125221
- by Melanie Hollands -Price manipulation by manufacturers of PC memory components such as double data rate (DDR) DRAM is deliberate, periodic, predictable, and has been happening for decades. Conveniently, DRAM price increases tend to be observed during critical periods, such as just before earnings reports or after periods of substantially subdued demand. It has also been suggested that some memory suppliers periodically withhold supply of ...
Guarding Your Systems With Guardian Digital http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1511203
An anonymous coward writes "EnGarde Secure Linux, designed to be a massively secure Linux platform, definitely falls towards the more specialized end of the distribution spectrum. Its Guardian Digital makers have consistently maintained their focus on this purpose for the product, and so far the results are coming along nicely."
Console menu apps
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/157246
Anonymous Reader writes "In its effort to see if a user-friendly, pure-console system can be built, Linux and Main this week looks at two programs that launch applications without the user having to face a command prompt."
Now Simputer goes retail
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1347228
BANGALORE: The palmtop for poor people has finally made it to retail sales in India with public sector giant Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and the start-up of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) professors Picopeta Simputers on Friday announcing market entry of the product.
Basic Commands: Part 2
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/1332240
jleveille writes "In Part 1we covered the essential commands needed to navigate and manipulate the filesystem, in this segment we move onto some of the more interesting commands."
Major release of the Jargon File -- 4.4.0, now with cartoons http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/025237
The Jargon File is a central part of the heritage of the Linux and open-source movements. As we approach the File's 30th anniversary, it is my pleasure and honor to bring the hacker community a major new release, 4.4.0.
Company or community?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1319253
Anonymous Reader writes "The traditional Linux application development method has taken everything into account -- except, writes Dennis E. Powell in his weekly column, the user. Commercial software houses must cater to the user. Which is why we should be glad they're taking more interest in Linux."
Where's the free (Linux) beer?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316257
Anonymous Reader writes "Never one to have his thirst for "free beer" quenched, LinuxDevices.com contributing editor Kevin Dankwardt sets off on a quest to determine just how much freely downloadable embedded Linux software flows from the taps of commercial embedded Linux vendors' websites -- and discovers that there's a lot more available than you might realize."
Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how Linux will, too http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316203
(KilltRoyWasHere) says... On May 6, 2003 Mr. Jakob Nielsen in (a Register) article called Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how Linux will blow it, and the Next Big Thing, was quoted as saying...
Notes from the Texas 'open source bill' hearing http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/138240
- by Ken Barber - The Great State of Texas held hearings this week on their open source bill, SB 1579. Texas legislators have a little more backbone than the ones in the committee that heard the Oregon bill. Here's an exchange between Sen. John Carona (R-Dallas), the bill's sponsor, and Mario Correa (who also traveled to Oregon to testify against our bill) of the Business Software Alliance.
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