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[osdn starter] June 04, 2003
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Rescue Mission For European Space Industry
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2322221
[0]metz2000 writes "The New Scientist reports that the European Space
Agency (ESA) has pledged hundreds of millions of Euros [1]to guarantee
its independent access to space. Europe also looks set to co-operate
with the Russian Space Agency. Looks like the space industry is hotting
up again. How will NASA react to this news after being the dominant
space agency over the past three decades? A lot of money is going into
rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are
we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?"
Links
0. http://www.xaprief.com/forums
Microsoft Plans An Overhaul For Patch System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/0349240
[0]sckienle writes "ZD-Net has an article about Microsoft's [1]plans to
overhaul their patch system. 'Ninety-five percent of attacks happen
after a patch for a known software vulnerability has been issued' says
Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist at Microsoft.
Basically, Scott is promoting the idea that Microsoft can do a better
job, in many ways, so people will trust and be able to install patches
quickly. Microsoft has a [2]transcript of Scott Charney's talk on their
site." As reader [3]sweeney37 summarizes, " Microsoft's plan is to
reduce the patch installers from eight to two, they want to have one
patch installer specifically for the OS side and one specifically for
the applications." Sweeney37 points out this [4]InformationWeek article
on the planned change.
Links
0. mailto:steven.c.kienle@pfizer.com
1.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1012689.html
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/06-03charney.asp
3.
http://{sweene49} {at} {velotel.com}
4.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300045
Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2326235
[0]Ian Bell writes "HowardChui.com just posted a [1]review on
Microsoft's new Orange SPV which is the first commercially available
Smartphone. The SPV stands for Sound, Pictures, Video and you can
download games like Doom or listen to MP3s on the speaker or even chat
to your friends using the built-in MSN Messenger. But for all that the
SPV features, there is no Bluetooth support. It still looks like a
killer phone and I like that it is smaller than the PocketPC phones
currently on the market."
Links
0. http://www.designtechnica.com
SCO SCO SCO!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2012255
Still more links on SCO's assorted allegations of copyright
infringement. They say they're going to [0]sue Novell. [1]Software
analysts refuse to be part of the hoax - also some good quotes from
Linus here. SCO and UNIX: a [2]Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on
SCO too, but sadly it's not available to read freely. And Wired has an
[3]old story which I think sums up the SCO claims pretty well.
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1011627.html
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81695,00.html
2.
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=514_0_3_0_C
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,57095,00.htmlRaiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1814245
[0]jonerik writes "[1]Ain't It Cool News has an article on one of the
more fascinating [2]fan film projects ever conceived: A shot-for-shot
remake of [3]"Raiders of the Lost Ark" filmed in Biloxi, Mississippi
between 1982 and 1988 by Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolis.
What's particularly amazing is that the trio began filming the project
when they were twelve and finished six years later when they were
eighteen. Now, fifteen years after the project was completed, word of
the film's existence has gotten out and audiences who have seen it have
reportedly been stunned by the trio's ingenuity, with none other than
"RotLA" director Steven Spielberg giving Zala, Lamb, and Strompolis a
big thumbs-up. The complete film isn't available online, but a
[4]trailer that gives a bit of the feel of the finished project can be
viewed. [5]The Austin Chronicle also has [6]a story on the project."
Links
0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
1.
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/
2.
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=15348
3.
http://www.indianajones.com/chapter24.html#
4.
http://www.drafthouse.com/trailers/raiders.mov
5.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/
6.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-05-30/screens_feature4.html
Copyright Defeats?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1843226
Uruk asks: "Over the last few years, we've seen what looks like the victory of copyright and business interest at the expense of the consumer. There's been [0]The DMCA, the [1]UCITA, all of the legal wranging over DeCSS, and so on. Copyright holders can even [2]shut your website down without doing the research about whether or not it was appropriate. Johansen did seem to be acquited of some of what was brought against him as a result of [3]the DeCSS situation, but that was in Norway. Does anyone know of any copyright or consumer victories on the net in the last few years? Something that limits the abilities of these laws, or otherwise acts in the copyright spirit of free use? My hat is off to [4]GNU and [5]EFF, even [6]Project Gutenberg. What is the status of this ongoing battle? I'm looking for the sunny side to a situation that seems littered with defeat." Links
0.
http://anti-dmca.org/
1.
http://www.cpsr.org/program/UCITA/ucita-fact.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html
3.
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/
4.
http://www.gnu.org/
5.
http://www.eff.org/
6.
http://www.promo.net/pg/Violent Video Game Restriction Struck Down http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2031206
[0]Nutsquasher was the first to submit news that a ban on selling
violent video games to minors has been [1]struck down, reversing an
earlier decision in this case that held that video games were not a
constitutionally protected form of speech. The [2]decision (pdf) is
available. Since the Federal government has been considering a
[3]national law along these lines, these decisions on local laws may be
important soon.
Links
0. mailto:dave_gallagher@hotmail.com
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030603/ap_on_re_us/video_games_1
2.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/8th/023010p.pdf
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/196249&tid=153
Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1952222
Sheepish writes "OSNews features a [0]long and interesting interview
with Nat Friedman, of [1]Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the
upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the
difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a
desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of
OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how
Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian
Desktop 2 are included too."
Links
0. http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3705
More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1715257
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Wired has an [1]update on Oregon's
proposed replacement for their gas tax. Currently two candidates are in
development, the first a GPS based system that tracks where a car goes
to determine the number of miles driven. The other is a odometer-like
device. Both would transmit the data to base stations periodically to
determine the tax on a vehicle. There was a [2]previous slashdot
article."
Links
0.
http://www.wired.com/
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,58616,00.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/1855259&tid=126
Public Domain Enhancement Act petition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1641229
[0]EricEldred writes "Please sign the [1]petition and support the
proposed Public Domain Enhancement Act. See [2]eldred.cc for details.
'This statute would require American copyright owners to pay a very low
fee (for example, $1) fifty years after a copyrighted work was
published. If the owner pays the fee, the copyright will continue for
whatever duration Congress sets. But if the copyright is not worth even
$1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public
domain.'" See the [3]brief description of the Act if you aren't
familiar with what Eldred and Lessig are proposing.
Links
0.
http://eldred.cc
1.
http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html
2.
http://eldred.cc/
3.
http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/EldredActOnePage5.htm
Linux.com
NewsForge/Linux.com 'Roundtable' IRC meeting Thursday evening
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1621224
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This is part of a large-scale media credibility study sponsored by The Associated Press and The Ford Foundation. Newspapers and TV stations do their 'Roundtables' in person, but since our readership is spread out all over the world, we're doing ours via IRC. You must sign up in advance to get the channel information, since this is a serious discussion, not a casual chat.
Brass tacks: SCO and your business
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2354255
- by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Enough of intellectual property (IP) issues, and who actually wrote what in Linux. Let's get down to brass tacks. You're selling or working with Linux, SCO OpenServer, or UnixWare. What the heck do you do now?
Reclaim the Public Domain
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/206228
jeremy_hogan writes "Help reclaim the Public Domain: Please sign this petition: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/eldred/ I just read and signed this petition from Lawrence Lessig.
Arcom releases VxWorks® 5.5 and Wind® ML 3.0 BSP for the 300MHz SBC-GX1 single board computer http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/201217
Jenny McCrae writes "Arcom has launched a new board support package (BSP) Development Kit to support Wind Rivers VxWorks 5.x, the most widely adopted RTOS in the embedded industry. The development kit enables customers to quickly create VxWorks 5.5 based applications using a reliable reference platform and a production ready product. The SBC-GX1 VxWorks 5.5 BSP Development Kit includes a complete BSP to support both VxWorks and Wind ML 3.0. ...
Interview with Ximian's Nat Friedman
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1948232
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features a very interesting interview with Nat Friedman, of Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a desktop and its integration issues, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how Ximian feels... about ...
Tonight Live: Eric Raymond and the War on SCO http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1942221
Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: On The Linux Show! Tuesday, May 27th, 2003 from Chicago IL: Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.
LinuxForce And The Franklin Institute Science Museum Announce The Development Of New Interactive Edu http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1930217
Philadelphia, PA -- 3 June 2003 -- LinuxForce today announced that it has been selected by The Franklin Institute Science Museum to develop a new educational application for The Franklin Institute Science Museum Online.
Ximian Rolls Out New Linux Desktop
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1819246
Linux desktop and server solution provider Ximian Inc. will on Monday announce the next major version of its Linux desktop software, Ximian Desktop 2.
Sun banks on broadband, mobile sales overseas http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1817254
US network computer firm Sun Microsystems, hit hard by corporate belt-tightening, is banking on high-speed mobile services and broadband Internet access to lift sales overseas, its head for Europe told Reuters on Tuesday.
Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/183214
The top honor in my top five tools list goes to Cfengine, written by Mark Burgess. Cfengine is a wonderful tool for configuring and maintaining Unix computer systems. Cfengine is a stand-alone tool (set of tools), which administers and configures computers according to the instructions in its configuration files. The configuration files describe the desired characteristics of various system components using a high-level language that is easy to ...
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