|
|
| Applications |
| Mailing Lists |
| Miscellaneous |
| Operating Systems |
| Programming |
[osdn starter] June 10, 2003
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 04:00:55 EDT
OSDN NEWSLETTER
June 10, 2003 STARTER SERIES
The 'Starter Series' Newsletter is developed to bring Open Source
related content to a user that may be new to Open Source. If you'd
like to receive more content relating to Open Source
subscribe at
http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/
==============================================================
Sponsored by Thinkgeek
http://www.ThinkGeek.com/
Slashdot
Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/029209
[0]Jeremy Lunn writes "Jabber is on a rolling start in Australia with
this article featured in The Age in Melbourne (and the Sydney Morning
Herald) '[1]Jabbering classes push for more power' and the formation of
[2]Jabber Australia."
Links
0.
http://www.austux.net/
1.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/09/1055010918536.html
2.
http://www.jabber.org.au/
Linux Rocket Blasts Off This Fall
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/025222
[0]HardcoreGamer writes "An Oregon amateur rocket group, the
[1]Portland State Aerospace Society, plans to [2]launch a Linux-powered
rocket weighing 12 pounds to 55,000 feet at a speed of Mach 3 in
September, Wired News reports. The rocket's onboard computer is an AMD
586 processor and a Jumptec MOPS/520 PC/104+ board along with a power
supply, a PCMCIA card carrier for an 802.11b card to transmit data to
the ground, and a carrier board for a 128-MB CompactFlash card for
long-term storage. The flight computer runs a stripped-down version of
Debian Linux, with the 2.4.20 Linux kernel. The group will present a
[3]paper ([4]HTML | [5]PDF ) on the use of free software in rocketry at
[6]Usenix 2003. The real question is whether their network card will
survive 10 seconds at 15 Gs!"
Links
0.
http://127.0.0.1
1.
http://twiki.psas.pdx.edu/bin/view/PSAS/PsasHome
2.
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59144,00.html
3.
http://twiki.psas.pdx.edu/bin/view/PSAS/Usenix2003Paper
4.
http://psas.pdx.edu/psas/usenix_2003/psas.html
5.
http://psas.pdx.edu/psas/usenix_2003/psas.pdf
6.
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03
UCITA Stalled At State Level
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/0137231
[0]OscarGunther writes "Four states have passed anti-UCITA laws and
Massachusetts may soon become the fifth. Meanwhile, only two states
have adopted the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, which
gives software vendors all the benefits and none of the burdens of the
consequences of publishing their software. The [1]details can be found
at ComputerWorld and an [2]opinion piece by Frank Hayes can be found
here."
Links
0. mailto:OscarGunther@netscape.net
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,81812,00.html
2.
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,78567,00.html
Foundstone Shoe On Other Foot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/0012208
[0]Cimmer writes "One of the premier hack shops (to pun or not to pun)
gets busted for unethically ethically hacking. After filing a lawsuit
against former employee JD Glaser for supposedly [1]jacking company
source code, Foundstone[2] gets nailed for massive internal software
piracy. Tonight's entree: Foot in Mouth."
Links
0. mailto:sketchball90@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/122
2.
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,457276,00html
AAC Put To The Test
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2249239
[0]technology is sexy writes "Following the increasing popularity of
AAC in [1]online music stores and the growing amount of implementations
in software and [2]hardware, the format is now being put to the test.
How well does Apple's implementation fare against [3]Ahead Nero,
Sorenson or the Open Source [4]FAAC at the popular bitrate of 128kbps?
Find out for yourself and help by submitting the results. You can find
instructions on how to participate [5]here. The best AAC codec gets to
face MP3, MP3Pro, Vorbis, MusePack and WMA in the next test.
[6]Previous test results at 64kbps [7]can be found here."
Links
0. mailto:tobiasboeger@yahAUDENoo.de minus poet
1.
http://www.apple.com/music/store/
2.
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,4879,126,00.html
3.
http://www.ahead.de/
4.
http://www.audiocoding.com/
5.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?s=1b75ba1e1811a629dde62dd1ec2488e7&act=ST&f=2&t=10107
6.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/30/0328223&tid=141
7.
http://ff123.net/64test/results.html
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2231252
[0]LinuxLasVegas writes "SuSE [1]announced a new release today titled
"[2]SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0". The distro is built on SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 8.x technology and comes with Crossover Office 2.0.
Mad Penguin has the [3]first review of this release. From what I read,
it seems like a good release, but for the $600 price tag, I'm not sure
if it would be worth the jump..."
Links
0.
http://www.thewaxmonkey.com
1.
http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/sld.html
2.
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/sld/
3.
http://madpenguin.org/article.php?sid=255&mode=thread&order=0
Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2112226
[0]peeweejd writes "Wired has an article stating that four out of five
children [1]receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick
schemes, and almost half receive spam linking to pornographic
materials. Should spammers be held responsible for the spams they send
out? Can someone sue a spammer for offering to sell 'adult only'
items/services to children?" There are more details from [2]survey
originator Symantec's press release - and yes, Symantec does sell mail
filtering software.
Links
0. mailto:peeweejd@NOSPAM.yahoo.com
1.
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59164,00.html
2.
http://www.symantec.com/press/2003/n030609a.html
Implementing WiFi in the Real World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2043250
John Jorsett writes "Seduced by the siren song of wireless access
throughout the home, many a user has experienced the discrepancy
between the manufacturer's advertised claims (150 feet indoors, 300
outside) and real-world implementation (the living room and upstairs
bedroom may as well be on different continents). In steely-eyed
determination to exercise his inalienable right to network access
anywhere on his property, MSN author Paul Boutin hired a Wi-Fi engineer
[0]to help him bathe his property in 802.11 waves, using only
mass-market consumer hardware."
Links
0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2084046/
Why Johnny Can't Handwrite
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1924218
[0]theodp writes "Handwriting experts fear that the wild popularity of
e-mail and IM, particularly among kids, [1]could erase cursive within a
few decades. With 90 percent of Americans between the ages of 5 and 17
using computers, it's not uncommon for kids to type 20-30 WPM by the
time they leave elementary school. Keyboards, joysticks and cell-phone
touch pads have ruined kids' ability to hold a pencil properly, let
alone write legibly, says the former president of the International
Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting."
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/199250
[0]weatherbug asks: "I've recently been appointed as a member of a team
to help determine the direction our organization is headed with Red Hat
Linux. Currently we're using multiple versions from Red Hat 6.x through
Advance Server 2.1. However, now that Red Hat has effectively separated
their distributions into a 'consumer' (Red Hat 8,9, etc) and
'enterprise' (Red Hat Adv. Server 2.x, etc), we aren't sure which
version we want to adopt. A Red Hat salesman recently told us that the
'consumer' version of Red Hat was mostly for hackers and hobbyists who
weren't concerned about stability and wanted the most up-to-date
software, while the 'enterprise' version would be more stable and have
a five-year product lifetime. As a long time Linux system
administrator, I feel that this is a sales tactic and that there really
is no compelling reason for us to ever use the 'enterprise' version.
After all, it is Linux and it is open source, and we have enough
in-house talent to not need Red Hat support. Why would we ever need or
care about a five-year product lifetime? Am I wrong, and if so, could
you set us straight? We'd be interested to know what other large
organizations have decided to do."
Links
0. mailto:maurice.smiley@noaa.gov
Linux.com
The demise of copyright
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1913204
- by Lee Schlesinger - Last week Justin Frankel, the founder of Nullsoft, the company that created the popular Windows music player Winamp, quietly posted on Nullsoft's Web site a collaboration program called WASTE licensed under the GPL. Nullsoft is owned by AOL Time Warner. The day after Frankel posted the software AOL ordered it removed from the site, and instead posted a notice asserting the company's rights to the software. (Shortly after ...
Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies sponsors Open Source Conference http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1328209
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "The Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies (CCMS) and the Trinidad and Tobago Linux Users Group (TTLUG) would like to inform you of the first ever local conference on Free, Libr� and Open Source (FLOS) Software. The Conference will be held on the 26th and 27th of June 2003 at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago." NewsForge will be there. Will you?
The inexorable onward march of Linux: today pizza, tomorrow the world http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/219207
Linux based point-of-sale made its latest inroad into the fast food industry today, with the announcement that Papa John's Pizza has selected Wincor Nixdorf's BEETLE /NetPOS point-of-sale (POS) terminals as its next generation hardware platform. The Linux-based POS systems will be installed in as many as 2,936 of Papa John's owned and franchised pizza restaurants worldwide.
Introducing the June 2003 Issue of php|architect http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/2020257
Marco Tabini writes "php|architect has announced the release of their June 2003 issue, which is available for download from their website as of today.
Microsoft Feels the Linux Heat
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1926220
The second major price cut in as many weeks followed the Redmond, Wash., company's decision to reduce the retail price of Office XP by 15 percent.
Microsoft, Linux Camps Gird For Desktop Battle http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1919219
The Linux vs. Windows desktop is heating up on both the enterprise and consumer fronts.
Using Slackware Linux as a Live CD Toolbox http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1828241
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an article showing how you can create a Live CD with Slackware Linux."
Inside the Linux kernel debugger
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1732237
Anonymous Reader writes "When debugging kernel problems, being able to trace the kernel execution and examine its memory and data structures is very useful. The built-in kernel debugger in Linux, KDB, provides this facility. In this article you'll learn how to use the features provided by KDB and how to install and set up KDB on a Linux machine. You'll also get acquainted with the commands and the setup and display options available to you in ...
UniNet IRC Information Security Conference http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1726237
UniNet is proud to announce the second annual infosec conference, to be held on IRC from June 16th to 20th, 2003. The presentations will be given in English and Spanish, and there may be translations on the fly between the two languages.
The Wrong Choice: After picking NT, Trampoline firm leaps to Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/176200
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Three years ago, U.K.-based Super Tramp Trampolines bought a proprietary application and chose to run it on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Both the application and the platform quickly maxed out. So the company took a "safe" route by upgrading to Windows 2000 Server. Soon, the truth hit home: Super Tramp had made the wrong choice, twice."
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Luminglass
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/362c/
Computing: ThermalTake Aquarius II CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6044/
Computing: ThermalTake HardCano 10
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6055/
Computing: ThermalTake Xaser PC Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6036/
Gadgets: Squid Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5ffb/
Interests: I'm blogging this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5eb7/
Interests: Tempt me.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5c37/
Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/
Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ef3/
Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5f0b/
Gadgets: Yes Solstice
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6004/
Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/
Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5f21/
Computing: Ideazon Zboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fed/
Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5fd3/
Tshirts: fork agent smith
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f84/
Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f3c/
Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5f79/
Cube Goodies: Midnight blue 'geek.' glass http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/5f01/
Tshirts: M.A.D.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5e8f/
Price Compare
Combo Drive DVD+RW/+R DVD-RW/-R 4.7GB INT EIDE 4X-DVD+RW+R 24X-CDRW (Sony)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=781816
Lowest Price: $304.00
Dual DVD+RW/+R DVD-RW/-R 4.7GB INT EIDE (24x/10x/32x CDRW) (Sony) http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=687414
Lowest Price: $269.95
A7N8X Deluxe Athlon Motherboard (Asus)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=659525
Lowest Price: $122.41
RADEON 9800 Pro 128MB DDR (ATI)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=704418
Lowest Price: $365.00
ZIRE 71 PDA (Palm Computing)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=787762
Lowest Price: $259.00
DAV-C990 DVD Home Theater (Sony)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=611171
Lowest Price: $668.99
X1 Multi-use Projector (InFocus)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=690666
Lowest Price: $925.00
42" PPM42S2 Flat Panel TV (Samsung)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=669182
Lowest Price: $2699.00
TH-42PWD5UY 42'' (Panasonic)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=616341
Lowest Price: $3129.00
FreeSpeak Wireless Headset for Bluetooth Phones (Jabra) http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=670258
Lowest Price: $57.00
Windows XP Pro(Full Product) (Microsoft) http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=477480
Lowest Price: $132.00
Windows XP Home (Full) (Microsoft)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=477483
Lowest Price: $83.00
Doom III (Full Product) (Activision)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=591204
Lowest Price: $56.99
Office XP Pro (Full Product) (Microsoft) http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=421719
Lowest Price: $257.00
Norton Antivirus 2003 (Symantec)
http://osdn.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?masterid=607193
Lowest Price: $9.00
Copyright (c) 2003 OSDN. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of OSDN is prohibited.
url - http://www.osdn.com
email - info@osdn.com Received on Tue Jun 10 06:59:31 2003
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Aug 23 2006 - 13:28:59 EDT
|
Contact Us Legal Notices Order Services Online Pantek Home Privacy Policy IT news Site Map Pantek Library |