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[osdn starter] July 02, 2003
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Corbis Sues Amazon for Copyright Infringement
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/0432224
[0]Gedvondur writes "The story ran in the WSJ today, that the
Gates-owned image company, Corbis, is [1]suing Amazon.com for copyright
violations (PDF link). Apparently the suit was without warning to
Amazon. Amazon will use the DMCA to defend itself. Link goes to copy of
the WSJ article on Corbis's site."
Links
0. mailto:gedvondur@new.rr.com
Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/0122216
An anonymous reader writes "Today, speakeasy (the greatest ISP ever)
sent out a letter from the CEO introducing their [0]NetShare Wi-Fi
plan. It lets you share your broadband with your neighbors, with
Speakeasy handling the billing and splitting the fee 50/50. More ISPs
should be like this!"
Links
0. http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/
Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/2354205
mattOzan writes "Marc Andreessen told Reuters today that [0]browser
innovation ended five years ago (which would put us at about
[1]Navigator 4.5 beta -- what was so innovative about that? The
[2]"What's Related" button? [3]Beatnik integration?) "Navigation is an
embarrassment. Using bookmarks and back and forth buttons -- we had
about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser." Well,
pass me the NDA and tell me what they were!"
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=1&u=/nm/20030701/wr_nm/tech_internet_andreessen_dc
1.
http://wp.netscape.com/netcenter/newsletter/july1998.html
2.
http://wp.netscape.com/communicator/navigator/v4.5/
3.
http://www.beatnik.com/developers/faqs.html
On The Trail Of Super-Zonda
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/230238
[0]Dynamoo writes "BBC Radio 4 has been on the trail of the notorious
[1]Super-Zonda spammers and crackers, according to [2]this article.
Super-Zonda's trick is to find insecure hosts and pressgang them into
webservers for mail order brides, viagra and other spam favorites. In
this case a server is traced back to a hacked machine at a major
international airline. The BBC investigate some of the people allegedly
behind the spam in an investigation starting on the Spamhaus houseboat
in London and ending in the Netherlands via Moscow. The BBC point the
finger at Martijn Bevelander of [3]MegaProvider as being not the
innocent party he seems. The BBC provide some evidence to back this up,
and are not known for rash accusations."
Links
0.
http://www.dynamoo.com/
1.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&q=super-zonda&sa=N&tab=wg
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3036092.stm
3.
http://www.bevelander.nl/
MandrakeSoft's Status Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/225223
[0]joestar writes "[1]MandrakeSoft today posted an [2]update letter
from its CEO about the company's health. Among other things, it's
interesting to learn that the company seems to be on the good track to
go out of the "chapter-11 protection" before the end of the year, that
it's taking part to several publicly-funded research projects, and that
Mandrake 9.1 is having a good success. They also thank for the warm
support they received from the community. Worth a read for all Mandrake
fans, like myself. Viva la Mandrake!"
Links
0. mailto:remi.damaye@voila.fr
1.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
2.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2425Regulatory Fees on the 802.11 Broadcast Spectrum? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1850225
[0]Demerara asks: "I live in the Caribbean where I am putting together
a business plan for a WISP on St. Lucia. Imagine my surprise when I
discovered that the St. Lucian National Telecomms Regulatory Commission
[1]here licenses and charges [2]fees for 2.4Ghz spread spectrum
applications. It's nearly US$400 to apply and, get this, nearly US$800
per link, per *year*. This blows the economics of a WISP out of the
water. I may be reading the laws and regulations wrong but I don't
think so. For example - they even charge an application fee and an
annual license for the 'Family Band' walkie-talkies - look in the fees
PDF. I am attempting to find out the following: what international
agreements govern spectrum management; what international agreements
govern licensing of WiFi or 802.11; and finally, are there any Slashdot
readers out there who live in countries where 802.11 technology is also
licensed or heavily regulated? The [3]ITU website doesn't seem to
answer these questions or, to be fair, I cannot come up with the
keywords to find the answers. I'd love to hear from others who use or
operate 802.11 under less than 'free' regulatory regimes."
Links
0.
http://www.mcdis.com
1.
http://www.ectel.info/lca
2.
http://www.ectel.int/lca/Laws%20and%20Regulations/S.I.%20No.%2096%20of%202002.pdf
3.
http://www.itu.int/
Leave Outer Space to the Millionaires
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/180254
[0]tcd004 writes "Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal has an
interesting article in [1]Foreign Policy arguing that the future of
manned space travel [2]should be left to wealthy adventurers. He points
to the fact that modern state-funded space disasters become national
traumas, and argues that that gung-ho millionaires are more free to
take risks because they 'don't represent a nation; [they] represent
humanity.'"
Links
0.
http://www.lostbrain.com
1.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
2.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=13790
Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1755214
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy details the tactics of retailers and marketers to sell customer data. Examples include promising not to sell consumer data, but then 'renting' the data, and the use of shopping cart software with different privacy policies than the merchant." Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54888-2003Jun30?language=printer
DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1751250
while(true) writes "As [0]reported previously here on Slashdot,
hypersonic jets from NASA has recently been in the news. Now [1]DARPA
is showing interest in the military applications and is to host a
conference on hypersonic unmanned bombers. These bombers could be based
in the US and yet strike from space at any place in the world within 2
hours. BBC has a [2]report about these air/spacecraft that could be
operational by 2025."
Links
0.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/1150249&tid=126
1.
http://www.darpa.mil/baa/sn03-23.htm
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3035332.stm
Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1646220
[0]Adam Wern writes "Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation,
Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung
Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today
[1]announced the establishment of the [2]CE Linux Forum. CELF will
discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the
needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones,
etc. CELF will publish such requirements and will accept and evaluate
open source solutions that support to meet the published requirements.
CELF will also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products. IBM, an
industry leader in Linux solutions and supporter of open standards
ecosystems, is pursuing membership and plans to be an active
participant in the CELF."
Links
0. mailto:brain@adamwern.com
1.
http://www.celinuxforum.org/PressRelease/pr02.htm
2.
http://www.celinuxforum.org/
Linux.com
Selling Linux keeps getting easier
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/23/212208
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Teresa Spangler started marketing Linux-based products back in 1997 as co-founder of a small startup company in North Carolina. From there she went to Red Hat. Now she's the U.S. general manager for Trustix. Teresa says Linux is an easier corporate "sell" today than ever before, and is likely to be an even easier one in the future.
Battle between Linux and Microsoft
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/2048233
US-based computer maker Sun Microsystems and business software giant Oracle Corp on Wednesday announced an alliance intended to break into Microsoft's dominance in India's server market.
Dell details new Linux-on-Itanium 2 server http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1818228
Michael S. Mimoso writes "This week's release of the TOP500 supercomputing list illustrates the breadth to which Linux is present in compute-intensive environments. A Linux cluster built for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in the United States ranked No. 3 on the list, for example."
New VariCAD 9.0.1.0 Released
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1819248
Marek Dedecius writes "VariCAD (www.varicad.com)is proud to announce the recent release of its mechanical CAD system - VariCAD 9.0.1.0. The compact CAD package includes many powerful tools for 3D modeling and 2D drafting, libraries of mechanical parts, surface development, calculations of standard mechanical components, tools for working with bills of materials (BOM) and title blocks. It is a compact system featuring all necessary tools that the ...
Mandrake Goes For High Performance Clustering http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1754240
uninet writes "At the International Supercomputer Conference 2003 today, MandrakeSoft announced its latest entry to the company's growing portfolio of middle-to-high end server products. MandrakeClustering is a high performance clustering distribution for IA-32 and AMD64 (Opteron) architectures. IA-64 support should come in September, the company reported."
Better Java garbage collection with IBM's JDK 1.4. http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1743250
Anonymous Reader writes "This article discusses incremental compaction, a new feature in the memory management component of IBM JDK 1.4.0. Incremental compaction is a way of spreading compaction work across different garbage collection cycles, thereby reducing pause times. The authors discuss the need for incremental compaction, the compaction phases at a high level, and some runtime parameters. They also explain how to interpret changes in the ...
UnitedLinux Launches "UnitedLinux Ready" Partner Program for Independent http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1659249
WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- June 25, 2003 - UnitedLinux, the industry consortium comprised of Conectiva, The SCO Group (NASDAQ:SCOX), SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, today introduced the UnitedLinux Ready Partner program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). This program allows ISVs to self-test and certify their products on UnitedLinux. Upon the completion of certification, ISVs will be designated "UnitedLinux Ready" partners, easily identified by end ...
SGI Linux Cluster Scores Well on Benchmarks http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1648207
The SGI Altix 3000 server, running 64-bit Linux on Intel Itanium 2 processors, has scored very well on a number of industry standard performance benchmarks.
Sun signs up for Red Hat Enterprise Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1541215
Sun has entered into a global agreement with Red Hat to distribute the x86 versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In Search of the Ultimate Linux-Server Programming Language http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1536226
The safe bet in programming languages for Linux servers is, of course, Java. For those whose main concern is the secure transmission of code, it cannot be beat.
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