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[osdn starter] July 06, 2003
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Science Faction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1935229
[0]tqft sent in this article about [1]science fiction devices and
concepts making it to the real world.
Links
0. http://[moc.oohay] [ta] [ua_sworrubnai]
Screensaver Bug in Mac OS X
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/187203
[0]dave1212 writes "Still too early to tell, but there seems to be a
screen saver password [1]exploit in Mac OS X. It was discovered and
[2]postedon the Full Disclosure list earlier today. Theories, personal
tests, and rumours abound, with some success stories, and the
[3]possibility that it could affect all Cocoa programs. Speculation
points toward a 2048 character buffer, with people using the emacs
shortcuts Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y to fill the text field in under half a
minute."
Links
0. mailto:webmaster@paulprobert. c o m
1.
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1330224&mode=thread
2.
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010910.html
3.
http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=3493&cid=42899
VoIP Booming in Africa
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1737221
[0]securitas writes "The NY Times reports on the [1]rapid growth of
voice-over-IP telephony (VoIP) in sub-Saharan Africa and the battles it
is waging with the government monopolies/ILECs. VoIP upstarts are
taking market share from the government telcos, making it vastly more
affordable to make a phone call since they don't charge the usual
exorbitant tariffs and excessive user fees. Governments have responded
by shutting down these operations, seizing equipment and cutting off
service to lines they suspect of using Internet telephony. Part of the
boom is related to the wait times for getting a phone line (Ghana
Telecom has a backlog of 300,000 line requests), poor quality of
service (50% of time you get a busy signal instead of a dial-tone) plus
the willingness to trade voice quality for basic service. Foreign
companies are now setting up VoIP call centers and multinationals like
[2]gold giant Newmont Mining plan to use VoIP for communications in and
out of Africa. Some observers call Accra the next Bangalore, predicting
a boom for the region that may make sub-Saharan Africa a major
technology hub. This fits nicely with [3]Kofi Annan's drive to use the
Internet and [4]wireless networks to change the lives of the poor."
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/05/business/worldbusiness/05VOIC.html?pagewanted=all
2.
http://www.newmont.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/0438236&tid=95
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/2151237&tid=193
Sports Technology?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1733251
An anonymous reader writes "With the 90th [0]Tour de France starting today, it is fun to marvel at the improvement of road bike technology over the years. Like others, I have traded up from heavy steel to aluminum, and now carbon fiber, ending up with a bike far better than its rider. How have advances in sports technology enhanced your own performance and enjoyment of sport?" Links
Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1728201
strmcrw writes "[0] San Jose Mercury News has an [1]interview with
Linus. He talks about about SCO vs IBM and gives his opinion on
Microsoft. He also shed light on his decision to leave chip maker
Transmeta for a Linux corporate software consortium, the Open Source
Development Lab."
Links
0. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews
OWASP's VulnXML Database
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1712226
Ingo Struck writes "The [0]Open Web Application Security Project released the [1]VulnXML db for early access to the public. VulnXML is a description of static known vulnerabilities. It provides all necessary information to let an execution engine automatically craft and launch appropriate HTTP, SOAP or WebDAV requests and analyse the response whether the attack had success. Besides it provides some human readable classification of the described vulnerability. A tool to execute VulnXML records is currently being developed and will help developers to check their web applications against a suite of well-known vulnerabilities described in a portable format." Links
Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/171223
[0]Mauro Tortonesi writes "The [1]Deep Space 6 initiative publishes the
first of the new IPv6 Status Pages: [2]Current Status of IPv6 Support
for Networking Applications. The IPv6 Status Pages are a survey of the
current status of IPv6 support for the Linux networking stack, system
libraries and networking applications. At the moment there is only one
page concerning the IPv6 support of Linux networking applications, but
we are planning to publish more pages soon and to extend our target to
other important UNIX-derived OSes (e.g. *BSD) too."
Links
0. mailto:mauro@deepspace6.net
1.
http://www.deepspace6.net/
2.
http://www.deepspace6.net/docs/ipv6_status_page_apps.html
Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1551237
MFS! writes "Mount Shasta, California has become the latest city where
the USA PATRIOT act is creating a controversy. [0]This story at the
Record-Searchlight describes petitioning by a local citizens' rights
committee to order police to defy the PATRIOT act. To date, 3 states
and 130 cities have passed legislation forbidding local authorities
from cooperating with federal PATRIOT requests, not to mention the
numerous [1]businesses who are taking pains to hamper the Act's
coverage."
Links
0. http://www.redding.com/top_stories/local/20030705toplo043.shtml
Can Open Source Save Hardware?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1441256
Culexus writes "[0]Tom's Hardware has a interesting story about [1]Open Source saving the hardware industry. Pretty good read all in all. Hopefully chip makers and vendors won't have to bend to the iron might of Microsoft any longer." Some good comments on how early-adopters and enthusiasts are being marginalized by the industry, too. Links
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/
Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/05/1344226
Shackleford writes "[0]SecurityFocus has an article saying that two days of electronic eavesdropping at the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston last week [1]sniffed out more evidence that most Wi-Fi users still aren't securing their networks. Security vendor [2]AirDefense set up two of its commercial 'AirDefense Guard' sensors at opposite corners of the exhibit hall at the Boston World Trade Center, the site of the conference, and for two days analyzed the traffic flowing between conference-goers and 141 unencrypted access points set up by the conference for public use, and by vendors on the floor. What they found was that users checking their e-mail through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or another encrypted tunnel. Only three percent of e-mail downloads were encrypted on the first day of the conference, 12 percent on the second day." Links
0.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
1.
http://securityfocus.com/news/6290
2.
http://www.airdefense.net/
Linux.com
Happy 4th of July!
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/2328239
July 4th is Independence Day here in the United States of America, so NewsForge is taking a three-day weekend except for a few NewsVac items we'll post between now and Monday. See you then!
Xtops.DE: Promotion of FSC Linux Laptops for Stude http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1353251
Werner Heuser writes "Fujitsu-Siemens (Germany) prolong their promotion of Linux laptops for pupils and students until the 31st of July. The laptops are bundled with a SuSE 8.1 Evaluation CD. Debian GNU/Linux can be installed on request. The machines are available from Xtops.DE (Berlin, Germany)."
An interview with lunar-linux developer Auke Kok http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1346216
Q. Please tell us why Lunar Linux became your distribution of choice?
- About a year and a half ago I had gone through several distributions because none of them was meeting up to my personal demands of a good linux distro. I had already used SUSE on a couple of production servers but I ran into trouble when I tried to compile my own applications.
SCO's chief taking Linux beef to Japan
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1335222
A decision by eight consumer giants, most of them Japanese, to throw their support behind Linux has the chief executive officer of SCO Group on the move. Darl McBride, whose company recently launched a legal attack on Linux for alleged patent infringements, will go to Japan this week in an attempt to prove his point with some of the manufacturers that came together last week as the CE Linux Forum (CELF).
Would Microsoft Open Sourcing NT be Linux's Nemesis? http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2113210
Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it should now release its source code to the open-source community in order to fight off the challenge from Linux, Munir Kotadia claims. OSNews debunks the suggestion and explains that it wouldn't make business sense for Microsoft."
Back to BASIC
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2021257
Few languages have been as popular over the years as BASIC. Until about a decade ago, almost every programmer cut his teeth learning BASIC. Indeed, the name itself came from Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. If you've had BASIC training, can you find a familiar flavor that runs under Linux? Because it is not enough to find a good BASIC language implementation for Linux; one must find a BASIC language variant that approximates ...
Linux v Microsoft: the battle for hearts and servers http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2019255
Storage on demand is a new concept that will help organisations maximise the value of their information assets. Find out how IBM on demand technologies like storage virtualisation and autonomic computing could help your company reduce costs and exploit enterprise data to the full.
Athene 3.1 Puts a New Face on Desktop Computing http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1959240
Rocklyte Systems writes "Rocklyte Systems is pleased to announce the latest version of its free multi-platform operating system environment, Athene 3.1. Available for Linux and Windows, Athene supports the rare ability of being able to function on competing operating systems, while also maintaining its own independent OS infrastructure (the Athenyx 2003 CDROM series). The 3.1 release of Athene continues to make significant gains in the ...
ING Canada to Embrace Linux in Network Upgrade http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1918204
Financial services firm ING Canada is now among the latest enterprise networks to embrace open-source operating system Linux as part of a wide-ranging plan to upgrade its Internet-based operations.
Playing with disaster could save lives for real http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1833230
In a major disaster, it's one thing being able to put out fires efficiently and deal with medical emergencies on the spot, but you have to get your emergency vehicles there first.
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