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[osdn starter] July 05, 2003
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Duct Tape Goes Minature
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/225206
[0]metal_llama writes "There is a story in the [1]Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel about a man, [2]Christopher Blummel, who "has a vision for a
better world - one where every man would carry in his wallet a small
cellophane packet containing a product that can come in handy in an
emergency. Duct tape." This is exactly what I've always wanted: an
ever-handy supply of duct tape."
Links
0. mailto:metal_llama@techie.com
1.
http://www.jsonline.com/
2.
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/may03/141675.aspO'Reilly on the Commoditization of Software http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1955241
[0]Iorek writes "[1]International Data Group/Sverige has a great
[2]interview with Tim O'Reilly, CEO of [3]O'Reilly & Associates Inc.
From predictions of eBay's purchase of Oracle to discussions of the
failings of open source licenses, O'Reilly's certainly not reserved. I
couldn't help but be reminded of the rise of this site and
[4]slashcode."
Links
0.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8536/
1.
http://www.idg.se/
2.
http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/idgnet.asp?id=4635
3.
http://www.oreilly.com/
4.
http://slashcode.com/Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Dividend http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1923250
Dreadnougat writes "Microsoft is [0]considering paying out a $10 billion dividend, the largest corporate payout ever. Cynics (ok, anyone reading /.) might note that Bill Gates stands to make $1.18 billion himself off the $1 a share dividend, in comparison to the $95 million he makes in a normal year off the regular 8 cents a share dividend." Links
Gnumeric Turns 5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1844203
[0]Jody Goldberg writes "Five years ago, Miguel [1]committed the first
code for Gnumeric to CVS. In a testament to the quality of the code
several lines are still in use. Since that time the project has grown
to more than 300,000 lines and now supports all 325 [2]worksheet
functions in MS Excel, plus almost 100 more. This seemed like a good
time to thank all the people who have contributed to Gnumeric over the
years. We're about to start the run up to the the next stable release
which will be out in a few weeks and we look forward to continuing work
with GNOME, and the community at large to produce the most powerful
spreadsheet in the world."
Links
0. mailto:jody@gnome.org
1.
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=gnumeric/src/sheet.c&rev=1.1&root=/cvs/gnome
2.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/functions.shtml
NASA Benchmarks the New G5 Powermac
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1813255
sockit2me9000 writes "Well [0]NASA's Langley Research Center recently
[1]benchmarked the new G5 dual 2ghz Powermac against a dual 1ghz
Xserve, a dual 1.25 ghz Powermac, a Pentium4 2 ghz, and a Pentium4 2.66
ghz. To make things fair, the second processor in the G5 was switched
off, as well as the other dual sysytems. Then, they all ran Jet3d. Even
with un-optimized code and one processor, the G5 performance is
impressive."
Links
Government Information Awareness
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1313222
gbjbaanb writes "Wired News is [0]reporting about the GIA, software
inspired by the TIA program. 'Researchers at the MIT Media Lab unveiled
the [1]Government Information Awareness, or GIA, website Friday. Using
applications developed at the Media Lab, GIA collects and collates
information about government programs, plans and politicians from the
general public and numerous online sources. Currently the database
contains information on more than 3,000 public figures. The premise of
GIA is that if the government has a right to know personal details
about citizens, then citizens have a right to similar information about
the government.'"
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59495,00.html
Linus Says Pre-2.6 is Coming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/138231
[0]gomoX writes "As seen on [1]C|Net , Linus has announced that the
pre-2.6 series will be starting in early July. Despite not having been
able to meet the release goal for 2.6 in June 2003, the next stable
version is not as far away as you may think. You can take your guess
based on the fact there was a 9 month period between first test version
of 2.4 and the official release of 2.4.0 on January 2001."
Links
Project Gutenberg's 32nd Birthday
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/134216
[0]David Moynihan writes "July 4th marks the 32nd anniversary of that
day in 1971 when [1]Michael Hart first sped an all-caps version of the
[2]Declaration of Independence to anyone and everyone then on what
later became the web, thus founding [3]Project Gutenberg. Thanks to an
army of volunteers and the [4]Distributed Proofreaders, this is the
last year PG will have fewer than 10,000 titles. Strangely,
[5]Microsoft picked this dual anniversary of literacy and freedom to
re-launch their [6]Reader product, with three [7]free bestsellers a
week, if you activate the new version with Passport, sign a EULA, etc.
Real reason for the upgrade might be that the DRM on MS's old Reader
was [8]cracked. If you're not into giving away data, or are running a
system other than Windows, maybe you could take the time to tell a
friend about free books online, or even help out by visiting the
[4]Distributed Proofers and editing one page per day."
Links
0.
http://www.blackmask.com
1.
http://www.promo.net/hart
2.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext90/when11.txt
3.
http://www.promo.net/pg
4.
http://www.pgdp.net/
5.
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/
6.
http://www.microsoft.com/reader
7.
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/promotions/free_shop.asp
8.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979778.html
Hubble Catches Some Cosmic Fireworks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/136218
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "On this Fourth of July, it's usual -- at
least in the U.S. -- to watch fireworks. But I want to invite you to
see very special ones, celestial fireworks discovered by the Hubble
Space Telescope. [1]Astronomy Magazine has the story. "In a newly
released image, the Hubble Space Telescope peers into a neighboring
galaxy to capture a gorgeous view of a supernova remnant called LMC N
49. Also known as DEM L 190, the nebula lies within the Large
Magellanic Cloud approximately 160,000 light-years away." Read [2]this
summary for more details and a nice illustration from the Hubble
Heritage Team. You can find additional tons of information at this
[3]Hubble Heritage Project page."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/400qhcjc.asp
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/07/04.html
3.
http://heritage.stsci.edu/current/00/index.html
A Game of Thrones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1445206
[0]Dark Paladin writes "Recently, I asked readers to recommend some
good books that were out there. There were crows for the usual crowd,
like Terry Pratchet, Nail Gaiman, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, so on
and so forth. But one name that kept coming up over and over again as a
"must read" was R. R. Martin and the book "A Game of Thrones". So after
the umpteenth "you've got to check it out or I'll burn your hat", I
decided to give it a shot. And discovered one of the best read fantasy
novels I've read in a decade. The story is your base fantasy stuff -
"long ago, some bad things happened, but things are good - but watch
out - the bad times are coming again!" Read on for the rest of his
review.
Links
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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Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
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Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
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PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/
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Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
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Caffeine: Jolt Gum - Spearmint Office Fishbowl http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/612a/
Gadgets: Biometric Mouse
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