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[osdn starter] July 07, 2003
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Space Blog
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/2214253
[0]LooseChanj writes "[1]Ed Lu, a member of the Expedition 7 crew of
the ISS has been sending back some extremely well written and
interesting [2]commentary about his mission, and some of the things one
has to deal with in space. This is exactly the kind of stuff we need to
see more of out of NASA!"
Links
0. mailto:LooseChanj@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.astronautix.com/astros/lu.htm
2.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/
SARS Contained
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/223212
The World Health Organization has declared that [0]SARS is contained,
for now. Toronto has engaged in extensive [1]analysis of the outbreak
there, leading to a number of interesting and in-depth stories about
the progression of the disease.
Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/06/MN305304.DTL
Linksys Releases GPLed Code for WRT54G
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/2121234
[0]petree writes "I stumbled across this on the [1]Linksys website.
Linksys has apparently caved to [2]community pressure and released the
[3]GPLed source for linux running on their [4]WRT54G. Cool Beans!"
Links
0.
http://brainsoup.duckies.org
1.
http://www.linksys.com/
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/1749217&tid=193
3.
http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp
4.
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508
Gator-style Overlay Ads Are Legal, Says Court http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/2119239
[0]donutz writes "[1]C|Net has the scoop: "A federal court has ruled
that pop-up ads for rivals of U-Haul International, placed atop the
moving company's own site by a third-party software application, are
legal." In this case, it was ad serving company [2]WhenU.com placing
the ads, but this decision could have a big impact on the court cases
that involve competitor [3]Gator."
Links
0.
http://byzantinecommunications.com/adamhoward/
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-1022791.html?part=dtx&tag=ntop
2.
http://whenu.com/
3.
http://gator.com/
Learning Reverse Engineering
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/2014230
[0]TheBoostedBrain writes "[1]Mike Perry and [2]Nasko Oskov have
written a very complete [3]article about reverse engineering. It
provides an introduction to reverse engineering software under both
Linux and Windows."
Links
0.
http://dan-alonso.org
1. mailto:mikepery@fscked.org
2. mailto:nasko@netsekure.org
3.
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmil/RevEng/
Nobel Prize Winners on Sci-Fi Flicks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/1825209
scientistguy writes "In case you missed it, Harold Varmus, [0]Nobel
prize winning retrovirologist and cancer biologist, former [1]NIH
director, and current [2]head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, has written a [3]review of [4]28 Days Later in this weekend's
[3]New York Times. One would think that his time is more valuably spent
running important medical institutions, searching for new cancer
insights/cures, etc, but the dude's also an English lit major and has a
penchant for sci-fi. [4]28 Days Later is the new flick from director
Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, etc.) about a virus termed
rage that is advertently released from a Cambridge primate research
facility and goes on to devastate much of merry old England more
rapidly than the dragons did in [5]Reign of Fire. Although Varmus
appears to go out of his way to be even handed, it's clear that he has
a problem suspending disbelief on a topic (virology) that is near and
dear to him. Reviews from professional movie critics on 28 Days Later
have been mixed, but [6]Ebert and another [7]NY Times reviewer were
into it. Good, clean summer fun - aside from 'the scenes of maiming,
dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting'."
Links
0.
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1989/index.html
1.
http://www.nih.gov/about/director/varmus.htm
2.
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/515.cfm
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/movies/06VARM.html?ex=1058068800&en=ae591d3dd44dd76f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
4.
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/28dayslater/
5.
http://video.go.com/reignoffire/flash.html
6.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-later27f.html
7.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6D8113BF934A15755C0A9659C8B63
Addicted to Information?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/1757258
[0]SiMac writes "According to this New York Times article, two Harvard
faculty members say that information causes a "dopamine squirt" in
humans, a rush similar to that given by narcotics. Just as narcotics
are addictive, information is as well. They've given the [1]disorder of
information addiction the name 'pseudo-ADD' because it tends to cause
somewhat ADD-like symptoms."
Links
Estonia: Where the Internet is a Human Right http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/1748224
[0]securitas writes "The [1]Christian Science Monitor reports on
technological change in Estonia, where an enlightened post-Soviet era
government believes the Internet is essential for life in the 21st
century and backs that up with legislation declaring Internet access is
a human right. Estonia is a country where hot, running water was a
luxury a decade ago. It's now a place where farmers have broadband
Internet, 80% of the people use online banking, Internet usage and
broadband penetration rates are comparable to Western Europe, and the
government conducts most business (meetings, votes, document reviews,
etc.) virtually through a system of networked computers. Not bad for a
country that only 10 years ago was a crumbling, bankrupt mess with a
network infrastructure to match."
Links
CD Burners with Built in Compression
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/1624217
EconolineCrush writes "Bored of new CD-R/RW drives that only seem to
decrease burn times by a few seconds over their predecessors? Check out
[0]this review of Plextor's PlexWriter Premium over at [1]The Tech
Report. With an advertised CD-R burn speed of 52X, the PlexWriter is
certainly fast, but its ability to encrypt the contents of burned data
CDs and squeeze nearly a Gigabyte of data onto a 700MB disc is what
sets it apart from other high-speed burners."
Links
0. http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2003q3/plextor-premium/index.x?pg=1
Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/153229
[0]Moldy-Rutabaga writes "Technews says [1]filesharing has gone up 10%
on some sites such as Grokster since the Recording Industry Association
of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down
and suing users of file-sharing programs. Wayne Rosso, president of
Grokster, commented 'even genocidal litigation can't stop file
sharers'."
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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