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[osdn starter] July 09, 2003
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Another Water-Cooling System For Laptops
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2354216
[0]big writes "NEC has developed the world's first [1]slim sized
water-cooling module for notebooks. It uses a piezoelectric pump
driving method. This water cooling-module enables a highly advanced,
slim sized, notebook PC with minimal operating noise." Toshiba has been
working on [2]water cooling in laptops at least as far back as the year
2000.
Links
0. mailto:big@fack.net
1.
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C1811/
2.
http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/2000/0400-2.htmlWarriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/0132204
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Philadelphia Inquirer
article [0]linking videogames to an alleged spree killing attempt.
According to the article, "Investigators suspect the three teens
arrested.. as they allegedly were about to launch a killing rampage in
the small town, found inspiration in violent computer games.. [police]
learned that the name the three reportedly had given themselves -
Warriors of Freedom - is also an Internet-based combat game." But only
a few media reports mention that the violent game connection was made
by Jack Thompson, a Miami lawyer and [1]outspoken critic of [2]violent
video and [3]computer games - is this a case of [4]shameless Googling
to find [5]any obscure game with a similar name and make a connection,
or is there genuine evidence here?
Links
0.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/6253512.htm
1.
http://www.fradical.com/Sniper_trained_on_Halo.htm
2.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/5966240.htm
3.
http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/02/26.html
4.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22warriors+of+freedom%22+game&btnG=Google+Search
5.
http://www.dd-clan.org/rpg/
Armadillo Aero One Step Closer To Space
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2328203
[0]RobertB-DC writes "The folks at [1]Armadillo Aerospace have taken
another step toward the X-Prize, dropping their re-entry vehicle from
2000 feet with no major problems noted. As usual, the Armadillo crew
[2]documented the event with text, pictures and video, and the story is
also [3]covered by Space.com (though without as many cool technical
details). It's a bumpy ride, though -- instruments recorded some 10 G's
on touchdown."
Links
0.
http://www.dixie-chicks.com/
1.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
2.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=215
3.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/armadillo_test_030707.html
Wi-Fi, Linux, And VoIP In Canada
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2039213
WEFUNK writes "Canadian Business magazine has a [0]cover story
promoting Wi-Fi, VoIP, and Linux as 'Stuff that Works: 3 hot
technologies that live up to their hype.' The article goes on to
describe a number of Canadian success stories, ranging from [1]Spotnik
Mobile's growing network of Wi-Fi hotspots to the [2]Canadian National
Railway's use of Linux since 1993, and quantifies the benefits of VoIP
to a Canadian [3]insurance company's call centre. The article also
includes some shipment numbers for Linux servers in Canada, mentions
the growing number of Linux apps, and nicely downplays the SCO
debacle."
Links
0.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columns/article.jsp?content=20030707_54765_54765
1.
http://www.spotnikmobile.com/
2.
http://www.cn.ca/
3.
http://www.canadalife.ca/Glitches in Massive Government Databases? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2059205
HBergeron asks: "Rather then post this as another YRO in the litany of new government datamarts there is a more fundamental question for all the coding Slashdot readers out there. [0]This story, in [1]Government Executive magazine, outlines the range of programming glitches in what is a relatively simple database. As a matter of public policy (and taxpayer money) is this level of non-functionality to be expected in these sorts of projects? Is the contractor just ripping off the taxpayers with bad code? How hard is it to write software like this that works?" The article focuses on the [2]SEVIS database, but have others noticed similar trend in other government information systems? Links
0.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0703/070303h1.htm
1.
http://www.govexec.com/
2.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/0756253&tid=158Extending And Embracing In Portland At OSCON 2003 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2222243
Officially, the theme of [0]this year's Open Source Software Convention
(OSCON) 2003 is "Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software," and to
that end approximately 1,500 attendees (and companies including Apple,
Active State, online book-seller Powells.com and MySQL) are sharing
space in three floors of Portland's downtown Marriott, and will until
the conference's close on Friday. ([1]Representatives from Microsoft
are along for the ride, too. Lunch on Wednesday is Microsoft's treat.)
An unoffical theme of ubiquitious connectivity and creative
collaborative in much in evidence as well: besides the
conference-furnished wireless access points throughout the classroom
area, numerous other base stations (like the one I'm connected to right
now) have popped up. What do you expect with more than a thousand
laptop-toting programmers in one hotel? There's also a
[2]"semi-unofficial" wiki ([3]applauded by Tim O'Reilly), an [4]ongoing
web log of the conference, and an irc channel filled with conference
attendees. Read on for more.
Links
0.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/
1.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185987,00.asp
2.
http://oscon.kwiki.org/
3.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3404
4.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3438
Open Source Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/204225
[0]Russ Nelson writes "The U.S. Supreme Court just announced its
refusal to review the 5th Circuit's en banc decision that there can be
no copyright of privately authored laws offered to U.S. governmental
bodies for adoption. The model law itself may be copyrighted, but once
it's adopted, the law must be open source. The entire case is laid out
on [1]Peter Veeck's page." Slashdot [2]touched on this before, but
never really covered this dispute in depth. Here's a nice [3]legal
summary of the case.
Links
0.
http://russnelson.com
1.
http://regionalweb.texoma.net/cr/filings.htm
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/13/1921223&tid=153
3.
http://www.gtwassociates.com/answers/veeck.htm
Evolving the Wireless Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1953238
An anonymous reader writes "This article is one of the first to discuss
[0]wireless robotics from an integrated approach. It explains the ins
and outs of wireless robots: their components, their shortcomings, and
how they can interact in a competitive or cooperative team within
professional environments. Learn how smarter robots can relieve us of
the most tedious -- and dangerous -- tasks."
Links
0. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-robotics.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01WirelessRobots
Inside Electronic Voting Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1949200
[0]Alien54 and several other people wrote in about a couple of stories
published in a New Zealand webzine: an [1]examination of an electronic
voting system, and some less interesting [2]political speculation about
it. [3]Diebold voting systems are in fairly wide use, and apparently
provide zero security to keep election officials from writing in
whatever election totals they want.
Links
0.
http://radiofreenation.net
1.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
2.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm
3.
http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/
Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/182211
[0]hexidec writes "Haven't seen this here yet, though I may have missed
it. Anyway... A group of Australian techies have put together an
analysis [1]matrix of the likelyhood of each SCO Unix claim being true,
and what outcome would most likely result if so. Puts a lot of the
various recent suppositions in one handy place."
Links
0. mailto:deviledham@techie.com
Linux.com
South Africa, Nigeria move on Linux adoption
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/217236
ACCRA - Countries in Africa are gradually adopting strategies that promote the use of Linux as an alternative to Windows, and South Africa is leading the charge, with the government's recent approval of an open source software adoption plan.
MontaVista Software and INFOCITY Enable Faster Boot http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1959245
Annette Oevermann writes "SUNNYVALE, Calif. and TOKYO, July 8 2003 -- MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, and INFOCITY, Inc. today announced that INFOCITY's new product, FlashBoot, supports MontaVista® Linux® Professional Edition 3.0 (Pro) as i ts first reference operating system (OS).
Interview with Christophe de Dinechin, HP-UX Engin http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/198241
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews has an interview with Christophe de Dinechin, Software Architect at Core HP-UX Operation. HP-UX is today the leading "traditional" UNIX feature-wise (second only to Solaris in Unix market-share, competing with AIX). They discuss HP-UX's competition, the decision to kill their Gnome port, the other... 5 OSes HP supports with its various products, the Itanium platform and more."
MySQL appliance for Linux arrives
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1850201
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Pogo Linux and MySQL have partnered on the first MySQL appliance optimized for Linux. Analysts are high on the open-source database, but they're hesitant on the uptake of appliances in most enterprises."
MontaVista Software and Motorola to Make Available http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/187251
Annette Oevermann writes "Austin, Texas, and Sunnyvale, Calif., July 8, 2003 -- Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE:MOT) Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS), the world leader in RF (radio frequency) and embedded silicon solutions, and MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced that MontaVistaÒ LinuxÒ Professional Edition 3.0 will support the Motorola i.MX1 and i.MXL family of applications processors.
OSCON 2003 Day One
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1748246
Since I live a few miles west of Portland, I took the MAX light rail downtown. The eastbound stop is several blocks north of the hotel, so we hiked to the hotel. I'd never been to this Mariott before -- it's a great location. It's right by the riverfront, with lots of good restaurants and shops within walking distance.
Linux Router project is dead
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1712209
Anonymous Reader writes "The operating system that helped to create the embedded Linux marketplace, the Linux Router Project (LRP), is dead."
Rackspace offers hosting on Red Hat Enterprise Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1623239
Business customers seeking to run their applications, infrastructures or Web sites on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux server operating system without having to do all the work themselves can now get help from Rackspace Managed Hosting.
Vendor lock-in, part 1: Proprietary and lock-in not necessarily synonymous http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1534230
Michael S. Mimoso writes "In part one of a three-part series, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com experts explain what vendor lock-in is, describe how vendors lock in customers and discuss whether every proprietary product leads to lock-in."
A Tale of 2 Operating Systems.
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1519213
Change is inevitable in any system. My experiences the last few weeks have only served as reminders of this very fundamental law for everything. 2 long-term clients of the company I work for have decided to migrate their Enterprise Management System (EMS) software to a Linux platform.
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