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[osdn starter] July 29, 2003
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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India Chooses All-Electronic Voting
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/0022242
MaximusTheGreat writes "While the U.S. debates the merits of e-voting, India has decided to have [0]all electronic polls in the next elections for its billion strong population. Though India has used e-voting partially in previous elections, it will be the first time a Lok Sabha (central parliament) election will be held in the country since 1952 without the use of ballot papers. Election Commission plans to use about [1] 800,000 electronic voting machines. Also, taking note from India's experience, other commonwealth countries like Malaysia and Britain will be [2] sending representatives to India to see the use of EVMs during the Assembly elections. On a related note they plan to make voter's identity card [1] mandatory for voting." Links
0.
http://sify.com/news/politics/fullstory.php?id=13201701
1.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=99968
2.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/03062201.htmMitch Bainwol To Succeed Hilary Rosen As RIAA Head http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/043224
bmarklein writes "The [0]RIAA has announced that it has named Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, as chairman & CEO. He replaces Hilary Rosen, who left earlier this month. This confirms the speculation that the RIAA would appoint a well-connected Republican (Rosen was a Democrat)." Several readers have submitted links to [1]CNET's coverage as well. Links
0. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=3173482
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/027227
An anonymous reader submits: The [0]Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone
Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released their
first milestone: [1] version 0.1, available for Mac [2]Linux, [3]Mac OS
X and [4]Windows. The [5]v0.1 release notes highlight some of the
bigger features like [6]customizable toolbars, [7]UI extensions,
[8]contact manager sidebar, simplified UI, 3-pane mail window option,
and [9]spell checker. Also of note, [10]Mozilla's usage share has risen
from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!"
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
1.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/
2.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2
3.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-macosx.dmg.gz
4.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-win32.zip
5.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/release-notes.html
6.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/screenshot.png
7.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/extensions.html
8.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/images/abPicker.png
9.
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/
10.
http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox23.html
IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/0049210
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that [0]IBM has launched
a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that
SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier
shipment of an open-source Linux product." [1]JayJay.br points out a
similar but more colorful article on The Register "in which SCO says
that 'SCO-Caldera [2]does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling
File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory
Access) software, and other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed
to the Linux kernel.' Gee, now that I was almost buying their license
..."
Links
0.
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39143645,00.htm
1. mailto:jjayNO@SPAMlinuxmail.org
2.
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Copyrights_Story01.html
What Is The Real Cost of Spam?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/236202
[0]securitas writes "The NY Times has a nice feature about the
[1]diverging estimates of the costs of spam ([2]Google). The estimates
vary widely from $10 billion to $87 billion per year for American
workers, and even more for global costs. Critics say that research
firms' estimates vastly overstate the actual cost of spam. Public
institutions like Indiana University have to be sensitive to the First
Amendment rights of the spammers. And at companies like Nortel
Networks, security architect Chris Lewis says that the real economic
burden is the 10 to 15 percent - 5,000 to 10,000 messages a day - of
the spam that still gets through, which costs the company about $1 in
lost productivity per message. The costs can be much higher if a top
executive is upset or mad about spam. "If someone in senior management
gets spammed," Mr. Lewis said, "it could take 20 or 30 hours of
everyone's time, up and down the chain." A chart of the [3]per user
amount of spam and the time spent processing it, as well as the
[4]varying estimates of the per user cost of spam are included in the
article."
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28SPAM.html?pagewanted=all
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28SPAM.html?ex=1059969600&en=03c30276f54a51a7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/07/27/technology/28SPAM.chartjpg.html
4.
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/07/27/business/28SPAM.chartjp.jpg
The Failures Of Desktop Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2227246
[0]PDAJames writes "Maybe Linux isn't quite ready for the desktop after
all. After an earlier, [1]very positive evaluation of SuSE Linux
Desktop, ZDNet UK has carried out a more in-depth review, [2]running
the system in a production environment for two weeks, and found it
wanting. A key problem area was interacting with the corporate Windows
network. When will this stuff finally be ironed out?"
Links
0. mailto:pdajames@yahoo.com
1.
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020466,2136603,00.htm
2.
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/review/42/1/5326.htmlNew Directions In Music Tech At Siggraph http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2126254
Cyrrin writes "The 2003 Siggraph [0]conference is under way in San
Diego, and the Emerging Technologies booth is showcasing several
noteworthy projects in the field of human-computer interaction in music
production. First, The Continuator system, from [1]Sony Computer
Science Laboratory, Paris which learns in real-time the style of a
performing pianist, taking into account chord structures, rhythm, and
melody, and then renders a musical performance in a similar style. Next
is [2]The Augmented Composer Project which uses real-time image
processing to read the arrangement and orientation of symbolic cards on
a table to allow a composer to assemble components of a musical phrase.
Finally, those wizards at the [3]MIT Media Lab bring you Hyperscore, a
visual composition program which is intended for childen to be able to
easily create complex and fantastic music sequences. (And it's fun for
adults too!) Hyperscore is part of the [4]Toy Symphony project and is
available for download by going to the Musictoys->Hyperscore-> Showcase
page (Windows-only though)."
Links
0.
http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/
1.
http://www.csl.sony.fr/
2.
http://www.mis.atr.co.jp/~rodney/
3.
http://www.media.mit.edu/
4.
http://toysymphony.net/
Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2119237
[0]seattlenerd writes "In light of all of the hype about how much cash
Microsoft is sitting on, it's good to be reminded that they do fail. A
lot. [1]This piece in Seattle Weekly points out some of the many
failures -- from ActiMates Barney to Microsoft at Work to pending
disasters in smartphones and interactive TV (despite recent PR-worthy
announcements). But like most litter, the failures are swept under the
rug in the hopes people don't remember that many 'new' Microsoft ideas
are recycled from its own history." Of course, like any big company,
Microsoft is not a monolith.
Links
0. http://www.bytemeonline.com
Tim O'Reilly Interview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2221217
[0]s4 news machine writes "The UK webcaster [1]stage4 has published a
[2]lengthy interview with Tim O'Reilly in which he talks about why DRM
will fail, Macromedia Central and the rise of webservices, and that
Microsoft should have been broken up."
Links
0.
http://www.stage4.co.uk
1.
http://ww.stage4.co.uk/
2.
http://stage4.co.uk/full_story.php?newsID=272
Essential .NET, Volume I
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2230220
[0]hmobius writes "In a world where developers are baying for
customers' attentions, very few people can claim to command that of the
developer. Their blogs may be the only clue to the higher level of
thinking that they operate at, creating the answers to why and when
code works in addition to the perennial how. Whether he likes it or
not, Don Box is one such system-meister. He may dislike writing books,
but when one comes out, people pay attention and read. His first foray
into text, Essential COM, was the book to explain how COM worked, and
his latest, Essential .NET, takes the .NET Framework’s Common Language
Runtime (CLR), and does exactly the same." Read on for the rest of
hmobius' review.
Links
0. mailto:danm@hmobius.com
Linux.com
Xandros Announces $100,000.00 LinuxWorld Giveaway
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2142201
Steve Harris writes "Xandros, Inc., provider of the award-winning Xandros Desktop, today announced a $100,000.00 giveaway of Xandros Desktop Deluxe to attendees of the San Francisco LinuxWorld convention, August 5-7, 2003.
Nvidia Releases New Graphics Drivers for Linux Platform http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2137222
WHAT: NVIDIA Corporation (http://www.nvidia.com), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, has just posted new Linux drivers for its award-winning GeForce graphics processing units. The new drivers are version 1.0-4496 with a release date of July 28, 2003.
Deviant Technologies, Inc. Announces Availability of InterIMR, Secure Enterprise Instant Messaging S http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2030202
GUILFORD, Conn., July 28, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deviant Technologies, Inc. (www.devianttechnologies.com), an innovative developer of affordable enterprise server appliances, announced today that it will begin marketing InterIMR, its new server appliance, designed to provide employers with a secure, archivable instant messaging alternative to expensive software based solutions. The InterIMR appliance, which has been in beta testing at ...
Xandros Releases Xandros Desktop 1.1
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2023205
New York, July 28, 2003 - Xandros, Inc., provider of the award-winning Xandros Desktop, has released a 1.1 edition of Xandros Desktop Deluxe. Version 1.1 enhancements include:
Intellectual Property and Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/205229
Lets push aside all the analysts as well as McBride. Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds and get to the meat of it. Does Linux contain Unix IP. Undoubtedly it does. Bill Gates in a recent meeting with financial analysts claimed that Open Source software contains Microsoft Intellectual Property. Does Open Source software contain Microsoft IP? Most certainly it does. Now before I get crucified and hung from my toenails and ...
ELX Linux: Moving businesses to Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/202222
Anonymous Reader writes "DesktopLinux.com recently contacted ELX Linux to learn about the company's desktop strategy, market conditions, and business activities. ELX Founder and Chief Software Architect, Abhi Datt offered us the following exclusive insight into market conditions and programs that are allowing ELX to convert 200-300 corporate/institutional desktops a month to Linux. Datt discusses Lufthansa India and others who have adapted to ...
In your WebFace: SCO's shell game
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/201212
Anonymous Reader writes "Last week SCO announced acquiring the assets and technology of Vultus, a web services company, who offer web development tools called WebFace ("Runs on Internet Explorer 5 and up").
Linux Appliance Upgraded
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/1956245
Clustering Specialist RainFinity Inc. this week will launch RainStorage 2.0, which adds support for Windows, said officials, in San Jose, Calif. Prior versions of the Linux appliance, which is used to limit downtime for NAS (network-attached storage), worked only with Unix-based Network File System. The new version works with Common Internet File System.
IBM forges ahead with DB2-Linux plans
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/1811207
Jeff Jones, IBM's director of strategy for data management solutions, spoke recently with SearchDatabase.com about Big Blue's Linux strategy for its DB2 customers. Jones refused to comment on SCO Group's complaint that IBM, as part of its Linux strategy, illegally distributed proprietary SCO source code to the open-source community. IBM has denied the charges. Jones said the company is forging ahead with a plan to make DB2 the favorite among ...
Linux Makes Messaging Moves
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/1744207
Messaging and collaboration software vendors Scalix Corp., IBM's Lotus Software division, Novell Inc. and Open Wave Inc. are each moving to meet enterprises' increasing demands for Linux-based software at the server and client levels.
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