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[osdn starter] August 04, 2003
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
X-Prize Overview: To The Edge Of Space, Cheap
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/028203
_randy_64 writes "The [0]X-Prize competition has gotten a lot of
coverage on Slashdot - either because it's cool and geeky or because
[1]John Carmack is involved. The Baltimore Sun has a decent
[2]background/overview article on the contest in Sunday's edition."
Links
0.
http://www.xprize.org/
1.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
2.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.xprize03aug03,0,6305320.story?coll=bal-health-headlines
Sluggish WiFi Connections Hurt Everyone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2259232
[0]MindNumbingOblivion writes "Wireless technology has revolutionized
access to local area networks when one can't always be close to an
ethernet jack. But a recent research paper from the French Centre
Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user
accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group. Apparently the very
nature of CSMA/CD guarantees such anomalies. [1]Here's the story, and
here's the [2]release from CNRS (in French)."
Links
0. mailto:anderld@auburn.edu
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1293&e=5&u=/cmp/20030802/tc_cmp/12807964&sid=95573432
2.
http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/237.htm?theme=3
How To 'Sell' Open Source Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210219
An anonymous reader writes "Have we missed the boat in terms of selling Linux to the average Joe? The writer of [0]this article at NewsForge certainly thinks so. He points out that most people don't yet get the idea of a free operating system, and that the best way to start winning them over is to provide free software for Windows, such as OpenOffice.org." This sentiment isn't new, but unlike a lot of commentators, the writer in this case is in a good place (as a retailer who's tried selling Linux-equipped systems) to observe the man-on-the-street reaction to Free operating systems as of 2003. Links
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/02/2144241.shtml?tid=19
MPAA Opens Anti-filesharing Website
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2044236
[0]PontifexPrimus writes "The MPAA's new advertising campaign against
movie piracy has a [1]home on the internet. Did you know that 'Network
users have a back door to your hard drive while you're online, thereby
seeing your personal, private information, such as bank records, social
security number, etc.'? [2] Learn about the dangers of filesharing!"
Links
0. mailto:Pontifexprimus@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/
2.
http://www.respectcopyrights.org/popup/why-3.htmlFlorida Citizens' Anti-trust Payout Dwarfed By Lawyers' http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/2131256
According to Robin "Roblimo" Miller's article on NewsForge, Florida
residents are receiving word by electronic and postal mail about the
[0]likely outcome of that state's class action suit against Microsoft
(last [1]mentioned on Slashdot last September): the upshot is that
Florida residents who purchased a Microsoft operating system or
Microsoft Office would be eligible for a settlement payment (in
vouchers) of $5-12; the lawyers involved are seeking $48 million in
fees. The settlement terms have several interesting clauses; for
instance, by accepting, you would be agreeing to "settle and release
all claims, demands, actions, suits, and causes of action against
Microsoft and/or its directors, officers, employees, attorneys,
insurers or agents, whether known or unknown, asserted or unasserted,
that any member of the Florida Settlement Class ever had, could have
had, now has or hereafter can, shall or may have, relating in any way
to ... any conduct, act or omission that was or could have been alleged
in this case as the basis for any antitrust or unfair competition
claims."
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210209&mode=nested&tid=3
Close Encounters Of The Mars Kind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1942257
[0]Lab_rat0 writes "Never again in our lifetimes will the Red Planet be
so spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars, an
encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two
planets in recorded history. This [1]article at EliteGeek has more
details. According to Agg over at [2]OCAU, this is probably the reason
for all the Mars probes launched over the last few months."
Links
0. mailto:labratNO@SPAMelitegeek.org
1.
http://www.elitegeek.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=258&mode=&order=0&thold=0
2.
http://www.overclockers.com.au/
Ricor PVRs To Hit Russia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1938243
BlackShirt writes "[0]Mediacenter acts as a digital video recorder, i.e. it enables the viewer to plan his/her future television broadcast recordings. 'Live' broadcasts can also be recorded. Program recordings are stored in the video archive, and the user can playback, delete or unable deleting of recordings[1] (here are some screenshots). I personally like their advertisements more than their product. (Shopping-tv style, wife doesn't allow to watch football, so disapponted husband knocks on his neighbors' door, as they turn their fabulous Ricor TV box from pause to play.)" It looks like this is being marketed to Russian cable companies as an all-in-one portal, since they also include electronic ordering capabilities and "near video on demand"; I wish American PVRs had all these features by default (ethernet, USB, microphone, camera inputs ...) Links
0. http://www.ricoritv.com/icl/eng/rus/indexX.htm
Sun Microsystems, SuSE Link Up To Sell Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1756249
ChilyWily writes "Reuters is reporting that [0]Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to resell and support closely held German software firm SuSE's version of the Linux operating system, the leading variant in Europe, the companies said on Friday. This agreement follows a similar one in May between Sun and Red Hat Inc. While I'm happy to see Sun's finally beginning to warm up to Linux (aka if you can't beat 'em, join 'em strategy) I wonder if this is too late for Sun?" Links
0. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3206067
Jonathan Zittrain On The Spiderweb of Copyright Law http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1725203
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for
Internet & Society, takes an unusual approach to critiquing copyright
in this [0]Legal Affairs article. He explains with an analogy to the
bizarre patchwork of United States tax codes a reason that (in the
words of one of Zittrain's colleagues) "all the cyberprofs hate
copyright." It goes beyond simple indignation that current copyright
laws often grant seemingly unfair monopoly powers, and into the tangled
minutia of the laws themselves.
Links
0. http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2003/feature_zittrain_julaug03.html
Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1555206
[0]Mark Wielaard writes "The [1]gcj team created a natively compiled
build of the [2]Eclipse IDE. The resulting binary starts up faster then
with any traditional JVM since there is no virtual machine to
initialize or slow byte code interpreter or just in time compiler
involved. This means that gcj got a lot better since the last
[3]Slashdot story in December about gcj and Eclipse. [4]Red Hat
provides [5]RPMs for easy installation. [6]Footnotes has [7]screenshots
by Havoc Pennington of the Eclipse IDE with GTK+ widgets."
Links
0.
http://www.klomp.org/mark/
1.
http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
2.
http://www.eclipse.org/
3.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/2239203&tid=117
4.
http://www.redhat.com/
5.
http://sources.redhat.com/eclipse/
6.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/
7.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=724
Linux.com
Florida residents may get vouchers from Microsoft, lawyers may get millions
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/210209
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Many Florida residents have received emails or postal mail explaining a potential settlement in a class-action suit against Microsoft on behalf of "Florida Purchasers of Microsoft MS-DOS, Windows, Office, Word or Excel Software, or a Personal Computer that Came with this Software." The upshot: Most of us will probably get vouchers worth $12 toward our next (retail) Linux distribution purchase, but the lawyers hope ...
OpenSource expands in Germany
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/205252
Marcin Pietralski writes: More7 is the first Polish company to implement Linux and Open Source based solutions in the European Union. At the beginning of 2003 More7 started implementing a series of content management systems (CMS) in German cities. In July the first of these projects was finished, a Linux-based CMS used to manage the Internet sites of the German city Obertshausen (near Frankfurt am Main). Several system components have been made ...
Interview with Judd Vinet of Arch Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1240248
ladislav writes "Arch Linux is one of those quiet and little-known distributions, rarely figuring in the headlines of major Linux news publications. Fortunately, the recent release of Arch Linux 0.5 and a continuously evolving changelog present enough proof that its developers and package maintainers are hard at work. We have spoken to Judd Vinet, the creator and lead developer of Arch Linux and its "pacman" software management utility about the ...
Linux spat clouds annual conference
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1250211
As the Linux community gathers this week for its annual conference in San Francisco, it should be celebrating the growing popularity of open-source software. But in the back of everyone's mind instead will be an ugly legal spat that has unsettled the Linux faithful.
Gartner's Advice on SCO, vs. the Real Story, per Netcraft http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1246227
I had an interesting email the other day from Mike Prettejohn of Netcraft, in which he contrasts the "go slow with Linux" advice of the Gartner Group in the wake of the SCO lawsuit with the tale of the tape as Netcraft sees it...
Experimental Mozilla Firebird Builds Available http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/03/1244254
Two experimental builds of Mozilla Firebird have been made available to help test some new enhancements. The first build, available for Windows and Linux, introduces some improvements to the Password Manager backend, such as always encrypting saved passwords. Backing up your existing passwords file is strongly recommended before trying this build.
WinHelp for Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/227210
Viktor Zadorev writes "The first beta version of the rich-feature viewer of documents in WinHelp file format for Linux - HelpExplorer has been released. HelpExplorer - is a full-feature system of help for OS Linux. It gives a wide range of capacities to customize the user's interface and it can be easily integrated into your applications. One of the main advantages of this system is 100% support of WinHelp help file format widely used in OS ...
Interview with Andy Robinson
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/224247
jleveille writes "Andy Robinson relates to high school kids that are bright, but don't get good grades. He understands the feeling of not fitting in, not getting along in the system, and not knowing where you're going to end up. His parents signed him up for some college computer classes and his life changed. “Not all at once,†he said in a phone interview with Linuxbeginner.org. “Until then I never really had much of an interest in ...
Attorneys critical of SCO
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/222211
Anonymous Reader writes: "An interesting legal commentary on SCO can be found at web page for the Law Office of Lewis A. Mettler which includes some highly critical comments about SCO, their actions, and their legal approach, including:
TuxMobil News Digest 07/2003
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2155253
Werner Heuser writes: This month's TuxMobil News digest has many good news for Linux PDA and laptop users. Here is an extract of the monthly digest, but note there are much more noteworthy issues, so do not miss to check the whole.
Thinkgeek
Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/
Gadgets: Microscope Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6222/
Gadgets: Candeloo Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5efd/
Computing: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/623c/
Electronics: Mustek GSm@rt D30 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/61a5/
PC Mods: Cigarette Lighter Mod
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/61fd/
PC Mods: Bubble Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/620c/
PC Mods: Meteor Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/6208/
Cube Goodies: Levitating Desktop Globes
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61da/
Tshirts: No, I will not fix your computer http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/
Interests: ph34r t3h Cute Ones T-Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/6155/
Tshirts: anti-RIAA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/61e7/
Tshirts: Safe Hex
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/61be/
Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/
Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/
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