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[osdn starter] August 16, 2003
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
India Plans Moon Mission by 2008
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/0124210
[0]LPetrazickis writes "According to [1]the Tribune, Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee [1]has announced today that India will send a
spacecraft to the moon by 2008. The Chandrayaan-I mission will showcase
Indian achievements in science and technology to the world. Both
European and Canadian Space Agencies [2]have shown interest in the
mission. [3]SifyNews reports that 2008 was initially [4]mispronounced
as 1908. Today is the 56th anniversary of India's independence."
Previous talk about this has come from the Indian space agency; this
announcement from the Prime Minister seems to have more weight.
Links
0. mailto:petrazi@nosPaM.sympatico.ca
1.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030816/main3.htm
2.
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=18946
3.
http://sify.com/news/
4.
http://sify.com/news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13226007Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/0034235
Neon Spiral Injector writes "[0]Rasterman of [1]Enlightenment fame has
finally updated the [2]news page of his personal site. It seems that
the behind the scenes work for E is coming along. He is investigating
rendering backends for [3]Evas. The default backend is a software
renderer written by Raster. Trying to gain a little more speed he
ported it to the XRender extension, only to find that it became 20-50
times slower on his NVidia card. He has placed some sample code on this
same news page for people to try, and see if this is also experienced
on other setups."
Links
0.
http://www.rasterman.com/
1.
http://www.enlightenment.org/
2.
http://www.rasterman.com/pages/news.html
3.
http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/evas.html
Mirror, Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1328214
PSaltyDS writes "A friend forwarded this to me... don't know where he
got it from. [0]Daniel Rozin, Director Of Research and adjunct
professor at [1]ITP, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU, and owner of
[2]SmoothWare Design, has built a [3]Mirror-like display as an art
project out of shiny balls. This seems to be a refinement of a [4]1999
Wooden Mirror project that is also pretty cool."
Links
0.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/bio.html
1.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/
2.
http://www.smoothware.com/
3.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/shinyballs.html
4.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/mirror.html
The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/233245
An [0]Anonymous Coward asks: "I work at a company with a large number of Linux servers in the data center. We're currently evaluating what distribution we want to use moving forward. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise from 7.2 would cost ~$350k just for the systems we already have deployed. Due to the change in Red Hat's release policy, we either have to move to Enterprise, or change distributions. Also, we don't have Oracle on any of these systems, but we will need it in the future. This leaves us with rather limited options. I'm interested hearing what other Slashdot readers are running, and planning?" Links
0. mailto:jrmywllng@yahoo.com
Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2210216
rocketjam writes "While examining whether outsourcing tech work to India is really cost-effective, Robert X. Cringely takes a look at the old conspiracy theory that [0]IT doesn't recommend Apple solutions because they need less support, thus endangering IT professionals' job security." Cringely argues: "Ideally, the IT department ought to recommend the best computer for the job, but more often than not, they recommend the best computer for the IT department's job." Links
0. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030814.html
Online Document Search Reveals Secrets
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2042249
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist is reporting that many documents published online may [0]unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online using a few freely available software tools and some basic programming techniques." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994057
Verizon Rolling Out Nextel-Like PTT Service http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2023216
[0]aberson writes "Verizon Wireless announced today that it is
[1]rolling out a PTT (push to talk) phone service, targetted at
business customers. They claim better coverage, 'presence'
(away/available), and wireless web for about $10 more than Nextel and
$10 more than a non-PTT Verizon plan. Pricing doesn't mention how
'high-speed' data will roll into this (which you can't get on Nextel),
but you are using the CDMA2000 network to essentially do VoIP. If only
it could be something cross-networkable like [2]Sonim. Just wait a few
months for the other carriers to catch up and [3]cellular [4]number
[5]portability to be enforced. Ironically, you can only get it on a
Motorola made phone. Also, Verizon seems to be not caring about Nextel
trying to [6]copyright a generic technical term."
Links
0.
http://dumbengineer.com
1.
http://news.vzw.com/news/2003/08/pr2003-08-14.html
2.
http://www.sonimtech.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1638222&tid=100
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1659207&tid=100
5.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1427229&tid=193
6.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/24/0038220&tid=155Experts Recommend Keeping Hubble Operational http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/198248
foolishtook writes " [0]The New York Times is [1]reporting that a panel of experts is recommending NASA to keep the [2]Hubble Space Telescope operating past 2010 when its replacement, the [3]James Webb Space Telescope, is currently slated for launch. NASA had stated that it wanted to bring the Hubble down in 2006 to make room in its budget for the Webb, but astronomers said that it still has a viable future and the launch date for the Webb is likely to be delayed." Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/national/15HUBB.html?ex=1061524800&en=b265c90e2d78c71c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
2.
http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/
3.
http://www.ngst.nasa.gov/index.html
WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1730200
Precisely nineteen months ago, Bill Gates sent out a [0]memo to
employees (and the press) announcing that security was Microsoft's
number-one priority. Today, about a hundred readers have submitted the
news that Microsoft.com [1]went down last night. And now, the company
has [2]"extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from
a [3]different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that
triggers at midnight. Related news: [4]Windows Update says you're
protected, but maybe you're not; [5]WU.com briefly ran Linux, heh;
[6]worm variant with clever "anatomical term."
Links
0.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-817343.html
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/15/HNmsfalls_1.html
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5063592.html
3.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
4.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39115732,00.htm
5.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.windowsupdate.com
6.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0308.html#3US Military Develops P2P Wireless Network Sniffer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/152202
Merlin83 writes "As being reported on [0]The Register, the [1]US Military is developing a new system for monitoring enemy battlefield communication. Called [2]WolfPack, each node is a 6"x4" cylinder, launched by missile or dropped from aircraft. Once the node lands, it stands up, extends its antenna and contacts other nodes. The nodes can also jam cellular communications by transmitting a signal themselves. " Links
0.
http://theregister.co.uk/
1.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/68/32361.html
2.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2003/n08142003_200308147.html
Linux.com
Microsoft Security Update -- Blaster Worm
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2123205
Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft has begun contacting community websites with urgent information regarding the Blaster Worm and has requested that we post the following message. Recognizing that many of our readers work in environments where there are Microsoft Windows based computers, or use Windows on their own systems, we bring you the following message from Microsoft . . ."
Debian Hits Double Digits on August 16th! http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/177200
There has been a lot of disjointed talk about how to celebrate Debian's 10th birthday, so Debconf.org is running this page as a place to coordinate the various parties etc that are bound to be organised.
Open-Source King of Data Backup
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/175219
Rsync lacks many critical features of an enterprise back-up system, including live database backups and tape rotation and scheduling, says Mike McHenry, a senior network engineer for Lighthouse Communications.
New Linux supercomputer in works
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/168235
Another Linux supercomputer cluster with Advanced Micro Devices Opteron chip is in the works, this time for Los Alamos National Laboratory's nuclear weapons testing program.
The NetBeans IDE 3.5.1: Chinese and Japanese Versions http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1453239
Anonymous Reader writes "PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC -- August 15, 2003 -- The NetBeans.org open source project announces the immediate availability of the NetBeans IDE 3.5.1 and the first official NetBeans' releases in the Japanese and Chinese languages (download here). Currently NetBeans IDE is available in Chinese, English, Japanese, French and Russian.
Hackers Explained (PART II) The Techniques http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1412218
Anonymous Reader writes "This is the second and last part of the Hackers Explained article, this part will discuise some hacking techniques what is used in the field for some while."
Sangoma Technologies' Powerful WAN Cards Provide Faster and More Reliable Connectivity for Broadc http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1359205
Nick Maddicks writes "Sangoma Technologies Corporation has been selected by Streambox Inc. (www.streambox.com), a leading technology company for low bitrate real-time video encoding, delivery and decoding solutions for the broadcast industry, to support its high-speed video transfer technology.
Joining the Cult of Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1333222
"People want stuff that conforms to standards or is similar to what they already have," says Aberdeen analyst Bill Claybrook. "Nobody wants some 'open-source' thing by Joe Blow. Enterprises who have 5,000 or 10,000 users don't want that stuff."
SCO Group reports third-quarter profit
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1313254
SCO Group Inc. swung to a profit in its fiscal third-quarter and said Thursday it can afford to bankroll its legal fight over the Linux operating system.
Linux Advisory Watch - August 15th 2003
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1135217
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for lynx, zblast, perl, kernel, signal, iBCS2, ddskk, konquerer, man-db, xpcd, stunnel, postfix, and php. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Red Hat, SuSe, Trustix, and TurboLinux.
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