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[osdn starter] August 19, 2003
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Chinese Government to Use Only Local Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0149207
[0]owlmon writes "CNET Asia is reporting that China has [1]outlawed
foreign software in government applications. I expect that software
buyers outside of the government will have to follow this lead. It's
the same "network effect" that has powered Microsoft's growth for
years. When the entire Chinese government is using WPS Office, anyone
doing business with the government will feel mighty encouraged to
follow suit. Otherwise, how will they exchange documents?"
Links
0. mailto:owlmon@pobox.com
Networking the Redwoods
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0114209
linuxwrangler writes "SF Gate is [0]reporting that ecology researchers
are outfitting a grove of trees with tiny "micromote" sensors to
monitor the light, humidity and other conditions as the trees grow. The
sensors, running the open-source [1]Tiny OS, form and maintain their
own network. This test of the "Smart Dust" concept (mentioned on /.
[2]earlier) only uses 50 sensors but scientists hope to be able to
deploy the sensors on a large scale to help figure out why California's
Redwoods are dying off at an alarming rate."
Links
0.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/18/MN299322.DTL
1.
http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1519208&tid=126
Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0053250
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that Russian scientists have announced plans to build a [0]nuclear power station on Mars. They say that all the necessary technical drawings have now been completed, and all will be ready for the construction work to begin. The power plant should be up and running by 2030." Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3162129.stm
Home Biomass Power Generators
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2347213
TLouden writes "The Rocky Mountain News had an article today about
[0]Community Power Corp. and its new BioMax unit which [1]uses
renewable resources such as corncobs, sawdust pellets, and coconut
shells to produce electricity. This gasifier unit isn't commercially
available yet but we might be seeing it sometime in 2004."
Links
Spammer Ducks For Cover
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2345211
rabidgremlin writes "The New Zealand Herald has an article about a NZ
based spammer who has shut up shop after being at the [0]receiving end
of an anti-spam campaign. Good riddance I say, but some of his comments
("never intended to break any regulations" and "I'll just stick to
search engines and web sites - that's still plenty of fun and money.")
had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the
article makes out."
Links
0. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3518682&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1943234
[0]bkuhn writes "Last week's Wall Street Journal (and other news
outlets) carried [1]statements by SCO's Mark Heise challenging the
"legality" of FSF's GPL. [2]FSF has issued a response to this baseless
claim." Also, [3]mcgroarty points out that Intel and HP seem to be
backing swiftly away from their sponsorship of SCO's in-progress Las
Vegas conference (a [4]EWeek article suggests that "Intel Corp. was
recently billed as one of the lead sponsors of SCO's [5]Forum 2003
conference here this week, but then suddenly disappeared from all
marketing and press material for the forum. It appears that
Hewlett-Packard Co. also got cold feet. As late as last week, SCO was
telling attendees that HP would be giving a partner keynote at the
forum on Tuesday morning. But on Sunday the [6]schedule of events given
to attendees when they registered makes no mention of an HP
keynote...") [7]M adds: Now we've got a few stories from the
conference: [8]News.com.com and [9]Eweek. Despite some bad headline
writing at News.com, SCO simply continues to employ the Chewbacca
defense, showing no code to back up their claims. Amusingly, Darl
McBride started his rant about copyright infringement by copying some
footage from a James Bond movie. Bravo!
Links
0.
http://member.fsf.org/
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256&tid=88
2.
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/sco/sco-preemption.html
3. mailto:brian@NOsPaM.mcgroarty.net
4.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1224031,00.asp
5.
http://www.sco.com/2003forum/
6.
http://www.sco.com/2003forum/agenda.html
7. mailto:michael@NOSPAM.slashdot.org
8.
http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1016_3-5065286.html
9.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1224321,00.asp
Talk About A Security Hole, Go To Jail?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2155210
Nu11.org writes "According to a SecurityFocus article, 'Federal
prosecutors in California went too far when they [0]put a man in prison
for disclosing a website security hole to the people at risk from it.'"
According to the article, "...by explaining how the vulnerability
worked, and why customer data was at risk, prosecutors asserted, the
security specialist 'impaired the integrity' of the affected network",
citing the case of Bret McDanel and his former employer, Tornado
Development, Inc. We've [1]discussed the disclosure of software
exploits recently.
Links
0. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/179
Solving a Wiring Mess?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/202249
[0]FueledByRamen asks: "While trying to run a new power line for a
large Sun mass-storage cabinet (located nowhere near a 220 outlet of
course), I had the misfortune of needing to pop the lid on my main
power distribution panel (previously opened in the late 80s). The whole
thing is a rats nest and probably a fire hazard - old-style wiring with
broken-down cloth/plastic insulation strewn everywhere, and the
utility's incoming power cables have some sort of junction in them
that's the size of a 1-liter bottle (on each wire) and is covered in
layers of electrical tape. Even (gently) putting the panel back on
jiggled something important, and there was a nasty cracking noise and
half the breakers blew (all breakers in one of the 2 columns). I've
worked with mains voltage in the past (wiring new rooms, installing
lighting), but nothing on this scale, both in terms of complexity and
potential for death. How do you industrious Slashdot readers go about
fixing a mess like this (on a tight budget, no less) without getting a
mains-induced glimpse at the great beyond?"
Links
0. mailto:sniffers2k1@yahoo.com
New WiFi Standards, Double the Data?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2022252
morkeleb writes "According to the New York Times (free reg. req.), just when you thought it was safe to stock your home or office the 802.11x way, [0]another possibility springs up. From Stanford and Bell Labs comes an approach using MIMO, which 'relies on taking advantage of huge amounts of computing power to send numbers of signals from closely spaced antennas', thereby enhancing range and throughput. Looks like Intel and Nokia are interested in the technology, as well as a number of highroller venture capitalist groups." Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18WIFI.html
Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1852220
Artifex writes "If you're looking to spend about $1200 on a new digital camera, check out [0]this Digital Photography Review look at Sony's upcoming [1]8 MegaPixel Cyber-shot DSC-F828. The most interesting thing isn't the number of pixels in this prosumer-grade camera, but its 4-color filter CCD system. ['Instead of the traditional RGB color filter array, the new CFA is made up of Red, Green, Blue and Emerald (like Cyan) color filters.'] I've always been a strict [2]Canon fan, but this is making me think twice." Links
0.
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/sonydscf828/
1.
http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/3909
2.
http://www.powershot.com/
Linux.com
The inevitability of Total Information Awareness
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1755205
- by Campbell Vertesi - In the age of the Internet, technology inevitably fills demand. In the case of music-swapping services, we all recognize that the recording industry hasn't a hope of stopping every file-sharing service around. So long as there is a demand for easy access to music, technology will rise to meet that demand, and all the lawsuits in the world won't help the RIAA to stop it. So why should we expect anything different from ...
Top Tip: Best card for hassle-free sound in Linux? http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2058218
"Which budget sound card would you recommend as the most likely to be configured automatically by a majority of Linux distros? Which high-end card?
Details emerge on new $299 Linux PDA
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1945237
Anonymous Reader writes "A brand-new Linux-based PDA is due to hit the market this September, at a price of $299 (USD). Softfield, which took on support of the Agenda VR3 following the demise of Agenda Computing, said it will release the entirely-new MX-7 in early Sep., 2003. The device is based on an ARM 920T based processor running at 200MHz"
Unix/Linux Keystroke Information Disclosure Weakness http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1944211
A weakness has been discovered in the entropy pool implemented by the /dev/random device on various Unix-derived operating systems. The problem occurs when the pool has been emtpied, and the entropy mechanism begins to the seed the pool with a source of pseudo-random data. It has been discovered that due to keystrokes from the console being a source of seeding the entropy pool, it may be possible for an attacker to deduce a user's keystrokes ...
Red Hat embarrassed by SuSE certification http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1942237
LAST FEBRUARY, Red Hat and Oracle jointly announced (C|NET) cooperation to obtain Common Criteria (CC) certification for the Red Hat Advanced Server operating system and the Oracle 9i Release 2 database running on that platform. But at LinuxWorld last week, IBM and SuSE revealed their achievement (LWN) of CC Enterprise Assurance Level 2+ (EAL2+) certification first, with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on the IBM xSeries platforms, thus beating ...
Creditcard-sized XScale SBC boasts extensive embedded Linux support http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/190256
InHand Electronics Inc. announced immediate availability of the third generation of its tiny "Fingertip" single-board computer family. The credit card sized Fingertip3 is InHand's first SBC to be based on an Intel XScale microprocessor, and also provides substantially enhanced power management capabilities and an SD Card slot. The board supports embedded Linux as its target operating system.
Los Alamos to study weapons, HIV virus with Linux clusters http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1550226
Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday announced a deal to acquire two Linux clusters, one for modeling nuclear weapons and the other for unclassified research in biology, chemistry and engineering.
Microsoft Urges Users Not to Use Windows on the Internet http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1546219
Microsoft's Web site was recently urging users to purchase additional hardware or software - or keep computers using the Windows OS off of the Internet altogether. Steve Suehring makes no claim that Linux has all of the answers for security. "However, attacks can be prevented much easier with Linux," he writes.
Expert says Linux may be 'inevitable'
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1215219
DAVID D. FRYE, the man whose "job is to make Linux run better" at IBM's laboratory for the open source operating system, sees the day when the average computer user, home or office, will be using a computer run on open-source software. Perhaps in as little as two years, he surmised.
Report predicts Linux surge in corporate desktops http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1323239
Siemens Business Systems is predicting that Linux will garner 20% of the corporate desktop market within five years. The claim is based on the results of extensive real world testing with non-technical users who could be just as productive on a Linux desktop, but at a lower cost.
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