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[osdn starter] August 23, 2003
Date: Sat Aug 23 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2142211
[0]steman writes "BBC News Online says that [1]16 people have been
killed and a Brazillian space rocket was destroyed in an explosion in
Brazil. It seems that the space race is heating up again, with many
countries getting involved such as [2]China, [3]Europe and [4]Japan to
name just three. Will the future of space exploration be dominated by
names other than Russia and the USA?"
Links
0. mailto:net-ste@widearea.org
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3175131.stm
2.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3090875.stm
3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3159797.stm
4.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3003584.stm
Perl Modules as RPM Packages
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/218255
[0]libertynews writes "[1]KPLUG President Kevin Pedigo has just
announced his latest project -- [2]RPMPAN, an archive of CPAN Perl
modules in RPM format, generated nightly."
Links
0.
http://www.brianlane.com
1.
http://www.kplug.org/
2.
http://rpmpan.sourceforge.net/
Carmack on New id Game, Game Theory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/217218
An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money interviewed [0]id Software wizard
John Carmack at the recently completed QuakeCon. Among the [1]topics
discussed is Nintendo's recent announcement that today's games are too
complicated and hard for players. Carmack, surprisingly, agrees, saying
'I agree strongly with that point of view, but I'm in the minority in
the PC space. I want a game you can sit down with, pick up and play.
[Role playing games], for example, got to where they had to have a book
ship with the game.'"
Links
Flaming Cellphones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2053258
[0]phorm writes "Many of us have heard the urban legend of cellphones
[1]causing fires at the gas pump, but how about the hazards of
replacement batteries? Reuters is carrying a story about a woman whose
cellphone [2]burst into flame, causing her superficial burn injuries.
According to Nokia, the problem has occured before, and is related to
non-brand replacement batteries. For various reasons, these batteries
may overheat and catch fire, or even explode! So far I haven't found
much info on whether this has happened with other brands of phone,
though I do know that my little flip-phone gets very hot when running
in analog mode. Perhaps some slashdot readers have had a similar
experience?"
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@phormix.com
1.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/wirelessandmobiletips/story/0,24330,3399097,00.html
2.
http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/349004%7Coddlyenough%7C08-21-2003::08:46%7Creuters.htmlWIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2014231
panthan writes "The Washington Post has has an article about a proposed meeting of the WIPO concerning open source having been [0]removed from consideration, apparently due to pressure from the US State Department and the USPTO. 'In short order, lobbyists from Microsoft-funded trade groups were pushing officials at the State Department and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to squelch the meeting. One lobbyist, Emery Simon with the Business Software Alliance, said his group objected to the suggestion in the proposal that overly broad or restrictive intellectual-property rights might in some cases stunt technological innovation and economic growth.'" Lawrence Lessig has [1]some comments. Links
0. http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0308/22/technology-250851.htm
Red Hat Enterprise 3 Beta Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1921259
viewstyle writes "eWEEK has got a [0]review of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Beta, code named Taroon. It now has the new Red Hat Bluecurve interface. New important stuff includes: logical volume management and access control lists in the file system. The access control list feature is something that has been in Windows and Solaris for some time. If you're interested, you can [1]download it here." Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1228480,00.asp
Open Source at TiVo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1848248
[0]CowboyRobot writes "[1]ACM Queue has an [2]article by TiVo
co-founder Jim Barton, in which he explains how the company relies on
open source technologies to create a closed-source product. A good
lesson in how other companies can do the same. From the article:
Careful management of our sources to abide by the terms of the GNU
General Public License while protecting our proprietary developments is
a small price to pay for this benefit."
Links
0.
http://www.matchstick.com
1.
http://www.acmqueue.org/
2.
http://acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=53Top University Rankings for 2004 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1755259
jemecki writes "[0]US News and World Report has posted their annual
[1]rankings for the [2]top colleges and universities in America. Of
particular interest to Slashdotters are the top [3]Computer Engineering
and [4]Electrical Engineering universities and the top [5]overall
engineering schools. For those that don't want to RTFA, Harvard and
Princeton are the best in the country, and MIT, Stanford and Berkeley
are the best in Engineering."
Links
0.
http://www.usnews.com/
1.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php
2.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ranknatudoc_brief.php
3.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/engineering/phd/enps05_brief.php
4.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/engineering/phd/enps06_brief.php
5.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/engineering/phd/topprogs_withphd_brief.php
The Trilogy as One
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1723222
[0]jmays writes "New Line is re-releasing 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
and 'The Two Towers' except this time, [1]in their respective extended
versions. When? Once each week for the two weeks prior to the opening
of 'The Return of the King.'"
Links
0. mailto:jmays@voyager.net
On Videogame Journalism
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1657245
[0]Michael_Blessed writes "The most [1]incisive critique of games
journalism currently out there. I would say that as I participated, but
there's some real illuminating stuff in there. And it's all true - I
should know, being a games 'journalist' myself." It's a whole long
series - read all 11 parts.
Links
0. http://www.blessedmagazine.com
Linux.com
Taking steps toward open idea development
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/140213
- by Henrik Nilsen Omma - In an article here on NewsForge, Jordi Carrasco-Munoz presented a scheme for pooling ideas. Following an open development model, several of us have now started adding to and improving it. I really like the idea of an information bank, and plan to support it. I have a few concrete suggestions, and I've registered a domain name to get us started.
Editor's Note: What Is SuSE Waiting For? http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/0426232
Since everyone has a theory on why SCO is doing what they are doing, I will instead talk about something else that has been weighing on my mind for the past few weeks. - SuSE.
IBM dismisses OpenOffice as child's play http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/2231259
IBM claims to have put more than $1 billion behind open source software, but the company is failing to pay even a modest amount of lip service to one of free software's most needed products.
Brussels to promote open source
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/193209
Europe's public sector is to get a new official information service encouraging the use of open source technology.
The Internet is scheduled to end... right now! http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1859219
This is being posted at 2:59 US EDT, one minute before the annoying sobig.f virus is supposed to start filling infected Windows users' machines with massive quantities of (gasp) Unknown Software. If you are reading this, obviously the Internet didn't end, but some mainstream media and antivirus companies sure have pushed the alarm(ist) button on this one, haven't they?
A visual tour of OGSA : Grid Computing
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1828204
Anonymous Reader writes "The goal: diverse resources that interoperate. To get there, grids must be built on standard interfaces and protocols, and the Open Grid Services Architecture maps the path. In this article, we lay out the components of OGSA and explain their significance. The Globus Toolkit 3 is the first major implementation of the standard; others are under development."
An Open Letter to Darl McBride
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1746248
- by Eric S. Raymond - Mr. McBride: Late yesterday I learned that you have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy masterminded by IBM. You have urged the press and public to believe that the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat and Novell and various Linux enthusiasts are up in arms not because of beliefs or interests of their own, but because little gray men from Armonk have put them up ...
IBM lays off 15,000, HP 1300
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1719245
Veteran IBM-watchers know how testing it is to read one of the company's financial statements. In the early days of the cold war, Churchill described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". But compared to earnings releases from companies such as Apple and Sun - who provide terse and lucid declarations - you can be forgiven for thinking of IBM's announcements as a cloud wrapped in a fog containing a temporary ...
MontaVista Says SCO Not A Threat to Embedded Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1639207
Embedded Linux specialist MontaVista Software Thursday, looking to assure embedded Linux customers that they have little to worry about from questions about Linux's legal status, joined the growing list of Linux distribution firms rebutting the claims of SCO Group that Linux is an unauthorized derivation of its Unix intellectual property.
Motorola unveils first Linux smartphone
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1618223
The mobile-phone maker has put its first Linux-powered handset on the market, launching an ambitious strategy of competition with Symbian and Microsoft.
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