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[osdn starter] August 25, 2003
Date: Mon Aug 25 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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European Shuttle Program Update
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2227251
Rolo Tomasi writes "ESA's reusable launch vehicle demonstrator, Phoenix, was recently [0]wind tunnel tested to determine its low speed aerodynamics. A free flight for Phoenix is planned for early summer 2004. In case you haven't heard of it yet, here's an [1]article from last year, describing the Phoenix/HOPPER concept. Here's [2]another page at ESA, but it seems to be available only in German. What's interesting is the first sentence of the DLR press release, stating that (my translation) 'Europe's future and competitiveness in space substantially depend on an autonomous access to space and 'on a drastic decrease in the transport costs of getting there.'" Links
0.
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/Presse/Presseinfo/phoenix
1.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/europe_phoenix_020621.html
2.
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMHYN2A6BD_Germany_0.htmlNZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/0024204
[0]lump writes "A notorious spammer, based in New Zealand, who had his
name and other personal info released first in [1]a national newspaper,
and then on the web, has [2]shut down his operation, citing harassment.
What interests me about this case is that, in the 5 or 6 days since he
has supposedly stopped operating, I personally have had one (1) spam
email, to an address which had previously averaged around fifty per
day. Colleagues report a similar reduction in spam. All I can say is
'excellent.' Hate to say it, but in this case, vigilante type action
seems to have had the desired result. This needs to be publicised, as
anything which slows down spam can only be a good thing."
Links
0. mailto:alan_preston36@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyID=3518682
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2345211&tid=111How About A Cup Of The Answer To Everything? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/0133237
[0]Reiner Schulz writes "Douglas Adams [1]admittedly was a big fan of
Earl Grey tea. Here's [2]his enlightening entry in H2G2 on the subject
(pretty much straight out of [3]The Salmon of Doubt). And those
familiar w/ the Hitchhiker's Guide will remember the drink dispenser
from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe which, trying to figure
out how to brew the perfect cuppa, grabs all available computing
resources on board a certain starship. What a coincidence then that one
of the finest blends of Earl Grey on the planet in general and in the
UK in particular is [4]Harrods' Earl Grey, Blend No. ... 42 . It's a
plausible theory as to the origin of the answer to everything, isn't
it? Earl Grey addicts like myself will certainly agree (even though
Douglas liked his w/ milk; I prefer lemon). So, what would be the
question? Perhaps, how about a nice cup of tea?"
Links
0.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rschulz
1.
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/stories/msnetwork.html
2.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A61345
3.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000492.html
4.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rschulz/harrodsEarlGrey.jpgWindows Is 'Insecure By Design,' Says Washington Post http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2255231
Circuit Breaker writes "A Washington Post article says [0]Microsoft
Windows is insecure by design. Quote: 'Between the Blaster worm and the
Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody
with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these
outbreaks -- just like in earlier "malware" epidemics. This is not a
coincidence.'"
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34978-2003Aug23.html
Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2128223
magellan writes "Sun has released [0]screenshots of its upcoming Mad
Hatter Linux desktop. Mad Hatter includes GNOME, StarOffice, Evolution,
and Mozilla. Sun has made minor modifications to Gnome to make it more
familiar to Windows users. Sun's Mad Hatter, along with SuSE's new push
on the desktop, could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a
bigger reality."
Links
0. http://www.sun.com/2003-0805/feature/
How Objective Is Microsoft's Search?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2028216
bot writes "There have been a number of [0]stories on Microsoft trying
to do a 'Netscape' on Google.. what would a world in which Microsoft
provides search look like? A [1]search for 'linux' on msn.com give
amazon and ebay as the top two results, and a [2]microsoft site
promoting migration from Linux to Windows as the fourth listing. A
[3]search on [4]MSN India is even more amusing -- the top result is a
dead link, and the second one is [5]Linuxsucks.com."
Links
0.
http://silicon.com/news/500019/1/5702.html
1.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=linux&FORM=SMCRT
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/migration/
3.
http://search.msn.co.in/results.aspx?cp=1252&PI=9574&DI=9&FORM=MSNH&q=linux
4.
http://www.msn.co.in/
5.
http://www.linuxsucks.com/E-Pass Can Resue Patent Case Against Palm http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1827207
[0]kisrael writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
has [1]ruled that a patent held by [2]E-Pass may have been infringed by
Palm and other PDA makers even though their devices are larger than
'credit-card sized.' The [3]1994 patent describes a 'multifunction,
credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a
multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other
data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and
similar personal documents.'"
Links
0.
http://kisrael.com/
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32471.html
2.
http://www.e-pass.com/
3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,276,311.WKU.&OS=PN/5,276,311&RS=PN/5,276,311
Dave Phillips' Linux Sound Updated
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1628239
[0]f-matic writes "Dave Phillips' [1]Linux Sound website has been
updated (for the first time in a while) with lots of new software links
and news from the recent [2]BYOL conference, plus links to some
interesting Linux multimedia articles. Seems like things are getting
pretty interesting in the linux audio world, with a [3]Supercollider
port in the works, not to mention February's [4]Linux article in the
prestigious Sound on Sound magazine."
Links
0. mailto:np@f-matic.net
1.
http://www.linux-sound.org/
2.
http://byol.agnula.org/main/index.php3
3.
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/
4.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/articles/linuxaudio.aspBBC to Put Entire Radio & TV Archive Online http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1530234
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is to [0]to put it's entire radio and television archive online, free for everyone, as the BBC Creative Archive." The article is a little thin on how far back these archives go, but regardless, this in a giantic amount of data, and to see it go online, and open to the public is very cool. Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm
HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/131254
-tji writes "A new company, [0]www.pchdtv.com, has just released the
first digital TV receiver card for Linux. Along with the Linux drivers,
they have also modified xine to support HD playback and add XvMC
support for MPEG2 hardware acceleration with some video cards. This has
great potential for integration into PVR apps, like [1]freevo and
[2]mythtv. There is also another [3]project to reverse engineer drivers
for the Teralogic TL880 based DTV cards. The one active developer has
done a great job, but could use some help."
Links
0.
http://www.pchdtv.com/
1.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
2.
http://www.mythtv.org/
3.
http://myhd.sourceforge.net/
Linux.com
Open Asia: Open source in Afghanistan and Bangladesh
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/192235
- by Frederick Noronha - This week we begin a country-by-country survey of the availability of open source software across individual Asian countries at the top of the alphabet, with Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
www.microsoft.com runs Linux? Up to a point ... http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1351242
Aug. 17 - On Friday Microsoft changed its DNS so that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on Microsoft’s own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux.
Versatility, cost spark Linux fever
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1338251
BART depends on it. So do scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From Wall Street brokerage firms to Hollywood animators, the Linux operating system, once a hobby for Microsoft foes, has evolved into a potent force in the high-tech industry.
Let SCO hang itself
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/1228211
- by Eric S. Raymond - The confrontation between SCO and the open-source community has now escalated to open war. I suppose, in retrospect, that this was inevitable once SCO announced its intention to sue on a theory that would make all open-source licenses invalid. And we all know who's lurking like Emperor Palpatine behind Darl Vader, funding his lawsuit to the tune of at least $6,000,000[1] even if not otherwise pulling his strings.
Microsoft seeks law to retroactively ban Finnish immigration http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1726241
- by David "cdlu" Graham - In his latest attempt to quell the Linux uprising, Microsoft mastermind Bill Gates has pledged over $2,500,000.00 to George Bush's 2004 election campaign if he passes a law that bans anyone born in Finland from working in the United States, and condemns all existing Finnish natives living in the US to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's Camp X-ray, where they are to be collectively punished for the un-American ways of one ...
U.S. Army Brings Internet to Saddam's Hometown http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/2242231
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. army opened the first unrestricted Internet access in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit Saturday in a bid to convince skeptical Iraqis their occupation will bring tangible benefits.
Dissection of the SCO Vegas presentation http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1428254
Anonymous Reader writes "I would like to take a moment to bring to your attention some of the glaring problems with SCO's recent presentation in Las Vegas. Their case has always been thin and their story up until this point has been anything but straight and to the point. This is an attempt to point out some of the more obvious flaws."
WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1448237
Sure, everyone and their brother by now has noticed the striking similarity of SCOfflaw CEO Darl McBride to a certain other individual in the public relations field, generally more well-known but no less reality-challenged. But like his counterpart, "Baghdad McBride" proves himself beyond parody every time he opens his mouth, cramming both feet farther and further in, and until he eventually implodes will no doubt continue to offer up new pearls ...
Dennis Ritchie: I wrote the SCO code
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1426242
Anonymous Reader writes "Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with Ken Thompson wrote the code cited as "proof" by SCO. This seems to fit perfectly with Bruce Perens' Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show, and undermine Blake Stowell's claim "At this point it's going to be his word against ours"."
Linux shows security superiority to Windows http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/23/1436244
Nine years ago this month, a student from the University of Helsinki in Finland released upon the world a piece of software code that would go on to revolutionize the way people think of computer software. When Linus Torvalds began working on his now famous Linux kernel in 1991, the idea of "free software" was unheard of. Today, Linux is installed on millions of PCs and is being embraced by hobbyists and professionals alike. Thanks to companies ...
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