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[osdn starter] August 28, 2003
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Learning to Say No in the Workplace?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/015206
Ummagumma asks: "I'm trying to find out how those of you who work in the IT service industry, tell customers 'no', when the requests are unreasonable for whatever reason. There is a culture here of 'piling-on' work with regards to IT - and, unfortunately, I've never learned the proper way to tell people 'no'. It may sound simple, but in this economy, where jobs are tough to come by, I don't want to be seen as the impediment to getting things done Any suggestions on telling people that their work request can wait? Especially in a way that won't jeopardize my future here? I've searched the web, but most of the sites that supposedly have information of this type just want you to sign up for their seminars. I'm looking for actual, real-world experiences, and how the people of Slashdot deal with this issue on a day-to-day basis."
Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2357227
[0]jgercken writes "The Department of Energy's [1]Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory has brought online [2]a 11.8 teraflops
supercomputer based on the Linux operating system, comprised of ~2,000
Itanium processors, and assembled by HP. Touted to be the fastest
unclassified computer in the US, its main duties will be atmospheric
chemistry, systems biology, catalysis and materials science."
Links
0. mailto:jgercken@packetstar.com
1.
http://www.pnl.gov/
2.
http://www.pnl.gov/news/2003/03-33.htm
Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/0133215
[0]asa writes "Today [1]mozilla.org released [2]Mozilla 1.5 Beta,
available for [3]Linux, [4]Mac OS X, and [5]Windows. This beta release
features lots of bugfixes, the inclusion of a spellchecker for
Messenger and Composer, and lots of minor feature improvements to
Navigator, Messenger, Composer and Chatzilla. More information is
available at the [6]Mozilla Release Notes."
Links
0. mailto:asa@mozilla.org
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.5b
3.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.5b-sea.tar.gz
4.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5b/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.5b.dmg.gz
5.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5b/mozilla-win32-1.5b-installer-sea.exe
6.
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5b/
Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2254251
Tonight's Slashback brings you more on Florida's LAN-taxation proposal, the BBC's public archive (which won't be quite as big as you might have hoped), one user's plea to those who respond to viruses, and more. Read on for the details.
Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2157251
[0]Dan Howland writes "Shades of Jurassic Park: Disney's first
walk-around, interactive animatronic character, Lucky the dinosaur, is
now [1]strolling around Disney's California Adventure, but will
probably move to Disney's Animal Kingdom in the coming weeks. It kinda
walks on two legs, just as the rumors promised, but actually pulls a
cart for additional balance (and to hide the computers). Videos can be
found on the link above. More photos, and a video of Lucky blowing his
nose [2]here."
Links
0.
http://dannysland.blogspot.com/
1.
http://www.mouseplanet.com/parkupdates/dlr/dlr030825.htm
2.
http://www.mouseinfo.com/showupdate.php?id=20030821&page=4
OpenLindows.com: Wherefore Art Thou?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1853224
[0]Joe Barr writes "I ran across a curious website recently:
OpenLindows.com. The name alone intrigued me. It gave rise to
speculation about a weird mix of free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech
alternative to the $99/year Click-N-Run software subscription offered
by LindowsOS, the most Windows-like/proprietary Linux distribution out
there. This is a [1]report on what I found, and perhaps even more
importantly, what I didn't."
Links
0. mailto:joe@pjprimer.com
Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1411232
[0]grahamlee writes "It may be a case of 'do as we say, not as we do'
over at the Santa Cruz Operation. The [1]Netcraft statistics meter says
that for the last year, SCO's web site has been served by [2]Apache on
Linux. Indeed, it's been more than a year since the site was ever
served from a SCO Unix machine. So what is the possible reason for
this? Your humble author suggests that SCO found themselves requiring a
multithreaded web server, and as SCO UNIX is based on an ancient
version of [3]The UNIX spec it just couldn't cope ;-)." Read on for one
of the strangest-yet turns to the SCO story, and several merely insipid
ones.
Links
0. mailto:g.lee@NOspam.unix.net
1.
http://www.netcraft.com/
2.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sco.com
3.
http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/un.htm
10 Terabit Ethernet By 2010
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/155237
[0]Eric Frost writes "From [1]Directions Magazine: 'Because it is now
impossible to sell networking unless it is called Ethernet (regardless
of the actual protocols used), it is likely that 1 Terabit Ethernet and
even 10 Terabit Ethernet (using 100 wavelengths used by 100 gigabit per
second transmitter / receiver pairs) may soon be announced. [2]Only a
protocol name change is needed. And the name change is merely the
acknowledgment that Ethernet protocols can tunnel through other
protocols (and vice versa).'"
Links
0.
http://www.mp2kmag.com
1.
http://www.directionsmag.com/
2.
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=372
Mandrake 9.2 RC1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/176242
RabidChipmunk writes "Mandrake 9.2RC1 is out. Go [0]get it with bit-torrent and speed up my download. I like the idea that posting to Slashdot could actually speed up a download. It seems so wrong." If you're on a slow pipe, don't underestimate the throughput of the postal system. [1]Mark Walker writes "Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 is appearing on mirrors as I type this. We're currently downloading it from Mandrake, for [2]http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com." Links
0.
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/
1.
http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com
2.
http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com/
Teach Yourself AppleScript in 24 Hours
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/162210
[0]honestpuck contributes this review of Sams Publishing's Teach
Yourself AppleScript in 24 Hours, writing "The market for books on
AppleScript cannot be a large one, since there never seem to be many
volumes in it; usually only one at a time is up to date and worth the
money. Now that O'Reilly's AppleScript In A Nutshell is showing its age
(and wasn't that great in the first place), and Danny Goodman's book is
even older, I was pleased to hear that this volume had come along."
Read on for honestpucks' mixed impressions of the book.
Links
0. http://honestpuck.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi
Linux.com
Thailand's cheap PCs 'force Microsoft's hand' http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2244243
gulker writes "Microsoft declined to participate in Thailand's program to offer $250 computers to citizens (whose average income is $7,000) because it didn't want to lower the price of XP and Office. After 1 million of the machines were purchased, with Linux as the OS, MS has relented and will now offer XP home and the standard Office suite for $40, down from $500."
Microsoft's Friendly Foes?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1850202
BigBlueLinux.org writes "Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is certainly eager to do battle with proprietors of the Linux operating system, but is it ready to take on its hardware partners in the server space? It is a question that has to be asked. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) , Hewlett-Packard, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and others are increasing platform support for Linux server software and, in some instances, have more boxes that run Linux than run Windows."
Lies, damn lies, and TPC cost reports
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1743238
Recently the Transaction Processing Performance Council listed a Sun 480 as the leader on the 100GB TPC/H benchmark. At that point the Sun machine running at 1.05GHz was shown narrowly beating a pair of 2.0 GHz Xeon servers from HP and Dell on both price and performance. Last week a new HP result using the 2.8GHz Xeon leapfrogged the Sun machine to re-take the lead.
Alston dismisses call for open source procurement guidelines http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1644244
Anonymous Reader writes "Guidelines proposed by the Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) promoting a "level playing field" between open source and proprietary software within government departments are unnecessary, according to the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. ... While agreeing with AUUG?s proposal that software be purchased on its merits, a spokesperson for the department's Minister, Senator Richard Alston, ...
Sendmail vulnerable to DoS attacks
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1714255
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Popular open-source mail agent Sendmail contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could cause a system to crash. Also, Linux distributor Turbolinux has warned of flaws in GNOME and Perl."
Court says no free speech on trade secrets http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1542228
In a case that pitted the U.S. and California constitutions against the state's trade secret law, the California Supreme Court ruled this week that it is not a violation of free speech rights to ban the publication of computer code that can be used to copy DVDs.
Embedded Linux Changes Growth Path
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1537227
While the commercial use of Linux in the embedded market continues to grow, VDC has reduced its forecast through 2007.
Linux on the desktop: The whole story
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1533236
Before migrating your desktop computers to Linux, take inventory of your business applications and compare Linux to Windows in terms of total cost of ownership.
Secure programmer: Developing secure programs http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1719201
Anonymous Reader writes "This column explains how to write secure applications; it focuses on the Linux operating system, but many of the principles apply to any system. In today's networked world, software developers must know how to write secure programs, yet this information isn't widely known or taught. This first installment of the Secure programmer column introduces the basic ideas of how to write secure applications and discusses how to ...
Turbolinux Joins OSDL
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1528234
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced that Turbolinux, a leading developer of Linux for Asian markets, has joined the Lab as its newest member.
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