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[osdn starter] August 29, 2003
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Four Core Processor to Bring Tera Ops
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0138205
panhandler writes "As reported at [0]CNet and the [1]Austin American
Statesman, researchers at UT are working with IBM on a new CPU
architecture called TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive
Processing System). According to IBM, 'at the heart of the TRIPS
architecture is a new concept called 'block-oriented execution"' which
will result in a processor capable of executing more than 1 trillion
operations per second."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5068435.html
SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0416253
cadfael writes "SCO is reported in [0]the Age as saying they '[1]Have
no plans to sue Linux companies...' This seems to contradict [2]the
earlier statements of Chris Sontag. This story also points out how
Canopy owns stakes in several other Linux companies, including Linux
Networx wheich supplied the supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore Nat
Lab. One begins to wonder if the reality of their situation has become
clear to them?" Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of
this mess.
Links
0.
http://www.theage.com.au/
1.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html
2.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-1017267.htmlComputer Game Improves Children's Hearing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/019241
[0]wiredbeat2000 writes "The BBC is running a story that claims
[1]children who play video games increase their hearing skills. There
have been several studies over the last few months extolling the
virtues of games and education. For example, Wired News ran a [2]
roundup of college programs, and USA Today published a recent story on
[3]Daphne Bavelier's findings that playing games could help children
develop hand-eye coordination, in addition to Professor James Gee's
Slashdot-covered [4]video transcript and [5]article on 'games that
teach'." Things have come a long way since the time when schoolkids
were dumped in front of a computer and left to play Oregon Trail.
Links
0.
http://www.dungeonsanddreamers.com
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3186243.stm
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59855,00.html
3.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-08-04-video-games_x.htm
4.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/0519230&tid=127
5.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0548255&tid=127
Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0052217
An anonymous reader writes "Following on from the recent spate of
reverse engineering articles, there is an [0]interesting summary of the
reverse engineering of a binary only Linux driver. The driver is for
the integrated MPEG decoder on VIA's popular EPIA-M boards. At the
moment VIA has not publicly released the source code for the MPEG
chipset on these boards and will only make the code available under NDA
saying that "Typically, only requests from companies developing product
for sale will be approved." As a result this is holding back
development of open source tools (e.g. [1]xine, [2]mplayer, [3]vdr)
that would be able to make use of the interesting hardware on these
boards."
Links
0.
http://www.ivor.it/cle266/guide.html
1.
http://xinehq.de/
2.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
3.
http://www.linuxtv.org/Blocker Tags to Protect Privacy From RFID Tags http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2226204
geekee writes "According to an article at [0]CNET, [1]RSA Security is
[2]developing a 'blocker' tag that disrupts RFID tag transmissions,
protecting a person's privacy from those who would abuse RFID
technology. The blocker tag would be embedded in your watch, for
instance. This method has an advantage over destroying the RFID tags
after purchase because useful information on the tag could help
consumers (e.g. laundry instructions)." According to the RSA scientist
quoted in the article, privacy concerns regarding RFID have been
overblown, but it's still worth being proactive when finding ways to
defeat the tags.
Links
0.
http://www.news.com/
1.
http://www.rsasecurity.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5068910.html?tag=fd_topMirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2143208
Today's installment is a lengthy (but hopefully informative) piece on
mirroring controllers. Ever had weird problems with a FastTrack TX2000?
Are you curious how well HighPoints RocketRAID boards are really
supported? Ever wondered which controller gives you the best
performance for every dollar spent? In true Slashdot tradition, we're
taking the issue and throwing it out to you, the readers.
[0]Futurepower(R) is willing to start us off with a wealth of
information on his experiences, and I'm hoping a few of you are willing
to do the same.
Links
0. mailto:futurepower@NOTTHISmyrealbox.com
SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2149254
An anonymous reader writes "The SCO-IBM-Linux controversy has certainly caused quite a stir. Unfortunately the vigilantes conducting the DOS attacks against SCO are [0]harming innocent by-standers as described in this e-Week story. " Choice conspiracy theory quote: 'Given SCO's behavior recently, it's just as likely that they're attacking themselves in their continued attempt to pump up their stock price' Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1233231,00.asp
Auerbach on Internet Cruft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/171248
Captain Beefheart writes "[0]Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, [1]I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us." Links
0. http://www.circleid.com/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=29
DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1832215
Hiawatha writes "The same sort of denial of service attacks that
[0]drove spam blocklist Osirusoft off the Internet are [1]battering
many other blocklist services as well." Apparently spammers aren't
going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&tid=111
IBM Releases Compiler for Power4 and G5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1746213
[0]davids-world.com writes "IBM offers its optimized XLC compiler not
just for Intel CPUs, but also for its own G5 processor (article in
German at [1]Heise). Unlike gcc, it is optimized for the G5 and
achieves a major boost in speed, as first [2]results show. I guess we
will have to compare the new benchmark data (once available) with the
data we get with the optimized Intel compiler for Xeon. The compiler is
available for [3]download now."
Links
0.
http://www.davids-welt.de
1.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/as-28.08.03-000/
2.
http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP7/Presentations/Blainey-SciComp7_compiler_update.pdf
3.
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ccompilers/
Linux.com
IBM to release new Eclipse to run on Jikes VM
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2349207
- by Chris Preimesberger - IBM soon will announce that it is making available for free download a new version of Eclipse, its open-source development platform, for the Java-based Jikes Research Virtual Machine. All previous versions of Eclipse have been released for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and several versions of Windows.
Blocking Kazaa traffic with Linux/IPTables firewal, http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2320207
Chris Lowth writes "The "p2pwall" project has developed a GPL add-in for iptables based firewalls that allows blocking of traffic to and from "Fast-Track" software such as "Kazaa", Kazaa-lite, iMesh and grokster. The software is designed for use in "permissive" firewall configurations where home-net hosts are permitted more or less unlimited access to the public internet, but are protected from in-bound connections. Ftwall adds logic to such ...
Linux Moves Behind the Screen
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2032231
Linux, the fast growing and freely available operating system, looks like the software of choice for future televisions, set-top boxes and DVD recorders, consumer electronics executives and specialists said.
IBM Doubles Its Linux Reward
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1913236
IBM is upping the incentives to partners who sell Linux solutions. Last month, the company rolled out a program dubbed "Double Your Discount with Linux" as part of its Value Advantage Plus Initiative for ISVs and VARs. Participants in the program are now eligible for up to a 60 percent discount on IBM software (double the existing resales incentive) when they use that software to create Linux-based solutions for midsize companies. The program ...
Linux to make consumer-electronics buzz
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/198245
Linux, the fast-growing and freely available operating system, is set to be the software of choice for future televisions, set top boxes and DVD recorders, according to consumer-electronics executives and specialists on Thursday.
Of monkeys and penguins
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1840256
SCO, for anyone who has never heard of the company, is pronounced "skoh", as in Scopes. Indeed "the SCO case" of 2003 sounds increasingly like the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted religious fundamentalists against progressives wanting to teach Darwin alongside the Bible in American classrooms.
Microsoft 'hiding behind Linux'
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1832247
gulker writes "ZDNet UK says that even Microsoft can't defend itself from massive DDoS and other problems resulting from security flaws its own products without relying on Linux - in the form of Akamai's distributed serving system."
Why use CIFS with Linux? Why not?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1824245
Michael S. Mimoso writes "In this interview, Samba Team member Chris Hertel explains the benefits and limitations of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) for an enterprise Linux shop."
gcc/glibc cross toolchains for embedded development http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/194235
Building a gcc / glibc cross-toolchain for use in embedded systems development used to be a scary prospect, requiring iron will, days if not weeks of effort, lots of Unix and Gnu lore, and sometimes willingness to take dodgy shortcuts. This is a problem not only for individual users, but also for the gcc project as a whole, since the gcc team relies on users to test upcoming releases of gcc, and the difficulty of building the toolchain for ...
Linux, Mac OS added to Federal Enterprise Architecture platforms http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1739230
The Office of Management and Budget added Linux and Mac OS to the list of supporting platforms under the Technical Reference Model of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.
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