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[osdn starter] August 30, 2003
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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August 30, 2003 STARTER SERIES
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Slashdot
SCO Roundup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2133218
Time to clear out the bin of the taint of SCO, hopefully we haven't posted these already... The Economist has a piece titled [0]Face Value
- Of Monkeys and Penguins. The EFF is pushing an [1]email campaign about SCO. An anonymous reader submits this completely unverified claim that SCO needs to change the password on their mail server: [2]sco.txt. And another reader presents a [3]theory about SCO's stock performance. Links 0. http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2020889
How Everyday Things Are Made
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1817250
OckNock writes "The [0] Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at
Stanford University in conjunction with [1]Design4x has released
[2]online courses on design and manufacturing that include over 4 hours
of streaming video (Flashplayer required). Some of the topics include
airplanes, crayons, and waterjet cutting. I only they had this when I
had studied mechanical engineering - maybe I would have stayed awake in
class more."
Links
0.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/AIM/
1.
http://design4x.com/
2.
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/
Build Your Own Lava Lamp
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1653246
Manip writes "My [0]new project: 'The difficult part about making your own liquid motion lamp is, of course, the motion. We won't go into the lamp base too much. The store-bought ones use a 40w appliance bulb in a metal housing which directs the heat to the underside of the glass container. If you're making your own base, we recommend installing a dimmer switch so that you can control your heat output.'" Links
0. http://www.oozinggoo.com/howto.html
The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/215232
[0]514x0r writes "The spectre in the back of many of our minds is that
in a few years we may be replaced by an underpaid programmer in India.
Newsforge.com is currently running an article about [1]why this is
unstoppable, that actually ends on a positive note...sort of."
Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Links
0. mailto:chmorgan@bankofny.com
AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2057242
[0]Evan Martin writes "LiveJournal.com is an [1]open-source weblog site
with over a million users, some of whom use AOL. Last week, AOL began
blocking all HTTP requests with "www.livejournal.com" [2]Referer
headers. This is a common practice by image hosting sites to prevent
off-site linking of their images and 'bandwidth theft'. However, in
AOL's case, they're blocking everything, not just images, effectively
breaking all links to any AOL member's site--but only from LiveJournal.
To be clear: nobody on LiveJournal can even make a link to any AOL
member site without getting a '404 Not Found' error. We've also heard
reports of the same thing happening on AOL properties (Netscape,
Compuserve). This concerns us because we have to deal with the support
requests: it worked in the past for our users, and it continues to work
for other sites, so our users think it's our fault."
Links
0. mailto:martine@danga.com
1.
http://www.livejournal.org/
2.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_dev/566192.html
Statistically Optimal Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1757225
[0]ShinyPlasticBag writes "'[1]Eigenradio makes its optimal music by
analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank
of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more
just like it. Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio
is always on and always live. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best
of the New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigenradio
is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.' Listen up [2]here or
[3]here (SHOUTcast)."
Links
0.
http://shinyplasticbag.com
1.
http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/
2.
http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/tune.m3u
3.
http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu:8000/listen.pls
U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1738223
SiliconEntity writes "British online rag The Register is reporting that
[0]the U.S. Government is funding anonymizer.com to provide anonymous
browsing services to Iranians. Using U.S. funding, [1]the company
created a special version of its anonymizing proxy which has
instructions in Farsi and only accepts connections from Iranian IP
addresses. The service defaults to the Voice of America web site, but
users can input any address and browse free of (Iranian) government
censorship."
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32567.html
Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1737250
[0]securitas writes "The [1]New York Times is carrying a [2]Reuters
story about [3]Linux as the software of choice for consumer
electronics. At the world's largest [4]consumer electronics show, the
IFA trade fair 'the first Linux products are already on show and more
will come soon, companies said.' The reason? Linux is freely available,
widely embraced and profit margins in the consumer electronics business
are one or two percent at best. The math is simple. The industry push
comes from the members of the [5]Consumer Electronics Linux Forum
(CELF), that includes [6]Sony, [7]Philips, [8]Matsushita/[9]Panasonic,
[10]Hitachi, [11]Sharp, [12]Samsung, [13]NEC, [14]IBM, [15]LG,
[16]Thomson/[17]RCA and [18]Toshiba. The CELF was [19]previously
discussed on Slashdot. Mirrors at [20]Silicon.com and [21]CNet News."
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/
2.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3352218
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-linux-consumerelectronics.html
4.
http://vip8prod.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.ifa-berlin.de/fset_home_e.html
5.
http://www.celinuxforum.org/
6.
http://www.sony.com/
7.
http://www.philips.com/
8.
http://www.panasonic.co.jp/
9.
http://www.panasonic.com/
10.
http://www.hitachi.com/
11.
http://www.sharp-usa.com/
12.
http://www.samsung.com/
13.
http://www.nec.com/
14.
http://www.ibm.com/
15.
http://www.lge.com/
16.
http://www.thomson.net/
17.
http://www.rca.com/
18.
http://www.toshiba.com/
19.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1646220&tid=163
20.
http://silicon.com/news/500011/1/5786.html
21.
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5069341.html
Failure Is Always an Option
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1734227
Logic Bomb writes "The New York Times has a short but elegant [0]op-ed
regarding the different perspectives of engineers and managers and the
role that plays in accidents like the space shuttle Columbia
[1]disaster. It's the sort of article you'll nod all the way through,
then print and leave anonymously on your supervisor's desk. Any tech
managers in the Slashdot crowd might have some interesting comments on
how the right balance is struck." Henry Petroski has written several
good books on engineering and failure.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/29/opinion/29PETR.html
New Dell Clickthrough Software License
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1629244
[0]Petrol writes "I just read that Dell is installing a new mandatory
click-through software license at first boot. From the article,
[1]Dude, you're getting screwed: 'Kat and I just received the Dell
Inspiron 5100 notebook we ordered from Dell Canada. We quickly ran
across problems.'"
Links
0. mailto:burnrate@hotmail.com
Linux.com
700,000 Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2229253
gulker writes "700,000 low-cost Netgear routers were shipped with a flawed SNTP client that pings a hard-coded IP address at the University of Wisconsin once a second, amounting to a 150 Mbit/second flood. U of W expects the flood will last for at least 5 years."
Keeping Ourselves Safe
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/228234
SoBig.F made me fairly angry last week, because even though I use Linux, I was still feeling its effects. MSBlaster had not really bothered me directly, though clearly it had some negative effects on other organizations. What made me so angry was not just the fact there are idiots out there who come up with such things, but there is a larger idiot company out there that keeps letting things like this happen to them.
Opinion - SCO vs. IBM
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1958256
LogError writes "Bob Toxen, the author of "Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery", gives his take on the SCO situation."
Doubts about SCO DoS claim
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1956227
Anonymous Reader writes "Reviewing a NetCraft graph of www.sco.com reveals that their periods of downtime seem to be as regular as clockwork. That sure would be a surprising pattern for a DoS attack! Further doubts arise about whether there was a DoS attack, because at least three times SCO employees seemed to say that there wasn't one."
Blaster.B author arrested in Minnesota
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1940224
gulker writes "T33kid, aka Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota has been arrested, and his 7 computers siezed, according to wire reports. Parson is suspected of authoring the worm variant variously know as 'Hi Mom' or 'Blaster.B'. t33kid.com, Jeffrey's Web site is still in Google's cache, complete with worm code samples."
End Users Have Rights Too
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1920227
Anonymous Reader writes "Considering the amount of time and money wasted on the most recent outbreak of Windows-born contaminants, I think it's time that the root of the problem is exposed for what it is. In my opinion, too many people are either completely ignorant of the facts or just too lazy to care. Either way, someone needs to be held responsible for the damages incurred by this utter lack of ethics and security practices."
Linux Makes Phone Debut
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1726200
Linux has so far failed to make much of an impact in the mobile client market. A handful of handheld PDAs have used the open-source operating system, most notably Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500, but the majority of buyers have opted for Pocket PC or Palm models.
Spaces still available in Sept iCanProgram courses http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1723228
bob findlay writes "Since 2002 Jan iCanProgram has been running online training courses for nofees in return for a voluntary Cancer Research donation in memory of one of the founders. Nearly 2000 students worldwide have taken an iCanProgram course since then. Courses are offered when demand warrants. The Intro to Linux Programming and Extreme Linux Programming courses are both going to be offering Sept sessions. There are still plenty of spots ...
IBM To Develop Single-Chip Supercomputer http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1720258
Applications for the TRIPS chip range from cell phones, which currently use several different processors for different functions, to scientific research that involves complicated calculations.
IDC: Linux, blades the high spots in server market http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1519228
The worldwide server market was worth $10.6 billion in the second quarter of 2003, a scant 0.2 percent higher than in the same quarter last year, according to revenue figures released Friday by IDC.
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