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[osdn starter] September 08, 2003
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/0153215
[0]spence calder writes "FSU's High Magnetic Field Lab, more
specifically my Kenpo teacher, just broke 7 world records, and brought
the record for a superconducting magnet to 25 Tesla. [1] Check it out
at FSView and a [2]more detailed article here. Now if only our football
team was that cool." And if you'd like your magnetic toys to shoot
metal bits, Jason Rollette points to his [3]railgun project, which
looks like good, clean, high-voltage fun.
Links
0. mailto:src2734@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
1.
http://www.fsunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/04/3f56a1ad62845
2.
http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/500614/
3.
http://www.rollette.com/railgunDutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/0230218
[0]touretzky writes "The Court of Appeal in The Hague today [1]rejected
all of Scientology's claims in appeal in Scientology's action against
XS4ALL, Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers. As a result,
[2]Karin Spaink's website, which Scientology sought to remove from the
Internet based on copyright claims, is entirely legal in the
Netherlands. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of
which said that linking to material that infringed a copyright was
itself actionable. The other ruling said that ISPs that failed to act
on credible notification of a copyright violation could be held liable
for that. The Appeals Court felt that this was too vague a standard,
and thus posed a threat to free speech. More info at
[3]ScientologyWatch.org."
Links
0.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst
1.
http://www.spaink.net/cos/verd1eng.html
2.
http://www.spaink.net/fishman/home.html
3.
http://www.scientologywatch.org/postnuke/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=75&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Desert Robot Race Update, With Video
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/0156208
An anonymous reader writes "Several teams have moved forward with their
bid to run the Barstow-Vegas Desert Robot Race (For those not familiar
check out [0]http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge ). As of today 55
[1]teams are registered, some of the most interesting are [2]Cal Tech,
[3]AI Magic, and [4] the Red Team out of Carnegie Mellon. Also fishing
around the Red Team site, there is a [5]pretty nifty video."
Links
0.
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
1.
https://dtsn.darpa.mil/grandc/forum/TeamsList.asp
2.
http://team.caltech.edu/
3.
http://aimagic.org/
4.
http://www.redteamracing.org/
5.
http://www.redteamracing.org/include/media/movies/red_team.mpegShould ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2343254
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "In a [1]paper published today, the point is
made that ISPs should filter some ports (e.g. 135) for good. I guess
given what everyone sees hitting their various firewalls these days,
this may make sense. But wasn't the Internet supposed to be 'open' at
one point? Or are we to the point where Internet=Web (and maybe AIM).
The author of the paper is operating [2]DShield and I guess has some
insight into this issue. He made the same points before on various
mailing lists."
Links
0.
http://www.sans.org/rr
1.
http://www.sans.org/rr/special/isp_blocking.php
2.
http://www.dshield.org/
Interview With A Maddog
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2057232
[0]DubiousFreak writes "Tinyminds.org sits down with Linux
International Director, Jon "Maddog" Hall. Jon has been in the computer
industry since 1969, using Unix since 1977, and Linux since 1994. He
has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager,
marketing manager and professional educator. Jon has been the Executive
Director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a
volunteer. Jon has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer
Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group and Bell Laboratories
among other companies. Read the [1]full interview at Tinyminds.org."
Links
0. mailto:freak@tinyminds.org
14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2013207
[0]segment writes "It has been [1]14 years since two little-known
electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics
breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a
squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and
Martin Fleischmann, of the [2]University of Utah, said they had induced
deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable
quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest
periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's
energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they
were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim." The linked AP
story (carried on SFGate.com) is about the [3]Tenth International
Conference on Cold Fusion, which took place in the last week of August.
Links
0.
http://(ten.dekcuf-e) (ta) (lis)
1.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/05/financial0901EDT0036.DTL&type=science
2.
http://www.utah.edu/
3.
http://iccf10.org/
Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1936228
[0]scubacuda writes "Here is a [1]tiny Linux distro for the [2]Linksys
wrt54g ([3]d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give
your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin
support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc." Interesting
- "The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it." Links 0. mailto:scubacuda@in a m e.com
Supersonic Flight Without The Sonic Boom http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1843228
[0]fname writes "Here's a [1]story from Spaceflight Now about a new
test aircraft that can travel at supersonic speeds without triggering a
sonic boom. The technology works by modifying the shape of the plane.
Although it's been believed to be possible for a long time, this is the
first actual flight test, barring black box projects I suppose."
Links
0. mailto:fname@mail.com
BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1710240
[0]robotdreams writes "Once again [1]BSDCon showcases the BSD
community's long history of innovative research, open exchange of
ideas, and collaborative work. Tutorials this year feature: an
intensive code walkthrough of the new FreeBSD 5.x release, debugging
kernel problems on live systems, advanced BSD system and network
security, and FreeBSD's new GEOM disk I/O subsystem." Since BSDCon runs
from September 8th through 12th, you're probably either already going
or out of luck ;) On the other hand, you're still early for OpenBSD
3.4, now taking pre-orders -- details below.
Links
0. mailto:apk@localareasecurity.com
Step-by-Step Computer Destruction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1528236
[0]Unixrevolution writes "[1]Dan's Data has an excellent [2]article on
how an enterprising user (or repair tech) can easily destroy their
computer. Most of us don't destroy nearly enough hardware, so this
should be helpful."
Links
0. mailto:unixrevolution@comcast.net
1.
http://www.dansdata.com/
2.
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs3.htm
Linux.com
Open Asia: Open source in East Timor and India
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1958235
- by Frederick Noronha - We continue our country-by-country survey of the availability of open source software across Asian countries with a look at developments in East Timor and India.
Microsoft Way goes nowhere
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/2012254
- by David "cdlu" Graham - Microsoft Way is a north-south road in Redmond, Washington. A study of Mapquest's map of the road reveals a number of startling features of this particular road.
Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1311253
A.Guru prasath writes "Companies with products that work on the Internet are slowly waking up to the broad implications of a recent judgement against software behemoth Microsoft Corp. in a patent infringement case. The $520 million award to Eolas Technologies Inc. of Chicago and the University of California (UC) stemmed from a 1999 lawsuit in which Eolas and UC charged Microsoft with infringing on a 1998 patent owned by the university and ...
Microsoft and Be, Inc. reach agreement to settle lawsuit http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1310249
Anonymous Reader writes "Remember the Be lawsuit against Microsoft? The lawsuit alleged that Microsoft harmed Be through a series of illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts designed to maintain its monopoly in the Intel-compatible PC OS market and created exclusive dealing arrangements with PC OEMs prohibiting the sale of PCs with multiple preinstalled operating systems. Pretty much what MS does today to Linux vendors! Be and MS announced ...
Speculation on a Microsoft strategy to co-opt Linux http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/138200
pbrittan writes "I have recently posted two entries in my blog exploring how Microsoft might be able to turn the tables on Java and co-opt Linux: .NET on Linux, .NET on Linux, part 2 - "It's the API, stupid""
Linux for Windows administrators with Delixus 8.0 http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/133246
MadPenguin writes "Delixus 8.0 makes administering a Linux server almost seamless to the Windows environment most people are used to. Even though I would not be inclined to use the software, I would recommend it to clients who would like to make the switch to Linux but do not have the appropriate amount of 'Linux knowledge' in-house, or who simply lack the budget to acquire that knowledge through training or hiring capable staff."
openMosix 2.4.22-1 released
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/130258
Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "The openMosix Project has announced the release of openMosix version 2.4.22-1. This 2.4.22-1 release is the port to the 2.4.22 Linux kernel of the stable and reliable openMosix 2.4.21-1. RPMs and Source files can be downloaded from the files section of our website. CVS files are available now. openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image (SSI) clustering that allows building a cluster from ...
Politics in Free Software
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1930234
- by Tom Chance - When he added a line crediting the United States Army to four of his applications, Neil Stevens created a small storm in the KDE community; politics, people said, was not to interfere with KDE, and his credit was removed. However, when the KDE Web site took part in the online protest against software patents in Europe, people said politics was important to KDE. So what role does politics play in KDE, and in Free Software in ...
Microsoft steps up Linux assault with benchmark claim http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1531208
OwlWhacker writes "Microsoft has released file and web server benchmark results which claim to show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on Intel systems in a price-performance comparison."
Data visualization using Perl/Tk
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1538234
Anonymous Reader writes "Generating a visual representation is often the best way to understand large data sets, but standard tools such as gnuplot often fall short. This article shows how to use Perl/Tk, the standard GUI toolkit for Perl, to quickly build custom plotting and graphing tools."
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