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[osdn starter] September 24, 2003
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Is There An OS On My Hard Drive?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/0543245
[0]stm2 writes "Thanks to an [1]agreement between [2]Lindows and
[3]Seagate, from October you will be able to choose a hard drive with
or without an Lindows. Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak,
compares this to adding [4]"Fluoride in the water", because now you get
for free somethis you needed to go after (people used to go to dentist
to get their Fluoride). According to the PR, the OS can autodetect and
configure itself on the host machine."
Links
0.
http://sbassi AT bioinformatica DOT info
1.
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_seagate.php
2.
http://www.lindows.com/
3.
http://www.seagate.com/
4.
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?id=82Smart Sofa Recognizes Occupants by Weight http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1926256
I am Kobayashi writes "According to [0]CNN.com scientists at [1]Trinity
College in Dublin have created my [2]dream couch. And yes, I admit to
being a couch potato... Apparently the couch can be programmed with a
personal greeting (it recognizes you by weight), and the scientists
hope that it will one day be able to automatically tune to your
favorite television programs, order you take out food, and control
other household appliances."
Links
0.
http://www.cnn.com/
1.
http://www.tcd.ie/
2.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/22/smart.sofa/index.htmlPaul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/0134256
[0]chromatic writes "The [1]O'Reilly Network has just published [2]an
interview with Paul Vixie, chairman of the board of the [3]Internet
Software Consortium and a primary author of [4]BIND. Topics include the
recent VeriSign controversy, ISC's BIND patch in response, and other
potential issues that might come to light in the near future." On a
related note, [5]dmehus writes with a link to the [6]letter sent by
David Maher, chairman of the Public Interest Registry -- the .org
registrar, to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey. "The letter says
that it supports ICANN's call for VeriSign to voluntarily suspend
SiteFinder and the Internet Architecture Board preliminary position
paper. It goes on to say that PIR will not be implementing any DNS
wildcard to the .ORG zone. It urges ICANN to stand its ground, but also
to implement a policy preventing registries from taking this kind of
unilateral action in the future." The letter is in .doc format, but
AbiWord and OpenOffice.org both open it fine.
Links
0.
http://wgz.org/chromatic/
1.
http://www.oreillynet.com/
2.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/22/vixie.html
3.
http://www.isc.org/
4.
http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/
5.
http://www.palacechat.us/
6.
http://members.shaw.ca/dmehus/assets/doc/letter-to-ICANN-re-SiteFinder-030921.doc
Mass Fatality Identification System
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/004241
[0]Shipud writes " Bio-IT World is running a story on how [1]Gene Codes
corporation [2]created the Mass Fatality Identification System
(M-FISys) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The story goes into the
details of processing large amounts of data, aiming for a 99.9%
accuracy rate, and [3] extreme programing."
Links
0. mailto:shipudi@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.genecodes.com/
2.
http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/091103/soul.html
3.
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/California Protects Black-Box Data Privacy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2334251
Snowgen writes "According to a story at SFGate.com, California has recently passed a law [0]regulating the little black boxes found in many modern automobiles. The new law requires that manufacturers disclose the existence of such boxes in the vehicle's operators' manual. The law also prohibits the use of data from such boxes without a court order or the permission of the vehicle's owner, unless the data is used in such a way that it can not be traced back to the owner." Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/23/BA3674DTL
Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2016224
ninejaguar asks: "Slashdot did an [0]article on an Open Source product
called [1]Prevayler, which could theoretically resolve all the problems
associated with OO's rough courtship with Relational databases.
Slashdot [0]covered [2]Prevayler when it was still [3]1.x. Despite
[4]fear, [5]doubt, and [6]memory concerns, it has reached [7]2.0 alpha.
Is [8]anyone currently [9]using this [10]non-database solution in
production? If so, has it sped development because of the [11]lack of
OO-to-RDBMS complexity? Was there a significant [12]learning curve to
speak of? The [13]LGPL'd product could be incorporated into proprietary
commercial software, and few might know about it. Is anyone considering
using it in a transactional environment where [14]speed is the
paramount need? And, are there any objections to using Prevayler that
haven't been answered at the Prevayler [15]wiki? Would those who use
MySQL find Prevayler to be a better solution because it's tiny (less
than 100kb), 3000 times faster and is inherently [16]ACID compliant?"
Links
0. developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1220222&mode=thread&tid=156
1.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=StartingPoints
2.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=GettingStarted
3. sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36113&release_id=164262
4.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=NoMorePorridge
5.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevalenceSkepticalFAQ
6.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=BreakthroughsInMemoryTechnology
7. ://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36113&release_id=164262
8.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevaylerPioneers
9.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=OpenSourcePrevaylerProjects
10.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevaylerIsNotADatabase
11.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=IsPrevaylerReliable
12. www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/index.html
13.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=FreeSoftware
14.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=ScalabilityTestResults
15.
http://www.prevayler.org/
16.
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=DontINeedTransactionsEuropean Parliament Clashes Over Software Patents http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2249238
D4C5CE writes "The [0]European Parliament's Daily Notebook reports on
the turbulent final plenary debate this morning regarding a draft
[1]Directive to legalize [2]Software Patents (which are currently
[3]unlawful under [4]Art.52 (2) (c) of the European Patent Convention).
The Notebook quotes some truly bizarre views and arguments (which no
doubt you'll take the time to point out to [5]Members of the European
Parliament before [6]tomorrow's vote), with some MEPs even claiming to
feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous
concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as
usual."
Links
0.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=3&NAV=S&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+PRESS+DN-20030923-1+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN#SECTION1
1.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?L=EN&OBJID=30318&LEVEL=3&MODE=SIP&NAV=X&LSTDOC=N
2.
http://swpat.ffii.org/
3.
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/plen0309/index.en.html
4.
http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ar52.html#A52
5.
http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/gwhosmymep.htm
6.
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=2&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+AGENDA+20030923-LASTV+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
California Tries Spam Ban
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2035204
[0]Schlemphfer writes "Spammers have likely received their biggest
setback yet, when California governor Gray Davis today signed a bill
[1]outlawing all unsolicited email sent to and from the state. Two
things about this [2]new law stand out: first, it puts the burden on
senders to prove that they are sending solicited email. Second, it bans
the entire practice of spamming, with no loopholes at all like allowing
messages with ADV: in the subject. Keep in mind California has the
world's fifth largest economy, and they are planning to enforce the law
with fines amounting to $1000 per each piece of spam. This law could be
ruinous to spammers when it takes effect January 1st."
Links
0.
http://www.vegan.com/
1.
http://nytimes.com/2003/09/23/business/23CND-SPAM.html?hp
2.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_186_bill_20030911_enrolled.html
Free VoIP for Dartmouth Students
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1946258
[0]dtfusion writes "After upgrading their network infrastructure and
doing some testing over the summer, Dartmouth is making [1]free voice
over IP available to incoming freshman. It turns out it was costing
them more to bill the students for local and long distance than for the
calls themselves. What will the success/failure of VoIP on this scale
have on telecom?" There's an [2]older story and a [3]newer story from
the Dartmouth public affairs office; that second one probably spurred
the NYT article. The sysadmin-types are [4]planning to study usage
during the rollout.
Links
0. mailto:jcwmobile@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/technology/23DART.html
2.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2003/april/041803g.html
3.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2003/09/19b.html
4.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campus/
New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1736243
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]OpenSSH team has uncovered multiple
exploitable vulnerabilities in the days-old portable release of
OpenSSH. That's right folks: time to patch *again*. 3.7.1p2 is now
available. [1]Instructions and mirror list here. Please note that this
vulnerability only affects *portable* OpenSSH--so if you are running
[2]OpenBSD, you're safe. This vulnerability apparently has to do with
PAM, so you can use the 'UsePam no' option in your config file. Info on
the advisory [3]here and [4]here."
Links
0.
http://www.openssh.org/
1.
http://www.openssh.org/portable.html
2.
http://www.openbsd.org/
3.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/338617
4.
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/338616
Linux.com
IBM grids its teeth, adds new enterprise products
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2316232
- by Chris Preimesberger - IBM today announced a series of grid computing product offerings and a slate of subsequent new projects worldwide. Grid computing is the latest marketing-speak trend in enterprise IT systems. Ostensibly, the advantage is that companies can save money immediately by using existing computers together with inexpensive newer computers in a fail-safe network powered by a high-end central database and application servers.
Lawyers ask: Can IT Be Human?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2120245
- by Chris Preimesberger - Part I in a three-part series on the new influences of IT in the developing world. SAN FRANCISCO -- Lawyers usually want to talk about torts, settlements, judges, and other lawyers. At the International Bar Association convention here this week in the still-summerlike Bay Area, they added to their usual agenda by talking about how IT (mainly wireless) and the Internet might be keys to helping rescue under-developed ...
Authenticating Linux users with IBM Directory Server http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2028214
Anonymous Reader writes "This article describes how to use the IBM Directory Server to authenticate Linux users. The author explains step-by-step how to configure Directory Server, and Linux, to build a basic configuration to use Directory Server to authenticate Linux users."
Book Review: Moving to Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2021231
Moving to Linux is definitely a beginner's book. It's a big fluffy puppy of a book that will help ease new users into Linux without scaring them with tons of commands to know. In fact, the book is almost wholly devoted to life at the GUI, which means that Windows and Mac users should feel fairly comfortable with the switch.
Tonight Live: SCO at the Eye of a Hurricane http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/207248
Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: SCO at the Eye of a Hurricane and What Stinks? Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 from Chicago IL. Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.
Computer Associates' Open Innovation Strategy takes Linux to Enterprise http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/195256
Anonymous Reader writes "Computer Associates (CA) has no doubts about open source Linux. In fact, the company has been involved with Linux as a founding member of OSDL, is active in a number of organizations to foster Linux acceptance, and CA uses Linux internally. Sam Greenblatt, SVP and Chief Architect, Linux Technology Group, says that his company has adopted an ecosystem that is in tune with the realities of migrating to Linux for customers ...
Towards Linux 2.6
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1857209
Anonymous Reader writes "The impending release of a new stable kernel promises greater adoption for Linux, as it becomes more reliable and scalable over a larger variety of processors. This article highlights some of the changes, both big and small, with some code samples."
Analyst firm urges caution on Sun's Linux strategy http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1511252
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Aberdeen compares Sun's and Hewlett-Packard's Linux strategies and cautions that Sun's bias toward Solaris and the perception it isn't serious about Linux could hamper its movement into the enterprise Linux space."
KernelTrap Interviews Rusty Russell
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/157200
Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap has interviewed Rusty Russell, a humorous and productive contributer to Linux Kernel development. Author of ipchains, netfilter/iptables, futexes, per-cpu counters, hot pluggable CPU support, and the new in-kernel module loading code, Rusty's efforts have had a significant impact on the upcoming 2.6 kernel. For a humorous sample of Rusty's wit, one only needs to look at his email signature which reads, "Anyone ...
Open Source Architecture To Create a Scalable Enterprise http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1439249
Red Hat sets direction with focus on integrated platform, infrastructure, and management technologies.
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