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[osdn starter] September 27, 2003
Date: Sat Sep 27 2003 - 01:00:55 EDT
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Slashdot
Yahoo Messenger Blocks Outside IM Clients
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2027253
jj00 writes "[0]CNET News is [1]reporting that Yahoo has started blocking 3rd party Messenger clients from their service. The article is about [2]Trillian, but I have noticed that my [3]gaim client hasn't been working for the past few days." As [4]reported earlier. Links
0. news.com.com
1.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5082812.html
2.
http://www.trillian.cc/
3.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/17/2358240&tid=18520th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1423205
An anonymous reader writes "Sep 27, 2003 is the 20th anniversary of
Stallman's [0] original Usenet post describing his vision of GNU. Good
time for reflecting over GNU's successes and failures, about how it has
changed our world."
Links
0. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=771%40mit-eddie.UUCP&output=gplain
Interview with Linus Torvalds from NYT Magazine http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2011202
aelfric35 writes "David Diamond drills Linus on topics from filesharing
(sharing is good) to SCO (trying to claim paternity on his child) to
his rivalry with Bill Gates (doesn't care enough to be a nemesis) in
[0]next week's New York Times Magazine."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/WLN104109.html
Bluetooth for Homebrew Robots?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/203259
MacGod asks: "As an extra-curricular for my university, I am working
some other engineers to try and design a [0]RoboSoccer Project (please
don't wipe out our server if possible), with the hopes of entering the
[1]RoboCup tournament in the near future. We are currently using some
low-frequency Abacom RF communication modules, but would like to able
to go to BlueTooth if possible. However, I have found it nearly
impossible to locate any suitable BlueTooth modules. We'd really like
something that could be put onto a breadboard, and that would come with
sufficiently detailed instructions that we'd be able to implement it
without being BlueTooth experts. Any suggestion on homebrew BlueTooth
solutions, Slashdot?"
Links
0. http://wolfman.eos.uoguelph.ca/~robosoccer/
Massachusetts Adopts Open Standards Strategy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1918200
[0]prostoalex writes "The state of [1]Massachusetts at a meeting of
state information officers [2]adopted a broad-based strategy to move to
open standards. The strategy does involve Linux among other open
standard solutions, while moving away from Microsoft-based platforms is
one of the decisions. State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric
Kriss insisted that decision was made on technical grounds and had
nothing to do with antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the state of
Massachusetts."
Links
0.
http://www.itfacts.biz/
1.
http://mass.gov/portal/index.jsp
2.
http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20030926/D7TQ4MI00.html
Amazon to Take on Google?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/199222
KRck writes "Looks like Amazon is going to jump into the search engine business and try and [0]compete directly with Google, by building a new company A9 which they hope to launch in October." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/26/google.amazon.ap/index.html
States Push for Net Sales Taxes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/151231
Marnhinn writes "Lawmakers in several states are asking Congress for
the right to begin collecting sales tax on interstate internet
purchases. CNN has the [0]scoop."
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/25/net.taxes.ap/index.html
Sequence of Events During Columbia Mission http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1418229
applemasker writes "Today's NYT is reporting that [0]NASA managers
actively resisted requests from vehicle engineers for on-orbit imagery.
This should answer Administrator O'Keefe's question of why no engineers
'spoke up' during the flight. Seems they did; managers just ignored
them."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/national/nationalspecial/26ENGI.html?hp
Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/154251
[0]rootmon writes "The [1]interview focuses mostly on Ransom Love's
views of SCO Group's current dispute with IBM and the Free/Open Source
Software Community. It also provides some insights on why Caldera
purchased the UNIX business of SCO and their joint Monterey project
with IBM. In summary, Love's view is 'My belief is that Unix and Linux
should co-exist and should look and feel the same to application
developers. Fundamentally, I would not have pursued SCO's path. You
see, the challenge is building business. Litigation, no matter what
side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win.
Companies should focus their energies on building their businesses, not
on lawsuits. I don't see any positive outcomes.'"
Links
IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1752212
[0]linuxjack55 writes "According to [1]Yahoo! Finance, IBM has filed
yet another counterclaim against SCO, this time claiming that SCO
'infringed IBM's copyrights by distributing IBM's contributions to
Linux after SCO had violated its Linux license by claiming a copyright
on parts of Linux.' Like it or not, it looks like the GPL is going to
get a full vetting in this case. It is, however, nice to know that
IBM's fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers is on the side of the GPL."
Links
0. mailto:spaminacan@charter.net
Linux.com
Sun's software revolution
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/168231
- by John O'Sullivan - I finally realized the revolution is on after reading about the Java Enterprise System in Fortune. I'd thought Sun's new software strategy was just the latest of the company's attempts at figuring out how to make money from Java. But there are three threads that together change the whole game. First is a practical, functional Linux desktop aimed at the business customer from a big and respected company. Second is a simple, ...
Questions for Linus Torvalds
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/039218
An interesting interview with Linus in the NY Times: Q: You gave Linux, the operating system, to the world free, in effect jump-starting the open-source movement. Now this previously obscure company, SCO Group, claims ownership of some of the code and threatens to close the door on open source and Linux. I suppose it's to be expected that when you send your offspring out into the world, you have to be prepared for your kid to run with a crowd ...
Geer Says He Knew What Was @Stake
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/228218
Daniel Geer, the now-unemployed author of a report critical of monopolistic technologies, doesn't understand what all the hoopla is about.
Young People Are The Future of Linux
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/2057221
A Canadian college student joined #Office on EFNet IRC (Internet Relay Chat) recently and was asking some questions about MS Excel. So I suggested that he use the open-source comparables such as KOffice and OpenOffice -- also AbiWord for word processing. That naturally led to a discussion of using GNU/Linux, open-source software, and free software.
HP to SCO: Go Ahead, Make My Day
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1528228
sjvn writes "Hewlett-Packard takes up SCO's challenge to Linux users with indemnification against SCO lawsuits. It's not as bold a move as it looks."
UnitedLinux quietly marches on
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1945229
The UnitedLinux consortium - unveiled with much fanfare last year as a unified effort to create a standard Linux distribution - has been awfully quiet of late in an industry segment that has been anything but quiet.
Novell Is Turning Out for Linux Parade
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1935256
Through the 1980s, Novell Inc. was a software powerhouse, dominating the market for products that manage corporate networks and let individual computers share files and printers.
Time To Rethink Thailand's Open Source Motives http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/196259
When a project splits in two, this is what's called a fork. People who have been around for long enough, like myself, remember Unix. By and large, Linux is Unix (but do not ask SCO), in the same way that Xenix is Unix. So is Minix, Irix, Mach, Solaris and a dozen more that have fallen by the wayside.
Linux Clusters for the Mainstream Manager http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1828241
While many businesses keep clinging to existing Windows, NetWare, and OS/390 solutions, more and more are turning to Linux clusters for high performance computing (HPC), high availability (HA), and Web farm applications. To get the most out of Linux clusters, however, you need to know the ins-and-outs of installation and maintenance, as well as the best software and hardware configurations for specific types of clustering implementations.
Linux: 2.6 vs. 3.0; What's In A Name?
http://linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/1743224
A recent lkml thread explored an interesting tangent when Jeff Garzik asked about what was to follow the 2.5 development kernel, "is it definitely to be named 2.6? Maybe it's just my impression from development speed, but it felt more like a 3.0 to me :)". Linux creator Linus Torvalds first suggested that there was no reason to skip from 2.5 to 3.0, qualifying it with, "But hey, it's just a number. I don't feel that strongly either way."
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