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Saturday, July 31, 2004
Corante > The Importance of... > JibJab
Corante > The Importance of... > JibJab: "As noted previously, Bloomberg News reported that EFF had filed a lawsuit on behalf of JibJab (JibJab Files Lawsuit for Right to Distribute Parody?). I've now received anonymous confirmation that a lawsuit was filed." (PDF)
Star-Telegram | 07/31/2004 | JibJab defends use of 'This Land'
Star-Telegram | 07/31/2004 | JibJab defends use of 'This Land': "'This Land' was made for you and me, JibJab Media says in a lawsuit seeking the right to use the Woody Guthrie song This Land Is Your Land in an online parody of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry."
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Moving Water Molecules By Light
Moving Water Molecules By Light: "An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) has discovered a new nanotechnology effect, the ability of moving water molecules by light. This is a far better way than current methods such as damaging electric fields and opens the way to a new class of microfluidic devices used in analytical chemistry and for pharmaceutical research. For example, this makes possible to design a device that can move drugs dissolved in water, or droplets of water and samples that need to be tested for environmental or biochemical analyses."
Moving water molecules by light. New nanotech effect
Moving water molecules by light. New nanotech effect: "A team of researchers at Arizona State University has demonstrated the ability to move water molecules by light -- a phenomenon they believe could have widespread use in analytical chemistry and possibly pharmaceutical research. "
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Excite News
Excite News: "SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - In the latest misstep for the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp. (INTC) said a faster version of its flagship Pentium 4 microprocessor will not be available by the end of the year as previously promised."
Electronic News - IBM Intros Chip Morphing Technology
Electronic News - IBM Intros Chip Morphing Technology: "Challenging laser fuse techniques, IBM today announced a chip morphing technology based on electromigration it says can allow a new class of semiconductor products that monitor and adjust their functions without human intervention."
Blender Demo Reel :: blender.org :: the dot org era
Blender Demo Reel :: blender.org :: the dot org era: "In preparation for Siggraph 2004, we have created a short compilation of some of the best Blender stills and animations. For me, it was a warming up to this year's Blender Art Festival, more about which will be posted on this site next week. You can grab your copy here [40MB DivX Avi]."
OfB.biz: Open for Business - Why GNOME's Got it Right
OfB.biz: Open for Business - Why GNOME's Got it Right: "Last week, some developers disagreeing with the direction of the GNOME Project decided to create what appears to be the beginning of a fork of the project -- GoneME. Like many from KDE Project and elsewhere in the community, GoneME's major complaints boil down to what has proven to be GNOME's most controversial move: simplifying the user interface. While naysayers, including the GoneME developers, seem to feel that the simplification of the interface, undertaken with the encouragement of such GNOME leaders as Havoc Pennington of Red Hat, is actually just 'dumbing down' the interface, I think these critics are actually missing the point completely. "
OfB.biz: Open for Business - Stirring the GNOME Fires
OfB.biz: Open for Business - Stirring the GNOME Fires: "Over the past two years or so, Tim Butler and I have discussed GNOME quite a bit. He likes the current trend, and I don't. Tim's article, 'Why GNOME's Got It Right' was partly stirred by the Slashdot article but also by our discussion."
Meltdown 2004: Microsoft Longhorn Reinvents Desktop Graphics
Meltdown 2004: Microsoft Longhorn Reinvents Desktop Graphics: "Microsoft's Meltdown conference is all about building games on Windows. Originally started as a compatibility test-fest for hardware makers and software developers, the event has matured into a Windows game developer convention. Highlights from this year's gathering, held July 27th and 28th in Seattle, included presentations about the company's XNA development tools and how to get the most out of Direct3D and DirectSound."
LinuxWorld preview: Linux jobs on the rise, so do your homework
LinuxWorld preview: Linux jobs on the rise, so do your homework: "IT pros heading to LinuxWorld next week with resumes in hand, or just looking for a job in their hometowns, have more grounds for optimism than in recent years, according to Scot Melland, CEO and president of Dice Inc., a New York City-based firm that provides online recruiting services for technology professionals. If you're doing some last minute homework before hitting the IT street, read on. Just before he headed out to LinuxWorld, Melland shared Dice's research on the current job market and advised how to stand out from the crowd."
Friday, July 30, 2004
Transportation Futuristics : A Presentation of the Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library
Transportation Futuristics : A Presentation of the Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library
Slashdot Poll
Slashdot Poll: "'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?' G.W. Bush, Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000"
Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals | CNET News.com
Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals | CNET News.com: "VeriChip, the company that makes radio frequency identification--RFID--tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into hospitals."
Counting Debian
Counting Debian: "'[...] we use David A. Wheeler's sloccount system to determine the number of physical source lines of code (SLOC) of Debian 2.2 (aka potato). We show that Debian 2.2 includes more than 55,000,000 physical SLOC (almost twice than Red Hat 7.1, released about 8 months later), showing that the Debian development model (based on the work of a large group of voluntary developers spread around the world) is at least as capable as other development methods [...] It is also shown that if Debian had been developed using traditional proprietary methods, the COCOMO model estimates that its cost would be close to $1.9 billion USD to develop Debian 2.2. In addition, we offer both an analysis of the programming languages used in the distribution (C amounts for about 70%, C for about 10%, LISP and Shell are around 5%, with many others to follow), and the largest packages (Mozilla, the Linux kernel, PM3, XFree86, etc.)'"
RFDUMP.ORG
RFDUMP.ORG: "RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information: Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor. In addition, the integrated cookie feature demonstrates how easy it is for a company to abuse RFID technology to spy on their customers. RFDump works with the ACG Multi-Tag Reader or similar card reader hardware."
rfdump.tar.gz
RFID tags become hacker target | CNET News.com
RFID tags become hacker target | CNET News.com: "LAS VEGAS--Privacy advocates may not be the only people taking issue with the current crop of radio-frequency identification tags--merchants will likely have problems with a lack of security as well, a German technology consultant said Wednesday."
Segway owners beat each other with homemade mallets | The Register
Segway owners beat each other with homemade mallets | The Register: "The only thing worse than paying $4,000 for a scooter has to be using said scooter for a game of polo.
Yes, friends, it has come to that. A small band of Bay Area Segway owners have set a new low for the device - an almost impossible feat when you consider that 'IT' was meant to have revolutionized cities by now but has actually ended up being little more than a poor selling toy. About ten of the Segway grunts recently gathered for a disturbing go at scooter polo."
Apple: RealNetworks is a hacker - Jul. 29, 2004
Apple: RealNetworks is a hacker - Jul. 29, 2004: "NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Apple Computer accused RealNetworks Thursday of adopting the tactics of a hacker and breaking into the technology behind its popular iPod music player."
EFF: DES Cracker Project
EFF: DES Cracker Project: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) raised the level of honesty in crypto politics by revealing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES) is insecure. The U.S. government has long pressed industry to limit encryption to DES (and even weaker forms), without revealing how easy it is to crack. Continued adherence to this policy would put critical infrastructures at risk; society should choose a different course."
Advanced Encryption Standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Advanced Encryption Standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In cryptography, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government, and is expected to be used worldwide and analysed extensively, as was the case with its predecessor, the Data Encryption Standard (DES). It was adopted by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as US FIPS PUB 197 in November 2001 after a 5-year standardisation process (see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details).
The cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, and submitted to the AES selection process under the name 'Rijndael', a portmanteau comprised of the names of the inventors. Rijndael can be pronounced 'Rhine dahl' (a long 'i' and a silent 'e')."
Microsoft: Out-of-Cycle Security Patch Coming
Microsoft: Out-of-Cycle Security Patch Coming: "Microsoft (Quote, Chart) plans to release an out-of-cycle security patch next week to fix a software flaw that led to the sophisticated Download.Ject malware attack, company officials disclosed on Wednesday."
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft outsourcing high-level work, labor group says
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft outsourcing high-level work, labor group says: "A Seattle labor group said it has new evidence that Microsoft is shifting high-level work to foreign contractors, including work on the next version of Windows."
Hackers go after DoubleClick - (United Press International)
Hackers go after DoubleClick - (United Press International): "New York, NY, Jul. 28 (UPI) -- Hackers swarmed over the Web site of New York's DoubleClick Inc., the company that handles online advertising for hundreds of commercial sites."
EE Times -That sucking sound? It's your cell
EE Times -That sucking sound? It's your cell: "From maelstroms to black holes, whirlpools make compelling images. A powerful force draws all around it into a singularity. The swirling disk of motion masks the nature of its peril until it is too late, paradoxically increasing in force as it pulls in more victims."
stdout : code/cpan_sloccount.html
stdout : code/cpan_sloccount.html: "If you don't write it down, it never happened, OR, Yet More Meaningless Numbers
Out of curiousity, I ran SLOCCount by David Wheeler over all of CPAN. The headline news is that it reports that CPAN took 5,012 person-years to develop and cost about $677 million. There's also a more detailed SLOCCount report on CPAN."
SLOCCount
SLOCCount: "This is the home page of 'SLOCCount', a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs. This suite of tools was used in my papers More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size and Estimating Linux's Size to measure the SLOC of entire GNU/Linux distributions. Others have measured Debian GNU/Linux using this tool suite. SLOCCount runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X, Windows, and hopefully on other systems too. To run on Windows, you have to install Cygwin first to create a Unix-like environment for SLOCCount (Cygwin users: be sure to use ``Unix'' newlines, not ``DOS'' newlines, when you install Cygwin)."
Technology News Article | Reuters.com
Technology News Article | Reuters.com: "SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , which is challenging market leader Google Inc. in the online search market, demonstrated for the first time on Thursday a search engine that looks for information on computer hard drives as well as information on the Web."
Prion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Prions - short for proteinaceous infectious particle - are infectious self-reproducing protein structures. Though their exact mechanisms of action and reproduction are still unknown, it is now commonly accepted that they are responsible for a number of previously known but little-understood diseases generally classified under transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs) diseases, including scrapie (a disease of sheep), kuru (found in members of the cannibalistic For� tribe in Papua New Guinea), and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). These diseases affect the structure of brain tissue and are all fatal and untreatable."
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Thursday, July 29, 2004
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Great Hackers
Great Hackers: "A few months ago I finished a new book, and in reviews I keep noticing words like 'provocative'' and 'controversial.'' To say nothing of 'idiotic.''"
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Wired 12.08: Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species
Wired 12.08: Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species: "Picture this: You are standing at the edge of a lagoon on a South Pacific island. The nearest village is 20 miles away, reachable only by boat. The water is as clear as air. Overhead, white fairy terns hover and peep among the coconut trees. Perhaps 100 yards away, you see a man strolling in the shallows. He is bald, bearded, and buck naked. He stoops every once in a while to pick up a shell or examine something in the sand."
Sandia's Red Storm Detailed Architecture
Sandia's Red Storm Detailed Architecture: "Bill Camp & Jim Tomkins, from Sandia National Laboratories, have published a 77-page document about the architecture of the Red Storm supercluster built by Cray Inc. The new nickname for the 40 teraflops system is 'Thor's Hammer.'"
Smartmoney.com: One-Day Wonder: Crunch Time at Cray
Smartmoney.com: One-Day Wonder: Crunch Time at Cray: "THE CRAY X1, 'designed to be the world's most powerful supercomputer product,' can model hurricanes and bioterrorism outbreaks. It features 'ultra-fast' 12.8 gigaflop individual processors, boasts 'up to 819 gigaflops of peak computing power in a single chassis,' and can generate a maximum 52.4 teraflops of pure nerd joy. That means the X1 can, theoretically, perform 52.4 trillion floating-point operations per second."
Forbes.com: U.S. Plays Supercomputer Catch-up
Forbes.com: U.S. Plays Supercomputer Catch-up: "WASHINGTON, D.C. - Government miscalculations in the late 1990s about the willingness of private industry to research and build supercomputers have left the U.S. lagging behind the Japanese in this area and struggling to meet urgent national interests. "
Some say U.S. supercomputing needs a jump-start - Computerworld
Some say U.S. supercomputing needs a jump-start - Computerworld
See What You Share on P2P
See What You Share on P2P: "A Showcase of Material Found on Peer-to-Peer Networks throughout the World. Here you will find Everything from Raunchy Personal Photos to Confidential Police Reports."
seewhatyoushare.com
MSNBC - Consumers still falling for phish
MSNBC - Consumers still falling for phish: "Confused by what's arriving in your inbox? You're not alone. Nearly one out of three Internet users was unable to tell the difference between fraudulent e-mails designed to steal their identities and legitimate corporate e-mail, a new study finds."Xpjob_20040728162040_xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs_title_MSNBC_-_Consumers_still_falling_for_phish.pdf
Protein discovery could help prevent premature birth
Protein discovery could help prevent premature birth: "Scientists have taken a big step toward developing an earlier, safer and simple test that could help prevent perhaps 175,000 premature births in the United States each year."
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ABCNEWS.com : STD Rates Continue to Rise in Britain
ABCNEWS.com : STD Rates Continue to Rise in Britain
NewsFactor Network - - Virus Possibly Set To Target Microsoft
NewsFactor Network - - Virus Possibly Set To Target Microsoft: "Microsoft may be the target of a denial-of-service attack involving Zindos -- a worm that piggybacks on the MyDoom virus, which flared up again this week and caused service interruptions at Google, Yahoo and other search sites. Both programs are apparently the work of the same author. "
Discovery Channel :: News :: Countdown Begins for Private Space Race
Discovery Channel :: News :: Countdown Begins for Private Space Race
The Next Great Space Race: SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold
The Next Great Space Race: SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold: "A piloted rocket ship race to claim a $10 million Ansari X Prize purse for privately financed flight to the edge of space is heating up."
CNN.com - Trial examines role of dashboard electronics - Jul 27, 2004
CNN.com - Trial examines role of dashboard electronics - Jul 27, 2004: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- When a pickup truck crossed the double yellow line along Seward Highway and killed two occupants of a Jeep Grand Cherokee, police initially thought the accident was another tragic mistake by a momentarily distracted driver."
GameDev.net -- Designing Games for the Wage Slave
GameDev.net -- Designing Games for the Wage Slave: "This sentence embodies the sad reality that has hamstringed my gaming hobby since becoming an unwilling maze-dweller in the rat race of full-time employment. Four years ago, when not otherwise distracted by the mundanities of dodging college work or chores, I could (and did) devote countless hours to the challenges and pleasures of digital worlds. My funding was limited, but I took pride in completing every game, every cover disk demo that I purchased. I reveled in replayability, gloried in gameplay depth, marveled at multiplayer. Life was good."
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Computer Stupidities
Computer Stupidities: "The following is a large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed. Complicate this phenomenon with a case of 'computerphobia,' and you end up with tech support personnel having phone conversations that are funny in retrospect but seem like perfectly valid motives for wild machine gun shooting sprees at the time. You will read stories in this file that will convince you that among the human race are human-shaped artichokes futilely attempting to break the highly regarded social convention that vegetables should not operate electronic equipment. And yet, amidst the vast, surging quantities of stupidity are perfectly excusable technological mishaps -- but that are amusing nonetheless. After all, even the best of us engages in a little brainless folly every once in a while."
Natural Programming
Natural Programming: "End-users must write programs to control many different kinds of applications. Examples include multimedia authoring, controlling robots, defining manufacturing processes, setting up simulations, programming agents, scripting, etc. The languages used today for these tasks are usually difficult to learn and are based on professional programming languages. This is in spite of years of research highlighting the problems with these languages for novice programmers. The Natural Programming Project is developing general principles, methods, and programming language and environment designs that will significantly reduce the amount of learning and effort needed to write programs for people who are not professional programmers. These principles are based on a thorough analysis of previous empirical studies of programmers and new studies designed to discover more natural approaches to programming."
CNN.com - Researchers seek simpler software debugging - Jul 27, 2004
CNN.com - Researchers seek simpler software debugging - Jul 27, 2004: "PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Computer bugs, or errors in software, can mess up just about anything: They've been blamed for missing homework, blackouts, prison breaks and even the loss of multimillion-dollar space probes."
Space Science Pioneer Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight
Space Science Pioneer Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight: "A leading space scientist has called to question the validity of human spaceflight, suggesting that sending astronauts outward from Earth is outdated, too costly, and the science returned is trivial."
SQLite Database Speed Comparison
SQLite Database Speed Comparison: "A series of tests were run to measure the relative performance of SQLite 2.7.6, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, and MySQL 3.23.41. The following are general conclusions drawn from these experiments:
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SQLite 2.7.6 is significantly faster (sometimes as much as 10 or 20 times faster) than the default PostgreSQL 7.1.3 installation on RedHat 7.2 for most common operations.
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SQLite 2.7.6 is often faster (sometimes more than twice as fast) than MySQL 3.23.41 for most common operations.
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SQLite does not execute CREATE INDEX or DROP TABLE as fast as the other databases. But this is not seen as a problem because those are infrequent operations.
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SQLite works best if you group multiple operations together into a single transaction.
The results presented here come with the following caveats:
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These tests did not attempt to measure multi-user performance or optimization of complex queries involving multiple joins and subqueries.
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These tests are on a relatively small (approximately 14 megabyte) database. They do not measure how well the database engines scale to larger problems.
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CNN.com - Mercury mission set for launch - Jul 25, 2004
CNN.com - Mercury mission set for launch - Jul 25, 2004: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA is about to embark on its hottest mission ever, to Mercury"
Stargate Information Archive - Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive
Stargate Information Archive - Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive: "Federal charges were filed against Adam McGaughey, creator of the popular SG1Archive.com website - a fan website devoted to the MGM-owned television show Stargate SG-1. The charges allege that the website engaged in Criminal Copyright Infringement and Trafficking in Counterfeit Services. The charges were the culmination of a three-year FBI investigation, set in motion by a complaint from the Motion Picture Association (MPAA) regarding the content of the SG1Archive.com website."
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Google News faces Microsoft rival - News - ZDNet
Google News faces Microsoft rival - News - ZDNet: "In conjunction with its own MSNBC news site, the software giant is creating a page dubbed 'Newsbot' that will draw news headlines from more than 4,800 other sites, in a manner similar to the Google News service."
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | World's tiniest fish identified
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | World's tiniest fish identified: "The smallest, lightest animal with a backbone has been described for the first time, by scientists in the US."
Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The term Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation (or QuANGO), attributed to Sir Douglas Hague, was originally invented as a joke, but fell into common usage in the United Kingdom to describe the agencies produced by the growing trend of government devolving power to appointed, or self-appointed bodies."
News
News: "Ministers consider vaccination scheme. Heroin, cocaine and nicotine targeted"Xpjob_20040727073502_xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs_title_News.pdf
NewsForge | Patents in an open source world
NewsForge | Patents in an open source world: "Some argue that the threat of patents is vastly overstated. They point out that, while there are from time to time serious assertions of software patents, patent litigation is in practice very rare. This reflects both the high cost of such litigation and the difficulty of winning. "
Monday, July 26, 2004
Load Testing Gmail – fillmybox@gmail.com
: "A few weeks ago, you may remember that we decided to load test Google's new email service, Gmail. I called on all of you to email me your favorite 5MB attachments to 'fillmybox@gmail.com'. Well, we did it! My Gmail account is now 102% maxed out."
Meta Moderation
Meta Moderation: "Re:Uh... but...
by - on Sunday July 18, @08:32PM (#9734371)
It's all fun and games til goatse.cx comes up..."
Shuttle's XPC SB81P mini-barebones system - The Tech Report - Page 1
Shuttle's XPC SB81P mini-barebones system - The Tech Report - Page 1: "WE'VE BEEN REVIEWING Shuttle's small form factor systems since the first SV24, when they were the only game in town. Over the course of time, we've watched the XPC line evolve from a quirky but cute little niche product into a diverse army of mini PCs that rival full-sized computers in most respects."
US nuclear clean-up carries major risks | New Scientist
US nuclear clean-up carries major risks | New Scientist: "There is a 50% chance of a major accident while the US government attempts to clean up its dirtiest nuclear site over the next three decades, a new study concludes. Even without an accident, the groundwater, a nearby river and fish could end up badly contaminated."Xpjob_20040726171911_xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs_title_US_nuclear_clean-up_carries_major_risks__New_Scientist.pdf
IHT: A car that winks, laughs and cries
IHT: A car that winks, laughs and cries: "The expression 'road rage' usually refers to infuriated drivers who lose their temper and lash out at other motorists. But what if a car could also express anger, crouching low on its wheel base and glowering with red headlights like a lion about to pounce?"Xpjob_20040726171714_xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs_title_IHT_A_car_that_winks_laughs_and_cries.pdf
MercuryNews.com | 07/23/2004 | Google's challenge of Froogles.com name rejected
MercuryNews.com | 07/23/2004 | Google's challenge of Froogles.com name rejected: "WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Google Inc.'s right to use the name ``Froogle'' for its online shopping service came into question Friday when an arbitration panel rejected the company's challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com."
MercuryNews.com | 07/23/2004 | Google's challenge of Froogles.com name rejected
MercuryNews.com 07/23/2004 Google's challenge of Froogles.com name rejected: "WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Google Inc.'s right to use the name ``Froogle'' for its online shopping service came into question Friday when an arbitration panel rejected the company's challenge of a Web site named Froogles.com."
Yahoo! News - Google: IPO Could Be Worth $3.3 Billion
Yahoo! News - Google: IPO Could Be Worth $3.3 Billion: "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Google Inc., the world's No. 1 Web search provider, said on Monday its highly anticipated initial public offer could be worth as much as $3.3 billion, pricing its stock in a range that could value the company at more than $36 billion at its opening."
US nuclear clean-up carries major risks | New Scientist
US nuclear clean-up carries major risks | New Scientist: "There is a 50% chance of a major accident while the US government attempts to clean up its dirtiest nuclear site over the next three decades, a new study concludes. Even without an accident, the groundwater, a nearby river and fish could end up badly contaminated."
ImmInst.org -> Neural Interfacing Resources
ImmInst.org -> Neural Interfacing Resources: "'We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make
possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial
brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.'
-- Stephen Hawking"
Sunday, July 25, 2004
StudioQB.com - About Frustration: The Trivia Game
StudioQB.com - About Frustration: The Trivia Game: "Frustration: The Trivia Game is based upon the concept of measuring question difficulty based on when questions are answered correctly and incorrectly and correlating that data to create a 100-level ranking system for the questions. For players, the object of the game is to climb as far as possible up the levels by answering questions of increasing difficulty, and to try to beat the game by answering an entire stack of 100 questions."
Slashdot Poll
Slashdot Poll: "'Outlook not so good.' That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next."
Slashdot Poll
Slashdot Poll: "'Outlook not so good.' That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next."
CBC News: Music industry drills dentists for royalties
CBC News: Music industry drills dentists for royalties
Lockheed Martin Workers Damage NOAA N Prime Satellite in Mishap
Lockheed Martin Workers Damage NOAA N Prime Satellite in Mishap: "As the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft was being repositioned from vertical to horizontal on the 'turn over cart' at approximately 7:15 PDT today, it slipped off the fixture, causing severe damage. (See attached photo). The 18' long spacecraft was about 3' off the ground when it fell. "
Innovative Transportation Technologies for better urban livability and improved mobility
Innovative Transportation Technologies for better urban livability and improved mobility
Bladerunner dualmode concept from the United Kingdom features large truck that can operate on an existin railroad
Bladerunner dualmode concept from the United Kingdom features large truck that can operate on an existin railroad
EDN - Waiting for the big gig: Ethernet at 10 Gbps
EDN - Waiting for the big gig: Ethernet at 10 Gbps: "Waiting for the big gig: Ethernet at 10 Gbps"
Saturday, July 24, 2004
Clasic Slashdot
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115523&cid=9789729
Vigilantes, I support you! (Score:3, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 24, @02:06PM (#9789729)
Please don't hack my computer at 127.0.0.1. Thanks!
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Spring follows Winter follows Fall follows Summer follows Spring.
The moon follows its phases across the sky, the constallations move in the same patterns that they have for 10,000 years, and the planets dance the same waltz they have since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Yet none of these things is as predictable as a "127.0.0.1" joke in a Slashdot article about hacking.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Robots get bookish in libraries
BBC NEWS | Technology | Robots get bookish in libraries: "Robots have disappointed humans so far in their ability to mix and help people in their everyday lives."
Are You Annoying? - Computerworld
Are You Annoying? - Computerworld: "Irritating behaviors not only annoy your co-workers, but they can also compromise your effectiveness and even derail your career. "
Dartmouth News - Investigating digital images - 07/01/04
Dartmouth News - Investigating digital images - 07/01/04: "'Seeing is no longer believing. Actually, what you see is largely irrelevant,' says Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid. He is referring to the digital images that appear everywhere: in newspapers, on Web sites, in advertising, and in business materials, for example."
Asteroid Arena
Asteroid Arena: "Asteroid Arena is a simple Asteroids clone that uses OpenGL and the ClanLib programming library. It features pretty graphics, somewhat-realistic particle interactions, powerups, UFO opponents and many other things. The object is to simply shoot asteroids and UFOs for points. Once you've cleared all the asteroids in a level, you move on. The asteroids grow more numerous and the asteroid fragments begin to speed up. If you hit something with 75% or more of your shots, you get a special accuracy award. "
Friday, July 23, 2004
Memtest86 - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool
Memtest86 - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool: "Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86 is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection. "
Army rations rehydrated by urine | New Scientist
Army rations rehydrated by urine | New Scientist: "Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it."
BBC NEWS | Americas | US army food... just add urine
BBC NEWS | Americas | US army food... just add urine: "The US military has devised a way to ensure its troops in battle need never go hungry - with dried food that can be rehydrated using dirty water or urine."
Amaya Home Page
Amaya Home Page: "Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium."
The W3C Markup Validation Service
The W3C Markup Validation Service: "Welcome to the W3C Markup Validation Service; a free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards."
Sender Policy Framework
Sender Policy Framework: "Publishing records is the first step to using SPF. Thousands of domains have already published, with more doing so daily."
libspf2 - Home
libspf2 - Home: "libspf2 implements the Sender Policy Framework, a part of the SPF/SRS protocol pair. libspf2 is a library which allows email systems such as Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, Zmailer and MS Exchange to check SPF records and make sure that the email is authorized by the domain name that it is coming from. This prevents email forgery, commonly used by spammers, scammers and email viruses/worms."
Sender Policy Framework
Sender Policy Framework: "SPF: Sender Policy Framework
The Anti-Forgery solution
That's making the world a
Safer place for email."
InfoWorld: Microsoft to enforce Sender ID checks: July 22, 2004: By : SECURITY
InfoWorld: Microsoft to enforce Sender ID checks: July 22, 2004: By : SECURITY: "Microsoft Corp. will soon put some bite into its Sender ID antispam plans by checking e-mail messages sent to its Hotmail, MSN and Microsoft.com mail accounts to see if they come from valid e-mail servers, as identified by the Sender ID, according to a company executive."
Features Item : Computers advance stoneworking technology
Features Item : Computers advance stoneworking technology: "In this age of technological advances, computers have become a necessity in many businesses, including those in the stone industry. With the addition of computer numerically controlled (CNC) systems to stoneworking machines, fabricating shops have taken advantage of the greater precision, faster speeds and automation that is now available. The result is a higher rate of automated production, which saves both time and money."
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > When Technology Imitates Art
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > When Technology Imitates Art: "FEW weeks ago, a sculptor in France contacted Studio Roc, a new stone-milling company in North Hollywood, Calif., with the type of challenge the company was seeking. He had a 19th-century limestone lion's face that he wanted to reproduce for a line of fountains. But carving each face by hand was a tedious chore for which he no longer had the time or resources."
CBC News: Monkey hits stride after near-death experience
CBC News: Monkey hits stride after near-death experience: "JERUSALEM - A five-year-old monkey at an Israeli zoo started walking exclusively on her hind legs after recovering from a serious illness."
UCLA News
UCLA News: "Quantum computing, which holds the promise of nearly unlimited processing power, secure communications and the ability to decode encrypted conversations by terrorists and others, is a significant step closer to becoming a reality today with new research published by a team of UCLA scientists in the journal Nature."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "SYDNEY (Reuters) - Fiddler crabs may not be the smartest creatures on the planet but research shows they are bright enough to know about stranger danger."
PC Pro - Computing in the Real World
PC Pro - Computing in the Real World
ICANN, the steward of the Internet, has concluded a week-long meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a string of initiatives that includes a move towards IPv6 technology.
Olympics arms against virus threat - ZDNet UK News
Olympics arms against virus threat - ZDNet UK News: "Terrorism isn't the only security threat officials are worried about at this summer's Olympic Games in Athens. They're also concerned about viruses and worm attacks that could cripple the Olympics' data network."
Army Raises Cost of Combat Modernization (TechNews.com)
Army Raises Cost of Combat Modernization (TechNews.com): "The Army outlined yesterday a restructuring of its modernization program, the Future Combat System, increasing the cost by between $20 billion and $25 billion, accelerating the deployment of key technology and adding new models of drones and ground vehicles."
eBCVG - Report faults cyber-security
eBCVG - Report faults cyber-security: "The Department of Homeland Security's efforts to battle computer-network and Internet attacks by hackers and other cyber-criminals suffer from a lack of coordination, poor communication and a failure to set priorities, according to an internal report released yesterday."
CBC News: Monkey hits stride after near-death experience
CBC News: Monkey hits stride after near-death experience: "JERUSALEM - A five-year-old monkey at an Israeli zoo started walking exclusively on her hind legs after recovering from a serious illness."
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Large MTU Networks - Ethernet Jumbo Frames
Large MTU Networks - Ethernet Jumbo Frames: "Statistically, most Internet communications pass through an Ethernet network somewhere on the way. This is why Ethernet's 1,500 byte MTU has become the standard MTU, and the main Internet bottleneck. Due to the constant increase in Ethernet spped, and to the fact that Gbit Ethernet has no standard MTU, the discussions of increasing the Ethernet frame size have been rapidly increasing."
Boston.com / Business / Technology / Laptops at the FleetCenter at risk of breaches, attack
Boston.com / Business / Technology / Laptops at the FleetCenter at risk of breaches, attack: "The Democratic National Convention will attract thousands of visitors armed with laptop computers that feature wireless Internet access. And that could be a formula for disaster, according to a Boston data security firm that recently ran a vulnerability test in the area around the FleetCenter."
FreeBSD Foundation Java Downloads
FreeBSD Foundation Java Downloads: "The FreeBSD Foundation has negotiated a license with Sun Microsystems to distribute FreeBSD binaries for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and Java Development Kit (JDK). These implementations have been made possible through the hard work of the BSD Java team, and contributors (particularly WorldGate Communications, Inc.) as well as through donations to the FreeBSD Foundation that supported hardware, developer time, testing resources, and license negotiation."
USENIX - 2004 Linux Kernel Developers Summit
USENIX - 2004 Linux Kernel Developers Summit: "For the fourth year, USENIX will be delivering the annual Linux Kernel Developers Summit, bring together the core of the Kernel development team to plan the next phase of Linux Kernel development. Like past Summits, this developer-to-developer, two-day event will deliver substantive technical sessions and workshops where developers and industry leaders can readily share and exchange ideas. This event seeks to further feature developments that bring Linux into Enterprise class and highly available computing environments.
"
Linux: New Kernel Development Model
Linux: New Kernel Development Model: "An interesting thread on the lkml began when Greg KH submitted a patch for the 2.6 kernel saying, 'Ok, to test out the new development model, here's a nice patch that simply removes the devfs code.' This was quickly followed with a comment by Oliver Neukum who said, 'may I point out that 2.6 is supposed to be a _stable_ series?' In one branch of the thread, the usefulness of devfs was examined."
: "As a follow on to our March, 2004 article on PCI-Express, we have decided to do a series of articles better describing the differences and advantages that PCI-E has to offer. This months article will deal with the graphics portion of PCI-E technology and improvements that have been made over the previous generation graphics bus."
[H]ard|OCP - id Software's Official DOOM3 Benchmarks
[H]ard|OCP - id Software's Official DOOM3 Benchmarks: "id Software's Official DOOM3 Benchmarks : The folks at id Software have been kind enough to share with us benchmarks from the upcoming DOOM 3. We look at NVIDIA's and ATI's finest in a head to head comparison."
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
C Programming Tutorial
C Programming Tutorial: "Welcome to About.com's free C programming tutorial. This tutorial features a series of lessons designed to teach you the basics of C programming"
Start-up has feel for 3D chips | CNET News.com
Start-up has feel for 3D chips | CNET News.com: "A Silicon Valley start-up will try to popularize one of the more intriguing ideas that has been tossed around computer labs for years: three-dimensional semiconductors."
IBM labs unveil super-dense storage | CNET News.com
IBM labs unveil super-dense storage | CNET News.com: "IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area, as the push to find new storage technologies rolls on."
Start-ups search for hard-drive replacements | CNET News.com
Start-ups search for hard-drive replacements | CNET News.com: "Molten silicon, designer molecules, and protein globules from a cow. Someday, one of these materials could be used to store data in cell phones and PCs."
AOPA Online - Regulatory Brief -- FAA Proposes Sport Pilot/Light Sport Aircraft Rule
AOPA Online - Regulatory Brief -- FAA Proposes Sport Pilot/Light Sport Aircraft Rule: "On February 5, 2002, the FAA published in the Federal Register the highly anticipated Sport Pilot and Light Sport Aircraft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). This proposal intends to create new certification categories for Light Sport aircraft and their pilots. Current FAA regulations do not address the 'Sport Pilot' segment of general aviation."
Overview: Sport Pilot and Light-Sport Aircraft Rule
Overview: Sport Pilot and Light-Sport Aircraft Rule: "Certification Of Light-Sport Aircraft (14 CFR Section 1.1) Light-sport aircraft are simple, low-performance aircraft that are limited to 1,320 lbs. maximum weight, two occupants, a single non-turbine powered engine, stall speed of 45 knots, maximum airspeed of 120 knots, and fixed landing gear. Aircraft categories include airplanes, weight-shift-control aircraft, powered parachutes, gyroplanes, gliders, balloons and airships. Due to their complexity, helicopters and powered-lifts are not covered by the rule. Light-sport aircraft standards meet the 'Voluntary Consensus Standards' of OMB Circular A-119."
Wired News: Inside Look at Birth of the IPod
Wired News: Inside Look at Birth of the IPod: "Knauss shared his firsthand knowledge of the device's development, the glitches that almost killed it, and the extraordinary steps Apple took to keep the iPod a secret."
No Second Acts?
No Second Acts?: "Late in life, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, 'There are no second acts in American lives.' Maybe that was true in his day; if you didn't make it the first time around, nobody gave you a second chance. But today, people reinvent themselves all the time. And even the most successful aren't content to rest on their laurels."
GROKLAW
GROKLAW: "
I have just heard from two readers who did attend the DC hearing. The eyewitness accounts are subject to later clarification, simply because neither is a lawyer and that can lead to missing certain details, as they disclaim in the reports. But with that disclaimer, this is what they say happened. I know we all wish to thank them both for attending the hearing, so we can get a fast report."
Yahoo! News - Singing Japanese plants
Yahoo! News - Singing Japanese plants: "TOKYO (Reuters) - People who like talking to their plants can now enjoy a musical accompaniment, thanks to a Japanese invention that turns petals and leaves into amplifiers."
OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company): Table of Contents
OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company): Table of Contents: "OpenGL Programming Guide
"
OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company): Table of Contents
OpenGL Programming Guide (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company): Table of Contents: "OpenGL Programming Guide
"
mozdev.org - bugmenot: index
mozdev.org - bugmenot: index: "BugMeNot is an extension that enables the user to bypass compulsory web site registration, i.e. the New York Times. Most users who try and read an article are linked to a splash site, where they are urged to register for their free account in order to view the content. The problem with mandatory registrations is that most people will enter false information to speed up the process, making this form of demographic surveying a moot point."
Ascii Art Dictionary / About this site
Ascii Art Dictionary / About this site: "The Ascii Art Dictionary was created by Andreas Freise. The idea, the design, the coding, - you name it, all that is my own responsibility. And of course I am the sole maintainer too. On average I spend half an hour per day on this manifestation of my ASCII addiction."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Schoolboys create mobile seeker
BBC NEWS | Technology | Schoolboys create mobile seeker: "A mobile phone detector developed by a team of six New Zealand schoolboys has attracted international interest. "
IEEE STARTS STANDARD TO SUPPORT BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS OVER LOCAL POWER LINES
IEEE STARTS STANDARD TO SUPPORT BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS OVER LOCAL POWER LINES: "IEEE STARTS STANDARD TO SUPPORT BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS OVER LOCAL POWER LINES"
Wired News: Downloading for Democracy
Wired News: Downloading for Democracy: "But outragedmoderates.org isn't offering copyright music and videos for download. The site, launched two weeks ago, has aggregated more than 600 government and court documents to make them available for download through the Kazaa, LimeWire and Soulseek P2P networks in the interest of making government more transparent and accountable."
Neil Fraser: Hardware: 3D Mouse
Neil Fraser: Hardware: 3D Mouse: "Here is an inexpensive way to create a three dimensional pointing device. Take a working mechanical wheel mouse (the type with a scrolling wheel). Remove the ball. Drill some holes in the sides and run a string into the mouse, around the horizontal roller, and out the other side. Reroute the sensors for the vertical roller and the scroll wheel to a pair of external sensors. The easiest way to do this is to take a couple of dead mechanical mice and simply wire their horizontal rollers to the master mouse's vertical roller and scroll wheel. Run strings around these two rollers as well. Attach small weights to one end of each string and tie the other ends together. The result is a computer peripheral which can be used to indicate a point in three dimensions."
Google's fraud squad battles phantom clicks: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Security
Google's fraud squad battles phantom clicks: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Security: "analysis Internet marketers facing higher advertising fees on search networks are becoming increasingly concerned about a form of online fraud that was thought to have been contained years ago."
Developers play air guitar to Megadeth | The Register
Developers play air guitar to Megadeth | The Register: "Shockingly, the results of its poll among 200 students at the Training Company's UK residential courses reveal that developers are malodorous headbangers playing air guitar to Megadeth, Microsoft Certified professionals get their rocks off to Britney while IT directors can be found sipping the finest wines while Mozart tinkles away in the background. No stereotype-fulfilling findings there, then."
HoustonChronicle.com - Computing
HoustonChronicle.com - Computing: "Gamers, check under hood because Doom 3 is coming"
Internet News Article | Reuters.com
Internet News Article | Reuters.com: "KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - ICANN, the U.S. body overseeing Web site allocations globally, has launched a new technology that will allow virtually unlimited Internet addresses, its chairman told Reuters on Tuesday."
New Scientist
New Scientist: "Surface water on Mars existed across a significant span of time, not just for years but eons, suggest new findings made by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity."
InfoWorld: RSS growing pains: July 16, 2004: By Chad Dickerson : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES
InfoWorld: RSS growing pains: July 16, 2004: By Chad Dickerson : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES
These days, despite near-universal acclaim for the technology, I have a real love/hate relationship with RSS. The love part of the relationship derives from the profound changes in my information production and consumption habits during the past year and a half. During that time, I’ve been blogging and producing content with RSS. Whereas my e-mail client, MS Word, and Google used to rule my desktop, I now find myself using Bloglines, Feedster, and Technorati throughout the day and writing to my internal and external blogs using ecto. Although the plumbing is quite simple, I’m still fascinated by all the background pinging (as new Weblog content is posted) and the real-time indexing of fresh content. When Dave Sifry at Technorati reports that the median time from Weblog content posting until that content is available for search on Technorati is seven minutes, I see a paradigm shifting. Despite “only” being XML, RSS is the driving force fulfilling the Web’s original promise: making the Web useful in an exciting, real-time way.
Feds eye new "Longhorn" version of Windows - Jul. 20, 2004
Feds eye new "Longhorn" version of Windows - Jul. 20, 2004: "NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Justice Department is already monitoring the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, still years from introduction, to make sure it complies with an antitrust settlement between the software provider and regulators, according to a published report."
BookMachine
BookMachine: "The BookMachine is an automated device that can produce a soft-cover, perfect bound, standard-format book on customer demand within three to five minutes. The information and material to produce the book is contained within the BookMachine (10'X3'X4') enclosure. The electronic information for printing frequently requested books can be cached in the BookMachine. The system also provides continual maintenance 7/24 and will have a central storage facility that will contain hundreds of thousands of book titles. Upon customer selection, the local BookMachine will request a specific title from the master database, which will then be transmitted back to the local machine for reproduction."
Bookmachine self-contained printer - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Bookmachine self-contained printer - Engadget - www.engadget.com
The Gripe Line Weblog by Ed Foster
The Gripe Line Weblog by Ed Foster: "n infectious disease broke out recently in a number of communities. We'd like to tell which communities they were, just in case you were visiting one at the time, but we can't. It would be bad for business, after all."
New server chips carry hidden cost
New server chips carry hidden cost: "At issue is that software vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft that license software on a per-CPU basis are likely to consider each processor a separate CPU, a practice that means double the licensing costs for enterprise users deploying new dual-core servers. These servers have two processors on a single piece of silicon. With four-core servers and more on the horizon, the issue likely will become amplified as vendors try to figure out how to price software and enterprise users work to manage IT budgets."
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Stop spam with Sneakemail 2.0, the spam stopper, disposable email, forwarding, spam filter service
Stop spam with Sneakemail 2.0, the spam stopper, disposable email, forwarding, spam filter service
Monday, July 19, 2004
AMD pops out two notebook chips | CNET News.com
AMD pops out two notebook chips | CNET News.com: "Advanced Micro Devices released two notebook chips Sunday, building on a recent surge of sales of processors for portables."
419ers morph into Murder Incorporated | The Register
419ers morph into Murder Incorporated | The Register: "It's easy to dismiss Nigerian 419 advance fee fraudsters as a bunch of chancers who prey on the gullible and the greedy and occasionally get lucky. After all, a fool and his money are soon parted, and the victims of these scams have brought financial misfortune on themselves, isn't that right?
However, reader BW has just received a particularly nasty piece of work with the Lads from Lagos written all over it. He notes:
This is a rather sinister twist on 419, where instead of just duping the greedy and stupid, this actually will terrify some new web users, like my grandparents. Imagine this was within the first 100 emails you had ever seen...
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At what cost pervasive? A social computing view of mobile computing systems
At what cost pervasive? A social computing view of mobile computing systems: "With the advent of pervasive systems, computers are becoming a larger part of our social lives than ever before. Depending on the design of these systems, they may either promote or inhibit social relationships. We consider four kinds of social relationships: a relationship with the system, system-mediated collaborative relationships, relationships with a community, and interpersonal relationships among co-located persons. In laboratory studies, the design of pervasive computers is shown to affect responses to social partners. We propose a model of how pervasive systems can influence human behavior, social attributions, and interaction outcomes. We also discuss some implications for system design."
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Uploading audio files with filestore? | drupal.org
Uploading audio files with filestore? | drupal.org: "Uploading audio files with filestore?
Submitted by Dash on April 22, 2004 - 15:28. Module development
I'm working on a Drupal site (v. 4.4 on an apache server), which I want to use for collaboration on music projects. I thought that by using Filestore I'd be able to specify what kind of file to use, and use the books module to discuss and revise work.
However, it doesn't seem to be able to upload. I set the MIME type to audio/mp3, is this the correct term to use? Is it possible to upload and download audio this way?
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What is you upload limit? Man
Submitted by killes@www.drop.org on April 22, 2004 - 15:37.
What is you upload limit? Many servers have a limit of 2MB.
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I don't think it's that, I se
Submitted by Dash on April 23, 2004 - 06:39.
I don't think it's that, I set allowed MIME types to 'all', forbidden to 'none' and tried to upload a 1.45 MB mp3 file. It just creates a file called drupal which nothing can open, so it doesn't upload anything."
Linspire Gives Linux IM a Voice
Linspire Gives Linux IM a Voice: "Linux vendor Linspire Inc. has released PhoneGaim, a free software program that adds voice-over-IP functionality to the Linux-based Gaim instant messaging client."
Saturday, July 17, 2004
ArchWiki - How to make wget to work with proxy and proxy authentification
ArchWiki - How to make wget to work with proxy and proxy authentification: "How to make wget to work with proxy and proxy authentification
For this example, you want to run wget inside a network environment, where a proxy requests authentification. The following scenario is typical for Windows networks. Let the proxy have the IP 192.168.10.11, listening on port 8080. In this example, for authentification you have to submit the name of a windows domain user account. The domain's name is wonderwall, and the useraccount reads JohnDoe, the password will be Go4It. Let us further assume you want to fetch arch-0.6.iso from prdownloads.sourceforge.net.
1.
Add the following lines to your environment:
export http_proxy='http://192.168.10.11:8080'
export ftp_proxy='http://192.168.10.11:8080'
2.
Now, start wget with some enhanced options: --proxy-username='string' --proxy-passwd='string'
wget --proxy-user='Wonderwall\JohnDoe' --proxy-passwd='Go4It' http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archlinux/arch-0.6.iso
3.
You can create an alias to save that configuration, although it may be a security risk to save a passwd inside it:
alias wget='wget --proxy-user='Wonderwall\JohnDoe' --proxy-passwd='Go4It''
Last edited on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:05:44 pm."
IT Manager's Journal | Is Canada the solution for offshore outsourcing-wary U.S. companies?
IT Manager's Journal | Is Canada the solution for offshore outsourcing-wary U.S. companies?: "According to Gartner Group, outsourcing remains the primary source of growth in IT services. Forrester reports the movement of U.S. services jobs offshore will occur at a faster pace than previously projected. Nonetheless, LecStar Telecom, a regional provider of integrated communications services, is among the U.S. firms not yet enticed by offshore outsourcing."
3 Laws Unsafe - Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics & I, Robot
3 Laws Unsafe - Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics & I, Robot: "s it possible to create ethical AI based on the Three Laws? Is it ethical to create ethical AI based on the Three Laws? What other solutions have been proposed for the problem? These questions are explored in our Articles Section. The articles give perspective on why the field of AI ethics is crucial, and why Asimov’s Laws are simply its beginning."
PCBexpress prototype printed circuit board manufacturer
PCBexpress prototype printed circuit board manufacturer
Maven - Maven
Maven - Maven: "Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM. Look here to see the full list of Maven's features."
Mac News: Commentary: Are Mac Users Smarter Than PC Users?
Mac News: Commentary: Are Mac Users Smarter Than PC Users?: "My wife has a Dilbert cartoon on her office door in which one of the characters says: 'If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how.' She's a Mac user and they were worse even before they all became Unix users too."
Top News Article | Reuters.com
Top News Article | Reuters.com: "SEATTLE (Reuters) - A federal judge struck down a Washington state law designed to restrict the sale of violent video games to minors on Thursday, saying that such restrictions violated free speech rights, court documents showed."
Apache's Maven Comes of Age
Apache's Maven Comes of Age: "One of the most critical parts of Java development is understanding the complete state of a development effort as quickly as possible. That's the goal of Apache's Maven project, which released its milestone 1.0 release this week."
CNN.com - Tough road for patent-busters - Jul 16, 2004
CNN.com - Tough road for patent-busters - Jul 16, 2004: "SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- A small company called Acacia Research Corp. went after some of the biggest names in broadcasting last month, suing nine companies for an estimated $100 million for allegedly violating its patent on streaming video."
Pad2Pad - Online custom PCB's with components
Pad2Pad - Online custom PCB's with components: "Pad2Pad is the remarkable new way to get the custom boards you need. Download our free software, design your board, and click to order - it's that easy! Your board will be manufactured, assembled and delivered. Even better, your cost is low due to the Internet and free software."
eMachineShop - Online Machine Shop - with FREE CAD Software
eMachineShop - Online Machine Shop - with FREE CAD Software: "eMachineShop is the remarkable new way to get the custom parts you need. Download our free software, draw your part, and click to order - it's that easy! Your part will be machined and delivered. Even better, your cost is low due to the Internet, software, and automated machines."
No Second Acts?
No Second Acts?: "Late in life, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, 'There are no second acts in American lives.' Maybe that was true in his day; if you didn't make it the first time around, nobody gave you a second chance. But today, people reinvent themselves all the time. And even the most successful aren't content to rest on their laurels."
Friday, July 16, 2004
The Web Robots Pages
The Web Robots Pages: "Web Robots are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Some people call them Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders. These pages have further information about these Web Robots."
Robots.txt File Tutorial
Robots.txt File Tutorial: "Search engines will look in your root domain for a special file named 'robots.txt' (http://www.mydomain.com/robots.txt). The file tells the robot (spider) which files it may spider (download). This system is called, The Robots Exclusion Standard."
TSA | Transportation Security Administration | Briefing Room
TSA | Transportation Security Administration | Briefing Room: "Below are downloadable photographs of artfully concealed weapons found by TSA Screeners during security searches. These discoveries emphasize the need for continued vigilance at airport checkpoints across the country."
Making History: NASA's X-43A Scramjet Streaks Across Sky
Making History: NASA's X-43A Scramjet Streaks Across Sky: "Aviation history was made today as NASA successfully flew its experimental X-43A research vehicle, a forerunner of craft that could well offer alternate access to space in the future."
TrustedReviews.
TrustedReviews.: "When us old-timers say that PC users have never had it so good, we’re not just wallowing in self-pity, it’s because we remember the days when spending a week trying to get your new game and your sound card to work together wasn’t that unusual. That doesn’t mean it’s all roses now though, the flipside to all this bigger, faster, better technology is more choice, and critical choice at that."
Yahoo! News - NASA Launches Aura Atmosphere Satellite
Yahoo! News - NASA Launches Aura Atmosphere Satellite: "VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - After a series of delays, NASA (news - web sites)'s Aura satellite was launched into orbit early Thursday on a $785 million mission to study Earth's atmosphere."
Thursday, July 15, 2004
QDB: Quote #8814
QDB: Quote #8814: "#8814 (3952)- [X]
New Scientist
New Scientist: "After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking is saying he was wrong. It seems that black holes may after all allow information within them to escape. Hawking will present his latest finding at a conference in Ireland next week."
Amazon.com: Books: Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition (Parts 1-5): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms, T
Amazon.com: Books: Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition (Parts 1-5): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms, Third Edition: "In this text, Robert Sedgewick focuses on practical applications, giving readers all the information, diagrams and real (not pseudo-) code they need to confidently implement, debug and use the algorithms he presents. "
Amazon.com: Books: Bundle of Algorithms in C , Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition)
Amazon.com: Books: Bundle of Algorithms in C , Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition): "These two volumes contain a revision of Parts 1 to 5 of Sedgewick's study on computer algorithms in C . By blending theory and practice, the author straddles both the academic and professional markets. This third edition is greatly expanded from previous editions. "
Amazon.com: Books: Algorithms in C, Parts 1-5 (Bundle): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition)
Amazon.com: Books: Algorithms in C, Parts 1-5 (Bundle): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition): "This text aims to provide an introduction to graph algorithms and data structures and an understanding of the basic properties of a broad range of fundamental graph algorithms. It is suitable for anyone with some basic programming concepts. It covers graph properties and types, graph search, directed graphs, minimal spanning trees, shortest paths, and networks. "
The Web Standards Project
The Web Standards Project: "The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all."
: "This file contains citations for all STDs in numeric order. Each STD represents a single Internet Standard technical specification, composed of one or more RFCs with Standard status."
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
: "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)"
Welcome to Ecma International
Welcome to Ecma International: "Ecma is the inventor and main practitioner of the concept of 'fast tracking' of specifications drafted in international standards format through the process in Global Standards Bodies like the ISO. Since 1986, when fast tracking was introduced to ISO, over 75% of fast-tracked standards have been fast-tracked through Ecma."
World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. On this page, you'll find W3C news, links to W3C technologies and ways to get involved. New visitors can find help in Finding Your Way at W3C. We encourage you to read the Prospectus and learn more about W3C."
Et Tu, Slashdot?
Et Tu, Slashdot?: "Last week VA Linux announced that it was acquiring Andover.net, the publicly traded company that owns, among others properties, Slashdot. The reaction from many in the geek community was, in my mind, bewildering. Some wished the new company luck, while others commented on the savvy of the merger. Jon Katz, Slashdot's self-appointed crusader against corporate misdeeds, has been silent on the matter."
RTFM: A Guide to Online Research
RTFM: A Guide to Online Research: "The other day at the local library, I was standing next to a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary, as I am wont to do, sneaking drags off unfiltered Gitanes and trying simultaneously to look pained, intriguing, and authoritative. Another presumed lover of language, also standing next to the dictionary, suddenly turned and asked me to define a word for him. The word itself is not important. Puzzled and flustered "
Adding Search to Your Site
Adding Search to Your Site: "As long as there's been a Web, there's been a need for search engines. Because of the volume of information that's available out there, people will always need help finding what they want. Nowadays, it's commonplace for individual sites, even personal homepages, to have their own search capabilities, and so a slew of new services have appeared to help you quickly and easily add search to your site. Some of the most popular include Atomz, FreeFind, intraSearch, MondoSearch, PicoSearch, SearchButton, SiteMiner, and Webinator."
The Laws of Online World Design
Raph's Page: "These are taken from both experience and from the writings of others. Most are the sort of 'Duh' things that many who have done this sort of game design take for granted, but others may be less intuitive. Many of the laws here were actually stated as such by others, and not by me."
Ballmer: Xbox 'can take Sony' | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Ballmer: Xbox 'can take Sony' | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "TORONTO--Although much has been made of the challenges Microsoft faces in readying the next version of Windows, CEO Steve Ballmer said that 'big bets' like Longhorn are not a reason for concern."
Ballmer: "We can take Sony in the next generation" - News at GameSpot
Ballmer: "We can take Sony in the next generation" - News at GameSpot: "Speaking to reporters after Tuesday's Microsoft Partner Conference, the Microsoft CEO predicted victory in the next-gen console war."
WHAT IF GOD SMOKED CANNABIS lyrics (Weird Al Yankovic)
WHAT IF GOD SMOKED CANNABIS lyrics (Weird Al Yankovic)
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Stealth virus is stealthiest of all | The Register
Stealth virus is stealthiest of all | The Register: "Atak uses a variety of tactics in its attempts to escape antivirus analysis. Its main trick is to check to see if it's being run in a debugging environment. If so, it exits to avoid detection. The ploy prevents casual perusal of the code by researchers and (potentially) rival virus writers."
Thomas Sowell: Digital disgust
Thomas Sowell: Digital disgust: "One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things. Whether you want to play chess, take a picture, or do some other obvious and straightforward thing, you must first deal with a zillion options to do things you have no interest in doing."
DAG: Apt/Yum RPM repository
DAG: Apt/Yum RPM repository: "Welcome to my repository of add-on RPM packages for Red Hat/Fedora. I currently have 18199 packages available for different Red Hat flavors. (6.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, EL2.1, EL3, FC1 and FC2). They comprise 1099 different projects."
cAos -- Community Linux
cAos -- Community Linux: "cAos is a community of open source contributors and users focused on producing enterprise-level, community-produced and managed Linux solutions."
rpmseek.com - The search engine for Linux rpm and Debian packages
rpmseek.com - The search engine for Linux rpm and Debian packages
TaoLinux.org | The Source is with us.
TaoLinux.org | The Source is with us.
Enterprize Linux rebuilds
Plame's Lame Game - What Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife forgot to tell us about the yellow-cake scandal. By Christopher Hitchens
Plame's Lame Game - What Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife forgot to tell us about the yellow-cake scandal. By Christopher Hitchens: "Two recent reports allow us to revisit one of the great non-stories, and one of the great missed stories, of the Iraq war argument. The non-story is the alleged martyrdom of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson, supposed by many to have suffered cruel exposure for their commitment to the truth. The missed story is the increasing evidence that Niger, in West Africa, was indeed the locus of an illegal trade in uranium ore for rogue states including Iraq."
So Tired - Where Web surfers go when they haven't slept a wink. By Paul Boutin
So Tired - Where Web surfers go when they haven't slept a wink. By Paul Boutin: "When Mike Kuniavsky bought the Internet domain tired.com from a friend in November 1997, he wasn't planning to set up an anonymous confessional. He wasn't planning anything at all. At the time, Mike and I were both Web workers developing sites for the company that owned Wired magazine. 'Tired' puns about Wired were de rigueur, so Mike grabbed tired.com for laughs."
Inflation Rate Calculator- from InflationData.com
Inflation Rate Calculator- from InflationData.com: "This Inflation Calculator calculates the TOTAL rate of price inflation between two dates from 1914- Present. Please select the starting month and year and the ending month and year and then click the 'Calculate Inflation Rate' button to see your inflation calculation."
GE unveils nanotech device, may shrink future chips - Jul. 7, 2004
GE unveils nanotech device, may shrink future chips - Jul. 7, 2004: "
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists at General Electric Co. unveiled one of the smallest functioning devices ever made Wednesday, a carbon tube about 10 atoms wide that could one day shrink computer chip technology."
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: "Ghulam Sediq Wardak holds a screwdriver and clamp in his dirty hands. The 62 year old, wearing a turban and the tradition shalwar kamiz costume, picks up an engine part from the floor of his Kabul workshop and attaches it to a partially built car."
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nano-team spins tomorrow's yarn
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Nano-team spins tomorrow's yarn: "A method to continuously spin a wonder material, which is worth more per kg than gold, has been developed by Cambridge-MIT Institute scientists."
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking - 7/04
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking - 7/04: "On February 18, 2004, 62 preeminent scientists including Nobel laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, former senior advisers to administrations of both parties, numerous members of the National Academy of Sciences, and other well-known researchers released a statement titled Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making. "
New Cases of Scientific Abuse by Administration Emerge
New Cases of Scientific Abuse by Administration Emerge
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Supermileage� 2004 Photos - Collegiate Design Competitions - SAE Student Central
Supermileage� 2004 Photos - Collegiate Design Competitions - SAE Student Central
Make a WHOIS database search on any domain on the Web | Network Solutions
Make a WHOIS database search on any domain on the Web | Network Solutions
Squeak Genesis
Squeak Genesis: "SQUEAK didn't happen by itself. It's the product of a number of years of work of a small core group of Squeakers, most of whom are pictured above. Three of the group - Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler -met at Xerox PARC in the early 70s and, with only a few gaps, have worked together for many of the intervening years: at PARC, Apple, Disney and now at Hewlett-Packard.."
DNS Rapid Update: VeriSign
DNS Rapid Update: VeriSign: "VeriSign Naming and Directory Services (VNDS) is scheduled to implement a new feature called rapid updates. For many years now VNDS has generated new versions of the .com/.net zones twice a day. VNDS is planning to begin updating the .com/.net zones more frequently to reflect the registration activity of the .com/.net registrars in near real time. As registrars make changes in the .com/.net registry, such as adding new domains or making changes to existing domains, visibility of those adds or changes in all 13 .com/.net authoritative name servers is expected to average less than five minutes."
Red Hat Holds Top Linux Hosting Spot
Red Hat Holds Top Linux Hosting Spot: "Research firm Netcraft is out with its latest Linux statistics, which said Red Hat (Quote, Chart) is the dominant Linux distribution in the hosting industry."
The New York Times > Science > Will Compasses Point South?
The New York Times > Science > Will Compasses Point South?: "he collapse of the Earth's magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago. The field's strength has waned 10 to 15 percent, and the deterioration has accelerated of late, increasing debate over whether it portends a reversal of the lines of magnetic force that normally envelop the Earth."
Microsoft: Expect 1 Billion-Plus Windows PCs by 2010
Microsoft: Expect 1 Billion-Plus Windows PCs by 2010: "TORONTO "
Fortune.com - Fast Forward - A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing
Fortune.com - Fast Forward - A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing: "Hewlett-Packard's Alan Kay, who played a pivotal role in the invention of the personal computer, says business should think more creatively about the potential of technology. "
New Zealand News - Technology - Oracle and Linux win over NZX
New Zealand News - Technology - Oracle and Linux win over NZX: "NZX - the New Zealand stock exchange - has become the first major New Zealand company to adopt the Oracle 10g database running on Red Hat Linux."
Monday, July 12, 2004
Ars Technica: The Pentium: An Architectural History of the World's Most Famous Desktop Processor, Part I - Page 1 - (7/2004)
Ars Technica: The Pentium: An Architectural History of the World's Most Famous Desktop Processor, Part I - Page 1 - (7/2004): "I'll never forget when Intel first announced that the name for the successor to the 486 would be 'Pentium.' I and most of my fellow computer nerds thought the name was silly and not suitably geeky. Everyone knew that computer components were supposed to have names with numbers in them; after all, Star Wars droids, Star Trek ships, software versions, Compuserve e-mail addresses, and every other kind of computer-related thing you could think of had a moniker consisting of some mix of numbers and letters. So what's with a name that vaguely suggests the concept of 'fiveness,' but would be more appropriate for an element or a compound?"
Atomic Tests: Operation Hardtack 1, Pacific Proving Grounds 1958
Atomic Tests: Operation Hardtack 1, Pacific Proving Grounds 1958
Friday, July 09, 2004
8anet.com- Acme Intel Supermicro Server & Rackmount blade Chassis for XEON Itanium Opteron Athlon P4 scsi sca sata
8anet.com- Acme Intel Supermicro Server & Rackmount blade Chassis for XEON Itanium Opteron Athlon P4 scsi sca sata
PC Gear Online : An Online Computer Store - GIGABYTE Radeon X600XT VIVO 128MB Graphics Card *128MB DDR *PCIE X 16 Graphics
PC Gear Online : An Online Computer Store - GIGABYTE Radeon X600XT VIVO 128MB Graphics Card *128MB DDR *PCIE X 16 Graphics
Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions
Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions: "In a lively online discussion Thursday, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) engineers faced off with end users who lobbed irate questions, comments and a few tirades about its Internet Explorer browser."
infogargoyle: Raver Wearable Displays
infogargoyle: Raver Wearable Displays: "France Telecom has done some fun R&D to display pixelated images from your cellphone on your shirt or sleeve. These raver garments can even be used as a standalone device that can animate based on sounds and gestures. The technology uses a flexible circuit board with LEDs and other electronic bits like sensors layered in a fabric layered sandwich, which they claim is fairly comfortable."
Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace | The Register
Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace | The Register: "Analysis Try to imagine a geeky version of famed salesman Ron Popeil. Keep Popeil's exuberance, keep his pitchman savvy and keep his verbal overflow. Then erase his age, sturdy frame and Ronco Food Dehydrator and replace all this with a young, lanky kernel engineer hawking something called DTrace, and you have Bryan Cantrill."
Las Vegas Mercury: The ultimate public-private partnership
Las Vegas Mercury: The ultimate public-private partnership
The New York Times > Technology > Image > Wi-Fi in Motion
The New York Times > Technology > Image > Wi-Fi in Motion
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Techweb > News > New wireless spectrum > FCC Awards New Wireless Spectrum To Nextel > July 8, 2004
Techweb > News > New wireless spectrum > FCC Awards New Wireless Spectrum To Nextel > July 8, 2004: "As expected the FCC Thursday approved a plan that will give Nextel Communications a 10 megahertz chunk of spectrum in the 1.9 GHz band. Also, as expected, the 5-0 vote touched off a protest by a public safety group that is expected to be followed up by complaints from additional protesting parties."
Bossa, a Framework for Scheduler Development - OSNews.com
Bossa, a Framework for Scheduler Development - OSNews.com: "The recent activity in Linux kernel development caused by the introduction of a new scheduler by Ingo Molnar has emphasized for ordinary Linux users the importance of schedulers in modern operating systems. In this article, we give you a glimpse of what scheduling development is like by letting you implement your own Linux scheduler thanks to Bossa, a framework for scheduler development."
Rumours of Tape's death exaggerated | The Register
Rumours of Tape's death exaggerated | The Register: "Despite long running rumours of the death of tape, solutions of various formats are employed, almost universally, somewhere in the routine, but vitally important, task of the backup or archiving of data. Tape systems continue to evolve; while their position in the data protection chain may be altering, tape technology still has a role to play in all areas of the market."
Slashdot | Network Security Hacks
Slashdot | Network Security Hacks: "Anton Chuvakin writes 'When I first got this little book called Network Security Hacks, I was unimpressed by its idea: a seemingly random collection of network security tips combined under the same cover. However, when I started reading, more and more often I exclaimed 'Ah, that's how it is done!' as well as found better ways of doing what I was doing.' Read on for the rest of Chuvakin's review."
mozilla.org - home of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, and camino
mozilla.org - home of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, and camino
Sleep Paralysis: page 2
Sleep Paralysis: page 2: "Sleep paralysis, or more properly, sleep paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations have been singled out as a particularly likely source of beliefs concerning not only alien abductions, but all manner of beliefs in alternative realities and otherworldly creatures. Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop of to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, or speak, or cry out. This may last a few seconds or several moments, occasionally longer. People frequently report feeling a 'presence' that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil. An intense sense of dread and terror is very common. "
Intersil High Performance Analog SwitchMUX Solutions
Intersil High Performance Analog SwitchMUX Solutions: "MightyMUX"
mozdev.org - bugmenot: index
mozdev.org - bugmenot: index: "BugMeNot is an extension that enables the user to bypass compulsory web site registration, i.e. the New York Times. Most users who try and read an article are linked to a splash site, where they are urged to register for their free account in order to view the content. The problem with mandatory registrations is that most people will enter false information to speed up the process, making this form of demographic surveying a moot point."
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Rovers might get further lifeline
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Rovers might get further lifeline: "Negotiations are under way to further extend the missions of the US space agency's Mars Exploration Rovers."
Fortune.com - This Just In - Seeing the World on Ten Coffees a Day
Fortune.com - This Just In - Seeing the World on Ten Coffees a Day: "Seeing the World on Ten Coffees a Day
There is no stopping Starbucks' worldwide expansion. One man thinks he can at least keep up. Meet Winter, Starbucks hunter. "
Jumping From Computer To Computer
Jumping From Computer To Computer: "Jumping From Computer To Computer
Imagine a world where computers become so ubiquitous that the idea of carrying a laptop will almost be laughable, a world where any computer could be your computer! According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this is the goal of Intel Research Pittsburgh's Internet Suspend/Resume (ISR) project, a project that may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption by using Internet, distributed file systems, and virtual machines. When the non-proprietary technology becomes available, a user will suspend a task on the computer he's working on, and resume this work using another computer in another part of a city or several thousand miles away. The second system will look identical to the first one, with the same files and applications opened. This technology would also ease OS upgrades or eliminate the pain coming from a hard disk failure. The project has even a feature named Rollback which would permit to go back in time, eliminating these pesky viruses. A pilot test will start this fall, so don't expect to be able to use ISR before a while."
Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption
Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption: "Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption"
Wired News: Building a Better Mozilla
Wired News: Building a Better Mozilla: "Most people who switch to Mozilla or Mozilla's Firefox browser quickly notice that the browser is pretty bare. It contains exactly what you need to browse the Web -- no less and no more."
The Man Who Knew Too Much - The Tour de France pales next to the Jeopardy! juggernaut. By Dana Stevens
The Man Who Knew Too Much - The Tour de France pales next to the Jeopardy! juggernaut. By Dana Stevens: "Did I call it? The fact that this would be the summer of celebrity intervention in athletic games, I mean? Come August, like goddesses in a Greek epic, the blondes of Los Angeles will descend upon Athens to crown their heroes with the laurels of victory. Last winter, Lance Armstrong, five-time Tour de France champion, cancer survivor, and all-around personification of courage and excellence—a role he good-naturedly spoofs in a cameo in the new movie Dodgeball—split up with his wife of five years and began dating pop-country star Sheryl Crow. Now Crow's in France, standing by her man and giving interviews on the Outdoor Life Network "
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
CNN.com - Courier robots get traction in hospitals - Jul 6, 2004
CNN.com - Courier robots get traction in hospitals - Jul 6, 2004
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Moore: pirate my film, no problem - [Sunday Herald]
Moore: pirate my film, no problem - [Sunday Herald]: "Controversial film-maker Michael Moore has welcomed the appearance on the internet of pirated copies of his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 and claimed he is happy for anybody to download it free of charge."
Linux Mobile System
Linux Mobile System: "Linux Mobile System (LMS) is a full Linux system whose support is the new USB Flash Memory Drives. The intention is to boot any PC with USB support with our system and therefore we will have every administration and analysis applications that we have selected, so we will not need install it. This way, always we will be able to get our Linux system ready to use in our pocket."
Amazon.com: Practical Cryptography: Explore similar items
Amazon.com: Practical Cryptography: Explore similar items: "Practical Cryptography
by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier "
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptography in C and C
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptography in C and C : "Cryptography in C and C
by Michael Welschenbach, David Kramer "
Amazon.com: Books: Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C
Amazon.com: Books: Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C : "Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C "
Amazon.com: Books: Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice
Amazon.com: Books: Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice: "Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice"
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptanalysis
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptanalysis: "Cryptanalysis
by Helen F. Gaines "
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptology (Spectrum Series)
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptology (Spectrum Series): "Cryptology (Spectrum Series)
by Albrecht Beutelspacher "
Amazon.com: Practical Cryptography: Explore similar items
Amazon.com: Practical Cryptography: Explore similar items: "Practical Cryptography
by Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier
Book Info
Text explains the how-to of cryptography, providing practical rules for choosing and using cryptographic primitives; from block ciphers to digital signatures. Discusses implementing cryptographic algorithms and systems in a secure way on today's computers. For network administrators. Includes index... Read more "
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptological Mathematics (Classroom Resource Materials)
Amazon.com: Books: Cryptological Mathematics (Classroom Resource Materials): "Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
A textbook for a one-semester undergraduate course for students who will or will not go on to more advanced mathematics. Lewant (Groucher College, Baltimore) draws together elementary mathematics from number theory, abstract algebra, matrix algebra, probability, and statistics. The point is not so much to learn to encode and decode, but to use cryptology as a fun way to learn the math itself.Book News, Inc.�, Portland, OR
Book Info
A text introducing the reader to the rigorous, yet elementary mathematics of several branches of cryptography. These include number theory, abstract algebra, probability, and statistics, all with the goal of combining them in different ways to encipher and decipher secret messages. Can be used at several different levels, depending on the reader's level of skill. Softcover.
Book Description
This is an introduction to the mathematics involved in the intriguing field of cryptology, the science of writing and reading secret messages which are designed to be read only by their intended recipients. It is written at an elementary level, suitable for beginning undergraduates, with careful explanations of all the concepts used. The basic branches of mathematics required, including number theory, abstract algebra and probability, are used to show how to encipher and decipher messages, and why this works, giving a practical as well as theoretical basis to the subject. Challenging computer programming exercises are also included. The book is written in an engaging style which will appeal to all, and also includes historical background on some of the founders of the subject. It will be of interest both to students wishing to learn cryptology per se, and also to those searching for practical applications of seemingly abstract mathematics. "
Amazon.com: Books: Secure Coding: Principles and Practices
Amazon.com: Books: Secure Coding: Principles and Practices: "Secure Coding: Principles and Practices
by Mark G. Graff, Kenneth R. Van Wyk "
Schneier.com
Schneier.com: "Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a 'security guru,' Schneier is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.
His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as 'the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published.' His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune '[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use.' His current book, Beyond Fear, tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security."
DrunkenBlog: Rich Wareham of Desktop Manager
DrunkenBlog: Rich Wareham of Desktop Manager: "For DrunkenBlogs' 300th post I have a special treat for my 12 loyal readers: a chat with Rich Wareham, the creator of Desktop Manager for OSX. I also couldn't resist the gentle irony of putting this up on the 4th of July. Remember kids, cultural differences are meant to be bridged, and the sharing of alcohol and pejorative phrases are generally a good start."
Who wrote Linux? The spy who loved Linux
Who wrote Linux? The spy who loved Linux: "In this episode of our series of Linux creation myths, one fellow plays 'I Spy,' and the other reveals the true origins of the man from Redmond. By the way, we're offering prizes -- $50 gift certificate and IT books -- to the best spinners of tall Linux creation tales. If you can outdo these tall tales, send your story to editor@searchenterpriselinux.com."
Corante > Mobile Mesh Networking > Floating mesh ?
Corante > Mobile Mesh Networking > Floating mesh ?: "This is the sort of announcement that makes you go 'hmmmmm...'. SansWire Networks plans to demonstrate their 'Stratellite' technology for wireless broadband next week. Balloons that hover in the stratosphere relaying wireless signals between themselves and to the ground... if this is ever launched commercially will it suffer the same fate as Iridium ?"
The Freenet Project - index - beginner
The Freenet Project - index - beginner: "'I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?''
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation"
freshmeat.net: Releases announced Thursday, June 29th 2000
freshmeat.net: Releases announced Thursday, June 29th 2000: "Sympa is scalable and highly customizable mailing list manager. It can cope with big lists (780,000 subscribers), and it comes with a complete Web interface for both the user and the administrator. It is internationalized, and supports the us, fr, de, es, it, fi, hu, cz, et, ro, and Chinese locales. A scripting language allows you to extend the behavior of commands. Sympa can be linked to an LDAP directory or an RDBMS to create dynamic mailing lists. Sympa provides S/MIME and HTTPS-based authentication and encryption."
The customer is always right? Not anymore
The customer is always right? Not anymore: "Some retailers are deciding that the customer can be very, very wrong -- as in unprofitable. And some, including Best Buy Co. Inc., are discriminating between profitable customers and shoppers they lose money on."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Weaving the net into your world
BBC NEWS | Technology | Weaving the net into your world: "I'm lucky enough to live in Cambridge, a beautiful city with a great architecture, a meandering river and, largely thanks to the University, a wealth of wonderful museums and galleries."
Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code - ZDNet UK News
Bagle author releases 'dangerous' assembler code - ZDNet UK News: "Two new Bagle worm variants and the worm's original assembler source code were spreading around the Internet on Sunday - a dangerous development, according to security experts"
Linux.com | Fedora Core 2: Making it work
Linux.com | Fedora Core 2: Making it work: "Recently I concluded my review of Fedora Core 2 (FC2) on Linux.com with the words, 'It's an important step in the evolution of Linux ... but I won't be using it for production work anytime soon.' What a difference a month makes -- I am now using FC2 for production work. Here's how I got around the distro's deficiencies."
Professor gives Cisco manual away for free - News - ZDNet
Professor gives Cisco manual away for free - News - ZDNet: "Computing instructor Matt Basham's suggestions for improving Cisco Systems' official training manuals fell on deaf ears for years. But he appears to have the networking giant's attention now."
Monday, July 05, 2004
CNN.com - Military on alert for Coke's chip contest - Jul 2, 2004
CNN.com - Military on alert for Coke's chip contest - Jul 2, 2004: "NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new security threat at some of the nation's military bases -- and it looks uncannily like a can of Coke.
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Sunday, July 04, 2004
New Scientist
New Scientist: "A traffic simulation system is helping drivers by predicting jams on Germany's autobahn network up to an hour before they happen. The secret of its success is to take into account the way real drivers - and their cars - behave. "
Vers�o traduzida de http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead
Vers�o traduzida de http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead: "The computers most recent supply to a processing power many times bigger that the demand of many users. Having this in sight, this project looks for to use to advantage better the power of these machines, allowing that the computacinal power of them is shared by some people.
The solution used for the C3SL for the creation of a computer science laboratory uses only 15 computers to take care of 60 users. In each computer 4 sets of monitor, keyboard and mouse are connected, and these operate ones of the others independently, allowing that a computer is shared by 4 people."
Business Briefs SCOTTS VALLEY Seagate: Cornice infringes on patents July 3, 2004
Business Briefs SCOTTS VALLEY Seagate: Cornice infringes on patents July 3, 2004: "Seagate Technology, the Scotts Valley-based hard disk drive manufacturer, announced Friday that it has filed a patent infringement complaint against Cornice Inc., a developer of high-capacity storage, with the U.S. International Trade Commission."
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS: "Small metallic fibers known as 'zinc whiskers' are the likely culprit behind crippling computer outages in the Colorado secretary of state's office over the past three weeks. "
New Scientist
New Scientist: "A traffic simulation system is helping drivers by predicting jams on Germany's autobahn network up to an hour before they happen. The secret of its success is to take into account the way real drivers - and their cars - behave. "
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends: "
A Video Projector that Fits in Your Pocket
Video projectors able to project high-quality images will be embedded in your cellphones and laptops within two years. This is the promise of a new technology developed at Cambridge University. These pocket projectors will have no lenses and no light bulbs. Instead, these future battery-powered tiny projectors will rely on holographic technology and special algorithms. In 'Holograms enable pocket projectors,' Technology Research News explains that a 2D hologram will be created on a microdisplay and projected by using a laser beam. This has been possible because the researchers have written special algorithms which generates the holograms a million times faster than standard ones."
New Scientist
New Scientist: "A traffic simulation system is helping drivers by predicting jams on Germany's autobahn network up to an hour before they happen. The secret of its success is to take into account the way real drivers - and their cars - behave. "
Slashdot | Linux Users Are Spoiled
Slashdot | Linux Users Are Spoiled: "Dozix007 writes 'Newsforge carries an interesting article on how spoiled Linux users are. It sites examples such as the availability of wide ranging software packages that Microsoft can't hope to provide. Microsoft has to be careful about what kind of application software it ships with Windows. Microsoft reps sometimes point to Linux distributions and ask why they can get away with shipping stacks and stacks of applications without getting in trouble. The answer to that one, of course, is that the Linux distributions give you a choice. You aren't locked into one particular application. Most Linux distributions include several choices for most program classifications; even single-CD distros usually include several Web browsers and email clients.' "
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends: "According to Haaretz, an Israeli start-up has developed a new radar technology to see through walls. This radar system, based on UWB (ultra wideband) technology, can produce 3D images of what stays behind walls. The real breakthrough is that this system can be used from a distance of up to 20 meters, which will benefit rescuers as well as military personnel by providing useful information about the number of people inside a room, their locations and even their weapons. The newspaper adds that the images are of good quality, allowing the users of the system to follow what is happening behind the wall in real time. However, don't expect to get one today. The first devices are expected to be available within 18 months."
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends: "According to Haaretz, an Israeli start-up has developed a new radar technology to see through walls. This radar system, based on UWB (ultra wideband) technology, can produce 3D images of what stays behind walls. The real breakthrough is that this system can be used from a distance of up to 20 meters, which will benefit rescuers as well as military personnel by providing useful information about the number of people inside a room, their locations and even their weapons. The newspaper adds that the images are of good quality, allowing the users of the system to follow what is happening behind the wall in real time. However, don't expect to get one today. The first devices are expected to be available within 18 months."
Holograms enable pocket projectors TRN 063004
Holograms enable pocket projectors TRN 063004: "Video projectors can make entire walls into television or computer screens. But video projection equipment is relatively bulky, which has confined video projection to lecture halls, conference rooms and home theaters."
Vers�o traduzida de http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead
Vers�o traduzida de http://www.c3sl.ufpr.br/fourhead: "The computers most recent supply to a processing power many times bigger that the demand of many users. Having this in sight, this project looks for to use to advantage better the power of these machines, allowing that the computacinal power of them is shared by some people.
The solution used for the C3SL for the creation of a computer science laboratory uses only 15 computers to take care of 60 users. In each computer 4 sets of monitor, keyboard and mouse are connected, and these operate ones of the others independently, allowing that a computer is shared by 4 people."
NewsForge | Linux users are spoiled
NewsForge | Linux users are spoiled: "A friend got a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed. 'Does this come with an IRC program?' he asked. No, it doesn't. There are plenty of IRC programs for Windows, but you need to download and install them yourself. Word processing? Not included. Spreadsheet? Windows leaves you on your own yet again. I swear, by the time you buy or download all the software it takes to actually do something with Windows, you might as well install Linux. It would take a lot less time. I don't know about you, but my time is worth money, and if I need to do a whole bunch of software downloading and installation to make my computer usable, we're talking huge TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). "
Slashdot | Linux Users Are Spoiled
Slashdot | Linux Users Are Spoiled: "Dozix007 writes 'Newsforge carries an interesting article on how spoiled Linux users are. It sites examples such as the availability of wide ranging software packages that Microsoft can't hope to provide. Microsoft has to be careful about what kind of application software it ships with Windows. Microsoft reps sometimes point to Linux distributions and ask why they can get away with shipping stacks and stacks of applications without getting in trouble. The answer to that one, of course, is that the Linux distributions give you a choice. You aren't locked into one particular application. Most Linux distributions include several choices for most program classifications; even single-CD distros usually include several Web browsers and email clients.' "
Saturday, July 03, 2004
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Friday, July 02, 2004
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble discovers 100 new planets
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hubble discovers 100 new planets: "The Hubble Space Telescope may have discovered as many as 100 new planets orbiting stars in our galaxy."
BW Online | June 28, 2004 | The Digital Village
BW Online | June 28, 2004 | The Digital Village: "Among the grand gothic columns of Bangalore's colonial-era urban administration office, a couple dozen village dwellers neatly dressed in cotton shirts, sarongs, and turbans wait their turn at what looks like an automatic teller machine. But this machine isn't dispensing cash. Instead, farmers from nearby villages can use the terminal to see computerized copies of the deeds to the tiny patches of wheat, rice, and vegetables they till for a living. Once they've checked their information, they can get a printed copy of their records at a neighboring window for just 30 cents."
Defense bill could stifle computer trade | CNET News.com
Defense bill could stifle computer trade | CNET News.com: "In a move that has re-energized the debate over export controls on high-performance computers, the latest version of a defense-spending bill would require companies to seek licenses to export even underpowered desktop computers. "
Disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Disk or Disc?
The divergence in spelling is due in part to the way in which the words originated. Disk came into the English language in the mid-17th century, and was modelled on words such as whisk; disc arose some time later, and was based on the original Latin root discus. In the 19th century, disc became the conventional spelling for audio recordings made on a flat plate, such as the analogue disc record; this usage gave rise to the modern term disc jockey. Early BBC technicians differentiated between disks (in-house transcription records) and discs (the colloquial term for commercial gramophone records, or what the BBC dubbed CGRs)."
CD Logo, gnscd.com
CD Logo, gnscd.com: "The following is a list of Approved Compact Disc Logo configurations. gnscd.com will add the Compact Disc Logo to label film and/or electronic media on request. Listed below are the rules indicating how the Compact Disc Logo should be used. gnscd.com is not responsible for incorrect usage of the Compact Disc Logo. "
compact disk. The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
compact disk. The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.: "When new words come into the language, they often have different forms for a period until one form wins out over the others. "
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Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows? - ZDNet UK News
Linux kernel: Moving closer to Windows? - ZDNet UK News: "Tech Ed: Security and the way windowing is handled remain two of the diminishing differences between Linux and Windows, according to one of the main speakers at Microsoft's developer conference"
Thursday, July 01, 2004
An Interview with the Lead Developer of SPF - Part I
An Interview with the Lead Developer of SPF - Part I: "CircleID recently interviewed Meng Weng Wong, the lead developer of Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and founder of Pobox.com. As one of the leading anti spam authentication schemes, SPF is used by companies such as AOL, Earthlink, SAP and supported by anti spam companies such as Sophos, Symantec, Brightmail, IronPort, Ciphertrust, MailArmory, MailFrontier, Roaring Penguin Software, and Communigate Pro. Last month, Microsoft announced its agreement to merge Caller ID, its own proposed anti spam authentication scheme, with SPF -- the joint standard is called 'Sender ID'."
Antispam framework scores Microsoft endorsement | CNET News.com
Antispam framework scores Microsoft endorsement | CNET News.com: "update An ongoing effort to consolidate antispam authentication schemes took a big step forward with the merging of Sender Policy Framework and Microsoft's Caller ID for E-mail. "
An Interview with the Lead Developer of SPF - Part I
An Interview with the Lead Developer of SPF - Part I: "Home � Channels � Addressing Spam � Article
An Interview with the Lead Developer of SPF - Part I
Jun 29, 2004 | From CircleID Addressing Spam
By CircleID ReporterComments | Print | Email
CircleID recently interviewed Meng Weng Wong, the lead developer of Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and founder of Pobox.com. As one of the leading anti spam authentication schemes, SPF is used by companies such as AOL, Earthlink, SAP and supported by anti spam companies such as Sophos, Symantec, Brightmail, IronPort, Ciphertrust, MailArmory, MailFrontier, Roaring Penguin Software, and Communigate Pro. Last month, Microsoft announced its agreement to merge Caller ID, its own proposed anti spam authentication scheme, with SPF -- the joint standard is called 'Sender ID'."
TrustedReviews.
TrustedReviews.: "Although we pride ourselves on bringing you reviews of the latest consumer products, every now and again something arrives at our door that is a little special. In this case, it�s an LCD monitor that quite frankly puts everything we�ve seen so far to shame."
Slashdot | Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence
Slashdot | Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence: "Anonumous Coward writes 'Not one, but two anti-spam services announced their closure yesterday due to DDoS attacks, massive Joe jobs, threats, and the total lack of interest shown by law enforcement. monkeys.com pulled the plug at midnight with an announcement that makes you think of a suicide note. Short time later compu.net went the very same way. So, when will we see a distributed RBL that can stand up to distributed attacks?' "
News | canada.com network
News | canada.com network: "ISPs don't have to pay tariffs to musicians, Supreme Court rules"
reviewjournal.com -- News: LAS VEGAS MONORAIL: Testing delays opening
reviewjournal.com -- News: LAS VEGAS MONORAIL: Testing delays opening: "LAS VEGAS MONORAIL: Testing delays opening
Officials want to be sure all kinks ironed out before giving system green light"
What is Mono?
What is Mono?: "Mono is a comprehensive open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows IT and ISV developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications with unprecedented productivity.
Mono's .NET implementation is based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure.
Mono is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications as well as cross platform applications. Sponsored by Novell and led by Miguel de Icaza, the Mono project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community. Mono includes both developer tools and the infrastructure needed to run .NET client and server applications."
QuenteCafe.com - Hot Technology News, Humor and More
QuenteCafe.com - Hot Technology News, Humor and More: "If you have been reading this site often you probably know what an HTPC is, maybe even built one of your own. But if you are trying to get into the HTPC world but don't want to build one yourself there are many options. SkipJam iMedia Center is one which is very promising. It even allows you to expand it with external USB hard drives."
eHomeUpgrade | SkipJam iMedia Center - June 28, 2004
eHomeUpgrade | SkipJam iMedia Center - June 28, 2004: "We previously reported on the DigitalDeck Entertainment Network, a whole-house distributed entertainment wonder that sounded almost too good to be true, but now a new competitor named SkipJam will be introducing the SkipJam iMedia Center that is an even more advanced and tricked out solution that's priced way below competing products. "
eHomeUpgrade | SkipJam iMedia Center - June 28, 2004
eHomeUpgrade | SkipJam iMedia Center - June 28, 2004: "SkipJam iMedia Center - Connects, controls and provides network switching for up to 4 analog video (s-video or composite) devices, up to 6 analog audio devices, and up to 4 PCM audio devices. Each device can be switched locally, streamed to any other SkipJam-enabled device, or recorded to any hard drive or network attached storage device. The SkipJam iMedia Center provides local analog output for audio and video, as well as local PCM output; IR input and output; serial input and output for remote control of connected devices; USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 for digital media connectivity; dual Ethernet ports for network switching and transport; integrated FM and TV Tuners and an RF remote control. The SkipJam iMedia Center has an estimated street price of $799.
SkipJam iMedia Player - Has audio and video outputs, but no inputs. The SkipJam iMedia Player provides audio and video access to any networked attached media (any digital or analog device connected to a SkipJam iMedia Center and internet based streaming content, as well as any digital media stored on any locally connected storage device such as a PC hard drive or NAS Server). The SkipJam iMedia Player includes outputs for analog video (TV) and analog and PCM (optical and coaxial) digital audio. The SkipJam iMedia Player has an estimated street price of $499.
SkipJam iMedia Audio Player - Has audio output only no video and no inputs. The SkipJam iMedia Audio Player provides audio access to any network attached audio media (any digital or analog device connected to a SkipJam iMedia Center and internet based streaming content, as well as any digital media stored on any locally connected storage device such as a PC hard drive or NAS Server). The iMedia Audio Player provides analog and PCM (optical and coaxial) audio outputs. The SkipJam iMedia Au"
Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Review - Full Review Page 1 - Networking - Media Receivers - Designtechnica Reviews
Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Review - Full Review Page 1 - Networking - Media Receivers - Designtechnica Reviews: "In the quest to bring your digital music, videos and images from the computer and into your living room, quite a few companies have come up with some innovative solutions.
Gateway has taken a different approach to the networked media device than most of their competitors by integrating their unit with a progressive scan DVD player. The latest in this concept is the subject of this review, the Gateway Connected DVD Player with Wireless 802.11g Card (ADC-320).
The Connected DVD Player is just that � a DVD player that is connected to a network, and is able to play all of the video, audio, and image files on that network. Gateway sells both a wired and a wireless version of the Connected DVD player, with each retailing for $199.99."
Forbes.com: Matsushita unveils DVD recorder adopting Blu-ray Disc format+
Forbes.com: Matsushita unveils DVD recorder adopting Blu-ray Disc format+: "OSAKA, Jun 30, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. on Wednesday unveiled what it calls the world's first DVD recorder that supports single-side, dual-layer Blu-ray Discs with a maximum capacity of 50 gigabytes. "
The Simpsons Archive
The Simpsons Archive: "The Simpsons Archive is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons. You are invited to contribute your FAQs, news items, capsule submissions, lists, guides and other paraphernalia for inclusion in the archive. Please refer to the about section for submission guidelines and further details. "
reviewjournal.com -- News: LAS VEGAS MONORAIL: Project hits speed bump
reviewjournal.com -- News: LAS VEGAS MONORAIL: Project hits speed bump: "LAS VEGAS MONORAIL: Project hits speed bump
Operators had hoped to open service March 1, but say they are still on target"
Online Games at LI Politics.com | Tic Tac Toe
Online Games at LI Politics.com | Tic Tac Toe: "Looking to kill some time?? Play some games below"
reviewjournal.com -- News: $654 MILLION PROJECT: Monorail ready to go public
reviewjournal.com -- News: $654 MILLION PROJECT: Monorail ready to go public: "If you were wondering whether the Las Vegas Monorail would ever open to the public, you now have a firm date: July 15.
At 8 a.m. that Thursday, the $654 million rapid transit system is scheduled to begin hauling paying passengers behind the Strip. Monorail officials vow the date will be the last of a string of on-again, off-again target openings. "
Slashdot | Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Reviewed
Slashdot | Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Reviewed: "MediaMVP (Score:1)
by GamesOver (469659) on Wednesday June 30, @11:50PM (#9578301)
I picked up Hauppage's MediaMVP and it allows me to play my media (DIVX, MPEG, JPG, MP3, etc) over ethernet to their small client that connects directly to my TV via SVideo cable. I prefer watching videos on my TV with surround sound... and the couch is much more comfortable than my home office chair. It also has the ability to stream online radio stations. It can support up to 12 remote clients. (This would be great in an educational setting as you wouldn't have to allow the original media to go from room to room and be checked out only to get stolen or damaged.)
I picked it up at Circuit City for about $100. There's an open source project to emulate the BeyondTV interface (like Tivo). The only downside is that the server software needs to run one a Microsoft platform.
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_media mvp.html"
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - The Next Delivery? Computer Repairs by UPS
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - The Next Delivery? Computer Repairs by UPS: "Of course, UPS may have a hard time competing for repair contracts with big IT outsourcers like Unisys (UIS), which fixes computers for Dell (DELL). 'UPS delivers packages,' says Rob Enderle, principal analyst at tech research firm Enderle Group. 'For many folks, the thought of UPS guys opening their PC and attempting to repair it is really scary.' Still, if Toshiba customers are more satisfied with the new UPS repair services, other electronics manufacturers may sit up and take notice, says Roger Kay, VP for client computing at research firm IDC. As he puts it, 'A logistics partner who can also do repair is a rare and wonderful thing.' And if the partner's employees also happen to look good in shorts, all the better"
Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Review - Summary - Networking - Media Receivers - Designtechnica Reviews
Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player Review - Summary - Networking - Media Receivers - Designtechnica Reviews: "Gateway�s ADC-320 Connected DVD Player can take almost any music, movie, or image file on your network and stream it to your TV and home theater. It can play almost any traditional optical media format available as well. The device, and its supporting software, is easy to set up and easy to use. With analog and digital outputs, and a progressive scan DVD player, your other components could be the weak link as your media will look and sound as good as the rest of your equipment can handle"
Wired News: Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code
Wired News: Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code: "A small social-networking software company has filed suit against Google, claiming that much of the source code behind orkut.com, the search engine's popular social service, was stolen by a former engineer. "
Wired News: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
Wired News: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible: "E-mail privacy suffered a serious setback on Tuesday when a court of appeals ruled that an e-mail provider did not break the law in reading his customers' communications without their consent.
The First Court of Appeals in Massachusetts ruled that Bradford C. Councilman did not violate criminal wiretap laws when he surreptitiously copied and read the mail of his customers in order to monitor their transactions. "
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS: "Disaster-ready Verizon stocks up on mobile cell towers
By Tom McGhee
Denver Post Staff Writer
Verizon Wireless didn't have to go to the barnyard to replace its lumbering cows with more sprightly colts. "
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS
DenverPost.com - BUSINESS: "Verizon has taken even more dramatic action to cope with disasters in the past. In 2000, during the Hi Meadow fire near Bailey, the company used helicopters and llamas to transport equipment to the rugged terrain, Weaver said."
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - The Next Delivery? Computer Repairs by UPS
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - The Next Delivery? Computer Repairs by UPS: "When people think of UPS (UPS), they usually think of brown delivery trucks and guys in shorts dropping off packages. They do not think of laptop repairs. But that's exactly the business UPS has decided to enter. "
