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Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59cc.shtml
Caffeine: Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a35.shtml
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml
Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
Sourceforge
Automated Security Tools
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51027
Release Candidate 1
phpLotto
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53340
phpLotto 1st Release
Legend of the Wonderer TCG
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44698
battle system in the project Docs
Advanced Simlulation Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48818
Recruiting
PHPortal
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28568
PHPortal version 0.1.9 released!
PCGen -- A d20 Character Generator
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576
PCGen 2.6.3 is available
MySQL Objective C API for Cocoa
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42424
SMySQL version 0.7.0
i810 Framebuffer Device Driver
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39579
Video Overlay Support for the Intel 810 and 815 Framebuffer
'Just For Fun' Network Management System
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46041
JFF Network Management System 0.6.4
VietPad
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46758
VietPad 1.0.2 Release
Slashdot
Mozlla 1.1 Beta Out And About
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/23/0158250
[0]asa writes: "Today mozilla.org released [1]Mozilla 1.1 Beta. New to
this release are full-screen mode for Linux, BiDi Hebrew improvements,
Arabic shaping improvements for Linux, and significant improvements to
[2]Venkman, the best cross-platform JavaScript debugger on the planet.
Binaries and release notes available at
[1]http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. You can read more about this
release at [3]mozilla.org and [4]mozillazine.org and if you want to see
how this release fits into the overall 1.1 development cycle there's a
pretty picture available at [5]the Mozilla Development Roadmap."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
2. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/
3. http://www.mozilla.org/
4. http://www.mozillazine.org/
5. http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html#tree-management
.NET for Apache
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/2334239
[0]PerlGuy was so kind as to forward us the news about the joint
Apache/Microsoft combined press conference scheduled from Wednesday at
the [1]OSCON Quote: "We will announce news related to the Apache web
server and Microsoft's development technology, .NET. This should be one
of the biggest announcements of the conference..."
Links
0. http://www.wehadthewayout.com
1.
e.Digital Promises Another iPod Competitor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/23/0038217
joefefifo writes: "e.Digital has a [0]press release describing their
Odyssey 1000, supposedly due out in the fall. Some stats: Looks like an
iPod, uses USB 2.0., has a 20GB capacity, built-in mic for voice
recording and navigation, FM Tuner with 12 presets, Mac & PC
compatible, iTunes compatible, runs e.DigitalÂs MicroOS 2.0. Except
for the choice of OS, looks pretty sweet. Any chance someone will get
it to run Linux instead?" Like [1]Toshiba's little player, it uses USB
2 rather than Firewire.
Links
0. http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr072202.html
1. __SLASHLINK__
AMD's 64-Bit Chip
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/2255214
[0]EyesWideOpen writes "AMD is set to release a 64-bit chip early next
year which will be completely backwards compatible with the Athlon
line. The current 64-bit offering from Intel, Itanium, is an entirely
new chip that has no backwards compatibility with its x86 line of chips
(from the 8080 chip to the Pentium IV) and is designed only for high
end servers. AMD's solution to this problem is the Opteron chip
([1]product info) which will be in servers, desktops and laptops. Here
is [2] a wired article."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus language
1. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_4699,00.html
2. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53998,00.html
Open Source Politics - Maintaining Your Vision?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/181227
[0]Theovon asks: "I have only released one open source project so far
(link below), and I have never submitted patches to any other, so I am
very unfamiliar with some of the politics. I have a new open source
project I am considering releasing sooner rather than later, but I want
to know how to keep control over it long enough to get into it
everything I want. Specifically, what I want to know is how to deal
with unwanted suggestions by contributors. By unwanted, I mean
submissions which may be nice but which would cause the project to
deviate significantly from where you are trying to head. I think it's
important to publically address this issue, rather than doing Google
searches and piecing together a perspective of it on my own. think
there may be many developers out there whose work could benefit us all
but who are wary of what might happen if they were to let loose before
they had achieved enough of their goals. In my ignorance and paranoia,
I have been pondering the various negative consequences of an early
release, and I would like to see what Slashdot has to say about these
concerns."
Links
0. http://theosib at hotmail dot com
New Scheduler Available for FreeBSD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/203213
[0]flynn_nrg writes "Luigi Rizzo, one of the [1]FreeBSD developers, has
just finished the code for a new scheduler. From the announcement:
'...as promised, a first version of the Proportional Share scheduler
that we developed is available [2]here. These are for a recent -STABLE
(i think any version from 4.4 should work; the only 3 files modified
are kern_synch.c, kern_switch.c and proc.h, plus a one-line change to
kern_exit.c). I have tested it a little bit on a diskless system, and
it seems to survive running a full X session with the usual set of
xterm, netscape etc. while i do a "renice" of the processes and even
switch back and forth between schedulers. But do not trust this yet for
a production system!' Read the full post [3]here."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.freebsd.org/
2. http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ps_sched.20020719a.diff
3.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=392372+0+archive/2002/freebsd-arch/20020721.freebsd-arch
How Italian Police Shut Down U.S. Web Servers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/1848206
[0]gessel writes: "CNN has an article describing Italian police
[1]shutting down a U.S. hosted website deemed in Italy to be
[2]illegally blasphemous. The article goes on to describe the
ramifications and U.S. efforts along the same lines."
Links
0. http://www.dis.org/gessel
1. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/22/borderless.internet.ap/index.html
2. __SLASHLINK__
New Two-Headed Hard Drive Intended To Secure Web Sites
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/1612208
[0]dlur writes: "This article states that [1]Scarabs (In Japanese), a
Japanese company, is developing a [2]hard drive with two heads, one
read-only and another that is read/write. With this comes two cables,
the read-only side going to the external web server, and the r/w cable
going to an internal protected server. While this should make it quite
a bit tougher for script kiddies to place their mark on a page, I doubt
it will stop any real hackers from getting to a site's DB as that would
still need to be r/w."
Links
0. http://www.homelandmud.org
1. http://www.scarabs.com/
2. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102881,00.asp
Linux Timeline By LWN and LJ
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/1638228
A reader wrote to us with the link that Linux Journal has put together
a [0]Linux Timeline. Kinda nice to walk down memory lane - and think
about what was on peoples' mind at each major point. Of course, if I
see the original letter Linus wrote at the beginning one more
time...*grin*
Links
0. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6000
Open Source, Real Media Mega-player?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/1648257
[0]chill writes "CNN is [1]reporting "RealNetworks on Monday will
unveil a new open source version of its streaming media software that
supports multiple file formats for audio and video, including those
that use Microsoft's Windows Media technology." and "RealNetworks did
not formally license the ability to offer Windows Media software, but
instead re-created the technology based on data streams sent between
the server and player software, The New York Times reported. A
Microsoft representative told the newspaper that the company would need
to determine whether RealNetworks licensed the software before taking
action. " I can't wait to see the actual license." Update: 07/22 19:10
GMT by [2]T: The software [3]can be downloaded from the Helix site, if
you're interested.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://netscape.com.com/2100-1104-945418.html?type=pt
2. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
3. http://www.realnetworks.com/solutions/leadership/products.html
Software.linux.com
phpMyAdmin
http://software.linux.com/articles/view/1534/
It doesn't matter whether you're in charge of managing a whole
MySQL-server or a single database, there is no needed to be chained to
your desk at work. All you need to start administering your MySQL
servers and databases via the Web is a copy of php3 or 4 with MySQL
support, MySQL, and a Web browser.
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