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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Sun Web Event: Network Computing 3.0 February 10, 2003 � 9:30 a.m. PST (17:30 GMT). See Sun's vision for network computing�from the data center to the network edge. It's an all-out assault on computing costs and complexity. Learn more at: http://images.slashdot.org/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0005en ---------------------------------------------------------------------- February 03, 2003 Slashdot Headlines Major Step Forward For SVG in the Desktop http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/129215 [0]Ur@eus writes "SVG the w3c format for Scalable Vector Graphics is seen as many as the future of desktop icons as it allows for scaling icons etc. without loss of quality. Dominic Lachowicz has been working hard on fixing bugs in [1]librsvg over the last few days. The result is that librsvg now renders all available SVG icons perfectly. Not only do it render them, but it renders them faster than libpng renders the same images in png format. Together with the gdkpixbuf plugin librsvg offer it means GNOME 2.2 will be able to use SVG images not only for icons or desktop backgrounds, but also for the GUI widgets themselves and the graphics of the window manager. Dom's announcement can be found [2]on the librsvg mailinglist. The librsvg site also offer a [3]GNOME 2.2 metatheme using mostly SVG icons including a nice screenshot." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://librsvg.sf.net/ 2. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1603055&forum_id=12476 3. http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.php Building A High End Quadro FX Workstation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1224221 An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad has an article detailing some of the differences between [0]building a high-end workstation and a high-end gaming system. They go into things like ECC memory, and the difference between professional and gaming 3D cards. The Quadro FX 2000 coverage is particularly interesting -- the system with the Quadro FX 2000 was never louder than 55 dB!" Links 0. http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/workstation/default.asp Paper Mounted CPUs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/126234 [0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Rafe Needleman discovered an interesting young Swedish company which is printing really cheap chips. "The company, [1]Cypak, has technology to mount a very small microprocessor, which it created, on paper (or inside a credit card), as well as a technique to print sensors, switches, and very short-range antennae on the same paper, using special conductive inks." Here is one possible application designed for drug trials. "Drug trials need data about how and when subjects consume the drugs being tested. In this application, a pill pack registers when individual pills are popped out of their plastic bubbles; it then can beep and ask the user a question like, 'Are you feeling better today? Press Yes or No.' (The answer buttons are on the pack itself.) When the patient visits the doctor, the package is placed on a Cypak reader and the data is downloaded to the physician's computer." Visit [2]this page for more information about Cypak or read the full [3]Business 2.0 article." Links 0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/ 1. http://www.cypak.com/ 2. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/02/03.html 3. http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,46893,00.html Digital Media Consumer Rights Act http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/0140215 [0]irabinovitch writes "Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle introduced the DMCRA which would to quote the EFF would "require labelling requirements for usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact discs, as well as several amendments to 1998's infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." We always seem to complain about the DMCA around here now is our chance to change it! [0] Check out this "Action Alert" at the EFF." Links 0. http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2421 Card Makers Say UK Citizens Want Biometric ID Cards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/0031237 ArsonPanda writes "[0]ZDnet is running a story on a recent survey in the UK showing overwhelming 80% public support of universal, biometricly enhanced citizen ID cards. Everybody here's fine with supplying the gubmit w/ your retinal scans and fingerprints, right?" Links 0. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129590,00.html Don't Sever A High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/0134243 Licensed2Hack writes "[0]Janis Ian, who provided [1]this slashdot interview last September, has written [2]this editorial in the [3]Los Angeles Times. Janis says, "After I first posted downloadable music, my merchandise sales went up 300%. They're still double what they were before the MP3s went online." And the RIAA's stated goal in preventing this type of activity with their lawsuit against Verizon is to increase sales..." Links 0. http://janisian.com/ 1. http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/23/133228&tid=141 2. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-oe-ian2feb02,0,2630989.story?coll=la-headlines-suncomment 3. http://www.latimes.com/ The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2325236 An anonymous reader writes "Paul DeMone has an excellent [0]article up at Real World Technologies on the future of 64bit computing. Find out where MIPS, HP, Intel, AMD, Sun, Fujitsu, and IBM are headed." Links 0. http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT012603224711 Power Companies Offering Cable (TV, Net) Service http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2239230 [0]MankyD writes "CNN is running an interesting story about a power company [1]offering cheap cable and broadband internet to its customers. What's even better is that they aren't looking to make a profit, just break even on the venture. They estimate that they've saved their customers $32 million. Furthermore, it's available in a rural area where the telecomms don't offer service anyways." Links 0. http://www.project-y.net 1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/02/public.broadband.ap/index.html Nickel Sensors Could Raise Hard Disk Capacity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2113237 [0]Makarand writes "Tiny filaments of nickel, thinner than a wavelength of visible light, acting as magnetic sensors may expand the storage capacity of hard disks many times. Although, technologies exist to increase hard disk capacity, reading data bits reliably from such disks has proven difficult because as data bits become smaller their magnetic fields are weaker and difficult to pick up. [1]Nickel filaments are capable of picking up of these weak magnetic fields using a phenomenon called "ballistic magnetoresistance" which is not completely understood. As the sensors are only a few atoms wide the electrons travel along a straight line in the conductor greatly enhancing the binary signal picked up from the data bits. These sensors could also be used to detect biomolecules in low concentrations." Links 0. mailto:{theJunta{@}Hotmail.} 1. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030131-020248-9059r ReactOS 0.1.0 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/2031252 [0]JasonFilby writes "[1]ReactOS 0.1.0 has been released! ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers. In this release, among other new features and fixes, especially worth mentioning are the ability to boot from CD and self-hosting capabilities (ReactOS can be compiled on ReactOS)." ReactOS has been [2]in progress for a while, often tied to other projects with the aim of seamlessly replacing Windows: you can download an image of Bochs 2.0 with ReactOS 0.1.0 preloaded from the [3]download and changelog page. Links 0. http://reactos.com 1. http://reactos.com/ 2. https://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=reactos 3. http://www.reactos.com/index.php?tab=software§ion=reactos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
