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---------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 03, 2003 Slashdot Headlines Europan Life In Doubt http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0431230 ceejayoz writes "A newly discovered gas cloud around Jupiter, created by ion radiation hitting the surface of Europa, has [0]cast doubt on possible life on the moon. [1]Google News has more ..." Links 0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993450 1. http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cluster:www.spaceflightnow.com%2Fnews%2Fn0302%2F27jupiter%2F Helms Deep Battle Recreated In Doom http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0339208 [0]Failure Guy writes "Its been over five years now since [1]id released the source code to Doom. What have people been doing with the source in the time since then? Apparently, [2]recreating the battle of Helms Deep!. Acclaimed mapper [3]Cyb recently released his [4]Helms Deep reenactment wad. You can find [5]screenshots here." The IRC review on Cyb's site is ... mixed. Links 0. http://slashdot.org/~failure+guy 1. http://www.idsoftware.com/ 2. http://www.doomworld.com/php/topstory.php?id=1834 3. http://cyb.vect.org:8080/ 4. http://www.doomworld.com/d_underg/idgames.shtml/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/helmsdeep.zip 5. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdh300/helmsdeep/ Free CD-Quality Music http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2229234 [0]Scaife writes "I make a video project for school each year, and this year we want to produce it on DVD and sell it. The only catch is that we don't have the time or money to get copyright permissions for the 100+ songs we use for it. I'm wondering if there is a large repository of CD-quality royalty-free music somewhere. Whenever I try and take one of the royalty-free MP3s available on the web and use it on a DVD, the quality is awful as it pops and hisses. I suppose this is because of the lossy compression. Any ideas?" Links 0. http://nolen -at- scaifeservices.com OSDL Releases TPC Benchmark Tests For Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/0121255 trialsboy writes "A news.com article announces that [0]ODSL has released [1]a set of workloads and test frameworks which conform to the [2]TPC benchmark specifications." (Slashdot parent company VA Software is [3]one of the OSDL sponsors.) Links 0. http://www.osdl.org/ 1. http://news.com.com/2100-1010-990673.html?tag=fd_top 2. http://www.tpc.org/ 3. http://www.osdl.org/sponsors/ Intel's Open Runtime Platform Specs http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2343258 [0]prostoalex writes "The new issue of [1]Intel Technology Journal has a lengthy article on a new platform, developed in Intel labs. [2]The Open Runtime Platform: A Flexible High-Performance Managed Runtime Environment describes the platform that is capable of running both Java VM and Microsoft's CLI, on both Windows and Linux platforms. [3]Full PDF version is also available." Links 0. http://moskalyuk.com/deals/ 1. http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/ 2. http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue01/art01_orp/p01_abstract.htm 3. http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue01/art01_orp/vol7iss1_art01.pdf Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2349258 ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp project has [0]renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for moving pictures." We've [1]mentioned Film Gimp several times lately; it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more polished. Links 0. http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/press/cinepaint.pr.2003.3.1.html 1. http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=filmgimp International Connectivity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2228240 [0]Steve Suppe writes "As an American who is going to be living overseas for a few years (Germany, to be more exact), I'm curious as to what advice/information Slashdot could provide people like me. How much can I expect to pay for dial-up/broadband, and from who? I'd be interested to hear how it differs around the world. Any good reference sites? Thanks!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Error Grounds Japanese Flights http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2123253 [0]zephiros writes "Mainichi Daily News [1]reports that a "computer glitch" in Tokyo air traffic control systems resulted in the cancellation of 203 flights this weekend. At 7am Saturday, the error "caused the names of airlines and flight numbers to disappear from radar screens." A [2]Japan Times article suggests the problem may be related to upgrades on a system which exchanges flight plans with the Defense Agency. Makes one wonder about the integration and maintenance risks of systems like [3]CAPPS II." Links 0. mailto:joseph at dreamlands.org 1. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200303/01/20030301p2a00m0dm002000c.html 2. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030302a1.htm 3. http://www.privacyactivism.org/Item/48 Cyberbees Score MIT Prize http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/2033207 [0]DeAshcroft writes "The Boston Globe has a nice story on the [1]winner of this year's Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. 125 infrared-communicating 4.5-inch swarming bee-like robots. [2]Businessweek even covered this one here. Next year's prize may go to the creator of 4.5-inch long swarming cockroaches." Links 0. http://www.cafeshops.com/usingrights/ 1. http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/058/metro/MIT_student_honored_for_robot_design+.shtml 2. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/986190.htm What is Wrong With Game Development? (duplicate) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1811239 [0]Warrior-GS writes "Seamus Blackley, who has done everything from work at Looking Glass Studios to evangelize for the Microsoft Xbox, sounds off on [1]what's wrong with the relationship between developers, publishers and their audience. Also, as part of coverage of the [2]D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, GameSpy has chats with [3]Miyamoto about The Wind Waker and [4]Yu Suzuki about his gaming influences. Some interesting reading." As an aside, I was recently rereading crawfords 1982 opus, [5]Art of Computer Game Design and found it scarily prescient. Links 0. http://www.gamespy.com 1. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/seamus/ 2. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/ 3. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/roundtable/ 4. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/dice/audience/ 5. http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
