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---------------------------------------------------------------------- DB2 V8.1 Family Fundamentals certification prep - This tutorial (the first in a series of six) explains the basics of the DB2 products and tools, and the concepts of data warehousing and OLAP. https://www6.software.ibm.com/reg/devworks/dw-db2-cert1v8-i?S_TACT=103AMW66&S_CMP=slsh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 17, 2003 Slashdot Headlines Wired's Wish List For 2013 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/0416251 [0]jpt.d writes "Wired has a nice [1]article on what they wish to be for 2013. It is not too far fetched either! My personal favorite is the roll up television screen made of light-emitting-polymer. How about another Apple gadget? Their first item is an [2]iPhone bracelet, including the functionality of a 'PDA, wireless Internet, a mini iPod, and, of course, a phone.' Notice the Apple logo in the picture." I'd settle for ubiquitous unmetered wireless network access. Links 0. mailto:jeffreydrake @ m a c . c om 1. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/fetishwish.html 2. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/images/sp_futfetish_1_1.jpg Legal Issues Don't Bother American Downloaders http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/231248 An anonymous reader writes "Ipsos-Reid has [0]released its latest research on file trading. Bottom line, the great majority of users do not believe they are breaking the law. Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions. With 40 million Americans identified as active file traders this is indeed stirring information, though not surprising. Another stat, 73% of US downloaders report that their motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase. You can see the [1]charts and original press release here." Links 0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/notwrong.html 1. http://www.ipsospa.com/pubaff/dsp_displaypr_us.cfm?id_to_view=1763 Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2253241 An nonymous reader points to articles [0]at the New York Times and [1]on the BBC about online games that require a lot more audience participation and curiosity than conventional games do. "Known as ARGs or Alternate Reality Games, these immersive experiences mix real world clues, phone calls, voicemail, email chatter-bots, real people playing roles in real life and a bevy of bogus and legit websites, to create a fully rounded gaming experience that bleeds over into everyday life. With central sites like [2]ARGN, [3]Unfiction, and endless forums and Yahoo groups, the BBC claims that this is not only a quickly emerging gaming trend, but that it may also have real-world applications like group dynamics and problem solving. [4]Chasing the Wish claims to already have a few thousand people worldwide playing since it opened for play on Feb. 28. One sure sign of having people's attention is the fact that it's already spawned a parody site, [5]Chasing the Fish." Links 0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/technology/circuits/06game.html 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/2735905.stm 2. http://www.argn.com/ 3. http://www.unfiction.com/ 4. http://www.chasingthewish.com/ 5. http://www.chasingthefish.com/ MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2233232 [0]Disoculated writes "[1]Is MySQL a threat to bigwigs? is the question asked in CNN's technology section. The article notes that [2]MySQL is running perhaps 20% of the web databases but its revenue is merely 0.02%... yet the company is still making money and putting out an excellent product. Is this a sign that the database market is in for a drastic change? Of course, there's no mention of [3]PostgreSQL or [4]mSQL, but I guess that's typical." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/12/fortune.ff.open.source/index.html 2. http://www.mysql.com/ 3. http://www.postgresql.com/ 4. http://www.hughes.com.au/ RMS Turns 50 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2222254 [0]gnuhead writes "[1]RMS is turning 50 on the 16th, according to [2] this post in the [3]FSF India mailing list. Some of the members [4]have decided to give a birthday gift to RMS by celebrating March 16th to April 15th as 'GNU/Linux' month, and having a 'It's GNU/Linux dammit!' email sig. for this month. Happy birthday RMS!!!" Links 0. http://gnu.org.in 1. http://stallman.org/ 2. http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2003-March/000742.html 3. http://fsf.org.in/ 4. http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2003-March/000741.html Teach A Robot To Drive, Win A Million Bucks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/218228 An [0]Anonymous Reader writes "[1]DARPA has released the details of a '[2]Grand Challenge,' with a $1 million prize. The challenge is to build an autonomous vehicle which can 'navigate on its own over a 250-mile desert course in less than 10 hours.' from L.A. to Vegas, 'without external communication or human control.' The contest is to be conducted in March 2004, and is open to all comers. Can we get at least one entry to represent slashdot?" We've mentioned [3]this contest [4]a few times before: any intended entrants out there want to disclose your secret plans? Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.darpa.mil/ 2. http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/ 3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/06/0336205&tid=126 4. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/1748210&tid=126 Oil-Cooling 802.11 Infrastructure http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/2023221 [0]gomoX writes "A [1]group of 802.11b fans in Tordera, Spain, are running a [2]wireless node on the roof of a building, with the idea of a free wireless network for everyone on the neighbourhood. It´s a system running linux with a home made can antenna, mounted on a plastic tool box in the roof. To keep it cool under the sun and protect it from rain, wind, they have immersed it into vegetable oil (yes, the whole thing). As oil is non-conductive, everything should run fine. The site is in Spanish, here is the [3]google translation and the [4]google cache." Links 0. http://gomo AT datafull DOT com 1. http://www.sorgonet.com/torderawireless/ 2. http://www.sorgonet.com/torderawireless/nodo1mejorado.html 3. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sorgonet.com%2Ftorderawireless%2F&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=es&ie=ISO-8859-1&prev=%2Flanguage_tools 4. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:R-yM9N_JvFkC:www.sorgonet.com/torderawireless/+tordera+wireless&hl=es&ie=UTF-8 Fuel Cells Promised For Next Year http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/1835218 An anonymous reader writes "According to an [0]article in today's New York Times, fuel cells for portable consumer electronic devices will start appearing next year. First for laptops, and later for smaller devices like cellphones. Among the interesting benefits of fuel cells over batteries is the ability to swap cells without having to power down the device." The article mentions the [1]Toshiba cells demonstrated at CeBit, and -- no surprise -- Japan is likely to be the first market for these tiny fuel cells. Links 0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/business/yourmoney/16FUEL.html 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/196256&tid=126 Commander Keen: 13 Years Later http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/1718207 16977 writes "I just noticed that [0]Id Software is now selling downloadable versions of its classic titles [1]Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons and [2]Goodbye Galaxy. Although the game is over 10 years old by now, there is still a [3]thriving community of Keen fans out there whose interest has not waned. We now have [4]level editors for both Keen Vorticons and Goodbye Galaxy, unofficial Keen [5]fan software, and of course the infamous [6]Dopefish, which has by now made cameo appearances in well over a dozen computer games. However, we have yet to see [7]Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast, the sequel to the previous Keen game that was planned but never made. With the original developers pursuing their own independent projects, it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon. But in the meantime, die-hard Keen fans have been getting by, not unlike Farscape fans after their show was cancelled." Links 0. http://www.idsoftware.com/ 1. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/vintage/ck-vorticons 2. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/vintage/ck-galaxy 3. http://pub128.ezboard.com/bpubliccommanderkeenforum 4. http://jump.to/keen 5. http://pub128.ezboard.com/fpimentogamedevelopment 6. http://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html 7. http://www.3drealms.com/keenhistory/ Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/16/165214 [0]taviso writes "Are you bored with your OS fingerprint? Do you dream of being able to impress your friends by convincing them your webserver is running on a [1]sega dreamcast, or Apple LaserWriter? Well Dream no more! David Berrueta has written a paper oulining the techniques and tools available to defeat [2]nmap's [3] OS fingerprinting, available [4]here [[5]pdf]. Besides the hours of entertainment this could provide, he also lists some of the more [6]serious reasons why you might want to consider this." Links 0. http://taviso.decsystem.org/ 1. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/dreamcast/ 2. http://www.insecure.org/nmap 3. http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html 4. http://voodoo.somoslopeor.com/papers/nmap.html 5. http://voodoo.somoslopeor.com/papers/nmap.pdf 6. http://voodoo.somoslopeor.com/papers/nmap.html#Reasons_to_hide_your_OS_to_the_entire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
