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Guess I better tighten down the base station and batten down the hatches..." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1541230&tid=103 3. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=mcl-750-540c-amended Martin Michlmayr Wins DPL http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/053219 Strike writes "The votes for the new Debian Project Leader are in and the tallying is over, [0]results here. Martin Michlmayr comes out on top, winning 4-0 going head to head against the other three candidates (with the fourth win being over "no candidate"). Last year's DPL Bdale Garbee came in 2nd, with Branden Robinson and Moshe Zadka coming in 3rd and 4th. Michlmayr's [1]platform can be seen here." Links 0. http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001 1. http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/platforms/tbm Copy-Protected CDs Going Mainstream http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/0232245 bmarklein writes "According to this [0]CNET article, Arista is going to start shipping copy-protected CDs in volume. Looks like the discs will include DRM'd Windows Media files in the second session. No mention of which titles will be affected, but Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1027-994565.html?tag=fd_top Shuttle Missions Will Be Monitored From Space http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/0055259 [0]los furtive writes "According to this [1]news article NASA has made an agreement with the U.S. military so that all future shuttle missions will be monitored by [2]National Imagery and Mapping Agency satellites." Links 0. http://{clamothe} {at} {essentus.com} 1. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653889612.html 2. http://www.nima.mil/ Free IPv6 Subnets Are Going Away http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/2329228 [0]ar32h writes "The [1]6bone is going to be [2]phased out soon. This means all of us who have IP addresses or subnets beginning with 3ffe from tunnel brokers like [3]Freenet6 are going to be sorry out of luck." According to the linked phaseout plan, "It is anticipated that under this phaseout plan the 6bone will cease to operate by July 1, 2006, with all 6bone prefixes fully reclaimed by the IANA," but there are a number of sub-deadlines along the way. Links 0. http://slashdot.org/~ar32h/ 1. http://www.6bone.net/ 2. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-00.txt 3. http://www.freenet6.net/ The Museum of Unworkable Devices http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/2158217 Jippy_ writes "The quest for perpetual motion has been going on since at least the 11th century according to [0]this site, and scientists have been getting it wrong ever since. Take a gander at some of the most valiant efforts (and ultimately the biggest failures) in trying to beat the laws of physics through the last 1000 years, along with other impossible inventions and devices." Links 0. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm#cheng Security-Fix Sendmail 8.12.9 Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/2052215 [0]bahamutirc writes "Yet another security problem was discovered by Michal Zalewski in Sendmail 8.12.8, 'a buffer overflow in address parsing due to a char to int conversion problem which is potentially remotely exploitable.' Apparently somebody jumped the gun and posted before Sendmail had a chance to notify anyone, so they had to release it today. [1]Go grab your source." Here's the [2]CERT advisory. Links 0. http://bahamutirc.net/ 1. http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.9.html 2. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-12.html EDS Silent On New CEO's IT Consulting Past http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1925239 [0]theodp writes "Slate [1]reports on the [2]press release issued by IT consulting giant EDS to announce new CEO Michael H. Jordan that curiously doesn't show Jordan to have any experience in the IT consulting field. In the late '90s, [3]Jordan helped create IT consulting firm Luminant, took it public, and served as chairman of its board for 21 months. Luminant raised $80+ million from its IPO and paid $422 million to buy businesses as part of its pure-play roll-up strategy before filing Chapter 11 and having its assets sold for a mere $3 million. Slashdot readers may remember Luminant as the wacky workplace of [4]My Fake Job, in which an ex-"Late Night" writer described 17 days he spent faking a job at the dot-com." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://slate.msn.com/id/2080538/ 2. http://www.eds.com/news/news_release_template.shtml?rowid=3236 3. http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue76/mag-lighting-76.html 4. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/527981 Live From Rubi-Con 5! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1923226 npongratz writes "[0]Rubi Con 5, the premiere upper midwest security conference, is going on right now. Wanna get in on a piece of the action without leaving your computer? [1]We are serving up [2]streaming audio of the events, direct from Room B of the conference. Check out the exciting RC5 [3]schedue and feel free to hammer away!" Links 0. http://www.rubi-con.org/ 1. http://www.wi2600.org/ 2. http://www.wi2600.org:8000/listen.pls 3. http://www.rubi-con.org/decaffeinated/schedule.html First Certified DivX/DVD Player Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1727254 An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]this article, a company named KiSS Technology announced at CeBit that they are releasing the first certified DivX DVD players, the DP-450 and DP-500! They are supposed to be able to playback ALL versions of DivX content and digital rights management. I'm completely stoked on this, I would buy one of these in a snap. This could make the purchase of dvd burners slow down in my opinion." (And Yes, it plays Ogg Vorbis, too.) Ebay imports, anyone? 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