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The pipes provide clear advantages in connecting every downtown building with access faster than what's currently available in [2]Philly." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=1180382 2. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7395090&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=456223&rfi=8 Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/2126249 [0]aheath writes "The [1] New York Times has a story about the 30th anniversary of the [2] Xerox Alto computer: [3] How Digital Pioneers Put the 'Personal' in PC's. According to the [4] PARC Factsheet "The Alto Computer (1973/1980) included the Graphical User Interface (GUI), WYSIWYG editing, bit-mapped display, overlapping windows, and the first commercial use of the mouse." The concepts prototyped in the Xerox Alto contributed to the development of the [5] Xerox Star, the [6]Apple Lisa, the [7] Apple Macintosh and [8] Microsoft Windows 1.0." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=337 3. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/03/technology/circuits/03alto.html 4. http://www.parc.com/company/factsheet.html 5. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/index.html 6. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/apple-lisa2xl/ 7. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/mac-128k/index.html 8. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/microsoft/windows10/page_01.htm The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/2138238 overshoot writes "Just what we've always (said we) wanted: people who are fed up with Microsoft and are willing, even eager, to [0]give Linux a real try. Well, she did. And did. And did some more. Not only that, she's a technical writer and she took notes. Not fun reading, but worth reading anyway." Links 0. http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0401.tsu.html Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/2146210 [0]14ghz writes "Microsoft gave out copies of .NET Visual Studio Pro to attendees of the Microsoft .NET Student Tour. Despite the discs saying "UNLICENSED SOFTWARE -- Illegal without separate license from Microsoft", the freebie didn't contain any license document, and one guy decided to ask the MS conference rep about it. Read the [1]in-progress story." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lkstitch/text/mspirate.html Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1950246 [0]Randolpho writes "Whether you like the city or not, you can't say Los Angeles doesn't have a fault. It does, and it's one of earth-shattering proportions. [1]Geologists have confirmed that LA was built right over a faultline, which they're calling the Puente Hills Blind Thrust System; it runs from northern Orange County through Los Angeles on up to Beverly Hills, and has a habbit of ripping earthquakes as large as 7.5 on the Richter Scale every 10 thousand years or so. And the last one was about 8 thousand years ago." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0403_030403_earthquake.html RIAA Seeks Estimated $97.8 Billion From MTU Student http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1931233 [0]theodp writes "The Detroit Free Press [1]does the math on the damages [2]sought by the RIAA from the Michigan Technological University student. The total? About $97.8 trillion--yes, trillion with a T--or enough money to buy every CD sold in America last year over again for the next 120,000 years, according to RIAA statistics." Update: 04/05 21:58 GMT by [3]M: The Free Press can do the math, but not very well: the numbers provided show the RIAA is seeking some $97 billion dollars, not trillion. I'm sure the student is *much* happier. Headline updated. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/newman5_20030405.htm 2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/2312220&tid=141 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenOffice.org SDK Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1853211 [0]Jules V.D. writes "The [1]OpenOffice.org group on Friday [2]announced a [3]kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite.This new [3]SDK is an add-on for OpenOffice.org 1.0.2. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org."The highlight of this [3]SDK is the new Developer's Guide. This comprehensive guide provides, in 900 pages, a detailed description of the OpenOffice.org API concepts, the OpenOffice.org UNO component model and how to use the API in the context of the different application areas."" Links 0. http://jules.vo-dinh.com 1. http://www.openoffice.org/ 2. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-995570.html 3. http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/index.html The FCC and Media Consolidation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1848230 An anonymous reader writes "A story on this evening's [0]All Things Considered but also at [1]Now with Bill Moyers reports this June, the FCC will choose whether to keep or drop longstanding rules limiting the number of media outlets (radio stations, TV stations, etc.) a company may hold in a single area. That means all the radio stations in your area, for example, may one day be controlled by one company, like Clearchannel or Rupert Murdoch's FOX Communications. One irony is virtually no news outlet is covering the story. Another is the justifying argument for this move comes from the emergence of new media, like the Internet and Cable/Satellite. Yet with all 100's of new TV channels available, there are only five major media companies out there controlling them all, and recent copyright rules applying to the Internet have all but squelched-out Internet radio. So the old rules might not be so outdated after all. But the only voices being heard in this argument are coming from the media giants." In a related story, AOL/Time-Warner is [2]petitioning the FCC to lift the restriction forbidding AOL from launching "advanced" IM services without letting others access the IM network. Links 0. http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/index.html 1. http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/bigmedia.html 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1032-995595.html Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1644249 Remember the company who started [0]using haiku to fight spam? According to a [1]news.com article, it will [2]now be tested in court. Habeas is suing two internet marketers, saying that they've included Habeas' haiku in their mail, thereby [3]lowering their SpamAssassin score by [4]6 points, but allegedly violating the trademark. It's interesting because the end effect of this will be more or less spam, but it's based on trademark law. It'll also be interesting to see how well this holds up across national boundaries. Links 0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/20/132202&tid=111 1. http://news.com.com/ 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1024-995568.html 3. http://www.habeas.com/support/spamassassin.htm 4. http://spamassassin.org/tests.html Hubble Captures a Protoplanetary Disk http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/161227 [0]Astroturtle writes "The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has captured a [1]detailed image of spiral rings in a distant protoplanetary disk -- the pancake-shaped cloud of gas and dust around a young star in which planets are expected to condense. But contrary to earlier suggestions, the intricate structure of this particular disk is probably caused by a nearby companion star rather than by embedded planets starting to form." Links 0. http://www.astroturtle.com 1. http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_911_1.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
