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---------------------------------------------------------------------- *USENIX TUTORIALS AND ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE* LINUX - BSD - UNIX - Security - Open Source - Solaris - Perl New Tutorials - Rollercoasters - and a huge flying penguin June 9-14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas http://www.usenix.org/usenix03/OSDN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- June 06, 2003 Slashdot Headlines Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][ http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0459252 jgoeres writes "June 5th is the 26th Anniversary of [0]my first favorite fruit-flavored computer. In honor of this, the [1]Baltimore Sun is running Part One of a [2]two-part interview with Steve Wozniak. When The Woz speaks, I listen. Perhaps it's blind hero-worship, but he seem to embody everything good & stable that his partner lacks. Don't forget to give the man props for his mad Tetris sk1llz, too." Links 0. http://apple2history.org/history/ah03.html 1. http://www.sunspot.net/ 2. http://www.sunspot.net/technology/custom/pluggedin/bal-mac060503,0,7125240.column?coll=bal-business-indepth NASA Launching Two Mars Rovers in June http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0432241 shaniber writes "NASA is [0]planning the launch of the [1]Mars Exploration Rovers this month. The rovers are scheduled for two two separate launches, between June 5th and July 15th. These rovers will both work as robotic geologists, including a human-eye height panoramic camera and a miniature thermal emmision spectrometer amongst their scientific equipment. NASA plans on [2]webcasting the launches, as well. [3]A press kit, with many more details, is also available as a pdf." Links 0. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/overview/ 1. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/ 2. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/mer/ 3. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/merlaunch.pdf SAPAC Unveils New Australian Supercomputer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/038257 [0]Sean Burford writes "The South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC) has [1]unveiled its new AU$1.7 Million supercomputer named Hydra. It is an IBM 1350 Linux cluster with 126 compute nodes (xSeries 335), 1 head node (xSeries 335), 1 storage node (xSeries 345) and 1 managment node (xSeries 345). Hydra has a peak theoretical performance of 1.2 Teraflops, and has currently benchmarked at 682 Gigaflops. The current benchmark places it in the fastest three supercomputers in Australia and equivalent to the [2]current number 80 in the world. The cluster has a total of 258 2.4Ghz Intel Xeon processors and 258GB of RAM. SAPAC expects to achieve a benchmark closer to 700 Gigaflops with further tuning. Hydra is hosted at The [3]University Of Adelaide, who already host a [4] 40 node cluster of Sun e420 machines." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000048640,20275079,00.htm 2. http://www.top500.org/ 3. http://www.adelaide.edu.au/pr/media/releases/2003/hydra.html 4. http://www.globaltechnoscan.com/28thJune-4thJuly/super_computer.htm Senator Pushes Bill To Limit Anti-Copying Schemes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/0255225 Brushfireb writes "Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is pushing a bill that will [0]limit the ability of record labels, movie studios and others to use anticopying technology on their products. Most notably, this is important because it states that people will be able to resell their used DVDs, along with putting a concrete limit on this behavior of DRM/anticopying schemes by the RIAA and MPAA." Links 0. http://rss.com.com/2100-1028_3-1013037.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news Yet Another Windows Worm http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/017218 [0]kraksmoka writes "[1]MSNBC is reporting that [2]yet another active worm is taking over computers in 115 countries today. 'Antivirus companies were on high alert Thursday after the rapid spread of a new computer worm that includes particularly malicious snooping techniques. Bugbear.B, a variant of a worm released last year, installs keylogging software, back-door software, and in some cases even attempts to control infected computersâ modems. Some of the wormâÂÂs functions are designed to specially target financial institutions.' Yummy!" Links 0. http://www.grantstern.com/ 1. http://www.msnbc.com/ 2. http://www.msnbc.com/news/922529.asp?0cv=CB10 Sendo Sues Orange for Patent Infringement http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/2215219 [0]captnjameskirk writes "[1]RCR Wireless News is reporting that [2]Sendo is suing European carrier Orange for patent infringement involving the circuit board design within the phones. As the article points out, Sendo also [3]sued Microsoft for allegedly stealing their technology for use in the Smartphone OS." Back in January, we also had [4]some more information on the case between Sendo and Microsoft. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://rcrnews.com/ 2. http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=13771 3. //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/26/1423247&tid=109 4. //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/06/1159207&tid=109 Chicken Run http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1259206 Applying modern technology to the task of corraling chickens for the slaughterhouse results in a [0]chicken-catching machine that surprisingly is not as gruesome as it appears. Never thought about a "chicken vacuum" before? After reading this, you won't be able to get it out of your head. :) Sadly, scientists are already researching ways for the chickens to [1]fight back. Links 0. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105467590014941400,00.html 1. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/04/teeth.birds/ Researchers Looking at Alternatives to Palladium http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/2158240 An anonymous reader writes "Some folks at Stanford have been looking at an alternative architecture for doing trusted computing (ala Palladium) based on using Virtual Machines. They presented a brief paper describing their work a couple weeks ago at the [0] USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems . In [1] their paper they also discuss a bunch of non-DRM applications of Trusted Computing such as distributed firewalls, improving P2P security, preventing DDOS, and even strengthening civil liberty protections." Links 0. http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/ 1. http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/garfinkel.html Samsung LTM295W 29" LCD Review http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/187232 An anonymous reader noted a [0]review of the Samsung LTM295W. Quick excerpt "The contrast ratio of 600:1 is amazing, and takes the cake for being the highest IâÂÂve seen to date here with the site. I was pleased to see a more than acceptable brightness level of 450cd/m2. The response time isnâÂÂt anything to snuff at, standing at 22ms. For viewing angles everyone should be pleased with 170/170 (W&H). The last mention is the pixel pitch which sits at .4935(h) X .4935(w). The optimal resolution while in PC use is 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz although the maximum is 1280 x 768 @ 75Hz." Not the highest resolution, but still, quite impressive. Links 0. http://www.monkeyreview.com/reviews/review.php?num=257 SCO NDA Online at LinuxJournal http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1741227 shadowbearer writes "The full text of the SCO NDA is available [0]here at [1]LinuxJournal. IANAL, but my reading of it makes me understand all the industry "No way!" style comments. Here's a snippet: "Dan Ravicher, an attorney who specializes in free software and open-source issues at the firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, said in an interview there are three key problems with the NDA. First, Ravicher said, "SCO can pick and choose among all its evidence" to show only the parts that back up the company's claims. "They're agreeing to let you see the half of the picture that they want you to see", he added."" Links 0. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6923&mode=thread&order=0 1. http://www.linuxjournal.com/index.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
