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Links 0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3125341.stm 1. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair 2. http://www.sinclairc5.com/ Novell To Cease NetWare Development? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/2241249 [0]Karl Cocknozzle writes "CNET News is reporting that [1]Novell may discontinue NetWare following the purchase of Linux software company [2]Ximian - for details on the purchase, see the [3]recent Slashdot article. Novell plans to run its NetWare services - such as eDirectory and Secure Identity Management - on the Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions." Links 0. mailto:(kcocknozzle) (at) (hotmail.com) 1. http://news.com.com/2100-7252_3-5060413.html?tag=fd_top 2. http://www.ximian.com/ 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/1329218&tid=170 Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/2252246 [0]theodp writes "Following up on an [1]earlier Slashdot story, software engineer Maher "Mike" Hawash [2]pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban, agreeing to testify against other suspects in exchange for the dropping of other terrorism charges. He will serve at least seven years in federal prison under the deal. In March, federal agents seized Hawash from a parking lot outside Intel Corp., where he worked, and held him as a material witness until charges were filed five weeks later." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/190223&tid=103 2. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93944,00.html Real Announce Helix Grant Program, Player http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/2136202 [0]Rob Lanphier writes "RealNetworks made two announcements at LinuxWorld this week: we will be [1]giving out up to $75,000 by the end of the year for development of open source projects based on the [2]Helix multimedia platform. Also, we just formally launched the [3]Helix Player project, which is a project to build a GTK+ based user interface for Linux, Solaris, and other UNIXy operating systems. Press releases for the [4]grant program here and [5]player project here" Links 0. http://slashdot.org/~robla 1. https://www.helixcommunity.org/2003/grants/ 2. https://www.helixcommunity.org/ 3. https://player.helixcommunity.org/ 4. http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/hcgp.html 5. http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/helixplayer.html SCO Targets US Government, TiVo http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/2232223 An anonymous reader writes "According to SCO, if you have a TiVo set-top box, or those models of Sharp Zaurus which use Linux, someone now [0]owes them $32, since the company wants money 'for each embedded system using Linux.' SCO also says government agencies [1]must pay up to $699 for each copy of Linux that they use." Links 0. http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030806S0025 1. http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/21384-1.html Community Involvement for an Open Source Project? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/2043214 pfleming asks: "Several months ago I began a maintenance fork of some niche software. Essentially, these are PHP/MySQL scripts for real estate offices. The original developer moved on to an incompatible version to what I was using. Upgrading for me and many other users was not the easiest option. Luckily the software is GPL'd and so continued work on the fork is not a big deal. I have set up a site, made it available for download, announced the availability of the fork on [0]Freshmeat and the forums for the original software. Now I have a few people subscribed to the project on Freshmeat, and a few on a mailman list set up for the project. This project has been listed on the [1]GNU Website and other mirror sites but doesn't get much discussion on the mailman list and nothing from the Freshmeat subscribers. There is usually an increase in interest (indicated by a short term increase in site hits) when new releases are announced but this fades back to regular traffic of ~40 visits per day as measured by webalizer after a short period of time. Is this an anomaly? Should I be thankful that there aren't tons of bug reports and feature requests?" Links 0. http://freshmeat.net/ 1. http://www.gnu.org 11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic, Again http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/1913242 Luap Nanreffeh writes "Last year, ([0]/. Story 1, [1]/. story 2) Maynard Hill and some retired NASA buddies tried to set a record for [2]flying a model aeroplane across the atlantic ocean (from [3]Newfoundland to Ireland). Their plan, using GPS, onboard controllers, and a gallon of gas, would have been the first to cross the Atlantic under FAI rules. They didn't have much luck last year, but now they're at it again. The first launch should be tonight." Links 0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/29/166206&tid=159 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/08/1329211&tid=99 2. http://tam.plannet21.com/ 3. http://www.gov.nf.ca/tourism/ The Economics Of Spamming http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/1831256 Shardleton writes "What kind of an idiot would buy penis-enlargement pills? Even more idiotic, who would buy them from a spammer? Apparently LOTS of people, according to [0]this article at Wired. The operators of a spamvertised order site left their customer logs exposed. There were 6,000 orders for the pills since July 4. Sayeth Wired: "Do the math and you begin to understand why spammers are willing to put up with the wrath of spam recipients, Internet service providers and federal regulators."" Links 0. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59907,00.html AMD Buys Pre-VIA Cyrix Media-GX Division http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/1543209 An anonymous reader writes "A long time ago, in what feels like a different universe, Cyrix created the first sub-$1000 PC based on a 2 chip solution called the Media-GX. Soon after National Semiconductor bought Cyrix, keeping the Media-GX team and selling the 686MX team to VIA. In the meantime, the Media-GX team have created the a [0]series of single chip PCs, and a totally new CPU, the GX2. Now National Semiconductor is [1] selling the division to AMD, which should give it a higher profile and better fab technology again." Reader [2]jlouderb reminds us of National Semiconductor's [3]Device Girls promotion, "a lame take-off on the Spice Girls," and points to [4]coverage at eWeek of the purchase. Links 0. http://www.national.com/appinfo/solutions/0,2062,396,00.html 1. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030806/sfw028_1.html 2. http://www.extremetech.com 3. http://www.reviewsonline.com/images/cdx99/cdx99388a.jpg 4. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1211183,00.asp Apple Public Source License Now FSF Approved http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/1729213 [0]BWJones writes "[1]Apple has now made their [2]public source license 2.0 free. From the release "The Darwin team at Apple is pleased to announce that version 2.0 of the Apple Public Source License has been [3]certified as a 'Free Software License.' APSL 2.0 includes numerous changes and simplifications to make it even easier to use Apple Open Source software as part of your programs. To indicate acceptance of APSL 2.0, you can now use your new or existing "Apple ID", rather than having a separate Darwin account."" [4]proclus adds "This is great news for Darwin-based free software projects like [4]The GNU-Darwin Distribution and [5]Fink. GNU-Darwin has had an [6]ongoing discussion about this development, and annouced and end to our '[7]Free Darwin Campaign,' so long as Apple avoids DMCA-based legal action." Links 0. http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~marclab/ 1. http://www.apple.com/ 2. http://www.opensource.apple.com/news/2.0-announce.html 3. http://www.opensource.apple.com/news/2.0-announce.html#APSL 4. http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ 5. http://fink.sourceforge.net/ 6. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=6042 7. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/19/1310232&tid=122 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
