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Spending AUD$1.5 Billion a year on IT, means Telstra using Open Source is a massive boost to Open Source developers and support professionals. Not mentioned in the Article is that Telstra also just Dumped IBM Global Services, and will be running IT in-house again! Telstra will be hiring Linux-savvy people I think..." Links 0. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7136841%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/0232233 An anonymous reader writes "[0]MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is [1]five years old today. They've got a [2]fifth anniversary section, containing a [3]message from their founder, a [4]chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), [5]some trivia (who's bright idea was [6]Music to Code By?!) and an [7]acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!" Links 0. http://www.mozillazine.org/ 1. http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3651 2. http://www.mozillazine.org/5years/ 3. http://www.mozillazine.org/5years/chris.html 4. http://www.mozillazine.org/5years/chronology.html 5. http://www.mozillazine.org/5years/trivia.html 6. http://web.archive.org/web/20011107033749/www.mozillazine.org/music/ 7. http://www.mozillazine.org/5years/acknowledgements.html E-mail Newsletters Switching To RSS http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/2234228 [0]prostoalex writes "The wide spread of unsolicited e-mails [1]is leading publishers and site owners towards subscription-based RSS, the InternetNews.com article says. Chris Pirillo from [2]LockerGnome is quoted saying that people just do not subscribe to free e-mail newsletters anymore, making a broad assumption that anyone offering them would be a spammer. [3]This short article on About.com also argues for the RSS as preferred format for newsletters, site headlines and all sorts of updates that were e-mailed to customers before." Links 0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/ 1. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3070851 2. http://lockergnome.com/ 3. http://email.about.com/cs/rss/a/rss_spam_free_p.htm Sign Your Name Online With A Mouse http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/216254 [0]icke writes "Soon, the way you use your mouse could help prove who you are. According to a BBC News article, scientists have found a way for people to [1]sign their name online using a mouse instead of a pen. The technology, based on the research from Queen Mary College, University of London by [2]Peter McOwan, 'uses a neural network to pick out the unique features of the way that someone uses a mouse.'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3191053.stm 2. http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~pmco/ Microsoft Longhorn Delayed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/2245222 [0]skreuzer writes "Microsoft has once again [1]shifted the schedule for the release of "Longhorn," the company's next major version of Windows. The product was originally expected to ship next year. Then in May of this year, officials pushed back the release date to 2005. But now executives are declining to say when they expect the software to ship." Links 0. http://skreuzer.f2o.org 1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1235502,00.asp Protests Delay European Software Patent Vote http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/2113219 [0]vinsci writes "According to CNET News, 'The European Parliament has [1]delayed voting on a controversial software-patents directive, following protests and criticism by computer scientists and economists.' ZDNet UK adds: 'Warnings that a controversial directive could devastate European software businesses have [2]struck a chord with MEPs. The European Parliament has delayed voting on a controversial software-patents directive... the vote, originally planned for Monday, will now take place at a plenary session starting on 22 September.' Wired also has [3]a story on the protests." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5070092.html?tag=fd_top 2. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020381,39116053,00.htm 3. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60245,00.html Self-Parking Car Available In Japan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/1958252 [0]sinjayde writes "Yahoo!/Reuters is reporting that Toyota has released a car for sale in Japan [1]that is able to park itself: 'Toyota's new hybrid gasoline-electric [2]Prius sedan uses electrically operated power steering and sensors that help guide the car when reversing into parking spaces.'" No need to rely on the [3]reverse parking formula anymore? Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030901/tc_nm/autos_toyota_prius_dc_2 2. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030901/170/54q34.html 3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/123238&tid=134 Origami Helps Cellphone Cameras To Focus http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/1811234 Sea Monkey writes "New Scientist has an article on the development of [0] novel and ultra-cheap micromotor technology. It's a new type of linear motor, 'using a technique closer to origami than engineering' to cut slits out of tiny piezoelectric ceramic parts. One of the envisioned applications is taking a sheet of the material with the motors, wrapping it into a tube and moving a lens up and down it - instant tiny movable focusing element for cellphone camera lenses." Links 0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994096 Balloonists Attempt World Altitude Record http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/1754240 ACey writes "[0]BBC News is reporting on the [1]latest attempt to break the balloon altitude world record. [2]Qinetiq 1 is scheduled to launch tomorrow, 2nd September 2003, from the coast of Cornwall, UK, and aims to reach 132,000 feet or 25 miles in a flight that could last 12 hours. The balloon is so big (1,250 feet tall) that it should be visible from most of the UK, Ireland and Western France as it climbs. Good luck to them!" Links 0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/03/ballooning/html/default.stm 2. http://www.qinetiq1.com/ Mobile Game Applications Need Scripting Too http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/01/151255 An anonymous reader writes "Mobile game developer Tom Park believes that scripting for wireless devices is important for proficiency sake. And with the need to scale mobile applications across so many different platforms, proficiency is everything. [0] Read his thoughts on scripting, as well as his ideas on wireless application development's future." Links 0. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-elite16.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01WirelessScripts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
