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Here's [2]some of his research, and some [3]media samples which include mp3s of the distorted music." Yes, the term biocomputer is used in the loosest sense. Links 0. http://nofuncharlie.com 1. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/919_371123,00180005.htm 2. http://www.swin.edu.au/chem/bio/fractals/refslist.htm 3. http://www.swin.edu.au/maths/molecularmediaproject/molecularmedia.htm GeForce FX Architecture Explained http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/2329243 Brian writes "[0]3DCenter has published [1]one of the most in-depth articles on the internals of a 3D graphics chip (the NV30/GeForce FX in this case) that I've ever seen. The author has based his results on a patent NVIDIA filed last year and he has turned up some very interesting relevations regarding the GeForce FX that go a long way to explain why its performance is so different from the recent Radeons. Apparently, optimal shader code for the NV30 is substantially different from what is generated by the standard DX9 HLSL compiler. A new compiler may help to some extent, but other performance issues will likely need to be resolved by NVIDIA in the driver itself." Links 0. http://www.3dcenter.org/ 1. http://www.3dcenter.org/artikel/cinefx/index_e.php VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/2326205 [0]Harald Paulsen writes "In a recent article [1]Computer Business Review uncovers how [2]VeriSign Inc is testing a service that would return a webpage if a user mistypes an URL. Basically all nonexistant domain queries could return an IP address and if the user was trying to access a page with a webbrowser they could get redirected to a search-engine, or worse: a page asking them to buy a domain. This is most certainly breaking the DNS standard and could be compared to cybersquatting (Hey Ford, want to have a banner ad whenever someone mistypes Toyota?). This is interesting in relation to [3]an earlier story about register.com and holding-pages." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.cbronline.com/ 2. http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/d04afc52ae9da2ee80256d9c0018be8b 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/10/0142259&tid=123 Beatles Bite Apple http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/232230 blamanj writes "Apple Computer, which once got into hot water with the Beatles Apple record label, [0]has been sued once again by the same group. Apple Records says iTunes and the iPod violate the previous agreement." Apple's broke their agreement in the past when speakers were first used with their computers to play music. Links 0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&ncid=738&e=12&u=/mc/20030911/tc_mc/applesuedbythebeatlesoveripoditms Open Source Database Clusters? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/222240 grugruto asks: "A lot of open source solutions are available to scale web sites with clusters but what about databases? I can't afford an Oracle RAC license but can I have something more reliable and fault tolerant than my single Postgres box? I have seen this recent [0]article that looks promising for open source solutions. Do anyone have experiences with clusters of [1]MySQL , [2]Postgres-R, [3]C-JDBC or other solutions? How does it compare to commercial products?" Links 0. http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org/current/doc/RR-C-JDBC.pdf 1. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Replication.html 2. http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/ 3. http://freshmeat.net/projects/cjdbc/ AT&T Migrating Phone Network to IP http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/2213217 [0]prostoalex writes "Following the lead of [1]Sprint and [2]Telus, who are moving their telephone networks to IP, AT&T [3]will spend $3 billion to migrate to an IP-based network. By the end of 2005 about 270 legacy systems will be retired." The article also notes how the current ratio of packet traffic to voice is already 8:1. Links 0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/ 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0426219&tid=126 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1123232&tid=126 3. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/11/HNattnetwork_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/11/HNattnetwork_1.html Logitech Ships 500 Millionth Mouse http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/1854205 ipxodi writes "Logitech marks the milestone of [0]500 million shipped mice. Mice first widely appeared in consumer form on the [1]original Macintosh, but have appeared in various forms back through time to 1964 when they were invented by [2]Doug Englebart. My favorite mouse is also my current mouse, a [3]Logitech Optical Wheel mouse. I also remember some oddities beyond the old bar-of-soap shaped mice of the mid 80's, like one with a crosshair attachment for clicking on specific points of a blueprintfor CAD input. What's your favorite current or past mouse?" My first mouse was back in 1987, for my Apple //c. It cost $50, and came with a double-sided floppy that contained an interactive instructional program on side one, and MousePaint (a port of MacPaint) on side two. Memories! Links 0. http://www.go2net.com/headlines/ap/technology/D7TG8NB80.html 1. http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/bytecover.shtml 2. http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/englebart.html 3. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=3&CONTENTID=4992&countryid=19&languageid=1 Hands-On With The Nokia N-Gage http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/1957244 CokoBWare writes "Finally! Gamesindustry.biz has done a [0]hands-on review of the Nokia N-Gage cellphone/games machine. The results don't impress the judges much, but I suppose the consumer will ultimately be the judge." Links 0. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?section_name=new&aid=2233 Linux Most Attacked Server? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/1951201 Anonymous guy who can't remember his login sent in a [0]story from the Globe And Mail that says "During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux, followed by Microsoft Windows at 23.2 per cent. A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached in that month, followed by 4,626 Windows servers." Links 0. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030911.gtlinuxsep11/BNStory/Technology/ NVIDIA's New Pro Graphics Quadro FX 3000 Reviewed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/11/197218 [0]SpinnerBait writes "NVIDIA recently took the wraps off their next generation Workstation Graphics card, the Quadro FX 3000. This card is based on the same general GPU architecture as the NV35 but optimized for CAD and DCC applications. [1] This article over at HotHardware shows what the new Quadro FX 3000 is capable of and it makes a strong showing. However, you've got to pay to play (or work) on this card, that's for sure." Links 0. http://www.hothardware.com 1. http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/qfx3k.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
