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Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/09/22/arctic.ice.reut/index.html Knoppix 3.3 Is Out http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/2315211 [0]maedls.at writes "After 6 months of development, the latest version of Knoppix 3.3 is out - Kernel 2.4.22 with HIGHMEM (4GB) support, KDE 3.1.3, XFree86 4.3, OpenOffice 1.0.3 (German and English), KOffice 1.2.1, new boot options for RAM or hard-disk preload of the CD. Possibility to create a persistent homedir with personal data and desktop settings on a memory stick or similar, optional with AES encryption." The [1]main Knoppix site is still down in protest of European software patent legislation (click on the link inside the English paragraph to get to the meat of the site), but the excellent knoppix.net has a [2]detailed changelog. Links 0. http://www.maedls.at 1. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ 2. http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5017 Mini-ITX AmigaONE Board http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/239215 [0]bhtooefr writes "When I was checking Mini-ITX.com, I found [1]this little gem, info on the AmigaONE Lite board that will be coming out. It's a Mini-ITX compliant motherboard, so you'll be able to throw an Amiga in a Cubid case. [2]Pictures are here (first two - first is without CPU, second is with)." Links 0. http://bhtooefr&softhome,net 1. http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=866 2. http://www.soft3.net/pages/pictures_e.php Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/2315236 [0]brentlaminack asks: "Almost a year ago [1]Tim Bray of XML fame [2] said 'when the huge universe of MS Office documents becomes available for processing by any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence, all sorts of wonderful new things can be invented that you and I can't imagine.' Now that [3] MS has dropped the ball on the XML Office front, and [4] StarOffice has fulfilled its XML promise, where are all those 'wonderful new things?' Is anybody out there writing Perl/Java/whatever programs to take advantage of StarOffice XML? Could this be an opportunity for Free/Open/Libre software to leapfrog MS Office in real productivity as XML proponents have promised all along?" What kinds of new and wonderful things can you come up with? Links 0. http://laminack.com 1. http://www.textuality.com/textuality.html 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/032243&tid=109 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/2031259&tid=109 4. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.html VeriSign Responds To ICANN's SiteFinder Advisory http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/2255202 [0]dmehus writes "VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services division has [1]written to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey regarding the recent [2]advisory concerning VeriSign's [3]DNS wildcard redirection service. In the letter, VeriSign's Rusty Lewis says that they are open to independent and objective technical concerns expressed by various Internet bodies; they have formed their own "independent" panel of industry leading experts to produce its own, separate report; and they will not voluntarily suspend SiteFinder. It's a very terse response, and frankly, I'd have expected more from them. Slashdot readers are encouraged to visit [4]ICANNWatch for in-depth, expert discussion on this and other issues." Links 0. http://www.palacechat.us/ 1. http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-to-twomey-21sep03.htm 2. http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210&tid=95 4. http://www.icannwatch.org/ Linux Crypto Packages Demolished http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/2127236 SiliconEntity writes "Cryptographer and security expert [0]Peter Gutmann has [1]demolished several Linux security software packages in a recent posting to the [2]cryptography mailing list. He says, 'It's possible to create insecure 'security' products just as readily with open-source as with closed-source software. CIPE and vtun must be the OSS community's answer to Microsoft's PPTP implementation. What's even worse is that some of the flaws were pointed out nearly two years ago, but despite the hype about open-source products being quicker with security fixes, some of the protocols still haven't been fixed.'" Links 0. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/ 1. http://www.mit.edu:8008/bloom-picayune/crypto/14238 2. http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdowd.com/maillist.html Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/2053225 waaka! writes "[0]Hydrogenaudio has just wrapped up a [1]listening test of various audio codecs at 64kbps. Check out [2]the results, where [3]Ogg Vorbis performed quite well, scoring significantly better than [4]WMA, [5]RealAudio and [6]QuickTime AAC, and kept pace with [7]MP3Pro and [8]HE-AAC (AAC with the SBR extensions that MP3Pro uses). Clearly, though, no codec can honestly claim 128 kbps MP3 quality at 64 kbps. The charts at the end show entries for 128kbps LAME MP3 and 64kbps FhG MP3, but these are used as high and low anchors for reference, as MP3 is really out of its league at bitrates such as these." Links 0. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/ 1. http://audio.ciara.us/test/64test/presentation.html 2. http://audio.ciara.us/test/64test/results.html 3. http://www.vorbis.com/ 4. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs/audio.aspx 5. http://www.realnetworks.com/industries/resources/technology/realaudio.html 6. http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/aac/ 7. http://www.mp3prozone.com/ 8. http://www.ahead.de/ Cyrillic Projector Code Finally Cracked http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/205244 [0]SimuAndy writes "An international group of cryptographers, the Kryptos Group, [1]announced this week that the decade-old [2]Cyrillic [3]Projector [4]Code has been cracked, and that it deciphers to some classified [5]KGB instructions and correspondence. The Cyrillic Projector is an encrypted sculpture at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, that was created by Washington DC artist [6]James Sanborn in the early 1990s. It was inspired by the encrypted [7]Kryptos sculpture that Sanborn created two years earlier for CIA Headquarters. The message on the Cyrillic Projector has turned out to be in two parts. The decrypted first part is a Russian text encouraging secret agents to psychologically control potential sources of information. The second part appears to be a partial quote from classified KGB correspondence about the Soviet dissident Sakharov, with concerns that his report to the [8]Pugwash conference was being used by the Americans for an anti-Soviet agenda." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.elonka.com/kryptos/CyrillicProjectorAnnouncement.html 2. http://www.und.edu/org/crypto/crypto/general.crypt.info/Cyrillic.cipher 3. http://www.ncarts.org/afsb/14.cfm 4. http://www.elonka.com/kryptos/cyrillic.html 5. http://fas.org/irp/world/russia/kgb/ 6. http://www.elonka.com/kryptos/sanborn.html 7. http://www.elonka.com/kryptos/ 8. http://www.pugwash.org/ Intel Warns Asia Over Linux Plan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/1815247 rimbaldi writes "Intel's CEO, [0]Craig Barrett recently warned the Chinese government that [1]their attempt to create regional standards for computers and communications, including standards using Linux-based software, may be doomed to failure, since 'such a strategy might protect local companies and markets in the short term, [but] it would make it more difficult for Asian companies to participate in world markets.' This is in reaction to earlier Slashdot-covered stories about an [2]Asian software consortium and China [3]disallowing foreign software." Links 0. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/barrett.htm 1. http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479997820&p=1057562182635 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/1525252&tid=99 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0149207&tid=185 ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/1744232 [0]W33dz writes "[1]News.com has an article detailing how [2]some ISPs are now capping bandwidth usage by some of their high end users. [3]Comcast claims this is an attempt to create better speeds for their average users, but you can't help but wonder how much of this is in response to the RIAA's subpoenas. Interestingly enough, there is no set limit, but just a subjective limit of 'more than the average user.' The World Tech Tribune [4]has an article on the same topic." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.news.com/ 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-5079624.html 3. http://www.comcast.com/ 4. http://www.worldtechtribune.com/Worldtechtribune/asparticles/buzz/bz11192002.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.
