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According to the PR, the OS can autodetect and configure itself on the host machine." Links 0. http://sbassi AT bioinformatica DOT info 1. http://www.lindows.com/lindows_seagate.php 2. http://www.lindows.com/ 3. http://www.seagate.com/ 4. http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?id=82 Smart Sofa Recognizes Occupants by Weight http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1926256 I am Kobayashi writes "According to [0]CNN.com scientists at [1]Trinity College in Dublin have created my [2]dream couch. And yes, I admit to being a couch potato... Apparently the couch can be programmed with a personal greeting (it recognizes you by weight), and the scientists hope that it will one day be able to automatically tune to your favorite television programs, order you take out food, and control other household appliances." Links 0. http://www.cnn.com/ 1. http://www.tcd.ie/ 2. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/22/smart.sofa/index.html Paul Vixie And David Maher On VeriSign Wildcarding http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/0134256 [0]chromatic writes "The [1]O'Reilly Network has just published [2]an interview with Paul Vixie, chairman of the board of the [3]Internet Software Consortium and a primary author of [4]BIND. Topics include the recent VeriSign controversy, ISC's BIND patch in response, and other potential issues that might come to light in the near future." On a related note, [5]dmehus writes with a link to the [6]letter sent by David Maher, chairman of the Public Interest Registry -- the .org registrar, to ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey. "The letter says that it supports ICANN's call for VeriSign to voluntarily suspend SiteFinder and the Internet Architecture Board preliminary position paper. It goes on to say that PIR will not be implementing any DNS wildcard to the .ORG zone. It urges ICANN to stand its ground, but also to implement a policy preventing registries from taking this kind of unilateral action in the future." The letter is in .doc format, but AbiWord and OpenOffice.org both open it fine. Links 0. http://wgz.org/chromatic/ 1. http://www.oreillynet.com/ 2. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/22/vixie.html 3. http://www.isc.org/ 4. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/ 5. http://www.palacechat.us/ 6. http://members.shaw.ca/dmehus/assets/doc/letter-to-ICANN-re-SiteFinder-030921.doc Mass Fatality Identification System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/004241 [0]Shipud writes " Bio-IT World is running a story on how [1]Gene Codes corporation [2]created the Mass Fatality Identification System (M-FISys) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The story goes into the details of processing large amounts of data, aiming for a 99.9% accuracy rate, and [3] extreme programing." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.genecodes.com/ 2. http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/091103/soul.html 3. http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ California Protects Black-Box Data Privacy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2334251 Snowgen writes "According to a story at SFGate.com, California has recently passed a law [0]regulating the little black boxes found in many modern automobiles. The new law requires that manufacturers disclose the existence of such boxes in the vehicle's operators' manual. The law also prohibits the use of data from such boxes without a court order or the permission of the vehicle's owner, unless the data is used in such a way that it can not be traced back to the owner." Links 0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/23/BA3674DTL Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2016224 ninejaguar asks: "Slashdot did an [0]article on an Open Source product called [1]Prevayler, which could theoretically resolve all the problems associated with OO's rough courtship with Relational databases. Slashdot [0]covered [2]Prevayler when it was still [3]1.x. Despite [4]fear, [5]doubt, and [6]memory concerns, it has reached [7]2.0 alpha. Is [8]anyone currently [9]using this [10]non-database solution in production? If so, has it sped development because of the [11]lack of OO-to-RDBMS complexity? Was there a significant [12]learning curve to speak of? The [13]LGPL'd product could be incorporated into proprietary commercial software, and few might know about it. Is anyone considering using it in a transactional environment where [14]speed is the paramount need? And, are there any objections to using Prevayler that haven't been answered at the Prevayler [15]wiki? Would those who use MySQL find Prevayler to be a better solution because it's tiny (less than 100kb), 3000 times faster and is inherently [16]ACID compliant?" Links 0. developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/03/1220222&mode=thread&tid=156 1. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=StartingPoints 2. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=GettingStarted 3. sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36113&release_id=164262 4. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=NoMorePorridge 5. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevalenceSkepticalFAQ 6. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=BreakthroughsInMemoryTechnology 7. ://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36113&release_id=164262 8. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevaylerPioneers 9. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=OpenSourcePrevaylerProjects 10. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevaylerIsNotADatabase 11. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=IsPrevaylerReliable 12. www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-objprev/index.html 13. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=FreeSoftware 14. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=ScalabilityTestResults 15. http://www.prevayler.org/ 16. http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=DontINeedTransactions European Parliament Clashes Over Software Patents http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2249238 D4C5CE writes "The [0]European Parliament's Daily Notebook reports on the turbulent final plenary debate this morning regarding a draft [1]Directive to legalize [2]Software Patents (which are currently [3]unlawful under [4]Art.52 (2) (c) of the European Patent Convention). The Notebook quotes some truly bizarre views and arguments (which no doubt you'll take the time to point out to [5]Members of the European Parliament before [6]tomorrow's vote), with some MEPs even claiming to feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual." Links 0. http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=3&NAV=S&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+PRESS+DN-20030923-1+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN#SECTION1 1. http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?L=EN&OBJID=30318&LEVEL=3&MODE=SIP&NAV=X&LSTDOC=N 2. http://swpat.ffii.org/ 3. http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/plen0309/index.en.html 4. http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/epc/e/ar52.html#A52 5. http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/gwhosmymep.htm 6. http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&LEVEL=2&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y&PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+AGENDA+20030923-LASTV+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN California Tries Spam Ban http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2035204 [0]Schlemphfer writes "Spammers have likely received their biggest setback yet, when California governor Gray Davis today signed a bill [1]outlawing all unsolicited email sent to and from the state. Two things about this [2]new law stand out: first, it puts the burden on senders to prove that they are sending solicited email. Second, it bans the entire practice of spamming, with no loopholes at all like allowing messages with ADV: in the subject. Keep in mind California has the world's fifth largest economy, and they are planning to enforce the law with fines amounting to $1000 per each piece of spam. This law could be ruinous to spammers when it takes effect January 1st." Links 0. http://www.vegan.com/ 1. http://nytimes.com/2003/09/23/business/23CND-SPAM.html?hp 2. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0151-0200/sb_186_bill_20030911_enrolled.html Free VoIP for Dartmouth Students http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1946258 [0]dtfusion writes "After upgrading their network infrastructure and doing some testing over the summer, Dartmouth is making [1]free voice over IP available to incoming freshman. It turns out it was costing them more to bill the students for local and long distance than for the calls themselves. What will the success/failure of VoIP on this scale have on telecom?" There's an [2]older story and a [3]newer story from the Dartmouth public affairs office; that second one probably spurred the NYT article. The sysadmin-types are [4]planning to study usage during the rollout. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/technology/23DART.html 2. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2003/april/041803g.html 3. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2003/09/19b.html 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campus/ New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1736243 An anonymous reader writes "The [0]OpenSSH team has uncovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in the days-old portable release of OpenSSH. That's right folks: time to patch *again*. 3.7.1p2 is now available. [1]Instructions and mirror list here. Please note that this vulnerability only affects *portable* OpenSSH--so if you are running [2]OpenBSD, you're safe. This vulnerability apparently has to do with PAM, so you can use the 'UsePam no' option in your config file. Info on the advisory [3]here and [4]here." Links 0. http://www.openssh.org/ 1. http://www.openssh.org/portable.html 2. http://www.openbsd.org/ 3. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/338617 4. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/121/338616 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
