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---------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 30, 2003 Slashdot Headlines Mobile Internet Down Under http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/056219 [0]Anonymous Coward writes "A truck, a sat dish and a sunburnt country. When you absolutely positively need to connect to the Internet, why not carry your own broadband connection with you? One Aussie guy and his wife are doing just that -- [1]packed up the lot and have gone on the road, so far roughly 3000km. He says 'Of course nothing is simple. The salespeople were convinced that I couldn't line up the dish -- it took me about an hour to figure out and now roughly takes about ten minutes each time I set up. They told me that the wireless gear wouldn't talk to the modem, they told me that my Debian workstation wouldn't be supported, they told me that the BOC wouldn't talk to me, they told me that I needed training, they told me that it wasn't done and it wouldn't work, they told me that I'd void my warranty, they told me so many stories..'" Links 0. http://www.linmagau.org 1. http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=355&page=1 Changes in the Network Security Model? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/0220233 [0]Kaliban asks: "As a Sysadmin, understanding network security is clearly an important part of my skillsets so I wanted to get thoughts on a few things that I've seen recently after some discussions with co-workers. Are network services becoming so complicated that application level firewalls (such as ISA Server) are absolutely necessary? Is the simple concept of opening and closing ports insufficient for networking services that require the client and server to open multiple simultaneous connections (both incoming and outgoing)?This leads me to my next question: has the paradigm of 'if you offer external services to the Internet then place those machines onto a perimeter network' been eroded? Are application level firewalls sophisticated enough to allow machines on your internal network to advertise services to the Internet? When is it alright to 'poke a hole in the firewall' to allow this? Personally, I think the answer is 'Never!' but perhaps I'm out of touch with current network security models." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] iRiver Announces A New Ogg/MP3 Player http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/006226 An anonymous reader writes "[0]CD Freaks and [1]Mobile mag are reporting that [2]iRiver has unveiled a new [3]Ogg-capable mp3 player. Featuring 20 GB of HD space and USB 2.0 connectivity, the iHP-120 might just be the answer to the question all us [4]Apple-fearing geeks have been asking... Although the new product has yet to show up on their website, the older model [5]iHP-100 is similar in design but with half the storage space (10gb). New software will be released in October to update it and other players from iRiver with ogg compatibility as well." Links 0. http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=8054 1. http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/337/C2092/ 2. http://iriver.com/ 3. http://www.vorbis.com/ 4. http://www.apple.com/ipod/ 5. http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/iHP-100.asp Few Takers For RIAA's "Clean Slate" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/0015224 [0]gbulmash writes "In the wake of the RIAA's [1]highly-criticized "Clean Slate" program, a recent [2]article about P2P United reveals that the RIAA has only had 838 takers for their file swapping amnesty offer. That's less than 1/1000th of one percent of the estimated number of P2P users worldwide." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/2349252&tid=158 2. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=2&u=/pcworld/20030929/tc_pcworld/112677 Software Tweak Makes Linux Boot In Under 200 ms http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/003209 An anonymous reader writes "A version of Linux has been created [0]that radically speeds up system boot time -- to less than 200 milliseconds (ms) from power-up to application code startup. The techniques, created by Real-time Linux vendor [1]FSMLabs, are processor independent, and boot times of under 100 mS are expected in the future." Update: 09/30 01:04 GMT by [2]T: Yep -- both headline and post should have read "ms" (milliseconds) rather than "mS" (milli Siemens); thanks to all the alert readers. Links 0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5907201615.html 1. http://www.fsmlabs.com/ 2. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/ Cable Companies Reject Tiered Pricing Model http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/29/2314215 The Lynxpro submits this [0]Investor's Business Daily article carried on Yahoo!, writing "It details how the Cable Companies are resisting a pricing this competition with DSL providers by resisting tiered pricing models. The article highlights how Time Warner Cable and Comcast are both bringing access speeds back to 3Mbps without any price increases. What the article fails to mention is that is the very speed rate @Home offered before going into bankruptcy. The cable companies formerly partnered with @Home reduced access speeds when they resumed their own services in the wake of the @Home implosion." I wonder if (low-speed) Internet access will ever be just another basic-cable feature. Links 0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1471&ncid=1471&e=3&u=/ibd/20030929/bs_ibd_ibd/2003929tech01 The Design Of The Google File System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/29/2227224 [0]Freddles writes "This is [1]an interesting paper (PDF) describing the design approach to [2]Google's file system. The design had to take account of requirements for huge file sizes, a highly responsive infrastructure and an assumption that hardware components will always fail." Links 0. http://www.fredhoysted.com 1. http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf 2. http://www.google.com/ FCC To Enforce Do Not Call List, Not FTC http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/29/2040216 Iphtashu Fitz writes "The Associated Press is [0]reporting that the [1]Federal Communications Commission will step in and enforce the national Do Not Call list for the [2]Federal Trade Commission. The FCC is coming to the aid of the FTC because of the [3]recent lawsuit filed against the FTC over the list." Links 0. http://www.boston.com/dailynews/272/wash/Federal_Communications_Commiss%3A.shtml 1. http://www.fcc.gov/ 2. http://www.ftc.gov/ 3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/160205&tid=158 India Blocks Yahoo Groups Over Political Content http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/29/1930218 [0]Ryan Barrett writes "In an attempt to shut down the Yahoo Group of a [1] separatist political movement, the Indian government's CERT organization ended up [2]blocking its country from accessing Yahoo Groups as a whole. China's censorship of the Internet in the past few years has been unsettling, but most people have accepted it as a by-product of China's form of government. Given that India's form of government is clearly different, this is much more chilling." Links 0. http://ryan.barrett.name 1. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kynhun/ 2. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20030929/D7TS4BV80.html AMD Moves Closer To Linux PDA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/29/1946209 [0]Ryan writes "Mobilemag is reporting that AMD has [1]advanced the prototype design of their current Linux-based PDA handheld, adding full-screen video capabilities, and completing work on the device's battery charger. The device is based on AMD's 400MHz Alchemy 1100 processor." However, "AMD has yet to find a hardware maker that has committed to bringing the Alchemy-based reference design to market as a commercial product." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C2089/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
