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 Posted by
friends
on Fri February 22, 11:00 AM
from the happy-birthday-karl dept.
Over in Chicago, Karl Fogel turns 31 this weekend. Karl, known for wearing suspenders, making strange faces, and pretending to speak Chinese, is taking a trip to Poland today and won't be back until after his birthday. Karl's friends, who will miss him, put their heads together and got him a present.
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 Posted by
timothy
on Thu February 21, 08:27 PM
from the paypal's-been-good-to-me dept.
trenton writes: "CNET News.com reports a class-action law suit was filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County. The suit charges PayPal with illegitimately restricting customers' access to their money. The suit asks for an unspecified amount of damages. Have you been ripped off or locked out?"(
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) | Slashback: Rebuttal, Satellite, Patents |
 Posted by
timothy
on Thu February 21, 06:59 PM
from the austin-approaches dept.
Slashback items below bring you updates tonight on connecting to the net by satellite, the feasability of porting OS X to Intel-type hardware, speeding tickets via GPS, and European patents.(
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) | Socket-A Chipset Roundup |
 Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thu February 21, 05:58 PM
from the little-bit-of-this-a-little-bit-of-that dept.
EconolineCrush writes: "The Tech Report has a review up of VIA's new KT333 Socket A chipset. Though it's really a review of the KT333, a total of seven different chipsets from VIA, SiS, AMD, and NVIDIA are compared to determine the uniprocessor Socket A performance king. This is definitely worth checking out if you're in the market for an AMD platform, or are curious to see how your current chipset stacks up against the latest and greatest."(
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) | Could Mono Kill Gnome? |
 Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thu February 21, 04:38 PM
from the stuff-to-think-about dept.
Jrbl writes "NewsForge is running This editorial by Tina Gasperson about the possible implications for GNOME if it gets Mono (which allows patented components.) There's also a reference to this article at The Register in which Miguel de Icaza raves about Microsoft."(
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) Posted by
timothy
on Thu February 21, 03:40 PM
from the complaints-department dept.
Gryphon writes: "The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a citizen has the right to express dissatifaction with the products or services of a company; in this case, an insurance company. This raises some interesting questions: does this extend to posting benchmarks of computer applications? Dissatisfaction with application security holes? Strike one for the little guy in Canada -- and maybe move here if you want to avoid the DMCA? ;)"(
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) | GNOME 2.0 Beta |
Posted by
michael
on Thu February 21, 03:10 PM
from the size-13-wide dept.
xer.xes writes: "The first public beta release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is ready for your testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download here. Please read the release notes first! Due for general consumption in March, the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is a greatly improved user environment for existing GNOME applications. Enhancements include anti-aliased text and first class internationalisation support, new accessibility features for disabled users, and many improvements throughout GNOME's highly regarded user interface." LinuxToday or gnome-announce have the announcement. I don't see release notes anywhere - post a link in the comments if you find them. GNOME is having a bug day today.(
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) | Robot Maker Mark Tilden: All Life is Analog |
 Posted by
timothy
on Thu February 21, 02:18 PM
from the and-wriggles dept.
simpl3x points to this New York Times article on master robotsmith Mark Tilden, writing: "It is interesting what makes a good toy." My favorite line is Tilden saying "I want to sell millions of toys, but what I really hope is that a bunch of kids who open them up use the motors and things to build something else ... They are my colleagues of the future."(
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)  Posted by
michael
on Thu February 21, 01:32 PM
from the antimatter-weapons-coming-soon dept.
Whamo writes: "Researchers at CERN think they have created and stored thousands of antiatoms in a particle trap. The researchers first used powerful magnetic fields to trap antiprotons then exposed this to a beam of positrons. Initial results indicate that at least some of the antiparticles have bound together to become neutral antihydrogen atoms. How cool is that?"(
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)  Posted by
Cliff
on Thu February 21, 12:30 PM
from the please...no-more-beowulf-jokes dept.
cascadefx asks: "I work for a mid-sized mid-western university. One of our departments has started up a small Beowulf cluster research project that he hopes to grow over time. At the moment, the thing is incredibly weak... but it is running on old hardware and is basically used for dog and pony shows to get more funding and hopefully donations of higher-end systems. It runs Linux and works, it is just not anything to write home about. Here's the problem: my understanding is that an MS rep asked what it would take to get them to switch to a Microsoft cluster. Is this possible? Are there MS clusters that do what Beowulf clusters are capable of? I thought MS clusters were for load balancing, not computation... which is the hoped-for goal of this project. Can the Slashdot crowd offer some advice? If there are MS clusters, comparisons of the capabilities would be welcome." One has to only go as far as Microsoft's site to see its current attempt at clustering, but what is the real story. Have any of you had a chance to pit a Linux Beowulf cluster against one from Microsoft? How did they compare?(
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) | Sega, Nintendo Team Up To Create New Graphics Board |
Posted by
Hemos
on Thu February 21, 11:50 AM
from the making-things-look-pretty dept.
TimWeigel writes "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that Sega, Nintendo and Namco are teaming up to create a new commercial graphics board. This new board, the Triforce (tip o' the hat to all the Zelda fans), will reportedly be based on the hardware in the GameCube. The article indicates it will be targeted towards new game consoles, as well as "similar products". A prototype is scheduled to be demonstrated at the 2002 AOU Amusement Expo on 22 Feb."(
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) | Time on "Pirates of Primetime" |
 Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thu February 21, 11:05 AM
from the polly-wanna-tivo dept.
binarydreams writes "Time has a pretty decent article on the capturing and trading of television shows on the Internet. The author gives a very good description of the capturing process, the people who enjoy the results, the future of PVR (focusing on the Replay 4000) and why the TV and movie industries are scared."
This is just more of the TV industry coming to grips
with what happened to the music industry. But it's
important that the mainstream learns about it.(
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) Posted by
timothy
on Thu February 21, 10:20 AM
from the real-chemistry dept.
danny writes: "The New Chemistry is a survey of the science
behind many of Slashdot's technology stories - read on
for my review. (An older title of related interest is Chemical
Evolution: Origin of the Elements, Molecules, and Living
Systems )." Read on for the rest of Danny's review.(
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) | Apache: The Apache/Sun Relationship Worsens |
 Posted by
Hemos
on Thu February 21, 09:25 AM
from the gotta-loosen-your-grip-on-java dept.
d6y writes "Over on the O'Reilly weblogs there's an entry on the relationship between Sun's Java Community Process and Apache. Sun have been rubbing people up with wrong way (the problems of licensing open source J2EE containers; stuts v. JavaFaces; log4j v. JDK 1.4 logging....) and I hope this gets sorted out real soon.
See also the original VNUNet article and Apache's position paper."(
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) | Internet Draft on Vulnerability Disclosures |
 Posted by
michael
on Thu February 21, 07:56 AM
from the end-information-anarchy dept.
Cowboy71 writes: "An interesting posting on Bugtraq by Stephen Christie announcing the release for comment of an internet-draft "Responsible Disclosure Process" document, prepared by himself and Chris Wysopal of @stake. You can view the full paper at the IETF site."(
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) | Science: Nuclear Mutant Flies Are Good For Africa? |
Posted by
Hemos
on Thu February 21, 05:39 AM
from the where's-homer dept.
D\monix writes "According to this article in Reuters, the International Atomic Energy Agency is going to start releasing massive numbers of tsetse flies "sterilized by a burst of radiation" into sub Saharan Africa in order to outnumber and thus eradicate the local fly population. My favorite quote? "The impact of the fly is difficult to exaggerate." You're damn right it is. Anyone else out there think pumping large numbers of mutant insects into the environment might be a bad idea?"(
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) | Huygens' Clock Puzzle Solved |
Posted by
Hemos
on Thu February 21, 03:30 AM
from the tick-tock-tick-tick-tock dept.
PhotoGuy writes "Okay, I haven't heard of this puzzle either until now, but it sounds like a fascinating phenomenon. According to this article:Huygens had two clocks side by side and he found that even when they began out of sync, they soon got into a rhythm where the pendulum on one moved as if it were a mirror image of the other.The article is pretty light on the explanation, noting only the conditions required (small relative mass of the pendulums [pendula?], relatively close speed of the clocks), and not really addressing the physics behind it.
" There's a great site at Georgia Tech that explains the puzzle in more detail.(
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)  Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Thu February 21, 01:28 AM
from the you-just-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.
lcypher writes "The AP is reporting that
there is spyware within Windows Media Player
8(which ships with XP), which records the song
titles and DVD titles that a user listens to or views in WMP8. Microsoft execs claim no marketing use right now, but they won't rule it out. "
This looks like less of a big deal than the article
makes it out to be, but it definitely could be used
for evil.(
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)  Posted by
Cliff
on Wed February 20, 10:37 PM
from the employee-satisfaction dept.
G-shock asks: "I've worked for the government (NASA), large public companies, and small startups as a software engineer. They all have something in common. It seems like management at this company is just winging it. I find myself putting all my energy, both mental and emotional, into a project only to be disappointed by decisions made by management. I really feel like management at my current employer is disconnected from what is actually going on. They manage a project, but not the people. They also seem to lack any real vision. Direction is constantly changing and proper time is not given to engineer these changes correctly. This leads to mandated quick and dirty solutions that end up being maintained with great pain for long periods of time. All this leads to me feeling cynical about the work I'm doing. What I want to know is, how can I feel good about the work I'm doing if I don't have confidence in my management? How many of you are happy with your management? Why? Why not? What can I do about this? Thanks in advance for your insight." Considering that this seems to be a common problem in technology companies, and seeing as we have been producing software for basically half a century, do you think that managing software projects is a different beast than the management of anything else? How many of you have had this problem in your career and what did you do to adjust?(
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