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SubtleNuance writes "32BitsOnline is reporting in this article that a Montreal, Canada startup called JumpTV.com will launch a service similar to the foiled ICraveTV.com. Using BorderControl.com, a more robust -and controversial- system of assuring a users geographical location, the startup is hoping to succeed where its predecessor failed." It figures out where you are (based on your IP) and then gives you television from you area (if its got it) in the form of a an online VCR. How long will this one last?

SubtleNuance writes "32BitsOnline is reporting in this article that a Montreal, Canada startup called JumpTV.com will launch a service similar to the foiled ICraveTV.com. Using BorderControl.com, a more robust -and controversial- system of assuring a users geographical location, the startup is hoping to succeed where its predecessor failed." It figures out where you are (based on your IP) and then gives you television from you area (if its got it) in the form of a an online VCR. How long will this one last?

retep writes: "MP3.com is planning to restart the My.MP3.com service that launched the lawsuit against it. However, it will probably launch without any music from Universal Music Corp. Instead it will probably offer music from record companies that have reached licensing deals with MP3.com Full story online at 32bitonline. " This had actually been submitted earlier, but this story had some additional information. The Universal is a key part because those are the ones who won the lawsuit against MP3.com, while they've managed to settle with almost everyone else.

Brew Bird writes "32bitsonline has a nice write up on FreeBSD 4.0. Makes me think I am about do for another upgrade..."

martin writes: "Here's an interesting article on 32bitsonline writing up one of Apple's chief O/S engineers talk at Usenix2000 on how they produced Mac OS X. Interesting to see how the design elements of Mac OS have been merged into BSD to produce a hybrid of the the two OSs."

martin writes: "Here's an interesting article on 32bitsonline writing up one of Apple's chief O/S engineers talk at Usenix2000 on how they produced Mac OS X. Interesting to see how the design elements of Mac OS have been merged into BSD to produce a hybrid of the the two OSs."

retep writes: "32BitsOnline has a interesting article about how the new memory standard RAMBUS may go bust. Essentially a bunch of missteps with Intel's Camino chipset, high costs, the rise in popularity of alternative CPU's such as the Athlon and a lack of performance may prove its undoing. I remember a story in Wired just a year or two ago praising RAMBUS for its innovative tactics; look what's happened now."

retep writes: "32BitsOnline has a interesting article about how the new memory standard RAMBUS may go bust. Essentially a bunch of missteps with Intel's Camino chipset, high costs, the rise in popularity of alternative CPU's such as the Athlon and a lack of performance may prove its undoing. I remember a story in Wired just a year or two ago praising RAMBUS for its innovative tactics; look what's happened now."

plasticquart writes "A recent article by Clifford Smith over at 32bitsonlne.com outlines his theory on the recent spat of Internet-related lawsuits. As he puts it: "What do the lawsuits against everybody in the Known Universe concerning DeCSS, mp3.com, and Napster all have in common?
Time Warner. Let's make that AOL and Time Warner." The article goes on to outline the direct interests of Time Warner and Co. in squelching content distribution (uh, hello - money). Quite an interesting read, indeed. "

palpatine writes "At 32 Bits Online Magazine, we have been testing a beta of Civilization: Call to Power for Linux for some time now. Our staff has been tirelessly working to test the new features of this exciting game, and we like it. In this preview, we take a closer look at Call to Power for Linux, including its features, the beta version, and the actual progress of a CTP game. " I played the preview release a bit. Had a few bugs that I'm sure are fixed by now. My 2 second summary is that its definitely the largest professional game of its type for Linux... but I think I really want Alpha Centauri. Of course, once I get my hands on the final CTP release, and get the LAN up at the new house, I fully intend to lose many late night hours to CTP.

palpatine writes "At 32 Bits Online Magazine, we have been testing a beta of Civilization: Call to Power for Linux for some time now. Our staff has been tirelessly working to test the new features of this exciting game, and we like it. In this preview, we take a closer look at Call to Power for Linux, including its features, the beta version, and the actual progress of a CTP game. " I played the preview release a bit. Had a few bugs that I'm sure are fixed by now. My 2 second summary is that its definitely the largest professional game of its type for Linux... but I think I really want Alpha Centauri. Of course, once I get my hands on the final CTP release, and get the LAN up at the new house, I fully intend to lose many late night hours to CTP.

EmilEifrem wrote in to tell us that 32BitsOnline review where CDE vs Gnome duke it out. Not sure why exactly KDE isn't in the shuffle, but I'll spoil it for you: GNOME wins.

EmilEifrem wrote in to tell us that 32BitsOnline review where CDE vs Gnome duke it out. Not sure why exactly KDE isn't in the shuffle, but I'll spoil it for you: GNOME wins.

iKON writes "Moreton Bay has ported linux to Motorola's ColdFire processer. " You can visit the porting projects page here for more information too.

slambo writes "32 Bits Online is reporting today about a recall by Kodak on certain model AC adapters. Full details are at Kodak's site . " Don't ya hate it when your camera blows up?

slambo writes "32 Bits Online is reporting today about a recall by Kodak on certain model AC adapters. Full details are at Kodak's site . " Don't ya hate it when your camera blows up?

palpatine writes "In this comparative review, five major Linux distributions are compared, including Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, Red Hat Linux 5.2, Slackware Linux 3.6, and S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3." They also mention several of the lesser known distributions at the end. No surprise that RH5.2 takes the editors choice, although on the whole, it seems like a fair analysis. Figure now is a good time to rerun the distro poll too. Break out the asbestos.

Craig Sanders sent us a link to an article about (surprise!) Linux called The People's Revolution, which is a front page story from the IT pages in The Age, Melbourne's biggest newspaper. Mike_Miller wrote in to say that Rob Kennedy (of linux-howto.com fame) is starting a monthly magazine called Ext2 about (surprise) Linux. Josh Baugher wrote in to say 32 Bits Online is now changing their focus to be a (surprise) Linux oriented site. And lastly, mholve has written a nice bit on Advocacy for (surprise!) Linux.

Jeff Alami writes "32 Bits Online's Jeff Alami interviews Ransom Love, General Manager of the OpenLinux Division at Caldera, Inc., about Caldera's new developments, including Caldera NetWare Server, KDE integration, and Caldera Small Business Server."

32 Bits online has an undated dicussion of the effect that free software will have on our Ferrengi friends

32 Bits online has an undated dicussion of the effect that free software will have on our Ferrengi friends

Alexandre G wrote in with this link to an article at 32 Bits Online where you can read about Office Suites for Linux. Its a series of article that will be covering Applix and StarOffice as well as something called AndrewUser Interface System that I've never heard of. Looks like it'll be interesting- check it out as the week continues."

Vertigo writes " While reading some newsgroups i came across this article: http://www.32bitsonline.com/Issues/april98/redhatlinux.shtm it's a very positive review of RedHat 5.0 .. it was published today, 15 april.. so still fairly recent ;) " Ya gotta love this kinda press.

James Hubbard wrote in to give us a link to 32 Bits Online where you can read an article about preinstalling Linux on hardware. Some companies have begun shipping computers with everyone's favorite OS already installed, hopefully this is a growing trend.