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But there's more here than figuring out who can plunk down the best system for the specified price. There's the maintenance/support costs. And picking a particular hardware platform kind of defines your choices for software -- so whose compiler do you like best? And any serious school needs to ask: can we maybe do a better job, more cheaply, cobbling together a cluster from cheap (abandoned, commodity, or donated) hardware? Which has the additional advantage of giving ones students some solid practical experience. Slashdot has run any number of stories on projects that did just that; one or two have achieved a small measure of success.

If you're trying to implement something like an STV (Single Transferrable Vote) system then a computer is helpful (the Auzzie's use the Hare system http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Hare.html
If you use the STV Meek's method, http://web.archive.org/web/20020328140457/http://w ww.bcs.org.uk/election/meek/meekm.htm
then you HAVE to use a computer.

Once you have written it, you have to check it.
Obviously there are all of the usual user - interface issues; data validation; etc
In particular for the STV elections, you have to check
- simple ties
- multiple ties
- multiple ties over multiple years
- random number generation (Meek's method ultimately breaks ties this way)
- handling of large numbers of voters, voters & candidates
- etc
(I'm sure there's lots of issues I haven't listed)

fairly non-trivial, and it usually helps to get someone experienced in designing/building/testing voting software involved

From "The Big Train", a documentary about the New York Central Railroad marred by whining from the CEO about highway subsidies.

Just use the internet archive when you come back and you will miss nothing.

All of the images in your link are 404!!!

"By the way, am I the only one who thinks Ceren Ercen is absolutely gorgeous?"

No, you're not... and I got to work with her... every day at Linuxcare! ;) Beat that!

BTW, did you know Cerent went on to do BDSM for a little while? (Yes, I'm completely serious)

Her name there was "Siren". How poetic. Too bad archive.org doesn't have her images... they were soft-pornographic. I kid you not. Give them a call and ask them about her. ;) Here's another one of her in "normal" clothes.

the wayback machine

Helen Greiner speaks at etcon http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php? collection=conference_proceedings&collectionid=ete ch2004-greiner&from=mostViewed

Timeline Inc has won a US Washington Court of Appeal judgment against Microsoft for the right to sue Microsoft's customers, and subsequently sued Cognos. On February 13, 2004, Cognos settled at cost to Cognos totaling $1.75 million

In a lot of ways you are better with GPL licensed techology , which effectively grants all downstream users the right to use the patents from upstream developers under the terms of the GPL .

Software Patent are inherently bad but are also pushing an interesting trend. Pushing vendors towards adopting the GPL-like licensing as a form of simpler form of cross licensing arrangement.

In short, don't insult a scene because you use it to play free games and expect them to run perfectly without any contribution. Emulation is about learning. It is not about getting things for free.

Here's a kooky idea: why not use such a setup to promote knowledge of copyrights and the public domain? Show films that are in the public domain, and include a short bit to explain why such showings are legal, while showing other films is not. Besides showing good classic movies, or providing an opportunity for impromptu MST3K participation, you could actually educate people and make them more aware of how intellectual property issues affect them. Just an idea.

Some Portland kids called Feel(This)Films followed me around a bit and are hoping to release a short under a Creative Commons license; feel free to contact them if you have anything from the con to contribute.

View Design for Dreaming on line, from the Internet Archive.

Design for Dreaming is part of Rick Prelinger's ephemeral films archive (the source of many an MST3K short), which means you can legally download it for free from the Internet Movie Archive. No incisive voiceovers, though :).

Archive.org Wayback Machine version

Not to say this is or isn't at least contributory infringement-- IANAL.

Not to say this is or isn't at least contributory infringement-- IANAL.

Not to say this is or isn't at least contributory infringement-- IANAL.

... all I can say is "HA HA HA HA HA!"

See for your self. If you can read anything past the ugly blue-black-and-white font, you're a braver man than I.

Google news stories seem more interesting as well. MSNBC basically has a lot of US-related tabloid articles, while Google has some real news. An example:

World news according to MSNBC:

1. U.S. hands over four French suspects at Guantanamo
2. Prosecutors dissect Berkeley fishing story (about a murder in S.F. - how is this world news??)
3. Jenkins asks to see US lawyer

In contrast, Google has:

1. French Guantanamo detainees back home
2. Sudan Says US Using Darfur to Topple Government
3. Freed Egyptian Says Treated Well by Iraqi Captors

Also, Google allows you to go to country specific news feeds. I'm sorry, but MSN is going to have to do much better than this to steal my clicks. And before you argue that it's still beta, Google News had much better functionality than this before it first appeared on the Google front page.

... all I can say is "HA HA HA HA HA!"

See for your self. If you can read anything past the ugly blue-black-and-white font, you're a braver man than I.

Google news stories seem more interesting as well. MSNBC basically has a lot of US-related tabloid articles, while Google has some real news. An example:

World news according to MSNBC:

1. U.S. hands over four French suspects at Guantanamo
2. Prosecutors dissect Berkeley fishing story (about a murder in S.F. - how is this world news??)
3. Jenkins asks to see US lawyer

In contrast, Google has:

1. French Guantanamo detainees back home
2. Sudan Says US Using Darfur to Topple Government
3. Freed Egyptian Says Treated Well by Iraqi Captors

Also, Google allows you to go to country specific news feeds. I'm sorry, but MSN is going to have to do much better than this to steal my clicks. And before you argue that it's still beta, Google News had much better functionality than this before it first appeared on the Google front page.

How he has interpreted the feelings of the show's creators/actors does not matter; their feelings and opinions count for nothing if they don't hold the copyrights to the show (which they clearly do not).

Perhaps the FBI did step over the line here, but from reading the Patriot Act (which you can find here) one can see that the FBI is simply using the tools they've been given to bust the bad guys (the ranks of which this gentleman belongs to). If you feel that the Patriot Act is a bad thing, write your congressman. Join the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. But don't sit here on Slashdot and bitch, you're not changing anything.

Originally posted by Armitage X
Exactly WHAT counterfeit services could they be talking about?

He had to know they just wouldn't let this go. He was directly linking to asf or divx versions of stargate episodes.

Here's an example of the copyright infringement

More dates to check out

He had to know they just wouldn't let this go. He was directly linking to asf or divx versions of stargate episodes.

Here's an example of the copyright infringement

More dates to check out

Looks like up until Jan 2002 he was actually linking copies of all the shows as ASF and AVI files. It's hard to tell if he hosted any of them, but the site does claim some of them came from the site itself.

In Jan 2002 the site "changed" into a fan site/info site.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011012011922/www.sg1a rchive.net/

Uhh, the reason for all this is that the guy offered every episode for download, from his site, in ASF and DIVX format.

Just see the Internet Wayback machine for proof.

We are defending this guy why?

Gee hosting episodes of a show on your website never causes any problems. How evil of them to enfoce thier copyright.

Here is a mirror http://web.archive.org/web/20040726104234/http://w w.google.com/

One solution would be to find software that is free for commercial use. I'd suggest looking through the Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/audio

I think some of the stuff in there might be free even for commercial purposes, at least in some countries. They have recordings made from really old records (1927, for instance), and there might be some newer public domain stuff in there.

I did find this:

http://www.pdinfo.com/source/TtlRFree.htm

Music you can license for a one-time only fee.

steveha

Does anyone remember the Stale.com website that came out shortly after MS's "Slate" came out?

Not only is it his real name, but I recall signing him up for his first Boston-area dialup account in December '95. He was a TIAC subscriber back in the day. I even took a couple of late-night support calls from him. You don't forget a guy named Hiawatha.

I really hate coming to Slashdot and seeing a story only to find a multimedia file that has been linked to cannot be reached due to the "Slashdotting" effect.

I think this could easily be alleviated (if not solved) by linking files with the prefix "http://freecache.org" If you're not familiar with FreeCache, check them out.

Just for fun, here are the three links included in the story, with FreeCache's bandwidth help: 1, 2, 3. It may be too late to speed these up, but let's see!!

And remember, use http://freecache.org/http://link.to.file/file.xxx!

It looks as if FreeCache's timeout is shorter than a web browsers, but if this had been used from the beginning, I'll it would have made a difference.

Oil on Mars you say?

Look here, and you'll see that Windows Update has been around (at least) since December 1998, more than a year before the patent was filed. Sure looks like prior art to me.

Tibco's Rendezvous can be used to the do same task as Apple's Rendezvous, i.e. dynamic configuration. They both use multicast and don't require server endpoint configurations like addresses, etc. However Tibco's Rendezvous can also do generic, certified, and transactional messaging and hence Apple's product description does harm by implying Tibco's software has less capabilities, i.e. inferior, to what it really is.

To update the trademark links, Tibco was formally Teknekron:

• Teknekron's trademark - filed July 10, 1995
• Tibco's trademark - filed May 20, 2002
• Apple's trademark - filed May 6, 2002

For the love of jesus, I hate any slashdot article relating to viruses. I have to read through comment after comment using the accursed "virii".

"Virii" is, and let me put this gently, not a goddamn word. I say this not just for your sake, but in the hope that at least a hundredth of the people operating under this painful warping of the english language. Read this, I beg you, and stop making me - and anyone who knows the word - cringe.

>>because that web site can be taken down. >>because it can be altered. But chances are you can still access the unaltered/still existent document using Wayback, unless the gov actually took the trouble to use a Robots.txt exclusion file -- which so far only the FBI has (because you know how tough it is to upload that robots.txt exclusion file. You might need an IQ over 68).

it's a bit suspiciously skimpy on hard specifications

It's also suspiciously similar to an Internet Archive program that's been in operation for years.

The 'R' in RIAA stands for 'Recording'. The RIAA isn't concerned with musicians that work for a living by playing music. Its a different game. I personally support bands by going to shows. I've been seeing the Dead family almost every year since 1988. And yeah, they make money. I've heard that last summer each original band member made over 2 mil.

Oh yeah, and there's more dead music here.

cache

compare it to how it looked year ago

I shot this on a Canon ZR40 and edited in iMovie. I'm sure it's way under the level the article is talking about, but everyone is impressed with the quality.

Mind you, the Mpeg version on the internet has a fraction of the quality the fill DV version does.

This is possible now, using Mozilla autoconfig. Unfortunately this excellent feature is relatively unknown, and woefully underdocumented. Here's one of the few (only?) guides, and a mirror. Additional information about Mozilla profiles is available in this forum topic at Mozillazine.

While Bobby Fischer might have technically violated some U.S. laws, (and this one technicality is just the first that he has dealt with) he really should simply be left alone.

I've been following Bobby Fischer since he started publishing Chess columns in Boys' Life. While not necessarily a hacker, certainly a classic geek.

He all but dropped out of society in almost a Ted Kaczynski fashion, and can IMHO be classified as the most persecuted American by the U.S. Government. He was also wanted a few years ago on tax evasion charges, but I thought that got cleared up. He really has been hounded by the U.S. government for many things, and gone through ups and downs in his life that I would not wish on anybody.

A really good writeup about Bobby Fischer's trip to Yugoslavia is on bobbyfischer.net

I had to use the internet wayback machine because for some reason the regular website is down. Probably due to some slashdotting, although in this case probably not directly due to slashdot it self (surprisingly). Some absolutely incredible articles. I've also seen segments on television news programs that have also discussed his life, and it seems rather pathetic. How much of this is brought onto himself, and how much is out right presecution remains to be debated, but he should really be given a nice quite spot in Montana and be left alone.

Maybe the U.S. government is afraid of letting intelligent people who think the U.S. government is screwed up be left alone.

These videos are available from archive.org:
Part 1
Part 2

These videos are available from archive.org:
Part 1
Part 2

but Novinit does show progress in the Wayback Machine...

Apparantly, this thing isn't a hoax.

It simply appears to be the last dot-com bubble about to burst.

I direct you to the web archive showing their parent company from 2001:
archive

Their current site is still up.

http://www.novinit.com/plan_uk.html

There are slight discrepencies in the figures (5mil R&d figures), and whilst I believe THEY think they have a product, whether or not they will actually get off the ground is another matter.

SFU does include GCC, but for the most part the utilities are from OpenBSD.

The utilities bc, ci, co, cpio, csplit, dc, diff, diff3, gawk, gzip,
gunzip, ident, merge, nl, rcs, rcsdiff, rcsmerge and rlog are covered
under the GNU General Public License, here reproduced.

In accordance with section 3b of this license the source code to those
utilities is available from the Interix World Wide Web site,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu.

GPL Utility
Source Code

The GPL utility source code for Services for UNIX 3.0 contains the base utilities diff, sdiff, bc, dc, cpio, gzip, gunzip, gawk, patch, csplit, nl, strings, rpm, and SDK utilities/libraries ld.so, gcc, gdb, g++, g77, gasp, objcopy, ld, as, ar, nm, size, strip, ci, co, diff3 rcs, rlog, and ident.

The GPL utility source code for Interix 2.2 contains the utilities bc, ci, co, cpio, csplit, dc, diff, diff3, gawk, gzip, gunzip, ident, merge, nl, rcs, rcsdiff, rcsmerge and rlog.

Kinda funny, if you look at the site in the wayback machine, the site hasn't been altered since their first cache in 1998.

Have the browser store in a searchable index, the cached results for previous pages visited.
Then if links die, you want to see how a page looked yesterday, or certain information is removed from a website, you have your own personal way back machine, with all your previously visited sites.

Best part is this would not add bloat, but would rely on the users disk space capacity.