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Oregon Government Supporting Open Source
amountlad writes "In a pair of articles released today on N4N.org, Oregon continues to lead the way in government open source adoption in the USA. The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab will host a Government Open Source Conference in October. The GOSCON has strong support from within the state government. The State's Department of Administrative Services released a white paper detailing their use of Asterisk for audio conferencing for more than 500 conferences a week. The set-up includes a web-based interface for judges to manage recording the hearings. In doing so the State joins Metro, a Portland area regional government which uses Asterisk along side its Beowulf Cluster." -
Gulf Stream Slowdown in Progress?
peacefinder writes "Researchers report that one process which drives the Gulf Stream is slowing down. As that current is part of the global oceanic heat conveyor which keeps parts of Europe and North America warmer than would be expected for their latitudes, such a slowdown might lead to abrupt climate change." -
Why Does XP Auto-Connect to sa.windows.com?
termigator asks: "I have a private home network that has a Windows XP system on it (I know, the horrors, but it allows my wife to do some of her work at home). With recent discussions about DRM and the Microsoft EULA (which allows Microsoft to autodownload software), I decided to block all traffic on my Linux firewall from Microsoft systems (207.46.0.0/16) to the Windows XP box. This morning there was trapped traffic from Microsoft, after my wife was doing some work on the XP system the day before. I talked with my wife, and I could not determine what she could have done to cause the traffic to happen. Can anybody provide some insight?" Why can't Microsoft be up front about when it tries to phone home? Of course, phoning home isn't the big problem with most people, it's the fact that they try to be sneaky about it for certain tasks. With Microsoft pushing XP into the home, consumers should definitely be wary about storing private information on such systems until Microsoft provides some answers."Here is the logwatch summary:
Port 1053 is 'remote-as' and port 1054 is 'brvread'. I am guessing that the remote-as is related to the Remote Assistant feature in XP, but I've had no luck on finding any technical information about brvread via a Google search."Rejected packets from sa.windows.com (207.46.226.40). Port 1053 (tcp,eth0,output): 4 packet(s). Port 1054 (tcp,eth0,output): 4 packet(s). Total of 8 packet(s).
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Blow to Alpha
EugeneL writes that "Mitsubishi has stopped Alpha support. " However, it was noted that unlike Samsung Mitsubishi hasn't been totally critical to the Alpha movement. They had hoped that Alpha would become more of a mass market chip, and due to the Asian crisis, are cutting their losses by dropping the manufacturing and marketing of the chip. -
New Sun workstations
EugeneL sent us a link to a techweb article where you can read about Sun's New Workstations. Obviously I can't afford one, but I bet that Ultra 450 would make one amazing Gimp Workstation. -
ATT vs. Microsoft
Jeff sent us this InfoWorld Story where you can read that AT&T is suing Microsoft for not releasing their source code. Apparently they have a contract that entitles them to the code, and MS hasn't complied. This is getting crazy, I've lost count of how many major suits MS has against them.