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krmpradeep writes "GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to."

richdun writes "Here is a study done by an independent research firm which claims that under certain circumstances, it is cheaper to develop applications and enterprise solutions for Windows than for Linux. They cite costs from more education, time developing, etc. Of course, the story is quick to state that the whole study was funded and commissioned by our favorite Redmond, WA based software giant. "

Shadowhawk writes "According to this story on ZDNN, AOL filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that defamation lawsuits against anonymous posters to the Internet are 'an illegitimate use of the courts to silence and retaliate against speakers whose statements, while unpleasant from the standpoint of the [plaintiff], were not unlawful.'" AOL's web page about the case has the brief they filed. AOL is making an important argument about abuses of the legal system to identify ISP subscribers.

We've all heard of "garbage collection" in reference to cleaning up after yourself after a memory allocation. Two graduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology are proposing a new method of garbage collection and memory allocation called DMM. What they are trying to do is "map basic software algorithms such as malloc(), free(), and realloc() into hardware." Sounds as if it has some promise, but can it ever be as flexible as some of the memory managers used today?

We've all heard of "garbage collection" in reference to cleaning up after yourself after a memory allocation. Two graduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology are proposing a new method of garbage collection and memory allocation called DMM. What they are trying to do is "map basic software algorithms such as malloc(), free(), and realloc() into hardware." Sounds as if it has some promise, but can it ever be as flexible as some of the memory managers used today?

gjt writes "Finally. The death of of the ISA slot is near. Red Herring is running a story on the Legacy Free PC. Plug all of your mice, keyboards, joysticks, modems, etc. into the Universal Serial Bus. Compaq is releasing a computer called the Vista which will do just that. Yes, Apple did that over a year ago with the iMac and PCI based G3 and G4. Of course, if you're like me, you'd want to build your own box. Asus makes legacy free "PC 99" compliant motherboards. I wonder if this means more IRQ numbers. And what's the state of USB and Firewire support in Linux?" Suddenly USB is everywhere. Will it take hold? A lot of PC manufacturers sure seem to think so.

Ken Litko wrote in to send us an article that appears over at Daemon News that compares the GPL ^[?] with the BSD ^[?] license. It tries to cover some of the differences and shed light on the different intents of the two. Some criticism of the GPL, and a good article.

Patrick Wagstrom writes "As an extension of the article the other day on what your email address says about you, I decided to create a web page where people could vote on what email they thought ruled (ie slashdot.org) or sucked (ie aol.com). You can check it out at here. The article was good, but I would like to see what other people think about email addresses. " Pretty clever. Everyone go submit some addresses and then let's get Patrick to post charts and graphs of the results (hehe).