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I took a 5 minute gander over at opendesk.com and saw a few interesting features. It's open-source, so perhaps you could use it as a springboard for rolling your own.

Speaking of rolling your own ... (I see a number of people have already mentioned this route ... it's too bad there isn't a full-blown package out there to give some alternatives to IBM's Lotus ... but I digress) you could check out the resources at linuxdev.net. An application server, like Enhydra, combined with an LDAP server could fit the bill. There's plenty of other application servers out there; I work with ColdFusion on daily basis. Allaire (maker of ColdFusion) has released a CF server stub for linux and a full port is on its way.

Intranet wants/needs can differ greatly from company to company. Whatever solution you end up with, it'd be nice to have the flexibility to customize. *flex coding fingers*

I own the "Linux Device Drivers" by Alessandro Rubini. It is a good book for learning the (somewhat) confusing driver interface under Linux. However, I think a new revision of this book is needed to address things like:

• Operating within an SMP environment.
• Programming to the new APIs, such as:
• ISDN4Linux
• Video4Linux
• I2O
• Dare I say, USB
• Insert your favorite new API here.

Tuning your device drivers; specific hints for character drivers, block drivers, and net drivers.

A special section devoted to writing and maintaining a kernel version independant, mostly binary, device driver (for more closed companies). This could yield a wider base of companies that support Linux, as they don't want to, "give away the family jewels."

What we need is the definitive guide. A portable, referrable, assemblance of all Linux device driver knowledge to promote the growth and acceptance of Linux as an O/S in the buisness and even the hobbiest communities. Such a book would also raise the bar for performance within the average driver-- something which would help Linux win those benchmark tests. To support this argument, approach your favorite monolithic hardware manufacturer and ask him what tools they are using to support Linux into the future. If they answer with:

• "I don't know."
• "We have an older book to refer to."
• or, "A collection of websites."

If I could write, and could write good enough driver code, I would do it myself.

-AP

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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:

• Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
• increased mysql max_connections to to 250

( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )

Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.

( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )

Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.

( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )

Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.

( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )

Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "

( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )

Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.

( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )

Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )

Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.

( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )

FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.

( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )

Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.

( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )

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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:

• Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
• increased mysql max_connections to to 250

( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )

Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.

( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )

Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.

( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )

Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.

( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )

Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "

( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )

Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.

( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )

Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )

Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.

( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )

FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.

( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )

Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.

( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )

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ai

bsi

cnn

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superbad

mod_perl

everything

space ghost

oostendorp.net

Be News

Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed

YMF724 Driver Patch

Guidelines for Sane Advocacy

BeNews Is Moving - Outages Planned

Audio Buzz "Fixes" Announced

Austin BUG Meeting This Wednesday

Wacom Driver Goes Open Source

3dsound Secrets Revealed

ACE Bot, Devastation for Quake2

Be.com Frontpage Layout Updated Get more Be...

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any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish

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Quake3 Launcher

Site Movement

New Carmack Worklog

NMS v3.0

NOP v2.1 Released

etc.

Game Name Builder v1.32

John Carmack Updated His .plan

Voice Actors Needed

KOTS Mod Needs Servers

More Ass Kicking Quake Action...

Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast

Open Source At Work

LIVE From LinuxWorld

What's Wrong with HTTP and Why It Doesn't Matter

Inside the BeOS

A Brief History of Unix and the Internet

Author of sendmail on open-source and early days of email

Linus Torvalds on State of Linux

Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities

Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast

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Review: Bowfinger - 'Funniest Eddie Murphy movie in a decade. Steve Martin showed...'

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Feature: Robert Towne - From Chinatown to Hollywood. More from Hollywood Bitchslap

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Helen

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Pokey the Penguin

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Kevin & Kell

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The Fifth Wave

Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.

Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,

With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco

For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.

Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features

Mozilla.org

PerLDAP v1.4 Released

M9 Released

Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention

cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick

Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session

Getting Involved

Blackwood

Bugathon Needs JavaScripters

News From The Front

M8 On The Wire

Mozilla for BeOS

Mozilla is Alive and Well

BugAThon 300

New Newsgroup Announcements

M7 Binaries Released

Slashdot

Load Test the New Slashdot Setup

Microwave T1 Service

Internet Tax Moratorium Over?

Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?

Interview: Ask Alan Cox

3rd State of the Perl Onion

LinuxPPC challenge rides again

Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest

Star Office to become Open Source?

Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens

Linuxnewbie.org

Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed

Securing The Home Linux System: Updated

Glibc2 Slackware is here!

Segfault.org: South Park Story

TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...

Freak Tech

Molecular-based logic gates

10 Gbps optical though air.

Magnetic spacecraft propulsion

Linuxdev.net

Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr

Gizmo3D v0.92 Released

CORBA 3 News

More On XHTML 1.0

Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...

Wired Webmonkey

Webmonkey Guides

Cheap and Cool Photos

Hiring a Site Developer

Searching for Mr. Burrito

Introduction to Apache

Why Ask Why?

PHP/MySQL Tutorial

Wait for It More Webmonkey

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Wednesday August 18

Scientists create digital bug-life (131)

New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)

Cassini visits Earth (175)

Descent 3 Linux Client (71)

Tuesday August 17

Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)

SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)

Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)

Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)

Robots Battle to the Death! (124)

Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)

IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)

Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)

Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)

l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)

NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)

CIA releases its own X-Files (111)

Packet Storm Security is back (36)

Monday August 16

Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)

Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)

MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
Older Articles
Yesterday's Edition

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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:

• Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
• increased mysql max_connections to to 250

( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )

Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.

( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )

Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.

( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )

Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.

( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )

Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "

( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )

Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.

( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )

Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )

Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.

( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )

FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.

( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )

Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.

( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )

natelinx

ai

bsi

cnn

smug

garden

taco hell

superbad

mod_perl

everything

space ghost

oostendorp.net

Be News

Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed

YMF724 Driver Patch

Guidelines for Sane Advocacy

BeNews Is Moving - Outages Planned

Audio Buzz "Fixes" Announced

Austin BUG Meeting This Wednesday

Wacom Driver Goes Open Source

3dsound Secrets Revealed

ACE Bot, Devastation for Quake2

Be.com Frontpage Layout Updated Get more Be...

Alta Vista Search Alta Vista

any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish

Q3Arena.com

Quake3 Launcher

Site Movement

New Carmack Worklog

NMS v3.0

NOP v2.1 Released

etc.

Game Name Builder v1.32

John Carmack Updated His .plan

Voice Actors Needed

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Linus Torvalds on State of Linux

Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities

Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast

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Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.

Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,

With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco

For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.

Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features

Mozilla.org

PerLDAP v1.4 Released

M9 Released

Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention

cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick

Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session

Getting Involved

Blackwood

Bugathon Needs JavaScripters

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M8 On The Wire

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Mozilla is Alive and Well

BugAThon 300

New Newsgroup Announcements

M7 Binaries Released

Slashdot

Load Test the New Slashdot Setup

Microwave T1 Service

Internet Tax Moratorium Over?

Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?

Interview: Ask Alan Cox

3rd State of the Perl Onion

LinuxPPC challenge rides again

Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest

Star Office to become Open Source?

Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens

Linuxnewbie.org

Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed

Securing The Home Linux System: Updated

Glibc2 Slackware is here!

Segfault.org: South Park Story

TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...

Freak Tech

Molecular-based logic gates

10 Gbps optical though air.

Magnetic spacecraft propulsion

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Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr

Gizmo3D v0.92 Released

CORBA 3 News

More On XHTML 1.0

Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...

Wired Webmonkey

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New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)

Cassini visits Earth (175)

Descent 3 Linux Client (71)

Tuesday August 17

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SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)

Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)

Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)

Robots Battle to the Death! (124)

Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)

IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)

Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)

Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)

l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)

NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)

CIA releases its own X-Files (111)

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Monday August 16

Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)

Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)

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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:

• Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
• increased mysql max_connections to to 250

( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )

Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.

( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )

Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.

( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )

Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.

( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )

Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "

( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )

Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.

( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )

Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )

Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.

( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )

FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.

( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )

Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.

( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )

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Be News

Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed

YMF724 Driver Patch

Guidelines for Sane Advocacy

BeNews Is Moving - Outages Planned

Audio Buzz "Fixes" Announced

Austin BUG Meeting This Wednesday

Wacom Driver Goes Open Source

3dsound Secrets Revealed

ACE Bot, Devastation for Quake2

Be.com Frontpage Layout Updated Get more Be...

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New Carmack Worklog

NMS v3.0

NOP v2.1 Released

etc.

Game Name Builder v1.32

John Carmack Updated His .plan

Voice Actors Needed

KOTS Mod Needs Servers

More Ass Kicking Quake Action...

Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast

Open Source At Work

LIVE From LinuxWorld

What's Wrong with HTTP and Why It Doesn't Matter

Inside the BeOS

A Brief History of Unix and the Internet

Author of sendmail on open-source and early days of email

Linus Torvalds on State of Linux

Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities

Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast

Hollywood Bitchslap

Review: Bowfinger - 'Funniest Eddie Murphy movie in a decade. Steve Martin showed...'

Review: Mickey Blue-Eyes - 'Not as funny as it could have been'

Feature: Robert Towne - From Chinatown to Hollywood. More from Hollywood Bitchslap

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The Funnies (?)

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Red Meat

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Bastich

Punc & Mark

Helen

Goats

Pokey the Penguin

Superosity

Kevin & Kell

Doonesbury

The Fifth Wave

Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.

Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,

With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco

For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.

Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features

Mozilla.org

PerLDAP v1.4 Released

M9 Released

Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention

cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick

Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session

Getting Involved

Blackwood

Bugathon Needs JavaScripters

News From The Front

M8 On The Wire

Mozilla for BeOS

Mozilla is Alive and Well

BugAThon 300

New Newsgroup Announcements

M7 Binaries Released

Slashdot

Load Test the New Slashdot Setup

Microwave T1 Service

Internet Tax Moratorium Over?

Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?

Interview: Ask Alan Cox

3rd State of the Perl Onion

LinuxPPC challenge rides again

Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest

Star Office to become Open Source?

Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens

Linuxnewbie.org

Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed

Securing The Home Linux System: Updated

Glibc2 Slackware is here!

Segfault.org: South Park Story

TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...

Freak Tech

Molecular-based logic gates

10 Gbps optical though air.

Magnetic spacecraft propulsion

Linuxdev.net

Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr

Gizmo3D v0.92 Released

CORBA 3 News

More On XHTML 1.0

Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...

Wired Webmonkey

Webmonkey Guides

Cheap and Cool Photos

Hiring a Site Developer

Searching for Mr. Burrito

Introduction to Apache

Why Ask Why?

PHP/MySQL Tutorial

Wait for It More Webmonkey

Older Stuff

Wednesday August 18

Scientists create digital bug-life (131)

New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)

Cassini visits Earth (175)

Descent 3 Linux Client (71)

Tuesday August 17

Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)

SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)

Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)

Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)

Robots Battle to the Death! (124)

Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)

IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)

Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)

Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)

l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)

NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)

CIA releases its own X-Files (111)

Packet Storm Security is back (36)

Monday August 16

Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)

Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)

MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
Older Articles
Yesterday's Edition

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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:

• Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
• increased mysql max_connections to to 250

( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )

Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.

( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )

Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.

( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )

Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.

( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )

Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "

( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )

Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.

( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )

Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

( Read More... | 94 of 94 comments )

Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.

( Read More... | 205 of 205 comments )

FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.

( Read More... | 202 of 206 comments )

Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.

( Read More... | 192 of 192 comments )

natelinx

ai

bsi

cnn

smug

garden

taco hell

superbad

mod_perl

everything

space ghost

oostendorp.net

Be News

Unisys gif-lzw-license Model Changed

YMF724 Driver Patch

Guidelines for Sane Advocacy

BeNews Is Moving - Outages Planned

Audio Buzz "Fixes" Announced

Austin BUG Meeting This Wednesday

Wacom Driver Goes Open Source

3dsound Secrets Revealed

ACE Bot, Devastation for Quake2

Be.com Frontpage Layout Updated Get more Be...

Alta Vista Search Alta Vista

any language Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish

Q3Arena.com

Quake3 Launcher

Site Movement

New Carmack Worklog

NMS v3.0

NOP v2.1 Released

etc.

Game Name Builder v1.32

John Carmack Updated His .plan

Voice Actors Needed

KOTS Mod Needs Servers

More Ass Kicking Quake Action...

Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast

Open Source At Work

LIVE From LinuxWorld

What's Wrong with HTTP and Why It Doesn't Matter

Inside the BeOS

A Brief History of Unix and the Internet

Author of sendmail on open-source and early days of email

Linus Torvalds on State of Linux

Creator of Tcl/Tk: Open-Source Creates Commercial Opportunities

Inside the Netscape Gecko Open Source Browser Team More TechNetCast

Hollywood Bitchslap

Review: Bowfinger - 'Funniest Eddie Murphy movie in a decade. Steve Martin showed...'

Review: Mickey Blue-Eyes - 'Not as funny as it could have been'

Feature: Robert Towne - From Chinatown to Hollywood. More from Hollywood Bitchslap

Slashdot Poll Preferred Compression
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Comments:383 | Votes:24104

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The Funnies (?)

User Friendly

Red Meat

Dilbert

Sluggy Freelance

Bastich

Punc & Mark

Helen

Goats

Pokey the Penguin

Superosity

Kevin & Kell

Doonesbury

The Fifth Wave

Features The latest installment of Geeks in Space is up at The Sync. We talk about the Red Hat IPO, crazy naming schemes, and much more.

Perhaps you are seeking Jon Katz's series of articles related to recent events in Colorado. These articles include Voices from the Hellmouth, More Stories from the Hellmouth or The Price of Being Different,

With all the hype about the recent MindCraft Linux/NT benchmarks, you might be interested in reading ESR's Response to the Mindcraft Fiasco

For something different, try reading my little essay Thoughts from the Furnace about the internet, and flame.

Update: 05/03 01:48 by CT : Past Features

Mozilla.org

PerLDAP v1.4 Released

M9 Released

Mozilla BOF at O'Reilly OSS Convention

cvs-mirror.mozilla.org Is (no longer) Sick

Mozilla Birds-Of-A-Feather Session

Getting Involved

Blackwood

Bugathon Needs JavaScripters

News From The Front

M8 On The Wire

Mozilla for BeOS

Mozilla is Alive and Well

BugAThon 300

New Newsgroup Announcements

M7 Binaries Released

Slashdot

Load Test the New Slashdot Setup

Microwave T1 Service

Internet Tax Moratorium Over?

Feature: Is Open Source for Windows Less Important?

Interview: Ask Alan Cox

3rd State of the Perl Onion

LinuxPPC challenge rides again

Review: The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest

Star Office to become Open Source?

Palm Gameboy Emulator update & screens

Linuxnewbie.org

Your Hotmail Account Has Been Exposed

Securing The Home Linux System: Updated

Glibc2 Slackware is here!

Segfault.org: South Park Story

TWO New Slackware Mailing Lists More LinuxNewbie.org...

Freak Tech

Molecular-based logic gates

10 Gbps optical though air.

Magnetic spacecraft propulsion

Linuxdev.net

Interview with Borland Sr. Product Mgr

Gizmo3D v0.92 Released

CORBA 3 News

More On XHTML 1.0

Oracle Offer Linux Technology Track More LDN...

Wired Webmonkey

Webmonkey Guides

Cheap and Cool Photos

Hiring a Site Developer

Searching for Mr. Burrito

Introduction to Apache

Why Ask Why?

PHP/MySQL Tutorial

Wait for It More Webmonkey

Older Stuff

Wednesday August 18

Scientists create digital bug-life (131)

New Space Propulsion System Uses Sun's Magnetic Field (120)

Cassini visits Earth (175)

Descent 3 Linux Client (71)

Tuesday August 17

Playstation 2 Outperforms Everything? (240)

SIGGRAPH '99 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes (37)

Dell Belgium forced to install Windows only? (75)

Relativity Used to Devise New Form of Crypt (24)

Robots Battle to the Death! (124)

Will PPC Become the Preferred Linux Platform? (277)

IBMs 15 hour Laptop Batteries (72)

Feature: After the Red Hat IPO Ball is Over (236)

Feature:Obscurity as Security (194)

l0pht develops Sniffer Sniffer (101)

NASA collecting anti-matter with giant ballon (109)

CIA releases its own X-Files (111)

Packet Storm Security is back (36)

Monday August 16

Sun Claims MS Steals Vision (162)

Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking (163)

MS Dirty Pool Against AOL? (204)
Older Articles
Yesterday's Edition

Weather24.com
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Slashdot Load Testing (Continues) Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 02:13 PM EDT
from the ain't-this-fun? dept.
Fixed so far:

• Dropped http MaxClients down to 75
• increased mysql max_connections to to 250

( Read More... | 190 of 190 comments )

Help Test Our New Server! Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon August 30, 12:51 PM EDT
from the load-testing-is-cool dept.
So here it is: A mirror of Slashdot (as of a week or so ago). It exists now for testing: So feel free to post comments and help test the new load balancer. For the curious, the new system has 3 http machines (P2s) and one mysql box (a dual P2) with a load balancer trying to keep everyone all equally busy. And its about time: the old setup has been really stressed out trying to keep up with everyone. Anyway, don't get to attached to any of your comments here, when we're satisfied that the new setup is stable, I'm gonna mirror over Slashdot and make the final switcheroo.

( Read More... | 335 of 335 comments )

Interview: Mandrake Answers Posted by Roblimo on Fri August 20, 12:00 PM EDT
from the x-leads-to-enlightenment dept.
Monday a whole bunch of people had questions for Mandrake, one of the heavies behind Enlightenment. Slashdot Moderators picked the best ones. We forwarded them, unedited, to Mandrake on Tuesday. His (excellent) answers appear below.

( Read More... | 11562 bytes in body | 9 of 9 comments )

Geeks in the Space: The Attack of 5 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 04:10 AM EDT
from the more-stuff-to-listen-to dept.
Well, we've done it again. Yes, Geeks in Space, Episode 5 has been released. In it, we lament the lack of good news, talk about anti-matter, and the hiring of hacks by companies. You can also become...educated in my long-term plan for the hostile takeover of a certain Redmond-based company.

( Read More... | 14 of 17 comments )

Apple announces Darwin 0.3 Posted by Hemos on Thu August 19, 12:24 AM EDT
from the more-to-download dept.
J. FoxGlov writes "Macintouch reports that v0.3 of Darwin, the open-source foundation for Mac OS X Server is available on Apple's Public Source site. Apple Developer Connection members can get it on CD for $29. Check Public Source for more about the Darwin SDK and the new Darwin. "

( Read More... | 67 of 68 comments )

Microsoft's New Audio Format Cracked Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:23 PM EDT
from the secure-this-buddy dept.
Barcode (JPB) was one of the first to send us the word from Wired that the new audio format Microsoft introduced (Two days ago), supposed to be a secure format (resricting playback) has already been cracked. Dimension Music first carried the news-and what a name the crack has *grin*.

( Read More... | 238 of 240 comments )

Find your Star Wars Twin Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 05:16 PM EDT
from the what-freud-really-wanted-to-do dept.
The_Monk writes "Ever wanted to know your Star Wars twin? Now this incredibly important information can be verified. It placed me the likes of Astro Mech Droids, 'Tarkin, and R2-D2. " Ahem-as the lost twin of Lando (extraversion), I have a Cloud City I'd like to sell someone. But I'm about as agreeable as Boba, always a bonus.

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Now Police Can 'See' Through Walls Posted by Roblimo on Wed August 18, 12:40 PM EDT
from the move-along-there's-nothing-to-see-here dept.
Bram writes "Just found an article about another way to invade privacy." He's talking about hand-held radar systems police can use to detect breathing, beating hearts or other motion through walls and other obstacles. Sounds like a declassified version of the Ground Support Radar [GSR] units we used years ago in the Army. I can see why police would want them, and I can also see why Bram considers them a privacy threat. Depends on how they're used, I suppose.

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FreeType posts patent warning Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 11:53 AM EDT
from the i-want-my-verdonna dept.
Anonymous Coward writes "According to the the FreeType web page, there have been some new concerns raised about Apple's patents on TrueType. I hope this doesn't affect the planned TrueType support in XF86 4. " It appears that they are still checking into the issue, but I'd really like TrueType support. A lot. Let's hope Apple responds nicely.

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Microsoft to "publish code" to Instant Messenger Posted by Hemos on Wed August 18, 09:49 AM EDT
from the want-more-market-share dept.
VFVTHUNTER writes "According to this article at cnet, MS, in an attempt to gain a share of AOL's Instant Messenger Service Market, announced today it is going to publish the protocol to its own messenger service. " It's important to note it's NOT the source code, just the protocol.

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