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lsy writes "A group of University of Rochester students staged a protest during the university's Sesquicentennial weekend on the occasion of Jack Valenti's appearance to moderate a panel of Hollywood insiders. The students handed out pamphlets, wore DeCSS t-shirts donated by Copyleft, and demonstrated a DVD being played under linux. After the event, the group had a chance to speak with Valenti for over an hour. They've received some press from the Hollywood Insider [yahoo version], and the group's web site claims that it will have photographs online of the students with Valenti "soon"."

lsy writes "A group of University of Rochester students staged a protest during the university's Sesquicentennial weekend on the occasion of Jack Valenti's appearance to moderate a panel of Hollywood insiders. The students handed out pamphlets, wore DeCSS t-shirts donated by Copyleft, and demonstrated a DVD being played under linux. After the event, the group had a chance to speak with Valenti for over an hour. They've received some press from the Hollywood Insider [yahoo version], and the group's web site claims that it will have photographs online of the students with Valenti "soon"."

grape jelly asks: "One of my jobs this summer is to help out the chemistry (eek) department figure out how to best introduce and use the newsgroups with the intro courses. A little work has been done by a couple professors here, however, it mostly has been unsuccessful. After surfing the 'Net looking for what people have already done, I have come to the conclusion that most professors either don't use a course newsgroup or haven't really published any of their results. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to what we could do to solve some of our problems? (Primarily motivating the students to learn to use the course newsgroup, then making sure they use it throughout the semester) Any specific experience from students (or professors, especially) would be very desirable." (Read on...)

While a nice idea, I think educators would be better off using web-based discussion boards for their classes. Discussions can be presented without the limitations of plain text(HTML is useful for something you know), and everyone can use a browser, whereas this isn't necessarily true for newsreaders. However, if educators have a working communications system between themselves and their students and they are using newsgroups to do it, then more power to 'em!

The B1FFMaN sent this article in - I'm not sure how to title it. It's /not/ about your computer controlling your brain or anything. What it is about is some interesting research that has gone on into detection of brain activity, and interpretation of that. So, that could mean sitting in front of your machine and thinking what you wanted to type, or open, or whatever - it could also mean that people stricken with certain types of paralysis could use computers more easily.

Sarah writes "It seems that the National Weather Service has a brand-new computer which will allow them to predict the weather earlier and more accurately. If I were a kid, I could now plan my snow days in advance..." Yeah, but the teachers would give you enough homework to last you through the day.

Nugget94M writes "distributed.net has finally gotten in touch with the winner of the CSC project. His name is Paul Ilardi, and he's a first-year grad student at the University of Rochester, Computer Science Department. After digging through his proxy logs, he's been able to track the winning block down to a Sparc Ultra 1, and has snapped a picture of the machine that found the winning key."

Nugget94M writes "distributed.net has finally gotten in touch with the winner of the CSC project. His name is Paul Ilardi, and he's a first-year grad student at the University of Rochester, Computer Science Department. After digging through his proxy logs, he's been able to track the winning block down to a Sparc Ultra 1, and has snapped a picture of the machine that found the winning key."

Dave-O asks: "I have a SCSI-II ISA card made by PELogic (model 1600) that I don't think is directly supported by the kernel. However, I was lead to believe (or lead myself to believe) that I could use it as a generic scsi interface (sg.o) for my scanner. So far, no luck. I need to pass the scsi cards i/o & irq to the kernel i'm sure, but I don't know how. I know how to do it for an ISA card I have a specific driver for, but what driver do I pass arguments to specifically for generic SCSI? I appreciate any help anyone can offer." Actually, I always thought generic SCSI depended on the existance of a working driver under Linux, so I don't think this would work, but if I'm wrong, please tell me!

This is a sorta different thing for me to post, but bear with me. Curtis Wilcox sent us a note saying that "">Macintouch would like to hear from anyone successfully running Linux within Connectix's VirtualPC 2.0. Email them at notes@macintouch.com " If anyone has pulled it off, they definately should let them know. And if anyone has a lazy evening, maybe they should try to pull it off... Update Thanks to the 50 of you who warned me about the (now fixed) typo that was once above, all naked and exposed to the whole world *grin*.

Continuing the wm/twm/tvwm/fvwm line yet another revision of AfterStep has rolled out. The web site has finally updated to reflect the new release with change logs and the like. The attention goes to WindowMaker and E around here, but AS is a great WM if you don't want to mess with those rough edges on the new kids. Thanks to Ender for sending this my way.