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iamblades writes: "Edward Felten is scheduled to present his research papers on SDMI on Wednesday at the annual USENIX security conference. Apparently the RIAA backed off their harrassment, which makes sense, as SDMI is almost completely dead already." And a Semi-Anonymous Coward writes: "Despite the RIAA's attempts to silence the Princeton Professor and his students, USENIX will broadcast the SDMI Crack Live via the web. The broadcast will be available for the world here along with a discussion concerning your Freedom."

bhendrickson writes: "Berkeley law professor Lawrence Lessig delivered the most cogent speech I have heard defending the freedoms created by technology and threatened by expanding intellectual property laws. While Lessig's conclusions about napster, packet switching, and antitrust are far from revolutionary for Slashdot, his legal and historical perspective I found compelling. The Mp3 is available directly or as a stream both provided by technetcast ." Great thing to stream while you're at work.

lamefrog writes: "Bjarne Stroustrup and other members of the C++ community recently met to discuss new work on the language for the first time post-ISO standard (C++0x) in an effort to keep the language moving, avoid fossilization and avoid being overtaken by proprietary extensions. Suggested new features center around the standard library and include support for multi-threading and simple platform-independent systems abstractions (handles, TCP/IP, memory maps etc...)" (Read more.)

"Most intriguing is a suggestion to include extended type information that will eliminate the need for IDLs and make it possible to generate standard bindings to external systems (COM, CORBA, SQL). Clearly Bjarne wants to position this as a platform-neutral, vendor-neutral, standardized alternative to the proprietary, vendor-supported languages that have emerged over the recent years. Audio MP3 and slides available on Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast." Thoughtfully, it's available to download as well (not just streaming), and accompanied by a transcript. Good listening.

Yet another anonymous reader sends the following: "Dr. Dobb's Technetcast is carrying an informative presentation about the Echelon intelligence gathering system by Duncan Campbell an investigative reporter who wrote one of the first reports about the system in 1988."

pq writes "Donald Knuth talks about "God and Computers" as part of the MIT AI lab's 1999 lecture series - a live webcast is available from here, and archived transcripts will also appear there. " Looks like three are finished already, with more coming over the next few weeks. Knuth is always worth listening to.

lamefrog writes "As mentioned earlier on slashdot, Don Becker and Guido van Rossum were awarded the 1999 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award. At the awards ceremony in SF last week Don received the prize from the hands of Linus Torvalds. You can watch it all on Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast in RealVideo. Also, in case you missed it, some members of mozilla were featured on another recent program. "

lamefrog writes "As mentioned earlier on slashdot, Don Becker and Guido van Rossum were awarded the 1999 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award. At the awards ceremony in SF last week Don received the prize from the hands of Linus Torvalds. You can watch it all on Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast in RealVideo. Also, in case you missed it, some members of mozilla were featured on another recent program. "

lamefrog writes "As mentioned earlier on slashdot, Don Becker and Guido van Rossum were awarded the 1999 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award. At the awards ceremony in SF last week Don received the prize from the hands of Linus Torvalds. You can watch it all on Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast in RealVideo. Also, in case you missed it, some members of mozilla were featured on another recent program. "

The Economic Times have an in-depth look at Linux, first throughout the world, and then in India. The articles are full of interesting tidbits, for instance that the largest UK ISP runs Linux, or that Suse is 40% of the German market. One less certain fact is their statement that Intel will help port Linux to Merced. IsdMag is covering Linux from the EDA perspective. This is their third article on the subject. Some of the surveyed engineers go so far as to state they'll quit if put in front of an NT box. With that kind of resistance, lots of little fabless companies seem likely to me to back down.

Technetcast reveals the truth behind the Beowulf coverup at NASA. Over at News Observer you can find out what Robert Young and Marc Ewing of Redhat fame look like in red hats. And Betamag shows that Linux reverses obsolescence. After so much positive press, there is however one rotten apple.

These links were first reported by Linux Reviews and Articles, and Linux Resources.

The Economic Times have an in-depth look at Linux, first throughout the world, and then in India. The articles are full of interesting tidbits, for instance that the largest UK ISP runs Linux, or that Suse is 40% of the German market. One less certain fact is their statement that Intel will help port Linux to Merced. IsdMag is covering Linux from the EDA perspective. This is their third article on the subject. Some of the surveyed engineers go so far as to state they'll quit if put in front of an NT box. With that kind of resistance, lots of little fabless companies seem likely to me to back down.

Technetcast reveals the truth behind the Beowulf coverup at NASA. Over at News Observer you can find out what Robert Young and Marc Ewing of Redhat fame look like in red hats. And Betamag shows that Linux reverses obsolescence. After so much positive press, there is however one rotten apple.

These links were first reported by Linux Reviews and Articles, and Linux Resources.

Troy Baer writes "There's a news article on Dr. Dobbs Tech NetCast that sheds new light on the Beowulf debacle. It's at This article seems to be unique of all the ones I've seen in that the author appears to have interviewed Don Becker about it. As many on Slashdot have feared, it looks like the export restrictions on supercomputers may be to blame for the Beowulf software being taken down. ". They linked us back... through TCWWW^TM