Slashback: Sale, Secrecy, Lasers

More details below in tonight's Slashback on the sale of Corel's Linux division, the public posting of the encryption scheme some bright young Irish whippersnapper has come up with, fun details on those toys you can roll around with your computer, and winners of another contest.

That's a lot of Molsen. Bigger R writes contributes this link to a story in the Calgary Herald with more detail on the sale of Corel's Linux division which was mentioned in vague terms the other day. It's going to a company called Xandros, in exchange for cash and equity, so Corel will still have at least some interest in the continued success of Linux, or at least its distro. A snippet: "Xandros Corp. president Michael Bego, who started the Ottawa company recently in preparation for the deal announced Wednesday, is also a shareowner in Linux Global Partners, a privately held New York venture firm that put up $10 million US to start Xandros."

Small, cheap and fun are all good words. An Anonymous Coward writes "There's an announcement of the winners of the embedded linux journal's design contest over at linuxdevices.com. Cool projects -- voting system, digital audio workstation, solar racing vehicle, GizmoCopter Project, and Hacking BigMouth Billy Bass. Follow the urls for the projects which are given in the announcement to learn about each project. Oh, and the prize for winning each category? An all expense paid trip to Costa Rica. Dang, why didn't I enter?"

Stuff that's hard to read. John Sokol writes with an update on the Cayley-Purser Algorithm mentioned here before.

"This story went through some time back about a 16-year-old girl outdoing RSA, but it lacked any discussion of the actual algorithm. This link is her paper that she now has posted on the net. It seems reasonable. Maybe someone here can find a flaw in it?"

Roll 'em. Slide100 writes: "It seems that there is more to the desktop rover that was posted about on Tuesday.

The marketing manager sent me a PDF file that explains some more - apparently, they just don't have the time to update the website.

Each rover comes with a cable that plugs into the transmitter and software to allow control of the rover from your computer (or through TCP/IP).

Additionally, each rover has 'Laser Tag' as an integral part of the vehicle. 10 hits (including sound effects) and your rover is disabled 'till the next match See it here. BTW - I have nothing to do with the company, I just think its very cool."

Comments

I found the flaw!

[garcia]

since it makes absolutely no fucking sense what-so-ever it must be a lie! She is just tricking us into thinking it is real by using all that fancy mumbo-jumbo ;-)

well ...

[timothy]

a lot of people I think did not see this posting:
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/04/17/1915221.sh tm l (it was also mentioned in a slashback, when someone pointed out the several leap seconds that the unix timestamp does not account for).

There were also more than one posting about content protection on ATA drives. I'd point to one or more, if an airplane hadn't just struck the mountain which houses the /. search engine. Well, google helped me find this interview with Andre Hedrick: http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/01/10/1427235.sh tml

But if you don't like reading particular authors, you can turn them off in your preferences. If you don't like reading stories about particular topics, same thing. And if you don't like reading Slashdot, well ... :) what can I tell ya besides make your choice and enjoy the returns?

timothy

loser

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet that bitch gets no dick.