Slashback: Galeon, Forgent, Platformation

Slashback's blizzard of updates, corrections and amplifications includes some more information about Win2K and HIPAA, another notch on the Browser Progress Chart, Dreamcast ethernet jacks, the Hoopla'd Red Hat Menace and more. Read on.

Who said what now? bratgrrl writes "eWeek's "Red Hat: Next Redmond?"article was quietly and without comment altered- they deleted the crucial "Red Hat backlash" quote from the original article. No retraction, no explanation, just an Orwellian revision. Thank goodness for Google, which cached the original article.

I suspect the original quote never happened."

Because not everyone needs Chatzilla. Mozilla gets a lot of attention around here -- after all, it is the giant lizard of the open source browser world. But to the question "What about Galeon?", Nachtjäger writes: "The answer: LOTS is happening to Galeon. Given the length of time since the last release, we decided to write up an update on how things are going on Galeon2. Check it out here"

I hope certain aspects of Galeon (tab-name shortening and color coding, for two) are soon rolled back into Mozilla.

OK, now you can have it. Esekla writes "Slashdot did an article about the announcement of Kylix 3 (the first Kylix to support C++ code), but at the time it was not actually available for download. Now both Open and Enterprise Trial editions finally can be downloaded."

Now you can assemble your yard-sale cluster. Speaking of things now really available, BJH writes: "The site featured in last week's Dreamcast BBA story is now accepting orders! The good news is, they're only $US80 each. The bad news is, they're not accepting orders from outside Japan ;) (If there's enough interest, perhaps someone could be convinced to do a bulk buy and ship to people overseas...)"

Anyone who offers something interesting enough in trade can have my Dreamcast for mucking about ;)

When you trace things back far enough ... Dennis writes: "Although Chris has a valid point about the catch 22 between Win2K, SP3 and HIPAA, his example is not accurate because medical records that are related to students are protected by FERPA regulations and not by HIPAA. Here's a reference link with more info."

The fat ladies are still warming up. john82 writes "With all the hoopla still swirling about MP3s, there is fresh information in the JPEG saga. Dateline Berlin: Algovision-Luratech GmbH says that Forgent's patent claim (4,698,672) is all wet. Technical experts have laid out the technical and legal arguments against the claim. And they intend to air the dirty laundry at a meeting Sept 4. The announcement by Forgent earlier this year caused quite a stir here. Wonder if Sony can get their money back?"

Of especial interest to iBook owners. Earlier this month, Slashdot posted the news that rather than wiping your Mac's OS to put on a GNU/Linux system, you could order Yellow Dog Linux preinstalled on Apple hardware. Ray Sanders of Qli Tech Linux Computers writes: "We also are selling Apple Systems with Linux installed, however, Terrasoft is only installing Yellow Dog Linux, we offer Gentoo PPC, Debian PPC, Mandrake PPC, and SuSE PPC. We also have full working sound and video on the iBook and Powerbook with XFree86, whereas YDL Does not yet support the mobile Radeon chipset found on those two units."

Competition is good.

Comments

This comment posted in Mozilla 1.1

[Anonymous Coward]

While listening to Ogg files in FreeAmp. How Open Source are you?

eWeek Red Hat Article

[Winnipenguin]

When it first appeared, that article was lacking some blood flow to the vascular muscle in the spongy area. Now it appears to be positively freeze dried.

Linux On Power Book G4?

[Bloodmoon1]

Is it possible to put Linux on a PowerBook G4 and still be able to boot into OS X/9.2? I have said lovely computer and have been looking into possibly putting Linux (Any Flava better than the rest?) on it, but I'm not sure of the best way to do this. Plus I still need OS X/9.2, so I would need to get back to them. Any helpful advice?

Definition of "flava"

[yerricde]

Wait, what's flava mean?

flavor (flay' v@r), flava (flay' v@), n.

1. Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See Synonyms at taste.
2. A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: "What matters in literature... is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering" (Harold Bloom).
3. A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.
4. Archaic. Aroma; fragrance.

(Source: American Heritage Dictionary)

When spelled flava, the word most often refers to definition 2, especially in a sense of "look and feel".

(-1, Offtopic) /dev/null

[grumpygrodyguy]

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the RIAA website is now new and improved?

Been getting phonecalls from the RIAA lawyers Rob? Why is this on the front page of Yahoo News, but not on Slashdot?

Re:(-1, Offtopic) /dev/null

[grumpygrodyguy]

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the RIAA website [yahoo.com] is now new and improved?

So umm, once again, why is this being ignored?

RIAA web site hax0red

[AntiNorm]

I'm surprised this never made it onto Slashdot. It happened a day or two ago, and whoever did it was even nice enough to post some Linkin Park MP3s (oh, the irony...MP3s on the RIAA's own web site). Mirror here. Fark thread here.

News that matters... To Sombody.

[Mulletproof]

2002-08-29 21:36:13 RIAA Website Hacked, Content Altered (articles,news) (rejected)
Drawing yet more fire from file sharing enthusiest, the RIAA website was once again the target of rogue seperatist elements determined to deliver a message to the organization. Unlike the last DoS attack, this one seems to be limited to altering the website's content. Somehow, I just can't bring myself to pity them.

But why would we post this when we can post A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena??? That's 12 of 12. Tards.