According to BT, my boss can't get broadband. All of his neighbours can get it, both to the right and left. They're all on the same exchange as he is. But BT, bless 'em, say that he's too far from the exchange.
He's had 1MB broadband for a few months now, but BT in their infinite wisdom, deny this completely. This is how much they suck.
Here's an idea... Read the fucking article, cocksmoke!
As the guy above you put it so well - Creative Archive = (Creative Commons) - (Derivate Works) + (UK Only) + (No Endorsement).
It's not the same as creative commons, and doesn't need to be put under the commons license.
From my exp FP ext's are the bane of most linux based hosting companys and cause a majority of the support load.
From my experience, FP Extensions are the bane of quite a few Microsoft based hosting companies too.
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" - Microsoft
The headlines are here again for your viewing pleasure. I can only hope you fucking choke to death sometime soon.
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN:)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?:)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN:)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?:)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN:)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?:)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN:)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?:)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30 from the graphical-user-interface dept. Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27 from the oh-dear-me dept. defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39 from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept. ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47 from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept. Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10 from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept. Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01 from the other-kind-of-free-software dept. mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47 from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept. An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN:)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30 from the sorely-needed dept. Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone? Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14 from the not-talking-about-msn dept. texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee? Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03 from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept. The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04 from the speed-kills dept. itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?:)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57 from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept. Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41 from the community-chest dept. Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58 from the little-engine-that-could dept. An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52 from the with-my-little-eye dept. opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56 from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept. thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
"how many fucking bytes do the words "FIRST POST" take up in your fucking precious database."
As far as I'm aware, none. At least not after a few weeks. Once the thread goes into archive mode (or whatever the tubby fucker calls it), anything below a score 1 gets deleted.
It's just censorship, plain and simple. Taco is a maggot-infested cunt, and he knows it. The only way for him to make himself feel better is by taking it out on the people he *thinks* he's smarter than.
I bet that you couldnt do better if you had to write a page in a foreign language. Because English is not a prerequisite for employment, a sizeable proportion of todays community are not fluent in English and many residents still converse in their native tongue. Link - http://www.christmas.net.au/culture.htm Go and read about Christmas Island. There's your English lesson for today.
I've probably missed something out, but that was just a quick sweep over your text. You *really* need to have more English lessons. If you can't afford English lessons, try using babelfish - it can construct better sentences than you have done so far.
We could make her the first manned mission to mars. Just give her a suit of armour, stick her in a gauss gun and point her at mars.
A big advantage of this would be that she wouldn't need radio equipment. I know sound can't travel through space, but I'm sure her voice is an exception.
I don't think the eds will say "but they weren't unique hits" though. If the advertisers ask about it, the reply will be "yeah, okay they weren't unique, but it's still getting an advert out. The user saw your advert and that's all that counts."
Slashdot Mirror
FUCK yeah!
Mod parent up! It's not flamebait, honest. My friend Keith shat in a hooker's mouth for only a tenner.
According to BT, my boss can't get broadband. All of his neighbours can get it, both to the right and left. They're all on the same exchange as he is. But BT, bless 'em, say that he's too far from the exchange. He's had 1MB broadband for a few months now, but BT in their infinite wisdom, deny this completely. This is how much they suck.
Here's an idea... Read the fucking article, cocksmoke! As the guy above you put it so well - Creative Archive = (Creative Commons) - (Derivate Works) + (UK Only) + (No Endorsement). It's not the same as creative commons, and doesn't need to be put under the commons license.
Are you paraphrasing the great Mike Patton there, my good man? I'll have to check out Trollaxor.com. Probably from home, rather than work.
And I traded my slashdot subscription for your mum. Everyone's a winner! :D
Happy April Fools day. I love you, sugartits.
I still want a petrified natalie portman to put hot grits down my pants.
From my exp FP ext's are the bane of most linux based hosting companys and cause a majority of the support load. From my experience, FP Extensions are the bane of quite a few Microsoft based hosting companies too. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" - Microsoft
Put my balls back in your mouth, bitch. Now gently suck and hum at the same time. Thanks.
Sounds like the kettle calling the pot black if you ask me...
Nobody fucking asked you. Stay out of it, shitbeetle.
Lunix is the rox0r and Microsoft is the sux0r. Don't stick up for microsoft of this site or you'll be killed.
I'm still here.
Thanks.
The headlines are here again for your viewing pleasure. I can only hope you fucking choke to death sometime soon. RPM Dependency Graph Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30 from the graphical-user-interface dept. Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat." ( Read More... | 61 comments ) R2D2 Beer Getting Machine Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27 from the oh-dear-me dept. defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl." ( Read More... | 126 comments ) Voices in Your Head Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39 from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept. ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it. ( Read More... | 235 comments ) More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47 from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept. Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore." ( Read More... | 117 comments ) Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10 from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept. Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation." ( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers ) Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01 from the other-kind-of-free-software dept. mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here." ( Read More... | 354 comments ) AGP4X vs. AGP8X Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47 from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept. An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN :)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now? :)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN :)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now? :)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN :)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now? :)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN :)
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now? :)"
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Here are the headlines once again.
:)
:)"
RPM Dependency Graph
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @07:30
from the graphical-user-interface dept.
Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."
( Read More... | 61 comments )
R2D2 Beer Getting Machine
Posted by Hemos on Monday July 29, @04:27
from the oh-dear-me dept.
defectorg writes "R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming to us this summer. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a 12-ounce beverage! Now this would be a nice thing to hack wireless lan iinto, let it notify new mail, read news and most important, ~/bin/let_r2d2_get_a_cold_beer_somehow.pl."
( Read More... | 126 comments )
Voices in Your Head
Posted by michael on Monday July 29, @01:39
from the buy-lnux-buy-lnux-buy-lnux dept.
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Newsweek is running a story about a 'Hypersonic Sound System' that can 'can take an audio signal from virtually any source and convert it to an ultrasonic frequency that can be directed like a beam of light toward a target up to 100 yards away.' Sounds like something that advertisers will love - Minority Report just got a little closer." These guys (and the Audio Spotlight guys) have been hyping this technology for years with nothing much to show from it. But now, Newsweek promises, it's going to change the world as we hear it.
( Read More... | 235 comments )
More on Bernstein's Number Field Sieve
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @23:47
from the winnow-him-out-'twixt-star-and-star dept.
Russ Nelson writes "Dan Bernstein has a response to Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir, entitled Circuits for integer factorization. He notes that the issue of the cost of factorization is still open, and that it may in fact be inexpensive to factor 1024-bit keys. We don't know, and that's what his research is intended to explore."
( Read More... | 117 comments )
Developers: Valgrind 1.0.0 Released
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @22:10
from the effortless-only-a-figure-of-speech dept.
Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."
( Read More... | 236 comments | Developers )
Malaysia Says Piracy (Might Be) OK for Learning
Posted by chrisd on Sunday July 28, @21:01
from the other-kind-of-free-software dept.
mkbz writes "a Malaysian newspaper published a story quoting Malaysia's Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, who condemned the use of pirated software for business, but also said they may turn a blind eye to piracy when it comes to education: "But for educational purposes and to encourage computer usage, we may consider allowing schools and social organisations to use pirated software." is learning more important than copyright enforcement? could each of the pirated works found in schools be written off as donations? how can this benefit both the people AND the software makers? Read the full article here."
( Read More... | 354 comments )
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @19:47
from the i'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "With upcoming chipsets such as the SiS648 claiming support for the latest AGP8X standard, we asked ourselves if there were any performance benefits. We took the SiS648 and Xabre 400 reference boards, modified them and compared the results." I can't even get 4x stable under XP, so I figure 8x is half as likely to let me play NWN
( Read More... | 150 comments )
Internet Security Standards
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @18:30
from the sorely-needed dept.
Aetius writes "The Center for Internet Security has released a set of security standards and tools for several operating systems. Here's the ZDNet story. I checked out the Linux standard and it is a pretty good coverage of the basics; about the only thing missing was a simple firewall treatment. I installed it on my wide-open desktop system (RH 7.3) and scored a 6.61 out of 10, which doesn't seem too bad. The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it. You have to register to download it. If nothing else, the PDF of the standards is a good read. Enjoy."
( Read More... | 115 comments )
Science: Gaming Zone?
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @17:14
from the not-talking-about-msn dept.
texchanchan writes "The BBC reports on a study by Dr. Costas Karageorghis, Brunel University (London): 'Recent research has suggested that it could be possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of meditative concentration' usually found in religious contemplatives and athletes in 'The Zone.' The article also quotes Dr. Karageorghis as saying 'It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents people's peak experiences in a particular area.'"
( Read More... | 178 comments | Science )
Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 28, @16:03
from the who-wouldn't-dig-that-job dept.
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.
( Read More... | 222 comments )
USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @15:04
from the speed-kills dept.
itwerx writes "There's an article on MSNBC about USB 2.0 support in Linux. Interesting to see that the open source community is less than a year behind the most powerful software company in the world in supporting it. Does that make us the second most powerful now?
( Read More... | 239 comments )
Science: Humanoid Robot for Spacewalks
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @13:57
from the send-a-robot-to-do-the-dirty-work dept.
Nils writes "Here is the web page of a research project at NASA JSC's Dexterous Robots Lab (DRL) to develop a humanoid robot for use in space. It is state-of-the-art with incredible hands, arms, torso, and stereoscopic vision for remote control. Very cool." We had a story on the Robonaut two years ago, but it looks like they've come a long way since then.
( Read More... | 80 comments | Science )
On the Future of Linux Weekly News
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @12:41
from the community-chest dept.
Trevelyan writes "This article on LWN shows they are not alone, it seems that since they announced they will finish 1 August, loads of people have been emailing their support, and donating money, $12,000 as of this writing."
( Read More... | 121 comments )
Cube: A Modern 3D Game Engine
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @10:58
from the little-engine-that-could dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new 3d game engine being developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen (aka Aardappel) that utilizes SDL and OpenGL. It is pretty full-featured already, and is heavily influenced by Quake3." Same guy who did panoramic Quake.
( Read More... | 156 comments )
Spy Fly
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @07:52
from the with-my-little-eye dept.
opencity writes "CNN (and AP) reports on the 'Spy Fly' project. "Biologists and technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a fly." Good technical stuff on the Cal Berkeley page. The Pentagon likes the idea for spying and battlefield deployment but their page has no info about weaponization or command / communication technologies."
( Read More... | 174 comments )
Motorola's i95cl
Posted by michael on Sunday July 28, @04:56
from the it-fluffs-it-folds dept.
thefalconer writes "MSNBC has a very detailed article about Motorola's new all-in-wonder phone offered by Nextel. It is a PDA, has a Walkie-Talkie, phone, web browser, instant messaging, addressbook, it has a high resolution Color LCD screen, and it's running on a Java Based OS! It even comes in a variety of styles and colors just to your taste. There is so much to this phone that it makes you ask "how'd they get all that, into this tiny little thing?" Makes me want to ditch my old phone for one of these right now!"
( Read More... | 203 comments )
support = give positive comments on slashdot when he does it, complain about it on slashdot when he gets busted.
You probably won't do a fucking thing to help him out. You pathetic shit.
"how many fucking bytes do the words "FIRST POST" take up in your fucking precious database."
As far as I'm aware, none. At least not after a few weeks. Once the thread goes into archive mode (or whatever the tubby fucker calls it), anything below a score 1 gets deleted.
It's just censorship, plain and simple. Taco is a maggot-infested cunt, and he knows it. The only way for him to make himself feel better is by taking it out on the people he *thinks* he's smarter than.
izzafakt
Yeah. If only they're have put the link in the actual story somewhere it'd be *so* much easier.
*slap*
I bet that you couldnt do better if you had to write a page in a foreign language.
Because English is not a prerequisite for employment, a sizeable proportion of todays community are not fluent in English and many residents still converse in their native tongue.
Link - http://www.christmas.net.au/culture.htm
Go and read about Christmas Island. There's your English lesson for today.
I've probably missed something out, but that was just a quick sweep over your text. You *really* need to have more English lessons. If you can't afford English lessons, try using babelfish - it can construct better sentences than you have done so far.
You raging cynic you!
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)
Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoy your trip in our lovely boat.
Thank you!
We could make her the first manned mission to mars. Just give her a suit of armour, stick her in a gauss gun and point her at mars.
A big advantage of this would be that she wouldn't need radio equipment. I know sound can't travel through space, but I'm sure her voice is an exception.
My guess is that it'd sound like a NORMAL FUCKING UKELELE. Just strummed more regularly.
Send Jade up there and get her to open her mouth.
I don't think the eds will say "but they weren't unique hits" though. If the advertisers ask about it, the reply will be "yeah, okay they weren't unique, but it's still getting an advert out. The user saw your advert and that's all that counts."