[Slashdot-mailer] Slashdot Daily Report (11/18/2000)
David Jacoby
jacoby@ecn.purdue.edu
Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:00:03 -0500 (EST)
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Democratic GPL Software Company
A articles article from the "bet-they-don't-use-butterfly-ballots" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1418201
Markar writes "FreeDevelopers.net is a commercial
software company that plans to develop GPL
software, and is the brainchild of Tony Stanco, a
former Security Exchange Commission attorney.
Group leadership and major policy decisions are to
be voted upon by the developers, making it the
first democratically elected software company.
FreeDevelopers.net has earned the endorsement of
Richard M Stallman and the Free Software
Foundation. Details at ZDNet."
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Intel says no SMP support for Pentium 4
A articles article from the "scalability-shmalability" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1420226
the Man in Black writes: "AMD dropping the
Mustang core to concentrate on an SMP solution
seemed to bode ill at the time, but it seems that
this was the wisest possible decision, given the
below news. ZDNet is reporting that Intel will not
have dual-processor support for the Pentium 4 at
launch time ... indeed, not until the second half
on next year, when the Pentium 4 is re-released
with a new core."
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Review: "Properties Of Light"
A books article from the "yes-a-novel-about-quantum-physics" department
sent by JonKatz
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/30/2240249
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Corel Looking To Sell Linux Operations?
A articles article from the "the-evergoing-intrigue-of-corel" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1440243
PySloth wrote to us with a link to
InformationWeek that speculates about what Corel
might be doing differently soon. One of the
possibilities is the sale of their Linux
operations, which would be odd concerning the .NET
portion of their deal with Microsoft.
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When Is Exchange Inappropriate For The Enterprise?
A askslashdot article from the "the-right-tool-for-the-right-job" department
sent by Cliff
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/194209
malice95 asks "At my company (approx 1000 users)
we currently run Dual Sun Ultra 2's (Solaris) in
an HA configuration for our mail system. It runs
Sendmail with pop, imap, web-based e-mail,
web-based e-mail archives, and approximatly 150
Majordomo mailing lists. The system has been
working great for months. Our users use a mix of
Netscape, Outlook, and Pine to read their e-mail.
Lately there seems to be a small but politically
forceful faction in the company that wants us to
move to MS Exchange for our entire e-mail system
and standardize on MS Outlook for the desktop. I
have seen many exchange setups crash and burn at
other companies, and become management nightmares.
Can you help me come up with
opinions/facts/experiences why exchange sucks as
an enterprise e-mail solution versus a nice solid
Unix solution to present to management?" There are
times when standardizing on Outlook and Exchange
may be desirable for a company and times when it
is not. Is this one of those times, considering
that it looks like this company has a perfectly
working mail system already in place? Why or why
not?
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Hemos The Iron Chef
A radio article from the "i-dunno-why-he's-all-about-potatoes" department
sent by CowboyNeal
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1441224
So Hemos decided he should stop back in Holland
to visit some family, pick up some comic books,
and eventually visit the Blockstackers office. We
felt that was reason enough to record a new
episode. We talk about TiVo hacks, the Napster/BMG
agreement, and I ask everyone for Bloody Mary
recipes.
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More On The SDMI Crack & Why Digital Sigs Are Not
A articles article from the "more-fun-with-1s-and-0s" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1514220
The latest issue of Crypto-Gram has some good
coverage of the new digital signatures law as well
as more on the SDMI crack. The signatures law is
interesting - essentially claiming that a digital
signature law is /not/ the same as signatures.
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FBI Releases More Carnivore Information
A yro article from the "following-up" department
sent by michael
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1813207
tregoweth writes "CNet has a report about the
FBI's release of new information concerning
Carnivore, the result of a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy
Information Center. Contradicting what the FBI has
previously said, Carnivore can capture and archive
'unfiltered' Internet traffic."
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SmartFilter's Greatest Evils
A yro article from the "and-the-winner-is" department
sent by jamie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/2039252
Seth Finkelstein has taken a look at what gets
blocked by censorware in the most categories. What
would you think there is on the web that qualifies
as sex, drugs, crime, gambling, sports, news,
religion, art, travel, hate, gross and fun and
games? Oh, and some of these sites are useful in
research too. Give up?
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Smart Flying Robots
A articles article from the "toys-of-the-future" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/1523257
Chernyakov writes "MARVIN, a fully autonomous RC
helicopter built by the Technische Universitaet
Berlin, won the 2000 International Aerial Robotics
Competition. MARVIN has a radio-linked ground
station consisting of several networked Linux
machines (which provide the computing power for
vision, mapping and flight-course generation). The
robots' mission is to fly into a disaster area
complete with fire, water and smoke hazards, to
locate and avoid threats to itself, to find
bodies, distinguish from survivors and the dead,
identify hazardous materials containers, determine
if the container contents are radioactive,
biohazardous, or explosive (by reading the
labels), generate a detailed map of the disaster
area, photograph the area, and return safely back
to base. MARVIN pulled it off completely
autonomously, with no human help or intervention.
High quality (90 MB) and Low quality (12 MB) MPEGs
of the robot are available."
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Nanotube Threads Get Stronger
A science article from the "luke-swings-with-leia-to-the-power-thingie" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/2315248
pythorlh writes: "NewScientist has an article
about carbon-nanotube thread. Could this be the
begining of "monofilament" that sci-fi has been
drooling over for years?" Well, from the sound of
the article, not yet. But soon, perhaps: according
to the article, "The new nanotube threads are
about 10 times stronger than buckypaper, and can
be tied into knots without breaking. But they are
still much weaker than many other fibres, such as
iron thread."
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Now How Much Would You Pay? (For Yahoo!)
A articles article from the "gotta-make-a-dolla" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/18/0228215
LHOOQtius_ov_Borg writes: "A CNet article
discusses Yahoo! considering more subscription-fee
based premium services. The article points out
that other sites, such as TheStreet.Com, have not
had success with this. It also mentions that Yahoo
has stated that less than 10% of their current
revenue comes from 'pure play' Internet companies
and 'financially questionable' advertisers.'"
Added to which, ABetterRoss writes, "Submitting to
some Yahoo categories is no longer free. from the
FAQ: "In our ongoing effort to 1) build a useful,
comprehensive Web directory and 2) address the
needs of people submitting sites to the directory,
we have expanded our fee-based Business Express
program to cover all submissions to our main
commercial categories: 'Business and
Economy/Business to Business' and 'Business and
Economy/Shopping and Services.'"
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Sequel To Ender's Shadow: Shadow of the Hegemon
A articles article from the "more-reading-to-do" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/220237
enthalpyX writes: "According to The Philotic Web,
Orson Scott Card's series, which began with
'Ender's Game' didn't end quite yet with Ender's
Shadow. Due to be released January 2, 2001,
'Shadow of the Hegemon' will delve into Bean's
life helping Peter rule the "old world" Ender left
behind. You can read the first five chapters over
at hatrack.com."
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Update on Linux on PowerPC
A articles article from the "lotsa-fun-with-the-g4-world" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/18/0315201
Smitty825 writes: " On Tuesday, LinuxPPC released
a beta of their next product, while SuSE has
announced that they will be shipping SuSE 7.0 for
PowerPC on November 20! Both distros come with
XFree 4.01 and KDE2, as well as the MacOnLinux
emulator product."
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Sequel To 'Ender's Shadow': ' Shadow Of The Hegemon'
A articles article from the "more-reading-to-do" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/220237
enthalpyX writes: "According to The Philotic Web,
Orson Scott Card's series, which began with
'Ender's Game' didn't end quite yet with Ender's
Shadow. Due to be released January 2, 2001,
'Shadow of the Hegemon' will delve into Bean's
life helping Peter rule the "old world" Ender left
behind. You can read the first five chapters over
at hatrack.com."
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Update On Linux On PowerPC
A articles article from the "lotsa-fun-with-the-g4-world" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/18/0315201
Smitty825 writes: " On Tuesday, LinuxPPC released
a beta of their next product, while SuSE has
announced that they will be shipping SuSE 7.0 for
PowerPC on November 20! Both distros come with
XFree 4.01 and KDE2, as well as the MacOnLinux
emulator product."
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3-Dimensional Holographic Projector
A articles article from the "vivid-video-will-lead-the-way" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/18/0259223
NO WAY! writes: "Wired has a story about
Dimensonal Media's demonstration of a holographic
projection system at this year's Comdex.
Apparently the damn thing can project 3-d videos
or create a live projection of an object as it
goes. This sounds unbelievable -- has anyone else
heard of this? Check out the article." It does
sound unbelievable, but then, so does the idea of
thousands of tiny nanoprobes hidden in our food.
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China Snubs Verisign In Domain Tussle
A articles article from the "interesting-change-of-twist" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/18/0316255
cswiii writes: "According to C/NET, Beijing has
blocked international corporations from
registering Chinese-character domain names....
including, of course, Verisign's NSI division.
What will be the outcome of this one?"
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Are Fingerprints Unique?
A science article from the "snowflake" department
sent by michael
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/18/1326241
MattJ writes "There's an incredible article in
LinguaFranca about fingerprints. Maybe they're not
all unique after all. And maybe those fingerprint
experts are not much more scientific than
handwriting experts. Fascinating details."
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