[Slashdot-mailer] Slashdot Daily Report (11/23/2000)
David Jacoby
jacoby@ecn.purdue.edu
Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:00:02 -0500 (EST)
Slashdot Daily Report ( http://slashdot.org/ )
News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters.
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Creating The UniServer
A articles article from the "lotsa-data" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1326211
bmongar writes " DrDobbs has an article about a
project for a mirrored universal astronomy
database. Jim Gray basically wants a netowrk of
observatories around the world to publish their
data and mirror other observatories' data.
Basically creating a quadruple redundant system of
data all avaliable online. He wants to create a
new type of astronomer, the astronomer that is a
data miner." As the article also says, the guy
behind this is the guy behind the TerraServer as
well.
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Review: The New Geography
A books article from the "how-the-digital-revolution-is-changing-everything" department
sent by JonKatz
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/06/1721205
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AMD's Secrets Revealed
A articles article from the "pulling-back-the-curtain" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1425220
Techman writes "Three days ago AnandTech brought
you a glimpse of Intel's plans for 2001. Now
they're following up the coverage with AMD's
roadmap for the next year and on into 2002. Does
AMD have what it takes to continue their
incredible winning streak, or will AMD return to
the state they were in before their recent
success?"
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Top Ten Intel Slipups
A articles article from the "get-a-good-laugh" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1421242
quickquack sent us a story on tuplay about
Intel's top 10 slipups. They all seem to be
relatively recent mistakes (rambus, serial IDs
etc) so I'm curious if anyone out there can
remember some older slipups (hell the company has
been around long enough to have some big
screwups). Anyway, the article is also somewhat
conspiratorial in tone, in an amusing sort of way.
You'll enjoy it. Plus its always fun to laugh at
Intel *grin*.
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Kahn Overhauling the Internet
A articles article from the "stuff-to-think-about" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1432219
Whanana sent us an article about information
objects as visualized by Robert Kahn. The article
is written from a fairly childish place (it
explains DNS for crying out loud, and the bulk of
it is a history lesson obviously designed for a
mainstream paper) but Kahn's Digital Object
Identifier concept is interesting. If anyone has
links to RFCs and the like, please post them in
the comments.
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Sony Releases Walking Humanoid Robot
A articles article from the "it's-a-pising-match" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1455222
Steve Wight writes "Looks like Sony had a bit of
robot envy the other day when Honda officially
released their 120cm humanoid robot. Well, here is
MSNBC's story about Sony's new walking humanoid
robot which looks pretty cool, even if it is on
1/2 a meter tall. Fifteen meters per minute
walking speed and can get up if it falls down.
Although, the Honda robot could squish it under
its foot. *grin*"
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Are You Using the GNU/Hurd Kernel?
A askslashdot article from the "why-not-give-it-a-try" department
sent by Cliff
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1847210
carter asks: "I remember this article from a year
back about the brave soul who got a web server
running on the GNU Hurd. Due to the now-famous /.
effect, I never got a chance to see it running,
and now the server appears to be down for good.
One year ago is like ancient history in
hacker-time, so it makes me wonder: has anyone
else had luck getting a web server going on the
Hurd? Is anyone using the Hurd for anything
resembling production use yet? Also, is the Hurd
project closing in on a stable release? To look at
the Hurd's seemingly ever-static home page, one
would think that no major developments have
happened since 1999, although I'm sure this is not
the case." For those of you who are actually
running it, what are your experiences of the
system? Are there any any pitfalls in installation
and operation that you can share for those brave
folks who are planning on making the plunge in the
near future?
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Carnivore Report Released
A yro article from the "the-thing-itself-as-pdf" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/2039210
Gwaitsai writes: "I cannot believe that I've seen
nothing about carnivore here after the report was
released yesterday (21st Nov). Could it be that
everyone is too busy thinking about turkey! Excite
has an article here and you can find the report
itself here."
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No Love For Darwin?
A articles article from the "needs-some-attention" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/186225
There's an interesting column regarding the
attention -- or lack thereof -- that Darwin is
getting, at least compared to OS X. Somogyi points
some out some interesting diversions of interest
that people are having, and what exactly is Apple
/doing/ about Darwin?
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Reasoning Behind The KDE League
A articles article from the "behind-the-genesis" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1850237
Nerds writes: "Chris Schlaeger wrote a letter to
explain to the KDE community at large why the KDE
League was created. He explains why trying to
compete with GNOME is a waste of time and mentions
that Red Hat and VA Linux are still considering
joining the League."
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Junkyard Wars Marathon
A articles article from the "smashing-things-up" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/21/155247
bigdavenyc writes: " The Learning Channel will be
hosting an all day marathon of 'Junkyard Wars'
episodes, starting at noon on Friday. This is a
great show and this marathon has many episodes
never seen in the U.S." Also worth noting is that
Iron Chef is doing a marathon over Thanksgiving as
well. I hope they make ice cream.
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Bring Back Gopher Campaign
A articles article from the "return-of-the-rodent" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1811243
A reader pointed us over to the Gopher Manifesto,
the document of record of those who want to bring
back Gopher as one of the most-used tools on the
Internet. It's a pretty crazy idea, but it does
have some good points.
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Alien Life Found On Earth?
A articles article from the "only-trying-to-snag-a-place-on-oprah" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/228207
Eris writes: "An interesting tidbit from a UPI
story running on Environmental News Network: A
Welsh/Indian team of scientists thinks that their
high flying research balloon may have picked up
actual alien bacteria dropped into the atmosphere
by cometary debris. It remains to be seen whether
this is any better than our old friend ALH 84001,
the Martian Meteorite, and the researcher involved
does have a history of pushing the
life-from-outer-space theory. But this is just
neat enough to merit at least a quick glance." So
far, no Andromeda Strain reactions -- a good sign.
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New Glue Could Reduce Computer Trash
A articles article from the "are-you-just-going-to-throw-that-away?" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/23/0529240
LostScorp88 writes: "An engineer at Cornell
University, Mr. Chris Ober, has developed a new
glue for computer parts (mainly mobos/circuit
boards) that allows them to be recycled.
Previously, the glue used was too strong to be
easily separated. The new glue allows the parts to
be separated at high temperatures. Read the
article [here]." Considering the problems (and
expense) of properly and legally disposing of
computer equipment, this small advance could have
a big impact.
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Gutenberg Bibles Online
A articles article from the "movable-type-1.0" department
sent by michael
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/23/065240
Richey writes: "The British Library is making the
Gutenberg Bible, the first major bible printed in
the West available online. (Direct link to the
book)." This isn't the first high-res copy of the
Gutenberg Bible online; a German university
library has already done it with their copy, but
it's still cool. Update: 11/23 8:25 AM by michael:
For the people that skipped those boring history
classes, this was the first book printed in the
western world with movable type, a huge leap in
printing technology.
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Should ISPs Be Allowed To Delete Your MP3s?
A askslashdot article from the "that-doesn't-sound-polite-at-all" department
sent by Cliff
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1912208
Water Paradox asks: "A friend of mine recently
discovered that his ISP had deleted all of his MP3
files without notice. He is a succesful local DJ
with numerous recordings to his name, and the MP3s
were all of his own material. He said he zipped
them up and within 8 hours, they were back on his
site, so all is well. My question is, are other
people experiencing this? Perhaps this is a
question for Ralph Naderians, but what resources
do we as ISP users have against this kind of
action?" The ISP in question is Half Price
Hosting, and aparently they have an automated
process that deletes all MP3s from their servers.
Now I do agree that ISPs have the right to police
their machines, but is it really right for them to
delete files from a user's Web site without even a
nastygram explaining why such action was taken?
What should we do when ISPs resort to this type of
behavior and they are the ones in the wrong? This
is a fairly important issue as everyone on the
Internet deals with an ISP of some form. If this
behavior isn't checked, the next time something
like this might happen it could be any file, not
just MP3s. Update: 11/23 by J: As several comments
have noted, grep their terms of service for "MP3"
(Cliff and I would have done this last night but
their website was down). Then go read your ISP's
terms...
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The info is Rob Malda's
The code is mine
MOTD: -----------------------------------
I am no longer associated with Purdue, except for being a former
student, former employee, and active member of the Linux Users Group.
As such, I'll either be moving this service to another server or
killing it entirely. Your input is requested as to what you'd like.
Then again, when was the last time I changed the MOTD? And when was
last time it was read?