[Slashdot-mailer] Slashdot Daily Report (11/28/2000)
David Jacoby
jacoby@ecn.purdue.edu
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:00:03 -0500 (EST)
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EFF Makes Call For DMCA Help
A yro article from the "doing-good-can-be-fun" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/22/1410207
I received a request for help from the EFF,
who've made a call for examples of how the
anticircumvention provision of the DMCA impacts
the world of the ordinary fair user. I've included
the full text from them below -- please add your
comments with examples. The Electronic Frontier
Foundation
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Son of HAL For Sale
A articles article from the "you-gotta-be-kidding-me" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1437235
John Turnbull writes "The Observer newspaper (UK)
reports that Sir Arthur C Clarke, the author of
2001, is backing a colourful British computer
entrepreneur in his bid to launch a mass-market
version of HAL under the brand name the Clarke
Omniputer. It will be the first time that Clarke,
now 82, has given his name to an electronic device
on the market. The Clarke 1 Gigahertz Omniputer is
being dubbed as the most advanced personal
computer in the world, verging on artificial
intelligence." Riiiight.
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Gamepro Talks About Indrema
A articles article from the "games-people-will-play-when-they-aren't-vapor" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1445200
Amigori writes "Gamepro has this article about
the upcoming Indrema console. Its a basic article,
but it does a decent job of explaining the system
in an easy to read way." Talks about how they are
expecting hackers to take apart the box (unlike
the ZapStation: I asked about this at ALS and was
told that they are doing stupid things like
encrypting their file system, despite the fact
that it is super cool and runs Linux and screams
"Hack me Hack me!" and hackers would just love to
rip that thing apart and make it better. The next
generation of Linux devices is going to be
interesting: the ones you can hack (Tivo and
Indrema) and the ones you can't (may they see the
light)
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Fiva: Transmeta Sub-Sub-Notebook
A articles article from the "now-thats-pretty-sweet" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1843246
An anonymous reader writes "The Tech Report has
an article on Crusoe-powered devices. Plenty of
pictures, with details on offerings from Casio,
NEC and Sony, among others. These things are
really tiny and the batteries last forever! I want
one." The fiva is especially sharp. Extremely
small: could be very useful.
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Huge New Galaxy Cluster Found
A science article from the "et-phone-home" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1249255
Anonymous Squonk writes: "The new Subaru
telescope on Mauna Kea, the world's largest
telescope, is starting to produce big results. The
Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that the latest
find is a previously unknown cluster of over 1,000
galaxies over five billion light years away."
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distributed.net Joins United Devices
A articles article from the "going-commercial" department
sent by jamie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1830231
Nugget94M writes "distributed.net announced today
that it is joining forces with United Devices, a
commercial distributed computing company. Several
of the distributed.net volunteers are trading in
their old, boring day jobs for new jobs working on
distributed computing with United Devices. The
agreement between the two organizations provides
for ports of current and future distributed.net
projects to run on the United Devices commercial
network, and provides distributed.net with server
hardware (new stasbox!) and hosting services."
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Distributed.net Joins United Devices
A articles article from the "going-commercial" department
sent by jamie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1830231
Nugget94M writes "distributed.net announced today
that it is joining forces with United Devices, a
commercial distributed computing company. Several
of the distributed.net volunteers are trading in
their old, boring day jobs for new jobs working on
distributed computing with United Devices. The
agreement between the two organizations provides
for ports of current and future distributed.net
projects to run on the United Devices commercial
network, and provides distributed.net with server
hardware (new stasbox!) and hosting services."
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Collecting Logs from Firewalls to Detect Crackers
A articles article from the "interesting-ideas" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/1957238
Anonymous Coward writes "There is now a site
dshield.org which collects firewall log excerpts
to summarize and organize them in a database. The
point is to single out script kiddies that scan
large IP segments. It could all end up saving ISPs
a lot of time running after / responding to
gazillions of reports from users. Interesting:
Right now, IPs used by @Home and RoadRunner to
scan their users top the list. The site is only up
for a couple of days. but already quite a bid of
data has been collected. There is a little perl
script that will automatically send Linux kernel
log excerpts (ipchains style) to the sytem.
ZoneAlarm logs can be processed as well."
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The Ultimate Video Game Library up for Auction
A articles article from the "stuff-of-legends" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/195220
Nerds writes "There's an auction on eBay for a
console game library that goes back to about 1986.
The seller has included all of the boxes and
manuals for over 13 systems and a few hundred
games. Everything from the NES to the Virtual Boy
to the Dreamcast is represented, along with
several systems I'd never heard of. Current bid:
$15,000. " Its got tons of normal stuff (NES,
SNES, SMS, Genesis etc) and a phenomonal number of
games. Even a 3DO (when I was a kid, god I wanted
one of those things... course now it doesn't even
hold up). I hope you get a little jolt of warm
memories when you read it too.
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Will .coop Be Regulated Better Than .com Et Al?
A articles article from the "who-holds-the-reins?" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/28/0012249
zoomba writes: "An article from the New York
Times [free reg required] today sheds a little bit
of light on what is being done to regulate these
new domains recently approved by ICANN. According
to the article, the .coop domain is now under the
charge of National Cooperative Business
Association. Hey, could this mean that sites with
the .coop domain will actually BE Cooperative
Businesses? A fresh change from organizations
registering under .com, or companies under .net."
(The "partners" link appears not to work; does it
for anyone else?)
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When Worlds Collide: The New Dot-Biz And The Old
A articles article from the "no-please-use-the-*dooey*-decimal-system,-ok?" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/28/030209
angkor writes: "It seems the new dot biz domain
conflicts with domains registered in an
alternative root system." This is where all the
alternative root servers conflict with the (ahem)
interesting name choices made by the ICANN board.
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Satellite Radio Coming Soon(?)
A articles article from the "one-can-only-hope" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/27/2328254
elucidus sent us a story that talks about the
current status of satellite radio. Lots of issues
to deal with, and some good stuff mentioned.
Personally, I think this is just a baby step
before we have full custom audio stream dropped
in, but my guess is that it'll be awhile before we
have the bandwidth to broadcast stereo audio, from
space, customized for every car in America, and do
it in such a way that it's reasonably
cost-competitive with old-fashioned radio.
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Geek Charities?
A articles article from the "what's-out-there" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/28/0314207
Space Rogue writes: "Now that the holiday season
is here and tax season is just around the corner,
I am looking for worthy charities to donate some
money to. I am specifically looking for 'geek'
related charities. I know about the EFF but are
there other worthy organizations that could put a
few dollars to good use? "
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Red Hat's Michael Tiemann On gcc, ReiserFS & More
A articles article from the "notcher-ordinary-cto-guy" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/28/073258
Mayank points to this interview at FreeOS.com
with Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, in which Tiemann
discusses why the Hat shipped a development kernel
with their 7.0 distribution, journaling
filesystems, the openness of ecos, and the
competition (no, not that competition). It's a
good read, though it would be cool to see the same
questions addressed at even greater length. Guess
everyone has a time limit, though;)
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Adobe Discontinues FrameMaker for Linux
A articles article from the "sad-news" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/28/1320210
Stef Hoesli writes: "Adobe, who gave us a
smoothly working beta version for Linux of their
fine word processor, will not release FrameMaker
commercially on Linux. They sent out an e-mail to
beta testers with the sad news. "
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The info is Rob Malda's
The code is mine
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