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Open Source Tools in Data Centers

An anonymous reader writes "There is a nice presentation on the L.A.S. Linux site entitled "Managing Data Center Functions with Open Source Tools" which was ...

The Opus Interview

Brad1138 writes "MSNBC has an interview with Opus re: his return to Sunday comics. Some interesting/funny bits of info. It was also nice to see how many people ...

WinXPcentral.com DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music

WinXPcentral.com Senators ask P2P companies to police themselves

Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music

fb4f writes "Over at Modplug, they have an article describing a mathematical algorithm to predict if a given song will become a hit or not. Paraphrasing the ...

WinXPcentral.com RC1 of White Box Enterprise Linux

Companies Move Away From Cubicle Culture

Makarand writes "According to this Mercury News article companies are freeing employees from their cubicles to save on corporate real estate costs. By ...

Scripting News Goooood morning from California!

Goooood morning from California!

Scripting News This computer is almost completely hosed. I may ha

This computer is almost completely hosed. I may have to go to Fry's today and pay retail on a new one. Oy. The dysfunction is funny -- text doesn't display in place you know it should. But then it's amazing that the most iffy bit of technology, Channel Z, is working just fine, praise Murphy.

Scripting News It's been that kind of trip. The flight cross coun

It's been that kind of trip. The flight cross country was supposed to be jammed full but it was only 2/3 full, and the middle seat in my row was empty. They had a nice movie, which I didn't watch because I was reading an even better book. The guy next to me was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur from Taiwan whose company makes thin clients. Interesting stories. But when I got to SFO the car rental company said I was a no-show and they had given my car to someone else. And they were sold out. So tired. I just stood there at the counter and said I wasn't leaving until they gave me a car. They gave me one. Drove down the peninsula and my hotel room is great. So it's been a yin-yang trip. If it holds up, the next one should be a goodie. Anyway it'll be a light day here for sure.

The hidden cost of going virtual

A recently published paper by Stanford Business scholars suggests that virtual teams may extract an unexpected price in the coin of employee alienation from the organization.

Week ahead: A meager feast

Tech conferences and earnings take a break as the Thanksgiving holiday nears, though some trade shows are taking place in Asia and Europe.

DVD-Rs go 8x

DiZASTiX writes "It seems that the next speed level for DVD Writers is here. "The race for Xs is still on and Plextor has gone into the lead with the PX-708A, ...

DeviantArt.com Tokyo: The Imperial Capital

Enjoy some Japanese art this fall, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University present Tokyo: The Imperial Capital, art works by Japanese artist Koizumi Kishio (1893–1945). Read on for juicy details...

DeviantArt.com Gaim 0.73 released

A new version of the Pimpin' Penguin IM Clone that's good for the soul has arrived! Gaim is *the* program to cover all your instant messenging needs in Linux.

DeviantArt.com Meet with a skinner | Issue 1

Interview with a DA skinner, # sowmiles , his work and thoughs on today's skin scene...read on !

DeviantArt.com Inception releases its second pack!

One month has passed since the release of inception's pack one and now we return with pack two: calmness.

DeviantArt.com Opera 7.23 for Windows Released

Only a week after the release of Opera 7.22 for both Windows and *nix plattforms, Opera 7.23 fixes a few issues in the Windows version.

Wireless-Friendly Microwaves

Makarand writes "According to this article on ABC News, scientists at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have stumbled upon a simple and elegant solution ...

Mobile Phone for the Blind

Anonymous Coward writes "Owasys - a Spanish company - is launching a mobile phone for the blind next week. No visual display as a speech synthesiser reads ...

The 1804 Australian Rebellion and Battle of Vinegar Hill

In the late seventeenth century England was faced with a burgeoning prison population and civil unrest in Ireland. The English response to these issues was to create a penal colony in the Pacific where the criminals and political prisoners could be deported. The New South Wales colony found itself having to deal with experienced Irish rebels who were unwavering in their contempt for English authority. The Irish, English and Scottish convicts all shared arbitrary treatment at the hands of the Colonial Authorities. They were also united in their desire to go home. There was only one successful large-scale convict rebellion in Australia's colonial past. This was the rebellion of 1804 that led to the "Battle of Vinegar Hill" in Sydney's north western suburbs. The New South Wales Corps had marched all night and most of the next morning from Sydney in order to catch the rebels outside of Rouse Hill. A short battle was fought which ended the rebellion. The 1804 rebellion is relatively unknown in popular Australian history. It was not until recently that Australians have had any sympathy for Australia's convict history. This unwillingness to revisit the convict component of Australian history has led to the location of the battle being lost in time and attempts to determine its location still leave doubt. While there is a sculpture at Castlebrook Cemetery commemorating the battle, there remains debate as to where the battle actually occurred.

The man who solved the Kennedy assassination

It wasn't Earl Warren -- or Oliver Stone. His name is G. Robert Blakey.

Notes from an activist: Militant response

In Miami, our exercising of our constitutional rights became an invitation to an indiscriminate crackdown.

Kennedy, Vietnam and Iraq

The evidence is clear: JFK decided to withdraw from Vietnam a month before he was assassinated. Setting the record straight is crucial as Baghdad continues to explode.

Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution will Survive WMD Attack

As reported here at NewsMax: "Already, critics of the U.S. Patriot Act, rushed through Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, have argued that the law aims to curtail civil liberties and sets a dangerous precedent. But Franks' scenario goes much further. He is the first high-ranking official to openly speculate that the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government."

Linux in 2004?

An anonymous reader writes "John Terpstra and Eric S. Raymond have started the ball rolling on LinuxWorld's poll of the community for what they think will ...

Mozedit 0.1.1 Final Released

Introductory Tour of Mozilla's XUL

WinCustomize.com When did they decide technology wasn't fun anymore?

Documentary about Professional Gaming

Simon Bysshe writes "My name is Simon Bysshe, I'm 22 & am currently studying film at the Bournemouth Arts Institute in the UK. For the last 3 months I've ...

SHELL EXTENSION CITY ISO RECORDER POWER TOY (free): Allows you to use the CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to record ISO images and copy CD to CD a piece of functionality missing in Windows XP

SHELL EXTENSION CITY IROBOT (free): This program will actually surf the NET for you! Current Version can surf 2 urls at once, the refresh interval can be set manually for each URL

SHELL EXTENSION CITY INUSE (free): Command-line tool that performs on-the-fly replacement of files currently in use by the operating system

SHELL EXTENSION CITY INTERVIEW WITH LINUS (free): From NPR's Fresh Air.... RealAudio interview with the creator of the Linux Operating System

OSNews Red Carpet Daemon 2.0 and Open Carpet Announced

NeoWin.net Gaim 0.73

OSNews OSX: Maintenance Tips; Scripting; Rendezvous Picture Transfer

OSNews A Look at the Eclipse IDE

Microsoft Security Whitepaper

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft last week published a document on its Web site that describes how the company manages security on its own 300,000 node ...

BetaNews.Com Quick Command Line 2003.0.2 Beta 2 Released

Apple's iTunes DRM Cracked?

joekra writes "The author of DeCSS is back in the spotlight with a new application called QTFairUse. The new application attempts to convert DRM'd AACs to ...

BetaNews.Com BitSpirit 1.0.9.255 Beta Released

Gnome.org Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt

tempest303 writes "In order to help improve integration between apps on the Gnome desktop, Gnome.org is offering bounties for the completion of a variety of ...

BetaNews.Com renattach 1.2.0 RC3 Released

BetaNews.Com Easy Notes 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Released

Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications

BiggsTheCat writes "A number of news sources are reporting that a Toronto man is the first to be charged with "theft of communications" (Canadian Criminal Code ...

OSNews GNOME Bounty Hunt; Nat Friedman's Summit Slides Show Future

OSNews Open Source Desktop Technology Road Map

OSNews Eager for Panther? There's Reason to Pause

OSNews Gates Tops Generosity List

Top 10 Personal Computers

BWJones writes "The Houston Chronicle has posted a story by Dwight Silverman on the ten most popular PC's of all time. His inclusions are for the most part ...

NeoWin.net Invision Power Board 1.3 Final Released

NeoWin.net Opera 7.23 Released

New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys

A reader points to a roadmap on freedesktop.org that provides a good summary of what is out there for *nix desktops, with emphasis on X but also covering some ...

Glowing Fish are First Genetically Engineered Pets

securitas writes "It was bound to happen. Texas-based biotechnology company Yorktown Technologies will start selling a 'genetically engineered aquarium fish ...

WinCustomize.com JoeUser.com gets a face lift

snowchyld Matrix Revolutions

SPOILERS ABOUND

A Robot Carries Humans, Another One Plays Flute

Roland Piquepaille writes "The New Scientist says that a robot able to carry humans was demonstrated in Tokyo. The robot, developed at Waseda University in ...

WinXPcentral.com Build your own Windows PE (WinPE) Boot-CD

WinXPcentral.com SCO case: "Let's just wait and see."

WinXPcentral.com Red Hat vs. Researchers. Who will win the day?

WinXPcentral.com House passes antispam bill

Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage'

Mirkon writes "We've all gotten frustrated at some point with spam. Perhaps we've even been motivated to send nasty, threatening messages back to the spammers, ...

Scripting News The plan for the new software, whose codename is C

The plan for the new software, whose codename is Channel Z, is for me to burn in the editing tool for the next week while visiting the Bay Area, and if all goes well to start a very small beta group on Monday or Tuesday of the following week (December 1) and then offer it to all who come to the Thursday meeting (the 4th). Eventually it will be released broadly and we'll work with others to make authoring tools in other environments (such as OmniOutliner, Joe, Flash, WebOutliner) and back-ends (lots of places). On the back-end if you have code that processes RSS (with categories) and OPML, you're basically ready to go. We're gearing up to cover a big story and to be ready to cover one that may come along any day. The idea is to broaden the pipe, make writing for the Web more powerful and make the structures we build richer, have more lasting value, and integrate with each other in interesting ways.

MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

WCityMike writes "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. ...

DeviantArt.com deviantART Hits 3 Million Deviations!

A little more than 3 months have passed since our third birthday, after launching the third version of deviantART and we have just hit another three milestone: 3 million deviations !

Michigan Wi-Fi hackers 'try to steal credit card details'

Breaking and entering into shop network

House passes antispam bill

updateThe U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approves antispam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Security and individual responsibility

SAP's Sachar Paulus says that if companies fail to turn security into a collective responsibility, they risk losing the war.

Scripting News One of the things I'm going to do while I'm travel

One of the things I'm going to do while I'm traveling is rearrange my blogroll, expand it, and group things. I've already begun. Now that I have an infinite amount of space and the potential for infinite structure, I'm able to think much bigger. So far I like it. Feels expansive.

Scripting News The plan for the new software, whose codename is C

The plan for the new software, whose codename is Channel Z, is for me to burn in the editing tool for the next week while visiting the Bay Area, and if all goes well to start a very small beta group on Monday or Tuesday of the following week (December 1) and then offer it to all who come to the Thursday meeting (the 4th). Eventually it will be released broadly and we'll work with others to make authoring tools in other environments (such as OmniOutliner, Joe, Flash, Matt Mower's outliner) and back-ends (lots of places). On the back-end if you have code that processes RSS (with categories) and OPML, you're basically ready to go. We're gearing up to cover a big story and to be ready to cover one that may come along any day. The idea is to broaden the pipe, make writing for the Web more powerful and make the structures we build richer, have more lasting value, and integrate with each other in interesting ways.

California to Require Paper Voter Receipt

DDumitru writes "Wired reports that California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley will require all electronic voting systems be equipped with a voter-verifiable ...

Scripting News One of the things I'm going to do while I'm travel

One of the things I'm going to do while I'm traveling is rearrange my blogroll, expand it, and group things. I've already begun. Now that I have an infinite amount of space and the potential for infinite structure, I'm able to think much bigger. The blogroll is turning into Dave's World. So far I like it. Feels expansive.

Scripting News I have no idea what Steve Gillmor is arguing with

I have no idea what Steve Gillmor is arguing with John Dvorak about. He (Dvorak) obviously hasn't checked his facts. Whatever. It's great to see Steve at his new gig at eWeek. Hey Steve, let's have a cup of coffee next week when I'm in the Bay Area. I gotta show you how all this category stuff works. Like Lisa said yesterday, we chop the meat up into little bits so you can eat it with chopsticks.

Scripting News The plan for the new software, whose codename is C

The plan for the new software, whose codename is Channel Z, is for me to burn in the editing tool for the next week while visiting the Bay Area, and if all goes well to start a very small beta group on Monday or Tuesday of the following week (check date) and then offer it to all who come to the Thursday meeting on (date). Eventually it will be released broadly and we'll work with others to make authoring tools in other environments (such as OmniOutliner, Joe) and back-ends (lots of places). On the back-end if you have code that processes RSS (with categories) and OPML, you're basically ready to go. We're gearing up to cover a big story and to be ready to cover one that may come along any day. The idea is to broaden the pipe, make writing for the Web more powerful and make the structures we build richer, have more lasting value, and integrate with each other in interesting ways. Think of it as a platform for geeks to collaborate with other people with minds on an equal basis. That last part is the whole point.

Scripting News Some have suggested that I go to the meeting of ed

Some have suggested that I go to the meeting of educational bloggers happening in SF today and tomorrow (I'm traveling today, but I'll be in Bay Area tomorrow). After giving it serious consideration, I've decided not to go. Here's why. UserLand has a new management team, five new people, with all kinds of experience operating technology companies, selling and marketing, product development. They're in rapid learning mode, talking to as many people as possible. I'm going to spend a lot of time with them next week transferring as much as possible of what I know about the product, the users, the potential. A few of them are going to the meeting tomorrow, including Jake. If I go, people may get the wrong idea. I want to help the new team, I don't want to steal their thunder. I want you all to learn how to work with each other, and the best way for me to do that is to step back and let it happen. So I send these very excellent people to you with much love. Go forth and make big things happen. Some of the best people in BloggerLand will be there today and tomorrow. So exciting.

ShellFront ckhotspots update

Scripting News Good morning early morning coffee drinkers. Hope y

Good morning early morning coffee drinkers. Hope you're enjoying your early morning coffee.

NeoWin.net Samurize v1.0.1

The Sunspot Cycle Explained

An anonymous reader writes "After the recent spate of auroras visible as far south as Florida and Greece, and radio amateurs having lots of fun bouncing their ...

BetaNews.Com ClearInfo 0.50 RC1 Released

Fill 'Er Up Full of Beans

As biodiesel made from soybeans gets cheaper, the fuel finds wider acceptance in the United States. What's not to like? It's easier on the environment, it smells better, and it even lets Americans feel patriotic at the pump. By Dan Orzech.

E-Votes Must Leave a Paper Trail

Concerned that electronic voting is susceptible to mistakes and fraud, California becomes the first major state to require all machines to produce paper voter receipts. By Kim Zetter.

Senate Bill Sticks It to Spammers

The U.S. Senate votes to prohibit deceptive spam and establish a do-not-spam registry for those who wish to steer clear of junk e-mail. Violators could face jail time and million-dollar fines under the bill.

Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

A Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture, kill and send a 'package full of Anthrax spores' to employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with spam promising to enlarge his penis.

China's Grip on Info Loosening

Although relatively few Chinese have Net access, government filters aren't very effective and word travels fast. And you can blame the Internet, says one expert.

DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music

Exclusive Fair use, open source style

Tweakfiles "Tileset_color" by [extatic]

The media octopus loses a tentacle

Congress has dealt Bush a stinging defeat on the FCC's relaxed new ownership rules -- and is threatening to strike a fatal blow.

Joe Conason's Journal

The AARP is backing the Medicare "prescription drug benefit" bill when it should be backing its members.

"The Cat in the Hat"

It's not worth your money. Not even one look. Mike Myers has butchered a great children's book.

"The president ought to be ashamed"

Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts Bush's "Nixonian" stonewalling of the 9/11 commission, his "lies" about Iraq, and his flight-suit photo op on the USS Lincoln after "hiding out" during Vietnam.

Operation Iron Hammer: Make noise, kill cows

If the U.S. wants to capture or kill Iraqi insurgents, local residents ask, why is it providing advance notice of its attacks?

Cheering Bush down

In contrast to the icy-cold pomp of the president's royal "state visit," an exuberant protest march draws 150,000, who march through London and bring a gold-painted Bush puppet to its knees.

"21 Grams"

This dark meditation on death and fate by the director of "Amores Perros" is admirable despite its flaws -- and Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts deliver knockout performances.

The chaos of war spreads to Saudi Arabia, Turkey

Author Jessica Stern says the recent bombings in Istanbul and Riyadh show that the U.S. war on terror is deeply flawed.

The Fix

Who's sexier -- Chad or Benjamin? Who took topless shots of Jennifer and Cameron? What did Bush eat with Blair? Plus: Memories of JFK

"Gothika"

What happened to Halle Berry's memory? Why is her wardrobe so bad? Is this a ghost movie or a women's-prison movie? Open the flower of your boredom and find out.

Love amid the Terror

Alexandre Dumas' "The Knight of Maison-Rouge," just published in English for the first time in 100 years, is a thrilling historical romance by the all-time master.

Notes from an activist: Running with the Black Bloc

On a day of chaos and confrontation between riot police and protesters in Miami, stereotypes are broken and solidarity is forged.

Snail Mail Tech

Paul03244 writes "I found a fascinating Smithsonian Institute page about snail mail technology, part of the SI's National Postal Museum. Great stuff; ...

OSNews eComStation 1.1 from a user's view, Part 1 and 2

geoShell Plugins geOStatPlus 1.28

StatInfo for CPU, Memory, Battery usages, Net I/O flow and Harddisk Temperature with cool ToolTips features.Note: Use Harddisk Temperature feature on your OWN risk. < Author : dllee - Updated on 22 Nov 03 - 12:45:03 AM]

OSNews Debian: Attack Didn't Harm Source Code

BetaNews.Com AIDA32 3.86.5 Preview Released

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Joe Clark writes "Nearly a year after an interview with this correspondent highlighted a few problems with Slashdot's HTML, Daniel M. Frommelt and his posse ...

Archive.org to Vivendi: we'll host MP3.com's files

Save the music

California mandates e-voting paper trails

But not in time for 2004

SHELL EXTENSION CITY INTERNET SURFER (free): Give Internet Explorer a multiple-document interface so you could browse several Web sites in the same window

SHELL EXTENSION CITY HACKER (free): System tool that can change system parameters, Windows properties and class attributes that cannot be changed elsewhere. With Hacker, you can intercept system messages, control the appearance of a window, and write data directly to the syst

SHELL EXTENSION CITY H MENU (free): Launchpad, but different from anything you've seen before. Hides at the 4 edges of your screen, its button bars at the ready

SHELL EXTENSION CITY GUI DESIGN PRINCIPLES (free): Certain principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces

WinXPcentral.com Five Zippy Athlon 64 Motherboards Reviewed

WinXPcentral.com Man gets "spam rage" over penis ad

Wal-Mart to Offer Wal-Mart Notebooks

ducomputergeek writes "Cnet News.com is running an article that Wal-Mart plans to launch its own line of notebook computers. I wonder if these will run Lindows ...

NeoWin.net Messenger Plus! 2.52.72

DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music

Fair use, open source style

WinCustomize.com Virtual PC for Mac 6.1

BetaNews.Com Qwik-Fix 0.55 Beta Released

Scripting News Lisa Williams talks about the software I demoed la

Lisa Williams talks about the software I demoed last night.

Scripting News Chris Lydon interviews Dean campaign manager Joe T

Chris Lydon interviews Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi. Highly recommended that other campaigns at all levels listen to this interview. There's no reason you can't do the same. It's a fundamentally different philosophy for a campaign, and whether you agree with Dean's policies or not, whether he gets nominated or elected, we all have a stake in its success. After listening to the interview I believe Trippi would agree with that.

Scripting News I just did a total brain transplant on my CMS. Let

I just did a total brain transplant on my CMS. Let's see if this shows up. It did. Now I'll route this to a category, Fun/Neat Net Tricks. And this post showed up. Amazing. I can't believe it. Now let's see if I can edit the cats. Yup. Now the directory shell. Try adding a movie. That worked too. Let's see if pictures work. Yes ma'am. Here's Joe Trippi's Diet Pepsi. Now I'm going to have to disappear for a bit to add code that does static rendering of the the HTML and RSS versions. This stuff isn't on www.scripting.com yet. Now it is. Have to hook up the static RSS feed.

Scripting News David Galbraith: "Things that aren't really search

David Galbraith: "Things that aren't really search engines, like Amazon and Ebay, or the classification of species for that matter, would be useless without some kind of ontology."

Scripting News Actually I agree with Galbraith on this one, now t

Actually I agree with Galbraith on this one, now that I've read the rebuttals to Shirky's piece. I agree with Shirky about how shrill and offensive the priests of the Semantic Web are, but I believe in taxonomy, which I guess is the same thing as ontology. And I know it works for a different reason than Galbraith -- I wrote outliners in the 80s and 90s and am building on them now, and they are nothing more than personal ontology editors. So there. They key is to take the rigidness out of it, and to throw out the people who think everything anyone else invents is junk. Hierarchies are good, if you don't expect too much of them.

Scripting News Scott Rosenberg: "What 'some are now attacking the

Scott Rosenberg: "What 'some are now attacking the president for,' of course, is not for 'attacking the terrorists' but for his foolhardy and foundering invasion of Iraq."

Court won't put number transfers on hold

A federal court decides to review an FCC order that lets landline telephone subscribers keep their phone numbers when switching to cell phone providers.

Superball!

Ben from Western writes "The Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University dropped 4000+ balls 70 feet through one of our buildings. We took numerous ...

WinXPcentral.com Red Hat Gives Away Fedora Core

Telcos sue to block landline-to-cell switchers

11th hour move to scupper LNP

Briefly: Microsoft settles Tennessee suit

The company settles its antitrust suit with consumers in the state....PacketVideo sells its video server unit...Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 servers.

Microsoft settles Tennessee suit

WinXPcentral.com MSN Messenger 6.1.0203

BetaNews.Com VSOS (Verdada Save, Organize and Share) 1.0.1420.26058 Beta Released

Vivendi to Destroy MP3.com archive

Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNET. That in and of itself is a yawner. MP3.com doesn't really fit the Vivendi profit model, so it's understandable that they're dumping it. Why this matters is they're not selling the archive, containing more than a million songs by 250,000 artists. As of December 3rd, they're destroying it.

Japanese Mars Probe Failing

Anonymous Coward writes "After months of silence and a week of hopeful half-truths, Japanese space officials have finally confirmed that their Mars-bound ...

BetaNews.Com Netrouser 0.0.0.98 Beta Released

OSNews An Approach to Solving the "Device Driver Crisis"

SBC raps RIAA subpoenas in court

The company challenges the legality of subpoenas from the record industry that sought information from Internet subscribers alleged to have offered copyrighted songs for download.

Red Hat, researchers in name tiff

A team of university researchers says it has dibs on the "Fedora" name that the company wants to trademark for its hobbyist version of Linux.

Wal-Mart to write own name on notebooks

The retail giant reportedly plans to launch a line of notebooks under its own brand name next year, a move that could push down prices, analysts say.

Congress poised for antispam vote

updateThe vote, which could come as early as Friday afternoon, would end more than six years of failed attempts to enact a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Webservice Debugs Linux Binaries While-U-Wait

null-und-eins writes "A new webservice offers automatic debugging of Linux binaries. It takes a (with "-g" compiled) binary and two invocations where one fails ...

Loose-screws ckHotspots 2.3.2

By: Chaku, updates by hollow, RabidCow Description: This is a really simple hotpots module that let you define hotspots. And what to do when your mouse cursor enters or leaves the spot

Loose-screws BGColors 1.03

By: AntAgna Description: Displays constantly changing colors in the background.

Bluejacking ain't hijacking

Letter And snarfing is purely theoretical

UK ID theft gang jailed for £350K fraud

Six crooks jailed for 15.5 years

Roadside PDA test targets drug-crazed UK drivers

Would you mind drawing on the screen, sir?

US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill

Folic_Acid writes "Rep. Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, has announced that the House and the Senate have reached a deal to ...

OSNews Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds to Slashdot Readers

OSNews RISC OS 4.02 Boot Patch Issued

OSNews Apple Posts OS X Server Admin Tools 10.3 as Stand Alone Archive

OSNews SCO Says It Will Go After Novell-SuSE

Yahoo promotes executives to boost products

The company promotes Geoff Ralston, former senior vice president of network services, to the new position of chief product officer and expands the role of senior vice president Jim Brock.

iPod-Jacked

Rick and Roll writes "In a story on Wired, entitled Feel Free to Jack Into My iPod, an iPod owner shares experiences he has had with other iPod owners, namely ...

Caldera/SCO Co-Founder Ransom Love Speaks

securitas writes "CNet has published an interview with Caldera (now SCO Group) co-founder Ransom Love, in which he talks about the Novell acquisition of SuSE, ...

BetaNews.Com Avant Browser 8.03 Beta 8 Released

BetaNews.Com eMule 0.30c Released

OSNews Igor Searches for Programming Errors

OSNews Interview with Alan Redhouse of Eyetech

Group files suit to block number rules

A telephone industry association asks a federal court to delay rules for letting landline telephone subscribers keep their phone numbers when they switch to cellular providers.

U.N. report: Economic pressures push outsourcing

Companies in the United States and Europe will continue to outsource work to developing nations for competitive advantage and to cut costs, though concerns remain over quality of services.

Congress poised for antispam vote

The vote, which could come as early as Friday afternoon, would end more than six years of failed attempts to enact a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Wal-Mart to write own name on notebooks

The retail giant reportedly plans to launch a line of notebooks under its own brand name next year, a move that could push down prices, say analysts.

Yahoo buys Chinese software firm

The portal giant will pay about $120 million in cash over two years to acquire 3721, a Hong Kong-based company that develops software for Internet keyword searches.

Scripting News I subscribed to the feed for Massachusetts. "There

I subscribed to the feed for Massachusetts. "There are no active watches, warnings or advisories."

Scripting News I was trawling various referrer logs, and came acr

I was trawling various referrer logs, and came across Richard Stallman's personal site, where he points to something I wrote. We've certainly gotten into a few heated discussions, but when it comes to keeping the Internet free of ownership by media companies, we're on the same side. I like.

In Search of Stupidity

Alex Moskalyuk writes "There are dozens of titles on 'corporate excellence.' Management types like them. They teach the best practices from known companies and ...

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.165 Beta Released

Adobe drops animation software

Week in review: Comdex goes corporate

Long a launchpad for consumer items, the Comdex trade show this year focused more on technology for the working world, including security, spam and utility computing.

Tired of Gates' Linux assertion

Microsoft nabs top Sun sales exec

Barbara Gordon, a top sales executive for Sun Microsystems, has left that company and joined rival Microsoft.

Gates' amusing view of utility computing

Scripting News National Weather Service alerts are available in R

National Weather Service alerts are available in RSS 2.0. Bing!

Scripting News Chris Lydon interviews Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign

Chris Lydon interviews Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager.

Scripting News Simply Live Anywhere: "You need the power of a hea

Simply Live Anywhere: "You need the power of a heavy jetliner to get an idea off the ground."

Scripting News It took me a while to figure out who Moose is. It'

It took me a while to figure out who Moose is. It's Jessica the Librarian, a Thursday night regular. Moose?

Scripting News Press release: "Weblog software leader Six Apart a

Press release: "Weblog software leader Six Apart and NIFTY, one of Japan's leading ISPs, have announced a licensing agreement to provide Six Apart's popular TypePad weblogging service to over five million NIFTY subscribers in Japan."

Scripting News Andrew's looking for a new laptop too.

Andrew's looking for a new laptop too.

Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No'

rawg writes "Looks like Yahoo is resetting their 'Marketing Preferences' again. In an email I received from Yahoo today it states, 'Starting January 1, 2004, ...

Teknidermy NewsSTAND iTunes as the new Napster - wow, that was fast!!!

Serious Samurize 1.0 Release - Samurize goes "Gold"!

We feel Samurize has reached a stage where it can no longer be considered a beta. Virtually all bugs that are within our control have been fixed, and this release also contains a heap of stuff some people have been asking for for a long time. So we hope you enjoy it You can get it as usual from the downloads section, or via the edonkey network here in partnership with Ratiatum.New Features:* Plugin meter (sample code included to show how to write them)* QCD meter* Config editor formatting options - alignment* Config editor merge command* PNG Image display typeBugfixes:* pie graphs, rounded rectangles & ellipses alignment fix* histogram 1-pixel shift bug fixed* WMI form resizing bug fixed* "Run every X min" translation bugfix* MBM farenheit bugfix* Zoom options not shown bugfix for large fonts* Client crash fixed when launched from a DockImprovements:* improved Winamp meter (can show numerical data such as track position, bitrate etc)* DEFAULT_CHARSET for non-ascii languages* shift-resizing (preserving aspect ratio) in config editor* 1x1 pixel minimum meter size* X,Y, width,height for graphic objects* any single-click activates meter linkage* 24hr analog clock formatting option (%hh)* ActiveScripts more resilient to being configured wrong* Certain hotkeys prevented from being used (Caps Lock, Scroll Lock...)* Additional language fields (see LanguageChanges.txt)

Online retail sales up 27 percent

E-tail sales rise to $13.3 billion during the third quarter of 2003 and are expected gain even more traction during the holidays.

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds

The "Call for Questions" post for Mr. Szulik generated over 650 questions and comments, 32 of which were moderated +5 at the time we selected questions to send ...

WinCustomize.com More flavors of DesktopX Pro Added!

Linux Advisory Watch - November 21st 2003

This week, advisories were released for zebra, hylafax, minimalist, Glibc, XFree86, Sane, postgresql, and apache. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE, and Trustix.

Thus pulls out of 118 to 'protect reputation'

Regulators urged to clamp down on 'cowboy' operators

Scripting News My four year old Sony Vaio is too old, the CPU is

My four year old Sony Vaio is too old, the CPU is slow, the OS is out of date, and it's thrashing awfully, and I feel like treating myself to something new. Dave Jacobs says I should get a ThinkPad, and after talking with a couple of other people I decided to buy one since I can get a huge discount through Harvard. I called their order line, and in ten minutes we had zeroed in on the unit. Fast, lots of memory, great warranty. The guy puts me on hold to confirm they have it in stock, and never comes back. Twenty minutes later the phone system offers me five choices that make no sense. I hit Operator. The guy has no idea, and unlike the first guy, who was pure IBM (competent) the second guy is like jello. Can't get him to help me. So I say goodbye and call back, and wait another twenty minutes. This would be a perfect IBM commercial. BTW, lots of the glitches are things that could be fixed if they hired a user to tell them how silly, repetitive and even contradictory the phone messages are. And the music they play, pretty sexy stuff. At IBM? The world has gone crazy. It's official.

Scripting News A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alt

A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alternate view of ApacheCon, including Chris Pirillo's keynote. On the other hand, Doc Searls says it reminded him of BloggerCon.

EU Hi-Tech Crime Agency Created

Gori writes "The European Union is setting up an agency to co-ordinate work to combat the rising tide of cybercrime. The European Network and Information ...

Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting

goombah99 writes "Los Alamos county, which boasts the highest geek PhD per capita in the world and considerable clout in secure computing, has voted to rescind ...

Nthellworld.com whinge site pulled

Time for a 'comprehensive review' of service

European Cyber security agency is go

Measly budget

Microsoft signs .Net deal in China

The software maker reaches agreements intended to deepen its ties with the Chinese government, even as the country's officials enlist rival Sun in a nationwide open-source push.

E-Bombs: Technology Update

vaderhelmet writes "'In these media-fueled times, when war is a television spectacle and wiping out large numbers of civilians is generally frowned upon, the ...

Xinie.com Xinie on IRC!

Serious Samurize 1.0.1

Just a few bugfixes, most notably the rendering quality improvement for scaled dynamic PNGs.Bugfixes:* fixed language bug with taskbar* improved dyanamic PNGs rendering quality* copy/paste "Run more frequently" bug fixed* Select All bug fixed* Winamp meter bug fixed* fixed precision issues with meters

BetaNews.Com Matador 3.5.0.997 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com WebLog Expert 3.0 Beta 3 Released

BetaNews.Com IncrediMail Build 1306 Beta Released

Lessons from Oregon's Open Source bill

On March 5, Oregon became the first state in U.S. history to formally consider legislation relating to government acquisition of Open Source software.  Within two weeks a similar bill was introduced into the Texas state legislature. Microsoft-funded lobbyists descended in swarms upon both capitols to destroy the proposals. Anyone interested in working for Open Source-related legislation elsewhere would do well to study what happened.

Some Debian project machines compromised

From: Martin Schulze Subject: Some Debian Project machines have been compromised To: Debian Announcements Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:46:19 +0100

Scandis rule global ICT waves

UK limps in at 12

Sentencing postponed in nuclear lab hack case

Hearing set for December 19

Siebel sues former exec over contract breach

The software maker alleges that a former employee disclosed confidential information to a rival company while still at Siebel.

Mouse Gestures in Javascript

christodd writes "I have become big fan of mouse gestures, a feature included in Opera, Mozilla, and MyIE2. There's even a plugin for IE. Other programs like ...

WinXPcentral.com Ad-aware referencefile 01R232 20.11.2003

WinXPcentral.com DriverView 1.0.0

WinXPcentral.com Net-access tax may pass.

Some Debian project machines compromised

IBM puts new efforts behind PC division

Laptop push

Peoplesoft welcomes EC intervention

Changes small print on refund

AMD admits 90nm production slippage

Volume output in Q3 2004, not Q2

Senate may move on bill to ban Net-access tax

A logjam on a stalled bill to permanently ban taxes on Internet access appears close to breaking, but the final shape of the bill is uncertain.

Debian Project Servers Compromised

Sean was one of many to pass along the bad news from the debian-announce mailing list: "Some Debian Project machines have been compromised. This is a very ...

DNA Assembled Nano-Transistors

Bob Vila's Hammer writes "In an article at New Scientist, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed DNA to mold a ...

IT job strategies: What outsourcing risks mean for IT workers

The corporate rush to outsource American IT to India has created an $8 billion business there. Now a new study shows that companies are not necessarily saving money by outsourcing. But is that good news for IT workers?

Intel commits to 4GHz Prescott P4 by Q4 '04

On all fours

Business Serve buys Legend Internet

Swing low, sweet chaaaa-reee-hut

DRM music goldrush is a race for losers - mp3.com founder

While Apple leads the lemmings

Senate may move on Net access tax ban

A logjam appears close to breaking on stalled bill to permanently ban taxes on Internet access, but final shape of the bill uncertain.

Comdex: A look toward 2004

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports back from the floor that despite the light turnout, show-goers can catch glimpses of tech's future.

The pragmatic radical

CEO Michael Dell is about to apply his tried-and-true business formula far beyond the PC. Is he worried? Don't count on it.

Scripting News Friendster user on Friendster: "...the fantasy tha

Friendster user on Friendster: "...the fantasy that we are all rock stars, that everyone's ass looks great in leather, that everyone is sexy."

Scripting News Today's song: "I want the world to change for me!"

Today's song: "I want the world to change for me!"

Scripting News A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alt

A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alternate view of ApacheCon, including a writeup of Chris Pirillo's keynote.

AMD admits 90nm production deadline slipped

Volume output in Q3 2004, not Q2

Don't say nothing to the SCO cops, Gartner advises Linux users

High performance systems? You seen any high performance systems, Rico?

Low self esteem makes you thick - official

But PDA-driven brain tickler offers hope

Mixed fortunes for enterprise WLANs

'low priority'

NTL waves goodbye to 2,000 jobs

Efficiency gains

Broadcom bites back against Intel-Mobilian, Atheros

Under Pressure

Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod

Reinforcing the notion that iPod owners are members of some sort of exclusive, hip club, some of them are plugging their earbuds into total strangers' jacks. By Leander Kahney.

EBay Sellers Generous With Junk

Sometimes the crap you think is fit for a charity is also viewed as crap by the charity. Now, eBay has set up a way for sellers to get rid of their castoffs while still helping nonprofits. By Katie Dean.

Friendster Quickly Gathering Foes

The intentions of Friendster's founders and its community members are apparently at odds, so many Friendster friends are moving over to other social networks, such as Tribe.net. By Daniel Terdiman.

The Key to Genius

Autistic savants are born with miswired neurons -- and extraordinary gifts. Now researchers are using breakthrough science to expand our understanding of the brain. By Wired magazine's Steve Silberman.

Having a Gas in Okefenokee Swamp

Locals tell many tales of odd goings-on in the Okefenokee Swamp. Wireless gadgets go on the fritz, glowing orbs of green light pursue lonely visitors, and wetland flatulence fills the air. Michelle Delio reports from Waycross, Georgia.

'Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests

An international crackdown targets hackers, software pirates, perpetrators of credit card fraud and other cybercriminals. Authorities say they found 125,000 victims who lost more than $100 million in Internet scams.

AT & #038;T Sues EBay in Patent Dispute

The long-distance telephone company hits the online auction pioneer and its PayPal unit with a lawsuit, claiming their payment systems violate an AT & #038;T patent.

Down-Home Cookin' Takes Flight

Astronauts no longer must subsist on dehydrated cubes of flavorless food. Instead, NASA researchers slave over hot stoves to prepare tasty treats just like Mom used to make. The crew's one complaint? Fish stinks.

Novell looks to Linux to pull it out of the red

Losses, lower revenues in Q4

Germans deploy talking überbin

War on litter takes to the streets

BT gloats as Freeserve loses broadband pricing appeal

'Spurious' claims rejected by Oftel

NeoWin.net AOL Lets IM Users Log On From Multiple Locations

NeoWin.net Austalia's local Jabber™ server launched

BetaNews.Com Testers Invited for Windows XP SP2 Beta

AMD Breaks Ground on New Chip Facility

philthedrill writes "AMD announced that they have broken ground on Fab 36, which again will be located in Dresden, Germany. The 300 mm fab is expected to start ...

BetaNews.Com Fast Note 2.0.0 Beta 9 Released

BetaNews.Com Total Media Player 3.0 Beta 18 Released

A busy week for IT earnings reports

The last week has been a busy week for tech companies reporting earnings. Hardware companies Dell and HP, Semiconductor Capital Equipment maker Applied Materials, analog semiconductor company Analog Devices, and Storage companies Network Appliance and Brocade, to mention but a few. I have reviewed my thoughts about some of the more prominent earnings reports. The stock of Agere has sold off pretty hard, and there is an interesting play that appears to be setting up SanDisk between now and the end of the year. Canadian company, Westaim, which has a flat screen technology division, is a name I have liked long all year although the stock has settled back a little of late. And finally, next week is Thanksgiving and there is often an edge (if history is any guide) for trading long ahead of and after the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

I Like to Watch

Bachelor Bobs grow on trees, "The West Wing" rolls into flashy "ER" territory and the average Joes go head-to-head with a bevy of Adonises. Plus: Why Ethiopians need therapy, not used mattresses.

Confessions of a virgin marriage

I loved and was attracted to my husband, but I didn't want to have sex with him.

Anxiety attacks

I'm in love with a man who takes a year to decide which sport coat to buy and I'm waiting for a decision about our relationship. Help!

What's playing at the Capitol Cineplex?

"Kindergarten Cop" -- rated L for Extreme Legislative Dysfunction -- and more!

The penguin is mightier than the sword

"Bloom County" cartoonist Berkeley Breathed talks about bringing Opus back to the nation's comics page to rip Garfield (and maybe George Bush) a new one.

I don't

I'd love to satisfy my mother and annoy Rick Santorum by getting married to my boyfriend. But I care for him -- and our son -- too much to risk it.

Dean, sunny-side up

Dogged by criticism that he is "too angry," Howard Dean rolls out a new, positive message on his rapidly expanding road show.

Tom the Dancing Bug

Presidential Revisionist Comics: Did I say, Bring 'em on? I meant, Be prepared for a long, hard fight!

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

"We have become revenue addicts." An interview with Tulane president Scott Cowen, who says reforming college sports is a pipe dream worth chasing.

Joe Conason's Journal

If the "secret" intelligence memo leaked to the Weekly Standard was meant to prove a link between Iraq and al-Qaida, it failed.

Green China?

While the U.S. sells out its own environment to the highest bidder, China is getting serious about energy conservation. Two scientists explain how and why.

Who wants to get married?

I'd hoped that the gay-marriage fight might lead to a reassessment of an institution that's plainly failing masses of people. But that doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda.

DeviantArt.com deviantART's Avatar Policies

There's always been a bit of confusion regarding deviantART's policies as they pertain to user avatars. Well, now we're going to clear that up for everyone, once and for all. Read on for explanations of how we treat avatars and why.

BetaNews.Com Skype 0.95 Beta Released

Intel stakes phone hopes on Manitoba

WiFi to appear alongside EDGE, WCDMA protocols

WinCustomize.com The Creation of a Holiday Desktop...

WinCustomize.com Do Mac users have a credibility problem?

WinCustomize.com MyTunes released

NeoWin.net MyTunes released for Windows

BetaNews.Com GigAlarm 1.241 Beta Released

Mafia Tech Support

Mzilikazi writes "A story from Wired about performing tech support for the mob, mainly focusing on gambling. Some interesting information is presented about ...

Scripting News Packed house tonight. This is going to be somethin

Packed house tonight. This is going to be something, a beta group for a new software product at a university that meets once a week. Even in the old days, in the 80s, I never had so much contact with users. Off to a great start. BTW, I'd love to read other people's accounts of tonight's meeting.

Scripting News My talk at Stanford Law School is at 12:30PM on Mo

My talk at Stanford Law School is at 12:30PM on Monday. Open to the public. Depending on how it goes tonight, I may demo the new authoring system I'm working on.

Scripting News My demo list for this evening's meeting.

My demo list for this evening's meeting.

Scripting News Chris Sells explains how Longhorn SDK annotations

Chris Sells explains how Longhorn SDK annotations work.

RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old

MunchMunch writes "It looks like the RIAA is still going after teenagers--this time, 15-year old Megan Dickinson was caught sharing 1,100 files. At the maximum ...

SHELL EXTENSION CITY OE BACKUP (free): Simple program to back up your Outlook Express files

SHELL EXTENSION CITY OE TOOL (free): Enhancement of Outlook Express that provides an additional Toolbar adding features

SHELL EXTENSION CITY ADVANCED SPAM DEFENSE (free): Sophisticated anti-spam tool uses a new technique based on spam-indexes

NeoWin.net NSIS 2 - Beta 4 out!

SHELL EXTENSION CITY MY TUNES (free): Allows you to save iTunes music from other computers to your hard drive

OSNews GTK# 0.14, wx.NET 0.3 Released

OSNews Fedora Core Reviews, Rants

Open XUL Alliance Launches Wiki Wiki

Zulu Layout Engine Combines XUL and Flash

DeviantArt.com deviantART Hits 3 Million Deviations!

A little more than 3 months have passed since our third birthday, after launching the third version of deviantART and we have just hit another three milestone: 3 million deviations!

Intel's Otellini promises 'Year of Itanium'

But where are they all hiding?

'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests

unassimilatible writes "Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that law-enforcement agents had arrested 125 suspects in a crackdown on Internet crimes ...

Taking a close look at Handspring's new Treo 600

Handspring recently released a new all-in-one device, the Treo 600. This device combines a PDA, cell phone, Mp3 player, and camera in one svelte unit. While attending a conference recently, I had the good fortune to win one of these fine gadgets after attending a session (Thanks Harry!) I hadn't gone to the conference planning to get a new phone or change my service. I had been happy enough with my old Nokia 6360 cell phone.

SBC challenges RIAA over subpoenas

The record industry and telecommunications giant SBC Communications are set to face off in a San Francisco courtroom in a dispute over the record label's legal charges against file swappers.

AT&T Sues PayPal and eBay for Patent Infringement

theodp writes "AT&T on Thursday fired the latest shot in the escalating Web patent wars, filing suit against PayPal and eBay. AT&T issued a press ...

Yahoo eyes purchase of Chinese Web firm

Yahoo is close to acquiring Beijing-based 3721, a company that sells Chinese-language Web addresses, with a deal expected as early as Friday.

PacketVideo sells video server unit

Briefly: PacketVideo sells video server unit

Alcatel snaps up the company's Network Solutions division....Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 servers...A judge denies a request to expedite the PeopleSoft hearing.

Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 servers

Comdex: Little fish in a smaller pond

The lack of big names gives other companies a chance to shine on the shrunken show floor, as organizers call the reborn expo a success.

Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape

Slashback tonight with more on whether Princeton really hates open source (hint: No.), the outcome of Australia's mp3s4free.net case, the Farscape-to-return ...

WinCustomize.com Drengin.net home page revamped

HP's top HR executive to retire

Susan Bowick, the human-resources head who helped blend the workforce of Compaq Computer with that of Hewlett-Packard, is retiring at the end of the year.

Senate passes nanotech funding bill

Loss shrinks, sign-ups grow for TiVo

The digital video recording pioneer posts a narrower-than-expected loss of $7.4 million as its subscriber numbers continue to increase.

FCC rejects number portability delay

The FCC turns down a phone industry group's request to postpone rules allowing landline phone subscribers to take their old numbers with them when they switch to cell phones.

A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD

GooseLiverPate writes "Computers and Composition Online has an article by Dr. Paul Cesarini concerning the risks of a Microsoft monoculture in education. He ...

DeviantArt.com Colours Skin Pack for WindowBlinds Available

Three new skins! In a pack! With wallpapers! For $5! Hurrah!

DeviantArt.com New Video Codecs

This week brought new versions of the 3ivx and the DivX codec.

DeviantArt.com GNOME 2.4.1

The GNOME Project is an effort to create a complete, free and easy-to-use desktop environment for users, as well as a powerful application development framework for software developers.

WinXPcentral.com Opera 7.23 Final Released

US agencies arrest 125 in Operation Cyber Sweep

Net fraud crackdown

Yahoo! shatters! world! yodelling! record!

Swiss and Germans no match for American might

Key Office exec to exit Microsoft

Joe Eschbach, recruited from Adobe Systems a year ago to help spur the expansion of Microsoft Office, plans to leave the company Dec. 1.

U.N. finds wide digital divide

A study from the U.N's International Telecommunication Union shows the digital divide is alive and well. Nordic nations lead the globe in Internet accessibility.

Now showing on Comcast: Streaming video

The cable giant bulks up its home page with a new streaming video player, as part of its ongoing effort to become a Web portal for broadband users.

Intel raises the stakes on Wi-Fi chips

The chipmaker is developing a Wi-Fi chip for portable devices as well as a software access point for desktop PCs as it looks beyond Wi-Fi chips for notebooks.

In a flash, Intel loses memory lead

Samsung has displaced the giant chipmaker as the world's leading manufacturer of flash memory.

Creative Recycling: Dumpster Diving

gnewton writes "One angle of Open Source software that perhaps has not been emphasised enough is how the lower cost of software and operating systems as ...

The Golden Ruler

In the last 35 years, the world has experienced an unprecedented period of global inflation. From 1792 to 1915, the cost of a bag of groceries in America went unchanged, but from 1973 to 1982, the dollar lost over half of its buying power at the store counter. Since then, the dollar has shed another half of its remaining value when buying that same bag of groceries. Not to be outdone, the UK walked a similar path. From 1795 to 1910, prices didn't budge, but since 1973, the pound has lost almost nine tenths of its retail muscle. What is going on?

Yahoo sends reminder on marketing changes

The company gives some members one last chance to opt out of an internal marketing program that's set to launch in January, following controversial changes to its privacy policy last year.

IBM lays off employees in software group

Big Blue lays off around 200 employees as part of its ongoing effort to reduce costs. Employees in about two-dozen locations in the United States are affected.

Panel: Shared work, not suits, key to open source

A Comdex panel proposes that the main innovation of the open-source movement isn't the creation of licensing models but the collaboration between developers.

Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money

benploni writes "George Weiss of Gartner has published a paper with some interesting recommendations regarding SCO. They include 1) Keep a low profile and do ...

WinXPcentral.com Antivirus Vendor Offers Free Software

NeoWin.net Fresh UI v6.65

NeoWin.net NSIS 2 - Beta 3 out!

NeoWin.net Winamp 5.0 Release Candidate 8

NeoWin.net Easy CD Ripper 2.16

NeoWin.net jv16 PowerTools 1.4.1.246 Officially Released

NeoWin.net Opera 7.23

NeoWin.net IncrediMail (Beta) Build 1306.

NeoWin.net Skype Beta 0.95.0.11.

NeoWin.net Kazaa Media Desktop 2.6.

BetaNews.Com WinMessenger 2.0 Preview Released

BetaNews.Com Calendarscope 2.0 Beta 3 Released

IBM pares employees in software group

Big Blue lays off around 200 employees as part of its ongoing effort to reduce costs. Employees in about two-dozen locations in the United States are affected.

AT&T Wireless: mMode update clips clicks

The company unveils the first major overhaul of its mMode wireless Web service, including new features and less potential thumb strain.

Intel sets the bar at 4GHz

The chipmaker aims to boost clock speeds and to launch a clutch of processors for desktops, notebooks and wireless devices next year, according to executives.

AT&T sues eBay, PayPal over patent

The telecommunications giant files suit against eBay and PayPal, alleging patent infringement--the latest skirmish in the escalating Web patent wars.

Ars Dissects POWER5, UltraSparc IV, and Efficeon

Burton Max writes "There's an interesting article here at Ars about the POWER5, UltraSparc IV, and Efficeon CPUs. It's a self-styled "overview of three ...

OSNews Q&A with Sun's Product Team on Java Desktop System

OSNews Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

OSNews ReactOS 0.1.5 released

OSNews Beware the Desktop Quagmire; Home Users Leap to Linux

Linux veteran tries again

Ransom Love once turned his back on Linux after founding Caldera. Now he returns to Novell a born-again Linux-phil. Why the switch?

Jockeying for jobs

Amid reports on job losses, the impact of high-tech outsourcing to foreign countries remains hard to gauge. Also, utility computing's role.

.Net explained again--and again, and again...

The Definitive Guide to the Compact Framework

William Ryan writes "If you are new to the .NET Compact Framework, you are about to embark upon a challenging yet rewarding path by writing CF applications. ...

OSNews New tablet PCs: Better--but still not perfect

Scripting News Bill Joy: "Open source doesn't assist the initial

Bill Joy: "Open source doesn't assist the initial creative act."

Scripting News Dave Pollard: "I'm just trying to save the world.

Dave Pollard: "I'm just trying to save the world. Someone else will have to save the blogosphere."

HP, Cap Gemini join forces for storage

Continuing its push into so-called information lifecycle management, Hewlett-Packard teams up with Cap Gemini to help clients take care of data.

Apple fixes security in Panther, Jaguar

The Mac maker releases a security update for the recently released Panther operating system and patches several flaws in Jaguar, its predecessor.

Open source no panacea for security

Paying to protect Linux

Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora'

Carl Lagoze points out that a pre-existing software project is already using the Fedora name, dating back to 1998. They're unhappy with Red Hat's claim to the ...

NERC Releases Interim Report on Aug 14th Blackout

will writes "The North American Electric Reliability Council has released four documents concerning the August 14th power outage power outage in the North ...

Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

kristy_christie writes "According to Wired News, South Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom and its international partners want to build the world's first ...

Xinie.com Winamp5 is just around the corner

BetaNews.Com IncrediMail Build 1301 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Vypress Chat 1.9 RC4 Released

BetaNews.Com Website-Watcher 3.60 Beta 13 Released

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.163 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com GoldenSection Notes 2.6 RC2 Build 525 Released

RealNetworks blasts video to AT&T handsets

The streaming media company announces a deal to deliver digital video--of news, market reports, entertainment and other content--to AT&T Wireless cell phones.

Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping

pegr writes "El Reg has a story about how a US appeals court has 'put the brakes on an FBI surveillance technique that turns an automobile driver's on-board ...

lowdimension.net who is reading the news o_O

20.11.03 - ok, clickety hackity click

lowdimension.net and its Lowspirit and snowchyld neck and neck

20.11.03 - Lowspirit gets an early lead... but wait on the outside

WinCustomize.com Colours Skin Pack for WindowBlinds from essorant.com

BetaNews.Com WinOrganizer 2.6 RC2 Build 525 Released

CLI for noobies: making and melting tarballs

This is important. We're talking about tar, that sticky software that bonds files together into one big ball. It's one of the most important programs you'll learn to use from the Linux CLI. Why? Because most free/open source software makes use of tar in distributing itself, that's why. So unless you know - at a minimum - how to untar a tarball, you will remain cut off from a vital flow, nay, from the heartbeat of free/open source software. That's why tar is a necessary skill for you to learn. That, and the fact you need to know how to use it to earn your CLI merit-badge.

O2 launches digital music player

Reg Kit Watch And a UK music download service, too

Symbian Q3 revenues dip

Update As phone shipments slow

Study quells fears of IT outsource impact

According to research by IDC, the information tecnology services industry will continue to depend on offshore outsourcing, but the impact on the overall industry will be less of a threat than thought.

BMC adds to ID management tools

The software maker says it will extend its identity management applications, used to administer employee accounts and passwords on internal networks.

Scripting News Jon Udell: Working with Bayesian Categorizers.

Jon Udell: Working with Bayesian Categorizers.

Scripting News Fascinating map shows where each of the candidates

Fascinating map shows where each of the candidates' money comes from.

Scripting News Now, on the other hand, Jack dreams of modifying o

Now, on the other hand, Jack dreams of modifying our operating systems, hard drives, networks, routers, servers, you name it -- so that he can tell us which bits we can copy. This rewrite makes the Y2K corner-turn look tiny in comparison. The cost is incomprehensible. Does that make him an asshole? You bet.

Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003

Rick DeBay writes "Scientific American has come out with their Sci/Tech gift list for 2003. I think they did a good job, even the selections in the under $25 ...

WinCustomize.com More flavors of DesktopX Pro requested?

Moratorium on RFID chips urged

Supermarket sweep

IBM to add clock throttling tech to 90nm G5 chip

PowerTune saves... er.. power

Check Point looks beyond the perimeter

Joined-up security

SBC offers cheaper VoIP service

The carrier begins selling a less-expensive version of Internet telephone service that requires businesses to buy only a fraction of the necessary equipment.

Overture unveils ad-tracking system

The search company unveils new software that's designed to be a marketer's clearinghouse for assessing the effectiveness of online advertising.

AMD breaks ground on new chip plant

The chipmaker rolls out the welcome wagon for its new neighbor--itself--as it begins constructing another factory in Dresden, Germany, to help keep pace with growing demand for its products.

Microsoft re-explains .Net strategy

The software giant's elusive initiative--a hot topic a few years ago but overshadowed by other Microsoft efforts lately--is declared alive and well by a Comdex panel.

Spyware for Corporate Espionage

therufus writes "Late in July, an e-mail that hit employee in-boxes at a British credit card and finance company carried a secret payload--spyware capable of ...

How to Handle an Internet Outage

canadian_right writes "Do you know what to do if your internet connection goes down? This article includes many helpful tips, including a functional use for ...

SanDisk delays Wi-Fi SD card Palm support to Q1 '04

Technical and non-technical reasons

Scripting News Just the barest hint of a clue over in Jack Valent

Just the barest hint of a clue over in Jack Valenti Land. Hey Jack, people are watching first-run movies on the Internet right now. But, this is a good sign, the entertainment industry is trying to market to customers, selling a benefit. But there's no benefit to copy protection, not for people who use the stuff, in fact it's a negative feature. Yeah I know the rationales, been there done that, went to Comdex, but in the end the customers aren't that stupid.

Scripting News BTW, I know I'm really rude when it comes to talki

BTW, I know I'm really rude when it comes to talking about entertainment industry execs. No, I wouldn't like it if people talked about me that way in public. When I read someone saying Dave Winer has the barest hint of a clue, I think, yeah sure, what makes him so smart. Okay, I need to express my inner-arrogance. Many apologies to Jack Valenti, who surely is a fine human being, for using him as my foil. No kidding.

Scripting News Now, on the other hand, Jack is some kind of an as

Now, on the other hand, Jack is some kind of an asshole. He dreams of modifying our operating systems, hard drives, networks, routers, servers, you name it -- so that he can tell us which bits we can copy. This rewrite makes the Y2K corner-turn look tiny in comparison. The cost is incomprehensible.

AMD breaks ground on new chip plant

The chipmaker rolls out the welcome wagon for its new neighbor--itself--as it begins construction of another factory in Dresden, Germany, to help AMD keep pace with growing demand for its products.

Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router

macmouse writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about Cisco and Anti-Virus companies working together to block viruses at the ISP (Router) level. ...

WinXPcentral.com Nero PowerPack Soon!

WinXPcentral.com MSN Messenger 6.1.0202

WinXPcentral.com Winamp 5 Lite RC 8

Setting up server tools for spam- and virus-free mail

It is amazing how much easier it is to get through an inbox uncluttered by unwanted messages. After a week of email nearly free of spam and viruses, the time and effort it took to configure a Linux mail server with SpamAssassin, MIMEDefang, and sendmail seem well worth the trouble.

US cybercrime push 'imperils personal security' of Americans

Even the Serbians will look up your records

FSF Wants Your Vouchers

Ridgelift writes "California residents can help support the Free Software Foundation by donating their Microsoft vouchers to the FSF. In turn, the FSF will be ...

AMD selects Dresden for 300mm plant

Fab 36

Symbian Q3 revenues slide

As phone shipments slow

We reveal major UNIX? IP violations

Exclusive And it's SCO

SBC to offer cheaper VoIP service

The carrier is set to begin selling a less-expensive version of Internet telephone service that requires businesses to buy only a fraction of the necessary equipment.

Scripting News Five years ago today: "How much thinking goes on o

Five years ago today: "How much thinking goes on on the Internet?"

Scripting News Michael Feldman's tutorial is a great resource for

Michael Feldman's tutorial is a great resource for people learning how to use Manila.

Scripting News It's really great to see O'Reilly embrace RSS 2.0.

It's really great to see O'Reilly embrace RSS 2.0. The power of two growing platforms, Microsoft's Longhorn and Really Simple Syndication.

Scripting News Tim Bray: "Jean Paoli called last week to tip me o

Tim Bray: "Jean Paoli called last week to tip me off about the release of the MS Office XML schema-ware."

Scripting News I just noticed that Al Gore looks a lot like Rober

I just noticed that Al Gore looks a lot like Robert Scoble.

Scripting News Yesterday I met someone who had not read Kurt Vonn

Yesterday I met someone who had not read Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. I expressed envy. I wish I had not read it so I could read it again for the first time. A delicious book. Then it occurred to me that some of you might not have read it either. You have no excuse now. ";->"

Scripting News Here's the NY Times review, published in 1969. The

Here's the NY Times review, published in 1969. The book came up in conversation because it offers a reasonable and highly optimistic view of existence. No one is actually dead, they're just reliving the important moments of their lives, maybe the not-so-important ones too. A philosophy that suggests that you should pack life with lots of interesting moments because you're going to be experiencing them for eternity. In this view, deja vu is a little leakage in the matrix (as it is in The Matrix).

Kazaa Launches Legitimacy Campaign

Beolach writes "The Washington Post has an article on Kazaa launching a $1 million advertising campaign promoting itself as a legitimate media distribution ...

Tweakfiles "squared" by [extatic]

US railroad uses Wi-Fi to run 'driverless' trains

World's biggest train set?

Court limits in-car FBI spying

But only because it crippled some safety features

Martha Lane Fox leaves Lastminute

Gone, but not forgotten

DTI builds SME data portal

Strike up the band

China unveils 'DVD killer' video disk format

Offers HDTV quality, apparently

'Lost generation' of bosses blamed for IT mediocrity

Come on, say what you mean

DeviantArt.com PimpBot 1.2.0

whyEye.org released another major update of PimpBot.

DeviantArt.com WinAmp5 May be Soon to Arrive

The Winamp5 betas, and story behind the name, are widely known. In the last few days not only has Winamp5 been under heavy development, but it has also had several release candidates.

DeviantArt.com NSIS 2.0 Beta 4

The authors of the Nullsoft Scriptable Installation System (NSIS) have released a new beta.

Record Label Sings New Tune

A small record label in Great Britain wants to foster artistic freedom and creativity by publishing music free of the usual copyright restrictions, so anyone can remix and sample the work. By Katie Dean.

Speed Kills, Military Wants More

Ever in search of more powerful weapons, the Pentagon is planning some big and mighty fast missiles and rockets. By Noah Shachtman.

Next Big Thing in Biotech: RNAi

A new technology that has the potential to stop disease in its tracks could help produce the next generation of blockbuster drugs. Venture capitalists and startups are giddy, but are trying to curb their enthusiasm. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Space Mission on Auction Block

A satellite manufacturer has come up with a novel way to market its product: It's selling an entire space mission on eBay. SpaceDev offers the chance to design and operate a satellite for a fraction of what most orbiters cost. By Lakshmi Sandhana.

CodeFellas

Smart mobs? Fuhgeddaboutit. Not till they hired me. Now they're getting a secure P2P bet-processing system. A mafia hacker tells his story to Wired magazine's Simson Garfinkel.

Republicans Back E-Vote Bill

A House bill that would require electronic voting machines to provide a receipt has previously only been supported by Democrats. Now there are some new faces in the crowd -- Republicans.

Scientists ID New Whale Species

Japanese scientists say they've discovered a new type of baleen whale, but some U.S. researchers remain skeptical. If confirmed, it's a whale of a find.

EU May Fund Embryo Cell Studies

The European Parliament backs research using stem cells taken from human embryos. The move sends a message to EU ministers, who will decide soon whether to lift a ban on the controversial procedure.

Tech-Job Meltdown in Final Stages

The bad news is that high-tech employers are set to lay off another 234,000 workers this year. But analysts say the tech industry should begin adding new jobs this spring.

Cryptophone locks out snoopers

For the paranoiac who has everything

BT and Vodafone named and shamed by Oftel

top customer complaints table

Domain owner seeks to revolutionise Scottish legal system

'Monopolistic' Law Society of Scotland under pressure

Telework hasn't taken off (D'oh!)

Europe in Brief

HP's big iron back in the black

Servers, storage up but Alpha, NonStop decline

Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

kristy_christie writes "According to Wired News, Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom and its international partners want to build the world's first ...

DeviantArt.com Walking The Path Winnipeg Art Group V2 Released

Walking the Path is not only a site that showcases its artists work, but is also a place where artists and artists alike can get in touch with each other. The energy that powers this site lies in the artists who are dedicated to their craft.

Teknidermy NewsSTAND WinAmp5 May be Soon to Arrive

BetaNews.Com Blog 8.0 Beta 2 Released

BetaNews.Com Sun Selected to Power Desktops in China

BSD developers speak out on SCO campaign

In view of the latest SCO lawsuit news conference, we have been talking to BSD professionals to get their opinions, including one of the principals in the AT&T vs. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. lawsuit settlement of 1994; a disillusioned former SCO employee; and several other BSD developers.

Turkey tales

Salon wants to know: What will you be chowing down on this Thanksgiving?

The state of your unions

Salon readers react to the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and share their dreams of walking down the aisle with their same-sex partners.

Lining up to fight "the forces of evil"

The religious right will mount a scorched-earth battle against the Massachusetts decision to permit same-sex marriage. And the White House may join in.

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

The MVP voters get it right at last: How valuable! Plus: The readers write about baseball and steroids.

Save the Earth -- dump Bush

In a slashing interview, environmental leader Bobby Kennedy Jr. denounces the administration's "crimes against nature" and discusses the Democratic presidential pack, the dawn of Arnold's California reign -- and his own political future.

Joe Conason's Journal

Yesterday's anti-Semitic screed against billionaire George Soros was nauseating -- but it won't be the last coming from the "old" far right.

Ents storm Grand Central!

And Gollum rides the Times Square shuttle, as New Line's publicity machine brings Middle-earth to America's city of myth.

"No matter what, life is bigger than death"

Hot director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu talks about "21 Grams," his wrenching new film about three strangers linked by death, hope and destiny.

How Massachusetts changed marriage

"We are mindful that our decision marks a change in the history of our marriage law."

Dean tries to broaden appeal

Call them Deanheads: Supporters turn out by the thousands, ready to chant along to their favorite lines. But from the stump, the candidate is trying to expand his playlist.

The K Chronicles

Die K Kronik: With the in-laws in Germany.

Heard the one about Prince Charles and the valet?

Regardless of the truth of the allegations that no one in Britain has heard, the truly shocking thing would be if a royal, public schoolboy or military man here had never enjoyed a spot of buggery in his youth.

NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer

unassimilatible writes: "Federal Computer Week reports that NASA plans to study the ocean's future with the help of the world's first supercomputer of its kind ...

BetaNews.Com DC++ 0.304 Released

BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 3 Released

Tweakfiles "Orbital Pink" by SakuraKira

SpamCop To Be Sold To IronPort?

Iphtashu Fitz writes "InfoWorld is reporting that SpamCop is about to be sold to IronPort Systems for an undisclosed amount of money. According to the ...

news.coreshell.info I have now changed the way the files are stored, a

I have now changed the way the files are stored, and they are no longer stored in the DB. This should prevent the corruption that has been happening from time to time. I have reuploaded all my modules, but the once written by other people might still be corrupted.

news.coreshell.info I have redone the way images are stored, and they

I have redone the way images are stored, and they are now store in a file instead of in the DB, this should prevent the corruptions we have seen earlier. I intend to do the same with modules.coreshell.info as soon as i can find the time.

news.coreshell.info It contains the followingchanges:! Fixed a bug wit

It contains the followingchanges:! Fixed a bug with the GetKeys call, now CCE and the new about box should be able to access the settings even in the registry.linkThis is a automatedpost.

news.coreshell.info The people over at shellscape have started a scree

The people over at shellscape have started a screenshot archive for all shells out there, it is a good place to display your wonderful core configuration (apart from the users list here that is). Its located at psa.shellscape.net.

news.coreshell.info + Added shell hook support, modules can access the

+ Added shell hook support, modules can access the shell hook messages by registering !hshell (more info can be found in the core SDK).+ Added Virtual variables to the about box.

news.coreshell.info It contains the followingchanges:! Fixed the multi

It contains the followingchanges:! Fixed the multiple icons in the tray bug (i hope)+ Added BGColor, if this is set to FF00FF (magicpink) and transperancy is true you will get a transperant tray.linkThis is a automatedpost.

news.coreshell.info SOFTcore is my first atempt at creating a distribu

SOFTcore is my first atempt at creating a distribution for core, since most people seem to have a difficult time getting it to run. Right now SOFTcore is only a zip file containing the core executable, a couple of modules, a configuration file and some grafics from the litestep theme litegnome. I intend to create a full fledged installer that will configure a lot of things for you, so that you shall be able to run core right out of the box. link

news.coreshell.info ! Redid the about screen, this is just a start, it

! Redid the about screen, this is just a start, it will contain a full settings editor and a lot more- Removed the old DDE Server code+ Added the DDE Server API code written by TDEWolf+ Added some commandline switches, at the moment core supports: install - will set core as shell uninstall - will set explorer as shell version - will display you current version more switches will be added in the next version

the core shell settings (registry version)

version 2.10

the core shell systray

version 2.2

the core shell update

version 3.00

the core shell console

version 2.10

the core shell hotkey

version 2.10

rss fix

this is just a rss fix (i hope)

Site rewrite

Well, i have merged all of the all sites, to make it easier for me to manage them. I have updated the SDK and there are more features in the pipeline. Ill try to make a new logo for the site (unless somebode offers to do it) after the weekend. IF you find any bugs let me know.

backend rewritten (the end of the file corruption!)

I have now changed the way the files are stored, and they are no longer stored in the DB. This should prevent the corruption that has been happening from time to time. I have reuploaded all my modules, but the once written by other people might still be corrupted.

Users page

I have redone the way images are stored, and they are now store in a file instead of in the DB, this should prevent the corruptions we have seen earlier. I intend to do the same with modules.coreshell.info as soon as i can find the time.

settings (registry version) version 2.10 released

It contains the followingchanges:! Fixed a bug with the GetKeys call, now CCE and the new about box should be able to access the settings even in the registry.linkThis is a automated post.

psa.shellscape.net

The people over at shellscape have started a screenshot archive for all shells out there, it is a good place to display your wonderful core configuration (apart from the users list here that is). Its located at psa.shellscape.net.

core 1.20 build 72 released

+ Added shell hook support, modules can access the shell hook messages by registering !hshell (more info can be found in the core SDK).+ Added Virtual variables to the about box.

systray version 2.2 released

It contains the followingchanges:! Fixed the multiple icons in the tray bug (i hope)+ Added BGColor, if this is set to FF00FF (magicpink) and transperancy is true you will get a transperant tray.linkThis is a automated post.

SOFTcore released!

SOFTcore is my first atempt at creating a distribution for core, since most people seem to have a difficult time getting it to run. Right now SOFTcore is only a zip file containing the core executable, a couple of modules, a configuration file and some grafics from the litestep theme litegnome. I intend to create a full fledged installer that will configure a lot of things for you, so that you shall be able to run core right out of the box. link

1.20 build 63

! Redid the about screen, this is just a start, it will contain a full settings editor and a lot more- Removed the old DDE Server code+ Added the DDE Server API code written by TDEWolf+ Added some commandline switches, at the moment core supports: install - will set core as shell uninstall - will set explorer as shell version - will display you current version more switches will be added in the next version

Microsoft re-explains .Net strategy

Industry figures give the software giant a passing grade for embracing open standards.

SBC to offer cheaper VoIP service

The carrier on Thursday will begin selling a less-expensive version of Internet telephone service that requires businesses to buy only a fraction of the usual necessary equipment.

BetaNews.Com Nullsoft Install System 2.0 Beta 4 Released

Utility computing's elusive definition

Participants in a panel discussion at Comdex agree that utility computing is more like a river than a rock, but have little luck nailing down a real definition.

Introduction to Mozilla Manual Available in Draft Form

Efficient Supercomputing with Green Destiny

gManZboy writes: "Is it an oxymoron to have an efficient supercomputer? Wu-Chun Feng (Los Alamos National Laboratory) doesn't believe so - Green Destiny and ...

OSNews Mac OS X Security Update; Updated Bluetooth Stack

IBM to shutter Swedish facility

PeopleSoft shuffles lawyers in Oracle suit

The software maker hires Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton to defend lawsuits brought by Oracle and some PeopleSoft shareholders aimed at removing some major obstacles to the takeover.

MTV puts fans first at online music store

While Apple Computer, Microsoft and others target a potentially vast market for paid music downloads, Viacom's MTV unit is setting its sights closer to home.

RealNetworks switches on video for AT&T

The streaming media company will announce a deal on Thursday to deliver digital video to AT&T Wireless cell phones, according to sources.

New Linux TPC-H Record Set

prostoalex writes: "New TPC-H world record for performance and scalability of database software on Linux platform has been set. The winner - Oracle 10g running ...

SHELL EXTENSION CITY XP TO OSX TRANSFORMATION PACK (free): Update your Windows XP to look like the Mac OSX GUI by adding some themes and patching some system files

SHELL EXTENSION CITY CURR PROCESS (free): Displays the list of all processes currently running on your system. For each process, additional useful information is displayedand the program allows you to do the following actions: Change priority. Kill. Dump memory of process int

SHELL EXTENSION CITY DRIVER VIEW (free): Displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed

SHELL EXTENSION CITY AUTOPLAY REPAIR WIZARD (free): Scans your computer devices to find defective AutoPlay settings, and attempts to fix those it finds

Macintosh users join Kazaa network

A new piece of file-swapping software for Macintosh computers is drawing thousands of downloads by offering peer-to-peer options previously available largely to Windows computers.

Security expert proposes hackers' union

A proposal to create an association to represent the interests of hackers and vulnerability researchers is gaining support.

Scripting News It seems Lessig and Jay Rosen would have a lot to

It seems Lessig and Jay Rosen would have a lot to talk about. Both of them understood where I was coming from in my request for candidates to take a position on keeping the Internet free of control of the media companies. I didn't mean, as some thought, to keep it free of the reporters employed by the media companies, I'm not worried about that. I am worried about devices like The Broadcast Flag and other proposals (remember Berman-Coble) that would give the entertainment industry the power to shackle the computers, and invade the privacy of computer users (even remove data from our computers). Now it may be hopeless, as both Lessig and Rosen have observed, and so what? My job isn't to figure out which of the lesser of two evils to vote for. It's still so early in the process, now it's time to identify the important issues, and then ask any of the candidates if they want my vote. They may all say no, this time. But I'm demonstrating how the electoral process will work after we've flipped it around. If you're reasonably young and healthy I believe you will live to see the day. I just put the stakes in the ground so I can laugh then and say I Told You So. Now I really have to go to dinner. ";->"

BetaNews.Com Winamp5 Full RC 8 Released

BetaNews.Com Winamp5 Lite RC 8 Released

A 'brain charger': The ultimate PDA accessory?

For those who said nothing new would be unveiled at Comdex, South Korean start-up DreamFree counters with the Peeg, a peripheral for PDAs that is said to stimulate brain activity.

HP earnings beat expectations

The company reports higher revenue and profit, with PC and printer sales driving the growth--demonstrating "what the merger was all about," says CEO Fiorina.

Judge rules in favor of pop-up purveyor

A judge dismisses Wells Fargo's motion to prevent software maker WhenU from launching rival pop-up ads when customers access the financial services company's Web site.

Scripting News Every new piece of software I write begins with a

Every new piece of software I write begins with a document written by Bull Mancuso.

Does IT Matter?

geoff313 asks: "I'm sure many of you are aware of the uproar over Nicholas Carr's article 'IT Doesn't Matter' which was published in the Harvard Business ...

More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002

stoolpigeon writes: "A study, released today by the AeA, shows that the U.S. high-tech industry lost 540,000 jobs in 2002, dropping from 6.5 million to 6.0 ...

Scripting News ScottR isn't sure BillG is telling the truth about

ScottR isn't sure BillG is telling the truth about Google.

Scripting News An aside. BloggerCon was not a summit. It never oc

An aside. BloggerCon was not a summit. It never occurred to any of us to call it a summit. Conference promoters who use the term are telling you the opposite; they're leaving some important people out, and they hope you won't notice. A perfect case in point is the upcoming summit for news and XML. Where are the publishers and tech companies who use RSS 0.91 and 2.0. This, by most estimates, is over 75 percent of the market. Make-believe summitry. "In the world as we wish it looked this is who would be at a summit." There have been technology summits where not a single delegate was an active programmer. The word has been abused to the point where it's meaningless. It's time, in the technology business, for people to start setting realisitc expectations. Nothing is going to instantly change the world. A summit that's exclusive is not a summit. Open minds, open meetings, that's the way to go.

Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy"

wo1verin3 writes: "USA Today is reporting that all is not lost and due to exceptionally strong DVD sales Family Guy may return with as many as 35 new episodes! ...

BetaNews.Com AOL Enables Concurrent Logins in AIM

Court grants FCC extension on cable ruling

A federal appeals court gives the Federal Communications Commission more time to file a petition to re-hear a controversial case involving cable regulation.

Qwest to launch VoIP in December

The Baby Bell plans a December debut for an Internet telephone service in Minnesota, chief executive Richard Notebaert tells financial analysts.

TV demand to trigger LCD price rise

Strong demand for flat-panel televisions is expected to cause LCD panel prices to increase this month and the next--and may perpetuate an LCD shortage.

A half-million tech jobs lost in 2002, study says

New research indicates that some 540,000 high-tech jobs were lost in the United States last year. But the research suggests the unemployment trend has slowed in 2003.

Scripting News Scott Rosenberg isn't sure Bill Gates is telling t

Scott Rosenberg isn't sure Bill Gates is telling the truth about Google.

BetaNews.Com Network Assistant 3.2 Beta 1 Released

BetaNews.Com Acoustica MP3 CD Burner 3.0 RC Build 53 Released

Advogato A Relational Model of Programming

I can't help but write a brief introduction to the basics of arelational model of programming, to hopefully spark some interestingdiscussion. It is a model developed byÁkos Fóthi, and it fascinated mesince the first couple of his lectures.

OSNews IBM Releases new DB2 v8.1 Express edition for Linux

Double joy in HP earnings

The company reports higher revenue and profit, with PC and printer sales driving the growth--demonstrating "what the merger was all about," says CEO Fiorina.

IBM sets up shop to test radio tags

Big Blue says it is building a facility designed to allow companies to check the accuracy of gear that employs controversial radio frequency identification tags.

Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE deal

The business software maker rebuts claims by SCO Group chief Darl McBride that Novell's planned buy of SuSE Linux violates 8-year-old noncompete agreements.

Court to FBI: No spying on in-car computers

The FBI and other police agencies may not eavesdrop on conversations inside automobiles equipped with OnStar or similar dashboard computing systems, a court rules.

OSNews Editorial: The State of OSS Documentation

OSNews Bill Gates: Unplugged

Scripting News Scott Rosenberg isn't sure Bill Gates is telling t

Scott Rosenberg isn't sure Bill Gates is telling the truth about Google. But the Gates quote is fairly unequivocal.

Scripting News Hey the government of Canada has RSS feeds. They'r

Hey the government of Canada has RSS feeds. They're pretty good, not bad at all, but they call their feeds 0.91 but use features only available in 2.0. I'm hesitant to criticize, because after all it's the thought that counts. But my aggregator will ignore the cool 2.0 stuff because it takes the version seriously. Best thing to do is to just change the version number to 2.0 and accept a hearty thanks from your neighbors to the south. And thanks to Lawrence for the pointers (he's Canadian).

Is Space Mining Feasible?

Roland Piquepaille writes "There is a large amount of precious minerals on the Moon and Mars. Would it be feasible to bring these valuable materials back on ...

Online documentation update

I've updated the online documentation to reflect the changes with version 1.0 of iShell. It's in a drop down menu under Documentation.Cheers!

WinCustomize.com DesktopX Pro released!

Tweakfiles "Out of focus frog" by iNk BuCkEt

Serious Samurize 1.0 Release - Samurize goes "Gold"!

We feel Samurize has reached a stage where it can no longer be considered a beta. Virtually all bugs that are within our control have been fixed, and this release also contains a heap of stuff some people have been asking for for a long time. So we hope you enjoy it You can get it as usual from the downloads section, or via the edonkey network here in partnership with Ratiatum.New Features:* Plugin meter (sample code included to show how to write them)* QCD meter* Config editor formatting options - alignment* Config editor merge command* PNG Image display typeBugfixes:* pie graphs, rounded rectangles & ellipses alignment fix* histogram 1-pixel shift bug fixed* WMI form resizing bug fixed* "Run every X min" translation bugfix* MBM farenheit bugfix* Zoom options not shown bugfix for large fonts* Client crash fixed when launched from a DockImprovements:* improved Winamp meter (can show numerical data such as track position, bitrate etc)* DEFAULT_CHARSET for non-ascii languages* shift-resizing (preserving aspect ratio) in config editor* 1x1 pixel minimum meter size* X,Y, width,height for graphic objects* any single-click activates meter linkage* 24hr analog clock formatting option (%hh)* ActiveScripts more resilient to being configured wrong* Certain hotkeys prevented from being used (Caps Lock, Scroll Lock...)* Additional language fields (see LanguageChanges.txt)

BetaNews.Com Abander TagControl 2.0 Beta 4 Released

OSNews GNOME 2.4.1 Released Silently

OSNews A Switcher's Story and his review of the new iBook G4

EDGE everywhere by mid-2004 - AT&T Wireless

Trebles bandwidth

Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE deal

The business software maker rebuts claims by SCO Group chief Darl McBride that Novell's planned buy of SuSE Linux violates eight-year-old noncompete agreements.

Bill Gates: Unplugged

Microsoft's chairman compares Linux to Unix in the 1970s and urges people to "be careful" with utility computing.

The Riches of Open Source

Daniel Dvorkin writes "This BusinessWeek article argues convincingly that Linus Torvalds has more resources at his disposal than Bill Gates. Not only is it a ...

WinCustomize.com A walkie-talkie you can wear on your wrist

WinXPcentral.com AMD Athlon 64™ Processor Driver for Windows XP

WinXPcentral.com KDE 3.2 Beta 1 for Fedora Core 1

WinXPcentral.com SCO to Sue Corporate Linux Users

WinXPcentral.com ZoneAlarm Free 4.5.530.0

WinXPcentral.com AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 542

BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 2 Released

Techno DJ Is Hot, Hot, Hawtin

Richie Hawtin is Mr. Techno -- a globe-trotting DJ whose livelihood depends on the latest technology. Wired News caught up with Hawtin to talk about the next DJ interface and human interaction in a techno world. By Leander Kahney.

Tech Job Meltdown in Final Stages

The bad news is that high-tech employers are set to lay off another 234,000 workers this year. But analysts say the high-tech industry should begin adding new jobs this spring.

Game Over for Edgy Sports News?

The Village Voice puts its sports coverage to bed. Does this bid good night to alternative sports reporting altogether, or will it pave the way for new forms of sports reporting on the Net? Steve Kettmann reports from New York.

Complaints? About ISPs? Surely not!

ISPA unveils new complaints outfit

Scripting News Paolo: "Now: do we want to give all this power to

Paolo: "Now: do we want to give all this power to a company?"

Scripting News intraVnews is a "state of the art news aggregator

intraVnews is a "state of the art news aggregator that turns Microsoft Outlook into a news reader."

Scripting News NY Times: "The swirl of interviews, documentaries

NY Times: "The swirl of interviews, documentaries and specials building up to Nov. 22 are not really about the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. They commemorate the 40th anniversary of television: the day a young, vigorous medium was swept into power and forever changed American culture and politics."

AOL acquires multimedia search provider

update The company plans to use Singingfish technology to improve its own Web search engine by letting users look for audio and video content.

Sun drops more hints on Opteron servers

Sun Microsystems executives say the company plans to launch its first Opteron Sun Fire servers as soon as the first quarter of next year.

Apple crops up in Windows world

Although the annual Comdex trade confab is a Microsoft-dominated event, there are a few signs of Mac life in Las Vegas, a CNET News.com staffer on the show floor says.

Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market

notshannon writes "Reuters reports about a new cell phone which automatically encrypts communications. Of course, the matching handset will decrypt the ...

BetaNews.Com Mail Snoop Pro 1.01.015 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Network Eagle 3.5 Beta Build 197 Released

Captain Ledford, where are you now?

From Sun Feb 18th, 2001 to Sat Mar 23rd, 2002 Kuro5hin was host to an anonymous author who chose the nom de plume of Captain Ledford. This author serialized a set of stories in the K5 diary section that remain to this date as some of the best fiction K5 has ever seen. With the advent of the K5 fiction section I thought it would be befitting to bring back to the foreground these stories, so that they could be seen by the wider K5 audience. I am not Captain Ledford, nor was I able to get in touch with him or her. But I am a big fan.

ISS launches first hardware appliance

Crucial product transition

EU sets up Euro-security agency

Puny budget, educational role

Mobile phones could cripple - boffins

Walk and talk yourself into a wheelchair

Dell products get smart card protection

The computer maker announces smart card products designed to control authorized access to companies' computers.

Apple crops up in Windows world

Although the annual Comdex trade confab is a Microsoft-dominated event, there are a few signs of Mac life in Las Vegas, says our staffer on the show floor.

Encrypted cell phone foils eavesdroppers

Berlin company CryptoPhone releases a GSM mobile handset that uses encryption technology to ensure that calls can't be intercepted.

Targeting rogue hot spots

While security is an issue when it comes to Wi-Fi, the real risk, says FedEx CIO Rob Carter, is rogue equipment impatient employees install.

SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More

shystershep writes "Apparently attacking one Unix-like OS isn't enough. According to Darl McBride, SCO has plans to target BSD. "The more yarn you pull out the ...

Captain Ledford, where are you now?

From Sun Feb 18th, 2001 to Sat Mar 23rd, 2002 Kuro5hing was host to an anonymous author who chose the nom de plume of Captain Ledford. This author serialized a set of stories in the K5 diary section that remain to this date as some of the best fiction K5 has ever seen. With the advent of the K5 fiction section I thought it would be befitting to bring back to the foreground these stories, so that they could be seen by the wider K5 audience. I am not Captain Ledford, nor was I able to get in touch with him or her. But I am a big fan.

OSNews A Switcher’s Story and his review of the new iBook G4

OSNews Bill Joy on Linux, Apple, and Technology

OSNews Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on Longhorn

Scripting News BloggerCon was like a fairy tale, a dream come tru

BloggerCon was like a fairy tale, a dream come true. I still review it in my mind every day, all the special moments, all the cool people who came. Charlie Nesson's convocation, the essential Harvard man, welcomed everyone with such love and enthusiasm. People don't know this about Harvard, but it can be a very very kind place, despite its reputation for great history and great achievement. I introduced some of my favorites -- Cluetrain author David Weinberger, my brother Peter Winer, Craig Cline from Seybold, the great designer Bryan Bell. I was so proud to welcome these people, esp my brother because our family has been through so much in the last year. Someone I didn't know before BloggerCon is Jay Rosen. His contribution is still bearing fruit. Every time I read a Rosen piece I'm cheering, yes yes, that's right, keep going. And there was a guy who came from Germany, who found out about the conference only two days before it happened, and he was consistently the jolliest fellow. He seemed truly delighted to learn about blogs, and to be at the Con. Well, today he sent a pointer to his new weblog, and it's as positive and cheerful as the man himself (whose name I don't know).

Scripting News An aside. BloggerCon was not a summit. It never oc

An aside. BloggerCon was not a summit. It never occurred to any of us to call it a summit. Conference promoters who use the term are telling you the opposite; they're leaving some important people out, and they hope you won't notice. A perfect case in point is the upcoming summit for news and XML. Where are the publishers and tech companies who use RSS 0.91 and 2.0. This, by most estimates, is over 75 percent of the market. Make-believe summitry. "In the world as we wish it looked this is who would be at a summit." There have been technology summits where not a single delegate was an active programmer. The word has been abused to the point where it's meaningless. It's time, in the technology business, for people to start setting realisitc expectations. Nothing is going to instantly change the world. A summit that's exclusive is not a summit. Open minds, open meetings, that's the way to go.

EMC to invest $100 million in India

The data storage company announces investments to reinforce the software development facility that it set up in India earlier this year.

Oracle readies portal-building tools

The company releases an early version of a toolkit to speed up the process of building standards-based portal applications, or portlets.

NDIS Wrapper For Wireless LAN Cards Under GPL

An anonymous reader writes " Shortly after Linuxant has released their commercial DriverLoader, Pontus Fuchs has made an NDIS wrapper available under the GPL. ...

Cisco Networking Simplified

Michael Bennett Cohn writes "Everything about Cisco Networking Simplified screams accessibility: the landscape layout, the softback cover, the illustrations ...

SCO: Winners and Losers

The end game in the SCO fiasco is at hand. IBM's dissection of SCO's discovery wish-list is covered in exquisite detail at Groklaw. As yesterday's conference call demonstrated, SCO's lawyers are being forced to make increasingly bizarre arguments to just stay in the game. The company's last substantive filing demanded that the court find the GPL invalid and unconstitutional, and all software released under the GPL in the last three years to be public domain. At this point, it appears the entire SCO case will devolve to the nuts and bolts of contract agreements between IBM and AT&T. If you believe that IBM lawyers are stupid and sloppy, and have been for the last 20 years, then you might believe SCO has a chance. I don't.

'Don't shoot the MP3.com archive,' pleads founder Robertson

Still a live grenade, after all these years?

PeopleSoft extends customer refund program

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the maker of enterprise business applications says it will extend its controversial program until the end of the year.

AOL acquires multimedia search provider

The company plans to use Singingfish technology to improve its own Web search engine by letting users look for audio and video content.

Scripting News Jeremy Zawodny: Is Google The Next DNS?

Jeremy Zawodny: Is Google The Next DNS?

Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News

Romeo E. Cabrera writes "In advance of an imminent launch of its own search engine, Microsoft has launched its own version of the popular Google News service. ...

NeoWin.net Actual Windows Manager v2.5

NeoWin.net Ethereal 0.9.16 has been released.

Briefly: MySQL names marketing chief

Executives shift at the open-source database vendor and software seller Marimba...eBay's founder joins Meetup board...Start-up teams with Edge Wireless for an all-in-one device.

Polese steps down as Marimba chairman

Macromedia developers get a shot at AIM

America Online says it will open the door for Macromedia software developers to create applications on its AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ products.

So, HP, What Exactly Are You Trying To Sell Us?

billtom writes "There's an article over at c|net news where the normally fawning technology business press actually takes an HP VP to task for the extremely ...

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Wake up Neo....

Freeserve dismisses rebranding reports

Old news, still 'under review'

Stuff Bush with your mobile

Free logo fights international war madness

Virgin and T-Mobile squabble over divorce terms

Back in court

MI5 takes charge of online terror tips

Secret agency steps out of the shadows

AOL gives Macromedia developers a shot at AIM

Time Warner's Internet portal says it will open the door for Macromedia software developers to create applications on its AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ products.

IBM renews its emphasis on PCs

Despite some past ambivalence about the PC marketplace, the computing heavyweight once again is firmly behind desktops and notebooks.

MySQL names marketing chief

Scripting News Three years ago today: "Authoring a directory is a

Three years ago today: "Authoring a directory is a lot like maintaining a weblog. On a weblog you post on a timely basis, but links fall off the bottom. On a directory you save the valuable non-time-based links. There's the fundamental difference between a weblog and a directory. A weblog has the current stuff, and a directory has the permanent stuff. Connecting the two structures is an interesting user interface problem, and a social one. I have to prime the pump, to get people interested in doing their own directories, I guess I have to create directory envy."

Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam

indros13 writes "The Hon. Mark Dayton, Senator from Minnesota, is reportedly considering a "miniscule email tax" to counter the flood of spam. Thinking like an ...

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US Court Finds Serial Killer Guilty of Terrorism

Washington Post has the story: VIRGINIA BEACH, Nov. 17 -- John Allen Muhammad was convicted of murder, terrorism and other charges Monday that could send him to death row for his role in the Washington area sniper shootings last year. ... The second capital murder charge against Muhammad centers around a new anti-terrorism statute that allows the death penalty if a homicide is committed with an intent to terrorize the public at large or intimidate the government. Is this what was meant by "terrorism" when these laws were passed?

Epicor buys Scala

Mid-market play

Slim Devices ships Squeezebox networked MP3 player

Reg Kit Watch Listen to your tunes via Wi-Fi

Freeserve strikes ad blow against AOL, Tiscali

'Don't mess with us' - Wanadoo UK

MS TCO study fails to dislodge OSS trials from Newham council

They came, they audited, they went away again...

Hynix appeals against EU DRAM tax

Not fair

Ebola Vaccine Human Trials Begin

securitas writes "The Washington Post reports on the first human to be injected with '100 trillion strands of synthetic' Ebola DNA. The DNA in the vaccine has ...

Teraflop In A Box At SC2003

HPC Prophet writes "For those of you that can't go to SC2003 or can't afford the US$750 late registration, here is a small taste of what we put together for ...

Taking a close look at Handspring's new Treo 600

Handspring recently released a new all-in-one device, the Treo 600. This device combines a PDA, cell phone, Mp3 player, and camera in one svelte unit. While attending a conference recently, I had the good fortune to win one of these fine gadgets after attending a session (Thanks Harry! I hadn't gone to the conference planning to get a new phone or change my service. I had been happy enough with my old Nokia 6360 cell phone.

Temporary Assignment

She's the reason why I sold a piece of my liver. I liked her immediately. "I can't believe we'll feed them this sludge," she says. "Why don't we take them out back and shoot them? Serving this crud is another form of assisted suicide."

Tarantella backs SuSE and Red Hat

Used to be called SCO, remember?

Net Porn addict claims unfair dismissal

'I need therapy and understanding'

'Spyware' steps out of the shadows

A growing movement aims to stop or regulate software that surreptitiously monitors computer use.

Scripting News NY Times: "Getting a job in the Valley is easy, if

NY Times: "Getting a job in the Valley is easy, if you're perfect."

Scripting News SJ Merc: "Tech insider Dave Winer, an inveterate b

SJ Merc: "Tech insider Dave Winer, an inveterate blogger and fellow at Harvard Law School, said he was surprised that Polese stayed at Marimba as long as she did."

Scripting News Dan Gillmor reports that Good Morning Silicion Val

Dan Gillmor reports that Good Morning Silicion Valley now has an RSS feed.

Scripting News Guardian: "Music blogs are free from the business

Guardian: "Music blogs are free from the business plans and targeted readerships that determine the content of commercial publications."

Scripting News Gotta play with this some more: GoogleRace.Com.

Gotta play with this some more: GoogleRace.Com.

Scripting News Jay Rosen: "Ed Cone explains exactly why Howard De

Jay Rosen: "Ed Cone explains exactly why Howard Dean's 'open style' of politics is a big deal--and a big story--whether he or not he wins. "

Scripting News It's a beautiful morning!

It's a beautiful morning!

Jonestown: Armageddon Writ Small

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can't help but notice that November 18, 2003 is the 25th anniversary of what has come to be known as the "Jonestown Massacre". There's a excellent description of the events that unfolded that day in Guyana. Today, as they do every year, survivors and families of victims gather to commemorate their loss. I was six going on seven years old when it happened.

Aussie students escape jail for online music piracy

Lucky boys

Apple preps second Panther OS update

Latest 10.3.2 build shipped to testers

US loses 500k+ tech jobs in 2002

Where did they all go?

Hynix appeals against Europe's 35% DRAM levy

Not fair, apparently

NeoWin.net Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Pack

FedEx Delivers New Tech Lab

There's more science to delivering packages than meets the eye. That's why FedEx is funding a new research lab, one it hopes will rival MIT's. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Techno DJ Is Hot, Hot, Hawtin

Richie Hawtin is Mr. Techno -- a globe-trotting DJ whose livelihood depends on the latest technology. Wired News caught up with Hawtin, who is currently touring to promote his new album, to talk about the next DJ interface and human interaction in a techno world. By Leander Kahney.

'Hope Is a Lousy Defense'

Sun Microsystems refugee Bill Joy talks about greedy markets, reckless science and runaway technology. On the plus side, there's still some good software out there. By Spencer Reiss of Wired magazine.

Game Over for Edgy Sports News?

The Village Voice puts its sports coverage to bed. Does this bid good night to alternative sports reporting altogether or will it pave the way for new forms of sports reporting on the Net? Steve Kettmann reports from New York.

No Easy Solution to Spyware

Congress would be better off protecting individuals against online surveillance than trying to legislate spyware that monitors their online activity, a policy group says.

Cool Science, for Adults Only

Hands-on science museums are generally aimed at children. Not this one. London's Dana Centre wants to make science so interesting that Londoners will head there, instead of the pub, after work. Well, one can always hope.

Germany Touts High-Security Phone

Germany launches a new mobile handset that is eavesdropper-proof. While privacy lobbyists applaud the new 'freedomphone,' security specialists worry the phone could hamper criminal investigations.

Move Over DVD, Here Comes the EVD

China unveils its next-generation rival of the DVD, the EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc). China hopes to reduce over-reliance on foreign technology and avoid paying patent royalties. Analysts doubt that the EVD will catch on, however.

Competitive broadband could add £22bn to UK economy

BIG idea takes off

NeoWin.net ZoneAlarm 4.5.530

BetaNews.Com Locate 3.0 Alpha (2.98.3.11090) Released

Italian anti-war group to assist Iraqi resistance

The BBC is reporting that an Italian anti-war and anti-globalization group named Antiimperialista is collecting money to be sent to the Iraqi resistance. So far, they have collected 12,000 euros, and plan to give the money to an Iraqi organization called the Iraqi Patriotic Opposition, the leaders of which have ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party. Antiimperialista is not going to place any restrictions on the use of this money. According to a spokesman for the group, "We support the armed struggle in Iraq. our money is to help them, it doesn't matter to us if they use it buy weapons, Kalashnikovs, or medicines for people."

Belgian watchdog fumes over Nokia battery statement

How can you tell them apart?

Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow

An anonymous reader writes "Finally, the question is answered: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? A designer with too much time on his hands ...

An editor to ease Windows to Linux migration

I'm writing this review with EditPad Pro, running on Red Hat 9 with Ximian Desktop 2. Normally I use gedit for my writing chores, but this is a trial by fire. EditPad Pro's creator, Jan Goyvaerts, wrote to NewsForge a couple of weeks ago and asked if we would be interested in reviewing the editor he has recently ported to Linux. EditPad Pro is a known quantity in the world of Windows, but this is the first edition to be ported to Linux. Knowing that few issues are as incendiary as editor wars, I hesitated to accept the assignment. But in the end, my curiosity got the best of me and I agreed to give it a whirl.

"If we haven't found anyone else by 40, let's get hitched!"

Are "marriage pacts" a mature, open-eyed approach to love -- or the ultimate in cowardly bet-hedging?

Dean's momentum builds

The front-runner goes to Washington, and instead of excoriating congressional "cockroaches," gets some big endorsements.

Trapped between "Two Towers"

Crime-fighting Ents, the Iggy Pop-Gollum connection, Aragorn's love for a transvestite, and other delights lurk within this ragged, messy extended-edition DVD.

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Baseball's steroid debate: Whoever's talking, I couldn't disagree more.

Arnold straddles California

On inauguration day the new governor made nice with Democrats, but feminists still want a sexual-assault investigation and the right remains suspicious.

I'm confused

He says he loves me, but he doesn't act like it and he rejects my sexual advances. What's going on?

Joe Conason's Journal

Days after neocon hawk Richard Perle is cleared in one scandal, his name pops up in another. Plus: CIA wants probe into leaked Iraq memo.

The Fix

Bush bashing in London, Clinton wooing in China, and tennis playing by grandma Navratilova! Plus: How many pairs of shoes does Mariah Carey need?

Rush returns

The right-wing king is back, and his targets -- liberals, black quarterbacks, liberals, soup kitchens, liberals -- suggest he may be rehabbed, but he hasn't changed.

In the lion's den

America's highest-powered conservatives invited me to their posh weekend retreat, expecting me to bash the left. I'm afraid I wasn't a very good guest.

How much is that doggie in the browser window?

Pets.com and its deluded ilk have gone the way of used kitty litter, but online animal rescue and adoption centers are thriving.

WayLay

The Capitol Hill Joke Shop: Be the life of your party!

OSNews MySQL Reopens SAP's Database for the Public

BetaNews.Com Microsoft: 'Lonestar' Will Improve Tablet PC

Federal Court to hear the Case of the Dirty Bomber

It has been as many as 18 months since Jose Padilla was jailed on suspicion of trying to assist terrorists in a radiological bomb plot. The case of Jose Padilla is a unique test of new anti-terror legislation which gives expanded authority to the Justice Department to pursue terrorists. Unlike other US citizens held as "enemy combatants", Padilla was apprehended on US soil, but is being held without charges on a military base as an "enemy combatant", which means he may face a military tribunal. Today, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on a variety of issues specific to Padilla's case.

DeviantArt.com XMMS mp3cue v0.94 released

XMMS mp3cue is a plugin which adds cue file support to XMMS. v0.94 adds the capability of saving cue information within an ID3v2 tag.

Storage companies synch up with Windows

In a boost for an emerging networking standard, more than a dozen storage hardware companies prove that their iSCSI-based products work with Microsoft's Windows.

South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network

prostoalex writes "Korean Ministry of Information and Communication is planning to wire the entire country with high-speed 50-100 Mbps network. A total of ...

Group wants phone number plan put on hold

A telephone industry association asks federal regulators to stop telephone number portability rules from taking effect on Nov. 24.

Pivotal board rejects second unsolicited bid

The software maker moves to reject an acquisition bid from CDC Software, the second unsolicited offer the company's board has turned down in the past week.

SCO plans more Linux lawsuits

The Linux antagonist vows to widen its legal battle against the open-source operating system, saying it intends to sue large-scale Linux users for copyright infringement.

OSNews Basic Concepts of Real-Time Operating Systems

Scripting News Just got a call from a reporter with news that Kim

Just got a call from a reporter with news that Kim Polese will step down as chairman of Marimba.

Scripting News I am going to demo my new content system at the Th

I am going to demo my new content system at the Thursday meeting, day after tomorrow. If you're in the area and want to see what's up, please be there at 7PM. I'll probably demo it Monday at Stanford Law School at noon. Boths sessions are free and open to the public. Weblogs, outlining, knowledge trees, RSS, OPML, XML-RPC.

Scripting News Muscle-boy's fix for California's money woes -- ge

Muscle-boy's fix for California's money woes -- get a loan.

McBride Speaks, In Person And In Print

Phil Windley writes "Darl McBride gave the keynote at CDXPO this evening and held a press conference afterwards. I've posted my summary of his talk and the ...

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Why SCO will soon be going after BSD

Officially, the "news" teleconference SCO held this morning was to announce a new deal between SCO and the David Boies legal firm. Confusion reigned as SCO attempted to clarify the details of its payments to its legal counsel, Boies Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Is the $1 million payment to Boies et al, and the transfer of 400,000 shares of SCO stock to them a contingency payment? If so, what contingency was met? Is it a legal slush fund to finance new rounds of lawsuits to keep the circus alive a little longer? Who knows? We don't care how SCO pays its counsel. But we do care about something new that came out of the teleconference.

NTLM Authentication Supported by Mozilla on All Platforms

Trunk Freezes for Mozilla 1.6 Beta Tonight

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 10th November 2003

OSNews Today on NMC: Wireless & Health, Dell IM, Pocket PC, Motorola, More

Danger signs up new licensee

AOL gets personal with Love.com

The online giant advertises an online personals service called Love.com. Details remain murky, but a representative says it will use the AIM community to create a kind of online singles bar.

Cooking spam at Comdex

Dozens of companies at the computing trade show are showing software, services and hardware designed to stem the tide of junk flooding e-mail accounts.

Straight talk on Adaptive Computing

HP Senior VP Nora Denzel says the IT world will never return to the day when companies bought technology for technology's sake.

AT&T patents anti-antispam technology

Citing an "arms race" in the ongoing spam wars, the company defends its patenting of a technology to thwart antispam filters.

Sun Java Desktop System with Mozilla Set to Become Standard in China

Scripting News I am going to demo my new content system at the Th

I am going to demo my new content system at the Thursday meeting, day after tomorrow. If you're in the area and want to see what's up, please be there at 7PM. I'll probably demo it Monday at Stanford Law School at noon. Weblogs, outlining, knowledge trees, the Web, RSS, OPML. Boths sessions are free and open to the public.

What Might UserLinux Look Like?

Lucky writes "This story at Linuxworld talks about some of the potential features of UserLinux, as well as Bruce Peren's proposed community desktop project and ...

BetaNews.Com Apple Unveils 20-inch iMac, Dual Power Mac

Sun and AOL form StarOffice pact for cheap desktops

Sneak Peek PCs dip below $300

GoDaddy sorry for anonymity snafu

Webcaster Alliance website back on the air

Verizon details Internet phone plans

The company will begin selling Internet telephony services to broadband customers early next year, a company spokesman confirms.

Glitch slows RoadRunner newsgroups

Time Warner Cable says it has fixed a technical error responsible for scrambling some messages and file attachments posted to its Roadrunner newsgroups service.

CA offers free antivirus software

Computer Associates is giving away security software to consumers to stop them from spreading computer viruses--but the deal could undermine the strength of its competitors.

AT&T Wireless joins race for speedy networks

The carrier flips the switch on a wireless Internet network it claims is the fastest in the United States.

Scripting News Berkman geek Ethan Zuckerman has a script that sca

Berkman geek Ethan Zuckerman has a script that scans news sites and counts the number of times each country is mentioned. He used the script to create colorful maps of the world where blue is cold (not too many mentions) and red is hot (lots). No surprises, Western Europe, China, Canada and Australia are hot (he didn't rate the US) -- Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and South America are cold. Ethan has a plan, to use blogging in the blue places to increase their profile. He gave a brief talk about this today at the Berkman fellows lunch.

Scripting News That was quite a day. Al Gore looks snippy and Dub

That was quite a day. Al Gore looks snippy and Dubya looks dorky wearing a presidential cowboy hat.

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2 Users?

FastDownload writes "New technology for doing mulitsource/multithread downloads of ISOs is making Linux users on Internet2 happy. It's called Logistical ...

DeviantArt.com Miranda IM 0.3.2 Released

A new version of Miranda IM has just been released.

BetaNews.Com BitWise Chat 0.9.2.4 Harvest Moon Alpha Released

BetaNews.Com Beyond Compare 2.1 Beta Build 208 Released

Red Hat subscriptions beat expectations

The renewal rate for support subscriptions to the company's high-end Linux product was more than 90 percent in the most recent quarter, well above what analysts are told to expect.

IBM donates code to open-source project

Software consortium Eclipse says Big Blue's contribution will form the basis of its Visual Editor Project. But Java steward Sun is not yet ready to join the effort.

Cisco, others plan to ban insecure PCs

The network hardware maker teams up with three top antivirus companies to create a new security technology that would keep insecure mobile devices away from corporate networks.

Overture cleans up its drug ad policy

Overture Services stops selling search-related advertising to unlicensed online pharmacies, in response to concern about illegal drug sales over the Internet.

Commentary: Internet calling verges on mainstream

VoIP is racing toward mainstream acceptance, steered by attractive price points, cost savings and significant improvements in voice quality and reliability, according to Forrester Research.

Scripting News Good thing the convention is in the summer or else

Good thing the convention is in the summer or else you might have to suffer through Kerry playing hockey. (Enclosed in the RSS feed.)

Scripting News Two years ago: "Of course if you don't even try to

Two years ago: "Of course if you don't even try to make software that other people use, it can't be very shitty."

Scripting News Three years ago: "Dimpled chads."

Three years ago: "Dimpled chads."

Scripting News Also on that day: "Dogma 2000 isn't worth to think

Also on that day: "Dogma 2000 isn't worth to think about it -- it's just a behavior of well stuffed guys."

Scripting News That was quite a day. Al Gore looks snippy and Dub

That was quite a day. Al Gore looks snippy and Dubya looks spiffy wearing a presidential cowboy hat.

Scripting News Weblogs.Com was hatched on this day in 1999.

Weblogs.Com was hatched on this day in 1999.

China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD

supermanksu writes "Seeking to compete on its own terms in the lucrative entertainment industry, China announced a government-funded project Tuesday to promote ...

BetaNews.Com MSN Readies Music Service, Tests 'Newsbot'

BetaNews.Com ITIC SpamFilter 2.4 Beta Released

Advogato A Modest Proposal, or not

With spammers now installing backdoor mail-transfer agents and DDOS apparatus on thousands of compromised machines around the world, any hope of staunching spam at the source, by identifying their ISPs or IP addresses, is gone. Perhaps the only remaining technical solution is to disable the compromised hosts --as well as those soon to be compromised.

OSNews BYTE's Moshe Bar Reviews of Panther and G5

Scripting News Daily Kos: Bloggers at DNC convention. "Handing ou

Daily Kos: Bloggers at DNC convention. "Handing out press passes to bloggers is a no-brainer, and something we could easily get from the DNC. However, we want to go one better, in effect putting together a convention-within-a-convention for left-leaning bloggers."

Scripting News Jon Udell: "Every major software system has, at it

Jon Udell: "Every major software system has, at its core, what Dave Winer likes to call a lizard brain."

Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty

President George W. Bush asks the United States Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty.

AMD's new fab slated for Germany

Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce later this week that it will build its next chip fabrication facility near Dresden, Germany, according to sources.

Linux company hires industry veteran

Enrico Pesatori, an executive who has held posts at several major computing companies, has taken over as chief executive of Linux system seller Penguin Computing, the company says.

Toshiba unveils second tablet PC

The company releases its Portege M200, a new Windows XP tablet with a higher resolution, 12.1-inch screen and a faster Intel Pentium M processor.

Kasparov Draws Game 4 and Match Against X3D Fritz

jaydee77ca writes "Garry Kasparov survived opening danger and played very precise, technical chess to draw Game 4 with black against X3D Fritz. The final match ...

Genetic Algorithms and Compiler Optimizations

mfago writes "Scott Robert Ladd has written an enlightening article and accompanying software package that utilizes genetic algorithms to optimize the ...

DeviantArt.com wTicker 0.2.1.162 Beta

If you find yourself checking dozens of websites and think that its a tedious process, then wTicker might be your best thing.

BetaNews.Com Digital Patrol 5.00.06 RC1 Released

BetaNews.Com FeedDemon 1.0 RC4 Released

CA revives free AV software offer

Microsoft supplies 'kiss of life'

The economics of spam

Only 50 replies in a million will do

Plug pulled on London Webcams, as Bush sweeps into town

'Operational reasons'

Scripting News Andrew has questions about Apache and Windows.

Andrew has questions about Apache and Windows.

Scripting News 3 News: "I stepped out of the serene lake of Sufi

3 News: "I stepped out of the serene lake of Sufi Shire and, a few days later, found myself in the deal room of a $100 million corporate acquisition. Talk about whiplash."

Scripting News Idly.Org: Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs.

Idly.Org: Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs.

Scripting News Ed Cone: The Marketing of a President.

Ed Cone: The Marketing of a President.

Scripting News Another summit you weren't invited to.

Another summit you weren't invited to.

Scripting News Brief Morning Coffee Notes

Good morning spores fans. Pretty nice day. Drinkin coffee. Thinking about the day ahead.

Survey: Bigger IT budgets not forthcoming

Less than half of CIOs surveyed by Credit Suisse First Boston surveyed expect overall IT budget growth next year, but more than half are looking to increase software spending.

AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors

DDumitru writes "Infoworld reports that AMD predicts it will stop producing 32-bit processors by the end of 2005. By depending on price cuts for Athlon-64 and ...

WinXPcentral.com Take the red pill -- and embrace Microsoft?

OSNews theKompany.com's Data Architect - A Linux and Windows Review

OSNews Why SCO will Soon be Going After BSD

OSNews froglogic Releases Automated Qt GUI Testing Tool Squish 1.0

OSNews New SkyOS pre-5.0 Screenshots

OSNews Sun, JBoss Settle Java Dispute

OSNews Sun Wins Big in China

Siebel touts online wares at Comdex

Siebel Systems CEO Tom Siebel takes the stage to tout his company's server software and online services.

AT&T expands DSL presence

The company introduces digital subscriber line services in three more states as part of its ongoing effort to offer broadband to more customers.

Nokia: Original batteries don't explode

The Finnish company cites a study that shows that earlier research on its "exploding" phones was based on samples that included counterfeit batteries.

SliMP3 Successor; Radio Station in a Box

XDG writes "Slim Devices just updated their website and announced The Squeezebox, the Wi-Fi successor to the SliMP3 player. The new hardware adds digital ...

Whistle While You Work

kukickface writes "Have you ever watched Star Wars and been amazed that Human beings could understand what R2D2 is saying? An ancient yet almost dead language ...

BetaNews.Com xplorer² 0.0.0.50 Alpha Released

Sun to acquire identity broker

Is your baby safe?

'Police abduction warning' email is a hoax

That joke isn't funny anymore

Plug pulled on London Webcams

'Operational reasons'

Mimail mutant targets PayPal users

For the second time in four days, a new worm emerges that tries to con customers of the online payment service into revealing their credit card details.

PostgreSQL 7.4 Released

Christopher Kings-Lynne writes "PostgreSQL 7.4 has just been released. The list of new features is impressive and includes greatly improved OLAP performance ...

Loose-screws Oborzevatel 0.12

By: Seg@ Description: Displays a browser window on your desktop.

Loose-screws SkinBox 1.0 beta 4.1

By: RabidCow Description: This is meant to be a base for further module development, but it might be somewhat useful as a module on its own. This will create (as it is compiled) any number of windows which can be drawn with a bitmap and have a number of script actions assigned to them. Nearly everything can be changed without recycling. Supports lsbox, multiple monitors, true and simulated alpha (no per-pixel alpha yet), and ^@variable^ replacement in script actions.

Loose-screws Every time I go away for the weekend...

People go nuts with releases. :) I'll leave this as a quick note for those that haven't noticed any of this yet (there can't be many).First off is an update to Litestep itself, bringing 0.24.7 to release candidate status. Check out ilmcuts' announcement on the LS mailing list for a comprehensive list of changes.We've also had one very busy RabidCow, updating NetLoadModule over the weekend, and just today updating Popup2 and Shortcut2.

Loose-screws BGColors

I had time to add the module, along with Sci's releases last night, but no time to post the news until now, sorry about that.AntAgna has released a module called BGColors, which displays constantly changing colors on your desktop.Update: it's been updated to 1.01, adding many of the requested features.

Loose-screws Many an IconDesk release...

Sci has made three updates to IconDesk in the last few days, all the way up to version 0.65 today. The cumulative changes are far too many for this quick note, save for one: I've reverted to the old context menu code, cascaded context menus does in other words not work any more. Grab it here or get it at Alphafish.com.

Loose-screws Geekamp 1.9.71

Luthe has made a quick update to Geekamp, fixing !Amp_SetVolume and !Amp_SetPanning on a tip from Smurth.

Loose-screws Whoops...

Completely missed Verbalshadow's (kinda) recent Popup2 update. Much apologies about that. Changes follow: New RC commands below, PopupNewAmpRemote must be in RC to use the other Commands. PopupNewAmpRemote PopupOnAmpPlay "!foo_Play" PopupOnAmpPause "!foo_Pause" PopupOnAmpPrev "!foo_Prev" PopupOnAmpNext "!foo_Next" PopupOnAmpStop "!foo_Stop" Maduins GDI Leak fix (LSML)

Loose-screws NetLoadModule compatibility

With the release of OTS2 and it's reliance on NetLoadModule, it's become a bit of a priority for this site to be able to serve modules that way. Well, I finally found enough time to rename all of the 600 some odd files here according to established naming conventions.I've named them all according to Omar and RabidCow's suggestions in this LSML post(ya didn't think I had THAT good of a memory... didja? ;) with a few caveats. Here are some notes that should help you make sure you have the right name.The version is whatever is in the readme or changes.txt... if it's normally called "0.9b4" but has "0.9 beta 4" in the changes.txt, it will be named 0.9-beta_4.All spaces in the name become underscores."name 0.9 beta 4" becomes "name-0.9-beta_4", "name 0.9 alpha 4" becomes "name-0.9-alpha_4", and "name 0.9 preview" becomes "name-0.9-pre".The URL for your *NetLoadModuleSite line is "[shortened link]" and the ".zip" is required for this to work. Feel free to let me know if there are any problems.

Loose-screws New[er] IconDesk

Sci has released version 0.6 of his fantastic icon displaying module IconDesk. Major changes include a new icon extraction procedure, allowing icon sizes above 32X32; A new update method, taking cues from the OS when a folder is updated; and support for multiple IconDeskGroup lines.Update: It's now been updated twice to 0.62. Many a bugfix.

iShell 1.0!!!!

After about a week of testing (thanx to allelimo, kez and enabl), iShell 1.0 is finally available!Key changes include:- iControl and iDesk have been rolled into one executable, iCore. iCore, oddly enough is the 'core' component of iShell. It handles all the 'shell' functionality (including DDE) as well as providing a desktop and menu. All the other applets have been updated to work with the new core.- The GUI applets (iTasks, iTray and iCommand) now support 'MouseOver' alpha transparency.- It is now possible to launch folders (including system folders) via iCommand, iHotkeys and iDesk. For example, if

Installer Update

I've completed the installer with the help of e-sushi. Before I release it tho, I want to make a few changes to the various iShell applets, to make them a little more robust.I've been real busy with Real Life, but I hope to have the updated applets and new installer out shortly.... Stay tuned! :D

New Site Theme

As you've probrably noticed, I've modified the site theme... ;)I've lightened it up a little and put a little more information on the front page. Lemme know whatcha think....

News iTasks

I've released yet another iTasks. This one includes the allelimo requested task flashing (the icons will blink when they are 'flashing')!!! :) As always grab it from the downloads area.Hopefully now I will get around to finishing off the installer (I've got to learn to stop coding for a bit ;) ).Cheers!

New Releases of iDesk and iCommand

For our international users, iDesk and iCommand's date and time format now supports multiple locales! Also, iDesk now sorts the file based menus so that all subdirectories at the top (as per e-sushi's request ;) ).As always, grab them from the downloads area.... Enjoy! :)

Documentation 1.3

allelimo pointed out that the iCommand documentation kept mentioning iTasks, so I've uploaded a new version of the documentation with the corrections.I should really be more careful when I cut and paste! ;)

New bugtrack system

I've removed the 'Bugs' forum and added a bugtrack system (it's on the link list at the top of the page). It provides for a better system of reporting and tracking bugs. I've moved the one active issue over to the system.Cheers!

New releases and a new applet

e-sushi was kind enough to provide some patches as well as a couple of feature additions to the iShell applets. He's added support for snap-to-edge for the GUI applets as well as a 'DateTime' option to display the date and time in a configurable format in the menu of iDesk.fangr provided a beautiful little applet... iCommand. iCommand by default displays the date and time in a cofigurable format. When left-clicked on, it provides an interface to type a command in which is executed when you press enter. Pressing the up or down arrows cycle through the

The initial iHotkeys release!

I've release iHotkeys 0.1 (a.k.a. the 'kez' applet ;) ). Accompanying it are iDesk 0.6 and iLib 0.8 which were need to accommodate some internal changes to allow for hotkey access to iShell features.Now for the best part.... The documentation has been updated with iHotkeys details so you can actually find out how to use it! :DAs always, you can grab them from the downloads area.... Enjoy!

New versions of all current apps

Just to keep you hoping, the iShell Development Team is proud to announce the relase of new versions of all the current iShell applications. All the applet zip files contain a new .reg file to reflect the new options (you only have to apply it once).On the plus side, this is hopefully the last time that we will need to include a .reg file! Now isn't that a a teaser..... :)

Why SCO will soon be going after BSD

Officially, the "news" teleconference SCO held this morning was to announce a new deal between SCO and the David Boies legal firm. Confusion reigned as SCO attempted to clarify the details of its payments to its legal counsel, Boies Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Is the $1 million payment to Boies et al, and the transfer of 400,000 shares of SCO stock to them a contingency payment? If so, what contingency was met? Is it a legal slush fund to finance new rounds of lawsuits to keep the circus alive a little longer? Who knows? I, for one, don't care how SCO pays its counsel. But I do care about something new that came out of the teleconference.

Mono project announces new roadmap to completion

The Mono project is expected to reveal a new roadmap for completion of the project today. The Mono project, created and led by Miguel de Icaza, and funded by originally by Ximian, now by Novell, who purchased Ximian, has a goal of creating an open source version of Microsoft's .Net development platform for Unix and Linux. The new roadmap lets both Mono developers and users around the world know when certain pieces are scheduled to be completed.

OSNews What Belongs In an Operating System?

OSNews BYTE's Moshe Jordan reviews of Panther + G5

OSNews Sun Wins Big in China.

OSNews New G5, iMac, and G5-optimized Apps from Apple

HP launches new copiers

Hewlett-Packard debuts new high-end copier devices, a market that's been critical to the company's effort to keep its printer business growing at double-digit rates.

SCO News Roundup

Bootsy Collins managed to combine all of today's SCO stories. He writes "The firm of David Boies, SCO's attorney in charge of their Linux IP cases, has ...

BetaNews.Com WinCatalog Standard 1.01 Beta Build 11.18 Released

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.162 Beta Released

HP launches new copiers

Hewlett-Packard debuts new high-end copier devices, a market that's seen as critical to the company's effort to keep its printer business growing at double-digit rates.

Motorola hopes latest phones lure newbies

Six handsets offer features such as color screens and photo messaging, which the phone maker hopes will attract new users in Asia and Europe.

Sun, JBoss settle Java dispute

With changes to a licensing program, Sun paves the way for open-source Java application server projects JBoss and Apache to comply with the J2EE standard.

Epson Creates Tiny Flying Robot

xyote writes "As reported by the Inquirer. More info on Epson's website with a nice picture with explanatory labels and all. It weighs a little over 10g, uses ...

Advogato brain-dead DVD+RW "copy protection", or occam's coincidence?

I have purchased two USB DVD writers - one a Freecom FX50 DVD+-RW and the other an HP DVD300e. Both drives, after initially working, failed to operate after burning a DVD. A report on CD Freaks is making me suspicious as to what is going on. Anyone else with similar experiences, or any clues?

Apple ships 20in iMac

Reg Kit Watch Adds 1.8GHz dualie to Power Mac G5 line too

SCO is prepared to stump Novell's SuSE deal

More cash for the cronies

Businessman banned after Internet agency scam

Rip-off

Data center standard gains backers

BMC Software and Fujitsu Siemens Computers join an effort to build a standard to link data center software, an important step toward making utility computing systems work.

CDC Software enters Pivotal sweepstakes

Chinese-controlled CDC Software joins the bidding war to acquire Pivotal, a maker of software for managing customer relationships.

Cisco upgrades storage switch software

Continuing its push into the storage market, the networking giant unveils upgraded software for storage switches that promises to improve information sharing and prioritize data traffic.

Scripting News Scoble says that MyWallop, Microsoft Research's fo

Scoble says that MyWallop, Microsoft Research's foray into blogging and social networking, will support RSS 2.0. Another Scoble post that you shouldn't miss if you work at Microsoft. He's right. Microsoft should support RSS across all its websites, asap. It would be a communication revolution for the company, with key customers, developers, the press. The strange thing about it is that I know the day will come when they do this. When you know something, it's frustrating to have to wait.

Scripting News Update on categorizing in my new weblog authoring

Update on categorizing in my new weblog authoring setup. I'm sticking with it, because it's just barely easy enough. I would like it to be easier. This might be the perfect place for a voice interface, because of the limited vocabulary. How that might work -- for example -- put the cursor on the post above. Hit the Voice-Cat button at the top of the window. Say "Technology slash Microsoft. Pause. Technology slash Blogging tools. Pause. Technology slash Formats and protocols slash RSS slash General." Click the button again. Would that be easier? I'd have to try it and see.

Scripting News BTW, to see the results of the categorization, cli

BTW, to see the results of the categorization, click here.

New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered

securitas writes "The BBC reports that scientists in Japan have discovered a new sub-atomic particle that defies current theories of matter and energy. The ...

New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5

joekra writes "Today, Apple released a new 20" iMac and a Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5. Both were accurately rumored at the last minute by the usual suspects. In ...

Open source: Brazil shies away from Redmond

President shuns Windows

Choice is king in the promised land of 64-bit computing

AnalysisThe option explosion

Cisco combats network worms

Lock down or lock in?

Scripting News Good morning spores fans. Pretty nice day. Drinkin

Good morning spores fans. Pretty nice day. Drinkin coffee. Thinking about the day ahead.

Scripting News Don Park: "Ebichu is a cute housekeeping hamster w

Don Park: "Ebichu is a cute housekeeping hamster who is fiercely loyal to her undeserving master."

Scripting News Wired: "Microsoft plans to introduce a song-downlo

Wired: "Microsoft plans to introduce a song-downloading service next year that will compete with similar offerings from Apple Computer, Roxio's Napster and others."

Scripting News Last night I heard an interview with Zell Miller.

Last night I heard an interview with Zell Miller. Senator from Georgia, Democrat. He says because the nine Dems running for Pres don't have southern chops, he's going to vote for Bush. Man he must be the life of the party. And he says he respects Dean because he figured out how to raise money on the Internet. La-de-dah. Perhaps it's time for the Democratic Party to get just a little bit more picky?

Scripting News Jon Udell: " Every major software system has, at i

Jon Udell: " Every major software system has, at its core, what Dave Winer likes to call a lizard brain."

Scripting News Scoble says that MyWallop, Microsoft Research's fo

Scoble says that MyWallop, Microsoft Research's foray into blogging and social networking, will support RSS 2.0. Another Scoble post that you shouldn't miss if you work at Microsoft. He's right. Microsoft should support RSS across all its websites, asap. It would be a communication revolution for the company, with key customers, developers, the press. The strange thing about it is that I know the day will come when they do this. When you know something, it's frustrating to have to wait.

Scripting News Update on categorizing in my new weblog authoring

Update on categorizing in my new weblog authoring setup. I'm sticking with it, because it's just barely easy enough. I would like it to be easier. This might be the perfect place for a voice interface, because of the limited vocabulary. How that might work -- for example -- put the cursor on the post above. Hit the Voice-Cat button at the top of the window. Say "Technology slash Microsoft. Pause. Technology slash Blogging tools. Pause. Technology slash Formats and protocols slash RSS slash General." Would that be easier? I'd have to try it and see.

Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware

(54)T-Dub writes "Cricket Media recently released 'Netflix Fanatic', an OSX based shareware app that lets you manage your rental queue without logging on to ...

Apple adopts big screen for iMac

The company begins offering a new iMac all-in-one desktop with a 20-inch display and also updates its Power Mac G5 desktop line.

China 3G phones to go live in 2005

Cell phones that use a China-developed communications standard will move from the labs to commercial sales, with production expected in 2005, a report says.

Briefly: ISS unveils attack-blocking devices

The network protection provider unveils an appliance designed to monitor traffic and automatically block attacks...eBay's founder joins Meetup board...Acer offers wide screen.

ISS unveils attack-blocking devices

eBay chairman joins meetings site board

Hordes of the Underdark Goes Gold

MattW writes "Bioware announced that Hordes of the Underdark has gone gold. This is the second expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights, and the first to be ...

WinXPcentral.com Hackers to Microsoft: "Hi!"

NeoWin.net Total Commander 6.0

New worm scams PayPal punters

Mimail-J

Minutes of the mozdev Admin Meeting of Monday 17th November 2003

Microsoft to Launch MSN Music Service in 2004

securitas writes "SmartMoney.com reports that a Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed plans to launch an online music download service in 2004 via the MSN Web site. ...

What belongs in an operating system?

This question is behind most of Microsoft's recent antitrust problems. Microsoft's defenders often point out that Linux distributions include not just Web browsers and multimedia software, but office suites, graphics packages, and many other programs that are not "part of the operating system." This is true, but in the Linux distribution you can easily replace one browser with another, and you are free to use whatever multimedia playback program you like. And now, although it doesn't seem like a related topic, let's talk about modems and network cards for a moment.

Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs

Big Bucks for Big Bugs

BT! and! Yahoo! in! dial-up! makeover!

BT knockers target blanket BB goal

Electronic Voting Debacle

Opinion American democracy at stake, no less

Fast spreading worm targets PayPal punters - again

Mimail-J

AOL's broadband blues

CNET News.com's Evan Hansen explains why AOL's plan to harness broadband threatens to leave it on the wrong side of the connection.

SCO admits: Linux jihad is destroying our business

Death or inglory

BT poaches top Telewest exec

Disappears into the BT blueyonder

FSF eases Microsoft schema patent fears

XML schemers

Is RFID Technology Easy to Foil?

RFID tags are not as big a privacy invasion as we've all been led to believe. Or at least that's what the producers of the object-tracking devices would like you to think. Mark Baard reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Clocked by Two Smoking Barrels

A symbol of technology gone awry rests outside the Athens City Hall: the world's only double-barreled cannon. Its history includes cow calamities, bomb-sniffing robots and the threat of Yankee incursion. Michelle Delio reports from Athens, Georgia.

Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

The latest technology in nuclear power, the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, may soon be operational at an unexpected location. Megan Lindow reports from Cape Town, South Africa.

Microsoft to Give Music a Whirl

The software giant plans to unleash a song-downloading service that will go head-to-head with iTunes, Napster and others in the increasingly crowded online music market.

Palestinians Surf During Siege

As the Middle East conflict grinds on, a growing number of people living in cramped West Bank refugee camps go online to get news and keep in touch with relatives.

Scanners Uncover Germany's Past

A consortium of German scientists develops a computer scanning system that will be used to reconstruct millions of files on informants torn up by the East German secret police.

Music labels monitor P2P nets to list most popular songs

Chart attack

HP details Athlon 64 desktop support

But gamer-oriented systems are Intel

DeviantArt.com Norman Rockwell Museum - 2 Current Exhibitions

Exhibition "The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love" and "The Picture of Health: Rockwell Paintings from the Pfizer Collection" are currently being on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum from November 8, 2003 to May 31, 2004. Read more for exhibition info...

snowchyld Fuck you Michael Moore

Dear Mr. Moore read this sure you did some good shit with your movie, i mean, stopping kmart or wallmart or whever that store is stopping bullets, was a good thing.. but come on.. just flipped through the divx and...

Formula 1 racer's secret: 1,000 horsepower and a Linux cluster

Aerodynamics are as important to modern Formula 1 race cars as they are to jet fighters. That's why the BMW Williams F1 team turn to a Linux cluster when they need to get a bit more out of their 3-litre, 1,000-horsepower, 1,320-lb. FW25 car.

118 services not up to scratch - Oftel

Want a number? It's a lottery

And now some words from our game sponsor

Analysis Tail wagging the dog

New music deal for European Internet radio buffs

Streaming along

BetaNews.Com Gates Unveils Microsoft 'Stingray' in COMDEX Opener

BetaNews.Com BitSpirit 1.0.9.252 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Weather1 5.19 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com IBM Delivers 'Teraflop in a Box'

Soul survivor

Al Green has never matched the nuanced, whispered restraint of his early-'70s classics. But a long-awaited reunion album with producer Willie Mitchell reminds us of his greatness.

"My life is just beginning"

Far from being lazy and unmotivated, teen mothers are anxious to succeed. They just need the opportunities.

Joe Conason's Journal

The neoconservatives, once billed as foreign-policy "grown-ups," have turned out to be as discreet as a clique of teenage girls.

The Fix

Arnold quotes JFK and Reagan on first day in office, Disney aghast at "Bad Santa," and Alec Baldwin gets doused in blue gunk. Plus: Which damsel is in more distress, Rosie or Martha?

"Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President"

As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq.

This Modern World

Ripped from the headlines: The Homosexual Menace!

The hypocrite of Kabul

Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad parachuted into Afghanistan and told the West exactly what it wanted to hear about that nation's women. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.

Married men

I'm a divorced woman and have a lot to offer, but I keep getting involved with unavailable men.

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

College athletics reform: Everyone agrees it's needed. But is making the BCS a little more fair really "it"?

Shredded Stasi documents could be pieced together in five years

Jigsaw puzzle

Aussies blown away by Poms rugby style

The online poll never lies

News at a Glance

chris writes: "If you're too lazy to read headlines, a new way to find writings might just save your soul. Paradoxically, this site is showing all the pictures ...

Mono project announces new roadmap to completion

The Mono project is expected to reveal a new roadmap for completion of the project today. The Mono project, created and led by Miguel de Icaza, and funded by Ximian, has a goal of creating an open source version of Microsoft's .Net development platform for Unix and Linux. The new roadmap lets both Mono developers and users around the world know when certain pieces are scheduled to be completed.

Microsoft brings locked music downloads to US

MSN apes iTMS

PalmSource launches online wireless store

Cuddles up to Sprint

Huawei-3Com tie-up approved

All systems go

WinCustomize.com Animated Snowflake wallpaper...

BetaNews.Com ZTreeWin 1.49.2c Released

AT&T patents anti-spam circumvention technique

Method in the madness?

Cisco upgrades storage switch software

Continuing its push into the storage market, the networking giant is unveiling upgraded software for storage switches that promises to improve information sharing and prioritize data traffic.

Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam

bl8n8r writes: " Exchange 5.5 and 2000 can be used by spammers to send anonymous e-mail. He says even though software Microsoft provides on its site certifies ...

Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P

Matthew Schultheis writes: "Yahoo / AP is reporting that the record industry is using the files traded on Kazza et al. to track where music is popular. It ...

Xinie.com VAMP Media Center 3.70 has been released

Xinie.com ObjectDock 1.0 release

Xinie.com SkinStudio 4 beta 2 released

Xinie.com Napster 2.0 Goes Live

Xinie.com DesktopX 2.0

Xinie.com Messenger Plus! 2.50. Released

Xinie.com XPlayer 2.2.8.1 Beta

WinXPcentral.com Microsoft's SPOT Watches Delayed

WinXPcentral.com More Updates for Fedora Core 1

Hewlett-Packard eyeing TV market

The computing giant says it is scrutinizing the market for liquid crystal display televisions, plasma televisions and projection screen televisions.

OSNews Gentoo 1.4 Review at LinuxElectrons

Scripting News I had a mockup of an ad for McCain.

I had a mockup of an ad for McCain.

Scripting News The possibility that talk of Microsoft buying Goog

The possibility that talk of Microsoft buying Google was hype hadn't occurred to me until I read John's post, above. And I would have rejected the theory if I hadn't read another piece in the last few days that said that Netscape's bluster about killing Microsoft served KPCB, it made the Netscape IPO super-hot, and that made them billions of dollars. Previously I had taken them at face value, assuming their goal with Netscape was to build a real company, and that they were surprised when the stock took off, but why assume that? Maybe they were hyping all along and Andreessen was just following orders. In any case with Gates on the record saying there were no discussions about Microsoft acquiring Google, one has to wonder, how did the rumor start?

Scripting News Arnold Kling: "If you're Jim Clark or Kleiner-Perk

Arnold Kling: "If you're Jim Clark or Kleiner-Perkins, you can make a lot of money by convincing Wall Street that you are going to be the next Microsoft, even if you have no way of achieving that objective. So you 'moon Microsoft' to pump up the stock, and then sell it. I think that there was a lot of that going on with Netscape."

Scripting News Doerr: "Believe it or not, the Internet is actuall

Doerr: "Believe it or not, the Internet is actually underhyped."

Scripting News Statistics on the growth of the blogosphere from T

Statistics on the growth of the blogosphere from Technorati.

Scripting News Newsbot: Will it support RSS?

Newsbot: Will it support RSS?

Scripting News Toronto Star: "It was a gift from the propaganda g

Toronto Star: "It was a gift from the propaganda gods. Just two problems: It didn't happen that way, and the designated hero, Pte Jessica Lynch, refuses to say it did."

Ready or Not, Biometrics Finally in Stores

cancer4xmas writes: "It's very exciting to see USA Today's Technology front page saying, "Will that be cash, fingerprint or cellphone?" They're running a story ...

Sun gets a big boost in Chinese market

Sun Microsystems, Inc. figures it has three major steps to make in order to establish itself as the leading provider of enterprise and desktop software in the People's Republic of China. Step 1: Put Java cards in as many pockets as possible. Step 2: Own the desktop. Step 3: Take over the rest of the enterprise stack.

Briefly: Acer offers a wide-screen notebook

The computer maker unveils a wide-screen notebook built with multimedia in mind.

Acer offers a wide-screen notebook

AOL mulls toolbar service

America Online is considering creating a desktop application that lets people access popular Web services such as search, news and maps, the company confirms.

BellSouth searches for new ad sales

The major telephone and Internet service provider forms a search engine marketing service in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of paid search.

Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government

Infonaut writes "Scott McNealy announced today at Comdex that Sun Microsystems has made a deal with China for a million desktop Linux deployments under the new ...

SHELL EXTENSION CITY UNKNOWN DEVICE IDENTIFIER (free): Identify devices marked by the yellow question mark labeled unknown devices in Windows Device Manager

SHELL EXTENSION CITY MICROSOFT BASELINE SECURITY ANALYZER (free): Scans Windows-based computers for common security misconfigurations and generates individual security reports for each computer

SHELL EXTENSION CITY PASTEBOARD (free): Tabbed notebook utility for holding text while you cut, copy and paste between different programs. It helps to overcome the limitations of the Windows clipboard

SHELL EXTENSION CITY DARK ADAPTED (free): Gamma control application program modifies your screen gamma settings so that you may, for example, preserve your dark adaptation while using your computer

Tech bigwigs dispute guru's pessimism

Executives from IBM and Microsoft attack the beliefs of a consultant who became a tech industry bad boy with an article in the Harvard Business Review titled "IT Doesn't Matter."

Briefly: NetScreen wraps up Neoteris buy

The network security provider plans to sell devices made by Neoteris, a major seller of virtual private networks based on SSL.

NetScreen wraps up Neoteris acquisition

Students fight e-vote firm's DMCA claims

A federal judge hears arguments in a lawsuit brought by student activists seeking to disseminate internal documents from Diebold Election Systems.

OSNews Information on Solaris' DTrace Technology

OSNews IRIX 6.5.22 Released

OSNews Adobe Chastens Windows-favouring Author

Another survey sees IT spending on rebound

Data published Monday indicates that spending on information technology products and services continues to regain momentum in the United States.

PeopleSoft cuts hosting prices

The software maker reduces the prices for its software hosting services by 10 percent to 15 percent, reviving its efforts in the growing market for pay-by-the-month business applications.

Scripting News John Robb: "Google's KPCB hype machine must just b

John Robb: "Google's KPCB hype machine must just be clearing its throat for the IPO."

Scripting News The possibility that talk of Microsoft buying Goog

The possibility that talk of Microsoft buying Google was hype hadn't occurred to me until I read John's post, above. And I would have rejected the theory if I hadn't read another piece in the last few days that said that Netscape's bluster about killing Microsoft served Kleiner, it made the Netscape IPO super-hot, and that made them billions of dollars. Previously I had taken them at face value, assuming their goal with Netscape was to build a real company, and that they were surprised when the stock took off, but why assume that? Maybe they were hyping all along and Andreessen was just following orders. In any case with Gates on the record saying there were no discussions about Microsoft acquiring Google, one has to wonder, how did the rumor start?

Scripting News Arnold Kling: "It is not clear that Netscape's key

Arnold Kling: "It is not clear that Netscape's key backers cared whether or not Netscape won the platform war. If you're Jim Clark or Kleiner-Perkins, you can make a lot of money by convincing Wall Street that you are going to be the next Microsoft, even if you have no way of achieving that objective. So you 'moon Microsoft' to pump up the stock, and then sell it. I think that there was a lot of that going on with Netscape."

Attacking the Spammer Business Model

Stephen Samuel asks: "Spammers spam because it's an 'easy way to make money'. They send out millions of spams knowing that 99.995% of them will be ignored, but ...

DeviantArt.com To All Literary Deviants with Complaints

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DeviantArt.com Darwin 7.0.1 Released

The Darwin team is pleased to announce the availability of the Darwin 7.0.1 Installer CD. This is a single Installer CD that will boot and install Darwin on Macintosh computers supported by Mac OS X 10.3, as well as certain x86-based personal computers.

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Dell laptop lines to diverge in 2004

The computer maker plans to make its two laptop lines more distinct in the second half of 2004, a move that could better suit its products to a growing customer base.

Kazaa ads tell P2P users to speak up

Advertisements from Sharman Networks, distributor of Kazaa, call on file swappers to lobby labels to put aside their animosity toward the popular file-sharing software.

Outsourcing not always a money saver

A Gartner survey finds that nearly 20 percent of companies that farmed out IT work did not cut their expenses.

PalmSource answers pager maker's page

The handheld OS company announces a new licensee, pager maker PerComm, and launches a developer program with Sprint as a charter member.

Comdex gets down to business

special coverage In recent years, the trade show has served as a showcase for consumer items. This year, however, it's focusing on technology for the working world, such as mobile computing and utility computing.

Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof

An anonymous reader writes "According to Eweek, Bill Gates' keynote speech at this year's Comdex showed Microsoft's 'focus on security, spam and

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BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 1 Released

Eclipse launches new Visual Editor project

The Eclipse consortium tomorrow will announce the establishment of the Visual Editor Project, a new effort to create and deliver an open visual GUI construction and editing platform. The project is designed to generically work with any user interface framework and programming language Eclipse supports; ultimately, it will implement a reference GUI builder for the Java Swing/JFC and SWT graphical user interface frameworks.

UK Repeals Law Against "Promoting Homosexuality"

This is the beginning of Section 28 of the UK's 1988 Local Government Act: (1) A local authority shall not--          (a) intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality;          (b) promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship. This section will be repealed in England and Wales from 18th November 2003, having already been repealed in Scotland in 2000. In more ways than one, this is a symbolic act.

Ricochet orders retailer to halt sales

The wireless broadband provider tells at least one retailer to pull its products from the shelves and that it is seeking new financing.

For Microsoft, it's the sound and the fury

With its plans to set up its own music store online, the software maker is leaving some partners feeling betrayed, and with MSN Newsbot, it's marching deeper into Google territory.

3Com and Huawei start China venture

The companies say they've begun selling networking equipment to businesses in the lucrative Chinese market.

Technological Flights Of Fancy That Fizzled

prostoalex writes "MSNBC's Alan Boyle takes a look at seven futuristic dreams for the past that never managed to materialize into anything substantial in this ...

BetaNews.Com MDaemon 7.0.0.j Beta Released

Pivotal moves to reject rival buyout bid

The software company's board rejects a $58 million all-stock buyout proposal from rival Onyx Software in favor of a $48 million cash bid it had previously accepted.

A dot-com flameout enters the VoIP spotlight

TheGlobe.com President Ed Cespedes explains the reincarnation of his company as a VoIP provider and weighs in on Wi-Fi.

Sun touts Opteron server, Linux desktop

Sun Microsystems brings AMD's Opteron into its server family and announces a deal in China that's expected to boost its Linux desktop software.

Microsoft music store to open next year

The software giant confirms plans that it will launch its own music-download store, putting it on the path to direct competition with Apple's iTunes and a growing list of rival digital song stores.

Gateway to renew enterprise push

The PC maker is planning to sell new storage and sever gear, but it must convince potential customers that it is committed to the market.

Jan Varga's Root Interview in English

Rekall Now Available Under GPL

Karma Sucks writes "Rekall is one of those killer apps alongside Scribus, Evolution, OpenOffice and Mozilla that could make all the difference for Linux ...

The Rise of Cyber Bullying

santos_douglas writes "The Detroit Free Press has an article detailing the problems schoolchildren now face in the form of online cyber bullying. As if parents ...

BetaNews.Com mIRC Power Pack 7.0 RC6-2 Released

BetaNews.Com Advanced WMA Workshop 2.03 Beta Released

Sun and AMD toast their Opteron marriage

Update China Linux desktop win for dessert

Scripting News Nick Denton: "I don't want to see some VC's invest

Nick Denton: "I don't want to see some VC's invest idiot money in idiot people at idiot companies."

Microsoft tests Web news service

The software giant experiments with an international news search service in competition with Google's, upping the ante in the hotly contested Web search market.

Verizon details fiber plans

Verizon Communications says it has chosen Advanced Fibre Communications as its lead supplier of fiber-optic gear to deliver broadband to millions more homes and offices.

JBoss Offers Lawsuit Indemnification

prostoalex writes "JBoss Group offered its customers indemnification from potential legal problems related to patent violations and copyright lawsuits. ...

OSNews SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional Review

OSNews Microsoft Announces New Version of the Tablet PC OS

OSNews Sun/AMD Alliance; 64-bit Java Enterprise System for Opteron

OSNews Netflix Fanatic: Apple Strikes Back at Employee's Shareware App

OSNews How Linux And The Mac Can Compete Against Windows Longhorn

OSNews An Analysis of GCC Code Generation via Genetic Algorithm

OSNews IBM: Become outfitted for the Linux adventure of your life

OSNews Microsoft Announces Free Office XML Reference Schemas

OSNews Red Hat Brightens Amid Success of Linux

Scripting News Adam Curry: "We produce the show entirely in Radio

Adam Curry: "We produce the show entirely in Radio's outliner."

SAP expects strong growth, acquisitions

The software maker's chief executive says it will grow faster than the market for enterprise software, and he hints at future acquisition plans.

Tadpole leaps to Sparc portable workstation

The computer maker, known for its portable Unix machines, is set to unveil a notebook PC powered by Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc IIIi processors.

SAP, Sybase ally for smaller business

The partnership is a setback for Microsoft, which has been the primary database supplier for SAP's Business One applications, which are targeted at small to midsize companies.

Start-up promises streaming desktop apps

Softricity looks to reduce the cost of managing desktop Windows applications with a software product the company says takes a step toward an industrywide vision of utility computing.

Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE

Zardus writes "According to Forbes, Gateway has named SuSE a "strategic partner" and will be offering SuSE Linux on all of their servers. I always thought SuSE ...

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... been quiet around here lately hasn't it? I've been busy recoding articles/reviews/content pages from scratch, the admin scripts are now far easier to navigate and generally use. You can take a sneaky preview of how the new article section looks by going here. Reviews can now be categorised as well as articles, and articles have rating built in. I'll be releasing the code with the next revision once it's been thoroughly tested.

Sun and AMD toast their Opteron marriage

China Linux desktop win for dessert

Start-up promises streaming desktop apps

Softricity looks to reduce the cost of managing desktop Windows applications with a software product the company says takes a step toward an industry-wide vision of utility computing.

Dell unveils LCD TVs, new printer

The company announces 23-inch and 30-inch LCD televisions and a multifunction printer at Comdex Monday. ViewSonic, meanwhile, takes the wraps off a line of LCD monitors and a new tablet PC.

BellSouth eyes wireless portability fee

The company wants to charge monthly fees to recover the $38 million it spent to allow customers to keep their old telephone numbers after switching to a cell phone provider.

IBM deal to help speed medical research

Scoring another win in the life sciences, Big Blue lands a three-year deal with the University of California at San Francisco to link clinical information and research findings.

EU seeks longer review of Oracle deal

European antitrust regulators announce that they're extending their review of Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft into an in-depth second phase.

Scripting News Calpundit explains how to point to NY Times articl

Calpundit explains how to point to NY Times articles without linkrot. "It's a bit klunky, but since we bloggers link to the Times frequently I thought I'd pass it along."

Scripting News This idea is going to backfire. Better to send mus

This idea is going to backfire. Better to send music CDs to record company execs, cut them in half so they can't re-sell them, and send an unmistakable message that the gravy train is drying up. Sending email with huge enclosures is a horrible abuse of the Net.

Sun Announces New AMD-Based Product Line

Transfan76 writes "Today Sun Microsystems has officially announced an alliance with AMD. They "have formed an alliance to deliver a broad range of AMD ...

NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope

Amy's Robot writes "The Washington Post reports that after 13 years of wear and tear, the Hubble telescope may be on the way out. NASA and some outside ...

NeoWin.net Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available

BetaNews.Com RelayFax 5.0.4a Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Acoustica MP3 CD Burner 3.0 Beta Build 49 Released

Road Runner messages 'censored', newsgroups complain

Piracy filter gone mad?

Former Gateway execs deny SEC fraud charges

Expect to be exonerated

Broadcom blames Atheros for bad WLAN performance

Not our fault, Wi-Fi chip maker responds

Scripting News Bill Gates: "We've never been in any talks with Go

Bill Gates: "We've never been in any talks with Google about any acquisition thing in any way, shape or form."

Scripting News Jay Rosen: "At most five percent of Americans actu

Jay Rosen: "At most five percent of Americans actually mattered to the operatives who ran the campaign. And what do the lucky five percent get? Ads!"

Scripting News I'd like to call your attention to an idea for the

I'd like to call your attention to an idea for the campaigns of leading Presidential candidates. I'd like them to stand up for the Internet, to say that, if elected, they will do everything they can to protect it from control of the big media companies. "Both Clark and Dean have raised prodigious amounts of money on the Internet. Now, how about using that money to keep the Internet free."

Scripting News 2/22/00: How to Win the Presidency on the Internet

2/22/00: How to Win the Presidency on the Internet.

Scripting News I had a mockup of an ad for McCain. It would have

I had a mockup of an ad for McCain. It would have been prescient of 2004. It probably wouldn't have worked, then, but it might work in 2004.

Scripting News This idea is going to backfire, bigtime. Better to

This idea is going to backfire, bigtime. Better to send back music CDs to record company execs, cut them in half so they can't re-sell them, and send an unmistakable message that the gravy train is drying up. Sending email with huge enclosures is a horrible abuse of the Net.

Microsoft CTO touts BlackBerry, iPod

David Vaskevitch, chief technology officer of the company, praises his Blackberry and iPod and says he always carries them while traveling.

Sprint debuts 'push to talk' service

The telecom service provider unveils a walkie-talkie-like service to facilitate short, instant voice calls among its customers.

Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison

prostoalex writes "In the high-tech industry few people achieve such glamour and general recognition as Larry Ellison, the chief executive officer of Oracle ...

Win4Lin a win for transitioning to Linux

A few weeks ago I bemoaned the state of Windows compatibility for Linux. I was disappointed with Wine and CrossOver Office. I noted that VMware was a better, if more expensive, solution. Readers quickly told me I was missing something -- Netraverse's Win4Lin, which lets you run Windows from within Linux. And, after playing with Win4Lin for some time now, I see how right they were.

ICANN wins first round of Wait List fight

Judge denies preliminary injunction

Those 'Name the wireless store' compo results in full

We finally pulled our fingers out

Broadcom blames Atheros for bad WLAN peformance

Not our fault, Wi-Fi chip maker responds

PM bigs-up BT's BB-4-all goal

Swing low, sweet chaaaaa-reeee-hut

England Rugby team hunt electronic bugs

It's not paranoid when everyone's out to get you

Its eye on Sun, AMD unveils new Opterons

The chipmaker, which is expected to announce a partnership with Sun at this week's Comdex, introduces new 64-bit processor models that run at 2.2GHz.

SAP, Sybase ally for smaller business

The partnership is a setback for Microsoft, which has been the primary database supplier for SAP's Business One applications targeted at small to medium-size companies.

Microsoft pries open Office 2003

The software heavyweight says it's improving third-party access to its Office 2003 documents by publishing the underlying XML schemas, or file formats, for three of its Office 2003 applications.

Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published

Lars Munch writes "On Monday the 17th November the xml schemas for the Word Document ML along with documentation, was uploaded to the Infostructurebase (ISB). ...

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TheKompany.com announces free version of Rekall

Shawn Gordon, founder and president of TheKompany.com, notified NewsForge last week that they would be releasing a dual-licensed version of their Rekall RAD DBMS tool today. ReKall has previously been available for both Windows and Linux with a proprietary, closed-source license. A version for Mac OS/X is expected soon. It provides "Access-like" capabilities for Linux users to maintain, query, and report information stored in an RDMS.

Nvidia touts second-gen mobile GeForce FX

5700 is Go

Nvidia spruces up notebook line

With its new GeForce FX Go 5700 graphics chip, Nvidia aims to expand its presence in the high-end notebook market.

Comdex gets down to business

special report In recent years, the trade show has served as a showcase for consumer items. This year, however, it's focusing on technology for the working world, such as mobile computing and utility computing.

Utah Cities To Provide High-Speed Net Access

Instarx writes "The New York Times reports that Salt Lake City and other Utah cities plan to install an ultrahigh-speed optical network as a public utility ...

WinCustomize.com Mozilla Gains Popularity over Inernet Explorer and Outlook

WinCustomize.com Microsoft warns EU it may get substandard Windows

Rock Pegasus CTS notebook

Review Does Pegasus fly above the competition?

Nintendo signs IBM for next-gen console

Big Blue chips to sell chips to all major players

Scripting News Des Moines Register on candidate weblogs.

Des Moines Register on candidate weblogs.

Scripting News Toronto Star: "It was a gift from the propaganda g

Toronto Star: "It was a gift from the propaganda gods. Just two problems: It didn't happen that way, and the designated hero, Pte Jessica Lynch, refuses to say it did."

Scripting News Nick Denton: "I don't want to see some VC's invest

Nick Denton: "I don't want to see some VC's invest idiot money in idiot people at idiot companies."

Scripting News Wired: Social Nets Find Friends in VCs.

Wired: Social Nets Find Friends in VCs.

FrogPad aims to cut keyboard size

The start-up this week is actively marketing a 20-key keyboard, which measures three inches by five inches--about the size of a personal digital assistant.

Life After Netscape For Mozilla Developers

An anonymous reader submits "MozillaZine has an article up on life after Netscape for Mozilla developers formerly employed there. Several developers are now ...

Garage door DMCA case dismissed

Remote uncontrol

Ad campaign tells drivers about new cellphone law

You're being warned

Microsoft aims to 'shift the tide' in war on spam

SmartScreen

IETF to cramp Cisco's WLAN empire?

Opposing camps

Voda plans show why MS will struggle with phones

Casting vote

Processors strike a pose

roundup It's show-and-tell time for developers of some of the world's brawniest comp