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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 ...

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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