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(%CutTheRedWire) Wrote up a lil thing on Rainmeter myself, too: customize.org/­blogs/­cuttheredwire/­367
2009-05-01 04:56:14
(^sryo) shouldn't be hard to make something that resembles [shortened link] using xmodules+clickonic
2009-04-16 21:59:58
(^az) how hard would it be to make an ubuntu netbook remix style skin in litestep these days?
2009-04-16 02:19:35
(@Boreas) Best skip that if you're dating a vegan.
2009-04-08 03:40:27
(@Boreas) Maybe a steak or a piece of chicken would help? [shortened link
2009-04-08 03:39:41
(@gv) Don't forget the handcuffs.
2009-04-06 16:44:45
(@Boreas) Better copulate than never?
2009-03-28 05:37:48
(@gv) I was prepared to wait for a couple of months.
2009-03-24 09:53:30
(%Netfun81) geeks and sex seem to be polar opposites
2009-03-21 18:52:45
(@Deft) A week passes, and I begin to wonder if I have maybe said something out of place.
2009-03-20 20:12:19
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Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot The Opus Interview
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WinXPcentral.com DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music
WinXPcentral.com Senators ask P2P companies to police themselves
Slashdot Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music
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WinXPcentral.com RC1 of White Box Enterprise Linux
Slashdot 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
kuro5hin.org 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.
Salon.com The man who solved the Kennedy assassination
It wasn't Earl Warren -- or Oliver Stone. His name is G. Robert Blakey.
Salon.com Notes from an activist: Militant response
In Miami, our exercising of our constitutional rights became an invitation to an indiscriminate crackdown.
Salon.com 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.
kuro5hin.org 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."
Slashdot 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 ...
MozillaZine Mozedit 0.1.1 Final Released
MozillaZine Introductory Tour of Mozilla's XUL
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Slashdot 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 ...
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Slashdot Apple's iTunes DRM Cracked?
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Slashdot Gnome.org Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt
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OSNews Open Source Desktop Technology Road Map
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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
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Slashdot Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage'
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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.
Slashdot 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 !
The Register Michigan Wi-Fi hackers 'try to steal credit card details'
Breaking and entering into shop network
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
Slashdot 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
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
The Register DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music
Exclusive Fair use, open source style
Tweakfiles "Tileset_color" by [extatic]
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com Joe Conason's Journal
The AARP is backing the Medicare "prescription drug benefit" bill when it should be backing its members.
Salon.com "The Cat in the Hat"
It's not worth your money. Not even one look. Mike Myers has butchered a great children's book.
Salon.com "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.
Salon.com 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?
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com "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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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
Salon.com "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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Slashdot 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
Slashdot 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 ...
The Register Archive.org to Vivendi: we'll host MP3.com's files
Save the music
The Register 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
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WinXPcentral.com Five Zippy Athlon 64 Motherboards Reviewed
WinXPcentral.com Man gets "spam rage" over penis ad
Slashdot 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
The Register 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."
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
The Register Telcos sue to block landline-to-cell switchers
11th hour move to scupper LNP
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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
kuro5hin.org 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.
Slashdot 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"
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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.
The Register Bluejacking ain't hijacking
Letter And snarfing is purely theoretical
The Register UK ID theft gang jailed for £350K fraud
Six crooks jailed for 15.5 years
The Register Roadside PDA test targets drug-crazed UK drivers
Would you mind drawing on the screen, sir?
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com Adobe drops animation software
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com Tired of Gates' Linux assertion
CNET News.com Microsoft nabs top Sun sales exec
Barbara Gordon, a top sales executive for Sun Microsystems, has left that company and joined rival Microsoft.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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!!!
Samurize.com 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)
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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!
NewsForge 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.
The Register 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
The Register Nthellworld.com whinge site pulled
Time for a 'comprehensive review' of service
The Register European Cyber security agency is go
Measly budget
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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!
Samurize.com 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
NewsForge 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.
NewsForge 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
The Register Scandis rule global ICT waves
UK limps in at 12
The Register Sentencing postponed in nuclear lab hack case
Hearing set for December 19
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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.
NewsForge Some Debian project machines compromised
The Register IBM puts new efforts behind PC division
Laptop push
The Register Peoplesoft welcomes EC intervention
Changes small print on refund
The Register AMD admits 90nm production slippage
Volume output in Q3 2004, not Q2
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
NewsForge 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?
The Register Intel commits to 4GHz Prescott P4 by Q4 '04
On all fours
The Register Business Serve buys Legend Internet
Swing low, sweet chaaaa-reee-hut
The Register DRM music goldrush is a race for losers - mp3.com founder
While Apple leads the lemmings
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
The Register AMD admits 90nm production deadline slipped
Volume output in Q3 2004, not Q2
The Register Don't say nothing to the SCO cops, Gartner advises Linux users
High performance systems? You seen any high performance systems, Rico?
The Register Low self esteem makes you thick - official
But PDA-driven brain tickler offers hope
The Register Mixed fortunes for enterprise WLANs
'low priority'
The Register NTL waves goodbye to 2,000 jobs
Efficiency gains
The Register Broadcom bites back against Intel-Mobilian, Atheros
Under Pressure
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News '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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
The Register Novell looks to Linux to pull it out of the red
Losses, lower revenues in Q4
The Register Germans deploy talking überbin
War on litter takes to the streets
The Register 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
Slashdot 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
NewsForge 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com Confessions of a virgin marriage
I loved and was attracted to my husband, but I didn't want to have sex with him.
Salon.com 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!
Salon.com What's playing at the Capitol Cineplex?
"Kindergarten Cop" -- rated L for Extreme Legislative Dysfunction -- and more!
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com Tom the Dancing Bug
Presidential Revisionist Comics: Did I say, Bring 'em on? I meant, Be prepared for a long, hard fight!
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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
The Register 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
Slashdot 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.
Slashdot 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
MozillaZine Open XUL Alliance Launches Wiki Wiki
MozillaZine 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!
The Register Intel's Otellini promises 'Year of Itanium'
But where are they all hiding?
Slashdot '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 ...
NewsForge 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com PacketVideo sells video server unit
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 servers
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com Senate passes nanotech funding bill
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
The Register US agencies arrest 125 in Operation Cyber Sweep
Net fraud crackdown
The Register Yahoo! shatters! world! yodelling! record!
Swiss and Germans no match for American might
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com In a flash, Intel loses memory lead
Samsung has displaced the giant chipmaker as the world's leading manufacturer of flash memory.
Slashdot 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 ...
kuro5hin.org 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?
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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?
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com .Net explained again--and again, and again...
Slashdot 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."
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com Open source no panacea for security
CNET News.com Paying to protect Linux
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
NewsForge 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.
The Register O2 launches digital music player
Reg Kit Watch And a UK music download service, too
The Register Symbian Q3 revenues dip
Update As phone shipments slow
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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?
The Register Moratorium on RFID chips urged
Supermarket sweep
The Register IBM to add clock throttling tech to 90nm G5 chip
PowerTune saves... er.. power
The Register Check Point looks beyond the perimeter
Joined-up security
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
The Register 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
NewsForge 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.
The Register US cybercrime push 'imperils personal security' of Americans
Even the Serbians will look up your records
Slashdot 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 ...
The Register AMD selects Dresden for 300mm plant
Fab 36
The Register Symbian Q3 revenues slide
As phone shipments slow
The Register We reveal major UNIX? IP violations
Exclusive And it's SCO
CNET News.com 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).
Slashdot 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]
The Register US railroad uses Wi-Fi to run 'driverless' trains
World's biggest train set?
The Register Court limits in-car FBI spying
But only because it crippled some safety features
The Register Martha Lane Fox leaves Lastminute
Gone, but not forgotten
The Register DTI builds SME data portal
Strike up the band
The Register China unveils 'DVD killer' video disk format
Offers HDTV quality, apparently
The Register '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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
The Register Cryptophone locks out snoopers
For the paranoiac who has everything
The Register BT and Vodafone named and shamed by Oftel
top customer complaints table
The Register Domain owner seeks to revolutionise Scottish legal system
'Monopolistic' Law Society of Scotland under pressure
The Register Telework hasn't taken off (D'oh!)
Europe in Brief
The Register HP's big iron back in the black
Servers, storage up but Alpha, NonStop decline
Slashdot 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
NewsForge 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.
Salon.com Turkey tales
Salon wants to know: What will you be chowing down on this Thanksgiving?
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com King Kaufman's Sports Daily
The MVP voters get it right at last: How valuable! Plus: The readers write about baseball and steroids.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com "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.
Salon.com How Massachusetts changed marriage
"We are mindful that our decision marks a change in the history of our marriage law."
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com The K Chronicles
Die K Kronik: With the in-laws in Germany.
Salon.com 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.
Slashdot 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
Slashdot 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
Search rss fix
this is just a rss fix (i hope)
Search 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.
Search 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.
Search 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.
Search 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.
Search 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.
Search 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.
Search 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.
Search 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
Search 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
CNET News.com Microsoft re-explains .Net strategy
Industry figures give the software giant a passing grade for embracing open standards.
CNET News.com 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
CNET News.com 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.
MozillaZine Introduction to Mozilla Manual Available in Draft Form
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com IBM to shutter Swedish facility
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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).
Slashdot 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 ...
Search 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
Samurize.com 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
The Register EDGE everywhere by mid-2004 - AT&T Wireless
Trebles bandwidth
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com Bill Gates: Unplugged
Microsoft's chairman compares Linux to Unix in the 1970s and urges people to "be careful" with utility computing.
Slashdot 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
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
The Register 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."
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
kuro5hin.org 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.
The Register ISS launches first hardware appliance
Crucial product transition
The Register EU sets up Euro-security agency
Puny budget, educational role
The Register Mobile phones could cripple - boffins
Walk and talk yourself into a wheelchair
CNET News.com Dell products get smart card protection
The computer maker announces smart card products designed to control authorized access to companies' computers.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
kuro5hin.org 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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. ...
Slashdot Cisco Networking Simplified
Michael Bennett Cohn writes "Everything about Cisco Networking Simplified screams accessibility: the landscape layout, the softback cover, the illustrations ...
NewsForge 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.
The Register 'Don't shoot the MP3.com archive,' pleads founder Robertson
Still a live grenade, after all these years?
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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?
Slashdot 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com Polese steps down as Marimba chairman
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
snowchyld Comdex 2003 Bill Gates Keynote Speech
Wake up Neo....
The Register Freeserve dismisses rebranding reports
Old news, still 'under review'
The Register Stuff Bush with your mobile
Free logo fights international war madness
The Register Virgin and T-Mobile squabble over divorce terms
Back in court
The Register MI5 takes charge of online terror tips
Secret agency steps out of the shadows
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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."
Slashdot 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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kuro5hin.org 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?
The Register Epicor buys Scala
Mid-market play
The Register Slim Devices ships Squeezebox networked MP3 player
Reg Kit Watch Listen to your tunes via Wi-Fi
The Register Freeserve strikes ad blow against AOL, Tiscali
'Don't mess with us' - Wanadoo UK
The Register MS TCO study fails to dislodge OSS trials from Newham council
They came, they audited, they went away again...
The Register Hynix appeals against EU DRAM tax
Not fair
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
NewsForge 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.
kuro5hin.org 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."
The Register Tarantella backs SuSE and Red Hat
Used to be called SCO, remember?
The Register Net Porn addict claims unfair dismissal
'I need therapy and understanding'
CNET News.com '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!
kuro5hin.org 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.
The Register Aussie students escape jail for online music piracy
Lucky boys
The Register Apple preps second Panther OS update
Latest 10.3.2 build shipped to testers
The Register US loses 500k+ tech jobs in 2002
Where did they all go?
The Register Hynix appeals against Europe's 35% DRAM levy
Not fair, apparently
NeoWin.net Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Pack
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News '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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
The Register 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
kuro5hin.org 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."
The Register Belgian watchdog fumes over Nokia battery statement
How can you tell them apart?
Slashdot 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 ...
NewsForge 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.
Salon.com "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?
Salon.com Dean's momentum builds
The front-runner goes to Washington, and instead of excoriating congressional "cockroaches," gets some big endorsements.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Baseball's steroid debate: Whoever's talking, I couldn't disagree more.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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?
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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?
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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
kuro5hin.org 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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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NewsForge 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.
MozillaZine NTLM Authentication Supported by Mozilla on All Platforms
MozillaZine Trunk Freezes for Mozilla 1.6 Beta Tonight
MozillaZine Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 10th November 2003
OSNews Today on NMC: Wireless & Health, Dell IM, Pocket PC, Motorola, More
CNET News.com Danger signs up new licensee
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
MozillaZine 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.
Slashdot 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
The Register Sun and AOL form StarOffice pact for cheap desktops
Sneak Peek PCs dip below $300
The Register GoDaddy sorry for anonymity snafu
Webcaster Alliance website back on the air
CNET News.com Verizon details Internet phone plans
The company will begin selling Internet telephony services to broadband customers early next year, a company spokesman confirms.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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."
CNET News.com Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty
President George W. Bush asks the United States Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
The Register CA revives free AV software offer
Microsoft supplies 'kiss of life'
The Register The economics of spam
Only 50 replies in a million will do
The Register 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com Siebel touts online wares at Comdex
Siebel Systems CEO Tom Siebel takes the stage to tout his company's server software and online services.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
The Register Sun to acquire identity broker
Is your baby safe?
The Register 'Police abduction warning' email is a hoax
That joke isn't funny anymore
The Register Plug pulled on London Webcams
'Operational reasons'
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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.
Search 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
Search 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
Search 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....
Search 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!
Search 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! :)
Search 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! ;)
Search 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!
Search 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
Search 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!
Search 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..... :)
NewsForge 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.
NewsForge 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
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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?
The Register Apple ships 20in iMac
Reg Kit Watch Adds 1.8GHz dualie to Power Mac G5 line too
The Register SCO is prepared to stump Novell's SuSE deal
More cash for the cronies
The Register Businessman banned after Internet agency scam
Rip-off
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com CDC Software enters Pivotal sweepstakes
Chinese-controlled CDC Software joins the bidding war to acquire Pivotal, a maker of software for managing customer relationships.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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 ...
The Register Open source: Brazil shies away from Redmond
President shuns Windows
The Register Choice is king in the promised land of 64-bit computing
AnalysisThe option explosion
The Register 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com ISS unveils attack-blocking devices
CNET News.com eBay chairman joins meetings site board
Slashdot 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
The Register New worm scams PayPal punters
Mimail-J
MozillaZine Minutes of the mozdev Admin Meeting of Monday 17th November 2003
Slashdot 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. ...
NewsForge 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.
The Register Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs
Big Bucks for Big Bugs
The Register BT! and! Yahoo! in! dial-up! makeover!
BT knockers target blanket BB goal
The Register Electronic Voting Debacle
Opinion American democracy at stake, no less
The Register Fast spreading worm targets PayPal punters - again
Mimail-J
CNET News.com 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.
The Register SCO admits: Linux jihad is destroying our business
Death or inglory
The Register BT poaches top Telewest exec
Disappears into the BT blueyonder
The Register FSF eases Microsoft schema patent fears
XML schemers
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
Wired News 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.
The Register Music labels monitor P2P nets to list most popular songs
Chart attack
The Register 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...
NewsForge 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.
The Register 118 services not up to scratch - Oftel
Want a number? It's a lottery
The Register And now some words from our game sponsor
Analysis Tail wagging the dog
The Register 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'
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com "My life is just beginning"
Far from being lazy and unmotivated, teen mothers are anxious to succeed. They just need the opportunities.
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com 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?
Salon.com "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.
Salon.com This Modern World
Ripped from the headlines: The Homosexual Menace!
Salon.com 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.
Salon.com Married men
I'm a divorced woman and have a lot to offer, but I keep getting involved with unavailable men.
Salon.com King Kaufman's Sports Daily
College athletics reform: Everyone agrees it's needed. But is making the BCS a little more fair really "it"?
The Register Shredded Stasi documents could be pieced together in five years
Jigsaw puzzle
The Register Aussies blown away by Poms rugby style
The online poll never lies
Slashdot 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 ...
NewsForge 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.
The Register Microsoft brings locked music downloads to US
MSN apes iTMS
The Register PalmSource launches online wireless store
Cuddles up to Sprint
The Register Huawei-3Com tie-up approved
All systems go
WinCustomize.com Animated Snowflake wallpaper...
BetaNews.Com ZTreeWin 1.49.2c Released
The Register AT&T patents anti-spam circumvention technique
Method in the madness?
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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."
Slashdot 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 ...
NewsForge 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.
CNET News.com Briefly: Acer offers a wide-screen notebook
The computer maker unveils a wide-screen notebook built with multimedia in mind.
CNET News.com Acer offers a wide-screen notebook
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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."
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com NetScreen wraps up Neoteris acquisition
CNET News.com 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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."
Slashdot 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
Received inflammatory comments on some writing of yours?Been flamed for critiquing?Solutions abounded inside this article.
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.
WinXPcentral.com MS = Google Jr?
WinXPcentral.com Microsoft music store to open next year
WinXPcentral.com Cool Stuff...
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
NeoWin.net Miranda IM 0.32
NeoWin.net DVD X Copy Gold 3.0.2
BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 1 Released
NewsForge 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.
kuro5hin.org 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 3Com and Huawei start China venture
The companies say they've begun selling networking equipment to businesses in the lucrative Chinese market.
Slashdot 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
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
MozillaZine Jan Varga's Root Interview in English
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
The Register 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."
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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."
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Search sssshhh ...
... 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.
The Register Sun and AMD toast their Opteron marriage
China Linux desktop win for dessert
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
Slashdot 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
The Register Road Runner messages 'censored', newsgroups complain
Piracy filter gone mad?
The Register Former Gateway execs deny SEC fraud charges
Expect to be exonerated
The Register 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
NewsForge 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.
The Register ICANN wins first round of Wait List fight
Judge denies preliminary injunction
The Register Those 'Name the wireless store' compo results in full
We finally pulled our fingers out
The Register Broadcom blames Atheros for bad WLAN peformance
Not our fault, Wi-Fi chip maker responds
The Register PM bigs-up BT's BB-4-all goal
Swing low, sweet chaaaaa-reeee-hut
The Register England Rugby team hunt electronic bugs
It's not paranoid when everyone's out to get you
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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). ...
NeoWin.net ShellToys XP 4.0
NeoWin.net MagicTweak version 2.70 is available
NewsForge 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.
The Register Nvidia touts second-gen mobile GeForce FX
5700 is Go
CNET News.com 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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
The Register Rock Pegasus CTS notebook
Review Does Pegasus fly above the competition?
The Register 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.
CNET News.com 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.
Slashdot 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 ...
The Register Garage door DMCA case dismissed
Remote uncontrol
The Register Ad campaign tells drivers about new cellphone law
You're being warned
The Register Microsoft aims to 'shift the tide' in war on spam
SmartScreen
The Register IETF to cramp Cisco's WLAN empire?
Opposing camps
The Register Voda plans show why MS will struggle with phones
Casting vote
CNET News.com Processors strike a pose
roundup It's show-and-tell time for developers of some of the world's brawniest comp