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Open Source Tools in Data Centers

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

The Opus Interview

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

WinXPcentral.com DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music

WinXPcentral.com Senators ask P2P companies to police themselves

Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music

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

WinXPcentral.com RC1 of White Box Enterprise Linux

Companies Move Away From Cubicle Culture

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

Scripting News Goooood morning from California!

Goooood morning from California!

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

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

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

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

The hidden cost of going virtual

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

Week ahead: A meager feast

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

DVD-Rs go 8x

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

DeviantArt.com Tokyo: The Imperial Capital

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

DeviantArt.com Gaim 0.73 released

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

DeviantArt.com Meet with a skinner | Issue 1

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

DeviantArt.com Inception releases its second pack!

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

DeviantArt.com Opera 7.23 for Windows Released

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

Wireless-Friendly Microwaves

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

Mobile Phone for the Blind

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

The 1804 Australian Rebellion and Battle of Vinegar Hill

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

The man who solved the Kennedy assassination

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

Notes from an activist: Militant response

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

Kennedy, Vietnam and Iraq

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

Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution will Survive WMD Attack

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

Linux in 2004?

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

Mozedit 0.1.1 Final Released

Introductory Tour of Mozilla's XUL

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

Documentary about Professional Gaming

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

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

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

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

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

OSNews Red Carpet Daemon 2.0 and Open Carpet Announced

NeoWin.net Gaim 0.73

OSNews OSX: Maintenance Tips; Scripting; Rendezvous Picture Transfer

OSNews A Look at the Eclipse IDE

Microsoft Security Whitepaper

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

BetaNews.Com Quick Command Line 2003.0.2 Beta 2 Released

Apple's iTunes DRM Cracked?

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

BetaNews.Com BitSpirit 1.0.9.255 Beta Released

Gnome.org Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt

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

BetaNews.Com renattach 1.2.0 RC3 Released

BetaNews.Com Easy Notes 3.0 Release Candidate 2 Released

Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications

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

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

OSNews Open Source Desktop Technology Road Map

OSNews Eager for Panther? There's Reason to Pause

OSNews Gates Tops Generosity List

Top 10 Personal Computers

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

NeoWin.net Invision Power Board 1.3 Final Released

NeoWin.net Opera 7.23 Released

New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys

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

Glowing Fish are First Genetically Engineered Pets

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

WinCustomize.com JoeUser.com gets a face lift

snowchyld Matrix Revolutions

SPOILERS ABOUND

A Robot Carries Humans, Another One Plays Flute

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

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

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

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

WinXPcentral.com House passes antispam bill

Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage'

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

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

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

MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed

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

DeviantArt.com deviantART Hits 3 Million Deviations!

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

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

Breaking and entering into shop network

House passes antispam bill

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

Security and individual responsibility

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

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

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

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

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

California to Require Paper Voter Receipt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ShellFront ckhotspots update

Scripting News Good morning early morning coffee drinkers. Hope y

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

NeoWin.net Samurize v1.0.1

The Sunspot Cycle Explained

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

BetaNews.Com ClearInfo 0.50 RC1 Released

Fill 'Er Up Full of Beans

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

E-Votes Must Leave a Paper Trail

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

Senate Bill Sticks It to Spammers

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

Man Arrested Over 'Spam Rage'

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

China's Grip on Info Loosening

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

DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music

Exclusive Fair use, open source style

Tweakfiles "Tileset_color" by [extatic]

The media octopus loses a tentacle

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

Joe Conason's Journal

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

"The Cat in the Hat"

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

"The president ought to be ashamed"

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

Operation Iron Hammer: Make noise, kill cows

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

Cheering Bush down

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

"21 Grams"

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

The chaos of war spreads to Saudi Arabia, Turkey

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

The Fix

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

"Gothika"

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

Love amid the Terror

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

Notes from an activist: Running with the Black Bloc

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

Snail Mail Tech

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

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

geoShell Plugins geOStatPlus 1.28

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

OSNews Debian: Attack Didn't Harm Source Code

BetaNews.Com AIDA32 3.86.5 Preview Released

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

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

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

Save the music

California mandates e-voting paper trails

But not in time for 2004

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

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

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

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

WinXPcentral.com Five Zippy Athlon 64 Motherboards Reviewed

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

Wal-Mart to Offer Wal-Mart Notebooks

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

NeoWin.net Messenger Plus! 2.52.72

DVD Jon unlocks iTunes' locked music

Fair use, open source style

WinCustomize.com Virtual PC for Mac 6.1

BetaNews.Com Qwik-Fix 0.55 Beta Released

Scripting News Lisa Williams talks about the software I demoed la

Lisa Williams talks about the software I demoed last night.

Scripting News Chris Lydon interviews Dean campaign manager Joe T

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Court won't put number transfers on hold

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

Superball!

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

WinXPcentral.com Red Hat Gives Away Fedora Core

Telcos sue to block landline-to-cell switchers

11th hour move to scupper LNP

Briefly: Microsoft settles Tennessee suit

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

Microsoft settles Tennessee suit

WinXPcentral.com MSN Messenger 6.1.0203

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

Vivendi to Destroy MP3.com archive

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

Japanese Mars Probe Failing

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

BetaNews.Com Netrouser 0.0.0.98 Beta Released

OSNews An Approach to Solving the "Device Driver Crisis"

SBC raps RIAA subpoenas in court

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

Red Hat, researchers in name tiff

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

Wal-Mart to write own name on notebooks

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

Congress poised for antispam vote

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

Webservice Debugs Linux Binaries While-U-Wait

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

Loose-screws ckHotspots 2.3.2

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

Loose-screws BGColors 1.03

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

Bluejacking ain't hijacking

Letter And snarfing is purely theoretical

UK ID theft gang jailed for £350K fraud

Six crooks jailed for 15.5 years

Roadside PDA test targets drug-crazed UK drivers

Would you mind drawing on the screen, sir?

US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill

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

OSNews Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds to Slashdot Readers

OSNews RISC OS 4.02 Boot Patch Issued

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

OSNews SCO Says It Will Go After Novell-SuSE

Yahoo promotes executives to boost products

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

iPod-Jacked

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

Caldera/SCO Co-Founder Ransom Love Speaks

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

BetaNews.Com Avant Browser 8.03 Beta 8 Released

BetaNews.Com eMule 0.30c Released

OSNews Igor Searches for Programming Errors

OSNews Interview with Alan Redhouse of Eyetech

Group files suit to block number rules

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

U.N. report: Economic pressures push outsourcing

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

Congress poised for antispam vote

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

Wal-Mart to write own name on notebooks

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

Yahoo buys Chinese software firm

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

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

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

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

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

In Search of Stupidity

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

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.165 Beta Released

Adobe drops animation software

Week in review: Comdex goes corporate

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

Tired of Gates' Linux assertion

Microsoft nabs top Sun sales exec

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

Gates' amusing view of utility computing

Scripting News National Weather Service alerts are available in R

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew's looking for a new laptop too.

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

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

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

Serious Samurize 1.0 Release - Samurize goes "Gold"!

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

Online retail sales up 27 percent

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

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds

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

WinCustomize.com More flavors of DesktopX Pro Added!

Linux Advisory Watch - November 21st 2003

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

Thus pulls out of 118 to 'protect reputation'

Regulators urged to clamp down on 'cowboy' operators

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

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

Scripting News A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alt

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

EU Hi-Tech Crime Agency Created

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

Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting

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

Nthellworld.com whinge site pulled

Time for a 'comprehensive review' of service

European Cyber security agency is go

Measly budget

Microsoft signs .Net deal in China

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

E-Bombs: Technology Update

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

Xinie.com Xinie on IRC!

Serious Samurize 1.0.1

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

BetaNews.Com Matador 3.5.0.997 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com WebLog Expert 3.0 Beta 3 Released

BetaNews.Com IncrediMail Build 1306 Beta Released

Lessons from Oregon's Open Source bill

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

Some Debian project machines compromised

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

Scandis rule global ICT waves

UK limps in at 12

Sentencing postponed in nuclear lab hack case

Hearing set for December 19

Siebel sues former exec over contract breach

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

Mouse Gestures in Javascript

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

WinXPcentral.com Ad-aware referencefile 01R232 20.11.2003

WinXPcentral.com DriverView 1.0.0

WinXPcentral.com Net-access tax may pass.

Some Debian project machines compromised

IBM puts new efforts behind PC division

Laptop push

Peoplesoft welcomes EC intervention

Changes small print on refund

AMD admits 90nm production slippage

Volume output in Q3 2004, not Q2

Senate may move on bill to ban Net-access tax

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

Debian Project Servers Compromised

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

DNA Assembled Nano-Transistors

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

IT job strategies: What outsourcing risks mean for IT workers

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

Intel commits to 4GHz Prescott P4 by Q4 '04

On all fours

Business Serve buys Legend Internet

Swing low, sweet chaaaa-reee-hut

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

While Apple leads the lemmings

Senate may move on Net access tax ban

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

Comdex: A look toward 2004

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

The pragmatic radical

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

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

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

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

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

Scripting News A Seattle reporter who covers Microsoft has an alt

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

AMD admits 90nm production deadline slipped

Volume output in Q3 2004, not Q2

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

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

Low self esteem makes you thick - official

But PDA-driven brain tickler offers hope

Mixed fortunes for enterprise WLANs

'low priority'

NTL waves goodbye to 2,000 jobs

Efficiency gains

Broadcom bites back against Intel-Mobilian, Atheros

Under Pressure

Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod

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

EBay Sellers Generous With Junk

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

Friendster Quickly Gathering Foes

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

The Key to Genius

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

Having a Gas in Okefenokee Swamp

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

'Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests

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

AT & #038;T Sues EBay in Patent Dispute

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

Down-Home Cookin' Takes Flight

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

Novell looks to Linux to pull it out of the red

Losses, lower revenues in Q4

Germans deploy talking überbin

War on litter takes to the streets

BT gloats as Freeserve loses broadband pricing appeal

'Spurious' claims rejected by Oftel

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

NeoWin.net Austalia's local Jabber™ server launched

BetaNews.Com Testers Invited for Windows XP SP2 Beta

AMD Breaks Ground on New Chip Facility

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

BetaNews.Com Fast Note 2.0.0 Beta 9 Released

BetaNews.Com Total Media Player 3.0 Beta 18 Released

A busy week for IT earnings reports

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

I Like to Watch

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

Confessions of a virgin marriage

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

Anxiety attacks

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

What's playing at the Capitol Cineplex?

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

The penguin is mightier than the sword

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

I don't

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

Dean, sunny-side up

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

Tom the Dancing Bug

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

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

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

Joe Conason's Journal

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

Green China?

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

Who wants to get married?

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

DeviantArt.com deviantART's Avatar Policies

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

BetaNews.Com Skype 0.95 Beta Released

Intel stakes phone hopes on Manitoba

WiFi to appear alongside EDGE, WCDMA protocols

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

WinCustomize.com Do Mac users have a credibility problem?

WinCustomize.com MyTunes released

NeoWin.net MyTunes released for Windows

BetaNews.Com GigAlarm 1.241 Beta Released

Mafia Tech Support

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

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

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

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

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

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

My demo list for this evening's meeting.

Scripting News Chris Sells explains how Longhorn SDK annotations

Chris Sells explains how Longhorn SDK annotations work.

RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old

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

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

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

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

NeoWin.net NSIS 2 - Beta 4 out!

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

OSNews GTK# 0.14, wx.NET 0.3 Released

OSNews Fedora Core Reviews, Rants

Open XUL Alliance Launches Wiki Wiki

Zulu Layout Engine Combines XUL and Flash

DeviantArt.com deviantART Hits 3 Million Deviations!

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

Intel's Otellini promises 'Year of Itanium'

But where are they all hiding?

'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests

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

Taking a close look at Handspring's new Treo 600

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

SBC challenges RIAA over subpoenas

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

AT&T Sues PayPal and eBay for Patent Infringement

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

Yahoo eyes purchase of Chinese Web firm

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

PacketVideo sells video server unit

Briefly: PacketVideo sells video server unit

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

Sun, BEA promote Java on x86 servers

Comdex: Little fish in a smaller pond

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

Slashback: Princeton, Terror, Farscape

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

WinCustomize.com Drengin.net home page revamped

HP's top HR executive to retire

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

Senate passes nanotech funding bill

Loss shrinks, sign-ups grow for TiVo

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

FCC rejects number portability delay

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

A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD

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

DeviantArt.com Colours Skin Pack for WindowBlinds Available

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

DeviantArt.com New Video Codecs

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

DeviantArt.com GNOME 2.4.1

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

WinXPcentral.com Opera 7.23 Final Released

US agencies arrest 125 in Operation Cyber Sweep

Net fraud crackdown

Yahoo! shatters! world! yodelling! record!

Swiss and Germans no match for American might

Key Office exec to exit Microsoft

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

U.N. finds wide digital divide

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

Now showing on Comcast: Streaming video

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

Intel raises the stakes on Wi-Fi chips

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

In a flash, Intel loses memory lead

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

Creative Recycling: Dumpster Diving

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

The Golden Ruler

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

Yahoo sends reminder on marketing changes

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

IBM lays off employees in software group

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

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

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

Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money

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

WinXPcentral.com Antivirus Vendor Offers Free Software

NeoWin.net Fresh UI v6.65

NeoWin.net NSIS 2 - Beta 3 out!

NeoWin.net Winamp 5.0 Release Candidate 8

NeoWin.net Easy CD Ripper 2.16

NeoWin.net jv16 PowerTools 1.4.1.246 Officially Released

NeoWin.net Opera 7.23

NeoWin.net IncrediMail (Beta) Build 1306.

NeoWin.net Skype Beta 0.95.0.11.

NeoWin.net Kazaa Media Desktop 2.6.

BetaNews.Com WinMessenger 2.0 Preview Released

BetaNews.Com Calendarscope 2.0 Beta 3 Released

IBM pares employees in software group

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

AT&T Wireless: mMode update clips clicks

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

Intel sets the bar at 4GHz

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

AT&T sues eBay, PayPal over patent

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

Ars Dissects POWER5, UltraSparc IV, and Efficeon

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

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

OSNews Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

OSNews ReactOS 0.1.5 released

OSNews Beware the Desktop Quagmire; Home Users Leap to Linux

Linux veteran tries again

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

Jockeying for jobs

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

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

The Definitive Guide to the Compact Framework

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

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

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

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

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

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

HP, Cap Gemini join forces for storage

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

Apple fixes security in Panther, Jaguar

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

Open source no panacea for security

Paying to protect Linux

Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora'

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

NERC Releases Interim Report on Aug 14th Blackout

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

Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

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

Xinie.com Winamp5 is just around the corner

BetaNews.Com IncrediMail Build 1301 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Vypress Chat 1.9 RC4 Released

BetaNews.Com Website-Watcher 3.60 Beta 13 Released

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.163 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com GoldenSection Notes 2.6 RC2 Build 525 Released

RealNetworks blasts video to AT&T handsets

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

Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping

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

lowdimension.net who is reading the news o_O

20.11.03 - ok, clickety hackity click

lowdimension.net and its Lowspirit and snowchyld neck and neck

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

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

BetaNews.Com WinOrganizer 2.6 RC2 Build 525 Released

CLI for noobies: making and melting tarballs

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

O2 launches digital music player

Reg Kit Watch And a UK music download service, too

Symbian Q3 revenues dip

Update As phone shipments slow

Study quells fears of IT outsource impact

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

BMC adds to ID management tools

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

Scripting News Jon Udell: Working with Bayesian Categorizers.

Jon Udell: Working with Bayesian Categorizers.

Scripting News Fascinating map shows where each of the candidates

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

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

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

Scientific American's Sci/Tech Gifts for 2003

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

WinCustomize.com More flavors of DesktopX Pro requested?

Moratorium on RFID chips urged

Supermarket sweep

IBM to add clock throttling tech to 90nm G5 chip

PowerTune saves... er.. power

Check Point looks beyond the perimeter

Joined-up security

SBC offers cheaper VoIP service

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

Overture unveils ad-tracking system

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

AMD breaks ground on new chip plant

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

Microsoft re-explains .Net strategy

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

Spyware for Corporate Espionage

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

How to Handle an Internet Outage

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

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

Technical and non-technical reasons

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

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

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

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

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

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

AMD breaks ground on new chip plant

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

Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router

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

WinXPcentral.com Nero PowerPack Soon!

WinXPcentral.com MSN Messenger 6.1.0202

WinXPcentral.com Winamp 5 Lite RC 8

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

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

US cybercrime push 'imperils personal security' of Americans

Even the Serbians will look up your records

FSF Wants Your Vouchers

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

AMD selects Dresden for 300mm plant

Fab 36

Symbian Q3 revenues slide

As phone shipments slow

We reveal major UNIX? IP violations

Exclusive And it's SCO

SBC to offer cheaper VoIP service

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kazaa Launches Legitimacy Campaign

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

Tweakfiles "squared" by [extatic]

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

World's biggest train set?

Court limits in-car FBI spying

But only because it crippled some safety features

Martha Lane Fox leaves Lastminute

Gone, but not forgotten

DTI builds SME data portal

Strike up the band

China unveils 'DVD killer' video disk format

Offers HDTV quality, apparently

'Lost generation' of bosses blamed for IT mediocrity

Come on, say what you mean

DeviantArt.com PimpBot 1.2.0

whyEye.org released another major update of PimpBot.

DeviantArt.com WinAmp5 May be Soon to Arrive

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

DeviantArt.com NSIS 2.0 Beta 4

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

Record Label Sings New Tune

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

Speed Kills, Military Wants More

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

Next Big Thing in Biotech: RNAi

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

Space Mission on Auction Block

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

CodeFellas

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

Republicans Back E-Vote Bill

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

Scientists ID New Whale Species

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

EU May Fund Embryo Cell Studies

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

Tech-Job Meltdown in Final Stages

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

Cryptophone locks out snoopers

For the paranoiac who has everything

BT and Vodafone named and shamed by Oftel

top customer complaints table

Domain owner seeks to revolutionise Scottish legal system

'Monopolistic' Law Society of Scotland under pressure

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

Europe in Brief

HP's big iron back in the black

Servers, storage up but Alpha, NonStop decline

Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

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

DeviantArt.com Walking The Path Winnipeg Art Group V2 Released

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

Teknidermy NewsSTAND WinAmp5 May be Soon to Arrive

BetaNews.Com Blog 8.0 Beta 2 Released

BetaNews.Com Sun Selected to Power Desktops in China

BSD developers speak out on SCO campaign

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

Turkey tales

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

The state of your unions

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

Lining up to fight "the forces of evil"

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

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

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

Save the Earth -- dump Bush

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

Joe Conason's Journal

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

Ents storm Grand Central!

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

"No matter what, life is bigger than death"

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

How Massachusetts changed marriage

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

Dean tries to broaden appeal

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

The K Chronicles

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

Heard the one about Prince Charles and the valet?

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

NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer

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

BetaNews.Com DC++ 0.304 Released

BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 3 Released

Tweakfiles "Orbital Pink" by SakuraKira

SpamCop To Be Sold To IronPort?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the core shell settings (registry version)

version 2.10

the core shell systray

version 2.2

the core shell update

version 3.00

the core shell console

version 2.10

the core shell hotkey

version 2.10

rss fix

this is just a rss fix (i hope)

Site rewrite

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

backend rewritten (the end of the file corruption!)

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

Users page

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

settings (registry version) version 2.10 released

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

psa.shellscape.net

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

core 1.20 build 72 released

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

systray version 2.2 released

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

SOFTcore released!

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

1.20 build 63

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

Microsoft re-explains .Net strategy

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

SBC to offer cheaper VoIP service

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

BetaNews.Com Nullsoft Install System 2.0 Beta 4 Released

Utility computing's elusive definition

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

Introduction to Mozilla Manual Available in Draft Form

Efficient Supercomputing with Green Destiny

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

OSNews Mac OS X Security Update; Updated Bluetooth Stack

IBM to shutter Swedish facility

PeopleSoft shuffles lawyers in Oracle suit

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

MTV puts fans first at online music store

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

RealNetworks switches on video for AT&T

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

New Linux TPC-H Record Set

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

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

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

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

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

Macintosh users join Kazaa network

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

Security expert proposes hackers' union

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

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

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

BetaNews.Com Winamp5 Full RC 8 Released

BetaNews.Com Winamp5 Lite RC 8 Released

A 'brain charger': The ultimate PDA accessory?

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

HP earnings beat expectations

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

Judge rules in favor of pop-up purveyor

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

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

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

Does IT Matter?

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

More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002

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

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

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

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

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

Fox Considering a Return of "Family Guy"

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

BetaNews.Com AOL Enables Concurrent Logins in AIM

Court grants FCC extension on cable ruling

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

Qwest to launch VoIP in December

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

TV demand to trigger LCD price rise

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

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

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

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

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

BetaNews.Com Network Assistant 3.2 Beta 1 Released

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

Advogato A Relational Model of Programming

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

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

Double joy in HP earnings

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

IBM sets up shop to test radio tags

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

Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE deal

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

Court to FBI: No spying on in-car computers

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

OSNews Editorial: The State of OSS Documentation

OSNews Bill Gates: Unplugged

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

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

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

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

Is Space Mining Feasible?

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

Online documentation update

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

WinCustomize.com DesktopX Pro released!

Tweakfiles "Out of focus frog" by iNk BuCkEt

Serious Samurize 1.0 Release - Samurize goes "Gold"!

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

BetaNews.Com Abander TagControl 2.0 Beta 4 Released

OSNews GNOME 2.4.1 Released Silently

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

EDGE everywhere by mid-2004 - AT&T Wireless

Trebles bandwidth

Novell: SCO's wrong about SuSE deal

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

Bill Gates: Unplugged

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

The Riches of Open Source

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

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

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

WinXPcentral.com KDE 3.2 Beta 1 for Fedora Core 1

WinXPcentral.com SCO to Sue Corporate Linux Users

WinXPcentral.com ZoneAlarm Free 4.5.530.0

WinXPcentral.com AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 542

BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 2 Released

Techno DJ Is Hot, Hot, Hawtin

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

Tech Job Meltdown in Final Stages

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

Game Over for Edgy Sports News?

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

Complaints? About ISPs? Surely not!

ISPA unveils new complaints outfit

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

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

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

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

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

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

AOL acquires multimedia search provider

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

Sun drops more hints on Opteron servers

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

Apple crops up in Windows world

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

Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market

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

BetaNews.Com Mail Snoop Pro 1.01.015 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Network Eagle 3.5 Beta Build 197 Released

Captain Ledford, where are you now?

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

ISS launches first hardware appliance

Crucial product transition

EU sets up Euro-security agency

Puny budget, educational role

Mobile phones could cripple - boffins

Walk and talk yourself into a wheelchair

Dell products get smart card protection

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

Apple crops up in Windows world

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

Encrypted cell phone foils eavesdroppers

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

Targeting rogue hot spots

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

SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More

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

Captain Ledford, where are you now?

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

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

OSNews Bill Joy on Linux, Apple, and Technology

OSNews Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on Longhorn

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

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

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

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

EMC to invest $100 million in India

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

Oracle readies portal-building tools

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

NDIS Wrapper For Wireless LAN Cards Under GPL

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

Cisco Networking Simplified

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

SCO: Winners and Losers

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

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

Still a live grenade, after all these years?

PeopleSoft extends customer refund program

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

AOL acquires multimedia search provider

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

Scripting News Jeremy Zawodny: Is Google The Next DNS?

Jeremy Zawodny: Is Google The Next DNS?

Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News

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

NeoWin.net Actual Windows Manager v2.5

NeoWin.net Ethereal 0.9.16 has been released.

Briefly: MySQL names marketing chief

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

Polese steps down as Marimba chairman

Macromedia developers get a shot at AIM

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

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

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

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Wake up Neo....

Freeserve dismisses rebranding reports

Old news, still 'under review'

Stuff Bush with your mobile

Free logo fights international war madness

Virgin and T-Mobile squabble over divorce terms

Back in court

MI5 takes charge of online terror tips

Secret agency steps out of the shadows

AOL gives Macromedia developers a shot at AIM

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

IBM renews its emphasis on PCs

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

MySQL names marketing chief

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

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

Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might Reduce Spam

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

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US Court Finds Serial Killer Guilty of Terrorism

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

Epicor buys Scala

Mid-market play

Slim Devices ships Squeezebox networked MP3 player

Reg Kit Watch Listen to your tunes via Wi-Fi

Freeserve strikes ad blow against AOL, Tiscali

'Don't mess with us' - Wanadoo UK

MS TCO study fails to dislodge OSS trials from Newham council

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

Hynix appeals against EU DRAM tax

Not fair

Ebola Vaccine Human Trials Begin

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

Teraflop In A Box At SC2003

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

Taking a close look at Handspring's new Treo 600

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

Temporary Assignment

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

Tarantella backs SuSE and Red Hat

Used to be called SCO, remember?

Net Porn addict claims unfair dismissal

'I need therapy and understanding'

'Spyware' steps out of the shadows

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

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

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

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

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

Scripting News Dan Gillmor reports that Good Morning Silicion Val

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

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

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

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

Gotta play with this some more: GoogleRace.Com.

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

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

Scripting News It's a beautiful morning!

It's a beautiful morning!

Jonestown: Armageddon Writ Small

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

Aussie students escape jail for online music piracy

Lucky boys

Apple preps second Panther OS update

Latest 10.3.2 build shipped to testers

US loses 500k+ tech jobs in 2002

Where did they all go?

Hynix appeals against Europe's 35% DRAM levy

Not fair, apparently

NeoWin.net Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) Management Pack

FedEx Delivers New Tech Lab

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

Techno DJ Is Hot, Hot, Hawtin

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

'Hope Is a Lousy Defense'

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

Game Over for Edgy Sports News?

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

No Easy Solution to Spyware

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

Cool Science, for Adults Only

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

Germany Touts High-Security Phone

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

Move Over DVD, Here Comes the EVD

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

Competitive broadband could add £22bn to UK economy

BIG idea takes off

NeoWin.net ZoneAlarm 4.5.530

BetaNews.Com Locate 3.0 Alpha (2.98.3.11090) Released

Italian anti-war group to assist Iraqi resistance

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

Belgian watchdog fumes over Nokia battery statement

How can you tell them apart?

Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow

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

An editor to ease Windows to Linux migration

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

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

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

Dean's momentum builds

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

Trapped between "Two Towers"

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

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

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

Arnold straddles California

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

I'm confused

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

Joe Conason's Journal

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

The Fix

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

Rush returns

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

In the lion's den

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

How much is that doggie in the browser window?

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

WayLay

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

OSNews MySQL Reopens SAP's Database for the Public

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

Federal Court to hear the Case of the Dirty Bomber

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

DeviantArt.com XMMS mp3cue v0.94 released

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

Storage companies synch up with Windows

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

South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network

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

Group wants phone number plan put on hold

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

Pivotal board rejects second unsolicited bid

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

SCO plans more Linux lawsuits

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

OSNews Basic Concepts of Real-Time Operating Systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

McBride Speaks, In Person And In Print

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

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Why SCO will soon be going after BSD

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

NTLM Authentication Supported by Mozilla on All Platforms

Trunk Freezes for Mozilla 1.6 Beta Tonight

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

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

Danger signs up new licensee

AOL gets personal with Love.com

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

Cooking spam at Comdex

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

Straight talk on Adaptive Computing

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

AT&T patents anti-antispam technology

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

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

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

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

What Might UserLinux Look Like?

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

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

Sun and AOL form StarOffice pact for cheap desktops

Sneak Peek PCs dip below $300

GoDaddy sorry for anonymity snafu

Webcaster Alliance website back on the air

Verizon details Internet phone plans

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

Glitch slows RoadRunner newsgroups

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

CA offers free antivirus software

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

AT&T Wireless joins race for speedy networks

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

Scripting News Berkman geek Ethan Zuckerman has a script that sca

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

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

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

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2 Users?

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

DeviantArt.com Miranda IM 0.3.2 Released

A new version of Miranda IM has just been released.

BetaNews.Com BitWise Chat 0.9.2.4 Harvest Moon Alpha Released

BetaNews.Com Beyond Compare 2.1 Beta Build 208 Released

Red Hat subscriptions beat expectations

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

IBM donates code to open-source project

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

Cisco, others plan to ban insecure PCs

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

Overture cleans up its drug ad policy

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

Commentary: Internet calling verges on mainstream

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

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

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

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

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

Scripting News Three years ago: "Dimpled chads."

Three years ago: "Dimpled chads."

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

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

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

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

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

Weblogs.Com was hatched on this day in 1999.

China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs, EVD

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

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

BetaNews.Com ITIC SpamFilter 2.4 Beta Released

Advogato A Modest Proposal, or not

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

OSNews BYTE's Moshe Bar Reviews of Panther and G5

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

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

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

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

Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty

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

AMD's new fab slated for Germany

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

Linux company hires industry veteran

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

Toshiba unveils second tablet PC

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

Kasparov Draws Game 4 and Match Against X3D Fritz

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

Genetic Algorithms and Compiler Optimizations

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

DeviantArt.com wTicker 0.2.1.162 Beta

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

BetaNews.Com Digital Patrol 5.00.06 RC1 Released

BetaNews.Com FeedDemon 1.0 RC4 Released

CA revives free AV software offer

Microsoft supplies 'kiss of life'

The economics of spam

Only 50 replies in a million will do

Plug pulled on London Webcams, as Bush sweeps into town

'Operational reasons'

Scripting News Andrew has questions about Apache and Windows.

Andrew has questions about Apache and Windows.

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

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

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

Idly.Org: Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs.

Scripting News Ed Cone: The Marketing of a President.

Ed Cone: The Marketing of a President.

Scripting News Another summit you weren't invited to.

Another summit you weren't invited to.

Scripting News Brief Morning Coffee Notes

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

Survey: Bigger IT budgets not forthcoming

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

AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors

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

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

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

OSNews Why SCO will Soon be Going After BSD

OSNews froglogic Releases Automated Qt GUI Testing Tool Squish 1.0

OSNews New SkyOS pre-5.0 Screenshots

OSNews Sun, JBoss Settle Java Dispute

OSNews Sun Wins Big in China

Siebel touts online wares at Comdex

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

AT&T expands DSL presence

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

Nokia: Original batteries don't explode

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

SliMP3 Successor; Radio Station in a Box

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

Whistle While You Work

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

BetaNews.Com xplorer² 0.0.0.50 Alpha Released

Sun to acquire identity broker

Is your baby safe?

'Police abduction warning' email is a hoax

That joke isn't funny anymore

Plug pulled on London Webcams

'Operational reasons'

Mimail mutant targets PayPal users

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

PostgreSQL 7.4 Released

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

Loose-screws Oborzevatel 0.12

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

Loose-screws SkinBox 1.0 beta 4.1

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

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

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

Loose-screws BGColors

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

Loose-screws Many an IconDesk release...

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

Loose-screws Geekamp 1.9.71

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

Loose-screws Whoops...

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

Loose-screws NetLoadModule compatibility

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

Loose-screws New[er] IconDesk

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

iShell 1.0!!!!

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

Installer Update

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

New Site Theme

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

News iTasks

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

New Releases of iDesk and iCommand

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

Documentation 1.3

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

New bugtrack system

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

New releases and a new applet

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

The initial iHotkeys release!

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

New versions of all current apps

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

Why SCO will soon be going after BSD

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

Mono project announces new roadmap to completion

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

OSNews What Belongs In an Operating System?

OSNews BYTE's Moshe Jordan reviews of Panther + G5

OSNews Sun Wins Big in China.

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

HP launches new copiers

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

SCO News Roundup

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

BetaNews.Com WinCatalog Standard 1.01 Beta Build 11.18 Released

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.162 Beta Released

HP launches new copiers

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

Motorola hopes latest phones lure newbies

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

Sun, JBoss settle Java dispute

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

Epson Creates Tiny Flying Robot

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

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

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

Apple ships 20in iMac

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

SCO is prepared to stump Novell's SuSE deal

More cash for the cronies

Businessman banned after Internet agency scam

Rip-off

Data center standard gains backers

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

CDC Software enters Pivotal sweepstakes

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

Cisco upgrades storage switch software

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

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

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

Scripting News Update on categorizing in my new weblog authoring

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

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

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

New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered

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

New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5

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

Open source: Brazil shies away from Redmond

President shuns Windows

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

AnalysisThe option explosion

Cisco combats network worms

Lock down or lock in?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scripting News Update on categorizing in my new weblog authoring

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

Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware

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

Apple adopts big screen for iMac

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

China 3G phones to go live in 2005

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

Briefly: ISS unveils attack-blocking devices

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

ISS unveils attack-blocking devices

eBay chairman joins meetings site board

Hordes of the Underdark Goes Gold

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

WinXPcentral.com Hackers to Microsoft: "Hi!"

NeoWin.net Total Commander 6.0

New worm scams PayPal punters

Mimail-J

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

Microsoft to Launch MSN Music Service in 2004

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

What belongs in an operating system?

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

Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs

Big Bucks for Big Bugs

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

BT knockers target blanket BB goal

Electronic Voting Debacle

Opinion American democracy at stake, no less

Fast spreading worm targets PayPal punters - again

Mimail-J

AOL's broadband blues

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

SCO admits: Linux jihad is destroying our business

Death or inglory

BT poaches top Telewest exec

Disappears into the BT blueyonder

FSF eases Microsoft schema patent fears

XML schemers

Is RFID Technology Easy to Foil?

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

Clocked by Two Smoking Barrels

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

Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way

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

Microsoft to Give Music a Whirl

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

Palestinians Surf During Siege

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

Scanners Uncover Germany's Past

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

Music labels monitor P2P nets to list most popular songs

Chart attack

HP details Athlon 64 desktop support

But gamer-oriented systems are Intel

DeviantArt.com Norman Rockwell Museum - 2 Current Exhibitions

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

snowchyld Fuck you Michael Moore

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

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

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

118 services not up to scratch - Oftel

Want a number? It's a lottery

And now some words from our game sponsor

Analysis Tail wagging the dog

New music deal for European Internet radio buffs

Streaming along

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

BetaNews.Com BitSpirit 1.0.9.252 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Weather1 5.19 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com IBM Delivers 'Teraflop in a Box'

Soul survivor

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

"My life is just beginning"

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

Joe Conason's Journal

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

The Fix

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

"Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President"

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

This Modern World

Ripped from the headlines: The Homosexual Menace!

The hypocrite of Kabul

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

Married men

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

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

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

Shredded Stasi documents could be pieced together in five years

Jigsaw puzzle

Aussies blown away by Poms rugby style

The online poll never lies

News at a Glance

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

Mono project announces new roadmap to completion

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

Microsoft brings locked music downloads to US

MSN apes iTMS

PalmSource launches online wireless store

Cuddles up to Sprint

Huawei-3Com tie-up approved

All systems go

WinCustomize.com Animated Snowflake wallpaper...

BetaNews.Com ZTreeWin 1.49.2c Released

AT&T patents anti-spam circumvention technique

Method in the madness?

Cisco upgrades storage switch software

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

Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam

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

Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P

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

Xinie.com VAMP Media Center 3.70 has been released

Xinie.com ObjectDock 1.0 release

Xinie.com SkinStudio 4 beta 2 released

Xinie.com Napster 2.0 Goes Live

Xinie.com DesktopX 2.0

Xinie.com Messenger Plus! 2.50. Released

Xinie.com XPlayer 2.2.8.1 Beta

WinXPcentral.com Microsoft's SPOT Watches Delayed

WinXPcentral.com More Updates for Fedora Core 1

Hewlett-Packard eyeing TV market

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

OSNews Gentoo 1.4 Review at LinuxElectrons

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

I had a mockup of an ad for McCain.

Scripting News The possibility that talk of Microsoft buying Goog

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

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

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

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

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

Scripting News Statistics on the growth of the blogosphere from T

Statistics on the growth of the blogosphere from Technorati.

Scripting News Newsbot: Will it support RSS?

Newsbot: Will it support RSS?

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

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

Ready or Not, Biometrics Finally in Stores

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

Sun gets a big boost in Chinese market

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

Briefly: Acer offers a wide-screen notebook

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

Acer offers a wide-screen notebook

AOL mulls toolbar service

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

BellSouth searches for new ad sales

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

Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government

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

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

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

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

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

Tech bigwigs dispute guru's pessimism

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

Briefly: NetScreen wraps up Neoteris buy

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

NetScreen wraps up Neoteris acquisition

Students fight e-vote firm's DMCA claims

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

OSNews Information on Solaris' DTrace Technology

OSNews IRIX 6.5.22 Released

OSNews Adobe Chastens Windows-favouring Author

Another survey sees IT spending on rebound

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

PeopleSoft cuts hosting prices

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

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

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

Scripting News The possibility that talk of Microsoft buying Goog

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

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

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

Attacking the Spammer Business Model

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

DeviantArt.com To All Literary Deviants with Complaints

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...

Dell laptop lines to diverge in 2004

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

Kazaa ads tell P2P users to speak up

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

Outsourcing not always a money saver

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

PalmSource answers pager maker's page

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

Comdex gets down to business

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

Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof

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

NeoWin.net Miranda IM 0.32

NeoWin.net DVD X Copy Gold 3.0.2

BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.4 Beta 1 Released

Eclipse launches new Visual Editor project

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

UK Repeals Law Against "Promoting Homosexuality"

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

Ricochet orders retailer to halt sales

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

For Microsoft, it's the sound and the fury

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

3Com and Huawei start China venture

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

Technological Flights Of Fancy That Fizzled

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

BetaNews.Com MDaemon 7.0.0.j Beta Released

Pivotal moves to reject rival buyout bid

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

A dot-com flameout enters the VoIP spotlight

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

Sun touts Opteron server, Linux desktop

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

Microsoft music store to open next year

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

Gateway to renew enterprise push

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

Jan Varga's Root Interview in English

Rekall Now Available Under GPL

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

The Rise of Cyber Bullying

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

BetaNews.Com mIRC Power Pack 7.0 RC6-2 Released

BetaNews.Com Advanced WMA Workshop 2.03 Beta Released

Sun and AMD toast their Opteron marriage

Update China Linux desktop win for dessert

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

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

Microsoft tests Web news service

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

Verizon details fiber plans

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

JBoss Offers Lawsuit Indemnification

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

OSNews SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional Review

OSNews Microsoft Announces New Version of the Tablet PC OS

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

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

OSNews How Linux And The Mac Can Compete Against Windows Longhorn

OSNews An Analysis of GCC Code Generation via Genetic Algorithm

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

OSNews Microsoft Announces Free Office XML Reference Schemas

OSNews Red Hat Brightens Amid Success of Linux

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

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

SAP expects strong growth, acquisitions

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

Tadpole leaps to Sparc portable workstation

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

SAP, Sybase ally for smaller business

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

Start-up promises streaming desktop apps

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

Gateway Forges Partnership With SuSE

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

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.

Sun and AMD toast their Opteron marriage

China Linux desktop win for dessert

Start-up promises streaming desktop apps

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

Dell unveils LCD TVs, new printer

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

BellSouth eyes wireless portability fee

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

IBM deal to help speed medical research

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

EU seeks longer review of Oracle deal

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

Scripting News Calpundit explains how to point to NY Times articl

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

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

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

Sun Announces New AMD-Based Product Line

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

NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope

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

NeoWin.net Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available

BetaNews.Com RelayFax 5.0.4a Beta Released

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

Road Runner messages 'censored', newsgroups complain

Piracy filter gone mad?

Former Gateway execs deny SEC fraud charges

Expect to be exonerated

Broadcom blames Atheros for bad WLAN performance

Not our fault, Wi-Fi chip maker responds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft CTO touts BlackBerry, iPod

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

Sprint debuts 'push to talk' service

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

Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison

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

Win4Lin a win for transitioning to Linux

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

ICANN wins first round of Wait List fight

Judge denies preliminary injunction

Those 'Name the wireless store' compo results in full

We finally pulled our fingers out

Broadcom blames Atheros for bad WLAN peformance

Not our fault, Wi-Fi chip maker responds

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

Swing low, sweet chaaaaa-reeee-hut

England Rugby team hunt electronic bugs

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

Its eye on Sun, AMD unveils new Opterons

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

SAP, Sybase ally for smaller business

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

Microsoft pries open Office 2003

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

Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published

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

NeoWin.net ShellToys XP 4.0

NeoWin.net MagicTweak version 2.70 is available

TheKompany.com announces free version of Rekall

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

Nvidia touts second-gen mobile GeForce FX

5700 is Go

Nvidia spruces up notebook line

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

Comdex gets down to business

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

Utah Cities To Provide High-Speed Net Access

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

WinCustomize.com Mozilla Gains Popularity over Inernet Explorer and Outlook

WinCustomize.com Microsoft warns EU it may get substandard Windows

Rock Pegasus CTS notebook

Review Does Pegasus fly above the competition?

Nintendo signs IBM for next-gen console

Big Blue chips to sell chips to all major players

Scripting News Des Moines Register on candidate weblogs.

Des Moines Register on candidate weblogs.

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

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

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

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

Scripting News Wired: Social Nets Find Friends in VCs.

Wired: Social Nets Find Friends in VCs.

FrogPad aims to cut keyboard size

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

Life After Netscape For Mozilla Developers

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

Garage door DMCA case dismissed

Remote uncontrol

Ad campaign tells drivers about new cellphone law

You're being warned

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

SmartScreen

IETF to cramp Cisco's WLAN empire?

Opposing camps

Voda plans show why MS will struggle with phones

Casting vote

Processors strike a pose

roundup It's show-and-tell time for developers of some of the world's brawniest computers at SC2003, an international supercomputer conference being held in Phoenix.

Qwest & Cablevision Launch VoIP Service

securitas writes "Qwest announced that it will be the first RBOC to offer VoIP service to its customers, starting with Minnesota. Not to be outdone, ...

Intel Dothan to launch 4 Feb - report

Clock speeds to encourage upsells from Banias

Microsoft Spot watches delayed

Need further testing, apparently

Processor pose down

roundup It's show-and-tell time for developers of some of the world's brawniest computers at SC2003, an international supercomputer conference being held in Phoenix.

NeoWin.net AIMutation v1.1 Released

NeoWin.net Zoom Player 3.20 Final

Microsoft Spot watches delayed

Data-by-radio service needs further testing, apparently

AMD announces Opteron x48 line-up

Boosts memory support to 400MHz DDR

Broadband-for-all possible by 2005 - BT

Telco sets triggers for 2300 more exchanges

Acxiom Opts Out of Opt-Out

For a fee, Private Citizen tries to help people get off multiple marketing lists. But a company making a billion dollars a year selling lists is foiling those attempts, saying individuals must contact them separately. By Ryan Singel.

Social Nets Find Friends in VCs

They haven't yet shown a dime in profit, but social-networking sites Friendster and LinkedIn have secured investments from usually coy venture capitalists. By Joanna Glasner.

Fast Track for Science Data

The most ambitious networking project since Arpanet goes live this week. The National LambdaRail is an ultra-high-speed network for scientists that will enable a new era of e-science. By Leander Kahney.

Keep Your Brain From Going to Pot

An altered version of the cannabis chemical THC might help prevent brain damage in head-trauma victims. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Brazil Gives Nod to Open Source

Transforming the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation may mean shunning costly Windows products. Brazil's chief technology officer wants everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats to use open-source software.

Kasparov Trounces Computer Foe

Chess champ Garry Kasparov has shut down computer program X3D Fritz. The four-game match, played with a virtual board and 3-D glasses, was the latest victory in his quest to outsmart computers at the ancient game.

Redford Building Retrofit: Green

Bamboo floors and rain-flushed toilets are part of transforming an old house into an environmentally friendly structure. Actor Robert Redford rebuilt the place to demonstrate sustainable urban architecture.

Apple G5 pushes ahead of Intel, AMD in supercomp list

And Alpha ahead of all four of 'em

T-Online to take over AOL?

True or false

Pulse detected in data networking market

Cisco sweeps all before it

AMD set to select Dresden for next-gen fab - report

Awaiting $945m in loans, grants

Councils 'sceptical' about e-gov

Best 'wait and see' instead

Bluetooth is attack vector for mobile phones

Real vulns, serious too

OSNews PostgreSQL 7.4 Released

OSNews Gates Addresses Spam, Security Flaws at Comdex

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.

"Freedom is the Almighty's gift"

In an interview with the BBC's David Frost, President Bush expounds upon democracy, Palestine -- and the future of the Iraq war.

OSNews Apple Darwin 7.0.1 ISO Images Available

OSNews Writing and Deploying Apps in the Next Generation of Windows

UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD

orbital3 writes "The UK, as of October 31, 2003, became the sixth nation to implement the laws required to comply with the European Union Copyright Directive ...

DeviantArt.com AIMutation v1.1 Released

AIMutation; the most feature packed addon for AOL Instant Messenger has just been updated.

Dell to release LCD TVs, new printer

Dell plans to announce two larger LCD televisions and a new multifunction printer at the Comdex trade show Monday.

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

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

Scripting News Statistics on the growth of the blogosphere from T

Statistics on the growth of the blogosphere from Technorati's Dave Sifry.

Scripting News Screen shots of a three-pane aggregator, RSS Bandi

Screen shots of a three-pane aggregator, RSS Bandit.

Scripting News Serious problems with the transfer of power from w

Serious problems with the transfer of power from west to east last night, so we flipped the switch back, and will try again in a couple of days after some more testing.

ShellFront hosts? ads?

Sun pushes cheaper Java cards

Sun Microsystems plans to encourage broader use of its Java Card technology by offering consumers a lower-priced variant.

Adobe adds server version of Acrobat

The software maker announces a server-based version of its set of applications for creating files in the widespread Portable Document Format.

Macromedia courts Java crowd

The company sets a date for its new set of Flash tools designed to let Java developers use a standard, text-based approach, rather than Macromedia's traditional design-focused tools.

HP adds zip to desktop PCs

Hewlett-Packard is scheduled to launch its first Athlon 64 desktop at the upcoming Comdex show in Las Vegas. It will also preview a prototype business desktop.

JBoss to indemnify customers

In an effort to offer the same guarantees as commercial software, the open-source Java server software company will indemnify its customers from legal liability associated with its software.

3 New Defendants Named In MP3s4free.net Case

As reported in The Australian, three new respondents have been named in the mp3s4free.net link site case, including an employee of the ISP which is said to ...

lowdimension.net Skinny Dipping

16.11.03 - aka dk and pixol bring you the next generation of sharpe skinning apparata

SHELL EXTENSION CITY SAY PAD (free): Talking text editor that can convert Text to MP3, even a whole book in one run

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Gates addresses security in Comdex keynote

In recent years, Comdex has served as a showcase for consumer items. This year, however, it will focus on technology for the working world, such as mobile computing and utility computing.

ShellFront garage door openers can be replaced

Many Organisations Employing Mozilla Contributors

Scripting News Everyone's testing their sites on SurfControl toda

Everyone's testing their sites on SurfControl today. Scripting is considered"Computing & Internet."

Scripting News Mitch Kapor's weblog goes on hiatus.

Mitch Kapor's weblog goes on hiatus.

Scripting News Flip-switch day

Lots of changes today, but ones with (Murphy-willing) very small impact on the user interface. In fact, unless they don't work, you shouldn't see any difference at all. Since this is Scripting News, and not Knitting News, we'll go ahead and say which switches got flipped. First, www.scripting.com now resides on the east coast instead of the west. The new Monster servers, the 3GHz meat-eaters that climb skyscrapers, are now both managing the content and doing the serving for everything on scripting.com. The picture of King Kong to the right will appear when the new server is visible through DNS to your browser. If you see a broken image and want to see what the picture looks like just click on it.Second, a big change in the way the outliner works. We used to have to tell it how to format a day of weblog posts using Rules, a great feature if you want a lot of control over how things look, but a pain in the butt if every day looks exactly like every other day, as is always true in my weblog.Third, this is going to be a product, not one that I plan to sell (although I may give it to UserLand and they might sell it). It's a new kind of outliner-based Web CMS, that does weblogs and all the other stuff you see popping up here on Scripting. I spent much of the day exploring ideas for how to package, test and then ship this. Should it be a Manila plug-in? Or something that's linked to Manila on a sort of peer basis? Or should it be completely independent of Manila? I want to deliberate on this decision, because I expect to live with it for a long time.

BetaNews.Com AIDA32 3.86.3 Preview Released

BetaNews.Com Pocket RAR 3.30 Beta 1 Released

BetaNews.Com CPUSpy 1.02 Beta Released

Brazil Moves Away From Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes "Citing economic as well as social reasons, Brazil's government is opting to move away from Windows, opting instead for Open Source ...

OSNews Anti-Trust Action Aplenty

Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz

Vulcao writes "Garry Kasparov just brilliantly won game 3 in the Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz chess match, which pits man against machine. Kasparov created a ...

WinCustomize.com DesktopX User Manual On-line

BetaNews.Com 7-max 3.00 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Avant Browser 8.03 Beta 7 Released

BetaNews.Com Net Newz 0.5 Build 1 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com AdvancedRemoteInfo 0.6.2.9 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Matador 3.5.0.985 Beta Released

Stopping Malware Before It Hits

SpudGunMan writes "John Lockwood, Ph.D, an assistant professor of computer science at Washington University, and the graduate students that work in his ...

DMCA Doesn't Protect Garage Door Remotes

bgood writes "A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that a univeral remote garage door opener does not violate the DMCA. "Consumers have a reasonable ...

Intel moves deeper into supercomputing

The chipmaker earmarks $36 million for research into improving supercomputers made from off-the-shelf parts as it continues to expand its reach in the very high end of the computer market.

OSNews Sun's StarOffice Still Can't Rival Microsoft

OSNews The Apple alternative; Panther Performance on G3s

OSNews Microsoft: Courting China

Sweet Revenge On Nigerian Scammers

davesag writes "I just came across this fine site, 419Eater, wherin people counter scam the Nigerian 419 scammers that have been plaguing our spam filters for ...

snowchyld Just because you heard it on the internet doesn't make it true

"i read this on the internet the other.." SHUT UP stop please.. for one moment.. did you just hear what you said there ? you _read_ something on the internet thats great, was it published by a literary genius, someone...

Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices

Sethb writes "It looks like Best Buy didn't learn from Wal-Mart last year, and has now invoked the DMCA in order to prevent FatWallet from posting information ...

DARPA chisels little guy out of $1 million race

Tethered to Pentagon pork

Review: Oritron NPD3117 Networked DVD Player

atkulp writes "The convergence of PC media with the home entertainment system is something that has been promised for several years now. Tech-savvy computer ...

snowchyld WWND - What Would Neo Do

the post from krakow studios: 2003.11.12 I think Matrix Revolutions can best be described as a two hour long episode of Dragon Ball Z guest starring Jesus So the question is.. WWND trying to find the damned post on feedster...

Scripting News Today's song: "Gonna put up my antennae."

Today's song: "Gonna put up my antennae."

802.11b Memory Stick for CLIE

prostoalex writes "InfoSync talks about a new MemoryStick card with wireless 802.11b support. The launch date is Dec 1st, the price is $130." Update by J: It's ...

Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd

An anonymous reader noted that according to Wired, it will be announced officially on Monday the Big Mac supercomputer is the third-fastest super-computer. The ...

WinXPcentral.com WinRAR 3.30 beta 1 is out

WinXPcentral.com CATALYST 3.9 Driver Report

802.11b Memory Stick from Sony

prostoalex writes "InfoSync talks about Sony announcing a new MemoryStick card with wireless 802.11b support.The launch date is Dec 1st, the price is $130."

Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google

xihr writes "Harry Fletcher writes in The Inquirer about an obvious discrepancy between searches for "linux windows" on Google and MSN; the former comes up ...

The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of

Hanzo writes "So, you need a desk. With mood lighting. And a pop-up LCD monitor. It even just so happens you like Space Ghost. Well, for a mere $39,995(USD), ...

NeoWin.net VAMP Media Center 3.70 has been released.

NeoWin.net DC++ 0.303

NeoWin.net Microsoft builds spam filters into Exchange

NeoWin.net Digital Photos Screensaver Maker 2.9 (New release)

Scripting News BlogTalk 2.0 will be held in Vienna, Austria, July

BlogTalk 2.0 will be held in Vienna, Austria, July 5-6.

Biosciences: High risk, high reward

Knowledge@Wharton examines how researchers and venture capitalists are applying lessons learned from the history of earlier technologies to biotechnology.

Week ahead: Here comes Comdex

Comdex rolls into town this week, with a splashy lineup of keynote speakers ranging from Microsoft's Bill Gates to Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy. Also, Novell and Intuit report earnings.

Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd

An anonymous readers noted that according to wired, It will be announced officialy on monday the Big Mac supercomputer is the third-fastest super-computer. The ...

DeviantArt.com Die Llama, Die Die!

Comment, to get comments.Share your kindness, not your hate.Love the art, before yourself.

WinCustomize.com Windows Update 5 Prepped for XP SP2, New IE

Scripting News Tomalak's Realm is five years old today. Thanks La

Tomalak's Realm is five years old today. Thanks Lawrence!

Scripting News New graphic. This picture was taken in Sierraville

New graphic. This picture was taken in Sierraville, CA on July 4, 2000. I started a list of previous graphics. You can always find a description of the current graphic at the bottom of the page.

Scripting News NY Times: "During an election season increasingly

NY Times: "During an election season increasingly defined by grass-roots organizing, Iowa is the hottest place to be for ambitious young campaign workers."

Scripting News Jennifer Howard: "A year ago, I barely knew what b

Jennifer Howard: "A year ago, I barely knew what blogs were. Within a few months, they'd become a staple of my daily media diet."Dowbrigade comments.

Great Computer Science Papers?

slevin writes "Recently I listened to a talk by Alan Kay who mentioned that many 'new' software ideas had already been discovered decades earlier by computer ...

Scripting News New graphic. This picture was taken in Sierraville

New graphic. This picture was taken in Sierraville, CA on July 4, 2000. I started a list of previous graphics. You can always find a description of the current graphic at the bottom of the page.

Scripting News Jennifer Howard: "A year ago, I barely knew what b

Jennifer Howard: "A year ago, I barely knew what blogs were. Within a few months, they'd become a staple of my daily media diet."

NeoWin.net Real Alternative 1.11

NeoWin.net Messenger Plus! 2.52.71

Smart Badges For Better Meetings

Roland Piquepaille writes "In an article appearing in the November 15th issue of New Scientist, we're told that the 500 attendants of the last Pop!Tech ...

Nokia targets exploding-battery terrorists

To most people, terrorism equals a car bomb or anthrax-laced powder, and usually happens far away. But you'd better watch out for the latest in personal terrorism: exploding cell phone batteries.

Clark's down -- but touts new support

He's had an erratic showing, but some important political -- and Hollywood -- players see him as the only alternative to Dean.

Selling Pvt. Lynch

From the White House to Random House, the plucky ex-POW has been badly used. But even as the right turned on her, she handled her week in the spotlight like a hero.

Why the antiwar left must confront terrorism

The director of Amnesty International USA warns that the left must confront terror with the same zeal that it battles Bush -- or risk irrelevance.

OSNews Novell: The New Linux Superpower

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent

An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been awarded a patent for ...

New blood joins supercomputer ranking

Of the top 10 systems on a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers, three machines are new, one is upgraded, and two are based on processors that have never before appeared on the list.

SHELL EXTENSION CITY GLINT (free): Reveals system activity by changing indicator brightness according to the values of corresponding system performance counters

SHELL EXTENSION CITY FREE ZIP (free): Zip file utility integrates with Windows Explorer and uses file associations and context menus to zip or unzip files, including long file names and subdirectories

SHELL EXTENSION CITY FRESH DOWNLOAD (free): Turbocharges the process of downloading files from the Internet

SHELL EXTENSION CITY GNOME DESKTOP FOR WINDOWS (free): Linux graphical user interface runs on Windows

Rules for Teenage Internet Access?

Kent Brewster writes "Despite dire warnings, we've gone ahead and put computers with Internet access into our adolescent (11, 12, and 15-year-old) childrens' ...

DeviantArt.com Preview the Return of the King Soundtrack

A track-by-track analysis of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King score (authored by Howard Shore, who won an Oscar for his work on the trilogy's first film) is now available online.

WinXPcentral.com Opera 7.22 for Windows

Scripting News Hey it's a lot of work to move just part of seven

Hey it's a lot of work to move just part of seven years of my Web content from Santa Clara to Cambridge. We've now transferred all the static content on www.scripting.com to Monster2. It was about 300MB compressed. The Search facility is back up too.

Bicycle Tech Drivetrain Advances Showcased

whoda writes "For many years, bicycles have had very few advancements in drivetrain technology. This is finally changing. The newly formed g-Boxx Standard has ...

BetaNews.Com Vypress Chat 1.9 RC3 Released

BetaNews.Com Fast Note 2.0.0 Beta 8 Released

Top Ten Internet Fads

At the risk of sounding much older than I really am, I've been on the Internet since 1987. In that time, I've seen a number of Internet fads come and go. Some were excesses of the bubble years, but others weren't. A fad, for purposes of this article, is an idea or technology which is briefly popular, but can't outlast its own novelty value. Once people get over the newness of it all, there isn't really anything special left. Here are the ten which stand out most in my mind.

IBM Releases Desktop Linux Presentation

An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com, in coordination with the Desktop Linux Consortium, is making select presentations from Monday's groundbreaking ...

NeoWin.net Opera 7.22 official released!!

BetaNews.Com WinCatalog Standard 1.01 Beta Build 11.13 Released

Scripting News Here's an idea of what working-together looks like

Here's an idea of what working-together looks like. The Dean and Clark campaigns are competing now, but in a few months they're going to be on the same team. There's a win for both here.

Scripting News I read on Salon today (premium stuff) that the lat

I read on Salon today (premium stuff) that the latest Republican talking points are that Democrats are shrill and nasty, overly critical of a President who's doing the best he can. Eye-opener.

Scripting News Okay do we know for a fact that Longhorn has an RS

Okay do we know for a fact that Longhorn has an RSS aggregator built-in? What do we know about it? (Paolo Marcucci who was at the Microsoft developer's conference, sheds some light.)

Earth's Asteroid Risk Downgraded

xanthines-R-yummy writes "Relax, everyone - the risk of a gigantic asteroid colliding with Earth just got smaller! Nature reports: "A new survey revises down ...

Virtual Plastic Japan, next chapter

BetaNews.Com Digital Photos Screensaver Maker 2.9b3 Released

BetaNews.Com TrafficQuota 1.0 Beta 3 Released

BetaNews.Com WinRAR 3.30 Beta 1 Released

BetaNews.Com Avant Browser 8.03 Beta 6 Released

Red Hat, SUSE Announce Educational Discounts

geoff313 writes "Good news week for Linux users in the education field, as both Red Hat and SUSE have announced that they will provide academic discounts in an ...

Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi Pollution

eggboard writes "We just posted a story at PC World about 802.11g chipmaker Broadcom's claims that the high-speed 108 Mbps mode available in rival Atheros's ...

Google Code Jam Winner Announced

Wild-eyed Visionary writes "According to the San Jose Mercury News, Jimmy Mardell, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, beat out more than 5,000 coders to win $10,000 in ...

Mozilla T-Shirt Available for Preorder at Mozilla Store

Scripting News Okay do we know for a fact that Longhorn has an RS

Okay do we know for a fact that Longhorn has an RSS aggregator built-in? What do we know about it?

Scripting News Thanks to the good professor Lessig for casting gr

Thanks to the good professor Lessig for casting gris gris on the cause of collaboration in blogland. Seems to me that users have an interest in developers working together.

Scripting News Now you can subscribe to custom feeds that find ne

Now you can subscribe to custom feeds that find new stuff for sale on eBay.

Scripting News On this day three years ago Clay Shirky wrote a gu

On this day three years ago Clay Shirky wrote a guest DaveNet.

Scripting News And around this time in 1999, Doc Searls started b

And around this time in 1999, Doc Searls started blogging,

Familiar Distribution for iPAQ Handhelds

Russ Nelson writes "The Handhelds.org project has released Familiar 0.7.2, a Linux-based firmware replacement for HP iPAQ handhelds. New to this release is ...

WinXPcentral.com New Microsoft Patches Causing Problems.

Linux leaders offer education discounts

Red Hat and SuSE Linux launch new discounts to attract students and educational institutions, a strategically important customer set for technology companies.

E-Voting Expert Testifies

Christopher Soghoian writes "Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Avi Rubin (of previous e-voting fame) yesterday testified before the Maryland House Ways ...

How to floss your security system

Diana Kelley of Computer Associates says that managing security patches is like flossing teeth--and a lot harder to pull off than it sounds.

First Look at Debian's Next Generation Installer

An anonymous reader writes "Over at LinMagAu There is an interesting look at the new beta version of the Next Gerneration Debian Installer. Putting aside the ...

Scripting News Okay do we know for a fact that Longhorn has an RS

Okay do we know for a fact that Longhorn has an RSS aggregator built-in?

Scripting News Last year on this day: "I remain a smoker who does

Last year on this day: "I remain a smoker who doesn't smoke." Still am. I found myself reaching for the pack several times in the last few days as I've been programming round the clock. I still don't have anything to take the place of smoking. Except there's a pretty good chance I'd not be here if I were still smoking, so I guess life takes the place of smoking, in some sense.

Scripting News Adam Curry: "Yesterday Dave added a 35MB QuickTime

Adam Curry: "Yesterday Dave added a 35MB QuickTime video to his RSS feed that automagically popped up ready to play on my machine this morning. I will pay anyone who is willing to set up a similar RSS feed with daily enclosures of Letterman and/or Leno's TV show for my private viewing pleasure."

Farscape is Back

cioxx writes "FilmForce has substantiated rumors of Farscape, widely popular TV miniseries, returning as a standalone project with no new episode commitment ...

NeoWin.net WinRAR 3.30 beta 1

Send Emails After Your Death

Roland Piquepaille writes "As you all know, the two things in life you can't avoid are taxes and death. But if you will no longer have to pay taxes after your ...

Teknidermy NewsSTAND LiteStep Installer 3.0.2 Hot Off the Press

Teknidermy NewsSTAND xRun2 Released

Teknidermy NewsSTAND SoThin breaks the Thin Client mould

Hungover CNET wakes up next to MP3.com

What do we have in the bed with us?

Scripting News Morning coffee notes: Orlowski, Dowbrigade tennis,

Morning coffee notes: Orlowski, Dowbrigade tennis, tools.

Scripting News I'm still an idealist, and would like to be able t

I'm still an idealist, and would like to be able to vote for one for president of the US. (Routed to Dave/Homilies/Mottos.)

Scripting News Adam Curry: "Yesterday Dave added a 35Mb quicktime

Adam Curry: "Yesterday Dave added a 35Mb quicktime video to his RSS feed that automagically popped up ready to play on my machine this morning. I will pay anyone who is willing to set up a similar RSS feed with daily enclosures of Letterman and/or Leno's TV show for my private viewing pleasure."

Scripting News There was a frost last night. There's a white cove

There was a frost last night. There's a white cover of ice on everything outside. The car, the grass, you name it. Of course in a month it will be unusual if there isn't a cover of ice on something that's outside. (Routed to Boston/Weather.)

NeoWin.net DVD X Copy Xpress 3.2.1

Where Sharing Isn't a Dirty Word

The University of North Carolina has a wealth of information available on ibiblio, its massive digital library. And it's free. Michelle Delio reports from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite

It's official: Virginia Tech's Mac supercomputer is the world's third-fastest. Meanwhile, IBM is building a monster machine that will blow it -- and all other supercomputers -- out of the water.

Opening Doors With the DMCA

A U.S. District Court rules that it's OK to use a universal remote to open a garage door, despite the plaintiff's claim that the DMCA prohibited it. By Katie Dean.

Lowering the Boom on Copycats

A bill pending in the Senate would impose a prison sentence of up to five years for anyone caught distributing movies or music ahead of their official release dates.

World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

2003-11-15: The SVG Working Group has released its fourth Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages public feedback on this draft. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Amaya 8.2 Released

2003-11-15: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.2 includes new features and enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded objects and images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and annotations. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

2003-11-12: The SVG Working Group has released its fourth Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. The Working Group explicitly encourages public feedback on this draft. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)

snowchyld i got a headache o_O

"but its self inflicted dahling" *mumbles* i remember lots of tequila more than i care to remember boo is making me bacon and eggs water lots of water *gulps.down.another.500ml* *pause* bacon and eggs are so good *moan* more water headache...

Desktop security: A contrarian view

My computers may be a public menace. They don't have anti-virus software installed, or outgoing firewalls. They are on all the time and connected to the Internet 24/7. Their auto update feature is turned off permanently. I download anything and everything. But I've only had two viruses since 1988, one each on Mac and Windows. Both came from diskettes. This is all wrong, isn't it? My computers should be infested with noxious code bursting out to every computer within pinging distance.

"Tupac: Resurrection"

Yes, the world needs a documentary that somehow makes sense of the charismatic, contradictory pioneer of gangsta rap. This isn't it.

Is Dean too hot?

The Democratic front-runner has ignited a blaze of Bush hatred. But will it burn up the party's chances in 2004?

"Her Husband"

Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly.

What's fair?

Is it wrong to expect the person who works fewer hours at a job to do more at home?

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

NFL Week 11: Vacations must end, just as bye weeks have. But the Titans juggernaut rolls on, making this column's readers look really smart.

The Fix

Britney cries for Diane, De Niro invests in New York, and Joey Ramone gets his own corner. Plus: Who is your fantasy dinner partner?

"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

Russell Crowe and director Peter Weir bring Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures to the screen in this glorious and heartfelt action movie for grown-ups.

Madonna the conformist

Her second awful children's book, "Mr. Peabody's Apples," is a finger-wagging, moralistic tale that condemns a kid to permanent guilt for a very minor sin.

They blinded me with pseudo science

The Bush administration is jettisoning real scientists in favor of yes men.

"Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

Bugs and Daffy invade the real Hollywood in this manic farce from director Joe Dante -- but the result is an exhausting mess.

"The Station Agent"

Writer-director Tom McCarthy's indie sleeper hit captures a forgotten corner of New Jersey, a few eccentric characters and the unmistakable flavor of real life.

How Bush betrayed Blair

The British P.M. thought he had a deal: He'd support the war and Bush would stand up to Ariel Sharon. But administration neoconservatives, led by Elliott Abrams, killed the deal.

Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube

Jim Ethanol writes "Since there's been a lot of interest lately in Mini ITX based servers I thought the Slashdot crowd might enjoy checking out Project ...

DeviantArt.com 2005 Tori Amos Calendar Art Contest

In 2003, 14 of the nation’s top artists got together to produce the 2004 Tori Calendar, a tribute to Tori Amos and a great fundraiser to RAINN. The calendar was so popular that they’ve already started planning for 2005. But this time, they’re leaving a blank canvas for one month—and you can fill it with your original artwork.

BetaNews.Com KnowledgeMiner for Mac OS X 5.0.6b1 Released

WinCustomize.com Skinning your icons!

French Electronics Retailer Darty Recommends Mozilla

OSNews IBM keynote presentation from Desktop Linux Conference in Boston

OSNews Lycoris Offers Competitive Upgrade from Windows

WinXPcentral.com Eudora 6.0.1

WinXPcentral.com New virus disguised as PayPal e-mail

WinXPcentral.com Mail server flaw opens Exchange to spam

BetaNews.Com VeriTime 4.1.2.123 Released

Yahoo tests pop-up blocking toolbar

CyberGuard snaps up SnapGear

Sun sells retailers on StarOffice

Big Science has a Twenty-Year Plan

Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Spence Abraham laid out the Office of Science's 20-year plan for building and upgrading the U.S.'s "Big Science" ...

Scripting News On This Day In is back. It's generated from a dyna

On This Day In is back. It's generated from a dynamic OPML file. That's the theme of the new version of Scripting News. Everything snaps together through OPML. No exceptions. (Poke around, lots of other stuff works. I'll start writing about the broad strokes in the next few days.)

Scripting News You can see how the category routing has been payi

You can see how the category routing has been paying off (or not). For example, here's the Microsoft category. Not too much, but not too little. It's working. There will be an RSS feed. No doubt there's a ready market for this, people inside Microsoft who may find Scoble's fire hose a bit much, and might want an outsider's point of view. .

Scripting News Nice the way Joe Lieberman's pic is on the Dean ca

Nice the way Joe Lieberman's pic is on the Dean category. Looking up at the hooker. Does he approve? Does he want a date?

Scripting News Screen shot: My hotsy totsy weblog editor has butt

Screen shot: My hotsy totsy weblog editor has buttons that make rebuilding the RSS and editing categories single-button-clicks. A weblog item is routed to a category by 1. Right-click, and 2. Choose a category from a hierarchic popup menu.

Scripting News Brent Simmons on fighting comment spam.

Brent Simmons on fighting comment spam.

Scripting News Here's a really nice development. Non-vendor-speci

Here's a really nice development. Non-vendor-specific work by developers. Good work. Manila and Radio people should pitch in.

SHELL EXTENSION CITY FREE SHADE (free): Use Window shading, plus a number of other useful Windows enhancements, configure maximization of Windows

SHELL EXTENSION CITY E-MAIL SANITIZER (free): Filter rewrites MIME messages to defang well known email-based exploits, trojan horses, and viruses

SHELL EXTENSION CITY EMAILMAN (free): More information about email than you can possibly digest. The authority for information and resources for electronic mail

'Smart shelf' test triggers fresh criticism

Wal-Mart Stores and Procter & Gamble quietly tested a controversial new smart-chip-based retail technology earlier this year, representatives of both companies confirm.

The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online

Photon Ghoul writes "PBS has made available online all three hours of the NOVA program on unified theory. Formats are QuickTime and RealVideo with each hour ...

WinCustomize.com Show us your desktop! Video it!

WinCustomize.com Penny-Arcade & ObjectDock

BetaNews.Com Microsoft Enlists Customers to Improve Servers

Motorola nixes 'walled garden' phone patch

Forget the Internet - look at our tropical fish

Scripting News Screen shot: My hotsy totsy weblog editor has butt

Screen shot: My hotsy totsy weblog editor has buttons that make rebuilding the RSS and editing categories single-button-clicks. A weblog item is routed to a category by 1. right-click, and 2. choose a category from a hierarchic popup menu.

Scripting News I spent four hours in a dentist chair this afterno

I spent four hours in a dentist chair this afternoon having root canal, and a bunch of other stuff. I survived, barely. My mouth hurts. I feel so abused. Ouch.

Scripting News Scoble: "I guess Diego missed the fact that we had

Scoble: "I guess Diego missed the fact that we had an RSS news aggregator built into Longhorn already." I missed that too. Tell me more!

Smart-shelf test triggers fresh round of criticism

Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble quietly tested a controversial new smart-chip-based retail technology earlier this year, representatives of both companies confirm.

Court rules in favor of ICANN

A federal judge denies a preliminary injunction filed against the organization that oversees the Internet's domain name hierarchy and address space.

Mail server flaw opens Exchange to spam

Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warns.

Hackers Track Down Banking Fraud

An anonymous reader writes "Noticing some commonalities in the spam flooding their email in-boxes, a small group of hackers set out to track down who was ...

What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen?

Kickstart70 asks: "Recently myself and a number of friends of mine who work or worked in IT jobs have been remarking on absolutely horrible job postings for ...

DeviantArt.com LiteStep Installer 3.0.2 Hot Off the Press

The LiteStep installer is out with a new version. Several of the components core to it were updated, so it was only natural for the installer to follow suit.

DeviantArt.com xRun2 Released

xRun2 is a skinnable run box for 98 and up. It has a variety of advanced features and includes translucencies even in 98/ME systems.

DeviantArt.com New Knoppix Release v3.3 (11-14-03)

Knoppix Live Debian Linux CD, is a Free bootable CD containing a fully working version of Linux OS that does not need to be installed on your system. It doesnt even require a hard disk, and will run on pretty much any machine. So you can try it, without ever having to install it, and its completely free.

DeviantArt.com Twisted Realmz VII : Anniversary/Resurrection

After server problems, a new coder, and circulating rumors of our demise, Twisted Realmz is finally let out of its cage. With enough reserved firepower to create an unbalance in the online art community, TR is back with a vengence. Join us in this celebration of all that is twisted.

DeviantArt.com MP3.com Acquired by CNet

From an announcement on the MP3.com message boards: "Please be advised that on Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 12:00 PM PST the MP3.com website will no longer be accessible in its current form. "

DeviantArt.com Click The Vote Contest Ends Sunday!

The month-long Click The Vote logo and website design contest will close on Sunday. Win great prizes and help a good cause!

DeviantArt.com "The Photograph And The American Dream, 1840-

"The Photograph And The American Dream, 1840-1940", is a current photography exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, that continues through January 4, 2004.

Scripting News Following Dean, Kerry opts out of the public finan

Following Dean, Kerry opts out of the public finance system for his primary run. He's going to self-finance by taking out personal loans.

Exchange servers still seeing Code Red

Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warns.

PeopleSoft weighs guarantee program

The company's board of directors is expected to decide whether to reinstate its controversial customer guarantee program, according to a document filed with a Delaware court.

McAfee fixes eBay glitch

The company releases a patch to fix a flaw that prevented some users of its privacy software from accessing the auction site.

High schoolers take on CalTechies in robot race

Nineteen teams, including one from a California high school, have qualified to enter a robotic-car race with a purse of $1 million, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency says.

Small Supercomputer, XPC, Notebook, and Gaming Thingy

kidgenius, SpinnerBait, and anonymous readers wrote in with four fun tales of small devices doing cool things. IBM has built a supercomputer the size of a TV, ...

CNET acquires MP3.com, plans new music service

Mp3.com, Inc. told its subscribers today that CNET Networks, Inc. has acquired the assets of the company, and that on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at noon PST, the MP3.com Web site will no longer be accessible in its current form.

OSNews Poll: Your Thoughts on a Mono-aware Gnome

OSNews A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer

OSNews Miguel de Icaza on PDC Lessons

High schoolers to take on Cal Techies in robot race

Nineteen teams, including one from a California high school, have qualified to enter a robotic-car race with a purse of $1 million, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency says.

Epicor Software to buy European rival

Epicor Software agrees to purchase Scala Business Solutions for $87 million in cash and stock, continuing an ongoing merger trend in the business-management applications market.

Splitting VoIP regulatory hairs

Software tool smothers sponsored search

InterMute plans to offer a new tool that will let Web surfers block text-based ads from appearing in a Web search, so that noncommercial results come to the fore.

IBM Power blades to arrive in March

Big Blue plans to announce on Tuesday a slender server called the JS20 that uses its own Power processors, but a delay means the system won't ship until late in the first quarter.

iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods

evil_liam asks: "In our office we've been running an older 5gb iPod with both Macs and PC's (using Xplay), but when we installed iTunes for the PC the iPod ...

BetaNews.Com wTicker 0.2.1.161 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com GrabIt 1.4.7 Build 856 Beta Released

OSNews Trolltech Releases Qt 3.2.3

IBM Power blades to arrive in March

Big Blue plans to announce on Tuesday a thin "blade" server called the JS20 that uses its own Power processors, but a delay means the system won't ship until March.

IBM to set up chain of school labs

Big Blue is creating three more university laboratories and setting up an international computer grid to better study the inner workings of logistics.

AOL shifts e-mail graphics policy

In an attempt to cozy up to marketers, America Online is letting some companies sidestep an e-mail control and have pictures show up in the messages they send subscribers.

Judge shuts garage opener copyright suit

In a far-flung test of the DMCA, an Illinois federal court dismisses a garage door opener manufacturer's claim that a rival's replacement product violated copyright law.

Are copyright owners against security?

1.6 Megahertz per Pixel: TMDC6

TMDC Organizing writes "The sixth pseudoannual text mode demo competition is on. The goal is to make cool audiovisual demos that run in an NT console. Deadline ...

BetaNews.Com Avant Browser 8.03 Beta 5 Released

OSNews Mandrake 9.2 ISO's now Available for Download

OSNews Microsoft rivals: Modified OS isn't mediocre

OSNews Video of AmigaOS4 beta in Action

OSNews Valgrind 2.0.0 Released

OSNews Tracing, enhanced Linux, 64-bit AMD support part of Solaris Next

New virus disguised as PayPal e-mail

A computer virus that camouflages itself as a message from PayPal has started spreading among home users, antivirus companies say.

Footing the tech bill for foreign jobs

In order for these countries to grow, it is very important that they get foreign investment that translates into jobs, not foreign aid.

AT&T Wireless customers still on hold

The company continues to work to resolve a customer-service software problem that's been inconveniencing customers for two weeks.

Map the Internet... In One Day?

rjbrown99 writes "There have been numerous stories over the past few years on Bill Cheswick's Internet Mapping Project. The Lumeta folks even created a company ...

BetaNews.Com IncrediMail Build 1298 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com DC++ 0.303 Released

CNET acquires Mp3.com, plans new music service

Mp3.com, Inc. told its subscribers today that CNET Networks, Inc. has acquired the assets of the company, and that on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at noon PST, the MP3.com Web site will no longer be accessible in its current form.

AT&T Wireless customers still on hold

The company continues to work to resolve a customer-service software snafu that's been inconveniencing customers for two weeks.

Briefly: Start-up tackles data-center glitches

Relicore, a 4-year-old start-up, is set to announce an update to its software that will enable system administrators to more easily pinpoint the source of computing problems.

Start-up tackles data-center glitches

CNET to buy, retune MP3.com

CNET Networks is snapping up the assets of the online music distributor and announces plans to reintroduce the music site with new features and services.

The drawbacks of Indian outsourcing

IT line workers don't have their heads in the sand. It is not all sunshine, and it doesn't all work like Mr. Maheshwari states.

Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available

joestar writes "Since LG has released updated firmwares and a recovery procedure for all so-called ATAPI LG cd-rom drives that were "destroyed" by a feature of ...

WinCustomize.com DesktopX Media Guide Available

Reversible computing is 'the only way' to survive Intel's heat

Spring load code

Commentary: IBM's on-demand strategy is bigger than IT

One year on, the vision's much clearer, and 320,000 employees are energized to win the business transformation and data center deals that ensure Big Blue's future.

Week in review: Making wireless waves

Telephone customers in the United States will soon be able to transfer their landline number to a cell phone when signing up for new services.

The Scar

ajm writes "The Scar is China Mieville's second novel set in the world of Bas-Lag. His first, Perdido Street Station, has already been reviewed on Slashdot. ...

Writers wanted

We're looking for a few new freelance writers -- and not just for NewsForge but also for IT Manager's Journal, DevChannel, and Linux.com. We pay for most material, but not all, and to get our top rates you must be a proven professional with previous publication credits.

Sony launches 0.4in thick notebook

Reg Kit Watch Portable desktop too

Scripting News Andrew Orlowski is trying a new career as a comedi

Andrew Orlowski is trying a new career as a comedian.

Second Life Recognizes IP Of User-Created Objects

Thanks to TerraNova for pointing to a Yahoo press release revealing that "online world" Second Life now recognizes the ownership of in-world content made by ...

NeoWin.net jv16 PowerTools 1.4.1.246

NeoWin.net IncrediMail Build 1298 (Beta)

NeoWin.net Tag&Rename 3.0 RC6

NeoWin.net RegSupreme 1.1.0.23

OSDL releases statement on representation for Torvalds

OSDL is releasing the following statement today regarding legal representation for Linus Torvalds and others involved in various litigation involving SCO. Additional details as to the subpoenas are also included.

Sun's hunt for developers never ends

Wireless carriers answer call for number swaps

AT&T Wireless and Cingular are set to adopt practices for meeting a federal mandate that gives consumers the right to retain their phone numbers if they change mobile carriers.

Palmisano: The salesman in action

IBM gives glimpse of Blue Gene performance

The exotic Blue Gene/L supercomputer, a machine so far about the size of a dishwasher, can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second, and IBM has its eye on higher speeds.

Scripting News The second monster, a static server running Apache

The second monster, a static server running Apache, is now hooked into the content flow. I know this doesn't look like much, but it's a step on the path.

Scripting News Steve MacLaughlin: "Fleshbot's dirty secret recipe

Steve MacLaughlin: "Fleshbot's dirty secret recipe for promotion was to use a 'popular blogger' to report on something happening in bloggerville."

Scripting News

First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created

jrrl writes "USAToday is reporting that Craig Venter's research group has synthesized a virus from scratch and that it "became bioactive" (started ...

OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense

geoff313 writes " For all of you who might be worried about what financial consequences Linus Torvalds might have to endure as a result of being subpoenaed by ...

ShellFront Litestep Installer 3.0.2

Silicon on insulator key to AMD 90nm success - analyst

Make more chips, more cheaply with higher performance

Tiscali swelled by broadband users

800,000 by year-end

Al Jazeera hacker gets community service

'Patriotic' hacking is still a crime, says judge

IT spending remains low, study says

Businesses continued to spend below budget on information technology in October, but new data from Gartner shows that may change in the coming year.

Scripting News BBC: Microsoft rivals take the stand.

BBC: Microsoft rivals take the stand.

Scripting News Werbach: "This is just too cool."

Werbach: "This is just too cool."

"Y2k Bug", and Others Proves PCs Can Be Art

the_raptor pointed us to a pretty impressive case mod called the y2k bug. In addition, the site features several other cases that will job your jaw. Besides ...

mp3.com Acquired by CNet

bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in its current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired ...

WinXPcentral.com Enhanced Scrolling Mouse Wheel support

Linux Advisory Watch - November 14th 2003

This week, advisories were released for thhtpd, cups, ethereal, mpg123, xinetd, hylafax, postgresql, conquest, epic4, glibc, and and zebra. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

The truth about mobile phones and driving

What the 1 December law change really means

IBM gives glimpse of Blue Gene performance

The exotic Blue Gene/L supercomputer, a machine about the size of a dishwasher, can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second, and IBM has its eye on higher speeds.

Home Theatre Projectors, Dell, InFocus and Sanyo

ssassen writes "Hardware Analysis is gearing up towards the holiday season with an indepth comparison of three popular home theatre projectors; the perfect ...

First dual-core Itanic to sport 24MB of cache

Monster

Intel unveils 2.5GHz Mobile Celeron

Last P4-based value mobile chip

Click here if you love sheds

The wonderful world of sheddie net porn

One blogger is worth ten votes - Harvard man

Emergent marketing aids

Scripting News

mp3.com Acquired by CNet

bmarklein writes "Looks like mp3.com is no more, at least not in it's current form. According to an announcement on an mp3.com message board, CNet has acquired ...

"Spim" is Latest Online Annoyance

Pcol writes "The Washington Post reports that 'Spim,' as people are beginning to call unsolicited instant messages, is the latest sign that online marketers ...

One blogger is worth ten votes - Harvard man

Emergent marketing aids suggestions welcome

Phishing and viral tech combines in new menace

Mimail-I targets PayPal punters

60m DSL lines by year end

$80bn BB revs by 2008

Does AMD want out of the chip making game?

Analysis Choice of next fab more about AMD's role than location

IBM offers glimpse of Blue Gene performance

Big Blue reveal the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer, a machine about the size of a dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second.

GPS antiterrorist tools under fire

As lawmakers consider the use of GPS technologies to keep terrorists from using tanker trucks as bombs, critics say the high-tech solution could do more harm than good.

Playing cops and robbers with cybersecurity

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says placing bounties on virus authors makes for a fun PR stunt--but what about a real solution?

Customers rage at Google tweak

The search giant's new ad program is drawing some complaints from angry advertisers, who say the plan is costing them sales and money.

Virtual Plastic xRun2 & xBar 1.41

Media, people blamed for 1901 census site cock-up

It's not funny, not clever

Scripting News Joi Ito: "I'm not (yet) asking to be allowed to pa

Joi Ito: "I'm not (yet) asking to be allowed to participate in the US elections." Interesting thought. But Joi is already participating, more than most US citizens (being on the Internet advisory board of the Democratic front-runner is not a bad place to start). How can less-well-connected people can have a say in the US democracy. How can a brilliant, poor voice from left field inspire us?

Scripting News Deborah Branscum: "Here I sit in Stockholm, planni

Deborah Branscum: "Here I sit in Stockholm, planning a Thanksgiving dinner for in-laws who have never had one. I miss my family and friends, my old house and my old neighborhood. When people ask me if I'm going to become a Swedish citizen, I start laughing because it's such an odd idea."

Scripting News BBC: US babies get global brand names.

BBC: US babies get global brand names.

Scripting News Wired: "Fleshbot, the new blogging-for-bucks porno

Wired: "Fleshbot, the new blogging-for-bucks pornography venture of media entrepreneur Nick Denton."

Scripting News Faisal Jawdat sends pointers to Muxway and Delicio

Faisal Jawdat sends pointers to Muxway and Delicious, two of a new Breed Of Blog that's minimalist and programmable.

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ShellFront two module updates

Comdex Faces Vegas Competition

The computer technology show opens this weekend as a smaller, sleeker version of its former bloated self, but that's not the only change. There's a new rival in town at the same time: the Computer Digital Expo. Steve Friess reports from Las Vegas.

Sex and Tech in the Fleshbot

A new sex site launches to attract technophiles, hipsters and pop-culture buffs. Of course, there's still plenty of porn, but this new, for-profit blogging venture may break through the T & #038;A clutter. By Kari L. Dean.

Rock Band Rails Against E-Vote

The aptly named group Railer kicks off a nationwide tour to blow the whistle about the perils of electronic voting machines. By Kim Zetter.

You Gotta Stop, Smell the Roses

It's midpoint on the Great Route 1 Road Trip. The main lesson learned so far is that slow is the way to go -- but that's easier said than done. Michelle Delio reports from charming rural North Carolina.

Ancient Maize Genetics Amazing

Were ancient Mexican famers making genetic modifications to corn more drastic than what scientists are doing today? Depends on whom you ask. By Kristen Philipkoski.

USDA Sued Over Drug-Growing Crops

Several consumer advocates and environmental groups join forces to sue the Department of Agriculture to block biotech companies from planting experimental crops engineered to produce medicine.

MS: Don't Force Us to Be Lousy

Under pressure from the European Union to modify its Windows operating system, Microsoft says that if it does, European consumers might be looking at a substandard version.

Kill SMS Spam Where It Starts

Regulators and mobile-phone carriers scramble to prevent unwanted text messages from becoming as overwhelming as junk e-mail. Several countries enact new limits and providers make it easier to report abusers.

Unsafe Nokia batteries - or counterfeits?

Belgian watchdog takes another look

AMD to ship 1GHz FSB Athlon 64 FX Q1 '04 - SiS

Chipset maker launches support part

Five year's jail for camcorders in cinema

MPAA goes after pirate movies

NHS: improvements online

Gov.uk revamps NHS website

IBM cites SCO judge in latest SCO filings

This one looks familiar...

Carriers invest in convergence

Out with the old, in with the new

Why Personal Websites Matter

latif writes "Lately personal websites have fallen out of fashion. Some term them as vanity sites, and others are scared of privacy concerns. The article Why ...

NeoWin.net QuickTime Alternative 1.22

Three cheers for the Democrats' filibuster

It's time to depoliticize the judicial appointment process.

Bunker Buster, the friendly nuke

Making nuclear proliferation fun again!

From Baghdad to Brooklyn and back: A deportee's strange, sad tale

All Iraq-born Anas wanted to do was raise his family in New York. But the U.S. kicked him out, and now he's a lost soul in a broken city.

Joe Conason's Journal

The CIA's latest assessment of Iraq is not quite the happy news Bush likes to hear.

Why did Democrats risk the GOP's wrath?

Because the Republicans' court nominees are to the right of Genghis Khan.

I Like to Watch

More evidence that Brits and Canadians are funny -- and "Saturday Night Live" is not. Plus: Confessions of a two-TiVo girl.

Dirty business

How Bush and his coal industry cronies are covering up one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

Classic American food fights

The author of "Cookoff" discusses the intense -- and thoroughly modern -- world of competitive cooking.

Tom the Dancing Bug

Brain in a beaker.

I met HIM

I've met the man of my dreams, but we had a serious talk and he freaked and hasn't called in two days!

The Fix

Hugh Grant talks politics, dashing Dennis Kucinich wants a first lady, and J.Lo is going to peddle underwear. Plus: Why is Leo DiCaprio worried about lost photos?

BetaNews.Com AllNetic Working Time Tracker 2.0.0.214 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Abyss Web Server X1 for Windows 1.2 Beta 2 Released

BetaNews.Com WarFTPD 1.8.2 RC2 Released

Perfect Solar Storm Brewing?

What's up with the Sun? Scientists are usually fairly reliable with predicting solar activity. We're supposed to be in the second waning period of an 11-year solar cycle. Instead of decreasing, though, the activity on the gaseous giant around a million times the size of planet Earth is increasing. Solar flares are currently measured with three classes using a logarithmic scale; C-class (little no no effect on Earth), M-class (medium strength) and X-class. The latter and strongest class of solar flare ranges in intensity from X1 to X20. One of the biggest solar flares occured in 1859. An X18 class in March of 1989 was the second largest. That is, until the last couple of months. After building up in October with an X18 magnitude solar flare, on November 4, we witnessed the largest solar flare since we've been studying them closely. The coronal ejection temporarily blinded the machines taking the images. Using the amount of time that the satellites were out of commission, scientists are now estimating a magnitude anywhere from X27 to X40+.

IBM offers glimpse of Blue Gene performance

Big Blue plans to reveal the first indication of the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer Friday, a machine about the size of a dishwasher that can perform 1.4 trillion calculations per second.

OSNews First Look at TurboLinux 10D

Linux lab hires lawyers for Torvalds

The Open Source Development Lab will pay to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3 billion suit against IBM.

Wal-Mart to Launch Online Music Store

Dteyn writes "I heard on the radio today that Wal-Mart will soon be opening up an online music store to compete with the likes of Apple's iTunes and Napster. ...

WinXPcentral.com Wireless hacking...

WinXPcentral.com New Windows Worm on the Way?

WinXPcentral.com Update for Microsoft Windows XP SP1

Scripting News I started serious work on the first of the two new

I started serious work on the first of the two new servers and thought to do something that I had never thought to do before. Instead of scattering my changes in various tables in Frontier.root, I'm creating a Tool, and doing all my customizations there. If I had done this when I started the Harvard server I'd be able to start with a much better hosting setup today. The reason this works is that Tools can hook into almost every nook and cranny of the Frontier runtime environment, and where they can't, I'll install code that comes from the custom Tool. Voila. Instantly clonable installations. Hey the logo changed, but I still bleed cactus juice.

Scripting News It's at times like this that I love to hate Jeff J

It's at times like this that I love to hate Jeff Jarvis for hating Glenn Reynolds. And why do I hate Jeff? Because it's snowing in NYC. I told the guys at the Thursday Berkman meeting that it was going to snow in Cambridge tomorrow. Mark my words. The smell is in the air. And I say "the guys" with some confidence. Until Jessica showed up, it was an all-male Thursday meeting. I said "I knew there was a reason I felt so relaxed." Ba da boom. We talked about penis enlargers, of course. Michael Feldman had never heard an Ole and Lena joke. And next week I promised to take them on a tour of the object database for their Manila sites. I can't believe I've never done that.

New Animated Dr. Who Series

smak writes "To celebrate the doctor's fourtieth anniversary, the BBC and Cosgrove Hall Films are webcasting a fully-animated adventure starring Richard E. ...

Loose-screws Much module meting...

Ilmcuts, continuing the great tradition of releasing 20 modules in one day and keeping me from my afternoon cup of coffee, has unveiled some of the fruits of his ceaseless labor today:ckvwm has been updated to version 1.4, fixing the AlwaysOnTop settings and a bug in which the module would stealthily shut down the entire Litestep process on certain errors.All of the former core modules were released today as well. For the unaware, the modules that used to be issued with the core (command, desktop2, hotkey, lstime2, popup2, shortcut2, shortcut3, systray2, sysvwm, taskbar, vwm2, and wharf) will not be distributed with the final 24.7 builds, but released and maintained separately. I'm not going to link to all of them one by one, as my coffee is now quite tepid and cooling by the second. But you can find just that with the surprisingly little known search page right here.

Loose-screws EZ2Install updated

EZ2Install has been updated to version 3.2. The only chane is the addition of support for .lsz files. (EZ-Change will unzip the content of LSZ files into the themes dir) Grab it right here.Litestep.com has also opened a forum for EZ2Install here.

Loose-screws And that's the way it is...

Rabidcow has made a small update to NetLoadModule today, fixing a bug in which multiple *NetLoadModuleSites would cause it to choose one at random and ignore the rest. And Ceeslans has asked that one of the 24.6 shortcut2 versions be added, prompting me to pose this question to everybody: Would it help to have all of the old core mods here?

Loose-screws It speaks!

Daniel has written a litestep module that acts as an interface to the Windows speech synthesizer. Similar to LiteSpeak, LSpeakXP Uses SAPI 5 (the version that comes with Windows XP) to output any text placed after the !speak bang in that creepy, stuttering computer voice we all know and love.

Loose-screws Big update for the LS Installer...

Omar Hussain has announced recently on the litestep mailing list that he has updated his wonderful installer to version 2.9.4. Major changes include a complete re-write, and OTS2 support. I'll refer you to Omar's message for the rest of the large list of changes.

Loose-screws NetLoadModule 2.4.1

RabidCow has updated NetLoadModule to version 2.4.1, adding a few error messages for incorrect keywords, and fixing a bug in which 2.4.0 would not recognize a few of it's new keywords, including: "threaded", "nopump", "load", "weight", "order", "begin", and "end".

Loose-screws LSDocs project

Got a note from DeViLbOi of litestep.net this morning, asking for help with the LSDocs project:Ok folks...I need some help here. I thought I had things covered and everything has fallen through this past week with personal life stuff. I need a group of people to help convert existing LiteStep Module Documentation to a new XML format. I also need another person to write a Desktop application/module for Documentation processing. Please reply in comments on LiteStep.net instead of emailing me.This is a damn good idea and something that I know from personal experience is a whole lot of work. Go give him a hand if you have the time.

Loose-screws LSMath 0.31

Fallout has released version 0.31 of his module LSMath. Which allows you to preform any math operation valid in C++ in your scripts. The changes, straight from the dev's keyboard, are:fixed an incompatibility that made it not work on most computers, nothing else is changed.source is available if requested.all previous versions should be deleted as none of them seem to actually work on any computer other than mineYou can grab it right here.

Loose-screws NetLoadModule 2.4.0

RabidCow has updated his essential ease of use module NetLoadModule to version 2.4.0. For the unaware, NetLoadModule allows theme authors to distribute module light zips among other things by automatically downloading them to the user's computer and installing them. The changes from the last version are: works with LiteStep .24.7 (but not beta 1, 2, or 3) clicking "Download" again after the first try fails no longer causes NLM to crash *NetInstallModule will install a module at startup but not load it !NetReloadModule, !NetUnloadModule, !NetInstallModule,!NetLoadModuleBatch for loading/unloading after startup NetLoadModuleOnLoad, NetLoadModuleOnFail so you can, eg, start a theme switcher if something fails to install using external zlib.dll (shares lsapi's copy in .24.7) "primary" site is now used LAST, so authors don't get tons of bandwidthusage new site load balancing with weight and order threaded, nopump, and load flags added to *NetLoadModule fixed a small memory leak in the installer !NetUninstallModule does the inverse of !NetInstallModuleYou can grab it here.

Loose-screws LS 24.7 beta 4

The LS dev team has been hard at work yet again, bringing us 24.7 beta 4. Development seems to be going along quite smoothly, and many issues have been addressed in this beta. In fact, far too many to list here. For that I'll direct you to ilmcuts' LSML post.You can grab it at Phil Stopford's site, with the usual caveat that this build is for experienced users only. No instructions are provided.

Loose-screws BGColors 1.02

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

Loose-screws Popup2 2.1.4

By: Indiestep Dev Team, updated by Verbalshadow, mugendai, Sci, RabidCow Description: The core popup module.

Loose-screws Shortcut2 2.0.1

By: Indiestep dev team Description: The core shortcut module.

Loose-screws NetLoadModule 2.4.3

By: RabidCow Description: NetLoadModule allows you to load modules that may not necessarily be installed. If the module is not installed, it can be automatically downloaded and installed before being loaded

Loose-screws Oborzevatel 0.11

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

Loose-screws IconDesk 0.66

By: Sci Description: Displays icons on the desktop, as in Explorer.

Loose-screws LSXCommand 1.8.5

By: Visigoth, jesus_mjjg, ilmcuts Description: LSXCommand is a greatly extended version of LSCommand (by limpid). A quick list of the enhancements are: * Entirely rewritten History code (sorry limpid!) * Resizable History * History stored in Modules.ini (faster, makes more sense to me) * AutoComplete * Internet Search * Aliasing - or Binding, if you like * Calculator Functionality (Regular & RPN!) * Context Menu (Right-Click) Access * Backgrounds & Transparency * A Clock with Date functionality as well * A separate clock module * A 'replacement' for Killarny's script.dll for use with LSXCommand * Heck, it can even use WinAmp's scrolling title feature... * A few speed tweaks

Loose-screws Geekamp 1.9.71

By: GeekMaster, updated by Azathoth, Luthe Description: Controls winamp via bang commands.

Loose-screws Systray2 2.0.1

By: Indiestep Dev Team Description: The core systray module.

Loose-screws SendMessage 1.0

By: Nathan Moore Description: Sends window messages through a bang command.

SHELL EXTENSION CITY RAMAGER (free): Ram management program designed to be as discreet as possible, while helping you to maximize free physical memory

SHELL EXTENSION CITY WEB VIEWER (free): Web browser using IE's web rendering engine but with all the extra nosense from IE filtered out. Many new features are added in instead

SHELL EXTENSION CITY TRAKER 3 (free): Advanced File System Explorer targeting everybody who is looking for a real alternative to the Windows Explorer

SHELL EXTENSION CITY PROSOLE (free): New generation console, which allows power user to access programs and files easily. Chat and command the computer to do things at the same time

Chilean Site Compares Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird, IE and Opera

OSNews EXCLUSIVE: First Look at TurboLinux 10D

OSNews Sun's Linux Desktop Off to Flying Start

OSNews Apple Seeds Xcode 1.1 Update; Java Update

OSNews Mandrake Linux 9.2 Review at LinuxElectrons

OSNews Sun Bets on Free Java Tool

Scripting News Congrats to Paul Boutin who's back at Wired for th

Congrats to Paul Boutin who's back at Wired for the next year.

Scripting News Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, ther

Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, there's absolutely no chance that any of the links will work tomorrow or the day after. Point into the directory knowing that the link is certain to break. It's the nature of the beast.

WinCustomize.com Music piracy continues despite legitimate alternatives

WinCustomize.com Skinning Blogging continues

OSNews Today on NMC: Sharp PDA, Thin Laptops, N-Gage Hack, New Phones

OSNews To Push Desktop Linux, Radical Shift may be Required

Microsoft Defies EU Commission

otahkgeek writes "Wired News is reporting that Microsoft claims that by removing Windows Media Player from Windows, it would be forced to ship a substandard ...

WinCustomize.com OSNews look at the Longhorn alpha

NeoWin.net OSNews: Longhorn Preview

Start-up looks to do the math with new chip

ClearSpeed prepares to show off a chip designed to handle the complex, but repetitive, calculations involved in protein matching, data compression and other demanding tasks.

Mozilla Dot Org New Mozilla Web Site Launches

Windows Program Enables MP3 Downloading From iTunes

Joey Patterson writes "CNET reports that an independent software developer has released a program called MyTunes that allows people to share and download each ...

fizzy >> some mirc and modz stuff Fizzy teams up with BruB, Winboost, Macadam and LiteStep-France

Dell keeps zooming in Q3

Strong like bull

Sun's Linux desktop off to flying start

Exclusive Renting Linux for profit

New mozilla.org Site Launches

Slashback: Simpsons, Buyouts, Droid

Slashback tonight with another notch up for Virginia Tech's Big Mac, another downloadable robot design for the Mini-ITX crowd, updates (both in the negative) ...

DeviantArt.com EXPOSÉ II - Call for Entries

Ballistic Publishing announced EXPOSÉ II the second issue of the Award winning Digital Artbook EXPOSÉ. Now the are calling for artist's entries for the new Issue and all of you can submit their 2D/3D Artwork for consideration.

WinCustomize.com Change your boot screen with BootSkin

WinCustomize.com IconDeveloper website created

Scripting News Wesley Clark has a professional camera crew follow

Wesley Clark has a professional camera crew following him around. As an experiment I've linked to a Quicktime video of the candidate in NYC, riding the subway, appearing on a TV show, and eating a bagel, from my RSS feed, as an enclosure. If you're subscribed with an enclosure-aware aggregator it will download the 35MB video tonight, for instant viewing tomorrow.

LSI Logic may spin off storage group

The company plans to separate its storage systems unit from its mainstream semiconductor business and is considering an IPO for the new company.

GameSpy warns security researcher

The online-gaming service provider says it sent an Italian hacker a letter requesting that he remove advisories and utilities highlighting vulnerabilities in its products.

Siebel faces second SEC penalty

The Securities and Exchange Commission may take enforcement action against Siebel Systems and two of its officers over an alleged breach of fair disclosure rules.

FCC To Expand Wireless Spectrum

Makarand writes "According to this article in the SF Chronicle the FCC will expand the wireless spectrum to push broadband into rural areas. However, consumer ...

MS to ship substandard Windows if EU axe falls

Windows without Media Player, like a bike without a phisycle...

FCC expands spectrum for wireless use

The Federal Communications Commission says it is setting aside additional spectrum for devices that use unlicensed radio frequencies.

Former Gateway CEO, two others charged with fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission files fraud charges against former chief executive Jeff Weitzen, former chief financial officer John Todd and former controller Robert Manza.

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.5 Released

Scripting News Greenspun: "I'd like to find software that is good

Greenspun: "I'd like to find software that is good for preparing a photo collage."

Scripting News Wesley Clark has a professional camera crew follow

Wesley Clark has a professional camera crew following him around. As an experiment I've linked to a Quicktime video of the candidate in NYC, riding the subway, appearing on a TV show, and eating a bagel, from my RSS feed, as an enclosure. If you're subscribed with an enclosure-aware aggregator it will download the 35MB video tonight, for instant viewing tomorrow.

The Computer Owner - Guilty or Not Guilty?

Von-at-Infosec_Writers asks: "It is relatively easy to trace a hack back to a particular computer, but proving that a specific person committed the crime could ...

Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas

z4ce writes "It seems that Daniel Lyons of Forbes just wrote yet another article on the IBM vs. SCO law suit. Now, Daniel seems to seeing SCO for the liars ...

Belgian watchdog reconsiders 'unsafe' Nokia battery claim

Plans to retest batteries

Sun bets on free Java tool

Developers won't pay a penny for the next version of Java application server, set for release next week, says the company's top software executive in a presentation of Sun's software plans.

iTunes helper allows MP3 downloads

An independent PC developer has created a program that lets users of Apple Computer's iTunes software share MP3 files almost as easily as they could using programs such as Kazaa.

Dell meets third-quarter estimates

Servers and storage systems were two of the company's top earners, helping Dell pull in a profit of 26 cents per share and revenue of $10.6 billion.

Time Warner OK with VoIP regulation

The company plans to begin selling Internet phone service in California next year and will cooperate with regulators by seeking a telephone operator's license in the state, if necessary.

Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas

z4ce writes "It seems that Daniel Lyons of Forbe's SCO fame just wrote yet another article on the IBM vs. SCO law suit. Now, Daniel seems to seeing SCO for the ...

Evolving the Social Network

arantius writes "An article on BottomQuark points to a new development: Here's a story about a new start-up Huminity, referred to as the technology of the ...

NeoWin.net Longhorn Transformation Pack 4.0 Refresh - Completed work

Adobe lays off 100

The graphics-software maker quietly trims jobs as part of an ongoing realignment, saying the move is not related to Adobe's financial outlook.

Time Warner OK with VoIP regulation

The company plans to begin selling Internet phone service in California next year, and will cooperate with regulators by seeking a telephone operator's license in the state if necessary.

T-Mobile and Boingo: A match made in heaven?

Consumers power wireless-gear market, report says

As security and management concerns ease, consumer and enterprise sales continue to drive growth in the wireless networking gear market, a research report says.

Ad groups lobby for antispam law

Three influential trade groups are pushing Congress to pass a federal spam law before the holidays, cautioning that without it, unwanted e-mail will hamper e-commerce.

OSNews Preview: Windows Longhorn Build 4051

Scripting News Paolo: Categories to Topics.

Paolo: Categories to Topics.

Scripting News Scoble: "Dave Winer has done more to get me to mov

Scoble: "Dave Winer has done more to get me to move away from the Web than a huge international corporation that's supposedly focused on killing the Web."

Scripting News I've got Frontier installed on one of the new serv

I've got Frontier installed on one of the new servers.

Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting

gribbly writes "aging author and social critic Gore Vidal savaged electronic voting in an interview with the LA Weekly. The interview deals mainly with (what's ...

snowchyld New Referer Spam :: For your hosts.deny

141.85.0.0/16 three sites refering in the last 12 hours, all of them don't have 'real' links to my site, all are these "javascript:location.href"'s which mean that the 'links' to these blogs are 'one-way' according to the search engines.. the content...

WinXPcentral.com Windows XP New 2003 Winter Fun Packs

BetaNews.Com SecureCRT 4.1 Beta 4 Released

BetaNews.Com CRT 4.1 Beta 4 Released

OSNews SuSE Linux 9 Review at NewsForge

OSNews MenuetOS 0.75 Released

OSNews XFce 4.0.1 Released

OSNews Recent Shifts at Red Hat, Novell will give them more edge on MS

OSNews Is Novell-SuSE deal a brilliant Big Blue power play?

Scripting News I've got Frontier installed on one of the new serv

I've got Frontier installed on one of the new servers.

Briefly: Virgin U.K. offers Apple iPod

Apple Computer says it has started selling its iPod digital music player at Virgin Megastores and Virgin Xpress stores in the United Kingdom.

Virgin U.K. offers Apple iPod

Tessera pops on first day of trading

The company, which designs packages for semiconductors, sees its shares climb 38 percent on its first day of trading.

Comdex cozies up to the workplace

This year's trade show will forgo a golf shirt in favor of a business suit and focus more on corporate information-technology products than consumer electronics.

Jail Time for Movie Swappers

ArmenTanzarian writes "The MPAA is at it again, reports CNET in a story from yesterday. Apparently, suing the pants off of teenagers RIAA-style isn't good ...

New ad banner in position

Well, the old ad banner was nice, but I figured I could help you guys out more by placing a new banner up there.So if you see something that peaks your interest, go ahead and click Enjoy the samurize.com site and if you have any problems / questions don't hesitate to let me know.Chew

BetaNews.Com AbsoluteFTP 2.2 Beta 4 Released

Wal-Mart turns customers into RFID lab rats

P&G's watchful eyes

Tessera pops on first day of trading

The company, which designs packages for semiconductors, climbs 38 percent on its first day of trading, another sign that the chip market is healthy again.

Intuit rewrites QuickBooks for small business

The company keeps companies with less than 250 employees in mind for updates to its QuickBooks accounting software and to its QuickBase Web-based information management package.

Comdex cozies up to the workplace

This year's Comdex trade show will trade a golf shirt for a business suit, and focus more on corporate information-technology products than consumer electronics.

Kazaa says hello to digital Bollywood

The file-swapping company, which is locked in a legal battle with Hollywood studios, has struck a deal to digitally distribute a full-length feature film made in India's Bollywood.

Defense and Detection Against Internet Worms

Rathumos writes "The network security world has been waiting patiently for a definitive study of internet worms and defenses against them. Defense and ...

Liberty Alliance Completes Phase 2

g0_p writes "According to CNET the Liberty Alliance project released its phase 2 specifications for the Liberty Identity Web Services Framework. This will ...

WinXPcentral.com Updates and bugfixes for Fedora Core 1.

CLI for noobies: an initiation more or less

Today is all about tips and tricks from the command line. The only thing they share is that at times they can be useful for life on the CLI-frontier and beyond. Most are exceedingly easy to learn and to use. But as always, be sure and do a man or info on each command covered here to fill in the gaps. The last one takes you a little deeper than we've been before. It will be an initiation of sorts. But don't worry. You can handle it.

CyberGuard acquires embedded-Linux SnapGear

Embedded Linux company Snapgear has been acquired by CyberGuard for a reported $16 million dollar pricetag. The deal was announced this morning in a press release issued by CyberGuard.

Iomega revs removable HDD challenge to tape

The very Rev

Don't put app protection on your firewall, Mr Jones

Top Layer touts standalone IPS appliance

Briefly: They're hiring in Canada

IT services company Keane says that Canada is a promising nation for outsourcing and that increased demand for the company's "nearshore" services has created 175 new jobs.

Scripting News Scoble: "Dave Winer has done more to get me to mov

Scoble: "Dave Winer has done more to get me to move away from the Web than a huge international corporation that's supposedly focused on killing the Web."

Ask Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik

Red Hat has made several changes in how they run their business, notably concentrating more (perhaps one might say "entirely") on enterprise-level Linux users. ...

Wi-Fi turns us into busy worker bees

We need a bigger a honey pot

Things to do on the Net when you're dead

Mylastemail.com

Europe in Brief

ICT roundup from the Continent

Can't get a shag? Get nTAG!

Electronic aid for the socially awkward

UK students - fancy a trip to Brazil?

Or a jolly to the German Grand Prix 2004?

Amazon extends its Borders patrol

The online retailer says it will continue to provide content and underlying technology to the Web sites of rival bookseller Borders Group.

Kazaa says hello to digital Bollywood

The file-swapping company, which is locked in a legal battle with Hollywood studios, has stuck a deal to digitally distribute a full-length feature film made in India's Bollywood.

Briefly: They're hiring in Canada

Keane, a Canadian IT services company, says that Canada is a promising nation for outsourcing and that increased demand for the company's "nearshore" services has created 175 new jobs.

Scripting News Whew. Spent the morning fighting for a clean code

Whew. Spent the morning fighting for a clean code design and think I got it. The problem: this is an exceptional page, it doesn't fit into the hierarchy. For the last three years I've been building hierarchies and linking them into Scripting, and haven't gotten anyone to care about them. This hierarchy has to contain Scripting, but of course it's at the top level of a domain. How do you get that to work? It took some baling wire to make it fit in. I fought for just one piece of baling wire, not 100. So far so good. Next time I work on the hierarchy I will be able to use the outliner, which was the whole point.

Scripting News Another bit of philosophy. Weblogs have gotten so

Another bit of philosophy. Weblogs have gotten so jammed full of crap like rolls of blogs, rolls of things I'm subscribed to, old software products, old friends, even dead people, you name it, lots of old stuff. So I decided to see what it would be like if I could have even more old crap, but not put it on my weblog. Make sense? It should be easy to get to, but why should it slow down every page load, and who really cares about all that junk anyway? I want to be able to find it, and I want you to be able to find it too, but it doesn't have to be on the page everyone's reloading all the time.

Scripting News Another bit. Are you the kind of person who reload

Another bit. Are you the kind of person who reloads Scripting 18 times a day? If so, why do you have to reload last Tuesday's news too? In the new design you don't. Just today, in reverse-chronology. But if you want to see a whole bunch at once, if you're an every-other-day reader, click on November at the top of the page to see all that's been published this month. This will only fail to work at the beginning and end of the month. At the beginning you might only get a day or two. At the end you might get 30 or 31 days which is a lot of junk you don't need to see. As always, trade-offs. On average this model performs better.

Scripting News Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, ther

Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, there's absolutely no chance that any of the links will work tomorrow or the day after. Point into the directory knowing that the link is certain to break. It's the nature of the beast.

Replace Your Music....Again

sethadam1 writes "I was not at all surprised to find that experts are predicting the death of the compact disc in as little as 5 years. This article over at ...

Torvalds served, seeks legal advice

Darl McBride, the man under whose leadership SCO has been transformed from a software firm into the high-tech equivalent of an ambulance-chasing law firm, has made a number of outrageous claims about Linux, open source development, and the GPL after filing suit against IBM in a contract dispute. But he has not been able (or willing) to substantiate any of them. If anything, he has gone out of his way to obfuscate rather than inform. But he has proven to be top-notch at one thing since SCO began its assault: annoying the free/open source software communities. And he's done it again.

Don't put your app protection on your firewall, Mr Jones

Top Layer touts standalone IPS appliance

Lunar Polar Ice Not Present

pclark999 writes "The New Scientist reports that radar probes of the lunar polar region has disproved earlier theories regarding large sheets of polar ice in ...

The Open Code Market

There's a new article in First Monday entitled "The Open Code Market". Jordi Carrasco-Munoz, the author has some interesting comments about the article itself, ...

A snapshot of Java spec request advances

It's official: Java 2 Enterprise Edition Version 1.4 is now the new Java standard, as the result of a final ballot published yesterday by the Java Community Process. This has been in the works for two years and is no surprise to most Java developers -- and Java developers who also work in open source projects. However, it is an official milestone, and milestones are important in the overall scheme of things. Since this brings focus to the JCP, we thought we'd offer a snapshot of the various Java Specification Requests as they now appear, in all their various states.

T-Online to buy AOL - report

Rubbish, says T-Online

Factions face off in ultrawideband arena

A key meeting for the standardization of the wireless technology fails to reconcile the two main camps, as Intel accuses Motorola of breaking nondisclosure agreements.

Comparator: Compare the Rendering of a Page in IE and Mozilla

Introduction to Mozilla Firebird Articles Cover Download Manager and Printing

Scripting News Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, ther

Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, there's absolutely no chance that any of the links will work tomorrow or the day after. Point into the directory knowing that the link is certain to break. It's the nature of the beast. (The cookie crumb trail is broken. Vexing problem. Gotta take a break. I know, it sucks.)

Scripting News Goddard: "O'Reilly For President?"

Goddard: "O'Reilly For President?"

Scripting News In the continuing comment thread, a man named Patr

In the continuing comment thread, a man named Patrick asks what was wrong with the cactus, anyway, to which I said, nothing, and that's the problem. You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette. You can't stir the pot in an peaceful, easy way. We're going to build a new city, around the Presidential race of 2004. And you're going to help me do it. You just don't know it yet. ";->"

OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux

Psyke writes "The Australian Financial Review is reporting that 'IBM, Red Hat and a consortium of computer makers backed by the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard ...

The Open Code Market

There's a new article in First Monday entitled "The Open Code Market". Jordi Munoz, the author has some interesting comments about the article itself, which ...

Intel vs Motorola

This time over ultra-wide band wireless

Final iQue details emerge from China

Nintendo's entry into the Chinese market takes shape

ATI ships its first DX9 mobile workstation chip

Mobility FireGL T2

UK govt calls for 100% broadband coverage by 2005

Easy to say, harder to do

Asian first-timers prefer Linux to Windows

Cost and community: we're all hippies now

BT faces 'challenging' times as revenues dip

Pre-tax proft up, though

Scripting News Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, ther

Huge caveat: As the directory starts to work, there's absolutely no chance that any of the links will work tomorrow or the day after. Point into the directory knowing that the link is certain to break. It's the nature of the beast.

Scripting News Matthew Thomas: Security Snake Oil.

Matthew Thomas: Security Snake Oil.

Scripting News Reminder, here are the categories of the last week

Reminder, here are the categories of the last week's posts.

Company towns: The cost of tax breaks

Multi-million dollar incentives lure businesses, but do they drain resources from cash-strapped schools?

AOL To Be Purchased By T-Online?

Sique writes "The german newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports on its website, that the german ISP T-Online wants to buy AOL. The article is titled American ...

Yes, it's the BOFH quiz!

Episode 28 Do you know your Computing Personalities?

Sharp to update Zaurus PDA line this month

Adds Japanese-to-English translation code

Nintendo To Launch New Machine Next Year?

EvilDonut writes "According to Bloomberg.com, Nintendo intends to launch a new machine in Japan next year, in order "to boost sales". There are no details as ...

Teknidermy NewsSTAND Complete Anonymous Web Surfing released.

Intel Centrino 2 to offer 533MHz FSB - report

Sonoma slips

Exeter dominates UK Wi-Fi scene - Intel

Many hotspots, small population, spurious survey

Single Speaker Unit Delivers Surround Sound

Makarand writes "A one-speaker home theater system that is able to deliver surround sound has been unveiled by Nirotek America (Torrance, CA). The single ...

BetaNews.Com Novell Ratchets Up Linux Support

BetaNews.Com Trademark Office to Examine Eolas Plug-In Patent

Security Chiefs Come Together

In an attempt to stave off further attacks on their computer networks, several chief security officers form a coalition to share information and get the private sector more involved in cybersecurity issues.

Korea: Beeping Prevents Peeping

Camera phones, easily concealed, can be used to take pictures the shooter has no business taking. This is a particular problem in South Korea, which now decrees that all new handsets emit a beep whenever a picture is taken.

The Myths of Children

The homeless children of Miami have developed an interesting and amazing belief system, which brings them hope and the ability to understand the world and the circumstances they exist in. This story, as written by Lynda Edwards for the Miami New Times gives an insightful and at times, beautiful look into the folklore and tales of the children. "To homeless children sleeping on the street, neon is as comforting as a night-light. Angels love colored light too. After nightfall in downtown Miami, they nibble on the NationsBank building -- always drenched in a green, pink, or golden glow. "They eat light so they can fly," eight-year-old Andre tells the children sitting on the patio of the Salvation Army's emergency shelter on NW 38th Street. Andre explains that the angels hide in the building while they study battle maps. "There's a lot of killing going on in Miami," he says. "You want to fight, want to learn how to live, you got to learn the secret stories." The small group listens intently to these tales told by homeless children in shelters. "

Laying Down the Virtual Law

As computer games and virtual spaces become more pervasive, the line between real and imagined becomes blurrier. When do real-world laws start to apply? Experts hit New York to discuss the growing impact of games. By Daniel Terdiman.

Chip Design Reverses a Hot Trend

A new technology that uses a reversal effect in computing produces less heat than the current type of chip, but the big manufacturers are sitting on the sidelines for now. By Amit Asaravala.

Academics Can Be Fun and Games

The University of Southern California will be the first well-known research university to offer a minor in game design when it rolls out a new program next fall. By Katie Dean.

Three Arrested in IBM Bribes Bust

Trouble's brewing for Big Blue as three South Korean military and company officials are arrested on charges of accepting bribes from a South Korean affiliate of the computer giant.

Scripting News Matthew Thomas: Security Snake Oil.

Matthew Thomas: Security Snake Oil.

Scripting News Feedster Builder lets you create an RSS feed for s

Feedster Builder lets you create an RSS feed for sites that don't have them. It pings weblogs.com too.

Scripting News Michael Feldman's ten things you don't know about

Michael Feldman's ten things you don't know about Google.

Scripting News When I was coming up to speed on heart medicine la

When I was coming up to speed on heart medicine last year, I asked my cardiologist how they knew that statins, the kind of drug Lipitor is, worked. He said they were doing a big study, but early results had been so promising, even stunning, that they kind of knew it was a effective drug. Yesterday the Times had the report, now it's fully known, it basically halts heart disease. I've been taking it for over a year.

Scripting News The power of networking. I'm terrible with names t

The power of networking. I'm terrible with names too, but the president of the student body at Simmons College came to one Thursday meeting at Berkman. Really bright.

DeviantArt.com Brisbane Christmas deviantART Meet

There is a Brisbane ( Australia ) deviantART Meet being planned for Sunday the 14th of December to be held at Southbank Parklands. If you're interested in coming, please contact ~crikey.

DeviantArt.com aTuner 1.7.14.5216

aTuner is a small tool for changing/tweaking settings on your NVIDIA based graphics card. Includes Anti-Aliasing (including all unofficial modes), Anisotropic Filtering, VSync, and MipMap LOD Bias.

DeviantArt.com The Wessel Bagge Collection at Louisiana Museum

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents today “The Wessel Bagge Collection,” on view through 8 February 2004. From the Niels Wessel Bagge Art Foundation Louisiana has taken over a unique collection consisting primarily of Pre-Columbian cultural artefacts from North, South and Central America – that is, Amerindian arts and crafts from the time before the European colonization that began around 1500, as well as objects from Africa, New Guinea and ancient Europe. The collection – one of the largest...

snowchyld Everybody wants to be naked and famous

I can't explain glacial motion or why Los Angeles don't drop into the ocean I can't unfold the layers of mystery or piece together the tragedy of history, cause those lucky suckers, They don't have to work make 3D billboards...

NeoWin.net Plus! Dancer LE

Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2004 to manufacturing

Migration patterns

Segway-Based Robot Opens Doors

Roland Piquepaille writes "In this short article, Technology Review tells us that Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have built a new ...

Review: SuSE Linux 9

SuSE Linux 9, the latest release from Nuremberg, Germany-based SuSE Linux, was released at the end of last month. I put SuSE Linux Professional through its paces, and found it to be the most user-friendly Linux distribution on the market. It's not a "must" update for users of previous versions, but it does have some nice perks.

What's bigger than a kazillion?

David Foster Wallace provides an entertaining tour of the mind-blowingly big numbers -- and establishes that some infinities are larger than others.

How George Bush will ban abortion

Republicans and the religious right are working to outlaw abortion -- one small step at a time.

Right Hook

Coulter says Bush didn't need an Iraq plan; O'Reilly blasts the liberal Reagan trashers at CBS; the Weekly Standard gloats at the impotent rage of the "urban and urbane, with-it, refined" Bush haters.

Joe Conason's Journal

Are so many American flags being incinerated in this country that Wesley Clark believes we must tamper with the Bill of Rights?

Don't look now, but the dean is watching

Pressured by the double whammy of feds looking for terrorists and the music industry chasing file sharers, universities are keeping a close eye on student Internet use.

Burying brutal truths about war

The Toledo Blade exposed a shocking massacre by U.S. troops in Vietnam that was covered up for three decades, but the media has largely ignored the story. Is the press more timid during wartime?

Streets of fear

A Georgetown professor goes to Baghdad to assess post-war conditions and finds terror spreading by the day -- and the U.S. unable to stop it.

The Fix

Madonna nags Letterman to get married, already, Britney shares her pain with Diane Sawyer and Justin Timberlake opens a restaurant. Plus: What is the top "guy movie"?

The K Chronicles

How 'bout we replace Groundhog Day with Dick Cheney Day?

Warning signs

I'm in love with her, she's in love with him, and I feel like a confused, heartbroken sucker.

The dangers of democracy

When people in fledgling democracies vote against U.S. interests, the CIA steps in.

The state of your unions

Salon readers share tales of ugly divorces, same-sex relationships, and love born from tragedy.

Wireless hacking bust in Michigan

Warparking

Microsoft's New Security Mojo

Opinion

Subpoenas fly in SCO vs IBM

Linus gets the call

Nokia unveils walkie talkie phone

Half-duplex planet

Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim

chongo writes "Orbital Development has filed legal action against the United States by filing a Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in Federal Court. After ...

BetaNews.Com Tag&Rename 3.0 RC6 Released

OSNews More on Xandros Desktop 2.0

BetaNews.Com Serv-U 4.1.0.9 Beta Released

OSNews Ballmer: Linux is not Innovating

OSNews SCO, IBM Battle Heats Up; Linus, RMS Targetted

OSNews Sun, Liberty Alliance Release Web Services ID Specs

Friendster rivals merge; Evite enters

InterActiveCorp says its Evite service will compete with Friendster, and a San Francisco start-up acquires a competing personal networking service.

Sharp Zaurus SL-C860 Announced For Japan

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com reports that Sharp will introduce a new member in its Linux-based Zaurus PDA family in the Japanese market on Nov. ...

Scripting News Bryan Bell's ode to the cactus.

Bryan Bell's ode to the cactus.

WinXPcentral.com Microsoft set to bash Linux... again.

WinXPcentral.com ForceWare (Detonator) 52.70 Win2000/XP !

WinXPcentral.com Yahoo! Messenger 5.6.0.1351 Released

WinXPcentral.com Share "True Crime," do the time

World Wide Web Consortium XQuery, XSLT and XPath Last Call Published

2003-11-12: The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released nine Working Drafts. Six are in Last Call through 15 February 2004. Comments on all of these documents are invited. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft: SOAP Optimized Serialization

2003-11-12: The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Working Draft of SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements. The document illustrates the reasons for optimizing the serialization of SOAP messages. It distills constraints and the features necessary for interoperability with existing protocols, bindings, and serialization formats such as SOAP 1.2, WSDL and MIME. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive)

Enterprise network gains funding

A professional networking company raises more than $10 million in venture capital, while the National Science Foundation planned to grant it $100,000 to study enterprise applications of social networks.

California regulators ponder VoIP

The state's public utility regulators will meet in a much-anticipated showdown with Internet phone providers.

PeopleSoft ruling may wait until 2004

U.S antitrust officials may wait until January to weigh in on Oracle's embattled bid to acquire PeopleSoft, and European regulators are likely to initiate a more in-depth review of the deal, an Oracle executive says.

Billy the Kid Faces The Law... Again

Jason Raddin writes "MSNBC.com has an interesting story about a new showdown in the Old West. It seems as if Billy the Kid can still cause problems for the ...

SHELL EXTENSION CITY SYSCOLOR (free): Displays the current system colour configuration and allows the user to alter each colour. Provides more color types than the Control Panel screen configuration utility

SHELL EXTENSION CITY APP DELAY (free): Runs an application a set number of seconds after boot-up

SHELL EXTENSION CITY SWIPER (free): When a file is opened by another user it is locked and impossible to delete, move or replace. Swiper waits till the file is available, then it can delete, replace or move it

SHELL EXTENSION CITY THE DIGITAL IMPRIMATUR (free): Article about how big brother and big media can still put the Internet genie back in the bottle

Mozilla at COMDEX Las Vegas 2003

DeviantArt.com photoBreed Gen3, photoPaks

photoBreed releases its new and improved Generation 3: Caelum.

DeviantArt.com Art Carney Dies at 85

Actor Art Carney, who played Ed on the famous sitcom "The Honeymooners", died at 85.

DeviantArt.com FHS Winners!

Trick or Treat Fella's sweetYour creative minds are judged you see!!Fella Hallowe'en Style Contest winners....

WinXPcentral.com MSN Messenger 6.1.0202 : Update

DOJ ruling may not come until next year

U.S antitrust officials may wait until January to weigh in on Oracle's embattled bid to acquire PeopleSoft, and European regulators are likely to initiate a more in-depth review of the deal, an Oracle executive says.

Company towns: The cost of tax breaks

Keane hiring in Canada

Mozilla tinderbox Tool Now Uploading Generated Builds to FTP

mozCC Extension Displays Creative Commons Licensing Information

Scripting News Tomorrow morning Andrew is going to install the ne

Tomorrow morning Andrew is going to install the new servers at the co-location facility, and then I will move the Scripting News archive onto one of those servers, and pick up the work from there.

Scripting News A NY Times report on a study that shows that Lipit

A NY Times report on a study that shows that Lipitor, a drug which I take, is very effective in preventing atherosclerosis.

Scripting News Halley cleaned out her address book. I know what s

Halley cleaned out her address book. I know what she's talking about. Every time I dial someone in my phone book on my cell phone I trip across my uncle's name. I keep meaning to delete it, but I just can't seem to do it. Too fucking sad.

Scripting News Okay, this can't possibly work, but in theory the

Okay, this can't possibly work, but in theory the crumb trail at the top of the page is not a mock-up now. It's a real directory behind the string. It won't work. Pray hard. (Postscript: Didn't work the first time, worked the second.) I took the next step to see how the hotting-up of the trail works, and while my first guess was wildly wrong, they do actually hot-up, they just don't go anywhere. On this rebuild they should make sense, they still won't go anywhere, but now I see how the URLs for the directory structure have to work. See what's going on? A weblog page has a place in a hierarchy. So far the hierarchy that you can see is pretty boring. But there's more to wire up. And more after that.

Scripting News Paolo: "Stay tuned."Ack.

Paolo: "Stay tuned."Ack.

Scripting News Today's song: "We all want to change the world."

Today's song: "We all want to change the world."

Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked

morgue-ann writes "The $10.99 Dakota reusable digital camera announced in July was usefully hacked on November 6. First attempts to extract picture data took ...

Futuristic displays are coming into focus

Several three-dimensional display technologies are in the works, and organic light-emitting displays are poised to grow quickly, a research firm says.

Share "True Crime," do the time

A copyright bill backed by key senators would place file swappers in prison for up to three years if they have a copy of even one prerelease movie in their shared folders.

Xandros polishes its desktop Linux

OSNews Rates Fedora Core 1 Mild Disappointment

JigSaw writes "OSNews has reviewed the Fedora Core 1 Linux distro, but the author personally found lots of usability problems and bugs with the distro, making ...

BetaNews.Com VSOS (Verdada Save, Organize and Share) 1.0.1410.34543 Beta Released

Advogato SCO subpoens back

SCO file subpoenas against Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Stewart Cohen and John Horsley.

Broadband numbers reach all-time high

Cable and DSL providers report their most fruitful quarter ever, adding more than 2 million subscribers to their high-speed Internet services.

Japan Airlines to hook into Boeing's in-flight Net

Kazaa to launch P2P print ads

Kazaa parent Sharman Networks plans to unveil its first offline advertising campaign next week, in which it will exhort computer users to defend file swapping, and tell entertainment companies they can make money too.

A smoker's dilemma

Tax increases have created an enormous amount of resentment among smokers, who feel that they are being treated unfairly.

Execs aim to teach better security

Ten security executives form a group to clarify the role of chief security officers in companies and help businesses and the government secure their information systems.

Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King'

Dolemite_the_Wiz writes "Multiple News Sources report that Christopher Lee's Character Saruman will not appear in the LOTR: ROTK at all. From what I've been ...

Nokia confirms N-Gage hack, pursues pirates

The company confirms the cracking of anticopying protections in games for the combination cell phone-handheld gaming console and says it's going after online swappers.

Microsoft aims to simplify database management

The software giant introduces tools to ease database administration for both the current and forthcoming editions of its SQL Server database.

HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material

An anonymous reader writes "Hewlett-Packard and Princeton researchers say they've developed a hybrid material that could be used for super-compact electronic ...

East European gangs in online protection racket

Blackmail by DDoS

Audiocast archive

Open HTML container page.

When IT jobs disappear

i-Vantage CEO Amit Maheshwari says American information technology can survive the offshore outsourcing trend, but it must make hard choices.

Microsoft aims to simplify database management

The software giant introduces tools to ease database administration for both the current and forthcoming edition of its SQL Server database.

SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al

SirFozzie writes "SCO has just, within the past hour, announced that they have fired back against IBM's legal broadside, with one of their own, filing ...

Nation of Georgia Sliding Toward Chaos

The Telegraph has reported that the former Soviet republic of Georgia is getting dangerously close to a (second) civil war. President Eduard Shevardnadze (75 years old) has fled Tbilisi, the capital. Angry protesters have been gathering outside the Parliament building over the last few days. The opposition has accused Shevardnadze of rigging the November 2 elections. There are reports of armed men roaming the streets outside the capital, in conflict with security forces.

There is magic behind Penn State's Napster deal

Letters Only communists want something for nothing

Cisco lures businesses with new Wi-Fi gear

The company announces gear for large businesses based on the 802.11g standard, its latest effort to push corporate customers cautious of big wireless networking investments off the fence.

SCO, IBM battle heats up

Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the two companies, as both try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third parties for information.

Cable joins broadband price war

Aggressive promotions target phone company rivals as the industry mulls "tiered" services.

Onyx makes counterplay for Pivotal

The CRM software maker launches a bid to buy rival Pivotal for about $58 million in stock, countering an all-cash deal Pivotal agreed to last month.

HP expands recycling effort for inkjet cartridges

Starting next month, customers buying the company's inkjet printer cartridges will get an option of returning empty cartridges for recycling, using a postage-paid envelope.

OSNews Review: Fedora Core 1 is a Mild Disappointment

Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model

geoff313 writes " As previously mentioned here, Microsoft's new wave of FUD has begun to arrive. This time it is courtesy of Bradley Tipp, Microsoft's UK ...

WinXPcentral.com Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6, November 11

Perceptrons: Intro to Machine Learning

Imagine that you have apples and bananas. Your apples and bananas are in one pile, but you want them to be in separate piles. You don't want to pay some worker to separate the fruits, so you're building a machine to do it. This machine only has two pieces of information about them: their size and how yellow they are. What it needs is a function to discriminate between apples and bananas, so that it can sort them. One way to find a function to discriminate between two classes of things is to use a perceptron. A perceptron is a simple iterative algorithm for finding a discriminant function; in other words, it can find a function to separate our apples and bananas. Although they can only separate two classes of data, and have some other limitations, perceptrons are still an interesting introduction to learning techniques.

OSNews Zeta R1-RC1 Review at ZetaNews

OSNews The Many Shapes of Tomorrow's Personal Computers

OSNews Introducing MediaLinux -- a new Real-Time Linux Approach

Scripting News Bob Stepno has a great Art Carney story.

Bob Stepno has a great Art Carney story.

Scripting News Sean Gallagher is working on new designs, too.

Sean Gallagher is working on new designs, too.

HP loses two more execs

More executives head for the door at Hewlett-Packard, with the announcement that two Compaq alumni based in Europe are stepping down.

Gangs Extort Companies With DDoS Attacks

Pcol writes "The Financial Times reports that gangs based in Eastern Europe have been launching attacks on corporate networks costing the companies millions of ...

Screenshots section down for a bit [Update]

It seems we have some problems with the screenshot section at the moment.The issues though trivial need to be fixed and to prevent any data loss we have closed the section until we can fix the bug.In addition. during our upgrade from Xoops 2.0.3 to Xoops 2.0.4, some new bugs where introduced to the PHP and we will fix those during the next day or two.Thanks again for your patience.

WinXPcentral.com Five new flaws for Microsoft

IBM brings PPC 970 - aka G5 - to blades

Linux first

E-Pass allowed to re-open Microsoft, HP patent lawsuits

Sueing Visa, too

Nokia hopes push-to-talk phone moves fitness buffs

The mobile phone maker gears its first "walkie-talkie" phone to the fitness-conscious. It has a push-to-talk feature and camera and is due out by mid-2004.

Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?

Futurepower(R) asks: "Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP have crippled file systems. The file system cannot copy some of the files that are necessary to the ...

FoTW: Confine this cabbage to his Playstation

Flame of The Week

OSS reports - UK's budget watchdog shows how - not?

A familiar tale - cost overrun results in underspecced outcome

Cisco buys IP conferencing firm

A little Latitude

Freeserve boss doesn't have broadband at home

Opts for dial-up instead

Nokia hopes push-to-talk phone moves fitness buffs

The mobile phone maker gears its first "walkie-talkie" phone to the fitness-conscious. Its has a push-to-talk feature and camera, and is due out by mid-2004.

Liberty Alliance debuts new standard

The Sun-backed group releases the latest revision of specifications that allow companies to securely share identity and account information across several Web sites.

Scripting News Great pics in the comments on this post.

Great pics in the comments on this post.

Scripting News There's now a totally dysfunctional cookie crumb t

There's now a totally dysfunctional cookie crumb trail at the top of the page. Now I have to figure out how to get it working for real. Now if you're looking for the grand vision, this is the beginning. When you click on World, at some point, you will actually get the world.

GameSpy Sends DMCA-Based C&D To Security Researcher

chowbok writes "Luigi Auriemma has found several security holes GameSpy software over the past few months. He has reported them all to GameSpy but never got a ...

The Official Samba 3 HOWTO and Reference Guide

Matt Will writes "The Official Samba 3 How-To and Reference Guide was written by John H. Terpstra and Jelmer Rinze Vernooij in collaboration with the core ...

BetaNews.Com AEdiX Suite 2.1.3 Beta Released

ISO my perfect SOHO accounting for Linux

I've been doing a background search for a Linux accounting package for small business the past week or so. The trigger for the search was the recent news of AppGen's apparent demise. It hasn't been so much a problem of finding accounting apps for Linux as it has been finding one I've wanted to use. But I've found one now. It's very nice, it's called QHacc. The only drawback I've found is that it's for home use, not business. My search for a SOHO accounting package will have to continue. This is not a review of QHacc. It's an update on my search-to-date for my perfect SOHO accounting solution for Linux, coupled with an introduction to QHacc.

WIPO's back-off from open software meet - RMS responds

Letters What posse was that? asks FSF president Richard Stallman

IBM brings mobile data to the little guy

Developers taken care of as well

US Patent Office will review Eolas claim

Tim Berners-Lee plea has desired effect

Sun adopts security specifications

Sun Microsystems updates its Java System server software to comply with security and privacy guidelines set forth by the Sun-backed standards group Liberty Alliance.

Excel spreadsheets tap into grid power

Grid software maker Platform Computing releases a module that enables Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program to use the power of a grid computing system.

FCC rule could drive switch to wireless

A new rule that would allow people to keep their landline phone numbers if they move to wireless services could spur a sizable transition across U.S. households, a report says.

Not Just Eye Candy At Freedesktop.org

Jim Gettys writes "While Keith Packard's eyecandy at freedesktop.org, including drop shadows, translucent menus and windows with alpha channels is nice to look ...

WinCustomize.com Weather Objects update

WinCustomize.com MS Virtual PC 2004 Released to Manufacturing

BetaNews.Com Process Revolution 2004.1.312 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer 1.0 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com NOPAspServer 1.00 Beta 3 Released

Gateway reveals iPod clone

Reg Kit Watch Plus: BenQ launches 256MB micro MP3 player

Bring on the empty cartridges

HP hails green leadership

Sun knifes workstation price

Sun Blade 2500 in disguise

Broadband boosts NTL

Ups revs, narrows losses

FCC rule could drive switch to wireless

A new rule that would allow people to keep their landline phone numbers if they move to wireless services could spur a sizeable transition across U.S. households.

Scripting News Wired: "A prestigious music school is encouraging

Wired: "A prestigious music school is encouraging musicians to swap audio and video clips of course material over peer-to-peer networks. File sharing is a cost-effective way to distribute the rich musical knowledge of the school, according to David Kusek, the school's associate vice president."

USPTO To Reexamine Eolas, SBC Patents

theodp writes "The USPTO Director has ordered reexaminations of the infamous Eolas Distributed Hypermedia Method (discussed earlier(1) on Slashdot) and SBC ...

snowchyld snowchyld.org Site Redesign

aaaaaaaand another redesign, hope ya like.. its based on ldi (another site i work on) ho hum thanks to gary for niftyness oh yes o_O_o...

NeoWin.net DVD X Maker 2.0.1

One, two, three, four MS patches at our door

Monthly fix number two

Mesh Matrix64 3200+ Extreme

Review A cracking machine?

Nokia pledges to pursue N-Gage crack creators

DeCSS all over again

Scripting News Jon Udell wondered yesterday if Microsoft really m

Jon Udell wondered yesterday if Microsoft really means to push the Web into a corner, pour gasoline on it, and light a match. This happens over and over. People can't believe it but Microsoft really didn't want the Web.

China Outlines Moon Project Goals

Kulic writes "SpaceDaily.com is reporting that China has announced 4 scientific goals for their Moon project. There are three general goals - orbiting the ...

Nokia closing in on mobile phone TVs, seeks more developers

Nokia, the world's largest mobile telephone maker, is getting awfully close to bringing a handheld, Internet-connected television to the consumer market. The Finland-based megacorporation has launched a new category of handheld product -- called mobile media devices -- which feature Nokia's largest, most colorful display: a 640x320 touch-sensitive screen that renders as many as 65,536 colors. Nokia says these new devices, to hit the market in Q2 of 2004, offer plenty of new opportunity for Symbian, Java, and C++ developers and is now making SDKs available for free download.

Microsoft's EU anti-trust hearing begins

Tussle over interoperability, Media Player

Define broadband please - CA

Trouble not the weary punters

Scripting News BBC: "TV and film star Art Carney, an Oscar winner

BBC: "TV and film star Art Carney, an Oscar winner for his part in the 1974 film Harry and Tonto, has died aged 85."

Scripting News Back in the 80s Stewart Alsop was launching a new

Back in the 80s Stewart Alsop was launching a new conference to compete with Esther Dyson's. Stewart was fiercely competitive. Everything about his conference was a response to Esther. He upped her, zigged where she zagged, in every way compared his show to hers. I found it fascinating because there clearly was room for a new conference, but I was good friends with both, and brainstormed with Stewart, seeing it as playfulness, not meanness. Now the cool thing about the competition was that they went to each others' conference, and seemed to genuinely be having a good time. I guess there's nothing like going to a conference that's a lot like your own, where you don't have to work. I mention this because now I have graduated to being a conference-giver myself. With BloggerCon version 1.0 under my belt I now go to conferences with a new eye, looking for ideas that I can use or adapt in my next show. It's in my blood, changes the way I think. And I remember how well both Stewart and Esther competed, how they made me, a person who went to both their conferences, feel. Neither ever tried to get us not to go to the other. Probably the most important symbol of this was that both were welcome at the other's conference. Bravo.

Scripting News BTW, Esther came to BloggerCon. I saw that as a ge

BTW, Esther came to BloggerCon. I saw that as a gesture of support and it was much appreciated.

Scripting News Wired: "A prestigious music school is encouraging

Wired: "A prestigious music school is encouraging musicians to swap audio and video clips of course material over peer-to-peer networks. File sharing is a cost-effective way to distribute the rich musical knowledge of the school, according to David Kusek, the school's associate vice president."

Scripting News Scott Rosenberg nails it. Three-pane aggregators s

Scott Rosenberg nails it. Three-pane aggregators save you zero time, unless the issue is that your net connection is too slow to display HTML pages live. Otherwise you might as well read the news in your browser. He's correct that server-side aggregators have certain advantages (we offer one to our users at Harvard), but reverse chronologic updates are a huge efficiency. Otherwise you have to do the hunting for new bits. Let the computer do it for you, I say.

Scripting News Got a couple of emails overnight saying that the n

Got a couple of emails overnight saying that the new picture is either too big, or not work-safe. I want to acknowledge that, because there must be other people thinking that but not saying it. I appreciate that people are being so respectful. Here's what I think. Things are going to change here. It's gotten too static. I did something bold and unmistakably different from the past to set expectations. Look at it this way. Scripting News first popped up when there were no other weblogs. It was like a little outpost on the prairie, nothing but Big Sky and you could see light between the slats in the roof. No one would have complained about it being work-safe back then because (almost) no one was reading it. Now the prairie is a bustling metropolis, and my little house is on a block with shopping centers, schools, porn shops, you name it. Who cares about one little house with a leaky roof. I want to build a new city!

Scripting News Next thing on my to-do list -- unbreak the main RS

Next thing on my to-do list -- unbreak the main RSS feed. Done.

Cisco to gain Latitude for $80 million

Networking giant Cisco Systems says it will acquire the maker of software for Web-based conferencing sometime in the second quarter of fiscal 2004.

Briefly: Portal providers create library

Portal software makers Plumtree Software, Documentum, BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems announce their online library of open-source portal applications.

E-Voting Glitch: 19,000 Voters, 144,000 Votes

nick_davison writes "The Indianapolis Star is reporting the latest case of 'interesting' E-voting results. Tuesday's Boone County election, using MicroVote ...

Nokia closing in on mobile phone TVs

Nokia, the world's largest mobile telephone maker, is getting awfully close to bringing a handheld, Internet-connected television to the consumer market. The Finland-based megacorporation has launched a new category of handheld product -- called mobile media devices -- which feature Nokia's largest, most colorful display: a 640x320 touch-sensitive screen that renders as many as 65,536 colors. Nokia says these new devices, to hit the market in Q2 of 2004, offer plenty of new opportunity for Symbian, Java, and C++ developers and is now making SDKs available for free download.

Canadian '419er' released without charge

Reverse sting comes unstuck

AMD to unveil Opteron 148, 248, 848 next week?

Faster clocks, faster SDRAM support

BT clashes with MPs in broadband inquiry

All heat, little substance

A Comdex mea culpa

Comdex general manager Eric Faurot explains how the once-acclaimed trade show fell into a funk.

Israeli Super Drone Stolen

kristy_christie writes "Globes Online reports that Steadicopter's prototype pilotless helicopter was stolen a few days after the completion of its test program ...

Nokia N-Gage cracked

Play consoles games on other phones

Tax haven for German ICT firms to disappear

Back to Bermuda, then

The Hubble Space Telescope and beyond

The Hubble Space Telescope can be considered one of the most important science instruments created so far. Its service record is beyond impressive, but as it approaches its 14th anniversary of service it is becoming clear that new instruments are needed to complement or replace the now aging Hubble. Instruments that will include all technological advancements in optics and electronics that we have developed since the Hubble launch in 1990. Hubble will serve for at least 10 more years, but there is already the project underway that is aimed to create a new instrument that will help the scientists to observe in even more detail: The James Webb Space Telescope.

Post Office Gets Pressured to Pry

Still wary of the anthrax attacks through the mail, Washington bureaucrats push the Postal Service to trace every piece of mail. Citing privacy concerns, the post office is resisting. But for how long? By Ryan Singel.

ITunes Undermines Social Security

Although perusing other folks' digital music libraries using iTunes can broaden musical horizons, there can be drawbacks. Like being judged for your taste in music. By Leander Kahney.

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson

The Berklee College of Music is encouraging anyone to grab and trade clips of the school's music lessons on P2P networks. The school also wants to stimulate debate about the future of the music industry in the digital world. By Katie Dean.

E-Mail From the Great Beyond

Treading where others have failed, mylastemail.com promises to let its customers deliver their last words to their survivors. By Amit Asaravala.

E-Vote Firm's Bill Comes Due

Caught installing uncertified software on its electronic voting systems in one California county, Diebold Election Systems must now pay for a statewide audit of all its machines. Kim Zetter reports from Sacramento.

Go Mobile and Keep Your Number

The Federal Communications Commission released rules Monday that will allow landline customers to keep their phone numbers if they decide to switch to cell phone service. The new rules take effect Nov. 24 in the largest metropolitan areas.

Fresh Fixes for Microsoft Flaws

A new batch of patches from the software giant closes holes that affect Windows, Internet Explorer and Office products. The updates fix problems that could allow crackers to exploit users' PCs.

Do-Not-Call Called to Court

The government pleads its case for a national do-not-call list, telling an appeals court that the privacy of Americans is paramount. Telemarketers argue that the list violates their right to talk ... and talk ... and talk.

Hackers: We Cracked N-Gage Code

Claims that the new mobile gaming device's 'security has been cracked like an egg' surface on the Web, raising the possibility that Nokia's games could be played on cell phones from other manufacturers.

License Could Ease Webcaster Woes

The music industry unveils a one-stop global licensing plan designed to eliminate the red tape that bedevils online radio broadcasters. The move could boost legal Web music services.

The Moral Implications of GMOs

A two-day conference on genetically modified organisms ends at the Vatican, with both supporters and critics hoping they've convinced the Catholic hierarchy to support their views.

Offshore IT services: east or west

Industry split into two rival camps

NeoWin.net AIDA32 3.86.2 (Preview Version)

NeoWin.net Driver Cleaner 2.6 Released

NeoWin.net Visual Basic .NET Resource Kit

NeoWin.net Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer 1.0 Beta

Bombardier's Hot Wheel

Anonymous Chris writes "Following the release of the Segway, Bombardier (the makers of such things as Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles) announce their prototype ...

Microsoft's anti-open source propaganda blitz

Techworld reported yesterday that "Microsoft is preparing a major PR assault over Windows' perceived security failings in which it will criticise Linux for taking too long to fix bugs." After I stopped laughing, I started thinking about what a great opportunity this is for open source software.

World Wide Web Consortium QA Specification Guidelines Are a W3C Candidate Recommendation

2003-11-10: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of QA Framework: Specification Guidelines to Candidate Recommendation. A set of organizing guidelines and verifiable checkpoints, the document is written to help W3C Working Groups write technical reports. It provides for conformance requirements and definitions, and facilitates the generation of test materials. Comments are welcome through 10 May 2004. Learn more about Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C. (News archive)

Queer lit for the gay teen

More and more young-adult novels are featuring well-adjusted characters who are "out" -- and aren't tortured about it.

Kerry's last hurrah?

On the road with Sen. John Kerry in must-win New Hampshire, as he fires his campaign manager, punches up his stump speech, and slashes harder at Howard Dean. But he's still trailing badly, and time is running out.

Don't try to take him to a disco

In a new greatest-hits time capsule, Michigan's monumentally unhip Bob Seger stays true to his vision of a now-extinct America -- and makes you nostalgic for nostalgia.

WayLay

Is it time to bring back the draft?

The Fix

The Rolling Stones get what they want, Robert Downey Jr. gets engaged? And will Michael Jackson have more children than his father did? Plus: Kylie Minogue says there's too much sex!

The great debate, reloaded

Has the Iraq war made Americans safer? Nine months after their first encounter, Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner cross swords once more.

Lost in translation

We were two lonely souls who gave each other brief happiness. Now he's freaked and is ignoring me.

Where is the real Matrix?

Neural implant devices are now a reality. But misguided federal policies are keeping them from the people who need them.

Joe Conason's Journal

The White House decision to nab money destined for tortured POWs shows yet more evidence of its tender concern for enlisted Americans.

OSNews Xandros Announces Desktop 2.0 Linux OS

Investors snub Friendster in patent grab

Alarmed by a potential expansion by Friendster on their turf, two competitors who are also investors in Friendster team to buy a patent they call key to the social networking market.

ShellFront new BGColors

ShellFront popup2 2.1.4

BetaNews.Com Ute 1.01 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Quintessential Player 4.11 Released

Cablevision adds VoIP to broadband menu

The cable provider is offering Net phone service to its broadband customers, giving it one of the largest potential markets for commercial voice over Internet protocol service in the United States.

Patent office to re-examine Eolas patent

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office agrees to re-examine the Eolas patent for a browser plug-in, a development likely to bring cheer to Microsoft and software patent foes alike.

Sun to adopt security specifications

Sun Microsystems plans to update its Java System server software to comply with security and privacy guidelines set forth by the Sun-backed standards group Liberty Alliance.

XCOR Launch Application Complete

Kulic writes "SpaceDaily.com is reporting that XCOR, a competitor for the X-Prize has had their launch application deemed 'sufficiently complete' by the ...

BetaNews.Com Server Nanny 1.0 Beta 3 Released

Scripting News The last cactus snapshot. No doubt, everything is

The last cactus snapshot. No doubt, everything is broken. The blogroll is missing. But some stuff appears to work. I can update. The flow is much simpler. And my editorial system is faster and easier (so it can get slower and more complex). What did we used to say? Still diggin.

Scripting News BTW, I spoke with Jon Udell this evening to review

BTW, I spoke with Jon Udell this evening to review the plan. He and I have been talking about this stuff for years. I'll be turning on more features tomorrow and Thursday and of course write much more. It's been a long day, and all kidding aside, everything seems to work better than I could have hoped for given how much has changed. Where are we heading? The tree of knowledge. What's our technique? Bootstrapping. Are we building The Semantic Web? No. But we are building tools for people to share and preserve what they know. As Engelbart says, augmenting human intelligence.

W3C revises image format

A second edition of the PNG format, a royalty free alternative to the GIF image-compression format, gains the World Wide Web Consortium's approval, and that of two other standards groups.

IBM Subpoenas SCO Investors, Analysts

Bigfishbowl writes "Forbes has an interesting article about IBM sending subpoenas to large SCO investors in an effort to compel discovery. An IBM spokesman ...

ShellFront popup2 and shortcut2 updates

SHELL EXTENSION CITY POWER MENU (free): Adds always on top, minimize to tray, priority, and transparency sub menus to all top level system menus

SHELL EXTENSION CITY BUBBLE (free): Access another users resources without logging off and logging on as that other user in Windows

SHELL EXTENSION CITY UNIQUE DISPLAY (free): Allows each XP user to have their own desktop monitor resolution

SHELL EXTENSION CITY PLACES THAT VIRUSES AND TROJANS HIDE ON START UP (free): Describes and explores the various Windows hiding places for start-up viri

Steady Growth of Mozdev Group Inc.

Computers at Campaign HQ of US Presidential Hopeful Wesley Clark Run Mozilla

Linux powers throw weight behind desktop version

Red Hat, IBM and an open-source consortium are each beginning serious work to advance Linux for use on desktop computers, possibly making the OS a more serious threat to Microsoft.

Pioneer, Iomega launch DVD burners

Aiming to tap the growing popularity of DVD writers, Pioneer designs its device to store data equally quickly in rival DVD formats, while Iomega simplifies recording from camcorder or VCR.

Altnet says P2P spies violate patent rights

The company, which legally distributes files through Kazaa and other peer-to-peer services, has sent legal threats to nine companies that monitor or meddle with file-trading networks.

Batteries Continue To Suck

pvt_medic writes "As technology continues to grow, and we see more and more of a shift to portable electronic devices in our daily life, we are still ...

WinXPcentral.com Eudora users warned over 'reply to all' trick

Dell snuggles in with Microsoft's MOM

HP deflates OpenManage extension

Public schools: Why Johnny can't blog

Even as teachers get pink slips, governments and companies throw money at classroom technology without clear evidence that computers are superior to traditional education methods.

Commentary: Four key Web services decisions

Architectures and standards for securing Web services will evolve rapidly, but one consistent theme in the developing standards is the need to support a wide variety of scenarios.

WinXPcentral.com Microsoft Warns of Latest Software Holes

McJob

McDonalds appears to be a little pissed at the latest Merriam-Webster dictionary entry: McJob "low-paying and dead-end work"

Did hackers expose N-Gage games?

Mobile phone giant Nokia is investigating whether someone managed to disable security that protects its N-Gage cell phone games.

Toshiba has bigger plans for small drives

The company plans to double production of its 1.8-inch hard drives, to 600,000 units per month by March 2004.

Briefly: IM software makers talk compliance

Instant messaging software provider Jabber teams up with IM management software maker Akonix Systems to help Jabber users comply with new regulations.

Security execs form advisory group

Chief security officers from nine companies and one government agency are set to launch a council to advise the industry on how to better protect information systems.

Motorola+Qtopia=Linux Smart Phone

lems1 writes "Start compiling the excuses you will tell your boss to upgrade your cell phone now. Motorola has opted to use Trolltech's Qtopia to power up the ...

BetaNews.Com Championship Spades Pro for Mac OS X Beta Released

HP pulls together Windows, Linux, Unix and a lot more

The adaptive enterprise is an umbrella

IM software makers talk compliance

Security execs form advisory group

Chief security officers from nine companies and one government agency are set to launch a council to advise industry on protecting their information systems better.

Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test

muddy_mudskipper writes "From John Young's cryptome.org website, is a newly posted pdf copy of the "Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test" as compiled by the ...

Home Directory In CVS

shamir_k writes "Joey Hess has come up with an innovative solution to a problem we have all faced. He's put his whole home directory in CVS. Not only can he ...

DeviantArt.com K-Meleon 0.8 Released

After months of development without an "official" release a new version of K-Meleon, a browser based on the Mozilla core, has finally hit the streets.

DeviantArt.com Stardock Releases BootSkin Alpha 2A

BootSkin is a program that safely changes the boot screen of Windows 2000 and Windows XP with one of your creation or made by others.

DeviantArt.com ObjectDock 1.0 Release Candidate Released

ObjectDock is a freeware program launcher/task manager that does its job with style. The final release before the official 1.0 release is now available.

DeviantArt.com BSPlayer v1.00 (RC1) Released

BSPlayer is a Windows player that can play all the files you have a codec for (mpeg, avi, divx, wmv/asf, mp3, ogg, and the list goes on). It has a playlist, is skinnable and highly configurable. The player engine has been rewrriten from scratch for this version to be more stable, extensible, and able to add new features through plugins.

DeviantArt.com Pyriel's Music Hits SoundClick Charts

Your local Py-guy has made the independent music charts of Soundclick.com with his band, The Huey P's. A fellow deviant making music music for the guitar rocking masses? Read On!

WinXPcentral.com Microsoft Triples for XP Gamers.

Merriam-Webster explains disappearing McJob

And today, Ronald is wearing a ... sad face

OSNews From Linux to FreeBSD: A FreeBSD Review

With copiers, can HP print unit duplicate its success?

Hewlett-Packard will use Comdex to discuss new moves to ensure that its printer division can continue to thrive. A push into copiers has been a big part of the strategy.

What Critics of the Critics of the FCC Rule Miss

Asprin writes "Businessweek has an editorial up which argues that the FCC's HDTV broadcast flag rule is a good thing, and that everyone is just overreacting. ...

OSNews Screenshots from freedesktop.org's New X Server

OSNews Desktop Linux Consortium Conference debuts

OSNews Yellow Dog Linux, Gentoo Linux Get Preliminary G5 Support

OSNews Panther: One Week Later

OSNews From Linux to OS X

OSNews The Open Code Market

OSNews VectorLinux 4.0 Download Edition Review

Mirriam-Webster explains disappearing McJob

And today, Ronald is wearing a ... sad face

WorldPay recovers from massive attack

Analysis Three Days of the CyberDoS

Penn State trustee and RIAA lawyer denies conflict of interests

Here's to you, Mr. Robinson

Microsoft releases Windows, Office fixes

The software giant releases three security updates for Windows and one for Office, leaving many federal system administrators with no choice but to work on a U.S. holiday.

SpaceDev Auctioning Microsatellite Mission On Ebay

physicsnerd writes "SpaceDev has announced that they are auctioning a Microsatellite Mission on Ebay. From the SpaceDev Press Release: "Most earth orbiting ...

BetaNews.Com ObjectDock 1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

BetaNews.Com renattach 1.2.0 RC2 Released

BetaNews.Com AIDA32 3.86.2 Preview Released

Alternate Authentication

I know there are some that have been waiting for this (Kimmo). I finally have found some time to get it done. You can now authenticate your user database via Active Directory or LDAP. There are a few changes needed to the core (until the next revision - see readme). I have tested it at my work with Active Directory and it is working just fine. I tried to design it so that other auth methods could be added easily. If anyone wants to submit code, please let me know.I would appreciate it if some

Microsoft releases Windows, Office fixes

The software giant releases three security updates for Windows and one for Office, leaving many federal system admins with no choice but to work on a U.S. holiday.

Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?

Gartner's information security and risk research director dismisses cyberterrorism as a "theory."

Singapore Airlines taxis for Wi-Fi takeoff

The airline has signed up to offer Connexion by Boeing's wireless Internet service on some of its long-haul flights next year.

Wild about wireless

Intel's Sean Maloney says there's too much hype--but still, broadband wireless is going to change everything.

OSNews Fiasco 1.1 Microkernel Released

OSNews User Linux: Yet Another Rendition of Linux

OSNews ETH Win Aos Oberon System Updated

OSNews Roadshow article - A new TCP/IP stack for AmigaOS

OSNews Build a grid application with Python, Part 2: Communication

'Reversible' Computers More Energy Efficient

James Clark writes "As Congress continues work on a federal energy bill, a group of University of Florida researchers is working to implement a radical idea ...

Alternate Authentication

I know there are some that have been waiting for this. I finally have found some time to get it done. You can now authenticate your user database via Active Directory or LDAP. There are a few changes needed to the core (until the next revision - see readme). I have tested it at my work with Active Directory and it is working just fine. I tried to design it so that other auth methods could be added easily. If anyone wants to submit code, please let me know.I would appreciate it if some users

Desktop Linux Consortium Conference debuts

In years to come, I may be able to say I was there at the birth of a new trade show. This week's premiere Desktop Linux Consortium Conference could someday become another LinuxWorld. Of course today it's a babe in diapers, but given the ready access attendees had to important players in the Linux desktop world, this conference has huge growth potential.

Scripting News Washington Post: "George Soros, one of the world's

Washington Post: "George Soros, one of the world's richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: defeating President Bush."

Scripting News Ready or not, it's time to start flipping switches

Ready or not, it's time to start flipping switches in the transition of Scripting News from weblog to directory for the World Wide Web. Some changes will be visible to the public, others will only be visible to me. By this time tomorrow the cactus will be gone. Everything will change, except one thing will remain constant. It's all still the unedited voice of a person. But it will be modular, and it will be possible for my voice to be mixed with others, in new ways.

Scripting News Feeling mellow today, I picked up the phone and ca

Feeling mellow today, I picked up the phone and called Mark Pilgrim, and said we should work together. There's a story that's been circulating, it first appeared in a paper given by Matthew Rothenberg, a NYU professor, about standards evolution in the weblog world, and was picked up by Clay Shirky (who's also teaching at NYU these days). Mark and I both figure heavily in the story. One of the many lessons of the Rothenberg piece is that people want us to work together. I think it's a good idea. Mark is a smart man, and we have done some great collaboration in the past. When we both get on the same page, mountains move.

Scripting News Greenspun in Mexico City.

Greenspun in Mexico City.

Dell integrates with Microsoft management tools

The hardware maker says its server management tools, which integrate with the software giant's products, will help simplify information management operations and lower maintenance costs.

HP pushes IT management strategy

As part of its "adaptive enterprise" approach, Hewlett-Packard announces new services and software for managing information technology operations.

Apple TV ad banned in U.K.

British TV regulators say Apple Computer's claim that the Power Mac G5 is the "world's fastest personal computer" is not fully supported.

Former SCO exec samples Linux again

Ransom Love, the former chief executive of Linux archenemy SCO Group, jumps back into the Linux business by joining the board of a start-up called Progeny.

Security FUD On Linux

bobmatnyc writes "InfoWorld reports that Microsoft is planning an "security assault on Linux" by hyping results of a commissioned study pointing to the number ...

Microsoft in the Mirror

Like any large enterprise, Microsoft is an aggregate, not a monolith. This is true not only of the company as a massive business entity made up of various ...

NeoWin.net Opera's DC++ (oDC++) 5.212

NeoWin.net HyperSnap-DX 5.40.00

NeoWin.net Macromedia Flash MX 7.0.1 Update

BetaNews.Com AWPunk Steam 1.4.0 Beta 1 Released

Linux on the desktop - the man from Armonk, he say yes!

If the lack of IBM Global Services' approval was troubling you, you're saved...

Briefly: Macromedia unveils face-lift for Flash

Macromedia releases an update for the latest version of its Flash development and design application that includes stability and performance tweaks and expanded documentation.

Gateway aims at homes for the holidays

The company throws open the doors on its renovated retail stores and launches an array of digital gadgets and home electronics.

Macromedia unveils face-lift for Flash

Shareholders approve Microsoft stock plan

They give their endorsement to the software giant's plan to start awarding restricted stock to employees instead of granting stock options.

Nokia N-Gage Cracked

According to Mr. Belvedere over at CD Freaks, the Nokia N-Gage has been cracked. From the article: "The games that were designed for the N-Gage will of course ...

WinCustomize.com ObjectDock 1.0 Release Candidate

NeoWin.net ObjectDock 1.0 RC

Staples to promote Comcast broadband

Marking a new partnership between ISPs and retailers, Staples will sell Comcast high-speed Internet service at its stores nationwide.

Linux company expands software tools

TimeSys, a company that specializes in Linux for "embedded" computing devices such as DVD players, says its programming tools can be used with any version of the open-source OS.

Online advertising continues revival

Research shows the online advertising sector growing in the first half of 2003, with ads linked to keyword searches leading the expansion.

Scripting News Like it or not, it's time to start flipping switch

Like it or not, it's time to start flipping switches in the transition of Scripting News from weblog to directory for the World Wide Web. Some changes will be visible to the public, others will only be visible to me. By this time tomorrow the cactus will be gone. Everything will change, except one thing will remain constant. It's all still the unedited voice of a person. But it will be modular, and it will be possible for my voice to be mixed with others, in new ways.

Scripting News Feeling mellow today, I picked up the phone and ca

Feeling mellow today, I picked up the phone and called Mark Pilgrim, and said we should work together. There's a story that's been circulating, it first appeared in a paper given by Matthew Rothenberg, a NYU professor, about standards evolution in the weblog world, and was picked up by Clay Shirky (who's also teaching at NYU these days). Mark and I both figure heavily in the story. One of the many lessons of the Rothenberg piece is that people want us to work together. I think it's a good idea. Mark is a smart man, and we have done some great collaboration in the past. When we both get on the same page, mountains move.

Building a Budget Storage Server

An anonymous reader noted an article running over at Firingsquad talking about building a budget storage server. Talks about cooling, power, RAID, ...

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NeoWin.net K-Meleon 0.8, Gecko (Mozilla) browser

NeoWin.net Zoom Player Pro 3.20 RC 3

NeoWin.net BSPlayer 1.00 RC1 Build 800

e107v0.603 / Revision #6

Here's revision number 6 for your upgrading pleasure. This one's a bit different, as it needs a very small alteration to your database structure. Here's the instructions ...Download and unpack the revision zipUpload the files to your server, overwriting the files you have there nowGo to your admin area, you'll be informed that a db update is availableClick on the button to make the necessary alterations to your databaseNow before you all start panicking, all the update does is alter the headlines table, it wont affect any of your content, and won't even disturb whats contained in the headlines table,

First Internet digital film library debuts

The CinePaint Digital Film Library, launched on Halloween, has placed the first digital intermediates on the Internet. These frames are sequences from the 1903 George Méliès film, Tom Thumb et Dum Dum. Méliès is an important pioneer in motion picture history, credited with creating the genre of science fiction in 1902 with his famous film, A Trip to the Moon.

Oracle chokes on PeopleSoft's poison pill

Promised rebates may force Oracle to abandon bid

Net pedants quell Matrix Revolutions

23 shocking errors and rising

Scripting News I just got a tip that George Soros has promised $5

I just got a tip that George Soros has promised $5 million to MoveOn.Org as a matching grant. In other words, MoveOn has to raise $5 million from members to get the Soros money.

Scripting News Like it or not, it's time to start flipping switch

Like it or not, it's time to start flipping switches in the transition of Scripting News from weblog to directory for the World Wide Web. Some changes will be visible to the public, others will only be visible to me. By this time tomorrow the cactus will be gone. Everything will change, except one thing will remain constant. It's all still the unedited voice of a person. But it will be modular, and it will be possible for my voice to be mixed with voices of other people, in new ways.

Scripting News I've been friends with Sylvia for almost 20 years,

I've been friends with Sylvia for almost 20 years, going back to the early days of the Macintosh. She worked at a company started by Will Hearst called Software Ventures. They did a program called Microphone, the early leader in the Mac communications market, before the Internet caught on, when lots of people were dialing into Compuserve and MCI via modems. Anyway, Sylvia once said something to me that I'll file under Homilies, that made a huge difference a long time ago, but it has special relevance today. She said "I only go to parties my friends are welcome at." It's one of those mottos that makes sense from every angle, and it's a beautiful way to manage your personal relationships. Don't sweat it. If you're having a party, everyone is welcome. It's bad karma to try to split up friends. (It turns out it's just as bad to let yourself be split. You end up losing friends that way.)

Online advertising continues revival

Research shows the online advertising sector growing in the first half of 2003, with ads linked to keyword searches demonstrating leading the expansion.

Acer unveils rack-mountable server

The computer maker launches a slender server specifically designed for businesses such as Internet and application service providers.

Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier

QuePasaCalabaza writes "The FCC has approved a bill 5-0 that allows consumers to take their land line phone numbers and carry them over to thier wireless ...

Satellite TV From a Moving Car

An anonymous reader sent us an article about an in-car digital satellite television system. that can stay trained on the satellite even while moving. Of ...

WinCustomize.com Calling all artists!!!

Eudora users warned over 'reply to all' trick

Press Send for a buffer flow flaw

Belkin disables router spamming feature

Gracious climb down

Retailers join zero-profit DRM 'gold rush'

MP3 fever

Microsoft puts new patch policy into gear

As the software giant swings to monthly releases of software patches, security professionals say the effect is likely to be neutral--and may actually make some things harder.

Scripting News I've been friends with Sylvia for almost 20 years,

I've been friends with Sylvia for almost 20 years, going back to the early days of the Macintosh. She worked at a company started by Will Hearst called Software Ventures. They did a program called Microphone, the early leader in the Mac communications market, before the Internet caught on, when lots of people were dialing into Compuserve and MCI via modems. Anyway, Sylvia once said something to me that I'll file under Homilies, that made a huge difference a long time ago, but it has special relevance today. She said "I only go to parties my friends are welcome at." It's one of those mottos that makes sense from every angle, and it's a beautiful way to manage your personal relationships. Don't sweat it. If you're having a party, everyone is welcome. Everyone. It's bad karma to try to split up friends. (It turns out it's just as bad to let yourself be split. You end up losing friends that way.)

Perens: Unite behind Debian, UserLinux

An anonymous readers writes "Infoworld is running a report on the Desktop Linux Conference, at which Bruce Perens suggested that in order to get Linux to the ...

BetaNews.Com MovieTrack 3.2b Build 2 Released

BetaNews.Com 3wGet 1.31 Beta Build 117 Released

Scripting News Announcing a Scripting News dinner, on Tuesday Nov

Announcing a Scripting News dinner, on Tuesday November 25, at the King Tsin restaurant in Berkeley, 7PM. Thanks to Sylvia Paull, doyenne of Bay Area geeks, for coordinating. This will be the first Scripting News event in the East Bay.

Scripting News Joshua Marshall doesn't, in his gut, believe that

Joshua Marshall doesn't, in his gut, believe that Dean has it sewn up. Meanwhile Kerry fires his campaign manager, and a new poll shows that Joe Lieberman leads in Ohio.

Memory Holes and the Internet

blamanj writes "As reporters and researchers depend more and more heavily on the Internet as a research tool, manipulation of the net becomes a serious ...

Google Expanding To IRC?

AnimeFreak writes "In this The Register article, Google apparently has been involved in a little bit of activity in various IRC channels. According to Google, ...

WinXPcentral.com Longhorn Transformation Pack 4.0

WinXPcentral.com Belkin Router's Get Hijacked.

WinXPcentral.com Windows patch policy under fire... again.

WinXPcentral.com Behind the 'Wallop' Firewall

WinXPcentral.com Google tests desktop search

WinXPcentral.com Researcher warns Wi-Fi users of bad passwords

WinXPcentral.com MusicMatch Jukebox for Windows 8.10.2020

WinXPcentral.com AntiVir Personal Edition 6.22.05.05

BetaNews.Com Zoom Player Pro 3.20 Release Candidate 3 Released

BetaNews.Com Zoom Player Standard 3.20 Release Candidate 3 Released

Mission impossible? Blunkett's big biometric ID adventure

Why it can't, won't work

Revealed: US console installed base figures

PS2 almost twice its rivals combined

Scripting News Joshua Marshall doesn't, in his gut, believe that

Joshua Marshall doesn't, in his gut, believe that Dean has it sewn up. Meanwhile Kerry fires his campaign manager, and polls show that even Joe Lieberman leads somewhere, actually a big state, Ohio.

Scripting News A people hire A people, B people hire C people. Al

A people hire A people, B people hire C people. Always strive for the most excellence. Never be scared to work with people who are smarter than you. Never be scared to let others be smarter than you. (Filed under Dave/Homilies/Mottos.)

Sony Music Testing New Copy Protection

RandyOo writes "According to this Reuters article, Sony Music is about to start testing a new type of 'copy protection' in Germany. It looks like they'll be ...

snowchyld Rob Levin and freenode

Rob Levin runs freenode, and has some pretty nifty channel on it #joiito #SharpE...

IT job strategies for the near future

A Federal Reserve report released this week compares the tech crash to the aerospace jobs disaster in the late '80s and early '90s, citing the loss of 1 in 3 technology jobs in regions such as Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

Sony preps updated CD copy protection trial

Carrot as well as stick this time

AMD names VIP first UK Associate Distributor

Joins the elite

Universities: A marriage of convenience

Technology alliances are proliferating in higher education, where companies sponsor research that advances their agendas, and concerns over conflicts of interest give way to pragmatism.

Steal this book online

Copyright attorney Doug Isenberg examines whether Amazon.com inadvertently opened a digital Pandora's box.

Corporate classrooms

Is tech industry a savior or danger to education?

Sony unveils 'video iPod'

Reg Kit Watch Plus: Creative does the Rhomba

Now we are one. Freeview claims 2M couch potatoes

So why are Brits the fattest people in Europe?

Qwest to sell VoiP to Harry Homeowner

Give me a V! Give me a little o!

Watchdog bans Apple Power Mac G5 ads

Misleading claims

NeoWin.net Dacris NetXP 2.0 Service Pack 1

BetaNews.Com Virtual PC 2004 Released to Manufacturing

Tech IPOs Out of Deep Freeze

After a long dry spell, tech companies are once again raising cash through initial stock offerings. In contrast to the mayhem of the dot-com boom, however, today's newcomers tend to be profitable or close to it. By Joanna Glasner.

Yet Another Rendition of Linux

Open-source pioneer Bruce Perens announces a new effort to make a free Linux version to rival the retreating Red Hat. Mark Baard reports from Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

Memories in the Corner of My Eye

A new gadget incorporated into regular glasses aims to help you remember to bring home the steaks and the agenda for your 3 o'clock meeting -- but lose the glasses and you're on your own. By Louise Knapp.

Gore to Bush: Rescind Patriot Act

Former Vice President Al Gore accuses the Bush administration of using the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to justify a major assault on civil liberties of all Americans. Gore calls for a repeal of the Patriot Act and end to 'big brother'-style government.

Porn Mag Sales Going Limp

With Internet porn relatively cheap and readily accessible, some of the venerable rags are feeling the pinch. Screw magazine recently folded, and yesterday's smut kings are scrambing to reinvent themselves.

Sony's User-Friendly Copy Block

Sony's new CD technology would prevent copying songs to file-sharing sites -- the music industry's worst nightmare -- while still letting customers make copies for their own use.

Wi-Fi chipmakers of the World unite!

Choose me, Cisco, please, please, please

BT flogs bluephones to the masses

Hello Hoi, hello Polloi

Intel to take P4, P4EE to 3.4GHz next quarter - report

More Prescott-shaped holes to plug?

Move your landline number to a mobile

FCC OKs switch

MS to carpet bomb channel with phones?

Wall to wall Windows

China doubles DIY 3G bounty

TD-SCDMA needs boost - report

Microsoft's Next Virtual PC Will Run Linux

Fallen Kell writes "Contrary to previous reports, eWeek is reporting that Microsoft's new version of Virtual PC will support Linux as a virtual OS. I for one ...

NeoWin.net Microsoft Tweakomatic

BetaNews.Com MP3Mystic 1.08 Beta 8 Released

snowchyld Collective Soul - December

Why drink the water From my hand? Contagious as you think I am Just tilt my sun towards Your domain. Your cup runneth over again. Don't scream about Don't think aloud Turn your head now baby Just spit me out...

Former Caldera CEO Ransom Love joins Progeny board

A press release is out this morning (and is reprinted at the bottom of this article) that says Ransom Love is joining Progeny's board of directors. Progeny founder -- now Board Chairman and Chief Strategist -- Ian Murdock says they went after Ransom, not the other way around. "We asked him," Ian adds with a small laugh, "but he was more than willing." And why wouldn't he be? Progeny is not only profitable today but has been profitable for the last two years and is reinvesting its profits in the company. It is now up to 25 employees and is looking at further growth in the future.

The Democrats' campaign blues

Americans are turning against Bush's disastrous Iraq policy. So why aren't they embracing his presidential rivals?

Feeling lost

My husband left me after 20 years, I'm disabled, and my dog is dying. How do I go on?

Joe Conason's Journal

If they're smart, Democrats will reach out to more military communities -- Republican strongholds or not.

This Modern World

Chicken hawk down!

The Fix

Camilla stands by her man, Elizabeth Smart beats Jessica Lynch -- by a nose -- and Arnold is going to investigate himself! Plus: Why would a queer guy need a straight eye, anyway?

He can play honky-tonk just like anything

Dire Straits founder David Knopfler talks about his DIY solo career, Bush and Clear Channel's deals with the devil and why he hates "Sultans of Swing."

Strong medicine

In the nanotech future, hunger may be a thing of the past, but there will always be a place for a good man with a knife.

Gore vs. Bush, Part 2

Former Vice President Al Gore says the Bush administration's assault on civil liberties and its invasion of Iraq threaten American freedom and security like never before.

BetaNews.Com K-Meleon 0.8 Build 844 Released

Scripting News The Church Sign Generator has great potential.

The Church Sign Generator has great potential.

Scripting News A people hire A people, B people hire C people. Al

A people hire A people, B people hire C people. Always strive for the most excellence. Never be scared to work with someone smarter than you. Never be scared to let others be smarter than you. (Filed under Homilies/Mottos.)

Scripting News StateDemocracy.Com looks interesting.

StateDemocracy.Com looks interesting.

Scripting News This week is shaping up to be huge in NH, with Ker

This week is shaping up to be huge in NH, with Kerry, Dean and Clark touring at the same time.

Aussie Students Face Jail Over Music Sharing Site

An anonymous reader writes "SMH this morning is reporting that three uni students may be jailed for their creation of a music sharing web site. Ok, piracy is ...

OSNews KDE to Use KConfig XT as its Configuration Framework

OSNews First Official Debian-installer beta Available

OSNews Sun Seeks to Gain from HP Stumble

Scripting News Wednesday and Thursday are shaping up to be huge i

Wednesday and Thursday are shaping up to be huge in NH, with Kerry, Dean and Clark touring at the same time.

DeviantArt.com The J. Paul Getty Center Hosts Four New Exhibits!

The J. Paul Getty Center, Beverly Hills, CA, is currently hosting four new and separate exhibits, that include photography, sculpture, paintings and stained glass. These exhibits are now on display in different pavilions of the Getty Center.

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Scripting News Tomorrow you will think I am a total idiot. ";->"

Tomorrow you will think I am a total idiot. ";->"

CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame

CMU_Nort writes "Carnegie Mellon University has just unveiled the Robot Hall of Fame. Along with that announcement, MSNBC has an article about the first ...

BetaNews.Com foobar2000 0.7.3a Released

Scripting News Derek: "I will be filing a letter defending my act

Derek: "I will be filing a letter defending my actions and will go before a hearing if necessary. I will also use this opportunity, as best I can, to urge the University to reconsider its role in these matters and its DMCA policies in general."

FCC To Hold First VoIP Hearings; Rules in 2004

securitas writes "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold its first hearings on Internet telephony and VoIP regulation on Dec. 1 and plans to ...

SHELL EXTENSION CITY DATA SCROLLER (free): Expands the capabilities of standard Windows scroll bars

SHELL EXTENSION CITY HARD DISK INDICATOR (free): Add your hard-disk led to your system tray

SHELL EXTENSION CITY XRUN (free): Transparent, skinnable, program launcher for almost all versions of Windows. Designed to replace the standard Windows run dialog, and offer plenty of features not usually found in a run box

K-Meleon 0.8 Released

Scripting News Derek: "I will be filing a letter defending my act

Derek: "I will be filing a letter defending my actions and will go before a hearing if necessary. I will also use this opportunity, as best I can, to urge the University to reconsider its role in these matters and its DMCA policies in general."

IBM Itanium servers push higher

Big Blue announces its second Itanium server, a more powerful machine that can accommodate as many as 16 of the high-end processors from Intel.

Motorola buys high-speed wireless chipmaker

The purchase of XtremeSpectrum gives Motorola a product lead in ultrawideband chips, but could plunge the company into a heated standards battle.

McDonald's targets iPass customers

The fast-food chain announces that it expects its hot-spot suppliers to support iPass' specification for business-class service.

SHELL EXTENSION CITY EASY SERV (free): Remotely access a computer from another computer from an easy to use graphical console. Portable web server that allows you to access the server computer using any web browser

SHELL EXTENSION CITY QUICKSEND (free): Lets Internet Explorer users email text selections using the right-click context menu

SHELL EXTENSION CITY LONGHORN TRANSFORMATION (free): Update your Windows XP with the Longhorn GUI by adding some themes and patching system files

SHELL EXTENSION CITY DYNAMIC SYSTEMS SERIES (free): Screen-based works which use human movement as input. Enter into the desktop through the mouse

SHELL EXTENSION CITY QDICTIONARY (free): Lets Internet Explorer users highlight words and get definitions using the right-click context menu

SHELL EXTENSION CITY WIN FAST RUN (free): Tiny app runs as a background task and waits until you press a hotkey, then it displays a little box on your screen and waits for your commands

SHELL EXTENSION CITY PARASITE (free): Cool runbox and url launch application can run as your Windows shell

WinCustomize.com Skinning and Desktop Mod get spot light in October 2003 edition of Windows XP Answer magazine (UK)

WinCustomize.com BootSkin Alpha 2 available

Scripting News RVW is "intended to allow machine-readable reviews

RVW is "intended to allow machine-readable reviews to be integrated into an RSS feed, thus allowing reviews to be automatically compiled from distributed sources."

SPI Dynamics tools aid security auditors

InfiniBand company wins further funds

Topspin Communications won a third round of funding, $20 million it plans to use to expand sales and marketing of its gear based on the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology.

NetScreen, Trend Micro team on security

The network security device maker and the antivirus software developer get together to release a single security appliance under both their brand names.

Apple releases Panther update

Apple Computer releases an updated version of the latest iteration of Mac OS X. It addresses issues with printing and encryption, and with using the OS in conjunction with FireWire 800 drives.

Belkin To Offer Firmware Fix For Router Hijacking

L-Train8 writes "Belkin has an announcement at the bottom of their homepage about the spam router. They have decided to disable the 'feature' that hijacks a ...

Sad news from Gnome

Anonymous George writes "According to Nat's blog and numerous other blogs, Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico. "The always enthusiastic and charming Chema Celorio died yesterday skydiving in Mexico. For those of you not in Ximian who don't know, Chema started and ran our Mexico City office, led the Ximian Setup Tools team a few years ago, was in charge of the team that managed our contract with HP, led the Ximian Desktop for a while, was one of the creators of GNOME Love, and was recently our lead sales engineer for Europe. Chema was one of the most loving, passionate people I have known. Being around Chema always made you want to do more and try harder. He was always questioning himself, trying to grow, taking on new challenges and never backing down."

World Wide Web Consortium PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

2003-11-10: The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) as a W3C Recommendation. The document has also become an International Standard, ISO/IEC 15948:2003. PNG is a graphics file format for raster images. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported plus an optional alpha channel. Read more about the Graphics Activity. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium XInclude Last Call Published

2003-11-10: The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0. XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs—elements, attributes and URI references. Comments are welcome through 31 December. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Scripting News Let's do a demo of the Semantic Web, the real one,

Let's do a demo of the Semantic Web, the real one, the one that exists today. Doc Searls has a question about the iQue 3600 hand-held GPS. It is sexy. They say it only works with Windows, but Doc thinks it probably works with Linux too. A couple of thousand really smart people will read this. I'm sure one of them knows the answer. Probably more than one. There's the query. Human intelligence is so under-rated by computer researchers, but when we do our job well, that's what we facilitate. Human minds communicating with other human minds. What could be easier to understand?

Supreme Court to hear Intel-AMD document case

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to decide whether a foreign governmental body can view documents that were provided to U.S. courts under confidentiality agreements.

Sharp picks Linux for at-home fun

Time Warner delays cable play

The media giant puts off buying its stake in a cable joint venture with Comcast--despite continued hints that it wants to expand in the business.

Sun seeks to gain from HP stumble

Hewlett-Packard delays one Unix server improvement and backs away from another, and Sun Microsystems responds with a promotion to try to lure customers affected by the situation.

3Com goes three-way on Wi-Fi

The networking gear maker says it will use a combination of all three Wi-Fi technologies--802.11 a, b and g--in its upcoming products, adding momentum to an industry trend.

IE To Block Pop-Ups

smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent ...

DeviantArt.com WACOM Go Platinum / Go Pro Contests

Wacom is having contests to win $1,000 and a 40GB Apple iPod.

DeviantArt.com Essorant.com; Open at Last

I finally have my skin site open after a couple of busy months. You should find all my WindowBinds, NextStart, Winamp and wallpapers in one convenient place. To celebrate the opening, I have a $5 mini-suite available called Tranche9b

OSNews Libranet 2.8.1 Impressions

OSNews Lycoris Replies to the Community over GPL Misunderstanding

Aimster calls for Supreme Court showdown

Deep goes to Washington

SSL networking heats up

The market is heating up for products that allow secure access to corporate networks based on a widely used browser security technology known as secure sockets layer encryption.

Imagine A UN-Run Internet

Damon Dimmick writes "Small countries in the United Nations have been arguing to put the Internet under the control of the UN so that countries can more easily ...

JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity

Kanagawa writes "This morning, Jim Jagielski, Exec. V.P. and Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation, announced on the geronimo-dev mailing list that 'the ...

BetaNews.Com mIRC Power Pack 7.0 RC6 Released

FCC: Number-switching rules apply to all

The agency issues an order that requires all landline phone companies to allow customers to transfer their numbers to cell phones when signing up for new services.

Salesforce.com signs AMD, updates software

The software-as-a-service company makes one of its largest deals ever, taking on Advanced Micro Devices. It also plans to introduce a new version of its software by the end of the month.

Portal providers create 'portlet' library

Risky business to top 2004 IT spending

Security and data disaster recovery rank among the top information technology priorities for next year, according to a Forrester Research report.

OSNews Mac OS X 10.3.1 Released

Scripting News Wired: Clark Campaign to Debut Big Blog. Quotes Ca

Wired: Clark Campaign to Debut Big Blog. Quotes Cam, Doc and myself. "A voter with a weblog is ten times more powerful than a voter without a weblog."

Scripting News Crimson: "Slater received a cease-and-desist lette

Crimson: "Slater received a cease-and-desist letter from Harvard on Oct. 31 after posting thousands of internal documents about an electronic voting machine manufacturer on his Harvard-hosted website."

Scripting News Chris Lydon interviews Cameron Barrett from the Cl

Chris Lydon interviews Cameron Barrett from the Clark campaign. Special RSS feed updated. It's gratifying that Cam didn't fall into the hype about open source politics. That shows integrity. Open source is a term that means something with software, but it is meaningless in politics, unless somehow I can take over Wesley Clark's body, but I don't think anyone is seriously considering that, at least I hope not.

Apple G5 Ads Banned In UK

Justen writes "The Independent Television Commission has quietly banned Apple from airing an advertisement (in QuickTime here) for the Power Mac G5 in the UK. ...

The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S.

misbach writes "Here is what the 'compensation experts' have to say are the ten most overpaid jobs

NeoWin.net Graphmatica 2.0c

NeoWin.net IncrediMail (Beta) Build 1292.

BetaNews.Com IncrediMail Build 1292 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com MovieTrack 3.2b Released

Stats Updated

I finally got around to updating the #e107 stats, see who's got the biggest mouth here.

Request

Just been talking to the guys behind a new game called Dark Horizons: Lore and it's associated e107-powered site. They're looking for some help finishing off the custom theme by skinning the forum etc, if you're interested in leading send an email off to vanthra@maxgaming.net - thanks.[shortened link]

Mastering Red Hat Linux 9

Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 is a huge, very complete guide to Red Hat Linux 9. It's over 900 pages, and includes the "Publisher's Edition" of RH9 on 2 CDs. It is written in a style which should accommodate Linux newcomers and more experienced users alike. There are a lot of examples, code snippets, and screenshots throughout the book. In fact, sometimes the abundance of these tend to make the material a little long to wade through. Experts should have no trouble skipping over the sections they don't need, though. Read on for the rest of Dan's review.

CSC: delays dog FBI delivery

There may be troubles ahead

Penn State's pigopolist pork is not smelling sweet

RIAA fraternity

LINX traffic tops 30Gbps

Transmission Vamp

Brit bosses get tough on Net abuse

Carrot and stick. Without the carrot

Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups

Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web advertisements.

Akamai delivers Web services management tools

Search engines face drug test

Calls to curtail advertisements from allegedly illegal dealers point to growing pains for the Internet's newest marketing powerhouses.

Verizon launches Samsung smart phone

U.S. cellular carrier Verizon Wireless begins selling a Samsung smart phone that uses an Intel processor and a Microsoft operating system.

Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts

Henry G. writes "Lionstracs of Italy has released the Mediastation X-76 music workstation. It runs Red Hat and KDE 3.1. The base model features a 1.67 Ghz ...

BetaNews.Com Website-Watcher 3.60 Beta 12 Released

BetaNews.Com Advanced WMA Workshop 2.02 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com WebLog Expert 3.0 Beta 2 Released

BetaNews.Com Proactive Windows Security Explorer 1.0 Beta 1 Build 1110 Released

BetaNews.Com BitSpirit 1.0.9.249 Beta Released

The War On Drugs In The Classroom

The video shows police officers and K-9 units ordering suspects to the ground while they conducted a sweep. A tip had come in about clandestine drug activity, and in previous weeks one youth had been caught trying to distribute hundreds of prescription drug pills. During the sweep, police detained 107 underage suspects while they searched their backpacks. Police found no drugs, and were only able to report that some 12 backpacks had been singled out by the police dogs. Now if you were thinking this was a typical rave-turned-police bust, you're wrong. This was just before first period at Stratford High School in the sleepy Charlotte suburb of Goose Creek, South Carolina.

OSNews Designing GUI Apps with Windows Forms; Intermediate C# Skills

Microsoft launches Windows game site

Briefly: Microprocessor revenue, prices on the up

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices benefit from an increase in shipments and average price of microprocessors, according to research firm IDC.

Clock ticks for Web on a wristwatch

Those who want to receive information from the Internet through a watch or fridge magnet may have to wait a little longer. Microsoft's SPOT service is still in testing.

The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S.

misbach writes "Here is what the 'compensation experts' have to say are the ten most overpaid jobs. 'Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, ...

20th Anniversary Of Computer Viruses Commemorated

DoraLives writes "Our good friends at the BBC are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the computer virus. So, viruses are no longer teenagers and are now ...

lowdimension.net Need some help

10.11.03 - I need some help gathering some code.

NeoWin.net New Ad-Aware Referencefile

NeoWin.net Longhorn Transformation Pack 4.0 - Unleashed Longhorn UI

Longhorn enters the "witching season"

In case you've been off planet -- or so otherwise occupied that you haven't noticed -- Microsoft is building a new operating system. It's called Longhorn, and it has now officially entered a new phase of the development process. It's not scheduled for launch until 2006. Longhorn's new phase of development does not show up in any of the literature I can find on systems life cycle. Of course, the reason may be that it belongs in marketing texts rather than technical. The new phase is known as "the witching season." Be warned, gentle readers: It's a time when the line between reality and imagination simply disappears.

The Fix

Does Al Franken like the ring of 'Senator'? Does Prince Charles go for other princes? Just how plastic is Joan Rivers' face? Plus: Kid Rock really doesn't think those curtains match.

Letting my kids go crazy

Moms who say no too much stop having sex and drive their cars off the bridge. So I let my kids have a rice fight.

IDC: Microprocessor revenue, prices on the up

Adobe buys XML software maker

The publishing software giant acquires Yellow Dragon Software, a privately held maker of XML software for messaging and managing metadata.

'Nanosprings' may help detect cancer

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a tiny "nanospring" structure that could be used to detect individual molecules, possibly creating a method of detecting cancer.

OSNews Ars Technica Posts Panther Review

OSNews Survey: Biggest Databases Approach 30 Terabytes

Microsoft Moving Into Chip Design With Xbox Next

adamsmith_uk writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft will more actively participate in chip design for the next version of its Xbox gaming console, tentatively ...

World Wide Web Consortium "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines" Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

2003-11-10: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of QA Framework: Specification Guidelines to Candidate Recommendation. A set of organizing guidelines and verifiable checkpoints, the document is written to help W3C Working Groups write technical reports. It provides for conformance requirements and definitions, and facilitates the generation of test materials. Comments are welcome through 10 May 2004. Learn more about Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 Working Drafts Published

2003-11-10: The Web Services Description Working Group has released two Working Drafts of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Message Patterns. WSDL is a model and XML format for describing network services. The language enables separate, fundamental stages for abstract function and concrete details. Read about Web Services. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium MathML Working Group Notes Published

2003-11-10: The Math Working Group has released Units in MathML, Structured Types in MathML 2.0 and Bound Variables in MathML as Working Group Notes. MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed on the Web. Visit the Math home page. (News archive)

Penn State's pigopolist pork runs deep

RIAA fraternity

FBI on look-out for foreign government hackers

Reveal yourselves, immediately

UK employers get tough on Net abuse

Carrot and stick, without the carrot

AOL finds Time for food

America Online has cooked up an agreement with sister company and magazine publisher Time to devote a portion of AOL's Web portal to eating.

Informatica extends data management tool

The business software company aims to improve integration with other systems by supporting standards, including Web services.

Web hijack riles Belkin router users

Belkin is trying to defuse customer complaints that its wireless routers periodically hijack users' Web connection and display an advertisement for its software.

Foundries' revenue heats up in October

Two big Taiwanese chip manufacturers report double-digit gains in monthly revenue, another sign that better times may be ahead.

Lindows-Microsoft legal spat builds

Lindows.com reports that Microsoft proffered legal papers to disavow California class-action settlement claims submitted on the Lindows Web site.

Mastering Red Hat Linux 9

Dan Clough writes "Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 is a huge, very complete guide to Red Hat Linux 9. It's over 900 pages, and includes the "Publisher's Edition" of ...

Changing the interface of scientific computing

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Dr. Guy "Bud" Tribble has one of those great names you don't easily forget. Back in the early 1980s, he and his partner Andy Hertzfeld led the team at Apple Computer Co. that came up with the Macintosh user interface, one that literally changed the face of computing forever.

London gets UK's first Wi-Fi 'hotzone'

Piccadilly Circus encircled

BT upfront about broadband progress

Debate hots ahead of MP enquiry

Scripting News Nelson Minar: "Each of the individual applications

Nelson Minar: "Each of the individual applications using RDF I know of could have been done more easily with plain XML."

Foundries' revenue heats up in October

The two Taiwanese chip manufacturers report double-digit gains in revenue for the month, a sign that better times may be ahead.

Lindows-Microsoft legal spat builds

Lindows.com reports that Microsoft proffered legal papers to disavow California class-action settlement claims submitted on its Web site.

Ars Technica Posts Panther Review

Nexum writes "Today Ars released their latest Mac OS X review, this time for Max OS X 10.3 Panther. It's great to see another tour de force from the Ars guys. ...

Simcity Microwave Power by 2050?

Politburo writes "The Drudge Report supplies this interesting Senate testimony. Dr. David Criswell, director of the University of Houston's Institute for Space ...

Cybercrime - it's the outsiders wot's to blame

Checking out the finances

Office add-on makes a sales call

Microsoft releases one of the first "Solution Accelerator" packages for Office 2003, aimed at helping sales professionals create better proposals.

Dell widens its wireless array

The TrueMobile 5100 card, which uses GPRS cellular technology, is meant to give travelers backup Internet access when they're out of range of a Wi-Fi network.

Scripting News Glenn Reynolds demos what a Presidential campaign

Glenn Reynolds demos what a Presidential campaign video should look like. In it he tells everyone to read weblogs. Perfect. So when do you think Glenn is going to officially declare his candidacy? I swear he's going to run. I'm so sure I started a category for his campaign. I hope he does. I also think Philip Greenspun should run.

Scripting News Today's song: "They may be stupid but they sure ar

Today's song: "They may be stupid but they sure are fun."

Napster and Gnutella Measurements

belswick writes "UW has posted a paper titled "Measuring and Analyzing the Characteristics of Napster and Gnutella Hosts" at Washington in PDF form. ...

Sun ups its Tru64 temptation

50 wins and counting

KPN flogs 3G UK share to Hutch

Row over, no court battle

Palm Zire 21

Reg Review The perfect beginner's PDA?

Scripting News Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is my ple

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is my pleasure to present: several categories, for your viewing pleasure. All the posts in the last three days about the Dean campaign; the Clark campaign. And here are all the posts in the RSS category (it's the largest with 8 posts in the last three days, including this one (recursive)). There's lots more to do of course, but this is the milestone I was looking for when I began work this morning. Whew.

Scripting News I told everyone but no one believed me. Glenn Reyn

I told everyone but no one believed me. Glenn Reynolds "demos" what a Presidential campaign video would look like. In it he tells everyone to read weblogs. Perfect. That's exactly what Dean and Clark should do. Exactly. So when do you think Glenn is going to officially declare his candidacy?

Scripting News Paolo compares RSS categories and ENT. Good job. I

Paolo compares RSS categories and ENT. Good job. I totally see my taxonomy as personal. Not trying to get anyone else to adopt it, at this time. Not even sure I'm going to stick to it. I have to start somewhere. I designed a bit of flexibility into the category element, but not too much. Getting people to agree on a taxonomy is a huge problem, that and user interface are the two looming beasts that keep this stuff from taking off. So instead of putting the cart before the horse, I decided to start pulling the cart myself.

Scripting News Wendy: "I'm in my new office, by the way, on the 2

Wendy: "I'm in my new office, by the way, on the 2nd floor!" Congrats. That's a big deal. Changes the flow of Berkman. Major Feng Shui implications there.

Commentary: Novell gives Linux enterprise muscle

Novell's acquisition of SuSE Linux is a good deal for firms and governments that are looking for an open-source alternative to Unix and Windows.

Overture, SLI to power NBC search

The television network announces a two-year partnership with Overture for sponsored search, adding its name to the growing list of Web publishers that are lacing query results with ads.

Video Card History

John Mathers writes "While searching the net for information on old Voodoo Video Cards, I came across this fabulous Video Card History article up at ...

WinCustomize.com Essorant.com - open at last.

KPN resumes dividends

i-mode still struggles

IP VPN: compelling savings - compelling performance?

Briefing Securing the future

IBM's Itanium server just got bigger

Searching for a sweet spot

Apple will 'make RIAA beg for mercy' - readers

Letters Jobs to see off Sony, Beatles, large buildings etc

Scripting News For people wanting to follow the development of th

For people wanting to follow the development of the new aggregator, here's a table containing all the categorized items from Scripting News in the last three days. Screen shot.

Comcast to distribute Real's Rhapsody

The giant U.S. broadband company backs digital music, as Best Buy launches a new music download store.

O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest

theodp writes "In his latest Ask Tim, Tim O'Reilly suggests the failure of BountyQuest could be blamed on the inability of amateurs to penetrate the patent ...

NVRAM With Disordered Assemblies (Smaller/Cheaper)

chadjg writes " Jim Tour, of Rice University says "Our research shows that ordered precision isn't a prerequisite for computing. It is possible to make memory ...

snowchyld artplaymix update

Artplaymix have an update for work they did in Playstation Magazine.. very nifty ^_^ go check it out, Jason Martin was one of the inkers for `Battle Chasers' by Joe Madureira...

WinXPcentral.com Computer-in-a-computer?

WinXPcentral.com PC Accelerator 2004 1.25

Palm Zire 21

Reg Review The perfect beginners' PDA?

Linksys WRT54g 802.11g access point

An ideal office Wi-Fi system? Not quite...

ICANN board squatter dies

Rest in peace Hans Kraaijenbrink

Scripting News Chris Lydon interviews Cameron Barrett from the Cl

Chris Lydon interviews Cameron Barrett from the Clark campaign.

Scripting News For people wanting to follow along with the develo

For people wanting to follow along with the development of the new aggregator, here's a table containing all the categorized items from Scripting News in the last three days. A screen shot is also provided.

Zantaz upgrades data retrieval

In the latest storage industry move to help companies comply with regulations, e-mail archiving company Zantaz announces tools for better data retrieval.

1st Real Internet-Option Election in North America

gpmap writes "From the London Free Press: As voters across Ontario were preparing to head to the polls today to elect their municipal leaders, a technological ...

Infineon back in the black in Q4

Not for the full year, though

Kimble/ Schmitz charged with embezzlement

The Return of The Hoaxter Hacker

Eminister to address broadband conference

Other bigwigs too

The Massachusetts Internet tax mystery

CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains how state tax collectors learned the identities of residents who bought cigarettes over the Web.

Microsoft moves into chip world with Xbox

The software giant will more actively participate in the creation of the chips that go inside the next version of its Xbox gaming console.

Connecting the hot spots

T-Mobile USA operates the largest number of public hot spots in the country. But the industry is changing and Joe Sims wants to point the network in a new direction.

NBC, Overture to sign search deal

The television network is expected to announce a two-year partnership with Overture for sponsored search, adding its name to the growing list of Web publishers that are lacing query results with ads.

Scripting News Today is going to be a breakthrough day on categor

Today is going to be a breakthrough day on category support in the Scripting News archive. In a few hours I'll have a way to look at all the items on a per-category basis. I've been pretty good so far about assigning categories to blog posts here. For example, the Fleshbot post below is routed to Fun/Sex. This one is routed to Dave/Scripting News and Technology/Formats and Protocols/RSS. You can see all that by looking at today's RSS file. Also, to clear up some confusion, UserLand has had category support in Manila and Radio for years. This is the first time categories have been used in this weblog, and they're hierarchic, not flat. That is a first, as far as I know. When you see how the hierarchy works, you're going to want it. At least that's my evil plan. ";->"

Scripting News A fascinating discussion started on this day in 19

A fascinating discussion started on this day in 1999 on evolution of RSS 0.91, including comments from Evan Williams, Dan Libby, Edd Dumbill. Cordial and professional, even statesman-like. Touched on many of the ideas that were later implemented in 0.92 and 2.0.

Scripting News This hyothetical conversation between Bill Gates a

This hyothetical conversation between Bill Gates and Satan in 1998 explains why our world still doesn't run in Java.

The Best of What's New From Popular Science

Wrathie writes ""The top 100 technological innovations of 2003, from aviation to defibrillation, GPS to Wi-Fi, rotary to rockets. The year and the gear that ...

NeoWin.net Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 1.02

NeoWin.net NetCaptor 7.3.0 Beta 4

NeoWin.net BORGChat 0.4.0.141

NeoWin.net Avant Browser 8.02 Build 112

NeoWin.net True Launch Bar v.2.2.0.9

NeoWin.net Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 11

Nokia batteries not safe either - Belgian watchdog

Oops! It blew up again

Nokia ponders Psion purchase - report

Juicier gains to be made than Symbian

Intel buys WLAN chip maker Mobilian

Bluetooth to become part of Centrino?

Shoppers warned of £110m card not present fraud

Precautionary tale

OSNews Syllable 0.5.1 Released

Scripting News Wired: Clark Campaign to Debut Big Blog. Quotes Ca

Wired: Clark Campaign to Debut Big Blog. Quotes Cam, Doc and myself. "A voter with a weblog is ten times more powerful than a voter without a weblog."

Scripting News Fleshbot, the "pornographic sister website of Gizm

Fleshbot, the "pornographic sister website of Gizmodo and Gawker."

Scripting News A fascinating discussion started on this day in 19

A fascinating discussion started on this day in 1999 on evolution of RSS, when 0.91 was state of the art, including comments from Evan Williams, Dan Libby, Edd Dumbill. Cordial and professional, even statesman-like. Touched on many of the ideas that were later implemented in 0.92 and 2.0.

iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003'

Pingsmoth writes "Time Magazine has just named the iTunes Music Store as their Top Coolest Invention of 2003. Also among this year's favorites are 'fish-skin ...

ShellFront litestep 0.24.7 rc1

Rage Against the (Chess) Machine

Chess champion Garry Kasparov battles a computerized foe named Fritz in the latest installment of man versus silicon beast. By Leander Kahney.

MusicNow Offers Songs for a Buck

MusicNow, previously a subscription-only music service, now offers a la carte downloads for 99 cents. The company is working with Best Buy to promote the service. By Katie Dean.

A Peek Inside the Secret World

Technological innovation owes a debt to that earliest of the early adopters: the spy. A new museum in Washington, D.C., celebrates spies, their gadgetry and the shadow world they inhabit. Michelle Delio reports from Washington.

Clark Campaign to Debut Big Blog

The presidential campaign of Wesley Clark understands the power of blogs. That's why the candidate will debut a big community site that centralizes the personal blogs of his supporters and offers grassroots tools. By Chris Ulbrich.

Is It On? Building Silent PCs

The demand for quiet computers is growing, especially as people use them to play music or stream video. Several companies build them from scratch or modify boxes from the big computer makers, and it doesn't cost much to lower the decibels.

Tech Summit to Tackle Net Issues

World leaders from 56 nations will attend the first U.N. confab on information technology to discuss such questions as who governs the Internet and free speech guidelines for the global medium. President Bush is not among them.

Shoppers warned of £110m Internet fraud

Precautionary tale

Nvidia Q3 income dips despite sales gains

Quarter on quarter decline

When is a speed camera not a speed camera?

When the government says so, of course

Enjoy online delights this Xmas at Debenhams

"Christmas surprise" a real stocking-filler

Cisco: brand loyalty

CEO disappointed with SAN progress

Telefonica Moviles: domestic bliss

Beats expectations

Microsoft: if you can't buy them, beat them

New graphics and animation toolset a Flash-killer?

snowchyld Novocaine for the soul

Life is hard And so am I You'd better give me something So I don't die Novocaine for the soul Before I sputter out Before I sputter out Life is white And I am black Jesus and his lawyer Are...

Spamhaus Guru Steve Linford Profiled

BenLev writes "The New York Times has an article profiling Spamhaus Project director Steve Linford. The feature goes behind the scenes at Spamhaus, 'one of the ...

BetaNews.Com Weather1 5.18 Beta Released

Red Hat lifts all ships with Fedora

Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat has observed that Linux distributions can be looked at as little ships on a vast ocean of open source code. As open source projects grow and mature they raise the level of the ocean. Red Hat raised the level of the ocean with Fedora. Fedora is a step in the right direction, and not a reason to feel abandoned.

BetaNews.Com SQLTools 1.4.1 Beta Build 38 Released

NBC, Overture sign search deal

The television network on Monday is expected to announce a two-year partnership with Overture for sponsored search, the latest Web publisher to lace query results with ads.

OSNews Computer-in-a-computer Idea Gains Ground

Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings

May Kasahara writes "This is something which has been the talk amongst animators for the past couple of weeks: Walt Disney Feature Animation is in the process ...

BetaNews.Com Xcorder 1.19.7 Beta Released

BetaNews.Com Advanced Registry Doctor Pro 1.1 RC2 Released

BetaNews.Com Registry Defragmentation 3.1 RC2 Released

BetaNews.Com Dawn 5.2 RC Build 5221 Released

Comcast to distribute Real's Rhapsody

The biggest U.S. broadband company backs digital music, as Best Buy launches a new music download store.

Office add-on makes a sales call

Microsoft is set to release one of the first "Solution Accelerator" packages for Office 2003, aimed at helping sales professionals create better proposals.

Start-up aims for instant, easier networks

PacketHop says it will unveil plans to deliver software-based mesh networking technology for mobile devices and computers.

Computer-in-a-computer idea gains ground

Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to reality a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer.

Zantaz to upgrade data retrieval

In the latest storage industry move to help companies comply with regulations, e-mail archiving company Zantaz is announcing tools for better data retrieval.

BetaNews.Com BORGChat 0.4.0 Build 141 Released

OSNews Customer Services: OSS, Grasp The Concept

Captured! By Robots - A Musical/Mechanical Marvel?

Duke Boo Boo of Ouch writes: "Last night, I ventured out to the local tavern to catch musical acts Mini Band, and more importantly Captured! By Robots. This ...

OSNews Today on NMC: G1000, Nokia & Symbian, PalmOS Vs PocketPC & more

OSNews LFS 5.0 Released

Multiple Updates! [The Big Post]

/me takes a sip of water and prepares for this long bit of text...First off, welcome to the newly updated bb4win.org! Jesterace has kindly made us a kickass style-based theme for e107 (which has also been updated), and a new poll is up thanks to Uzer. The style is

I knew I forgot something

Mortar told me to post about his OO SDK, and I completely forgot. And being reminded by Jesterace's post on box.cm.us, I did a file release on our sf.net project page. If you don't see it right now, check back later or use

Short Status Note

While Tres`ni has stopped actively developing bb4win (though he has done a few things since his post), we would like to welcome Mortar and uzer to our core team.They, as you may (or may not) be aware of, are working on bbwinskin, which is not fake (although, it would be priceless to see the look on some your faces if it was, hehe). As with all our core items, it will be released

Do svidAniya

As some of you will notice if you read the README for my last release, broambox, I am leaving the BB4Win community for the foreseeable future. There are many reasons behind my decision, and it's actually be known to the other "core" developers for probably a month now. I want to thank Laurence, Chris, and Ricky for being an awesome team to work with, everyone who uses BB4Win owes a lot to these guys. If you want an indepth on my depature, read more, but be forewarned, these are

Nightly Builds

Due to a recent email from our host, we've moved our nightly builds to sourceforge.net, and deleted bb4win.org/latest, so update your bookmarks, the new nightly url is:

bbSystemBarEx 2.0.0

bbSystemBarEx 2.0.0 is now ready to download!It is:...faster and more feature-filled than the original...It sports all of the features of BBSystemBar, the toolbar, and more!get it at:

Submitted News

SirCoffee submitted a news item a few days (or maybe a week ago, sorry), offering webspace and he had an idea that may, or may not, be helpful:

Updates

So I got bored, and I added a favicon (the blackbox.exe icon to be exact) to the website. Then, I upgraded e107 (that took at least an hour) and then another 20mins or so fixing some of the image problems I was having (news icons/link button). But I lost our header image heh. I also added a new news category, Plugins. It has a light blue news icon. If someone wants to make us some better news icons feel free, all I did was a bit of crappy photoshopping heh.Since I lost the bb header, you

Some info and stuff for you.

Ok, first things first. You want to know how BBWinskin is coming along. Well, it is coming along nicely. We have not run into any brick walls that we were unable to hurdle or smash. The engines are almost finished. The style reading engine, ... you know ... the one you really care about, it is looking nice and I would say we are more than half way done. Maybe even more that 75% done. Please be patient, there are 3 of us working on this project, and we all have other projects, along

Freenode.net down

Freenode.net, the irc Server that host #bb4win, is having some DNS issues. Luckly for you/them/us you can still connect to the freenode network by connecting to irc.freenode.info! Support the freenode people by checking out their site and seeing if there is anything you can do to help.

DeviantArt.com Unwanted EXIF Tags on Photos

If you have ever wanted to remove the EXIF tags which display the information about digital camera settings then read on.

DeviantArt.com Man Ray at Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Art Gallery of New South Wales will present “Man Ray,” from February 6, 2004 to April 18, 2004. ManRay was one of the most famous and original artists of the 20th century; his importance and influence have many aspects. He revolutionised photography through...

DeviantArt.com Feature ME! Contest

A new contest is afoot! And if you win, you will be featured in depth on the front page of deviantART for one week!

DeviantArt.com A Different 9-11

The 9th November is one of the most important days in German history.

DeviantArt.com Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X

Microsoft released their Windows Media Player for Mac OS X.

DeviantArt.com deviantART: Payments

In the past week or so, you may have noticed that we have had some difficulties with processing payments. This was due to two things.

DeviantArt.com Bobby Hatfield of Righteous Brothers Passes Away

Bobby Hatfield, one of the singers of the Righteous Brothers, died Wednesday evening at the age of 63.

DeviantArt.com SlimBrowser 3.84 build 002 Released

A new version of SlimBrowser has been released.

DeviantArt.com Talisman Desktop 2.7 Released

LightTek Software has just released Talisman Desktop 2.7.

DeviantArt.com Enlightenment DR16.6 Released

An update on one of the most user definable window managers for unix variants.

()rm's ShortPopup v1.4 released

(09/07/03 01:51gmt)

qwilk's BBBin v1.2

(09/07/03 01:32gmt)

qwilk's xoblite bb1 released

(08/30/03 04:48gmt)

AOL rolls over for Microsoft

(06/07/03 18:29gmt)

KiSS DP-500 network-compatible DVD/CD/MPEG-4/DivX/Photo/JPG headunit

(06/07/03 18:02gmt)

Tin orders a SLIMP3

(06/06/03 05:19gmt)

Desktopian is five years old

(06/06/03 03:29gmt)

carbon lokai 0.2.2

(05/16/03 00:14gmt)

tinSplash v007

(05/09/03 05:10gmt)

nc-17's BBPager1.0 and BBStyle0.2

(03/20/03 18:42gmt)

Blackbox4win v.82, BBSystemBar v1.2, BBIcons v2.0 and possibly new BBStyle and BBPager too

(03/19/03 05:42gmt)

Shell-Shocked No. 4 and tinSplash write-up

(02/01/03 17:09gmt)

Loss of the Columbia...

(02/01/03 16:16gmt)

litestep.net resurfaces

(01/27/03 06:12gmt)

qwilk's BBSoundFX v2

(01/27/03 05:56gmt)

Bluebox .5 Quick Update

I wish I could give a date on the release schedule for Blux .5I am happy to announce that I have been pretty much successfully running the new builds for several weeks now. We still need to weed out a few little issues, but in general its rocking.Progress...-Core Replaced with ATLx-Nivenh fixed a few issues lingering in the bluebox core.-Nivenh fixed a few issues with old slit apps.-Bdde slit app abandoned for MS-style dde server (now built into core).-Nivenh updated a few small things in bsystray.-Nivenh spent some time making BWM kick ass. (much better now)-I added runtime dynamic start menu

New BlueBox Home!

bluebox.redf.net/­I could explain this... but im gonna get a coffee instead.~SowWn

This thing has a 6th gear?

Those of you who use / love bluebox will be happy about this one...Nivenh is back on the Dev Team. A new development cycle has started for bluebox.We set up our new cvs server last night.Code will be public, changes will be moderated from this point out.In other words, you can get the source code, but only dev team members can make changes to the source. Quality control :)Bwm has also been added to the repository for public consumption / destruction.There is much to be done, and I still have the forum posts with the feature requests you guys submitted, so

Ok, the site is rebuilt.

I rebuilt codedump over the weekend. Soon I will be adding a lots of info here... so i wanted to make the e107v5->e107v6 conversion before it was too late.~SowWn

lowdimension.net updates and ninja monkeys

lowdimension.net In the head of me

29.10.03 - It's dark, scary and some things aren't allowed due to international laws, BUT some of the ideas that pop up are actually quite nice ones, read more inside...

lowdimension.net SharpTray 0.4.0.7

25.10.03 - New version out!

lowdimension.net icons!

17.10.03 - some amazing icons here, go look, download, play my prettys*rubs.claws.together*

lowdimension.net Tagline Competition

lowdimension.net meep

08.10.03 - i'm alive! muahahahaha!

lowdimension.net SharpBar 0.4.0.16

01.10.03 - This time WORKING Delphi 6 compiled and with a changelog almost as long as my ****.

lowdimension.net LDI Newness

23.09.03 - again snowchyld gives us the new stuff. yay! :D

lowdimension.net don't believe the lies

12.09.03 - neMule was not the first plugin to have a picture with the current minithrobber, and i am not working on SharpHelp, which you will not enjoy very much :)

lowdimension.net neMule

12.09.03 - nemokins has outdone himself, the first plugin with the nifty new throbber ;)

lowdimension.net New Folders Plugin!

08.09.03 - Billi the hard working 3rd party dev has a nice new quality plugin for ya, details inside

lowdimension.net SharpBar 0.4.0.15 was out

06.09.03 - Details and some comments on it inside.Update: Retracted release, revert back to .14 until issues solved.

lowdimension.net Status Report #?

23.08.03 - News is slow these days, working hard on what is to be PB5, click on in for a news update you may like

lowdimension.net happy birthday.. mister... president

07.08.03 - lalalalHIPPO BBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRDY LOOOOOOOOOOOWSY

lowdimension.net handle with care, this side up

LiteStep Installer 2.9.4

Issue 7 underway ...

SceneChat by seb

PrintScreen Archive

New scheme uploaded

Site Schemes

Happy 1st birthday Shell-Shocked!

Welcome Gnomies!

Search Engine Queries

Issue #6 PDF Version

geoShell Plugins GeoXWM 1.3.0

Download the 'Additional Zip File' not the 'DLL File'* I plan to change the desktop-switch-after-window-closed behaviour in a future version< Author : eikonos - Updated on 6 Nov 03 - 4:03:14 PM]

geoShell Plugins geOStatPlus 1.27

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 5 Nov 03 - 1:37:45 AM]

geoShell Plugins GeoMP32 1.31

A plugin designed to emulate the functionality of GeoMP3, but more reliably. :) See 'notes' in the additional zip file for setup and info.< Author : meester jones - Updated on 30 Oct 03 - 1:01:12 PM]

geoShell Plugins GeoClip 1.0.4

GeoClip is a GeoShellPlugin which keeps old text that is sent to the clipboard (via copy or cut), and lets you bring it back for pasting later. You can also specify static clips that are always available.docs.geoshell.com/­R4/­GeoClip< Author : Pistos - Updated on 27 Oct 03 - 10:35:04 AM]

geoShell Plugins GeoVol2xp 10.1beta

A new, smaller volume control with an XP style speaker graphic.< Author : Snarf - Updated on 26 Oct 03 - 10:38:33 AM]

geoShell Plugins Geo Skin 1.0

Not a plugin as such, more an application to switch skins / themes.Features:- Previews skinned and unskinned bars / menu / splash screen/ wallpaper.- Sets colour scheme, splash screen and wallpaper from the skin's directory.- Lets you create and edit colour schemes and export them out to .reg files.- Can recurse into skin directories, import old skins / colour settings, apply a random skin on startup, apply a skin to all or specific Geo Bars...- Very small and inoffensive as it's written in C++.< Author : meester jones - Updated on 12 Oct 03 - 3:53:50 PM]

geoShell Plugins GeoBuddy 1.0b3

At last... An easy way to configure GeoShell!GeoBuddy is a new control panel for GeoShell users. With it, you can: * Easily set GeoShell/Explorer as the default shell * Change desktop settings (globally, or per-monitor) * Add/remove plugins * Change individual plugin settings * Add/edit/remove menus * Add/edit/remove hotkeys (plus descriptions!) * Add/edit/remove launch items * Add/edit/remove GeoBars * Backup your GeoShell registry settings automaticallyI'm currently working on the 'ShellUI' module, which will allow you to add, edit, or remove skins and color themes. Meanwhile, I recommend using the great Geo Skin 1.0 by meester jones.This version is currently 100% compatible with Geoshell vR4.11R4. It's been thoroughly tested, and looks extremely stable. Of course, you're bound to find some bugs, since thery're both in beta right now. If you do find bugs in GeoBuddy, please send them in, and I'll fix them ASAP. I am also accepting feature requests & suggestions for future releases, but please do keep flames to a minimum.You need to have Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML 4.0) installed in your systems in order to be able to check for updates. you can download them here. You also need to make sure that you have the Visual Basic Runtimes. You can download those here.< Author : bernardokuri - Updated on 7 Oct 03 - 5:23:03 PM]

geoShell Plugins geOInput 1.4

geOInput by NMs< Author : nms - Updated on 29 Sep 03 - 11:40:50 AM]

geoShell Plugins GeoMenuLaunch 4.2.4

It is used to place your menus or application shortcuts to a GeoBar. It combines (and replaces) GeoMenu and GeoLaunch in one plugin< Author : eikonos - Updated on 18 Sep 03 - 6:44:19 AM]

geoShell News Feed GeoShell 4.11 Released

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geoShell News Feed GeoShell.com downloads will be 100% Open Source

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geoShell News Feed Voice Chat!

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geoShell News Feed irc.freenode.net problems

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geoShell News Feed GeoShell R4.11 RC3

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snowchyld horse leaps car and alpaca's

i forget to moblog it o_O kicking myself now... was helping dayLite out with a horse show thingy and myself and ashley had the niftyness of having our cars lept over during an action sequence for the freelance class (he...

snowchyld Fallout 2

after about *thinks* four or five years i'm finally going to get to play Fallout 2 its a brilliant game, i've just never had time.. wish me luck.. on AIM as snowchylddotorg if you wanna poke me or anything ^_^...

snowchyld johnny pop and the cure for a hangover is water

lots of water woke up this morning without a massive hangover, the night was a blur, myself and 'johnny pop' with 'jose cuervo' made an interesting time. a blur i tell you.. will be at my dad's place today looking...

snowchyld johnny pop

i just got back from jamming with the band johnny pop i think they changed their name back from johnny bordeux to johnny pop i could be wrong, moblogging the evening with them, waitresss included tequila is bad mmmkay ?...

snowchyld TouchGraph Google Browser

Now this is the niftyest thing i've seen all week: the TouchGraph Google Browser a visual display of interlinking between sites.. go on.. play ^_^...

snowchyld today was thursday and it was a bad day

today sucked a lot woke up with low blood sugars and managed to hit a curb whilst doing a u-turn tyre popped... click for pictures (yes i mobbloged it) spent the day at a tyre place getting them replaced ergh...

snowchyld Final Fantasy XI online

i found a video from Real Life Comics which showed Final Fantasy XI online oh my god screw this hippy everquest rubbish this game is sexy as HELL..i just hope and pray it has playability in fighting.. not the old...

snowchyld London

I will be in london / isle of man from 18 December till 4 January 2004, anyone want to hook up, let me know.....

snowchyld orc sperm

'KILLER' changed his name.. his spelling is a tad off.. and well... i mention it and ask about his fetish.. i'm sure its a warcraft 3 thing but.. THE 'KILLER' GRUNTS ARE CUMING says: This is no fetish THE 'KILLER'...

snowchyld JoiIto site redesign by Bopuc

Joi Ito's blog has had a redesign done by Bopuc (Boris) the code is a lot tighter, and looks fantastic ^_^...

snowchyld Lowspirit blogs ^_^

Lowspirit blogs after swearing he will never ever ever ever ever go there muahahah *CONVERTS* *SCORES*...

snowchyld New Site Design

thanks to gary for making the css less sucky still a lot of work needed, but hey.. a lot better now...

snowchyld Prey

just finished reading Michael Crichton's Prey, a book on nanotechnology, artificial life, and... code ;) i seriously recommend reading it, from now on as i'm reading a book, or playing a game, i'll link it on my side bar (yes...

snowchyld Chaos Legion

Spent this evening playing Chaos Legion.. fantastic PS2 game.. tommorow i'm off to Spier where they are having a horse show, apparently there is a cheetah breeding ground there as well, so wtch the moblog from around 11am GMT+2 tommorow...

snowchyld Ti vs iBook

i wanna iBook either the orange (tangerine) or the graphite ones running OsX (panther anyone ?) its good to dream happy halloween everyone pumpkin orange would be so nifty *twiddles*...

ShellFront netloadmodule 2.4.3

ShellFront Novell moving up in the world...

ShellFront oborzevatel

ShellFront new eyecandy module updated - bgcolors 1.01

ShellFront new LS module: bgcolors

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ShellFront new popup2 and icondesk

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ShellFront LS Installer 3.0.1

Shellscape Serenade 5 beta 6

Shellscape Mozilla Firebird 0.7

Shellscape Foobar2000 0.7

Shellscape Pine 4.58 available

Shellscape ShortPopup 4.1

Shellscape iTasks, iLib for iShell

Shellscape BBin

Shellscape Visualizer IB v.2.4

Shellscape New Shell : Xoblite

Shellscape Site Update

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Virtual Plastic EAT logo and 403 messages...

Virtual Plastic DialogMate v1.53

Virtual Plastic Magic...

Virtual Plastic Modzine #6

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Teknidermy NewsSTAND Digital Timepiece Skinnable windows clock replacement.

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Teknidermy NewsSTAND Art'n'Skins down, but will be back

Teknidermy NewsSTAND Defragmenter Lite/Pro/Plus 1.2 released.

Tweakfiles "Ahh the Grey" by skip

Tweakfiles "mahjong_blackwhite" by [extatic]

Tweakfiles "mahjong_black" by [extatic]

Tweakfiles "Hacking the Classic Start Menu" by CyberSlug

Tweakfiles "Spark 082" by Azathoth

Tweakfiles "BackTrans 10" by Azathoth

Tweakfiles "Shade 13" by Azathoth

Tweakfiles "DeskSwitch 13" by Azathoth

Tweakfiles "TreeHugger" by Grigri

Tweakfiles "BruB skin" by BruB

Ad banner

Some of you may have noticed the Google ad banner at the top of the page. By clicking on the links in the banner, you are helping support the Samurize Project so we can continue to provide the Samurize community with support, services, and (most importantly ) the Samurize releases.A few clicks can go a long way in helping support us and the awesome webhosting provided by our host Chew

Serious Samurize 0.98b Release: Tab fix

Some people were having issues with calendar scripts and 0.98 - this has been fixed along with a few extras I had done at the time 0.98b changes:* pie graph "donuts" possible* Cut, Select All edit menu options* text tabbing routine restored to 0.97 settings* more language settings* fixed drivespace error with audio CDs

Serious Samurize 0.98 Release: Samurize Goes Multilingual!

Version 0.98 is available now, and has multilanguage support.If you want to get translating Samurize into your native language, check out this forum thread for the English language file and instructions on how to go about translating.Language files can be uploaded to the Download section. The more common languages will ship with Samurize itself. Naturally translators will be acknowledged appropriately Bug Fixes:* fixed MBM loading issue* fixed textfile meter force update in config* fixed Pie graph minimum bug* fixed vertical reversed progressbar bug* fixed reading numerical data from text file/console meter* fixed histogram display bug* fixed issue with alert colour alphas not being set correctlyNew Features:* global hotkeys for reloading and pausing configs* multilanguage settings via .lng files (in the 'lang' directory)Improvements:* Perfmon meters set up incorrectly should not give floating point errors etc* Pie graphs and analog meters rewritten to allow greater customization* Additional pointer types for analog meters* Total up/down traffic saved every 10mins when 'Reset on reboot' is disabled* Custom colours remembered in config editor* negative line spacings allowedUPDATE: For those of you having trouble with language files, download the installer again.

Config Competiton: We have a winner!

Look like new dego 2.0 is the winning config in the config competition Congratulations dego!Here are the results:samuziq 1.7 14 % (30 votes)LoadedReality 2003 27 % (59 votes)new dego 2.0 58 % (123 votes)Total Votes: 212Total Voters: 212

Config Competition: Vote for the best!

The three finalists for the Config competition are:samuziq 1.7 by uziqLoadedReality 2003 by levinetnew dego 2.0 by degoHave a look at each config, and cast your votes on the poll The winner will be rewarded with a special status name, a block on the main page with his config until the next contest and the right to make a tutorial about how he did his config (design ideas etc.) that will be posted in the Tutorials section on the site Voting will close one week from the posting of this news item.For more information, see the forum post here.

Serious Samurize 0.97 Release [UPDATE]

Here's the latest release to whet your appetites You can get it here.BUG FIXES:- fixed incorrect preview values for WMI meters in config.exe- fixed WMI string bug that crept in v0.93f- autoloaded MBM reloads after hibernation- fixed select tool bugNEW FEATURES- pie graphs! - added Ellipse, RoundedRectangle draw shapes- invertible/reversible graphs/histograms- Vertical alignment for text meters- Foobar player meter- progressbar split spacing by % as well as pixelsIMPROVEMENTS- Improved WMI meter listing- backgrounds remembered- Test All Scripts option- X/Y/Width/Height boxes for PNGs- installer detects OS version- Balloon help for some common problems (WinXP only?)- tabs displayed correctly in text meters- multiple meter copy/paste in editor- changed display for null/inaccessible meter valuesAs usual, please report any bugs on the Bug Reporting page.UPDATE:Fixed a few critical (but uncommon) bugs.

Serious Samurize 0.93f Release

Small release to fix a problem with up/down meters (but also includes a few things I was working on at the time )Bugfixes:- configs will still load if PNG images cannot be found; they just won't be displayed (instead of showing an error)- corrupt registry data for up/down meters is automatically fixedNew Features:- selectable taskbar icons (only a few at this stage)

Serious Samurize 0.93e Release

This release mainly features bugfixes, most notably the one for the up/down meters not storing totals correctly.The next release will be a lot more substantial BUG FIXES:- all parameter names now displayed for ActiveScript functions- fixed bug with non-resetting up/down meters when set to display in KB/MB/GB- up/down meters theoretical maximum is now ~8million terabytes!!- Dialog titles for Save, Load... now correct- WMI meters show array values correctly (eg. IPAddress for win32_networkadapterconfiguration)- WMI meters do not cause the client to lag anymore- Browsing to console programs now works correctlyIMPROVEMENTS:- 1x1 grid size- Prompt for saving changes on Quit/New/Open- Quiet Quit/New/Open when no changes made- Update interval added to WMI metersYou can get it from the Downloads section as usual NOTE:If you get some kind of error like "xxx.xxx is not a valid integer number", then go into your registry and remove the keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Serious Samurize\General\

Competition Registration Closed

The registrations for the competition have now closed, and our entrants are hard at work creating their ultimate Samurize skin and config. We will accept final submittals of work on the 12th of October, closing date for the competition.After that the crew will judge the top 5 entries and the community can judge the winner. Our winner will receive a feature in our articles section where they can describe and explain their work in a tutorial fashion. We eagerly await what our top skinners can come up with.

Best Samurize Config Contest

With the new website running smoothly, and the coinciding release of v0.93d of Serious Samurize, we are very happy with the way things are progressing in the both the development lifecycle and stability of site and software. So in celebration, it is time to start a small contest for the best Samurize config. This will not be judged on your desktop, wallpaper or Windows visual style, but your Samurize config and skin only. We would like to see the best the community has to offer and showcase just how customizable Samurize truly is.If you wish to participate, register your interest in the following forum thread. You have until the 5th October to register for the competition and the winner will be selected on the 12th. That gives all competitors one full week to create their config & skin.The winner will be featured in the tutorials section with a full article on how they created their config and skin. Remember, it should be readable, original and contain a variety of information that you feel others would find useful. Read the additional article information for more about the competition.Best of luck, The Crew

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WinXPcentral.com MS Virtual PC 2004 - Set to roll.

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WinXPcentral.com MS Plan "A" For Longhorn

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NeoWin.net foobar2000 v0.7.3

NeoWin.net AutoPatcher 4.1 (November Update)

NeoWin.net XPlayer 2.2.9 Release Version

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NeoWin.net Office 2003 Research Service SDK

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alphaLSCP - update

Well, it was a pain - trying to do something for ls is always a pain.I think lscp/alscp was the more controversial ls-related app ever.In about 14 months from its first release, it had a lot of negative feedback, a lot of opposition inside indie dev team, and then it was simply ignored from the 24.7 dev team.Now, also the OTS installer has dropped alscp (wich was build to be used with 24.7) because24.7 "... does not has a control panel inside". So, to cut a long story short, I've decided to do a big favour to the ls community: I'll

Carbon6 section

Ok, carbon lokai 0.30 is really good. I've been using it since 2 weeks now, and it rocks.Of course, it still lacks a lot of things - but hey, it's a baby, and it is fastly growing up :)Some things I'm missing are are some kind of infos I usually get with labels.dll in Litestep... so here hey are, 2 little "Tray Applets":1. CarbonCal - shows the date in the systray2. CarbonIP - shows the current IP address in a tooltipYou can find them in the downloads section

alphaEdit3 Updates

It is a big success: after 15 days, 66 downloads ... :(and: many thanks for the support goes to the following litestep/shell related sites: shellscape, desktopian, lsuniverse, litestep.net, lsthemes and loose-screws for having kindly ignored the release of alphaedit3...No need to mention shellfront, of course...

alphaEdit3 - beta 01

For a description and some screenshot, please see the review by Verbalshadow (thanks!) on ShellShocked (thanks!).Some notes about this beta:1. installation: simply unzip wherever you want, keeping the folder structure2. no readme/help/manual. simply play with options - it should be easy to understand 3. .alc files: they will be replaced in the next beta with the new xlmfiles raidcow is working on.4. This beta has also the purpose to get some help for module templatesand code snippet - anyone has something to share?5. bugs? probably a lot. please let me know about them, and we'll

Phil's requests

From Phil's comment to alphaLSCP beta 0.2:Could alphaLSCP use the modules it loads to work without complaining when it isn't located in $litestepdir$? It would be nice to be able to keep it somewhere else :) No biggie, but it doesn't hurt to ask despite the comments in your post :DSorry Phil, I don't understand exactly what you mean :(Could you give me more details?Not running an OTS theme so couldn't test that, but the litestep log location appears to be broken - it expects to find it in the current LSCP folder (i.e. $litestepdir$) rather than the defined location in

alphaLSCP - beta 0.2

mmhh.. ok, let's try again...the alphaLSCP beta 0.2 is available in the downloads section.I've coded the alphaLSCP only because I want to have a control panel for LS, and I make it available for downloads only because *maybe* someone else could find it useful. So: if you want, use it, if you don't like, don't use it. To me, it's ok if you use it or not - but please don't waste your time (and my time) telling me why you don't like it or why you'll never use it - instead of wasting your time, go and code your own

alphaLSCP beta 0.1 removed

Download removed - alphaLSCP is too buggy and bloated and God-only-knows what else...Thanks to people who made me realize the horrible error I made when I uploaded alphaLSCP here. Starting from now, I'll be like 99% of other LS users: I'll wait for someone else to do something, and then I'll jump over him telling how what he did is horrible, bad, unacceptable, buggy etc.Of course, I strongly encourage you all to delete alphaLSCP from your hard-disks, before the included self-destruction routine blows out your computer and your house...< Update ]Hey boys - it was a joke - to my knowledge,

alphaLSCP - beta 0.1 BUG

The alphaLSCP beta 0.1 has a serious bug in OTS Theme Changer - it writes a wrong Step.rc, so please don't use it to change theme... :)The next beta will fix this bug

alphaLSCP - beta 0.1

I've been working on alphaLSCP since the last 3 weeks... since the release of the first 24.7 beta - mainly because of some stupid comments about it (yes, I'm talking about rootrider).So I took that horrible "huge blob of code", and recoded it, making it compatible (as much as possible right now) with 24.6 and 24.7, and adding all the things I wanted to be there...There is a readme, please read it before trying to use alphaLSCP ;)By the way, after 9 months of praying and begging with the 24.7 dev team members, it is clear that LSCP will be no

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fizzy >> some mirc and modz stuff Fizzy in french?

fizzy >> some mirc and modz stuff Microsoft/Stardock/Neowin.net chat about Longhorn

fizzy >> some mirc and modz stuff Winamp 5 beta2 is released.

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fizzy >> some mirc and modz stuff New downloads!!!!

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e107v0.603 / Revision #5

Here's revision 5, I apologize for the couple of annoying bugs that crept in with the last revision, this should fix those up nicely ...e107_plugins/login_menu/login_menu.php : reported via forum : changed maxlegth value in login formclass2.php : upgrade : caching now handled modularly from functionse107_admin/links.php : Bugtrack ID 417 : badly formed urls in submitted links now parsede107_plugins/headlines_menu/headlines_menu.php : Bugtrack ID 414 : added a stream_set_timeout()class2.php : Bugtrack ID 413 : added new tag -

Links

The links page is back up, please feel free to submit your site for inclusion if appropriate.

e107v0.603 / Revision #4

Here's revision #4 ...class2.php : Bugrtrack ID --- : removed commented out lastvisit codeforum_viewtopic.php : upgrade : added teo new template functions - {BACKLINK} is like {BREADCRUMB} but doesn't render the thread, {THREADNAME} renders the thread onlye107_handlers/news_handler.php : upgrade : added new template function - {CAPTIONCLASS} will render the news caption as per the defined csse107_themes/clan/theme.php : reported via irc : removed unused template function from chatboxstyleuser.php : Bugtrack ID --- : admin perms checked for user editing, cannot edit other adminschangelog.php : Bugtrack ID --- : redirects to front page if no request sentclass2.php : reported via irc :

Get your e107 themes fix here....

Hi all,Seems the e107themes.org site has had some down time the past few days.I've worked with Lolo to add an alt download location on e107themes.com.Currently all themes are unsorted and have no screen shots.I will update the site soon with screenshots ect.Skip on over to

Flash tutorials

Lolo has produced two wonderful flash tutorials on installing e107 for beginners, take a look at them here. I'll be adding a link to them on the docs -> installing page when I get a minute. Thanks Lolo :)

e107v0.603 / Revision #3

Here's revision #3 ...e107_admin/article.php : Bugtrack ID 331 : articles/content pages are flushed from cache when updateddownload.php : Bugtrack ID 332 : added missing lan settingse107_languages/English/lan_download.php : Bugtrack ID 332 : as abovee107_plugins/chatbox_menu/languages/English.php : Bugtrack ID 333 : fixed link, didn't work in subdirslinks.php : not reported : submit link now shows on category pageuser.php : Bugtrack ID 335 : last visit now displayed correctly as current visitlinks.php : Bugtrack ID 336 : link button now shown correctly if stored on serversignup.php : upgrade

e107 UK

Uwe Peters has set up an e107 site geared towards us tea drinkers, it's at http://www.e107.org.uk, get along and join up.

e107v0.603 / Revision #2

I'm working really silly shifts for the next week or so so I wanted to get this version out and clear up any outstanding bugs that I knew about, I apologize for the updates ...e107_admin/footer.php : upgrade : cache now emptied on a weekly basis if caching is enablede107_handlers/np_class.php : upgrade : had a few requests for an xoops type next/previous so here it is, if you want to use it comment out the old code and uncomment out the new, you can see an example of it on e107.org (under the news items)class2.php :

e107v0.603 / Revision #1

Here's revision #1 for 0.603 ...class2.php : upgrade : links in forum etc now open in new windowe107_admin/admin.php : upgrade : adminlog now shows under Mozilla/Opera (fix by Lolo - thanks)class2.php : upgrade : image posting does ot affect admin posts ( thought I'd already fixed this, oh well ... )e107_languages/English/lan_oldpolls.php : Bugtrack ID 325 : added missing lan settinge107_admin/prefs.php : Bugtrack ID 324 : corrected syntax errorcomment.php : Bugtrack ID 323 : news items with comments turned off redirect to front pageforum_viewtopic.php : Bugtrack ID

Documentation Project

Now I've added the few things I was planning to the core, I'm going to concentrate on the docs for a while. You can see the first few completed docs here.Anyone interested in helping out please contact me for my everlasting gratitude :)

SORRY!

Here is the link to the download. I dont know how the hell I missed putting a download link...To make sure everyone see's it now, I will use annoying CAPS...THE DOWNLOAD OF fIRCu DOWNLOAD HERE

Whats the deal....

I have been working my ass off on looking for a job so I have hjad no time to work on fIRCu, and at the moment, finding a job is on my priority list. Whenever I get one, hopefully I will have more time to work on fIRCu. I keep everyone posted.

Release of fIRCu Alpha Test

I have posted the alpha of fIRCu and I really need help to find all of the bugs. I already know of some of the child window drawing problems. Email me at mailto:csneed@onek.org with your results. Let I remind you once more that this is a TEST VERSION, so it is going to have a few problems.I am going to be gone all week until thursday afternoon, so the next release will more than likely be next week. The transparency on windows are all permanent, except the channel windows can be adjusted to whatever you like by the transparency menu at

fIRCu

The new name. I am doing some finishing touches on the client and will be ready to release soon.

Feces Occurs

Well, I DID do a search for bIRCh on google to make sure that bIRCh was not used already for a name of an irc client. I went more indepth into my search tonight and what do you know, I might have found one. I will do more research later to see for sure. Who knows, maybe it is a fals lead.

bIRCh...almost done....almost

I have been gone for a few days and have not been able to do any work on bIRCh as planned. I am also in the process of looking for a job so my time will still be limited. I only have a few more thing to do beofre I release a first copy, and that will probably take place this weekend. I have a severe sunburn so I dont think i will be doing much of anything else :0

Doing WAY better than expected....

Well, It might take me way less than a week to get a release. I have broken through all of the barriers almost and moving on really well. Hopefully This will turn out way better than "Indium" was, although Indium was a web browser not an IRC client. Anyway,keep checking back within the next day or so and you will probably find a release postedHere are some of the details of what bIRCh includes...bIRCh's source is based on BIRCH source code, so it has all the features one would expect for an IRC client.bIRCh can be made transparent. No other iRC

bIRCh Update

I have started working on bIRCh, although having some trouble, It is coming along ok. I am still not going to say whatt he features will be until I have a first release done, which more than likely will be within a week.PLEASE: If you like this site, please help support it by linking to us. In return I would be more than happy to do the same. Isn't part of the internet about making friends....we won't go into calling people asshats and recieving 100's of junk email a day that you do not want :)

bIRCh

yay, I got the craziest idea of coding an IRC client today, and I think I am going to take a crack at it. It might work...and it might not. I do have plans for it, but I do not want to go into detail on what those are until I have actualy started. For now the name of it will be "bIRCh" but that may change in the future, it all just depends. I am now going to start late-spring cleaning (formatting) my hard drive.The word formatting just drives chills donw my spine, I dont know about you :)

NVidia Cheats at futuremark

Futuremark, the creater of the ever popular "3dmark" series, has accused nvidia of adding code to their drivers to cheat it's bencmarking utility. In my personal experience, 3dmark has always been a very reliable benchmark, and I trust them. Nvidia, on the other hand has also had a very good reputation with their drivers, and product performance. Here is the catch, nvidia claims that the "cheats" that futuremark uncovered are actually only driver bugs. What happened? After all the comments on how nvidia drivers are some of the best coded drivers and how they are almost bug free, how could

Advogato CodeCon 2004 Call For Papers

CodeCon 3.0 will be February 20-22 in San Francisco. Submissions are due on December 15th.

Advogato Wikitravel: Functional Copyleft Content for Travelers

Detractors from the idea of Copyleft Content often point to the factthat non-software expression is not functional in the same way thatsoftware is, and therefore doesn't need the same user-maintenancemechanics that software does. Oh, well, except softwaredocumentation. But that's it, right? Is any other type of non-softwareinformation functional? Perhaps Wikitravel is.

Advogato Savannah looks for volunteer help

The GNU Project's public free software development site, Savannah, is looking for a volunteer to help handling requests.

Advogato GNU-Darwin: GNU listing, FSF bounty program

We have new links at GNU Project, and they have provided a bounty program to help us keep non-free software out of our Distribution.[shortened link]

Advogato rpm --version -> RPM Version 4.1.1

On SuSE 9.0 they use rpm version 4.1.1In this version: rpm -ba file.spec no longer works (option -b unknown)At http://www.rpm.org I can't find documents/howtos for the new versionCan anybody help ?

Advogato Towards a New Paradigm for C++ Program Development

Despite all of the advances that have been made to C++, the languagestandard still retains a limitation inherent in C's roots: a sourcecode store in the form of interdependent text files. It's high time thisstate of affairs was improved.

Advogato Movie studios trying to expand technology regulations

"The DMCA doesn't go far enough" must be the refrain of movie studio executives and lawyers (and other media companies) who are still pushing expanded technology regulations before the Federal Communications Commission.

Advogato Debian and Democracy

Two unrelated words. From experience.

Advogato VeriSlime update

ICAAN issued an ultimatum here: ICAAN Advisory Concerning Demand to Remove VeriSign's WildcardVeriSlime has announced that it will comply, right on the deadline, not before here:Verisign Press Release This organization is one that is already infamous to long term citizens of the net for its handling of the crucial 'dotcom' TLD. This latest insult to us all is one that should not go unpunished. They have already voided their contract, IMO. Why not just take it away from them and give it to someone else?

Advogato EFF trusted computing position

Security models that treat the computer owner as the adversary are the problem. Reliable knowledge of a remote computer's internal software state is the tool that enables applications with such security models.

Google Weblog Labs: Google Deskbar

Google Deskbar is a windows app that lets you search Google without opening the browser, from any application....

Google Weblog Google Indexing IRC?

Tony Collen reports (confirmed by Google and others, apparently) that Google is sending robots to IRC channels (internet chat rooms) as part of some experiment. Since things said in chat rooms are traditionally considered very private, I can't imagine what they plan to do....

Google Weblog Google Planning IPO, Microsoft Buyout

The New York Times confirms the bad news: Google is planning an IPO. And even worse, they've been discussing a merger with Microsoft. "The company

Google Weblog Google Creating New Book Database?

Publishers Weekly is reporting that Google is meeting with publishers, asking for copies of book text to put in Google, and showing them detailed mock-ups of what it would look like. According to the New York Times, Google representatives have declined to comment. (Thanks, Eric!)...

Google Weblog Google Founders on Fresh Air

Fresh Air's Terry Gross interviews Larry and Sergey. Some highlights: Terry asks if there are countries that block Google results. Their first answer: the United States. "The United States has the Digital Millenium Copyright Act

Google Weblog Google and Search Inside the Book

You probably know by now that Amazon has released the first of its A9 search offerings: Search Inside the Book. (If you don't, basically when you search on Amazon it searches the full text of thousands of books, and points you not only to the book, but to scanned copies of all the pages that match your search.) So what should Google do? This is a perfect time to cut a deal with Amazon: Amazon lets them index the text of all these books, and in return, Google sends tons of customers to Amazon's door. Putting the books in the search results wouldn't be any different than the search results already provided by Amazon, so there wouldn't be any copyright or lost-sales problems. Despite the amazingness of the Web, there's still some stuff you can find only in books. Google wouldn't be living up to their mission (to organize all the world's information) if they passed up this amazing opportunity....

Google Weblog Google Glossary, Stock Quote Links

Continuing Google's quest to build everything into the search results, Google Glossary has gone live on the main Google site. Do a search for something like define elephant or define dna and you get back a definition with your search results. Search for define: dna or click "more results" to see the rest of the definitions. Google Glossary is also still available separately, as part of Google Labs. Also, when you do a search for a search like apple or dell, links to company home pages now also include a stock quote link, like: Stock Quotes: AAPL. (Thanks, Ido Kenan!) In other news: Some Chinese bloggers have reported that China has blocked Google again. AdSense is going to require US tax numbers starting in November. And a French court made a silly ruling against Google, saying it's illegal to sell ads for searches that include trademarks. The ruling is expected to be overturned on appeal....

Google Weblog Victory: Google Updates Terms and Conditions

Google has updated their Terms and Conditions, removing the sentence that required no public statements be made about AdSense. However, they do add that people using Google trademarks should follow their Permission Guidelines, which seem a bit excessive. (All the other changes are pretty minor.) Thanks, Google!...

Google Weblog Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When Blocking Spam

Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence: when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where spam results manage to rise to the top, very few -- sometimes zero -- results will be returned. Examples: motorcycle candle, keyboard bracelet. These are common words for which you'd expect to see results (in fact, the latter even says there are thousands of results) but the bug prevents them from being seen. Eliminating the spam pages (by blocking a word, antenna, that appears on them) allows full results to be displayed. It's pretty amazing that such a serious bug made it past Google's tests. It will be interesting to see how quickly it's fixed....

Google Weblog Interview with Google News Creator

The Online Journalism Review (OJR) has an in-depth interview with Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News. (Here's a photo of the Google News team with the Webby Award they won.)There are no press releases on the browsable pages or news pages. We have a higher editorial responsibility on those because we're telling you where you should look. On the news pages, we do not intend to use press releases. We would never do anything to compromise the objectivity of the product. We don't even show advertising … we do this because we think it's useful. Making a press release available as part of the search results gives the full facts that were available to the reporter when they wrote it.I want this to be a force for a democracy. I want us to be an honest broker, and I want newspapers featured on our site to get traffic from us. … There's never been a more controversial time on the planet. I think it's great to be a news source at this point because there's so much hunger for news. You see a lot more diversity in the news coverage on our site than on others. I think the diversity is a mirror to the diversity of opinion there is worldwide. One of the things that makes us objective is we show all points of view. Even if you disagree with one, we give you both -- the majority and the minority point of view. The ones you don't agree with are education. It's nice to know what the other side is thinking. You'll see left-leaning ones as much as much as you see right-leaning ones. Frankly, the software doesn't know the difference between left and right, which is good.Google News is available in ten different national versions....

Google Weblog Shut Up and Serve Ads

Russell Beattie points out that Google's terms of service requires that you not publicly discuss AdSense. Jason Kottke points out this "seems to fly in the face of Sergey Brin's Google rule #1: 'Don't be evil'." Cory Doctorow agrees saying "Google shouldn't ask all its users to submit to an unreasonable restriction on their speech in order to contain the spread of negative information about its service." Meanwhile, other annoying provisions are that you can't: have multiple accounts (which is useful when you want to keep separate statistics for separate sites), talk to advertisers about their ads, disclose any results, get paid for anything Google considers "fradulent clicks", find out why they're considered "fraudulent clicks", pass on payments to anyone. And Google can cancel you whenever without a reason. Erik Thauvin and Derek Powazek, both well-respected web writers, got their accounts and payments canceled for "fraudulent clicks", even though they didn't try to cheat. They ran ads for Google and now Google refuses to show them any evidence of wrongdoing or pay them for their space. Some suggest that Google simply cancels accounts when they payouts get too high to avoid paying. *Update:* We previously reported that the don't-talk-about-AdSense provision was recently added. Several sources, including a Google employee, have said this is a mistake. We've corrected the story above and apologize for the error....

Google Weblog Personalization

Reuters is reporting that Google has purchased Kaltix, a small Stanford startup building personalized search tools. It'll be interesting to see if and how Google integrates this. Personalized search is an obvious next step, but Google has some interesting concerns. First, personalized search will make it harder to share Google results with others. If I search for widgets, see some good stuff and email the link to you, you might get some totally different results. Second, personalized search will probably provide less accurate results when you search for something outside of your normal area of interest. If you're a big basketball fan, but you need to research actual bulls, it'll be difficult because Google will keep giving you results about the basketball team. Finally, it's really hard to do personalized search for each of the zillions of people who use Google....

Google Weblog More on Google Size Limit

Previously we reported on speculation that Google may be hitting a size limit: standard C coding uses 32-bits of storage for numbers, which means that Google might be running out of numbers to identify new documents with. Adding further credence to this theory is the fact that Google has finally added more pages to their results, but only by using a separate supplemental index. I can't think of any good reasons to do this except to get around the size restriction....

Google Weblog Google Search Counter

Google is beta testing a search counter for frequent searchers. It tracks how many times you visit Google.com. Please send in screenshots, HTML source, cookies or other information if you have this....

Google Weblog Malware Hijacking Google Homepage

A lot of malware has been going around lately, some of it preventing you from visiting the actual Google website, or putting up a notice when you try to visit. The most common reason for this is spyware or malware -- software that's included with other programs and stows away in your computer watching what you're doing, popping up ads, and doing other bad things. To get rid of it, you can install LavaSoft's Ad-Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy. Both are free but neither me nor Google are recommending either....

Why schools should use exclusively free software

There are general reasons why all computer users should insist on free software. It gives users the freedom to control their own computers--with proprietary software, the computer does what the software owner wants it to do, not what you want it to do. And it gives users the freedom to cooperate with each other, to lead an upright life. These apply to schools as they do to everyone. But there are special reasons that apply to schools.

Special Boston Desktop Linux Conference Deal for LUG Members

Responding to many requests, The Desktop Linux Consortium has announced that Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) of Cambridge, MA has offered to support members of Linux User Groups (LUGs) in attending the Desktop Linux Consortium Conference at Boston University's Corporate Education Center by offering a limited number of spots for LUG members for US $25. The regular fee for this conference is $250, so this is a pretty good deal. And as a special, free bonus, you'll get to meet NewsForge managing editor Lee Schlesinger, who will be moderating the "Linux and Security" panel.

Get paid to stop using Linux?

The offer isn't from Microsoft, as you'd expect, but from our good friends at SCO. We didn't make this up. NewsForge obviously enjoys a good joke as much as anyone, but this is beyond anything our feeble imaginations could have cooked up, and the worst part is, we don't think it's meant to be a joke. It's a real story at a respected news site, not marked as "humor" or any such, under the non-funny headline, Linux Migration Incentives Planned by SCO.

Linux Advisory Watch - November 7th 2003

This week, advisories were released for bugzilla, apache, fileutils, postgresql, CUPS, and thttpd. The distributors include Conectiva, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Linux, Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE.

Moodss for monitoring

Jean-Luc Fontaine is 47 years old. He has a lot of varied interests including physics, martial arts, motorcycles, the blues, and free software. He lives and works today in MIS in Bordeaux, France, where he says the greatest wine in the world is made. He worked in the Silicon Valley, Japan, and Paris before settling in Bordeaux. And speaking of an interest in free software, the code that he used to write his monitoring package called Moodss has earned high praise from Eric Raymond in his new book "The Art of Unix Programming", where he writes "The code is polished, mature, and considered an exemplar in the Tcl community."

Rapid Application Development with QT

RAD, or rapid application development, is a method of quickly developing software. RAD programs allow you to create a graphical user interface in minutes. You start with an empty form, click and drag things like input fields and buttons to the proper positions, and the RAD tools write and maintain the code for you. All that is left is for you to work out which actions should take place when you press buttons and select menu options.

CLI for noobies: everything's a file

This is the third and final file-related article in the Linux CLI for noobies series. But before we remove our GUI water-wings and dive into the CLI end of the pool to solve the final file mystery, we'll do a quick recap of the series to-date to make sure everyone is up-to-snuff. I also want to take this opportunity to give a shout-out to our friends at Microsoft who are underlining the importance of getting out of the GUI box occasionally and feeling the power of CLI by deciding to "invent" a CLI for Leghorn. Or is that Foghorn? Whatever, it is the name Microsoft is using for their new vaporware OS. It's scheduled to launch in three years, so if the history of MS operating system launches are any guide, it should be here by 2009. And what a compliment that MS calls it "monad." Redmond touting the benefits of a CLI? Amazing. Who knows, maybe their lead designers have been among the noobies learning from this series all along. Corrected

Linux kernel development process thwarts subversion attempt

In a stunning verification of Eric S. Raymond's open source adage, "Many eyes make all bugs shallow," an attempt to place malicious "backdoor" code in the Linux kernel 2.6 development tree was detected and rejected almost immediately. The code, if it had become part of the final kernel release, would have allowed a remote user to take control of machines running that Linux kernel version. Unauthorized code snippets, often called Easter Eggs, are common in closed-source programs but are relatively rare in the open source world. It's easy for developers to hide either humorous or malicious code in programs whose inner workings are hidden, but as this Linux kernel incident shows, the open source development process carries a degree of built-in immunity to this kind of problem.

Why Borland is unafraid to go its own way

Borland is 20 years of age in 2003 and has been wary of open source virtually that entire time. That it has been a survivor in the shark-infested corporate IT waters is a tribute to the company's leadership, vision, and business acumen. But should it continue the strategy it set years ago in this brave new -- and much more collaborative -- world?

Lindows is surprisingly successful

In response to my article last month about Linux dependency problems, a reader suggested via email, "Hey dude you need to use Lindows and let go of the anger." It just so happened that I had other reasons for wanting to try Lindows, so I decided to follow his thoughtful suggestion. After a week of testing, I'm a bit surprised to find myself quite happy with Lindows.

Reaping New Meds From Old Cures

Researchers ask traditional African healers and herbalists about their craft in hopes of finding blockbuster drugs. But the healers want a better bargain from the companies profiting from their knowledge. Megan Lindow reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?

Social-networking sites proliferate, but none so far dominates. Will Microsoft's mishmash of blogging, networking and messenging technologies win over the uninitiated masses -- or is it vaporware? By Kari L. Dean.

Senators Banter Over Net Taxes

Proponents of a permanent ban on Internet access taxes hit a roadblock Friday, because the Senate can't agree on how to define 'Internet access.' They hope to reach a compromise next week.

U.N. Shelves Cloning Treaty

Despite the Bush administration's best efforts, the United Nations votes to postpone a decision on cloning until 2005. While there is extensive support for banning the cloning of human beings, the international body is divided over therapeutic cloning.

Europe May Swallow GM Foods

Although European opposition to genetically modified foods remains strong, an EU committee is ready to discuss ending a five-year ban on biotech crops.

Security Flaws Rankle Microsoft

Microsoft's campaign to snare virus writers indicates the software behemoth is finally feeling the heat of its own security woes. Analysts say Windows flaws are hurting Microsoft's ability to book new contracts with corporate customers.

Serviceman Punished for Speaking his Mind

A United States Serviceman, Sgt Robert Ferriol, wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper that was critical of Bush's policy in the Iraq war. He was then criticized for his liberal views and charged with disloyalty.

More Than Wells Are Stuck In The Sand Over Iraqi Oil

Iraq has a lot of oil, estimated at 112.5 billion barrels in proven reserves which is the world's second-largest after Saudi Arabia's. As many as 220 billion barrels are considered probable additional Iraqi reserves. Before the current war, Iraq was producing 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, with only 1.7 million of this output authorized under the U.N. imposed "Oil-For-Food" economic sanctions. At an average price of $25 per barrel, Iraq was making $43 million per day in sanctioned sales and $20 million per day in unsanctioned ones. The United States was the biggest importer of Iraqi crude, importing 366,000 barrels a day directly into the U.S. during December 2002, with an estimated third of Iraqi oil output (800,000+ barrels per day) ultimately ending up in the United States after intermediate processing by third countries. Thus on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Americans were paying Saddam around $21 million per day or $620 million per month or around $7.5 billion per year. The rest of the world was paying him twice this much for a total of around $25 billion per year. Such "tough" economic sanctions led in some American political circles to (somewhat hypocritically, considering the level of our Iraqi imports) have contempt for the United Nations and concern over the amount of petromoney available for hostile military buildup and WMD and even terrorist bankrolling... And so there was a war.

Where do we want to take you this time?

Sure email spam sucks, pop-up ads drive you nuts and Usenet is a sewer. But you'd think you could count on some basic 'net nuts and bolts to work as expected, wouldn't you? Well, you would be mistaken.

In Defense of Dutch Drug Policy

Modern liberal democracies have increasingly been torn over the drug policy debate. Its polarizing effects of have developed two distinct stances: The proponents of legalization supporting the concept of "harm reduction" and the prohibitionists who support the continuation of the costly and often draconian drug war. Each camp claims that the adverse effects of drug use would be better dealt with through their methods. Prohibitionists insist the only way to solve the drug problem requires the elimination of all narcotics use through the enforcement of laws; proponents of legalization stress that the elimination of drugs is an unachievable goal and instead promote methods to remove the dangers and negative externalities from the already existing drug use. Also the larger question of which policy constitutes a more compatible relation with liberal democracy still looms. The proponents of legalization have embodied the liberal philosophy of John Stewart Mill stressing the individual's ability to make personal decisions; whereas, the prohibitionist stance implies that people are not rational consumers and must be protected from themselves. The Dutch model presents a pragmatic and successful compromise between the two camps of thought. After over 27 years of successful implementation, the Netherlands should no longer have its back up against the wall concerning its drug policy. Instead, it should begin to take the offensive.

Green Means Go

Andrew Gumbel has an article at The Independent titled, "Infra-red device gives drivers the green light." Basically, he reports on the sale (still legal at the moment) of Mobile Infra-Red Transmitters, little boxes that plug into your car's cigarette lighter, giving you the power to change (certain) red lights to green. Washington Post reported on it last Friday. With more Googling, I found out MIRTs were reported on earlier than Halloween even.

First Unofficial k5 Fiction Challenge: Nov. 30, 2003

The K5 fiction section is much derided for a) not belonging on a tech/culture site and b) offering only low quality drivel by uninspired hacks. I am not here to try to convince believers of either of these propositions otherwise. I am here to offer an entertaining proposal for those who believe neither. I present to you: THE FIRST UNOFFICIAL k5 FICTION CHALLENGE

Wikitravel: Bazaar-style Travel Guide Development

In July 2003, my partner Maj and I founded a project called Wikitravel. Our goal is to create a free (as in freedom), complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. The project was inspired by the success of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, but also by our total frustration with inaccurate and incomplete commercial travel guides.

The European version of the "axis of evil"

According to this news report, the Europeans have their own version of the "axis of evil." In a poll, European citizens list what they consider are the biggest threats to world peace. Top the list is Israel, followed by the United States, North Korea and Iran jointly in the second place. Other states (including some without statehood right now) behind in the list are Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Russia and Somalia. Israel expresses outrage at this poll and the European governments are trying to play down its significance. But a poll is a poll, and how can Israel object to democratic expressions of the people of Europe?

The story of a Canadian sent to Syria by the U.S. and tortured

Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was deported to Syria by American authorities statement Statement to the media by Maher Arar, Nov. 4, 2003. I am here today to tell the people of Canada what has happened to me. There have been many allegations made about me in the media, all of them by people who refuse to be named or come forward. So before I tell you who I am and what happened to me, I will tell you who I am not. I am not a terrorist. I am not a member of al-Qaida and I do not know any one who belongs to this group. All I know about al-Qaida is what I have seen in the media.

Sanity Checking the Free Market

The most dangerous thing in this world is rampant idealism. When righteousness, even well-informed and well-meaning righteousness, gets out of control it can do infinitely more damage than the most depraved or bacchanalian acts performed by a cynic or moderate. We acknowledge this freely in our every day lives, whether we are considering the dangerous idealism of fundamentalist Islamic organizations in the Middle East, of extremist Christian organizations in the Midwest United States or even, to a lesser extent, of organizations such as Greenpeace, the NRA or the FSF. What we value much more than an idealist with tunnel vision is an intelligent person with a slightly cynical eye who can see the value of the ideals but can also see the many places where an exception might be warranted.

World Wide Web Consortium W3C Requests '906 Patent Re-Examination

2003-10-29: Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to James E. Rogan, US Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, to take action to remove the patent to allow operation of the Web. Please refer to the briefing. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium DOM Level 3 Core, and Load and Save Are W3C Candidate Recommendations

2003-11-07: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications to Candidate Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core, software developers and Web script authors can access and manipulate HTML and XML content. DOM Level 3 Load and Save allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML document. Comments are welcome through 30 November. DOM Level 3 Events was published as a Working Group Note. Visit the DOM home page. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft: Authoring Techniques for Device Independence

2003-11-06: The Device Independence Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Authoring Techniques for Device Independence. The document provides a summary of several techniques and best practices that Web site authors and solution providers may employ when creating and delivering content to a diverse set of access mechanisms. Learn more about the W3C Device Independence Activity. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft: Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests

2003-11-05: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests. Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. The draft examines ways for systems to test for human users while preserving access for users with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Are W3C Proposed Recommendations

2003-11-05: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 5 December. XML 1.1 addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues. Namespaces 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium Amaya 8.2 Pre-Release

2003-11-05: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Available for testing, the 8.2 pre-release includes new features and enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded objects and images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and annotations. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. The final is expected in about one week. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page. (News archive)

World Wide Web Consortium W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML: Report and Minutes

2003-11-03: The report and minutes have been published from the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets held in Santa Clara, CA, USA on 24-26 September. All of the more than 40 position papers are publicly available. The workshop concluded that research is needed before W3C would produce any specifications in this area, and recommended that a Working Group be proposed to the W3C Membership. W3C thanks host Sun Microsystems, and all 60 attendees for their participation. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

The White House war with the CIA

Author Thomas Powers, an expert on U.S. spy agencies, wonders who will take the rap for 9/11 and the "horrific, calamitous" mistake in Iraq.

Old times there are not forgotten

Howard Dean, Ronald Reagan, CBS and the politics of apology.

Gartner feels the PC sales vibe

Hikes 2003 forecast again

Open source not ready for desktop, IBM told UK government

Remind us - who's running the OSS pilots?

AV vendors shun MS bounty hunters

Blazing Saddles

BT ordered to stop 'dirty tricks'

Phone switching grief

Penn State students revolt against Napster, DRM invasion

Take your fee and shove it

MS releases Office 2003 bug fix

File corruption problem patched

MPs prepare for broadband inquiry

Seconds out...

Intel launches Mobilized Software Initiative

Based on XML, Wi-Fi

IBM and HP take phony benchmark war up several notches

Winning times

What does C have in common with a scalding cup of coffee?

Opinion Security's Brewing Mess

Mozilla Dot Org ISC and Universities Provide Hosting Services

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.6 Alpha Available

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.4.1 Bugfix Update Available

Mozilla Dot Org Eolas Announcement

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.5 Release Candidate 2

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.5 Release Candidate 1

Mozilla Dot Org Thunderbird 0.2 Released

Mozilla Dot Org MozillaZine Turns Five

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.5 Alpha Released

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.4 Released

Mozilla Dot Org Netscape 7.1 Released

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 3

Mozilla Dot Org Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 2

Mozilla Dot Org mozdev.org seeks help with pledge drive

Pinstripe New Default Theme for Mozilla Firebird on Mac OS X

Independent Status Reports

Mozilla Firebird CVS Partition Opening Up

MSfreePC.com Donating Money to Mozilla in Conjunction with $1.1 Billion Microsoft-California Settlement

Internet Software Consortium, Oregon State University, Georgia Tech and Indiana University Helping to Distribute Mozilla

Mozilla Firebird Builds with Installer Now Available for Windows

Czech/Slovak Jan Varga Interview

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 3rd November 2003

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 27th October 2003

Bugzilla 2.16.4 and 2.17.5 Released

Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 20th October 2003

Mozilla 1.6 Alpha Released

Redesigned Mozilla Website Launching Soon

Lindows.com Announces Mozilla-Based Nvu Web Publishing Software

eWeek Rates Mozilla's Bayesian Spam Filtering

OSNews Fedora Core 1 Review at LinuxElectrons

OSNews XGI: A New Graphics Kid on the Block

OSNews Smash the Windows; Tangible Interfaces for Computers

OSNews Tutorial on LILO and GRUB

OSNews Open Source Not Ready for Desktop, IBM Told UK Government

OSNews Desktop Linux Conference to take Place on Monday

OSNews What is WinFX; Steve Jobs on Longhorn

OSNews Microsoft Releases Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X

OSNews Panther Server: Bring on the Big Cat!

OSNews Another ex-Be Engineer Comments on YellowTAB Zeta

OSNews Today on NMC: Wi-Fi Security, Hard Drive Tech, Tablet PC Sales, more

OSNews Mandrake AMD64 Release Candidate 1 is Out

OSNews Your 99c belong to the RIAA; Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle?

OSNews Getting to Know Fedora Core 1

OSNews AMD Plans for More Chips, Fab

Scripting News Joi Ito is becoming a cranky old man. Welcome!

Joi Ito is becoming a cranky old man. Welcome!

Scripting News Jim Moore is at Dean HQ in Vermont. My two cents.

Jim Moore is at Dean HQ in Vermont. My two cents. Take the money. Let the voters tell you what the sacrament is. They drafted Dean. Like all successful boomtime IPOs, Dean just happened to be in the right place when the lightning struck. It didn't impart any special wisdom. What do you do? Relax and enjoy the ride. In other words, there's not much you can do. (Postscript: I suggested to Jim in a phone talk that they do something more creative with the money than buying television ads. Anything but giving the money to Viacom, GE, Disney, Fox, Time Warner.)

Scripting News Marc Nozell blogs Joe Lieberman campaigning in NH.

Marc Nozell blogs Joe Lieberman campaigning in NH.

Scripting News Wired: "Linus Torvalds wants me to believe he's to

Wired: "Linus Torvalds wants me to believe he's too boring."

Scripting News I find this report really interesting. It shows wh

I find this report really interesting. It shows where the readers of the Scripting News archive are coming from. The top two are domains at Harvard, I assume they're crawlers of some kind. Then crawlers from Teoma, Google, then users and more crawlers. It's been a while since I've had a clients readout.

Scripting News SecurityFocus has twonew RSS feeds.

SecurityFocus has twonew RSS feeds.

Scripting News SmartMoney magazine has 12 feeds.

SmartMoney magazine has 12 feeds.

Scripting News Lessig: "It is ok to bend the truth, but only in o

Lessig: "It is ok to bend the truth, but only in one way."

Scripting News I can't recall being as excited about a piece of s

I can't recall being as excited about a piece of software since I was working on Manila in 1999. Part of the puzzle is finished. The items in the RSS feed for this weblog can be routed to categories. Now to the back-end. As the page is published, we watch for items with categories, and route them to the appropriate place. So if you want to get caught up on all the news from the Edwards campaign, there will be a place for that. Now of course a grad student could be working specifically on news of Edwards, maybe even on the press bus with Edwards. Maybe two grad students. Maybe thirty-two. And maybe the student who's working on Boston weather comes across something relevant to Edwards-watchers. This shouldn't be a problem. I told my friend Adam Curry in an email, the idea is that I can write for 100 weblogs, and 100 people can write for a specific weblog. We can get the overhead very low. This is how we're going to scale up to cover the 2004 election. It's a moon mission. Each user will get some new software and an assignment. It'll be a project like 24 Hours of Democracy in 1996, a demo of neat net tricks and a way for people with weblog skills to make a difference. And of course if an event like 9/11 comes along, we'll be that much better prepared to cover it.

Scripting News "When we were listening to the radio, we were part

"When we were listening to the radio, we were part of the free world, if only for a few moments, whether the system we lived under liked it or not,"says Simonyi, 51. "Rock and roll, culturally speaking, was a decisive element in loosening up communist societies and bringing them closer to a world of freedom."

Scripting News Sunday night forecast: "Clear and cold. Lows 18 to

Sunday night forecast: "Clear and cold. Lows 18 to 23."

Scripting News Reminder to self: Watch for Paolo's comments on ch

Reminder to self: Watch for Paolo's comments on changes to Scripting News RSS.

Scripting News The user interface for category routing is a right

The user interface for category routing is a right-click popup menu. Put the cursor on an item, right-click, choose a category, mouse-up. Repeat if necessary. My personal taxonomy is edited in an outliner, and exchanged in OPML. Now the trick is to use it, and keep the taxonomy up to date. And of course to build out the back-end.

Scripting News Stirring Cory Doctorow piece on the evil Broadcast

Stirring Cory Doctorow piece on the evil Broadcast Flag.

Week ahead: Dell, others to post earnings

Dell will be among the tech titans reporting quarterly earnings in the coming week, with BEA Systems and Applied Materials also rolling out their results.

The quest for better wireless security

Wireless security expert Leo Pluswick asks whether the emphasis on time to market and new features will undermine the pursuit of better mobile security.

Offshore and beyond

McKinsey finds that while companies are exporting back-office functions and service jobs, they are mistakenly leaving billions of dollars in savings behind.

IBM warms to desktop Linux

Big Blue is expected to endorse the idea of using the open-source operating system for use on desktop computers.

Nokia Taking Over Psion to Control Symbian?

securitas writes: "Reuters reports that Nokia is considering a takeover of Psion (mirror at Forbes), to gain control of the Symbian operating system. Psion is ...

IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux

Knuckles writes: "According to c|net, IBM will give desktop Linux a thumbs up at the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston on Monday. Sam Docknevich of IBM's ...

Microsoft Makes Push for COBOL Migration

geoff313 writes: "It would appear that Microsoft is making a real push for the migration of existing COBOL applications to Windows and their .Net platform. ...

Why Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea

Roland Piquepaille writes "For the last two months, an eternity in Internet time, I was unable to reach -- and to contribute to -- Smart Mobs, the collective ...

BitPass: Micropayment That Seems To Work

Omega1045 writes "I have been following the story of BitPass for some time now. The micropayment solution provider has been featured on Slashdot before. That ...

New Graphics Company, With Working Cards

gladbach writes "Toms Hardware has in their hands an actual working card, unlike other vaporware cardmakers *cough* bitboys *cough*... To quote Toms: 'A new ...

IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent

An anonymous reader writes "As of August 21, IBM has applied for a patent on "A convenient and secure system and method for access to any number of ...

The Matrix Going Massively Multiplayer

Chembro writes "Looks as though Ubi Soft is making a Matrix MMORPG. Everything is still pretty sketchy now that Revolutions has "ended" the series, but so far ...

One-Man Star Wars Trilogy in Chicago

xueexueg writes "Although the Shoggoth on the Roof was C&D'd by the authors of A Fiddler on the Roof, there's still some hope for dorky theatre in Chicago: ...

Shrek 2 Trailer Released

ParticleMan911 writes "The Shrek 2 movie trailer (other formats) has finally been released by Dreamworks. Apparently Dreamworks has a goal to release 2-3 ...