Welcome to Slashdot Perl Microsoft Linux Business Hardware GNU is Not Unix
 faq
 code
 osdn
 awards
 privacy
 slashNET
 older stuff
 rob's page
 preferences
 submit story
 advertising
 supporters
 past polls
 topics
 about
 jobs
 hof

Sections
4/22
apache
5/3 (9)
askslashdot
5/3 (2)
books
5/1 (2)
bsd
5/3 (3)
developers
5/3 (2)
features
4/20
interviews
1/9
radio
5/3 (6)
science
4/30
yro
OSDN
freshmeat
Linux.com
SourceForge
ThinkGeek
Question
 Exchange

NewsForge
SlashCode

Have you Meta Moderated Today?
This page was generated by a Group of Circus Chickens for Matveevich (83490).

Developers: Apocalypse 2
Perl Posted by michael on 2001-05-03 15:58
from the I-love-the-smell-of-hash-bang-in-the-morning dept.
Larry Wall has written the second article in his "Apocalypse" series about Perl6. If you missed the first article, you might want to read that one first, or see the previous discussion.

( Read More... | 13 of 64 comments | Developers )

MS VP Speech Online
Microsoft Posted by michael on 2001-05-03 14:51
from the set-FUD-cannons-to-obliterate dept.
mpawlo writes: "The widely debated Craig Mundie speech is now online." We tried not to run this, but there are too many submissions to ignore. Yes, much of what the guy says is nonsensical. Why not translate it into terms your boss can understand? For example, Mundie says forking code is bad. Here's the same thought translated into manager-speak: "Having multiple vendors competing to offer us the best product at the lowest price is worse than having one vendor who can sell the product to us at monopoly prices."

( Read More... | 111 of 318 comments )

Ask Slashdot: How Many Hours Do You Work in a Week?
Linux Business Posted by Cliff on 2001-05-03 13:29
from the how-hard-do-you-work dept.
Gnight asks: "After reading a recent article at ABC News stating that U.S. citizens work more than any other industrialized country, I have started to wonder more about the subject. So my question is, how much does the average slashdot reader work in a week? Where do you live? and What do you do?" Slashdot did an informal poll on this a long time ago, but it was more from the workday standpoint, though it looked like the majority of us were working 9-10 hour days. Is it still the same today as it was almost 2 years ago?

( Read More... | 101 of 372 comments | Ask Slashdot )

Dell Notebooks Catch On Fire!
Hardware Posted by CmdrTaco on 2001-05-03 12:16
from the now-that-kicks dept.
Mr_Person writes "Dell Computer will recall about 284,000 notebook batteries due to a flaw in batteries incorporated in Inspiron 5000 and 5000(e) notebooks. The flaw causes the batteries to produce excessive amounts of heat, in fact, at least one notebook has even gotten to the point of catching on fire!" I thought the worst part of Dell Laptops was the fact that they broke all the time, and that they billed me for months after I shipped them the laptop back claiming they never got it. Maybe you could use Dell Laptops as an alternate heat source, what with rising gas prices *rimshot*

( Read More... | 46 of 211 comments )

Sony Violating GPL?
GNU is Not Unix Posted by Hemos on 2001-05-03 10:48
from the bad-juju-for-all dept.
hub writes "One of the pilot-link main developers states on Advogato and on his site that Sony is violating GPL by distributing binary only version of POSE that has been customized for their Clie (their new Palm compatible device)."

( Read More... | 86 of 302 comments )

Book Reviews: Server-Based Java Programming
Programming Posted by timothy on 2001-05-03 9:45
from the community-service dept.
Craig Pfeifer wrote this review of Server-Based Java Programming, and in a world of books loaded with buzzwords, and sometimes volume at the expense of clarity, he claims that this volume suffers neither fault. (Even if you're sick of the word "Enterprise.")

( Read More... | 7113 bytes in body | 22 of 66 comments | Book Reviews )

Features: Forget the Palm - Give Me The Finger
It's funny.  Laugh. Posted by Roblimo on 2001-05-03 9:00
from the one-digit-is-enough dept.
Handheld computers are cute. Someday I'm sure I'll find one that will wean me away from my treasured pen and pad for fast notetaking, and at least partially from my laptop computer. But I don't think a Palm or even a Linux PDA like a Yopy or Agenda will do it. I'm waiting until someone gives me The Finger.

( Read More... | 4879 bytes in body | 61 of 160 comments | Features )

Federal Technology Czar Proposed
United States Posted by michael on 2001-05-03 6:46
from the slightly-more-useful-than-the-drug-czar dept.
Alien54 writes: "The E-Government Act, which Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) introduced Tuesday, is designed to make it easier for citizens to access federal information and services online. As reported in Internet Week, the bill [S.803]will create a federal chief information officer and allot $225 million annually to improve government services over the Internet. The Bill text has yet to be posted to the web, but should be up in a week or so."

( Read More... | 45 of 152 comments )

Aimster Seeks Protection From RIAA Demands
The Courts Posted by timothy on 2001-05-03 3:11
from the make-it-stop- dept.
LogicalRealism writes: "In a preemptive move to keep itself from sharing Napster's fate, Aimster has filed for a declaratory judgement to say that its service does not violate U.S. copyright law. The Recording Industry Association of America sent a letter to Aimster, requesting them to begin filtering the files shared on the service. Aimster contends that to filter files shared privately between its users would be inappropriate. C|Net has the story."

( Read More... | 78 of 214 comments )

Open Source Is Bad [updated]
Microsoft Posted by timothy on 2001-05-03 0:21
from the consider-the-source dept.
pjones writes: "This just in! Open Source is bad for companies and countries too. In a New York Times article (registration required), John Markoff reports that: "In a speech defending Microsoft's business model, to be given on Thursday at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Craig Mundie, a senior vice president at Microsoft and one of its software strategists, will argue that the company already follows the best attributes of the open-source model by sharing the original programmer's instructions, or source code, more widely than is generally realized." Singled out for particular rebuke and scorn are IBM and the famous GPL and its author Richard Stallman. Who will be there to cheer Craig on?" See also ESR's dispatch on same. (Read below for update with time and place.)

( Read More... | 398 bytes in body | 188 of 539 comments )

The One-Week All-Spam Diet
Spam Posted by timothy on 2001-05-02 21:50
from the read-it-and-weep dept.
malibucreek writes: "A writer at the LA Times actually responded to every spam he got for a week. The resulting article about his descent into marketing hell is here. Of course, everything turned out to be a scam. (Duh!) But some of the scams were just pathetic enough to be funny. My faves? The pyramid scheme that helped '"George" reach his goal of making $7,000 a month within two years of getting out of prison.' And the bogus weight-loss plan that caused one sucker, er, customer, to gush, "This didn't work, but it was full of fiber and I was very regular!"" And at this very moment, some hot babes who have been clamoring to meet me electronically are finally at the door -- hallelujah!

( Read More... | 72 of 207 comments )

Remote 'Root' Exploit in IIS 5.0
Microsoft Posted by jamie on 2001-05-02 21:25
from the they-made-me-write-this dept.
eEye Digital Security was doing some testing that apparently Microsoft hadn't done on its own webserver (IIS 5.0) running on its latest OS (Windows 2000, all versions). "Within a matter of minutes," they say, "a debugger kicked in on inetinfo.exe because of a 'buffer overflow error'" -- and two weeks later, we got simultaneous announcements from Microsoft and eEye. This is a remote SYSTEM-level exploit in a popular webserver, in the wild, i.e., Danger Will Robinson. eEye says about a million servers will need to be patched; it may be more. Go see Microsoft's writeup and patch. See also eEye's droll and informative writeup, which, now that an exploit is confirmed to be in the wild today, has added some source code.

( Read More... | 74 of 264 comments )

Can Open Source Escape The Apple Horizon?
Apple Posted by timothy on 2001-05-02 17:39
from the license-to-license dept.
Meltr writes: "Yahoo has a story about how Apple is using non-GPL'd open source software, making proprietary extensions, and giving nothing back to the community. 'Apple simply found a source of cheap high-quality systems software that it could make its own without needing to give back so much as a bug fix, let alone useful software projects.' Good stuff." Inflammatory, but some of it is hard to deny. On the other hand, there is Darwin on x86 already, and Apple would probably be as happy selling boxes destined to run Yellow Dog Linux as OS X.

( Read More... | 142 of 468 comments )

When ASPs Go Under
The Almighty Buck Posted by timothy on 2001-05-02 16:16
from the dot-net-ding-ding-ding dept.
lar3ry writes: "eWeek has a lead story about companies that have been catching the ASP bandwagon, and now are finding themselves high and dryas ASPs are going out of business. I may be old, but I remember when I was writing applications being used by other companies, that the contracts had agreements that provided for the source code to be held in escrow in case the company that I was working for went out of business. Does this mean that common sense is no longer a virtue in the Internet age? Just whispering a few hot terms like "ASP" makes the CIO of a company blind to any financial exposure that an application has to another company's future? Geez!" This is one thing that scares me about various companies' plans to take care of your data and apps. And unlike "Perpetual Care" at ye olde cemetery, you're still around to feel if the perpetual care stops.

( Read More... | 38 of 133 comments )

On the Subject of Ximian and Eazel
Ximian Posted by CmdrTaco on 2001-05-02 15:18
from the stuff-to-read dept.
Isldeur writes: "Dennis Powell has a very interesting article on GNOME, Eazel, and the control thereof. However, while it is very thought provoking, it might inspire some heat. Still, I think these things are manifestly important to the ideal of Free Software to figure out!" A very well written article that says a lot of truth. I tend to think that some points are over beaten (lack of binaries for example. So what? Anyone can compile and distribute their own). Especially interesting is the point about Eazel and Paypal, and the comparison to OS/2. The difference, of course, is that this is Free Software in the speech sense, so it's a little more important than OS/2 IMHO. But there's some spicy words in here, and it's worth thought for those with objective minds.

( Read More... | 107 of 312 comments )

Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer: The Simputer
Technology Posted by timothy on 2001-05-02 15:03
from the one-piece-of-puzzle dept.
Sachin Karol links to this Time Asia report about the Simputer. A snippet from the article: "It's not a PC, but rather a microcomputer, a "Simple Inexpensive Mobile Computer." In short, a Simputer. It's the latest attempt to reach a kind of techno-humanist grail: a computer priced and designed for the billions of people who have yet to set foot in the wired wards of the Global Village. A computer, say its creators, for the masses." (Read more.)

( Read More... | 792 bytes in body | 50 of 185 comments )

UpKillDn Be News
  • BeFAQ Starts Fake BeOS Screenshot Contest
  • An Updated People App
  • Devs Work on Mail Daemon, E-mail Prefs Replacement
  • Wear your BeOS with pride!
  • FargoBUG Plans Demo, Domain, Dev CD
  • Madonna Uses BeOS on World Tour
  • Aural Illusion 4 Open Sourced & Seeking Developer
  • Small BeOS News from Around the Net
  • Adamation Cancels personalStudio 2.0 for BeOS
  • 3iVX BeOS Encoder Review
  • TUCOWS Sees 'Diminishing Returns' for Specific BeOS Channel
  • Be Moves BeUserTalk To Yahoo-eGroups
  • Low-Cost BeOS USB ISDN TA Drivers Available
  • BeOS-related Articles on LowEndMac
  • BeOS Used in SDMI Challenge?

    Get more Be...

  • UpKillDn Ars Technica
  • Ars Boston Party: RSVP
  • MIT for free
  • P2P for a good cause
  • IP, international law, and medicine
  • Quantum Computation using Fiber Optics?
  • Boo! Clive Barker's Undying
  • Bandwidth in the news
  • PassPort Terms of Use
  • CPRM takes a hit
  • Mac OS X 10.0 review
  • Epidemics on the Net
  • Five Questions With... Vint Cerf
  • Game.Ars on-time, and it's no joke
  • Be in serious trouble?
  • The Lone Geekmen
  • Danny Hillis on the future
  • Windows XP snubs Bluetooth
  • New Intel microarchitecture in the works
  • More details on MS Tablet PC
  • Nanotechnology and Quantum Mechanics
  • The future of spam
  • UpKillDn BBC Sci/Tech News
  • Arctic's big melt challenged
  • Arctic sea ice 'thins by almost half'
  • Arctic sea ice gets thinner
  • Cameron 'in space by 2003'
  • Titanic director aims for the skies
  • Titanic director gets weightless
  • 'Others will follow' says space tourist
  • Veggie car takes a spin
  • Cars which see in the dark
  • The car that swims
  • Flying car ready for take-off
  • 'Tractor beam' technology advances
  • Committee points finger at air pollution
  • Carpets harbour 'toxic dust'
  • Space tourist dispute deepens
  • E-commerce looks good
  • Foot-and-mouth: A Pyrrhic victory?
  • Chemical leak link to kidney damage
  • Stem cells grown from dead bodies
  • New Zealand lessons for UK food safety
  • Bottled water 'a waste of money'
  • Tick could have had dino diet
  • Microsoft warns of 'serious' software hole
  • Space tourists queue up
  • Ring of death
  • 'Others will follow' says space tourist
  • US and Chinese hackers trade blows
  • Cars which see in the dark
  • Fight on GM food labelling
  • Record makers lock music away
  • Mobile phone revolution on hold
  • Britney makes physics sexy
  • Distant probe phones home
  • Tories 'winning on the web'
  • Astronomers hear 'music of creation'
  • Historic lunar impact questioned
  • In pictures: Tourism's final frontier

    More BBC Sci/Tech News

  • UpKillDn Quick Links
    Cool Sites:
  • AnimeFu (Addicted to Anime?)
  • Penny Arcade (The First one is always Free)
  • The Filthy Critic (He Hates Everything)
  • Everything (Blow your Mind)
  • Old Man Murray (Games... Sorta)
  • Themes.org (Make X Perty)

    Support Slashdot:

  • ThinkGeek (Clothe Yourself in Slashdot)
  • UpKillDn Linuxnewbie.org
  • Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code
  • Party like it's 999,999,999
  • MS races to fill in serious security hole
  • Linux Merger No More
  • php 4.05 Released
  • UpKillDn Older Stuff

    Wednesday May 02

  • Reporting Functionality for Web Applications? (240)
  • ZDNet Reviews Samba 2.2 (81)
  • A Home For The Technologically Inept (181)
  • Microsoft Bootstraps "Matrix" Game Rights Purchase (231)
  • Sony Clie Officially For Sale (In English) (114)
  • Virtual Addiction (121)
  • The Not-So-Free Web (140)
  • Report From The 2600 Appeal Hearing (759)
  • ICraveTV II - Canadian showdown (101)
  • Interview With XFce Lead Developer (110)
  • Coder on the Cross (356)

    Tuesday May 01

  • Slashback: Profits, Marks, Secsh (140)
  • How Does One Become a Game Designer? (391)
  • Gordon Moore On Moore's Law (186)
  • Writing Kernel Drivers (127)
  • Linuxcare/Turbolinux Merger Called Off (152)
  • Taking VHF Ham Radio From Local To Global (125)
  • Using Lisp to beat your Competition. (509)
  • XFS 1.0 is Released (285)
  • Tech Support: Sucking Even More (582)
  • Akira Game for PS2? (118)
  • Rambus Losing In Court (131)
  • Cracking OSX (311)
  • LinuxPPC Co-Founder Resigns (114)
  • Ring-Tone Royalties (361)

    Monday April 30

  • DailyRadar.com Closes (255)
  • The Read-Once, Write-Never Web (251)
  • Brewing Storm: Stealth, ISPs And Copyright (368)
  • Review Of Small Business Suite for Linux (270)
  • On Call and Underpaid in IT/IS? (640)
  • Review: Ergo Interfaces Evolution Keyboard (250)
  • MS Wants To Know Whose PC Is Windows-Free (565)
  • 'Server, Heal Thyself,' Says IBM (190)
  • Rockets of Doom From Carmack And Friends (137)


    Older Articles
    Yesterday's Edition

  • UpKillDn MacSlash
  • Stepwise Makes X A Little More Secure
  • Gaming Emulators, DVD Video and ProNews
  • Adobe To Shut Down For One Week
  • Innermac Posts Detailed NAB Coverage
  • IBM's PowerPC Strategic Roadmap
  • CD burning, iTunes in Second OS X Update
  • Henrico County (VA, USA) Buys 23,000 iBooks
  • Apple Announces New iBook
  • The Cult of the Apple?
  • Jason Haas Moving On
  • UpKillDn Sci-Fi News
  • WGA Strike? Maybe...Maybe Not... (0)
  • The Simpsons See D'oh (2)
  • Space Tourist II: Judgment Day (1)
  • The X-Files - "Vienen" (1)
  • Trek Ten: Yup, More Rumours (0)
  • Nebula Awards Winners (0)
  • The Lone Gunmen - "Tango de Los Pistoleros" (0)
  • UpKillDn Science
  • Tractor Beam?
  • Jurassic Park Science
  • Reviving Brain Cells From Corpses
  • NASA Technology Could Lead To Artificial Retinas
  • Compressed Air Energy Storage Power Plant
  • Evidence For Rotating Black Holes
  • Using Ionic Liquids To Replace Organic Solvents
  • Antarctic Detectors Provide Evidence For Big Bang
  • Gene Therapy Experiment Restores Sight To Dogs
  • Celera Has Assembled Complete Mouse Genome
  • UpKillDn Google


    UpKillDn Ask Slashdot
  • How Many Hours Do You Work in a Week?
  • Altering a Cisco 675 for use on DMT DSL Connection?
  • Creating a "Virtual Tour" on the Web?
  • NTFS vs. FAT32
  • Reporting Functionality for Web Applications?
  • Can You Boot Windows (and Other OSes) Using CD-RWs?
  • What's the Street Price of SAP?
  • How Does One Become a Game Designer?
  • Rich Text Java Applet as Substitute for <TEXTAREA>?
  • What is Ultra DMA?
  •   Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
    All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2001 OSDN.

    [ home | awards | supporters | rob's homepage | contribute story | older articles | OSDN | advertising | past polls | about | faq ]