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June 14, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59cc.shtml
Caffeine: Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a35.shtml
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml
Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
Sourceforge
Automated Security Tools
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51027
Release Candidate 1
phpLotto
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53340
phpLotto 1st Release
Legend of the Wonderer TCG
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44698
battle system in the project Docs
Advanced Simlulation Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48818
Recruiting
PHPortal
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28568
PHPortal version 0.1.9 released!
PCGen -- A d20 Character Generator
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576
PCGen 2.6.3 is available
MySQL Objective C API for Cocoa
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42424
SMySQL version 0.7.0
i810 Framebuffer Device Driver
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39579
Video Overlay Support for the Intel 810 and 815 Framebuffer
'Just For Fun' Network Management System
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46041
JFF Network Management System 0.6.4
VietPad
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46758
VietPad 1.0.2 Release
Slashdot
Harry Potter, Macrovision and Economics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/1650225
markthebrewer writes "Apparantly Warner Home Video have released Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone without any of the usual
[0]Macrovision copy-protection systems. Looks like its just a trial,
but someone's done the maths and decided it may be cheaper not to
copy-protect videos after all. Find the full article in the [1]New
Scientist." There is certainly something desperate about macrovisions
response to this development. Does anyone see macrovision as a real
barrier to copying anymore? What a bunch of [2]snake oil [3]salesmen
these [4]people are. In related news, I'm marketing my own personal
copy protection [5]device.
Links
0. http://www.macrovision.com/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992404
2.
http://www.macrovision.com/news/pressreleases/index.php3?pr=a67937e0716aeb9e4c72d748611fda66
3. http://www.midbartech.com/cds100r.html
4. http://www.key2audio.com/start/default.asp
5. http://images.google.com/images?q=wire%20cutters&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi
Internet Routes Around South African Gov't
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/14/0026241
Mister B writes: "In an end-run around the South African government's
[0]plans to seize control of the .za domain, administrator Mike Lawrie
took pre-emptive action and moved the primary .za zone file offshore.
Revealing their naivete, parliamentary committee chairman Nkenke Kekana
accused him of destabilising the net! Then again, the opposition think
he's a hero. :-) [1]More details on MSNBC."
Links
0. __SLASHLINK__
1. http://msnbc.com/news/766560.asp?0bl=-0
Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/12/156211
Slashback (below) brings you tonight more on the fate of Mobilix,
"borrowing" from the Onion, keeping track of campus, the recent
(partial) eclipse, and animated television. Enjoy!
IMSAI Series Two
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/156230
[0]Dino writes "You can actually pre-order a new IMSAI [1]here. These
folks bought the rights to produce the IMSAI in the late seventies, and
provided the unit used in Wargames. It has a genuine S100 bus, but also
has modern features as well, the most interesting being a driver that
will allow you to access an ATX motherboard via the parallel port as a
disk drive."
Links
0. http://www.coprolite.com
1. http://www.imsai.net/
P2P Television?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/212224
An Anonymous reader submits a link to this "[0]very interesting article
on TVP2P," writing: "While the author doesn't really mention "P2P,"
think of the permutations of having TV's becoming Napster-like file
servers. The tech can't be too hard to work out, since CATV systems are
now piping Net access into millions of homes (anyone doing this hack
yet?). If you thought the RIAA raised hell, wait until the [1]MPAA and
the relevant TV lobby groups figure this out. Of course, if history
teaches us anything, they won't figure it out until way after the genie
is out of the bottle ..."
Links
0. http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208364
1. http://www.mpaa.org/
Iowa Court May Order Microsoft Refunds
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/1813255
[0]dowobeha writes: "[1]The Des Moines Register is reporting that
thousands of Windows 98 [2]users in Iowa could get $40 refunds from
Microsoft. The Iowa Supreme Court has found the big boys from Redmond
guilty of price fixing in violation of a 1976 Iowa law. According to
the report, this is the first antitrust ruling in any state that favors
'indirect purchasers' (regular consumers who got Windows preinstalled
on their newly purchased computer) rather than "direct purchasers"
(manufacturers who license Windows to distribute on new machines)."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.dmregister.com/
2. http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/18439267.html
Planetary System Similar to Sol
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/1755240
[0]sgtwilko writes "The [1]BBC News site has an article about how
astronomers have found several new planets including [2]some that have
a similar distribution to our own Solar System. They are finding
planetary systems that are more and more like the one in which the
Earth resides. It's only a matter of time until the Terrestrial Planet
Finder program gets going and finds another Earth." There's [3]another
story on space.com. Update: 06/13 21:51 GMT by [4]M: [5]Space News and
[6]Wired have stories as well, with spiffy graphics and artists'
renderings and so on.
Links
0. http://null AT sgtwilko DOT f9 DOT co DOT uk
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2042000/2042826.stm
3. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/planet_discovery_020613.html
4. mailto:michael@@slashdot.org
5. http://www3.cosmiverse.com/news/space/space06130208.html
6. http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53188,00.html
NVIDIA's Pixel & Vertex Shading Language
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/147213
[0]Barkhausen Criterion writes "NVIDIA have announced a high-level
Pixel and Vertex Shading language developed in conjunction with
Microsoft. According to this [1]initial look, the "Cg Compiler"
compiles high level Pixel and Vertex Shader language into low-level
DirectX and OpenGL code. While the press releases are going amok, [2]CG
Channel (Computer Graphics Channel) has the most [1]comprehensive look
at the technology. The article writes, "Putting on my speculative hat,
the motivation is to drive hardware sales by increasing the prevalence
of Pixel and Vertex Shader-enabled applications and gaming titles. This
would be accomplished by creating a forward-compatible tool for
developers to fully utilize the advanced features of current GPUs, and
future GPUs/VPUs." "
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cgchannel.com/story.php?story_id=1107
2. http://www.cgchannel.com/
Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/11/2027240
[0]Brian Donovan contributes this review of [1]Web Database
Applications with PHP & MySQL, the most recent of several books geared
toward helping people use the common Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
combination to produce database-backed websites. Read on for the
review.
Links
0. http://www.lophty.com/
1. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webdbapps/
Warcraft III Gone Gold
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/1510225
0x00 writes "[0]Shacknews seems to be the first to report that Warcraft
III has [1]gone gold. The press release is [2]here. Blizzard have
announced that the game will be available July 3rd around the world -
just in time for my mid-year University break (great timing!)." Update:
06/13 15:16 GMT by [3]M: Please consider the fact that [4]Blizzard is
suing people who write software to interoperate with theirs when
deciding whether you want to purchase this game.
Links
0. http://www.shacknews.com/
1. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/20956
2. http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/061302_wc3.x
3. mailto:michael@@slashdot.org
4. http://www.bnetd.org/case_letters.php
Software.linux.com
FileRunner
http://software.linux.com/articles/view/1479/
There are tons of file managers out there for Unix now.... But back in
the day, long before programs like TkDesk were created, the pickings
were slim. Most managers didn't provided two file listings or command
buttons. Heck, those that would compile usually turned out to be
bloated resource hogs.
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