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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
Cray SX-6 Installed in Alaska
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/16/0241230
[0]Dhrakar writes: "Now, I know that normally press releases are
imediately round-filed, however, as this is the first NEC^H^H^HCray
SX-6 to be installed in the U.S. it is newsworthy. The 8cpu, 64Gb
system has been installed at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
for benchmarking and other testing. See either [1]ARSC or the [2]NY
Times (sub. required. Yada, yada) article."
Links
0. http://fndlb-AT-uaf.edu
1. http://www.arsc.edu/pubs/bulletins/SX6Install.shtml
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/technology/14SUPE.html
Industry-Standard VOIP Phone Using All Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/16/0210237
[0]Ralf Ackermann writes: "Voice over IP on a HardPhone running Linux
and just using Open Source software became real. We have sucessfully
installed and tested (interoperability with Cisco 7960 as well as
Pingtel xPressa in an environment with a partysip SIP registrar and
proxy) the linphone SIP phone on a StrongARM based TuxScreen. Here is
the link describing the steps for others to use the setup as well:
[1]TuxScreen running SIP. All the infos for setting up a comparable
installation can be found on the URL, please also feel free to ask or
drop opinions. Many thanks to the linphone developers as well as to my
student Florian Winterstein (for working on a console linphonec
version). The setup (on a StrongARM system) is well suited for PDA
(iPAQ) or wearable environments as well."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.iptel-now.de/HOWTO/TUX_SIP/tux_sip.html
Where Are You Publishing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/2311221
[0]AndrewRUK writes "A reporter for [1]The Guardian is being prosecuted
in Zimbabwe for a report that appeared on the newspaper's website, the
newspaper writes in [2]this report. If the case is successful, it would
allow Zimbabwe's courts to apply the country's [3]draconian media laws
to any online publisher, putting reporters and editors at risk of
arrest if they go to Zimbabwe, or any country with extradition treaties
with Zimbabwe. Once again, we see a case which raises the question of
which courts have jurisdiction over online publishing. Is a UK
newspaper, with webservers in the UK, and a site accessable to anyone
on the net, publishing only in the UK, or is it publishing everywhere
where there's net access?" An issue that just [4]doesn't seem to go
away ...
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,737984,00.html
3. http://media.guardian.co.uk/zimbabweandthemedia/story/0,11522,668224,00.html
4. __SLASHLINK__
Open-Source Pioneers Make Bid for .org
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/2147200
[0]wdb writes: "A [1]NY Times article (free subscription required)
describes the competition surrounding control of the .org domain, which
[2]Verisign coughed up in order to keep .com and .net from going to the
highest bidder. Open source and Internet pioneers [3]Paul Vixie and
[4]Carl Malamud have entered the fray; central to their bid is their
announced intent to place all the software necessary to manage a TLD in
the public domain. 'This shouldn't be a dot-com opportunity,' Mr.
Malamud said. 'There has been a lot of smoke and mirrors, but what we
need is actually a public utility that is well managed in the public
interest.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/technology/15NET.html
2. http://www.verisign.com/
3. http://www.vix.com/
4. http://invisible.net/people/carl.html
3D TV For The Masses?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/216255
[0]scubacuda writes: "[1]Technology Review has an article on new
software that could make 3D television a reality. Previously encumbered
by an expensive process that takes up to nine cameras per scene, a
company called [2]DDD now takes existing 2D film and creates a "depth
map" for each frame. A TV that can handle this sort of software
rendering currently costs $25K, but DDD estimates that in a few years,
a 3D TV could only cost only 20% more than its 2D counterpart."
Links
0. http://scubacuda AT iname DOT com
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_cameron060502.asp
2. http://www.ddd.com/
Augmented Reality Billiards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/1913227
[0]scubacuda writes: "[1]Wired.com reports that [2]Columbia's CS
Department has designed a new gadget designed to "take the brainwork
out of billiards" and help the average player eventually take on
professional pool sharks. The Stochasticks consists of a 5-by-10-inch
laptop carried in a backpack, a half-centimeter-by-1-inch long lipstick
camera and a headset. Pool experts, such as Mike Spinkle, president of
[3]United States Poolplayer Association, say that this device makes it
easier to visualize the angles."
Links
0. http://scubacuda AT iname DOT com
1. http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,52990,00.html
2. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/
3. http://www.geocities.com/uspa.geo/
Technology Sectors that are Hot or Heating Up Now?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/14/232219
unemployedCoder-in-retraining asks: "As a recently "leisured"
programmer, I'm very interested in trying to turn misfortune into
opportunity. This means using this career discontinuity to bone up on
the latest-n-greatest in the hot sectors of the industry, to offer a
better chance of a finding another great job. Of course, then one asks:
'What's Hot?' The Telco/Switching sector seems to have flatlined
(Nortel and Lucent as examples). Cable and DSL access device and
service development seems to be struggling. Wireless 3G networks seem
to be having a hard time in North America. And yet, we here that a
recovery is underway and that the technology sector as a whole is
picking up again. So I ask you: 'Where?' In what sectors? What are the
most important new technologies to learn to enhance employability?
Somewhere, somebody is hiring or will be soon. What do I and other
victims of the slowdown have to know to 'get back in the saddle' in the
near future?"
NVidia announces Cg: "C" for Graphics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/170237
[0]mr_sheel writes: "Thresh's FiringSquad has an article about Cg, a
new [1]language developed by NVidia in collaboration with Microsoft.
'Up until now,' Brandon Bell writes, 'game developers have had to use
complex assembly language to create the lifelike graphics gamers
experience in todayÂs latest games.' Cg eases the process of bringing
graphics to the screen and compiles for DirectX 8,9 and OpenGL 1.4.
Many companies, including 3D Studio Max, Blizzard, and over 100 game
developers, have already jumped onto the Cg bandwagon. Will this
replace assembly graphics coding once and for all?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/cg/default.asp
Nintendo Ressurecting Classic NES Games to the GBA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/1435258
[0]The Pi-Guy writes "It seems contradictory to Big N's massive
anti-emulation stance to introduce the GBA as an emulator itself! An
[1]official N press release states that there will be "full classic NES
games for download to the GBA"." Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it
sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!
Links
0. http://wiseguy586 AT yahoo DOT com
1. http://www.nintendo.com/news/news_articles.jsp?articleID=6732
Ruling the Root
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/15/0252237
Overcoat writes "Interesting [0]review on Salon of the recently
published book by Milton Mueller entitled [1]Ruling The Root. The
review claims that ICANN's dominance of the Domain Name System will
lead to the end of free speech the the internet: 'But what is
surprising, and disturbing, is the process by which control over the
domain name system has been used to extend intellectual property rights
to new heights. Ultimately, the free-speech utopia of cyberspace is
evolving into a domain where corporate interests have more power to
control speech than they have had in other arenas.' Not sure if
trademarking "yahooo.com" constitutes a really big threat to free
speech, but it's still a thought-provoking article."
Links
0. http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002/06/14/root/index.html
1. http://istweb.syr.edu/~mueller/onlinepubs.htm
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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