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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
Legalizing Attacks on P2P Networks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/2258231
[0]miniver writes: "Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) wants to legalize DoS
attacks on P2P networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus by 'copyright
holders.' The Washington Post [1]reports on his proposed legislation
here. Berman's bill, to be introduced in the next several weeks, would
attempt to minimize the illegal trading of copyrighted songs and other
content on "peer-to-peer" (P2P) networks by permitting copyright
holders to use technology against pirates. As can be expected, the RIAA
is in favor of the proposed legislation."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43256-2002Jun25.html
Kernel Summit Wrapup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/1351223
Jonathan Corbet at [0]LWN has posted a [1]terrific summary of the first
Day of the Ottawa Kernel Summit, and you should expect the second day
soon. In it he relates the greatest hits of the first day's talks,
including the AMD Hammer Port, Block I/O, Modules, and more. For mp3s
or oggs of this event, check out the [2]Kernel Summit MP3 Repository on
[3]SourceForge. The big news is the desire to feature freeze 2.5 within
4 or 5 months. Halloween. I've posted a very small gallery of the
[4]group pictures from the summit on my site.
Links
0. http://www.lwn.net
1. http://lwn.net/Articles/3327/
2. http://linuxkernel.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/0116225
3. http://sf.net
4. http://www.dibona.com/pictures/Kernel02/
WorldCom CFO Accused of $3.6 Billion Fraud
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/005225
[0]winter was among the first to point out that [1]allegations of fraud
have led to a massive stock drop at WorldCom. A [2]flurry of stories
have popped up on Yahoo!, none of them good news for WorldCom. CFO
Scott Sullivan is accused of misstating the company's revenues,
specifically its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and
amortization (aka EBITDA), and the stock has slid more than 50% (as of
this writing) in after-hours trading.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/020625/tech_worldcom_share_1.html
2. http://biz.yahoo.com/n/w/wcom.html
Comparison Of Google to Teoma
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/1828225
[0]randomErr writes "[1]SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and
the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about [2]Teoma is
that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens
in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for
the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from
[3]Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's
also unlike the approach taken by [4]Northern Light that classify web
pages based on pre-defined categories."
Links
0. mailto:randomErr@@@eastsidestory...com
1. http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0402-teoma.html
2. http://www.teoma.com/
3. http://www.google.com/
4. http://www.northernlight.com/
Amateur Lightwave Tricks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/204251
[0]HobbySpacer writes: "According to an [1]ARRL article, some Hams are
moving to really high frequencies with experiments using [2]lasers &
[3]LEDs. The tests include [4]cloudbouncing, [5] moonbouncing, [6]
laser radar and an infrared laser on an [7] amateur satellite. See the
[8] Lasercom Manual and this [9] paper for intros. Meanwhile, other
amateurs are looking for [10]alien lasers pointed our way."
Links
0. http://www.hobbyspace.com/
1. http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2002/06/22/?nc=1
2. http://misty.com/people/don/laserdon.html
3. http://www.qsl.net/w1vlf/techinfo/optical_transmitters.html
4. http://www.qsl.net/w1vlf/techinfo/techinfo.html
5. http://www.k3pgp.org/
6. http://www.qsl.net/k3pgp/Construction/Scope/scope.htm
7. http://www.qsl.net/k3pgp/Notebook/ao40/p3dlaser.htm
8. http://www.n1bug.net/tech/laser/laserfr.html
9. http://www.n1bug.net/tech/laser/alc_wa6ejo.html
10. http://www.coseti.org/
Interview With WOLK Creator Marc-Christian Peterse
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/181229
[0]Jeremy Andrews writes "KernelTrap has spoken with Marc-Christian
Petersen, who originated the [1]WOLK project in March of 2002. WOLK is
the Working Overloaded Linux Kernel, a large set of nearly 450 useful
patches applied against the current stable 2.4 Linux kernel tree. The
project has recently expanded to offer a second 'secure' patchset, this
one against the older stable 2.2 tree. In [2]this interview,
Marc-Christian Petersen tells the history behind WOLK and discusses
many of the patches included."
Links
0. http://kerneltrap.org/jeremy/
1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk/
2. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=293
NIST Estimates Sloppy Coding Costs $60 Billion/Year
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/1745229
An anonymous reader submits: "Computerworld is reporting on a
government study just released that software bugs are costing the U.S.
economy an [0]estimated $59.5 billion each year, with more than half of
the cost borne by end users and the remainder by developers and
vendors. Better testing could allegedly cut that by one-third."
Links
0.
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,72245,00.html
Does Drawing on Experience Infringe on Other's IP?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/1750229
[0]Daniel Paull asks: "I recently asked one of our developers to draw
up a design for a specific component. After a few hours he returns
telling me that he'd solved a very similar problem a previous place of
employment and that they had developed a "neat" solution. The developer
then became concerned that a ground-up re-implementation of these
design patterns and principals may infringe on the other companies
intellectual property or breach some copyright laws. This developer is
talented and experienced  that's why we hired him. The question is,
at what point does 'drawing on experience' cross the line and invade
others IP?"
Links
0. http://www.fractalgraphics.com.au
Warchalking Visual Cues To Urban WLANs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/152245
[0]elucidus writes "[1]Matt Jones has put out a [2]PDF and [3]EPS
outlining symbols to use in [1]Warchalking the WLAN nodes of your
community. Here's a [4]pic. [5]Ben Hammersly dubs them Hobo Runes."
Brings to mind pictures of scruffy individuals around a fire with
picturebooks, taking a pull from some ripple while reading slashdot.
Links
0. http://kennethhunt.com/index.htm
1. http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
2. http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/warchalking0_9.pdf
3. http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/warchalking0_9.eps
4. http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/big_kynance.jpg
5. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1628
Two Towers Teaser Trailer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/1711242
SicariusMan writes "Seems there is a Two Towers [0]teaser out at
movie-list.com. Thank goodness for the [1]CrossOver Plugin." And Astin
writes "[2]Ain't it cool news has a [3]list of mirrors showing the new
LoTR trailer. More action and burning and orcs, etc, etc, etc."
Links
0. http://movie-list.com/l/lordoftheringstrilogy.shtml
1. http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/
2. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/
3. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=12584
Software.linux.com
6's Keen TV Listings Scanner
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