Comment Commodore SUX! ATARI Rulz! (Score 1) 238
Wow, it's been like 26 years since I've made a title like that, but it's still true!
Comment Re:301 (Score 1) 71
That was the first thought that came to my mind - 301 to the next feed relevant feed.
Comment Common Editors (Score 0) 318
Are the editors of Slashdot so ignorant to the existence of content management systems to let this article through?
One persons exuberance towards a particular content management system does not make a news worthy article.
The author speaks of Drupal like he's discovering sliced bread. Plone as a CMS has been around for years, as have others.
Submission + - Global Warming (morgancountytax.org)
wilber123 writes: "Global Warming ?
There has been no credible evidence of man causing the normal change our planet has gone through and is going through again. Our climate and temperatures cycle, last year on July 4th wasn't the same temp as this July 4th., 1998 differs from 2001. The warmest years in history was long before man made so called greenhouse gases. Climate cycles. Simple mathematics teaches all things that cycle in the short term cycles in the long term. The thousand or so non-political scientist who are trying to inform the world of this are muffed by the socialist,because that's what this is all about. Simply put the socialist are using a natural change in our earths climate to finish taking control over private industry and the people who work for them.
I've been committed to a personal study of those who won't debate the facts but go's straight to the control of industry with nothing in between and they have all been socialist. Now lets see, I bet they also are trying to tell us its to complicated for us to understand and we better trust them because they all agree,- right? right. Where have we heard that before. NO, THE SKY IS NOT FALLING. DON"T FALL FOR IT. One cannot believe in GOD and be so arrogant to think he can out control GOD's systems. I suggest he study the tower of Babel in the old testament. Based on faith, mathematics or physics its all normal.
Be willing to adapt to the climate and not the socialist and you will be fine."
Submission + - semantic medical and scientific wiki
An anonymous reader writes: And now for something completely different. A suite of online applications that lets you comprehend the content of a million scientific abstracts in a single glance.
They have a stamp of approval from major the organizations whose databases they are apparently mining, SwissProt , The NIH's UMLS and more on the horizon.
The aim is to provide realtime knowledge exchange and exploration
Apparently, the site is only in alpha testing, so we should be forgiving. ...or should we?
Is this web3.0 for Biologists or is it Web ZERO?
Submission + - The Open Font Library Logo Competition Announced
Open Font Library writes: "The Open Font Library (OFL.o, www.openfontlibrary.org) is proud to announce the commencement of the Open Font Library Logo competition today, February 26, 2007. Artists and designers of all ranges are invited to make a logo to help identify the project. Judging will take place by contributors to the project, Alex Roberts (bovinity), Liftarn, and Zeimusu, who will select the winning logo. The last chance to submit submissions is March 14, 2007 at 11:59 PM PST. After that, the judges will select a logo within five days from the submission closing date.
Other guidelines on the contest include that all submissions must be dedicated to the public domain in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format which may be edited in all major drawing application, like the free SVG editor Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). Also, contributors may upload as many submissions as they would like and optionally submit bitmap graphics showing how their logo might look on the site. The project is not wed to the current green color on the site, so please feel free to think of how the site should be colored around your submission.
The Open Font Library encourages all participants to join the Open Font Library mailing list to discuss this competition and to participate in the project. Also, for the time being, discussion about this project is happening on channel #openclipart on irc.freenode.net for any interested parties. While this competition is about creating a great logo, the project hopes to interest hopeful font designers and software developers in building up this project.
Join Mailing List
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/open fontlibrary
About Open Font Library
The Open Font Library's (www.openfontlibrary.org) major goal is to create an archive of freely usable fonts for anyone to download. If this sounds familiar, its because it is newborn sister project to the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org). While the OFL.o's site is fresh, with few fonts, the goal is to build it up so that it can be useful to the free and open source communities (and world).
For More Information:
Please see http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo for details about this contest. It closes March 14 at 11:59 PM PST."
Other guidelines on the contest include that all submissions must be dedicated to the public domain in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format which may be edited in all major drawing application, like the free SVG editor Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). Also, contributors may upload as many submissions as they would like and optionally submit bitmap graphics showing how their logo might look on the site. The project is not wed to the current green color on the site, so please feel free to think of how the site should be colored around your submission.
The Open Font Library encourages all participants to join the Open Font Library mailing list to discuss this competition and to participate in the project. Also, for the time being, discussion about this project is happening on channel #openclipart on irc.freenode.net for any interested parties. While this competition is about creating a great logo, the project hopes to interest hopeful font designers and software developers in building up this project.
Join Mailing List
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ope
About Open Font Library
The Open Font Library's (www.openfontlibrary.org) major goal is to create an archive of freely usable fonts for anyone to download. If this sounds familiar, its because it is newborn sister project to the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org). While the OFL.o's site is fresh, with few fonts, the goal is to build it up so that it can be useful to the free and open source communities (and world).
For More Information:
Please see http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/OFLBLogo for details about this contest. It closes March 14 at 11:59 PM PST."
Submission + - Swing Bling - Java effects comparable to Flash
Nemi writes: From the article — "But the one thing that Swing still lacks is eye candy. Swishy, bouncy, scrolly stuff. Now personally I can't stand it... But the Flex demo got me wondering: just how easy would it be to add swishy, bouncy, scrolly stuff to a standard Swing GUI?"
This is a very simple demo, but shows what is possible with Java/Swing. Now that Java is open sourced, may we be seeing more of this become available?
This is a very simple demo, but shows what is possible with Java/Swing. Now that Java is open sourced, may we be seeing more of this become available?
IBM Refuses To Certify Oracle Linux 124
Andrew writes "IBM has thrown a spanner in the Oracle Linux works by refusing to certify that IBM's software portfolio will run and be supported on Oracle Unbreakable Linux. If IBM applications turn out to be incompatible with Oracle Linux, then it will be up to Oracle to resolve any issues. This conservative stance of IBM's is unlikely to help Oracle sell Linux subscriptions to businesses that use any of IBM's large software portfolio."
Submission + - Inside Chat Spy - the latest product released by I
Inside Logger Team writes: "Inside Chat Spy, the new monitoring solution launched by Inside-Logger, helps you reveal all the chat conversations that took place on your computer regardless the person who is using it.
As a parent, you have to be aware of the potential harmful influences computer usage may have on your child. That's why, the monitoring application helps you keep an eye on the sort of interaction your child may develop over the Internet. In this manner one can emphasize the educational purpose of the computer usage.
Inside Chat Spy can also be used for gathering information regarding inappropriate behavior affecting interpersonal relationships between spouses, friends, relatives and anyone whose action may have an unwanted effect on the other person.
In order to evaluate the new monitoring solution and to find out more about monitoring, please visit www.inside-logger.com or e-mail us at info@inside-logger.com."
Journal Journal: FBI Training Elite Swedish Anti-Piracy Force
"When it comes to piracy Sweden is no stranger to controversy. Gaining worldwide notoriety as the country that hosts The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker and recently being labelled as a piracy safe haven by an International Intellectual Property Alliance report, they even have their own political party dedicated to piracy. In response (some might argue, in desperation) the FBI and the MPA are combining resources to train an elite anti-piracy force in Sweden to counter was is seen as a growing and
Submission + - Professional Wikis For Science
An anonymous reader writes: There are many questions concerning the accuracy of content contained in Wikipedia,as well as it's future funding. There are more and more wikis popping up that want to real in the experts and keep out the novices and vandals. Here's a demo of a new wiki, WikiProfessional ,that may be able to solve number of these issues at once.
Nothing to shake a stick at, though the above link is just a demo, the quotes on the demo indicate serious interest from some higher ups in the biology world...mainly the protein world. It's also clear that this wiki model is based on key biological databases(Nature subscribers only), not simply articles.
The big question is will this model be embraced and can it be expanded to other domains of lifescience and beyond?
Submission + - Google HD failure report, high temps/usage
An anonymous reader writes: The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.
The report examined 100,000 commercial hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 400GB in capacity, used at Google since 2001.
From the article:
"The report also looked at the impact of scan errors — problems found on the surface of a disc — on hard drive failure.
"We find that the group of drives with scan errors are 10 times more likely to fail than the group with no errors," said the authors.
They added: "After the first scan error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60 days than drives without scan errors."
Comment What OS does this run on? (Score 1) 939
Why is this slashdot news?????
Why did it even make it past the 'moderators'?
Oh yeah...yahoo owns slashdot...I see.
This is crap!
PLEASE GIVE ME A NEGATIVE FOR INFLAMATORY>>>OR BETTER YET>>>IRRELAVENT!
