Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - CoHEmu receives cease and desist from NCSoft

Submitted by
Malign
Malign writes: "The CoHEmu (now known as CoXemu) Project received a cease and desist order from NCSoft today. The cease and desist can be found here: http://www.tonster.com/ncsoftceasedesist.pdf The CoHEmu Project is an open source City of Heroes and Villains server emulator written in C++. The topic in their project IRC channel reads: "cohemu site shut down" Apparently, the webhost that powered the project forum was taken offline by the ISP and the server maintainer had to call them and explain what was going on to get it back on the net. The project source code was completely open, but NCSoft accused them of using copyrighted material. They also warned of possible outcomes if the content was not brought down such as court and heavy fines of approximately $100,000 USD. Another emulation project bites the dust to the will of corporations."
Programming

Submission + - How do you change careers into programming?

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: I have worked in tech support for the last several years, but find myself wanting to move on to something else — programming. I've written some small programs in my limited spare time but nothing particularly impressive; just functional stuff to make my life easier. I've spent a lot of time recently working through programming books, and feel I'm ready to make the switch in my career. That said, I don't have a CS degree, and find that responses to my resume have been along the lines of "Thanks, but we aren't hiring for tech support positions." Surely someone from the slashdot crowd has been in the same position — what would you recommend?
Biotech

Submission + - How A "Superbaby" Is Leading To New Medic

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A baby boy with unusually big muscles — caused by a gene mutation — is leading to new muscular dystrophy drugs. Forbes has the story, from the gene's discovery in mice, then in cattle (lots of beefy breeds have a mutated copy) to the current quest for new medicines, which pits a tiny biotech against drug giant Wyeth.

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/074.ht ml?partner=yahoomag
Google

Submission + - Year of the pig Google Logo censured

Submitted by Staalorm
Staalorm writes: Using anon proxy you can see that many countries don't display the Chinese "year of the pig" logo from Google. USA has it and China too, but many European countries don't. What is the criteria Google uses not to display the piglet-logo? In previous years all countries could view the "year of the monkey" and the "year of the dog". Are Google afraid of an Islamic equivalent of the Danish cartoon-row?
Microsoft

Submission + - Has Microsoft Patented A Successor To Clippy?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: IWeek blogger Alex Wolfe theorizes that Microsoft might be searching for a successor to 'Clippy, the iconic paperclip which was featured in Office from 1997 until the folks at Redmond got tired of the ridicule and retired it in 2004. The most promising candidate may be an eye with a rotating iris. What's equally notable is that Microsoft seems to be taking a page from its attempt to trademark the English word "Windows," and has patented the icon for a camcorder. Do you think this is the typical patent work of a big company, or has Microsoft got something up its sleeve here?
Software

Submission + - Full featured version control system built on Mono

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It seems there is a new version control system in town: Plastic SCM. The system has been built using Mono (www.go-mono.org), and it claims to be as powerful as the good old Clearcase, but user-friendly and... with a very nice GUI.

It seems to be one of the first full-featured commercial applications developed using Mono.

One of the features I really liked is that Plastic provides version trees (yes, Team System miserably fail doing that, and the CVS and Subversion graphics are far from complete), and they are rendered in 3D... yes, you can rotate your tree, put it upside down and so on... Anyone implementing something similar for SVN?

The system also implements branch inheritance, true file renaming, merge tracking, repository level ACLs, and uses a SQL database as storage (Firebird, SQL Server or Postgres).

You can watch the screencast running on Mono/Linux at their blog: http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2007/02/plastic -scm-running-on-sled-mono.html. A VMWare image is also available to download.

Developers may be considering making it open source.
America Online

AOL Now Supports OpenID 163

Posted by Zonk from the making-progress dept.
Nurgled writes "On Sunday John Panzer announced that AOL now has experimental OpenID server support. This means that every AOL user now has an OpenID identifier. OpenID is a decentralized cross-site authentication system which has been growing in popularity over the last few months. AOL is the first large provider to offer OpenID services, and though they do not currently accept logins to their services with OpenID identifiers from elsewhere, they are apparently working on it. The next big challenge for OpenID proponents is teaching AOL's userbase how to make use of this new technology."
Graphics

Submission + - NVIDIA Launches GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB Mid Range

Submitted by
MojoKid
MojoKid writes: "This week NVIDIA launched a significantly lower cost version of their powerful new GeForce 8800 series graphics cards, dubbed the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB. As the branding suggests, these cards come equipped with only 320MB of on-board frame buffer memory. They're also clocked at 500MHz for the GPU core and 1200MHz DDR on their GDDR3 memory interface, versus the top-of-the-line GeForce 8800 GTX with its 575MHz core and 1375MHz memory respectively. All told, for a $299- $329 price range, these new cards offer up excellent performance in current games, at high resolutions, with all eye candy turned on and at a more attractive cost with future DX10 capabilities to boot."
Businesses

Creating a Business in the US on an H1-B Visa? 103

Posted by Cliff from the building-the-american-dream dept.
GnaGnaGna asks: "I've lived in the US for almost a year now and have a full time position with a major American company under an H1-B visa (work visa for foreigners). Besides this job, I also run an increasingly popular website generating AdSense revenues. I am not sure if I am allowed to create a US company (most likely an LLC), under my legal status, and transfer the Adsense profits to my personal bank account or a business bank account. Have my fellow readers faced a similar legal situation or know anything about it?"
Security

Submission + - When malware attacks malware

Submitted by
PetManimal
PetManimal writes: "Researchers say that the Storm Trojan/Peacomm worm has been tweaked to spread via IM programs and attack rival malware. Symantec sounded the alarm, and says that the exploit launches in AOL, Google Talk, and Yahoo Messenger windows that are already open, making it appear to be a legitimate message from a known user, according to the article. The worm has modified the code from last year's Nuwar worm, and when activated, enables a distributed denial of service attack against any site, including antispam services and servers supporting rival malware:

Systems hijacked by Peacomm have also conducted DDoS attacks against at least five domains used by the creators of the noted Warezov (or Stration) worm. After a busy September and October, Warezov was credited by some analysts as the genesis of 2006's massive fourth-quarter spike in spam volume.
"
Education

Submission + - Technology Enabled Study Rooms

Submitted by
esparhawk
esparhawk writes: "I work as a network administrator at an engineering college. We are in the process of expanding our campus housing, and have been asked to design study rooms incorporating educational aiding technologies. One idea so far, is to have electronic blackboards, which will print what has been written. How would you design the study rooms of the future?"
Upgrades

Submission + - Stained Glass Case Mod

Submitted by
inetsee
inetsee writes: "Have way too much time on your hands? How about building yourself a stained glass case for your computer. No construction details, just three photos of a beautiful way to wrap your computer."

Slashdot Top Deals

I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.

Close