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Submission + - Ten Years of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (scienceaddiction.com)

Submitted by

DevanJedi

on Wednesday July 04, 2007 @12:25AM

DevanJedi writes: "This year, that seminal work by Eric S. Raymond turns ten years old. The book that added to the geek language, changed the browser wars and was printed with an Open Source Document License, is still relevant after a decade and the bazaar development model still powers thousands of software projects."

Submission + - What is your favorite way to make coffee?

Submitted by markov_chain on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @04:01PM

markov_chain writes: For a while I've been making coffee using home-ground whole beans and a standard drip maker. I settled on this method for its simplicity and good taste even after trying numerous others such as French press, gravity and pressure percolators, each coupled with either preground or whole beans. So far, the fresh ground beans are the only factor that made a significant difference in taste. However, when I recently spotted a site that vaguely extols freshness, I began to wonder how much the freshness of even the whole beans themselves affects quality. Normally I thought the whole beans would retain the quality far longer due to less surface area exposed to air, but clearly there still must be a decline; worse yet, it is difficult to gauge that decline since the sellers usually do not advertise the age of the beans. For this reason, I would like to throw out two questions to you, Slashdot readers, about our favorite beverage. 1) what is your preferred coffee-making method, and how does it compare to other methods you tried? 2) What are your favorite beans? Specifically, not just the varietal, but also the source and the age (if known).

Submission + - Another Ocean in Space?

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @03:59PM

Riding with Robots writes: "A new study concludes that the strange and intriguing water geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may not result from pools of liquid water near the surface. However, the fractures they spew from might point to an entire ocean deep inside the icy moon. If confirmed, this would be at least the second world in the Solar System thought to have a hidden ocean beneath its surface."

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Gets Hacked

Submitted by on Saturday May 12, 2007 @03:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: A group of hackers has stolen a list of all 1.6 million usernames and passwords for registered users of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Computer Sweden reports that the sensitive information was accessed by a group calling itself Angry Young Hackers (Arga Unga Hackare — AUH). Source: http://www.thelocal.se/7280/20070511/

Submission + - RIAA Challenges Cause Foster Fees to Double

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @02:27PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA's challenges to Judge Lee R. West's order (pdf) awarding the defendant attorneys fees in Capitol v. Foster and to the "reasonableness" of Ms. Foster's attorneys' fees have not only forced the RIAA to disclose its own attorneys fees, and caused the judge to issue a second decision labeling them as "disingenuous", their motives "questionable", and their factual statements "not true", but have now caused the amount of the fees to more than double, from $55,000 to $114,000, as evidenced by Ms. Foster's supplemental fee application (pdf's)."

Submission + - Disaster recovery

Submitted by moogoogaipan on Monday May 07, 2007 @05:11PM

moogoogaipan writes: After a few days thinking about the quickest way to bring my website back to the internet users, I am still stuck at DNS. From experience, even if I set the TTL for my DNS zone file as low as 5 mins, there are still DNS servers out there won't update until a few days later(yeah you, AOL). Here is my situation. Say, I have my web servers and database servers at a remote backup location. They are ready to serve. So my question for ./ers is that if we get hit by an earthquake at our main location, what can I do in a few hours to get everyone to go to our backup location?

Submission + - A good mobile phone with no camera?

Submitted by SuperG on Monday May 07, 2007 @05:07PM

SuperG writes: It seems like every mobile phone out there has a camera on it these days. The only ones without cameras are low-end models with poor battery life, poor reception, and minimal features. And low-end means the cool factor is nonexistent as well. I often visit facilities where phones with cameras are not allowed, so I end up being incommunicado with my current camera phone. Is there a good (in terms of battery life, call quality, build quality, and style points) phone without a camera out there in the US market?

Submission + - New Swedish NetBSD Mirror

Submitted by

Viktor Holmlund

on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:59PM

Viktor Holmlund writes: "We (NetBSD.se) are proud to announce a new service again, this time we have committed ourselves to providing more activities for the CVS services. From now on, we have a bunch of CVS services for NetBSD, pkgsrc and pkgsrc-wip; available via AnonCVS, CVSup, CVSweb, and rsync.

You can find more information about this news on: http://nixon.netbsd.se/services.html

Don't forget about our other services:

o http://pkgsrc.se (WWW interface to the pkgsrc and pkgsrc-wip collections)
o http://archive.netbsd.se (Mailing list archive)
o http://forum.netbsd.se (NetBSD.se Forum)
o http://man.netbsd.se (Manuals for NetBSD)

Best regards,

—
Viktor Holmlund, NetBSD.se"

Submission + - Myspace eliminates "Gay" option

Submitted by

ishboo

on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:58PM

ishboo writes: "Just recently myspace abolished the option to select "Gay" as a sexual preference in your profile while still leaving bi and lesbian. This comes form chairman of News Corps. (Myspace's parent company) Rupert Murdoch who made this choice based on "Personal Family Values" who has a history of being accused of being homophobic. http://rawstory.com/news/2007/MySpace_deletes_abil ity_of_users_to_0503.html"

Submission + - Russian Teacher Guilty in Re-Opened MS Piracy Case

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:03PM

eldavojohn writes: "The highly publicized re-opened case of a Russian school teacher pirating Microsoft software has ended with the verdict being guilty of causing $10,000 in damages. Before we cast stones (again), note that Microsoft had nothing to do with this case: 'Microsoft, however, has said repeatedly it has nothing to do with the charges, which were brought by Russian prosecutors in the Ural Mountains region where Ponosov's school is located. The case "was initiated by Russian authorities under Russian law," the company said in an e-mailed statement after the verdict. "Microsoft neither initiated nor has any plans to bring any action against Mr. Ponosov."' The closing, re-opening & guilty verdict may all have been a result of the United States placing Russia on a piracy watch-list though many people feel the media has turned this into a David Vs Goliath tale with a reprieve on the ending."

Submission + - Warner found guilty of piracy

Submitted by

XSforMe

on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:03PM

XSforMe writes: "After a six year long legal battle Warner Music was found guilty of plagiarism and piracy, according to a judge in Mexico. The disputed property lies in the rights of a song included in a music album produced by a popular mexican interpreter which sold over 3 million copies. The judge has ordered Warner to pay Mr. Lifshitz (claimant in the trail) 40% of the net income of said album. Warner has 15 days to either pony up the money or take the case to a higher court."

Submission + - What are the best Half-Lfe 2 mods?

Submitted by j.sanchez1 on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:01PM

j.sanchez1 writes: After finishing Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode 1 for the umpteenth time, I am looking for something to tide me over until Half-Life 2 Episode 2 comes out. What are the best Half-Life 2 mods out there? I am looking for both single-player and multi-player.

Submission + - Unix to Linux migration considerations

Submitted by

E. Stride

on Monday May 07, 2007 @03:34PM

E. Stride writes: "Unix-to-Linux migration expert Ken Milberg describes how virtualization, support, clustering and more fit into the migration of an IT infrastruction from Unix."

Submission + - Aussie software pirate extradited

Submitted by JEGSYDAU on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:13PM

JEGSYDAU writes: The Sydney Morning Hearald has an article on how the Australian Government has allowed a national to be extridited to the U.S. for leading the now-disbanded pirate group Drink or Die. The article claims it is a "triumph for US authorities, demonstrating their ability to enforce US laws protecting US companies against Australians in Australia, with the co-operation of the Australian Government."

Submission + - Sequestering carbon as a soil fertilizer

Submitted by

One Salient Oversight

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @10:51PM

One Salient Oversight writes: "I'll let the article speak for itself:

The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a "wedge" of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.

Agrichar is the term not for the biomass fuel, but for what is left over after the energy is removed: a charcoal-based soil amendment. In simple terms, the agrichar process takes dry biomass of any kind and bakes it in a kiln to produce charcoal. The process is called pyrolysis. Various gases and bio-oils are driven off the material and collected to use in heat or power generation. The charcoal is buried in the ground, sequestering the carbon that the growing plants had pulled out of the atmosphere. The end result is increased soil fertility and an energy source with negative carbon emissions.

Birth of a New Wedge (By Kelpie Wilson)"

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