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Submission + - Who thinks Firehose software is working right? 6

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "I find the Firehose software to be infuriating. It seems to have no 'stickiness' but constantly reverts to other views and searches than what I was looking at. I'm about ready to give up on it unless they tell me they recognize it's dumb and are doing something to make it work right. Am I the only one who feels this way?"
Linux Business

Submission + - Amanda 2.6 is released! (zmanda.com)

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amanda-backup
amanda-backup writes: "Amanda 2.6.0 is out of the door: http://www.zmanda.com/amanda-26-released.html Amanda 2.6.0 represents a huge step forward in Amanda's evolution — improving ease of installation and configuration, security, and scalability. Furthermore, this release makes Amanda a platform to develop advanced backup and archiving applications and makes it easier for developers to contribute significant functionality."
United States

Submission + - NIST Announces Reverse Leap Day

Submitted by dgatwood
dgatwood writes: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a correction as a result of small errors in leap second calculations arising out of the gradual slowing of the expansion of the universe. At precisely 1:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, the date will skip forward by 24 hours to Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008. Director James Turner described this as the first "reverse leap day" in recorded history. He added that he expected a similar correction each year for at least the next seven years.

Americans are advised to immediately adjust their clocks and calendars forward to April 2nd. Director Turner warned, however, that not all countries in the world have agreed to this change yet. "Americans who regularly interact with people in other countries should expect some minor confusion until this all sorts itself out," Turner said, adding that "We considered simply dropping February 29th, but decided that would be too confusing."

For more information, see the NIST Coordinated Universal Time page at http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/faqs/time.htm.
Operating Systems

Submission + - Kernel.org announces Upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0

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Warthog9
Warthog9 writes: "I and the other kernel.org Administrators would like to announce our upgrade from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD 7.0. From the official announcement at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/31/367 :

" After much deliberation, research and argument in #korg (along with screaming matches between HPA and I over dinner) we are upgrading the kernel.org machines from Fedora Core 5 to FreeBSD 7.0. This decision does not come lightly to the Kernel.org admins, and we would like to point out several key things that helped us form our decision: FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux in SMP Performance: http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/06/1313218 & http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf ... "

We feel that this change will help us to better serve our growing number of users."
Security

Submission + - Chicom attacks pro-Tibet media with malware (f-secure.com)

Submitted by
Tamas Feher from Hungary
Tamas Feher from Hungary writes: "According to finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure Corp., the chinese hackers are sending out a lot of e-mails with seemingly genuine pro-Tibet documents attached. Not too suprisingly, these common PDF, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files are laced with hidden file header corruption based exploits, which inject a Windows-based keylogger malware into the target system. The infestation secretly collects all keyboard input and forwards it to xsz.8800.org, a well-known virus-related address in mainland China.

Press and electronic media which dare to report openly on the recent tibetan crisis have been especially targeted and the AFP news agency was among the first to receive (and stop) the malware on Tuesday.

More info and screenshots can be found here:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001406.html

One more reason to boycott the Summer Games in 2008?"
The Courts

Submission + - SCO's Billon Dollar Liability (zensden.net)

Submitted by
ColonelZen
ColonelZen writes: "SCO has a Potential and Credible BILLION Dollar Liability

IBM does billions of dollars in Linux buisness annually. SCO began it's campaign of derogation against Linux and IBM in 2003. Some estimates say that at it's peak the SCO matter slowed Linux adoption by as much as 20%. Do the math.

...

Justice and judicial economy in this matter can be served only by denying any present reorganization plan and unstaying the IBM trial so that a dollar amount of liability can be determined. Otherwise, with very high probability, SCO will return to bankruptcy court a year or two after emergence but with a liability that no possible reorganization or refinancing could ameliorate."
Censorship

Submission + - GoDaddy Silences Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com (wired.com)

Submitted by
diewlasing
diewlasing writes: "The recently unveiled police watchdog site RateMyCop.com, has been, without warning the owner, shut down. From the article:

A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops."
The Internet

Submission + - Most Geek and Net Neutral Friendly ISP?

Submitted by Dr. Rosenblat
Dr. Rosenblat writes: I will be moving soon and with that will require my internet service to either be transferred or a whole new account created. Then comes the all important choice of choosing the proper ISP, broadband of course, with the acquisition of Speak Easy by Best Buy I am reluctant to go with them, they were number 1 on the list. Given Comcast's most outstanding track record with customer relations and AT&T's jump on the screw you band wagon, I am at a geek crossroads. (insert sarcasm there) So I was wondering what other Slashdotters (sounds like a sick pervision of baby boomer) thought on the subject, and who they chose as there ISP or would choose if location and availability were not factors.
The Internet

Submission + - Wikileaks calls for global boycott against eNom (wikileaks.org) 5

Submitted by
souls
souls writes: "Seems like the folks at Wikileaks are on an anti-censorship-spree again: In a press release announced earlier, the site calls for global awareness and support in a boycotting campagin headed towards eNom., Inc., one of the top internet domain registrars, apparently involved in systematic domain censoring.
It appears eNom on Feb 28th shut down wikileaks.info, one of the many Wikileaks mirrors held by a volunteer as a side-effect of the court proceedings around wikileaks.org. That not being enough, the New York Times reported earlier this weekon numerous cases of domains held with eNom just disappearing, in connection to a Treasury Department driven blacklist that looks like a fairly random compilation of domains and information in a massive file.
Wikileaks calls for a global boycott of eNom and its parent Demand Media, its owners, executives and their affiliated companies, interests and holdings, to make clear such behaviour can and will not be tolerated within the boundaries of the internet and its global community."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush & Cheney (reuters.com)

Submitted by
jay-za
jay-za writes: "From the article:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to "extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them."
Now I'm by no means an expert on US law, but aren't crimes against the constitution almost the same as terrorism? At least by the current administration's definitions. And if they are, does this mean Bush and Cheney can be arrested and held indefinitely without trial as suspected terrorists? Would they be held in Guantanamo Bay? Would this qualify as a US president visiting Cuba (in Bush' case)? Would they be tortured? Should we care?"
Announcements

Submission + - Bush/Cheney to Be Indicted in Brattleboro, Vermont (impeachbush.org)

Submitted by
em8chel
em8chel writes: "Not only did the good people of Vermont choose Obama on Tuesday night, townfolks of Brattleboro also voted to direct town officials to draw up indictment papers against George Bush and Dick Cheney for violating their oath of office by saying "yes" to the referendum:

"Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?"

The indictment would go into effect after Bush and Cheney leave office. Should they ever enter Brattleboro, they can be arrested for criminal acts."

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