Submission + - What Raid can & Can't do
ZahnRosen writes: "DougLite explains 'What raid CAN and CAN'T do.' Its death to the idea that raid will protect you, your data or your job."
Journal Journal: McAfee VirusScan Dangerous on Linux
A fellow Gentoo Linux user and dev team member discovered and reported a very serious hole in McAfee VirusScan for Linux, a commercial antivirus solution. As the security issue is extremely critical with providing backdoor to the system, and since the package checks itself with checksums and cannot be easily patched for correction, gentoo linux dev team has already
Submission + - Hacking a Hanukkah Dreidel to Play Wagner
Mrs. Grundy writes: "Just in time for Hanukkah, composer and pianist, Matthew Guerrieri shows us how to take a cheap plastic Dreidel and with a few clever alterations create a tchotchke that plays Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." He describes it as "giving the man [Richard Wagner] a bit of a karmic wedgie""
Submission + - Do all next-gen games HAVE to be 3D?
sudnshok writes: Last week, an article was posted where an EA executive discussed the high cost involved with next-gen game development. While I agree that sports games do benefit from a high-resolution 3D environment, do all games have to be developed that way? Why can't game companies develop 2D games for these systems? I would assume the development cost would be much lower. As a gamer who grew up on the NES, I'd love to see a new 2D side-scrolling installment of Castlevania or Zelda. I'm curious if other gamers would buy 2D games for next-gen systems.
Submission + - Phase-Change Memory to Replace Flash
Atryn writes: IBM has announced a breakthrough in memory technology hitting the industry's 2015 goals as early as 2008. The Phase-Change Memory (PCM) prototype is 500 times faster than Flash at half the power and smaller size. Stories at Ars Technica, Unstrung, or directly from IBM Research. IBM's presentation will be on Wednesday at the IEEE's 2006 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco.
Submission + - Fedora Legacy Project in Trouble
simpz writes: "The Fedora Legacy project no longer seems to have the resources to provide updates for FC2, FC3 and FC4. These releases are now effectively not supported. This means if you have any systems that
have to survive in production longer than 18 months where reinstalling isn't appropriate, Fedora is no longer an option for you. This is unless something happens soon.
See http://www.fedoralegacy.org/#main and http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy
Also further discusion on https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list /2006-December/thread.html"
Submission + - Firefox Ads on TV?
Johnsnow writes: Apparently, people living in the San Francisco and Boston Area will soon be seeing Firefox ads on television. From the article: "After last years full page ad in the New York Times, the folks at the Mozilla foundation have now decided to promote Firefox via a medium that can reach a much larger percentage of the population... television."
Submission + - iTunes sales plummet
Clyde Tolson writes: iTunes sales are plummeting. Is this analysis correct?
http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/vi ew.bg?articleid=171739&srvc=biz
Submission + - People Living In Star Wars Sets
cybermage writes: "When George Lucas travelled to Tunisia to film Star Wars, he used some real dwellings and built others for the scenes on Tatooine. In this article, a travel reporter for the San Antonio Express News discusses finding the sets not only occupied but a growing tourist attraction deep in the heart of the desert."
Submission + - New search engine evaluates user's personality
Submission + - Complete Mozart Works Now Free
An anonymous reader writes: According to Reuters:
"Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the first time free on the Internet."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?typ e=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-11T185118Z_01_L1180 4081_RTRUKOC_0_US-ARTS-MUSIC-MOZART.xml
Although most classical music is obviously too old to be under copyright, the rights to specific editions of pieces are owned by the publishers. Now, the International Mozart Foundation has acquired the right to publish the prestigious New Mozart Edition of every Mozart work on the internet. The response has been so overwhelming that the Foundation has been forced to increase their server capacity.
One small step for digital rights:
http://dme.mozarteum.at/
"Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the first time free on the Internet."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?ty
Although most classical music is obviously too old to be under copyright, the rights to specific editions of pieces are owned by the publishers. Now, the International Mozart Foundation has acquired the right to publish the prestigious New Mozart Edition of every Mozart work on the internet. The response has been so overwhelming that the Foundation has been forced to increase their server capacity.
One small step for digital rights:
http://dme.mozarteum.at/
Submission + - School Pulls Wi-Fi Network On Fears of Radiation
s31523 writes: "Wi-Fi networks have become a ubiquitous entity, popping up in homes, restaurants, coffee shops, schools and the workplace. This trend of wireless communication is likened to the cell phone craze that started in the late 90's which quickly prompted a electromagnetic radiation scare that caused rumors of brain tumors and cancer. Looks like Wi-Fi networks are heading down the same path. The BBC is reporting that some schools are pulling their Wi-Fi networks after "complaints from parents that their children suffer headaches". From the article: " Some are concerned that we don't know enough about the health effects of electromagnetic radiation — the radio waves that allow the computer network to transmit (along with longwave, FM and TV and phone frequencies). For others, headaches and skin rashes — that they feel are due to the radio waves — are prompting a big switch off." Is this another chicken little phenomenon or is there really a need for concern?"
Submission + - Essential tech websites?
Oradzuza writes: "I am buying my nephew a 2 gig thumb drive and I'm putting all the basics on it, like Firefox and Thunderbird. I want to fill up his bookmarks, but I don't know which sites I should put on it. What do you consider are essential tech websites? You can be sure Slashdot will be on it!
Thanks."
Submission + - Top 1000 Searches in the past 48 hrs - Google Tool
klikhir writes: "These searches and results are a barometer of what the world is interested in right now! Curious Observations Today: sexual references appear 42% of the time; sex is the number #1 searched term; sexual references appear 4 times in the top 5. Curious about the results? Use this Google search tool.
http://top-searches.klikhir.com/"
Submission + - Ban Illustrations of abuse
An anonymous reader writes: John Reid (UK Home Secretary) wants to ban "images, including cartoons and graphic illustrations of abuse.". Aren't there sufficient laws against this kind of material already, where do we draw the lines (no pun intended) and will we reach a point where images have to be government sanctioned? This seems to be cheap shot at scoring political points rather than a serious attempt at regulating media but I always get nervous when politicians start 'thinking of the children'.
