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Submission + - Linux: A Musician's OS?

Submitted by lazyeye on Monday May 07, 2007 @06:45AM

lazyeye writes: Keyboard Magazine has an in-depth article about the state of music production on Linux. While it does introduce Linux to the average musician, the article does get into some of the available music applications and music-oriented Linux distributions out there. From the opening paragraph:

You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.

Submission + - Cassini discovers seas on Titan, Saturn's moon

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @10:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC reports that Nasa's Cassini probe has found evidence for seas, probably filled with liquid hydrocarbons, at the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan. The dark features, detected by Cassini's radar, are much bigger than any lakes already detected on Titan. The largest is some 100,000 sq km — greater in extent than North America's Lake Superior. It covers a greater fraction of Titan than the proportion of Earth covered by the Black Sea.

Submission + - OpenBSD's IPv6 mbufs remote kernel buffer overflow

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @09:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: Well, the counter on www.openbsd.org now says two remote holes in more than ten years. This is due to a corruption of mbuf chains when given specially crafted IPv6 packets. This is only exploitable from the local network, but wireless nodes are local, right? A fix is available in the usual place.

Submission + - Drug Firm excludes new drugs from Thailand.

Submitted by gamer4Life on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @09:24AM

gamer4Life writes: According to U.S. drugs giant Abbott Laboratories said it would stop launching new medicines in Thailand in protest at the army-backed government's move to override international drug patents. From the article:

"Thailand has chosen to break patents on numerous medicines, ignoring the patent system. As such, we've elected not to introduce new medicines there," Abbott spokeswoman Jennifer Smoter told Reuters.

Abbott is believed to be the first pharmaceutical maker to withhold new drugs from Thailand since the government shocked drug makers late last year with its first compulsory license, for Efavirenz, an HIV-AIDS treatment made by Merck & Co.

Submission + - Good Beginner's Book for Object Oriented Design?

Submitted by on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @11:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: What are the best books for someone new to object oriented programming and design? I have a decent amount of experience in structured programming. Is there a good language neutral book, and are there any good books specific to C++, C#, and/or Java? I want something that focuses on real world design issues, not just the particulars of a language.

Submission + - China Says No More Internet Cafes

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @11:29AM

eldavojohn writes: "For many Chinese, internet access just got a little bit harder to acquire. For better or for worse, China will not be allowing anymore internet cafes to open this year. There are 113,000 internet cafes in China which serve as connection points for communities where personal internet connections are clearly not within the means given an average income. Considering recent stories and trends the Chinese government is taking, they aren't fooling around with 'protecting' their people from the 'forbidden fruit' of the internet."

Submission + - Charles Simonyi's intentional programming

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @02:45AM

prostoalex writes: "MIT Technology Review describes how Charles Simonyi and Intentional Software will change the programming paradigm. For a long time Simonyi was a lead applications developer for Microsoft. According to MIT Technology Review, Simonyi can be considered the world's most successful coder, since everybody else who made more than a billion dollars off software was mostly involved in managing companies, not coding."

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