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Submission + - Amarok is being ported to Windows (kde.org)

Submitted by NightFears
NightFears writes: Amarok, the popular Linux multimedia player, is being prepared for a Windows port. As highly-demanded as it is, the port spawned a lot of controversy among the dedicated Linux users, since many of them feel that after the release there'll be one strong argument less for convincing people to switch to Linux.

The amazing part here is that it only took two days. Basically most of Amarok was already so portable that it compiled without changes. I really expected it to be much more work. Shows that it pays off to use an excellent cross-platform toolkit like Qt in the first place.
Ah yes, and there's a screenshot.
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - Make GPLv2 and GPLv3 coexist in the same project? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by
cyclop
cyclop writes: "I am coding a data analysis application in my laboratory that I would like to release as free (as in freedom) software. Moreover I am going to begin a small OSS game that will be based, in part, on GPLv2 libraries. Problem is: in both cases, I'd like to be able to exchange code both with GPLv2 and (future) GPLv3 projects. I have no particolar passions about both licences, only thing is I don't want BSD-style "do anything you want" licensing but a copyleft license. I know that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are not compatible. What can I do? Double-licensing? Is there a compatible-with-both licence? Adding exceptions? What do you think is the best way to address the GPLv2-to-GPLv3 transition without ending in one of the two sides of the barricade?"
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - New AACS "fix" hacked in a day

Submitted by
VincenzoRomano
VincenzoRomano writes: "ArsTechnica has just published an update to the neverending story about copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs and hacker hefforts against it. Quoting the original article:


The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the hackers came out on top.
The hacker "BtCB" posted the new decryption key for AACS on the Freedom to Tinker web site, just one day after the AACS Licensing Authority (AACS LA) issued the key.
The article proposes a simple description of the protection schema and a brief look back at how the cracks have slowly chipped away at its effectiveness.
It seems it'll be a long way to an effective solution ... if any.
One could also argue whether all those money spent by the industry in this reace will be worth the results and how long it would take for a return on investment."
Software

Submission + - RealPlayer to support One Click Video Ripping

Submitted by
Aditi.Tuteja
Aditi.Tuteja writes: "RealPlayer is coming up with a free version in June which will allow one-click video ripping.This free downloadable video player will allows anyone to save and organize video files in all major formats including Flash, QuickTime, RealMedia and Window Media and will support video ripping from websites like YouTube or more. RealPlayer will only download DRM free files. The new RealPlayer will not download or record video that is DRM infected but will download everything else"
Intel

Submission + - Intel in graphics partnership with Nvidia?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Intel may get some help building its upcoming floating point accelerator Larrabee. Following some rumors earlier this month, which claimed that Intel and Nvidia will be trading technologies, TG Daily now says that it has received information that the two companies will be announcing a "graphics partnership". An acquisition of Nvidia is a bit unlikely right now, but if Intel has access to Nvidia GPU technology, what exactly does that mean for AMD/ATI? Looks like Intel is catching up with AMD's ideas much faster than we thought.
Security

Submission + - When Developers Attack

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: What do you do when you fork your project and the users shun the new application and keep using the old one? The Freenet Project has had an ongoing problem where many of the users have kept using the older 0.5 network because it was stable and had Open Net while the new 0.7 network was slow, buggy, and difficult to connect to.

The Freenet developers Zothar and Nextgens decided that they should attack and destroy the old network instead of making the new network more stable and easier to use. The following is an IRC chat between two of the Freenet developers.

[20:12:25] Zothar_Work> I need to talk about bringing 0.5 down with toad
[20:12:38] Zothar_Work> I've got some ideas on how to do it
[20:12:52] that would definitly shut up 0.5 trolls, wouldn't it ?
[20:14:08] nextgens: yeah, that would probably do it
[20:14:13] censoring at hand?
[20:14:24] it's not about censoring
[20:14:30] I find it interesting that Frost on 0.5 doesn't seem to be having the board spoofing problem 0.7 does
[20:14:36] it's about prooving that 0.5 has to be replaced :)
[20:14:43] FuriousRage: vulnerability demonstration
[20:15:19] that would be indirect "settling"

When asked to condem this action, the primary developer Matthew Toseland (Toad) remained silent.
The Gimp

Submission + - Is This The End Of The Koala?

Submitted by zentropa
zentropa writes: So, Is This The End Of The Koala? Australian magazine Cosmos reports
that extreme drought, ferocious bushfires and expanding urban development are exacting a heavy toll Australia's koalas and might push the species towards extinction in the wild within a decade. Could this be the end of the cuccly Australian icon, they ask.
Google

Submission + - Darfur genocide on Google Earth

Submitted by
arobic
arobic writes: "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum established a map of the Darfur genocide which can be visualized using Google Earth. The idea is to make people aware of the atrocities going on in Sudan by means of technology to reach and educate the younger generation about historical and present human crises."

Feed Maybe You Should Back Up Your Own Email; Google, AOL, Yahoo All Losing Emails (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed
Web-based email has made quite the comeback in the past few years thanks to massive increases in email storage offerings, as well as revamped user interfaces. However, it appears that all of the big players have run into some problems actually keeping email systems online. This past week there have been stories of both AOL and Yahoo losing a ton of email (thousands of emails for AOL, millions for Yahoo Japan). This comes just a few months after Google had some problems with mass email deletions in Gmail. While the convenience these services provide is fantastic, all of these stories of lost emails should act as a reminder that you probably shouldn't trust any of these providers alone to care for your email. It's almost surprising that we haven't seen more of an effort by these or other providers to position email backup services as well, promising to keep you running, should your main account get knocked out or deleted.
Privacy

Submission + - FBI Admits Abuse of Patriot Act to Obtain Info

Submitted by SydShamino
SydShamino writes: CNN, the Associated Press and others are reporting that an independent audit of the FBI revealed "serious misuse" of power to acquire private information granted in the Patriot Act. FBI Director Robert Mueller has accepted responsibility for problems and says they are being corrected, but Congress has already called for hearings. There's no word yet on criminal charges against anyone in the FBI who might have broken the law.

MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy 448

Posted by Zonk from the shoe-is-on-the-other-camel's-foot dept.
goldaryn writes "Valence Media, the parent company of Torrentspy.com, one of the web's largest torrent search engines, has filed a lawsuit against the MPAA for allegedly hiring a hacker to steal e-mail correspondence and trade secrets. From the suit: 'The Motion Picture Association of America willfully and intentionally obtained without authority, conspired to obtain without authority, purchased, procured, used and disclosed private information that it knew was unlawfully obtained through unauthorized access to Plaintiffs' computer servers and private email accounts, in violation of United States and California privacy and computer security laws.'"

What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? 501

Posted by Cliff from the drives-that-are-bursting-at-the-seams dept.
roundisfunny wonders: "We currently do not have any mailbox restrictions for our Exchange users - which has led us to have a 420 GB mail store for 320 users. Our largest mailbox has over 13 GB in it. One of the main concerns for us is the time it takes for a restore. We have encouraged archiving, but now have 250 GB of .pst files. What sort of limitations does your company have on mailbox size, amount of time you can keep mail, and archives? Please mention your email platform, type of business, and number of users."

Is the Home Desktop Going Away? 102

Posted by Cliff from the possibly-but-not-for-a-while dept.
fishdan asks: "I recently wrote a lengthy reply to Doug Barney who had written an article saying that Apple and Linux were not trying to compete on the desktop. I saved my reply in my journal, if anyone is interested. However, this got me to thinking. Game makers have said that they are going to be developing for consoles like the Xbox or Playstation, first. Rich web applications like Writely are moving much of the standard functionality of the desktop online. Email is moving rapidly to mobile devices. Given your integrated Web/Media Center/TV that runs through your high resolution screen (that everyone will have in 10 years), what is the future of the home desktop?"
Slashdot.org

Journal Journal: Pending for a week

Journal by cyclop

Well, what's happening? As anyone can see, I submitted an "Ask Slashdot" the 03 Sept morning. Today is 09 Sept. You can also see I have submitted other stories, and they usually got rejected (or,once,accepted!) in less than 8 hours. Why are they taking so much time? I tried to write to Rob but I got no answer. What can I do?

update: It has been rejected, 15 days later.

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