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  Apple: First Third-party Native iPhone Application Released 2007-08-03 17:51

Posted by Zonk on Friday August 03 2007, @05:51PM
from the first-or-third dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A third-party native application for the iPhone is now available. Gizmodo discusses the real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. It is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing. What is it? Ironically enough, MobileTerminal, 'a terminal emulator application for the iPhone. MobileTerminal.app is NOT an SSH client, nor Telnet for that matter. It can however be used to execute a console ssh-client application.' The iPhone dev revolution has just started."
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  Case of the great hot-site swap 2007-08-03 17:16 BobB

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2007, @05:16PM
Two universities — Bowdoin in Maine and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles — have entered a unique arrangement under which they are backing up each other's web site, email and servers on different ends of the U.S. They say this could be a disaster recovery model all sorts of organizations could follow. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080307-bowdo in-lmu.html
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Bookmark by porkchop_d_clown on Monday May 07 2007, @08:03PM
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/gas-mixup-suspected-of-killing-eight-patients/2007/05/07/1178390227711.html
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  Two states place restrictions on used CD sales 2007-05-07 19:21 DrBenway

Submitted by DrBenway on Monday May 07 2007, @07:21PM
DrBenway writes "Ars Technica reports that Florida and Utah have placed draconian restrictions on the sale of used music CDs. Wisconson and Rhode Island may soon follow suit. Ken Fisher writes:

"No, you won't spend any time in jail, but you'll certainly feel like a criminal once the local record shop makes copies of all of your identifying information and even collects your fingerprints. Such is the state of affairs in Florida, which now has the dubious distinction of being so anal about the sale of used music CDs that record shops there are starting to get out of the business of dealing with used content because they don't want to pay a $10,000 bond for the "right" to treat their customers like criminals."

Also from the same article:

"For retailers in Florida, for instance, there's a "waiting period" statue that prohibits them from selling used CDs that they've acquired until 30 days have passed. Furthermore, the Florida law disallows stores from providing anything but store credit for used CDs."

Read more at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-reco rd-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html"
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  Web 2.0 / Rich Internet Application UI's 2007-05-07 19:19 Jason Valalik

Submitted by Jason Valalik on Monday May 07 2007, @07:19PM
Jason Valalik writes "With the advent of AJAX and real time calls to the server there have been some really slick user interfaces developed that enhance the customer experience. Not all of these are real time calls, but they do support a better user experience giving the user either feedback or system features when they need it. This is a usability principle called progressive disclosure. There is a lot of talk about Web 2.0, but I have seen very few real examples beside drag-and-drop. This should provide readers with some true life Web 2.0 application functionality that demonstrates what pundits are talking about and also make for a better and desktop like experience."
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  Politics: Library of Congress Threatens Washington Watch Wiki 2007-05-07 19:11

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 07 2007, @07:11PM
from the trademark-madness dept.
BackRow writes "Washington Watch, a site devoted to tracking the cost of federal legislation, has raised the hackles of the Library of Congress with a new wiki that makes an unfavorable comparison to the LOC's THOMAS legislative search engine. After Jim Harper, Washington Watch's creator and the director of information policy at the Cato Institute, announced the wiki, he received a nastygram from the LOC." Quoting: "After the announcement, he was contacted by Matt Raymond, the Director of Communications at the Library (and the author of the Library of Congress' blog). Raymond said that he possessed 'statutory and regulatory authority governing unauthorized use of the Library's name and logo and those of Library subunits and programs,' and he asked that Harper stop using the names 'Library of Congress' and 'THOMAS' in his marketing materials."
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  Why Closed Source Software is good 2007-05-07 18:45 neax

Submitted by neax on Monday May 07 2007, @06:45PM
neax writes "I am talking to a group of students regarding the differences between closed and open source software, and the different business models that they use. In particular, I am wanting more information regarding Closed Source software and the business models they use and why they are good, and was wondering it you have any interesting advice or links to assist me in providing the students with all the information....and stuff that is interesting/ funny to use as examples. I am primarily interested in looking for information around why closed source is a good and viable option, rather than from the perspective of why open source is good, because this argument has been rehashed numerous times (go easy on the flamebait please!)"
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From feed by cnetfeed on Monday May 07 2007, @06:32PM
Blog: This time around, fresh off EMI's decision to sell DRM-free tracks on iTunes, should be an interesting back-and-forth between Apple and the music industry.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9716781-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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From feed by engfeed on Monday May 07 2007, @06:12PM

Filed under: Transportation


Those of you as taken with GM's Chevy Volt concept vehicle as we are may want to take a minute to reconsider any impending car purchases, as the car is now officially headed into production -- in two different versions no less. According to Autoblog, that could put the car on track for a roll out in 2010, although GM isn't quite ready to get that specific. In addition to the plug-in gasoline model we saw earlier this year, the other version GM is working on is a fuel cell model, although it'll apparently be too expensive for volume production (diesel and ethanol-powered versions could also be headed to select markets). The plug-in gasoline version takes the rather ingenious route of using the gasoline engine to power a generator, which charges the car's batteries, which in turn powers the car itself (you can also simply plug it in overnight to charge the battery). That supposedly translates to a gasoline savings of about 500 gallons per year for the average commuter, not to mention a signification reduction in CO2 emissions. While there's no word yet on what it might cost, GM has reportedly said that it's willing to lose money initially in order to get the car produced and sold, which could certainly be a good sign.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!


http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/114896082/
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Submitted by 1sockchuck on Monday May 07 2007, @05:35PM
1sockchuck writes "Most data centers have an Emergency Power Off (EPO) button that will shut off power to the entire data center floor. Designed for fire prevention, the EPO (often a red button) has also triggered many accidental outages when vendors or cleaning crews have pressed it by accident. On April 15, the EPO figured in an apparent act of sabotage that crashed the data center that controls California's electrical grid. A disgruntled sysadmin was later charged in the incident. At the recent Data Center World conference, a session focused on ways to configure and manage the EPO button to reduce the risk of an accident or sabotage. "People can get killed and lives ruined by data center failures today," said data center designer Richard Sawyer. "The EPO represents a single point of failure. Make it accessible, but don't make it easy.""
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  Wikipedia admins go on rampage 2007-05-07 16:17 joeszilagyi

Submitted by joeszilagyi on Monday May 07 2007, @04:17PM
joeszilagyi writes "After their passwords got cracked: At least four different Wikipedia administrators have had their weak passwords taken in the past 24 hours. They deleted the home page repeatedly, and one person even put Tubgirl on the "Site notice", which is a global header for all of en.wikipedia.org. How did it happen? Weak logon security measures — there is no CAPTCHA; crappy passwords, and on top of that, while there is an encrypted SSL logon page, it's hard to find. The scariest thing is that people with passwords of "password" are entrusted as sysops and administrators on one of the Top 10 websites on Earth. They even blocked Jimbo Wales repeatedly from his own website!"
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  Open Source WebEx functionality 2007-05-07 15:45 KD7JZ

Submitted by KD7JZ on Monday May 07 2007, @03:45PM
KD7JZ writes "Where can I find WebEx functionality in Open Source? I know about VNC for remote desktop access. What I want is the ability to have a remote user share a session with me where I can take control of their machine, and do things. Ideally as a downloadable java app, so it is easy to set up on an ad-hoc basis."
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  Free implementation of native Exchange protocol 2007-05-07 14:41 Jelmer Vernooij

Submitted by Jelmer Vernooij on Monday May 07 2007, @02:41PM
Jelmer Vernooij writes "After three years of hard work, the OpenChange project has released a first version of their project, which implements MAPI, the protocol used natively by Microsofts' Exchange server. Their initial release contains a simple command-line tool for fetching and sending email from an Exchange server. Work is also on its way to build a native drop-in replacement of Exchange server, without requiring additional client plugins, as well as improvements to the client to support fetching and changing remote tasks, address books and calendars. An online demonstration of the release and its testing tools is also available."
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  MySpace photo sagas continue 2007-05-07 13:42 gwoodrow

Submitted by gwoodrow on Monday May 07 2007, @01:42PM
gwoodrow writes "We've all heard the "fired because of myspace" issues, where a simple blog or picture gets someone canned. But even as it's getting worse, the targets are fighting back:

"Teacher in training Stacy Snyder was denied her education degree on the eve of graduation when Millersville University apparently found pictures on her MySpace page 'promoting underage drinking.' As a result, the 27-year-old mother of two had her teaching certificate withheld and was granted an English degree instead. In response, Snyder has filed a Federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania university asking for her education diploma and certificate along with $75,000 in damages."

The offending picture? A picture from halloween 2005 of Stacy in a pirate outfit drinking from a cup."
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  Star Trek's Omnipotent Q Is A Mac User 2007-03-21 14:39 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2007, @02:39PM
An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek interviews John de Lancie, the actor who played the omnipotent Q, about science fiction influences on real-life technology. He says, in case of fire, the first thing he'd save is his Apple laptop. He also says the food and decor on Trek was terrible:

"I have to say, though, that I never saw them have a really good meal," he said laughing. "And I hated the colors. It all looked like a Holiday Inn. It looked like everyone was living in a hotel somewhere eating bad hotel food."
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