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Submission + - cluster of dsPIC microcontrollers

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Peter Jansen
Peter Jansen writes: "I'm not sure if this is the type of story you usually cover, but I thought I'd mention a project I'm working on — a cluster of dsPIC microcontrollers. The prototype board is complete and I'm currently working on the software component. The board has space for up to 10 dsPIC microcontrollers which include hardware multipliers and can run at speeds up to 30 MIPS. The processors communicate using an I2C bus connected to an Imsys SNAP small Java-powered board computer, which also provides storage and a 10/100mbit ethernet interface."
Security

Submission + - Top 5 open source security tools in the enterprise

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From LinuxWorld: "With thousands of open source security packages available, choices can be confusing. Here's the short list of tools that are getting real-world successful deployments...". According to their list, the best tools are OSSEC, Snort, Bro, Nagios and Nessus.
Censorship

Submission + - Welcome Back... Or Not.

Submitted by jon_anderson_ca
jon_anderson_ca writes: How should free software projects deal with ex-leaders returning from away? According to DistroWatch, the creator of Gentoo Linux (who resigned for personal reasons in 2004) came back and then resigned again in the same week.

Yes, this is the same Daniel Robbins who founded Gentoo Linux back in the year 2000 and who left the project in 2004 for personal reasons. He officially re-joined the Gentoo development team two weeks ago — only to resign a few days later. The reason? Strong personal attacks by some of the current developers of the project.


One of the "strong personal attacks" claims that Daniel Robbins "repeatedly resorted to ad hominem attacks". I don't know who's right, but did anybody else watch this video today?

How do you defuse the tension that is all-too-often inherent between current and former leadership?
Space

Submission + - Scientists break the speed of light!

Submitted by
I, Meatbot.
I, Meatbot. writes: "Eat your brain out of a jar, Einstein! Scientists have finally exceeded the speed of light, causing a light pulse to travel 300 times faster than normal. It raced so fast the pulse *exited* a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it. The experiment is the first-ever evidence of faster-than-light motion. Read the breaking news: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2000/07/20/speedlig ht000720.html"
Software

Submission + - Making a Living from open source (a year later)

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asimbaig
asimbaig writes: "Its been over a year since I last posed a question on whether its "really" possible to make a decent living building open source software. I got a lot of good feedback from slashdotters and the open source community. I thought I would provide an update on our experience. In one short year, CATS, our open source Applicant Tracking System has become the number one ATS in the market including commercial packages. We didn't have any revenue last year and we didnt focus on it either since we were too busy building the sofware. We started selling the hosted solution this year and have sold about 100 seats in 2 months bringing us $3000/month in recurring revenue. We just signed an OEM / Source Code license agreement with a large company for $200k. I expect to sell 4-5 of these OEM deals this year. I think making CATS open source played a significant role in our success to date....Marketing."
Intel

Submission + - Intel will sell solid-state flash drives

Submitted by wh0pper
wh0pper writes: Intel is entering the solid-state hard drive market with its Z-U130 flash-based drives, but not to sell to the consumer. Intel plans to offer the systems to computer manufacturers and embedded systems makers as a way to offer low-power, high-speed storage and let them achieve better performance than they would with traditional hard disk systems. Intel claims read performance will be at 28 MB per second, write performance will reach 20 MB per second, and the units will offer an average mean time between failure (MBTF) of a whopping 5 million hours. How does this compare to the flash-based hard drives in the various MP3 players?
Security

Submission + - Phishers target CareerBuilder.com users

Submitted by
bednarz
bednarz writes: "There's a new phishing technique making waves. Attackers are launching targeted phishing scams from the job-related site CareerBuilder.com, according to one network manager who says his engineering firm recently had to combat phishing techniques that use the lure of phony online resumes. The way it works is an attacker sends e-mails to managers seeking job applicants, asking them in a cover letter to visit a Web site to view a resume provided via a link. If a manager clicks on the link, the Web site then attempts to execute a backdoor Trojan to compromise the machine. Network World has the story: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031207-phish ing-careerbuilder.html"
Security

Submission + - Oops, I portscanned the readers.

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Sebastiaan de With
Sebastiaan de With writes: "After my last howto, in which I gave pointers to change firewall rules, I have proofed my audience by doing a portscan. This final part of my how-to shows the figures of people who decided to take heed. More importantly, the article follows up with more ways to secure your Mac, clearly divided in Basic, Intermediate and Advanced sections."
Games

Submission + - Region Free Gaming on Nintendo Wii

Submitted by
Joan Cross
Joan Cross writes: "Region Free Gaming has arrived on the Nintendo Wii thanks to a New Modchip called the Wiid, the modchip alows the booting of Pal Games on a NTSC Wii and Vice Versa as well as full support for Region Free Gamecube and support for Gamecube Homebrew and is updateable via software upgrades. Its also compatible with all hardware revisions of the Nintendo Wii."
Communications

Submission + - Study: Many government web sites stink

Submitted by
coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "Seems its ok for some portions of our government to go looking pretty will-nilly for information about us, but we can't get information easily about them. A report issued today by the National Security Archive Knight Open Government survey, found widespread failure among federal agencies to follow the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments that took effect in 1997. Here are the top 12 sites worst Web sites for gleaning information according to the group: Air Force (Department of Defense, Department of Defense, Department of Interior.... http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1238 4"
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Geek Dress Up Dolls

Submitted by
Elizabeth Seward
Elizabeth Seward writes: "Geek dress up dolls are the hottest — and strangest — new thing. This is a collection of online dress up dolls that includes Shigeru Miyamoto, Kevin Rose, Matt Cutts, Master Chief, Mario, and a lot more. The page is here: http://www.cartoondollemporium.com/category_geek.h tml and here is a direct link to Shigeru: http://www.cartoondollemporium.com/shigerudoll.htm l"

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