Submission + - Natalie Portman is 26, gorgeous and smart (parade.com) 1
jackDuhRipper writes: Ms. Portman wrote this article re 'what she's learned so far' and left us all with some beautiful photos.
Submission + - Linux to be installed in every Russian school (cnews.ru) 2
J_Omega writes: According to the Russian IT site CNews, Linux is slated to be installed in every Russian school by 2009. The article makes it appear that it will be going by the (unimaginative and nationalist) name "Russian OS." As stated in the article: "The main aim of the given work is to reduce dependence on foreign commercial software and provide education institutions with the possibility to choose whether to pay for commercial items or to use the software, provided by the government." Initial testing installations are supposed to begin next year in select districts. Is 2008/09 the year of Linux on the (Russian) desktop?
Submission + - Japanese toilets splash on America (cleanishappy.com)
alexwcovington writes: TOTO has launched a full-motion video Flash site to sell bizarre Japanese toilet-bidets to Americans. An array of over-cheerful salespeople explain how the US is deprived in its bathroom experience.
Submission + - Wil Wheaton recounts fan encounters (parade.com)
jackDuhRipper writes: "What starts out a "Beginners' Guide to Trekkies" gets quickly into Wil doing a great job moving beyond the eccentrics into those for whom interest in the show lead to a life in science and technology."
Submission + - Google Panorama Viewer Released by UCL
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith writes: "University College London has released a simple methodology for viewing 360x180 degree panoramas direct in Google Earth. Using backface culling it is possible to project a image onto a sphere and then navigate inside of it within Google Earth. A step by step tutorial is provided as well as a series of files, the examples could be the first of many panoramas to spring up in Google Earth."
Submission + - Guide highlights enterprise-ready open source apps
Jane Walker writes: "Today there are more than 140,000 open source projects available for download. Do you know which ones are enterprise-ready and which are just some hobbyist's labor of love?"
Submission + - Sun releases
htd2 writes: "Sun has released the source for Fortress a new highly portable language designed among other things for modern HPC applications. Fortress is designed to make exploiting parallelism as simple as possible while supporting a range of syntax designed to support modern HPC applications. The initial release is of a Fortress interpreter and a subset of the Fortress Language is available from http://fortress.sunsource.net/
Fortress is released under a BSD license"
Fortress is released under a BSD license"
Submission + - Fighting child porn vs. ruining innocent lives
netbuzz writes: "ABC News has the story of a horrifying example of how legitimate societal concerns about child pornography are leading to overzealous prosecutions that can upturn if not ruin the lives of innocents. In this case, the innocents are a teenage boy and his parents, who have been so traumatized by the injustice that they've taken the drastic though understandable step of disconnecting their PC from the Internet. What can other parents do to lessen the chances of this nightmare happening to their families? And what can technologists contribute to the cause of sorting true child porn traffickers from those who are merely unwitting hosts?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1046 0"
Submission + - Testing web application security
gram3000 writes: "I write PHP applications for the company I work for. I spend a lot of time working on improving the security of the forms on clients sites to prevent PHP injection and spam. I'd like to know what other developers out there use to test the security of their apps? Can anyone recommend a checklist, or a site which might check form / application security?"
Submission + - 2007 Techology, Media, and Telecom Study
Morphix84 writes: "The 2007 edition of Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions identifies the hot-button issues for the near future, and also explains the business implications associated with these issues. The predictions are based on input from more than 5,000 Deloitte TMT practitioners and clients as well as external analysts from around the world."
Submission + - Lost Moon landing tapes discovered
de_smudger writes: For years 'lost' tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students. A recent search has uncovered them.
Recorded on telemetry tapes, they are said to be the best quality images of the landing (unconverted slow scan TV) yet to be seen by a public still fascinated by the early space race. These tapes were mislaid in the early 1980s on their way to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Recorded on telemetry tapes, they are said to be the best quality images of the landing (unconverted slow scan TV) yet to be seen by a public still fascinated by the early space race. These tapes were mislaid in the early 1980s on their way to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Submission + - Lessig delivers the final word on net neutrality
nanojath writes: "Lessig delivers the Final Word on Net Neutrality. Read it 5+ times to absorb the densest, most content-rich pronouncement that will be delivered by Wired in 2007. I've got nothing more to say."
Submission + - PayPal offers password key fob
superwad writes: "The device displays a new one-time password in the form of a six-digit code about every 30 seconds. PayPal clients who opt to use the device will enter this password along with their regular credentials when signing into the service. The key fob is meant as another weapon in the battle on data-thieving phishing scams."
Submission + - MacFUSE: write to NTFS partitions from OS X
Beiden Baeren writes: "After an announcement at MacWorld, Amit Singh from Google has released the code for MacFUSE http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/. While FUSE has been available to Linux users for a while, MacFUSE means that OS X users have now support for a variety of filesystems:
- Windows NTFS includes write support
- FTP includes write support
- WebDAV
- SSHFS
- BeagleFS
- etc... (PicasaFS, GoogleFS)
Submission + - Apache 2.2.4 Released
wangpenghui writes: "Apache Httpd Server project has released a new version of Apache Web Server — 2.2.4.
Here is the words from Apache Httpd Server Offical Website:
The Apache HTTP Server Project is proud to announce the release of version 2.2.4 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version is principally a bugfix release.
This version of Apache is a major release and the start of a new stable branch, and represents the best available version of Apache HTTP Server. New features include Smart Filtering, Improved Caching, AJP Proxy, Proxy Load Balancing, Graceful Shutdown support, Large File Support, the Event MPM, and refactored Authentication/Authorization.
Here is the Changelog for this version.
You could download the package from the mirrors of Apache Httpd Server."
Here is the words from Apache Httpd Server Offical Website:
The Apache HTTP Server Project is proud to announce the release of version 2.2.4 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version is principally a bugfix release.
This version of Apache is a major release and the start of a new stable branch, and represents the best available version of Apache HTTP Server. New features include Smart Filtering, Improved Caching, AJP Proxy, Proxy Load Balancing, Graceful Shutdown support, Large File Support, the Event MPM, and refactored Authentication/Authorization.
Here is the Changelog for this version.
You could download the package from the mirrors of Apache Httpd Server."
