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Submission + - Processing Visualization Language Ported To JS 1

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Manfre

on Friday May 09, 2008 @08:43AM

Manfre writes: "On his birthday, John Resig (creator of jQuery) has given a present to developers by releasing Processing.js. This is a Javascript port of the Processing Visualization Language. This is a first step towards Javascript being a rival to flash for online graphics content. His blog post contains an excellent write up with many demos."

Comment Re:Am I the only one that thought of this Plan 9? (Score 4, Funny) 190

by grahams on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @08:07AM (#19563895) Attached to: Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene

Yes.

U.S. Investigating Sale of Snort as Security Risk 327

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 02, 2006 @06:20PM from the homeland-security dept.

msmoriarty writes "The Associated Press is reporting today that the same U.S. committee that approved the Dubai ports deal is 'strongly objecting' to Israeli-based Check Point's acquisition of Snort's parent company, Sourcefire, because it doesn't want a foreign company to own Snort's underlying technology. According to the article, the broader 45-day review process rejected for the ports deal is already underway regarding this transaction, and 'secret' meetings between the FBI, DoD and Check Point have been held."

LSDVD Starts Cooking 152

Posted by Hemos on Friday May 19, 2000 @06:48AM from the moving-on-up dept.

A reader writes: "The guys at LSDVD, now funded, are going to pay the powers that be the licensing fee and the per program royalties for the rights to make and sell a DVD player for Linux. This means that a free, give-em-hell, fight-the-power, Linux DVD player is a long ways off" - you can read the news on the homepage. Remember, LinDVD is also moving and shaking as well.

Comment Sun optical mice (Score 1) 282

by Parise on Monday April 19, 1999 @11:23PM (#1925913) Attached to: MS Introduces Optical Mouse

Sun used to ship optical mice all of the time. The major downside to them was the special reflective mouse pad which they required. If that got all funky, the mouse would start to act up and become unresponsive.

I'm not sure how these new MS mice operate, but I'm sure the surface they move across will affect how accurate they are.

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