Computers, Technology July 11, 2005. 13:56:43
Stumbled upon EncFS in the Freshmeat feeds. encfs is a user-space filesystem encryption program that does things on the fly using the FUSER kernel module. This looks *really* interesting.
Daily Readings July 11, 2005. 13:56:06
Slashdot
- Business Week has an interview with JBoss founder Marc Fleury who does not support open source developers’ ways of working for free.
- Initial benchmarks of the ATI CrossFire system show that it’s a bit slower than NVidia’s SLI.
- Progeny, Mandriva, and TurboLinux are rumored to be creating a debian sarged-based distribution that will support debs and rpms
- Drupal, a php CMS is looking for a new home.
- Here is a parrot who knows about zero. And another article.
- Ask Slashdot about people switching between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts.
- The BBC is reporting an initiative to get an even bigger look into space by analyzing signals from many pyramidal radio antennae. I belive I’ve read this on /. before.
- Microsoft is setting up a linux lab in one of their conventions in an effort to show attendees that linux really sucks. Who can trust Microsoft to set them up correctly anyway?
- UPEK, the supplier of the biometrics included on the IBM ThinkPads, announces BioAPI compliant library to perform biometric authentication under Linux. Neat.
- The Register reports that Transmeta has earned more money than it has spent in the second quarter. It’s been about a month since CNN predicted that Transmeta was going to go backrupt.
- Microsoft denies reports about lowering the threat level of Claria products in Microsoft AntiSpyware after negotiating with Claria.
- Arts Technica spectulates over potential reasons for why Apple is switching to Intel, even though the PowerPC architecture definitely works for them. The short - Apple hopes to be able to get discounts on processors like Dell does from Intel.
- Bjarne Stroustrup has written an essay on the new C++ standard, C++0x.
- NASA plans to have 107 cameras monitor the Discovery from every angle during its ascent, even when they have a backup rescue mission ready.
- After the US announces that it will retain control of the root servers, the EU will create their own servers. Wow, things are falling apart already.
- Someone asks slashdot for reasons why the Itanium processor isn’t getting as much credit as he believes it should. If it’s coming from Intel PR because Apple switched, then they suck.
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