Daily Readings July 20, 2005. 22:22:43
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- Cultural differences between Windows and *nix users
- RPI has created 3D silicon chips. The article includes nice diagrams, for once.
- The University of California’s have adopted Mindawn, an online music system that supports Linux, OSX and Windows for their 200,000 students. TheKompany.com introduced the service last December, and offers Ogg Vorbis and FLAC encoded music.
- OSNews reviews Zeta R1, a new release of BeOS.
- This is not the first article, but I decided to include it now: Apple will do a video iPod. And before, Apple promised not to.
- Series 2 Tivos allows viewers to submit their contact information to advertisers when their ads air.
- More and more people are believing the medical advice they find on the web than their own doctors.
- A Death Star Home Cinema Subwoofer
- The government is pressuring the ESRB to pay more attention on M-rated titles.
- An OS/2 user’s group is urging IBM to open OS/2, after IBM decided to stop supporting OS/2.
- ZDNet reports on the history of Firefox, from pre-phoenix days (omg, I still remember those).
- ZDNet reports on Asa Dotzler believing that the release of IE7 will boost Firefox adoption and about randum stuff in Firefox 1.1.
- WSJ has an interview with Kevin Martin, the Chairman of the FCC, who is pushing to drop the requirement for internet providers to share lines with competitiors.
- Gates is worried about how CS isn’t picking up in the US, and decreased spending is ‘a kind of crime.’ So his is company.
- MSNBC reports on the changing demographics of IT - it’s actually the middle-aged women who’s taking over.
- Microsoft is suing a ex-employee who they say violated their noncompete clause, for accepting a job at Google less than a year after leaving.
- Power over Ethernet might actually take off now, after being standardized years ago. Even Cisco changed their proprietary way of supplying power. The article mentions the fact that IP telephones need to be able to operate during emergencies, just like regular telephones.
- A java applet that allows folding window interactions.
- The Education Ministry of New Zealand has signed an 18-month software contract with Novell.
- Bank of America will begin adding even more security questions in order to authenticate online bankers.
- A chess playing Bayesian filter? Cool.
- Google Moon has been released (Google Maps style). Now we can finally prove that the moon isn’t made up of cheese (or IS it?!) (Hint: Zoom in all the way!)
- Here’s an idea: RSS will not rise from blogging, but from being used as a corporate communication channel.
- The ESRB has re-rated GTA: San Andreas to “Adults Only 18+” (AO).
- Congress is thinking about adding two months to Daylight Savings Time.
- How to get Debian ARM running on a $99 Linksys NSLU2, a Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 drives. Another reason why NOT to ditch the ARM project.
- Finland plans 100Mbps residential cable service.
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