Daily Readings August 3, 2005. 22:10:20
Catching up from last week after the move…
Oh yea, and these links were generated from a script written in ruby too. =) Finally putting that knowledge to use. I do agree that ruby is really simple to code for. I just need to get used to the syntax differences and method names.
Slashdot
- Inkscape, an open source scalable vector graphics editor, has reached v0.42.
- How to build a Turntable using a floppy motor
- FreeBSD ported to Xbox
- A new study shows that those who download music on P2P networks spend 4.5 times more on records than those who don’t
- Russia offering a $100 million USD trip to the moon
- Intel to build a $3 billion 45nm fabrication plant in Arizona
- Philips to research how to eliminate ghosting in LCDs
- An Israeli research group, IsraCast, has found evidence that microwave cell phone radiation causes two types of eye damage, one irreversible
- Fiberoptics bring sunlight into the house
- Japanese develop ‘female’ android
- ZDNet interviews lead Google Maps engineer Lars Rasmussen
- Homeland Security to track visitors with RFID at border crossings
- Retailers call for a unified HDTV format
- How to run Windows with no services
- Cable industry wants to offer wireless/mobile (cell) services
- Judge bars ex-Microsoft Google employee to work at Google
- Windows Genuine Advantage defeated with a script implemented with Greasemonkey
- AMD hits 10% of x86 server market
- WSJ reports on lawyers using the Wayback Machine Archives and Google Cache for evidence
- After 2.6.13-rc4, Torvalds will adopt a new development model, only allowing changes to be made two weeks after the release of a stable kernel
- Amazon seeks a patent for providing and charging for web services
- Canada and Denmark’s dispute over an arctic island hits Google
- BCC editorial: What if Microsoft went open source?
- Scientists have discovered a 190 million year old dinosaur embryo
- Google and Yahoo’s hiring practices are creating a brian-drain in the industry
- Stem cells mend spinal cords
- The US wants to replace leap seconds with a leap hour every 500 or 600 years
- Someone wins the content for the best worst piece of writing
- HP stops selling Apple iPods
- Xbox 360 to eventually have support for HD-DVD
- Novell requests that SCOscoure money be separated and kept away from SCO
- A site writes about the creation of the Apple Lisa
- Why Microsoft wants to get 3000 patents a year
- How to build a gaming router using BSD
- Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK punishment
- 2005 record for unamplified WiFi, 125 miles
- NYTimes reports on Freenet
- Successful strategies for commenting code, with examples
- Carnegie Melon University and SpikeSource releases and rating system to evaluate free software
- Discovery to get an unscheduled repair before returning
- 19 scalable vector graphics programs are compared, in preparation of Firefox’s soon support for SVG
- NYTimes reports that NASA sees that the shuttle needs to be redesigned
- 802.11n rivals merge, creating a standard that can operate at 540Mbps
- Cosmic travel estimated to raise cancer risks in 10% of travellers
- The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in favor of allowing employers to ban employees from socializing with fellow co-workers
digg
- Hacking a hotel’s info system through the TV
- Dual core Pentium D won’t work on Nforce4-IE
- Hacker forced new planet discovery out of the closet
- Cracked Windows anti-crack cracked claim
- AMD releases budget dual-core Athlon, Athlon 64 X2 3800+
- A javascript cheat sheet
- You might be a geek if…
- A list of Useful Windows Software
- A statistical analysis of why someone will never find a girlfriend
- Design Snack, a digg for designers
- BIOS Optimization Guide v8.1 lists a lot of BIOS settings and their descriptions
- How to turn your laser printer into a shredder (on purpose)
- Some quasars, which are huge black holes notorious for being difficult to detect, have been found
- RULER Aero, a OSX Tiger theme, that incorpoates Vista-like transparency
- Modifying a fridge to hold a computer
OSNews
- An Andrew Morton podcast on linux kernel development
- IBM, RISC, and Apple’s move to the PowerPC platform
- A site devoted to Qt programming, tutorials, and overviews
Flexbeta
- Michigan and Utah to impose email tax
- 90% of the teens are on the internet, a figure that was lower than I thought it was.
- Not new, but the EFF has provided a service to detect whether or not your printer prints out identification tracking dots
- Microsoft’s Ballmer announces more expensive enterprise versions of Office and Windows for the next release
- FBI holds eight on piracy charge
- A judge has issued a restraining order against the ex-Microsoft employee Lee’s working at Google
- The Canadian Supreme Court has taken down the $25 iPod tax that began in late 2003
- Microsoft is said to be investigating the circumvention of their Windows Genuine Advantage system
- Opera to stop spoofing as IE in User Agent
- Apple releases a multi-button mouse!
- Apple is probably recruiting Sony engineers to build the first Intel PowerBook
- The circumvention of Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage has sparked economists saying that Microsoft will have to lower its prices
- OSx86, the home of OSX on x86
