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| DesignTechnica Reviews Motorola Accompli 009 |
Posted by
timothy
on Wednesday March 06, @10:23AM
from the named-by-a-car-maker dept. Ian Bell writes: "Designtechnica does a review of Motorola's new Accompli 009 2-way communicator. 'The ACCOMPLI sports the standard cast of communication and organization features – voice calling, calendar (syncs with Outlook or other personal information management programs), contacts, SMS, web browser, and a splash of ring tones and games. Not so standard is an RF modem that enables you to connect to the Internet through a data cable and operate as you would from a PC... ' While the features look good on paper, the unit has little to be desired. This is the first full review of the Accompli 009 on the net. Thanks guys."
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) LED Lights: Friend or Foe? |
Posted by
michael
on Wednesday March 06, @09:19AM
from the brilliant-deductions dept. elfdump writes: "In an article (pdf) soon
to be published in ACM Transactions
on Information and Systems Security, security researchers have discovered
that data transmitted through modems and routers can be remotely reconstructed
from the equipment's LED status indicators. According to experiments, their
light-to-information retrieval method is successful even when the light is
captured 'at a considerable distance' from the source. If you want to prevent
people from spying on your data, you may want to tape up those blinking LEDs!"
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) Posted by
Cliff
on Wednesday March 06, @08:28AM
from the manipulations-and-loopholes dept. Anonymous with good reason, a reader would like to bring this important question to your collective attention: "Our (technically savvy) lawyer has advised my company that 'incidental resources' do not a work derive. For example: If I have a student's version of a development environment whose license does not allow me to distribute code compiled with it for commercial use, I am legally allowed to use the environment to create my ANSI C++ code, which, when I compile it with GCC, I am free to use to whatever commercial end I like.
This seems fairly intuitive. (After all, you could have written the same thing in a text editor, and the debugging, etc, that you need the IDE for doesn't actually 'show up' in the final code).
Here's the kicker: My company wants to translate this to an abuse of the GPL and has been advised 'full speed ahead!'"
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) Slashdot IRC Forum Today |
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Wednesday March 06, @07:30AM
from the git-your-channel-on dept. Hemos and I are going to try to answer questions today at 3:00 PM EST, on
irc.slashnet.org in #forum. Specifically we're going to try to keep the questions on the subject of subscriptions. There are a lot of misunderstandings about
a few things, and we wanna clear them up. We'll post a log in this story after the forum is done. Any questions can be /msged to Questions the bot and forum discussion can be had in #forum.d.
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) The Timex Speedpass Watch |
Posted by
chrisd
on Wednesday March 06, @04:39AM
from the i-prefer-speed-cash dept. RedWolves2 writes "Timex Corporation is developing a watch which incorporates Speedpass technology embedded into it. McDonalds has also partnered with Speedpass with 400 stores in the Chicago area that accept speedpass. Now you can order a value meal like this "You will serve me a Big Mac Meal with a Coke!" (While waving your hand like a Jedi Knight using the Jedi Mind trick)."
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) Xft Hack Improves Antialiased Font Rendering |
Posted by
timothy
on Wednesday March 06, @01:38AM
from the two-lines-of-code dept. Eugenia writes: "Font antialiasing first made its way to XFree through Qt/KDE only a year ago and GTK+/Gnome followed some time after. Even with the latest version of Freetype 2.08, which reportedly brings better quality, the result is still not up to par with the rendering quality found on some commercial OSes. David Chester has hacked through the Xft library and he achieved an incredibly good quality on antialias rendering under XFree86. With this hack, at last, XFree can deliver similar aesthetic results to Mac OS X's or Windows' rendering engines. Check the two brand-new screenshots ('before' and 'after') at his web page and notice the difference with your own eyes."
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) Posted by
Cliff
on Tuesday March 05, @10:40PM
from the BIOS-incompatibility-or-something-more dept. stealth_zipper asks: "I just got off the phone with a rep from Soyo Computer Inc trying to get the ability to change IRQs for the onboard hardware. It turns out that because of a deal to get WindowsXP certification, the Dragon-series motherboard ended up having the ability of Enabling/Disabling ACPI in the BIOS disabled. Now FreeBSD has complications with multiple devices on the same IRQs (especially sound, video, and nic all off the same one). Is there a way to get around this for new hardware? Has anyone else encountered this?" Why in the world does XP need this feature disabled, and are there workarounds to get OSes like FreeBSD working properly with motherboards of this sort?
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) IEEE Computing Covers Freenet |
Posted by
michael
on Tuesday March 05, @09:16PM
from the free-and-clear dept. Rayban writes: "From the Freenet Project homepage: IEEE Internet Computing has an article (pdf) entitled 'Protecting Free Expression Online with Freenet.' It provides an excellent technical introduction to the core ideas behind Freenet."
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) India Plans A Supercomputing Grid |
Posted by
timothy
on Tuesday March 05, @07:16PM
from the intrasubcontinental dept. An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to this article at CNET, India is building a country-wide High Speed Network. Named the "I-Grid" (I is for 'Information' silly !), its a feat for the Indians who have been bogged down by U.S. sanctions in the recent past -- besides, with a country as big as theirs, its one helluva project!"
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) Developers: Sorcerer Review, and News of Impending Doom |
Posted by
timothy
on Tuesday March 05, @05:53PM
from the some-that-die-deserve-life-and-vice-versa dept. osworks writes: "There is an review of the Sorcerer Linux distribution over at linuxworld.com that is worth a read. I've been running SGL on my Inspiron for a month now, and have the same impression as the author. It took a really long time to install, but was educational and rather fun. Some discouraging news near the bottom about how the maintainer needs some development help, or it will be the end of Sorcerer. This is one of the most exciting new distros to come along in a long time, and that would be a shame."
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