08/29/2000
Slashdot Mobile Story | Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone
tugfoigel writes "Anyone who currently owns an iPhone and was hoping they would be able to use it as a mobile Web access point for a Wi-Fi iPad just got some bad news. Reportedly, Steve Jobs has said this will not happen.
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09/29/2000
Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications? (Slashdot) | NewsJay
bjb writes While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called 'PDF Suite.
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08/29/2000
Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed (Slashdot ...
nigham writes The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apple's iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks ...
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08/29/2000
SDRNews: The Marketing Handwave and iKey
SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit. Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter. Podtrac Player Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today's show. ...
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12/29/2001
Slashdot Technology Story | Lost Nazi Uranium Found In a Dutch ...
Slashdot. News for nerds, stuff that matters. Jump to articles. Submit Story · Help · Log In. Search. binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid. freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe. offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated ...
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08/28/2000
Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells [ Slashdot ]
kkleiner writes For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for humans Now in ...
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08/30/2000
HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed [ Slashdot ]
Trailrunner7 writes Security researchers have found that Vodafone one of the worlds larger wireless providers is distributing some HTC phones with malware preinstalled on them The phone HTCs Magic runs the Google Android mobile ...
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08/30/2000
AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow [ Slashdot ]
surajsun writes The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease Dr Kathleen Collins ...
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08/29/2000
Computer reminders help physicians less than hoped | Z News Today
By Technology News from CNet and Slashdot on March 8, 2010. A systematic review of 28 clinical trials published today concludes "implementing these expensive technologies will constitute an expensive exercise in trial and error." ...
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05/30/2000
ARE YOU WORKING? A Slashdot employment poll….
ARE YOU WORKING? A Slashdot employment poll.
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11/28/2001
Slashdot Adds Ads to its RSS Feeds - The Internet Patrol
Imagine our surprise today when, while checking out Slashdot's RSS feeds (or, as those in the biz like to call it, /. ) we noted a full-colour advertisement exhorting us to check our credit score, and another for Tek Systems.
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06/28/2000
Media Lens Message Board: Slashdot: DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK
Media Lens Message Board [ Post a Response | Media Lens Message Board ]. Slashdot: DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK. Posted by Stephen on March 4, 2010, 1:05 pm. "During today's debate in the UK's House of Lords on the much-criticized ...
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07/29/2000
slashdotorg_rss: Time To Take the Internet Seriously
... a cyberstream or lifestream is better suited to the Internet than a conventional website because it shows information-in-motion, a rushing flow of fresh information instead of a stagnant pool." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...
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02/26/2000
Matt Asay answers your questions (Slashdot)
Slashdot has posted a lengthy interview with Matt Asay regarding his new role at Canonical. "I like to think of our guiding principle as 'make money because of the Ubuntu community, not from it.' At the scale where we operate, ...
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05/28/2000
Slashdot Technology Story | Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed ...
Slashdot Technology Story | Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others'. tech.slashdot.org popular Mar 06, 10 02:45 pm — read above! 0. Vote for This Link · Save this Link · lamparty · 1 comments. Report. Tech. Post a Comment ...
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01/30/2002
MacBeach: Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Microsoft Says It ...
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Microsoft Says It Never Meant To Knock Cryptome Offline. "Microsoft withdrew on Thursday its demand that Cryptome.org yank the 'Microsoft Global Criminal Spy Guide' document from the site, ...
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12/28/1999
LG's Windows Phone 7 Series Early Prototype (Slashdot) | PCTechs.org
suraj.sun writes to tell us that Engadget got an early look at the new Windows Phone 7 series early prototype (and included a video). The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world's ever seen, ...
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02/25/2002
The 1-Second Linux Boot (Slashdot) | PCTechs.org
An anonymous reader writes Less than one second Linux boot! This video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset.
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01/28/2000
hypertexture » Blog Archive » Slashdot Mobile Story | Google ...
Slashdot Mobile Story | Google Awarded Broad Patent For Location-Based Advertising. Posted by: Adam Moore In: Miscellaneous. a patent that just issued (6-1/2 years after filing) — apparently Google now has a lock on location-based ...
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02/26/2002
Gaming With GPS On Your Smartphone (Slashdot)
Barence writes If your handset doesn't get you out and about, tramping through mud, climbing around and hunting for hidden treasure, then something needs an upgrade. The iPhone, Blackberry's Storm and Bold lines, and many Symbian and ...
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09/28/2001
Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity » From slashdot… Devotion to d…
Feb 22/Feb/2010. From slashdot… Devotion to d… Tag: Tweet — Sariel @ 2:29 pm. From slashdot… Devotion to duty: http://xkcd.com/705/ · Comments (0). Leave a Reply. Name (required). Mail (will not be published) (required). Website. Meta ...
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01/30/2000
Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models (source: Slashdot ...
DirectX 11 Coming To Browser Games (source: Slashdot) arcticstoat writes “Forget Farmville, Flash puzzlers and 8-bit home computer... PlayStation Network 'Corrupted', Prevents Offline Play Worldwide An apparently hardware-related time ...
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03/29/2002
Slashdot: Apple Enforces "Supplier Code of Conduct" After Child ...
via slashdot.org reporter writes "Since 2006, Apple has regularly audited its manufacturing partners to ensure that they conform to Apple's.
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07/28/2001
BloodhoundBlog.com | Stupid poem lands me on SlashDot | National ...
National real estate industry marketing and technology blog written by, for and about real estate professionals. Realtors, lenders and professional investors come together to provide expert analysis of real estate marketing and ...
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03/28/2002
Slashdot: Unfriendly Climate Greets Gore At Apple Meeting - Hackint0sh
via slashdot.org theodp writes "Apple's shareholder meeting this week took on a Jerry Springer vibe, with harsh comments about Al Gore, former VP.
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01/29/2000
Another Study Attacks Violent Video Games, Claims To Be ...
The latest meta-study that analyzed research from 130 different reports claims to have “conclusively proven” that violent video games make more aggressiv… (source: Slashdot) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com View full post on ...
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12/29/2001
Slashdot: iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic" - Hackint0sh
via slashdot.org entirely_fluffy writes "In a talk intended to woo investors, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said the iPad will win over.
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01/29/2000
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 02, @05:23AM – Slashdot ...
New Zealand Herald Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 02, @05:23AM Slashdot SeattleGameboy writes “An indictment has been issued for online ticket brokers known as 'Wiseguy Tickets and Seats of San Francisco.' From 2002 to 2009, ...
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11/28/2001
Slashdot Apple Story | 'Obsessed' American Couple Wed At Apple Store
Slashdot Apple Story | 'Obsessed' American Couple Wed At Apple Store: "The Telegraph reports that an an 'obsessed' American couple, Josh and Ting Li, have become the first to marry inside one of the technology giant's stores saying ...
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10/30/2001
Slashdot: Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset - Hackint0sh
via slashdot.org An anonymous reader writes "Apple is now removing many risque applications from its App Store so as not to 'scare off potential.
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11/28/2001
The Smashing Book – Slashdot - Hostinh - Web Hosting Basic Review
The Smashing BookSlashdotIn "Performance Optimization for Websites," many of the techniques advised are unusable for most websites, since their Web.
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04/29/2000
Sirius XM: Is Howard Stern Moving To American Idol? [Voices]
By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily. Could Howard Stern be the next Simon Cowell? The New York Post reports that the producers of American Idol are eager to hire Stern for the show. ...
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12/30/2001
Slashdot "Many More..." button doesn't work? - Android Forums
Anyone have any idea why the "Many More..." button at the bottom of Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters doesn't work in either the.
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07/30/2000
Linux News: Community: Microsoft and the Incredible 'Internet ...
If Microsoft really cared about the security of the Internet, "they would lower the cost of Windows 7 so people would be more likely to upgrade off XP," Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack agreed. ...
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08/29/2001
Slashdot: Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices ...
via slashdot.org An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Roughly Drafted: "I'm a full-time Flash developer and I'd love to get paid to.
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04/29/2000
Apple Sues HTC For 20 Patent Violations In Phones [ Slashdot ]
eldavojohn writes Taiwanese HTC is being sued by Apple for 20 patents regarding the many phones HTC manufactures Steve Jobs was quoted as saying We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions or we can do something ...
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03/29/2002
Apple Enforces "Supplier Code of Conduct" After Child Labor ...
Telegraph.co.uk Apple Enforces “Supplier Code of Conduct” After Child Labor Discovery Slashdot reporter writes “Since 2006, Apple has regularly audited its manufacturing partners to ensure that they conform to Apple's Supplier Code of ...
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12/30/1999
Slashdot News - Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying ...
Slashdot News - Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video Computers and Tech News.
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08/30/2001
Slashdot: Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone - Hackint0sh
via slashdot.org Dotnaught writes "Photoshop co-creator Russell Brown asked Ansca Mobile to re-create Photoshop 1.0, originally introduced in.
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10/29/2001
Learning Python Gets 9/10 on Slashdot - "This book continues to be ...
Slashdot reviewer Ahmed Al-Saadi gives Learning Python, Fourth Edition, by Mark Lutz, a 9/10 rating, and says, "Like many O'Reilly books, this is a well-written, coherent, and beautifully type-set book. I highly recommend it to anyone ...
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04/28/2000
Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models [ Slashdot ]
JohnWilliams writes The Sony PlayStation Network appears to be inaccessible to older phat PS3 units Players cannot play games that require a connection even in singleplayer offline mode eg Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Also the system ...
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05/29/2000
Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day [ Slashdot ]
ailnlv writes Days on Earth just got shorter The recent earthquake in Chile shifted the planets axis by about 8 cm and shortened days by 126 microseconds The changes can be modeled though theyre difficult to detect physically given ...
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05/30/2000
How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? [ Slashdot ]
A BOFH writes The longer I do desktop support the more it becomes obvious that my users dont read anything that appears on their screen Instead they memorize a series of buttons to press to get whatever result they want and if anything ...
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07/30/2001
Slashdot: iPhone's Liquid Sensors Can Be Triggered By Wintertime ...
via slashdot.org An anonymous reader writes "The Polish website Moje Jabluszko ran an experiment that proves the poor reliability of the liquid.
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05/30/2000
New Wave of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [ Slashdot ]
reporter writes New strains of Gramnegative bacteria have become resistant to all safe antibiotics Though methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA is the bestknown antibioticresistant germ the new class of resistant bacteria ...
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05/29/2001
Slashdot/NewScientist: Google Makes $500m a Year on Typos ...
Slashdot/NewScientist: Google Makes $500ma Year on Typos - Windows Live.
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05/30/2001
Slashdot/Computerworld: Rogue PDFs Behind 80% of Exploits In Q4 ...
Slashdot/Computerworld: Rogue PDFs Behind 80% of Exploits In Q4 '09 - Windows Live.
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02/27/2001
Bill Gates Responds To Apple iPad (Slashdot) | PCTechs.org
superapecommando writes Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has called Apple's iPad a 'nice reader' but claims netbooks are the way forward. Speaking briefly to BNET's Brent Schlender, the Microsoft Chairman, who had admitted to being in awe ...
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04/28/2001
Find Job for Every One | Job Information for everyone: [Slashdot ...
Slashdot Daily Newsletter. In this issue: * Subversives In South Carolina Mostly Safe * Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation * Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus's Law * Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots ...
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02/27/2000
How Telescopes Deal With Earthquakes In Chile [ Slashdot ]
Reader edgeofphysics provides a technical sidelight on the earthquake in Chile this morning mdash some details on how the European Southern Observatory protects the mirrors of the Very Large Telescope when an earthquake strikes Given ...
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06/27/2001
Slashdot: What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Bar - Hackint0sh
via slashdot.org Barence writes "How good — or bad — are fake iPhones? PC Pro blogger Steve Cassidy has a friend who paid &
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03/28/2002
Delicious Details of Open Source Court Victory [ Slashdot ]
jammag writes Open source advocate Bruce Perens tells the inside story of the recently concluded Jacobsen v Katzer court case in which an open source developer was awarded 100000 Perens an expert witness in the case details the blow by ...
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05/29/2000
A New Wi-Fi Exploit, Limited But Clever [ Slashdot ]
eggboard writes Martin Beck who in 2008 cowrote a paper describing a way to inject packets into a secured WiFi system is back with a more extensive exploit His Enhanced TKIP Michael Attacks still dont allow extraction of a key and are ...
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04/27/2001
Agile/Pervagile on Slashdot | Agile Advice - Working With Agile ...
There is a book review of Becoming Agile by Smith and Sidky on Slashdot. I haven't read the book (yet) so I can't comment on the book nor on the review.
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05/29/2000
Slashdot In Ubuntu Membership Shocker! | jonobacon@home
Permalink. Zac said: Typical and disappointing from Slashdot, but unfortunately but many do believe what they read. Reply. Visit My Website. January 7, 2010. Permalink. Glubbdrubb said: The post has been updated since then. ...
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11/29/2001
Digg: AACS encryption key controversy, Delicious , Mixx ...
Product DescriptionDigg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and.
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07/28/2001
An anonymous reader on Slashdot (News for Nerds) writes ...
But that's not what happens at all. Instead, eBay effectively deputizes Scientology, which logs into eBay and removes the listings itself… This is not a new development—it's been going on for nearly 8 years, as this Slashdot story shows ...
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10/30/2000
Interesting AI discussion on Slashdot | The Coffeehouse | Channel 9
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/2323248/When-Will-AI-Surpass-Human-Intelligence?art_pos=4 One also predicted that in 30 years, 'virtually all the intellectual work that is done by…
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11/29/2001
Andre on Tech: "Quick break" options beyond slashdot, digg ...
"Quick break" options beyond slashdot, digg, facebook, NYTimes. Sep 24 by Andre. catch up on some of those neglected RSS feeds. Google Reader makes it easier to read a few posts at a time without committing to a long session. ...
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03/28/2002
Steam UI Update Beta Drops IE Rendering For WebKit [ Slashdot ]
Citing massive growth in their user base 25 million users 1000 games 12 billion player minutes per month and 75 billion Steam client minutes per month Valve unveiled a revamped UI for Steam on Tuesday opening the beta test to anyone who ...
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02/26/2001
SDRNews: Story of the Week Survey
I've been reading slashdot for comparison and there is no shortage of interesting items that in my opinion should have made it to the truly interesting. To gage what I find interesting (I'm sure there are others who by hearing Slashdot ...
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09/27/2000
Only In It For The Gold: Slashdot discussion
A Slashdot response which I liked very much: People concerned about the policy proposals currently being put forward have focused way too much energy on questioning the scientific findings of current and recent warming. ...
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06/28/2001
Considering Cheaper Pico-Projectors As Standard Equipment On Cell ...
Considering Cheaper Pico-Projectors As Standard Equipment On Cell PhonesSlashdotAn anonymous reader writes Will pico-projectors become standard equipment on mobile phones, the same way that digital cameras have become? ...and more »
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05/30/2001
Slashdot: Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance ...
via Slashdot by timothy on 2/17/10. markass530 writes "An iPhone insurance carrier says that four in six claims are suspicious, and is worse when a new model appears on the market. 'Supercover Insurance is alleging that many iPhone ...
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07/30/2001
Ars Analysis Calls Windows 7 Memory Usage Claims "Scaremongering ...
Via newsycombinator comes a reaction at Ars Technica to the recently reported claims of excessive memory use on machines running Windows 7. From the.
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03/30/2002
Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL [ Slashdot ]
GigsVT writes The Second Life viewer has been available under the GPL for three years Linden Lab the maker of Second Life recently released a third party viewer policy that all but erases the freedoms granted under the GPL It includes ...
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11/28/2001
Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April (Slashdot ...
webmaster@technorati.com wrote an interesting post today onHere's a quick excerptYou can buy and sell actors or movies for virtual cash on the website.
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01/28/2002
Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2 [ Slashdot ]
Sam Machkovech writes Bill Gatess speech at last weeks TED Conference centered on moving to zerocarbon energy and our need to reduce CO2 emissions 80 by 2050 His choice of subject was an abrupt turn from The Gates Foundations typical ...
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09/28/2001
SlashDot: Nokia, Intel Merge Maemo, Moblin Into MeeGo ([News from ...
SlashDot: Nokia, Intel Merge Maemo, Moblin Into MeeGo. full article… The Funambol SOGo Connector allows any SyncML enabled devices (mobile phones, PIM devices, etc.) to fully synchronize contacts, events, and tasks with SOGo. full ...
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08/30/2001
Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed? (Score:1, Redundant) – Slashdot ...
Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed? (Score:1, Redundant) Slashdot Sure current flash sites might not work perfect, but if you are developing for the iPhone, Android, Maemo, etc, I'm sure you could take into account the . ...
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02/25/2002
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer [ Slashdot ]
An anonymous reader writes UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Copes software nicknamed Emmy creates beautiful original music So why are people so angry about that From the article Cope attracted praise from musicians and computer ...
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01/29/2000
GoDaddy Wants Your Root Password [ Slashdot ]
Johnny Fusion writes The writer of the Securi Security Blog had a an alarming awakening when a honeypot on port 22 on a GoDaddy hosted VPS recorded login attempts using his GoDaddy username and password and even an attempt to login as ...
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08/29/2000
Looking back: Slashdot on the iPod Launch | K-Squared Ramblings
2001 verdict: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. That lame product revolutionized digital music, changed Apple's focus, and led to the iPhone, which transformed the mobile phone industry.
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08/30/2001
BloodhoundBlog.com | Stupid poem lands me on SlashDot | National ...
Welcome to BloodhoundBlog, the national real estate industry marketing and technology weblog written by, for and about real estate professionals. Better yet, welcome to the wired world of real estate . We are busily inventing Real ...
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03/29/2001
Slashdot News - Acer Announces First NVIDIA Ion2-Based Netbook ...
Slashdot News - Acer Announces First NVIDIA Ion2-Based Netbook Computers and Tech News.
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03/29/2001
Slashdot News - "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver ...
Slashdot News - "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver Computers and Tech News.
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04/28/2000
The Billion Dollar Kernel [ Slashdot ]
jesgar writes The Linux kernel would cost more than one billion EUR about 14 billion USD to develop in European Union This is the estimate made by researchers from University of Oviedo Spain whereby the value annually added to this ...
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09/27/2001
Find Job for Every One | Job Information for everyone: [Slashdot ...
Slashdot Daily Newsletter. In this issue: * "Immortal Molecule" Evolves — How Close To Synthetic Life? * Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone * Stone Tools Found on Crete Push Back Humans' Maritime History ...
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12/28/1999
Find Job for Every One | Job Information for everyone: [Slashdot ...
Slashdot Daily Newsletter. In this issue: * US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition * Will the Serial Console Ever Die? * Unfriendly Climate Greets Gore At Apple Meeting * Delta Rocket Crashes In Mongolia ...
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01/28/2002
Falcon 9 Prepares For High Stakes Launch [ Slashdot ]
happylunarnewyear writes The first new rocket to be launched from the Cape since 2002 is assembled and upright on Launch Complex 40 Falcon 9 will undergo fueling testing and live firing tests before the launch occurs as soon as next ...
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10/29/2001
Find Job for Every One | Job Information for everyone: [Slashdot ...
I have read [0]a similar Slashdot article (from 2005) on the topic, but the questions posed there were slightly different." Reader mrstrano has a similar question: "I am developing a web application and, after ...
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09/29/2001
Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud (Slashdot) | PCTechs.org
A few days ago, we ran word of a report alleging that Windows 7 consumed more memory than it should, based on a report from Devil Mountain Software; a followup post linked to Ars Technica's robust deconstruction of that claim.
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03/30/2001
Find Job for Every One | Job Information for everyone: [Slashdot ...
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/02/15/1952219/Iceman-Gets-13-Years-For-2nd-Hacking-Offense Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty from the legal-but-questionable dept. posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 15, ...
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12/29/2001
Find Job for Every One | Job Information for everyone: [Slashdot ...
Slashdot Daily Newsletter. In this issue: * Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers In Gas Pumps * Scaling Algorithm Bug In Gimp, Photoshop, Others * The Grown-Up Video Game * Magicjack Loses Legal Attack Against Boing Boing ...
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08/30/2001
Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed? (Score:1, Redundant) – Slashdot ...
(Score:1, Redundant) – Slashdot. PC World Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed? Read more from the original source: Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed? (Score:1, Redundant) – Slashdot. Posted in Apple, Latest, Mobile Tags: adobe-flash, ...
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12/28/1999
Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset [ Slashdot ]
An anonymous reader writes Apple is now removing many risque applications from its App Store so as not to scare off potential customers The removed applications including SlideHer and Dirty Fingers allowed people to see scantily clad ...
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12/29/1999
Fuel Cell Marvel "Bloom Box" Gaining Momentum [ Slashdot ]
Many sources are continuing to excitedly report on the latest in a long line of startups chasing the holy grail of power sources This incarnation the Bloom Box from Bloom Energy promises a powerplantinabox that you can literally put in ...
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07/30/2000
Patents Roundup: TiVo Wins, VirnetX vs Microsoft Decision Imminent ...
“Amazon isn't the kind of company you can push around with the threat of lawsuits everybody knows you can't win,” noted Slashdot blogger Mhall119. “It's entirely possible that they have agreed to be interoperable with each other in ...
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12/28/1999
Slashdot | How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages ...
Slashdot | How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? they might be more able to remember that they got the 'puppy error' if I showed a puppy picture next to the error message. via ask.slashdot.org. Living it everyday. ...
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12/29/1999
MySQL's Influence On the GPL [ Slashdot ]
An anonymous reader writes ExMySQLer Brian Aker goes into the history of MySQL and the GPL His point is that MySQL used the GPL in an overreaching manner and now that MySQL is gone as an entity and the campaigns are over that the GPL ...
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11/27/2001
Learning Python, 4th Edition [ Slashdot ]
thatpythonguy writes Learning Python is a wellwritten book by an experienced Python trainer that has served the Python community well since the first edition was published in 1999 Now at its fourth edition this book by Mark Lutz ...
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03/30/2001
Slashdot: Using a Sausage On Your iPhone - Hackint0sh
via slashdot.org Weemz writes "This is the best use of a sausage and technology I have seen today. From the article: 'Too cold to take your.
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01/29/2000
How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database [ Slashdot ]
MyNoSQL has up an interview with Ryan King on how Twitter is transitioning to the Cassandra database Heres some detailed background on Cassandra which aims to bring together Dynamos fully distributed design and Bigtables ...
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01/30/2000
Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems [ Slashdot ]
angry tapir writes Discovered by Czech researchers the Chuck Norris botnet has been spreading by taking advantage of poorly configured routers and DSL modems The malware got the Chuck Norris moniker from a programmers Italian comment in ...
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04/28/2000
New World Notes: Why's Slashdot Wondering "Whatever Happened to ...
Today, Slashdot asks the question, "Whatever Happened To Second Life?", citing a fairly wrong-headed article on a relatively obscure UK computer site. (More on that later.) The comment thread from the Slashdot user community is mostly ...
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04/29/2000
Slashdot
It's been a while since I was last on Slashdot. Heck, it's been over six years since I was mentioned there. (Insert boring story about catching Senator Orrin Hatch's staff using unlicensed software on their public web site the day after ...
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03/30/2002
The Surreal World of Chatroulette [ Slashdot ]
Hugh Pickens writes The New York Times reports that Chatroulette the social Web site created by a 17yearold Russian named Andrey Ternovskiy drops you into an unnerving world where you are connected through webcams to a random fathomless ...
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04/27/2000
Well, What Did You Expect Him to Say? Windows 7 is Selling Poorly ...
Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system is selling quite well, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. In remarks at a press conference in Tokyo Thursday, Ballmer said that Windows 7's first 10 days at market have been more successful than ...
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10/29/2000
Slashdot News - Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South ...
Slashdot News - Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina Computers and Tech News.
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08/30/2001
Dabeaz: Slashdot, Pronouns, and the Python Essential Reference
Yesterday, I was ecstatic to see a positive review of my Python Essential Reference book on Slashdot. I've never had a book reviewed on Slashdot before. However, I also know that with Slashdot, one never really knows what direction the ...
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