http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2004, OSTG - Open Source Technology Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2004-09-22T14:13:04+00:00 OSTG pater@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/1325255 skyshock21 writes "iRiver appears to now be taking pre-orders for their H320 hard drive MP3 player. This is the one with the color screen that was featured on Slashdot a while back. Although it doesn't support .flac files like the Rio Karma, it does support .ogg, in addition to the usual file formats (mp3, .wmv, .asf, .wav) and sports a nifty color screen. There is also a review posted on CNET." timothy portables 2004-09-22T14:13:00+00:00 mainpage looks-sweet 0,0,0,0,0,0,0 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/130254 davemabe writes "At long last, SpamAssassin 3.0.0 has been released. I've been using the release candidates for a month or so, and the results have been far improved over previous versions. Its use of SURBL along with Bayes auto learning make it seem like this solution is the one to beat. It looks like they've introduced a new logo as well. Snazzy!" timothy spam 2004-09-22T13:27:00+00:00 it great-day-for-mankind 65 65,59,45,35,13,9,7 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/1242241 Fletcher points to this story in CNET Asia, excerpting "The Korean electronics giant unveiled an 8-gigabit flash memory chip Monday based on the 60-nanometer process, as well as a 2-gigabit DDR DRAM chip based on the 80-nanometer process. Flash chips, which retain data after a host computer is turned off, are used in flash cards and cell phones, while DDR DRAM is used inside PCs." timothy storage 2004-09-22T12:42:00+00:00 mainpage future-is-tense 101 101,96,80,57,23,11,7 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/0230233 iPod writes "Since late last year, Yahoo has been developing its own music player software, which will be underpinned by a subscription and download service provided by MusicNet, sources familiar with the plan said. Yahoo is developing its own music player software, backed by MusicNet-provided downloads and subscriptions, that it plans to run alongside the recently purchased Musicmatch." timothy music 2004-09-22T11:38:00+00:00 mainpage despite-its-face 95 95,89,69,53,35,19,12 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/0039208 mOoZik writes "A story carried by New Scientist suggests that Google might be playing into the hands of the Chinese government by blocking certain news stories which may be deeded inappropriate. Some users recently reported that Google's Chinese news search returned different results depending when they searched using a computer based outside of China. The claims were substantiated by researchers who connected to computers inside the country. Read on and decide for yourself." timothy censorship 2004-09-22T08:13:00+00:00 yro except-for-all-the-others 301 301,286,209,147,61,38,29 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/0020222 RotJ writes "Some crafty Germans have created an electromechanical conversion of the game Pong: "Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components." Talk about analog retro chic." saccade.com adds "This amazing device faithfully re-creates the classic original video game with pulleys, wires, motors and a (pre-chip, pre-transistor, pre-tube) relay based computer. They were partly inspired by Konrad Zuse, who created some of the first electromechanical and electronic computers." timothy hardhack 2004-09-22T05:21:00+00:00 games pronounced-the-same 175 175,168,123,85,45,24,20 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/0022238 PipianJ writes "Reuters is reporting that the House of Representatives has recently passed the bill that would approve of penalties for those using fraudulent WHOIS records (H.R. 3632). Interestingly however, this does not directly outlaw it, instead extending the penalty by seven years for felonies performed using such fraudulent websites. The Senate has not yet passed their version (S.2242). The bill as originally written, however, focuses primarily on penalties for promoting counterfeit music, computer programs, and other media with identical labeling." timothy internet 2004-09-22T02:50:00+00:00 yro anonymity-was-nice 227 227,216,163,126,48,30,22 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/237204 jgarzik writes "IPv6 presents a catch-22: the most popular web sites on the Internet don't have any incentive to switch to IPv6 until a large portion of their userbase is on IPv6, and their user base does not have a large incentive to switch to IPv6 until many of the popular Internet destinations support IPv6. My proposed solution is simple: Configure a proxy server that serves IPv6 requests, passing those requests through to underlying IPv4-only servers that not have yet been transitioned to IPv6. This article describes how to configure Apache's proxy server to fill this role, and suggests a few ideas for use." timothy internet 2004-09-22T01:12:00+00:00 apache wool-over-your-own-eyes 259 259,240,189,151,54,31,22 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/2232238 Bongoots writes "Andy Kissner from Linuxforums.org has just posted this: 'In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of hype and controversy surrounding Yoper, ranging from insults to ruthless Gentoo comparisons. I recently sat down with Andreas Girardet, who is a key developer for Yoper, to dispell all the rumors and discuss the direction in which the Yoper project is headed.' Click here to read the rest of the interview." timothy os 2004-09-22T00:07:00+00:00 mainpage factionalism 187 187,178,138,77,31,19,15 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/2220209 An anonymous reader writes "Found this on a European site. It's a PCMCIA card that connects you to the internet over a 3G network. With a download rate of 384kb/sec, it's close to broadband speed, and it works wherever there's network coverage. If you're tired of searching for a WiFi hotspot when you need one, this could be the answer." timothy wireless 2004-09-21T23:20:00+00:00 it posted-from-a-found-wifi-spot 208 208,202,160,98,31,18,11 Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl