sometimes there’s just a lot of good stuff on /.
EFF Files First Anti-DMCA Lawsuit
Intellectual Property and a Censored Slash Site?
EINUX SHIPS FIRST AMD™ DUAL ATHLON™ MP 1U RACKMOUNT SERVER
– comes w/ ultra 160 scsi, 2 3com 3c920 10/100 cards, support for up to 4gb ddr memory. pretty sweet. looks like a dual athlonmp 1.2ghz spanks a dual xeon4 1.7ghz. with that, and nvidia’s strategic partnership w/ amd, is there any question that chipzilla is gonna be up a creek? (more bad news, i845 is doa – oopsie)
AnandTech Forums – Gateway 6400 Server with SMP and Ultra160 SCSI for $599! – i think that about sums it up. this is a frickin great deal. um, if you needed a server that is. mmm, ultra 160 scsi…
ha, looks like the new trojan to worry about isn’t from sub7, but rather from the gov’t. interesting post on the front page:
The article [excerpt below] on how to remove DIRT is misleading. DIRT uses ‘unused’ space in the filesystem, so high level reformating will not destroy it. (This ‘unused’ space is used by operating systems to handle classified information with data structures similar to that in SE_Linux). Removing DIRT requires wiping the disk at the device driver level.” — Thanks to R.
Crypto-Gram — May 15, 2001 – The industry’s only solution is to accept the inevitable. Unrestricted distribution is a natural law of digital content, and those who figure out how to leverage that natural law will make money.
Slashdot | Companies Abandon The Sinking Ship That Is SDMI – the big one dropping out is lucky goldstar, the big one joining is ibm. hmm, for my part, i just bought a non-sdmi compliant mp3 player. that should be coming in the mail in a week if the usps doesn’t lose my shipment (seems like that’s what happened w/ an accessory for my cell phone). there seem to be some problems w/ the player, but overall it seems to be pretty cool. we’ll see how it works
Where Does Fantasy End? – “The game doesn’t affect reality,” says a red-eyed addict after spending two nights playing virtually nonstop. “Reality affects the game.”
yes, coming from someone who’s been on irc all day.
from /.: Alien54 writes: “As reported in CNN, a hi-tech shanty town has arisen in Madrid, Spain, complete with pirated utilities and computer access. Known locally as El Campamento de Esperanza (The Camp of Hope), it is now a village of about 1,200 inhabitants, with libraries, bars, hot showers and cafeterias serving daily meals. They are skilled engineers and technicians, formerly employed by Sintel Telecommunications, a Spanish telecom company that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2000. With a mixture of ingenuity and tenacity, the workers have transformed their claim to $10 million in unpaid wages and refusal to accept forced resignations into a national issue, by squatting on the property where they used to work.” Such a thing could never exist in the U.S. for longer than it took to load up the tear gas grenade launchers.
tim o’reilly writes that information wants to be valuable. i guess that also jives with my long held belief that information wants to be anthropomorphized. all is right with the world. when i’m tired, all that comes out is snark. i can’t help it. i should be sleeping.
ahh, i’m not usually one to take pleasure in others’ pain, but you just gotta enjoy the irony. Jenna Bush may be facing not only her father’s wrath, but a jail sentence under a zero-tolerance law he signed.
nota cultural: zero-tolerance doesn’t work