Author: JT Smith
Mark Summerfield has posted a list of things which need to be improved before Linux can be considered “desktop ready.”
Category:
- Linux
Buyer’s guide: high-end systems – August 2000
Author: JT Smith
Anandtech has a buyer’s guide for high-end systems. It covers 4 configurations: a dream system, a SOHO system, a “gamer” system, and a professional business system.
Category:
- Unix
U.S. online users shun ‘.us’ names
Author: JT Smith
Reports Austin 360,
“And that worries the U.S. government, which last week began seeking suggestions on making ”.us” more desirable to help relieve the crowded field of dot-com addresses.“
“And that worries the U.S. government, which last week began seeking suggestions on making ”.us” more desirable to help relieve the crowded field of dot-com addresses.“
Harvard prof says Asian countries must develop “home grown” tech to sustain growth
Author: JT Smith
The Asian economic miracle is not a myth, and has not run its course, but Asian countries must move to develop
homegrown technologies for the future, said Harvard economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs…. ITAsia1 has details.
homegrown technologies for the future, said Harvard economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs…. ITAsia1 has details.
Category:
- Open Source
Some Web users handle online privacy themselves
Author: JT Smith
Nandotimes is reporting that users are more than willing to take measures to protect their own privacy. “The nation’s Internet users want stronger online privacy protections and many use fake names, dummy e-mail accounts and data scrambling software to preserve their anonymity, a new study has found.“
Usenet archive from 1981
Author: JT Smith
Slashdot posted an interesting link to a Usenet archive from 1981. Included are such gems as how to overclock your 6502, connecting an IBM PC to a vax mainframe, and a possible FPU bug on some VAX series.
Web pioneer supports surfing licenses
Author: JT Smith
From Nandotimes, Robert Cailliau supports web-licenses, and discusses some ways of implementing them. Robert Cailliau was one of the people who worked with Tim Berners-Lee on creating the draft for the HTTP and HTML standards which are behind the web.
Flaw means not pretty good privacy
Author: JT Smith
The recent security flaw in NAI’s PGP versions 5.5 through 6.5.3 is discussed on ZDNet’s site. NAI has since posted updated versions of PGP which close the hole. The GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP implementation, was not affected by this problem, and is known secure.
Category:
- Linux
It’ll be an open-source world
Author: JT Smith
Slashdot has posted a link which reports that companies will have to open their source code, or be content to support legacy applications. Wired also has an article discussing the report.
Category:
- Open Source
Yet another graphics bus from Intel
Author: JT Smith
Intel is reportedly creating an AGP extension, increasing the speed of the bus to 8x AGP (from Slashdot).
Category:
- Unix