Author: JT Smith
Napster exploits legal loopholes
Anonymous posters can’t be anonymous, says UK court
Author: JT Smith
anonymous notice board posters following a landmark ruling in the UK
involving ISP Totalise and the Motley Fool trading site.
In the court ruling, Motley Fool was denied the privilege granted to
print publications to protect sources and asked to disclose the identity
of a message board user accused of posting defamatory remarks
concerning Totalise.”
Category:
- Programming
FBI in ‘panic’ over ‘new’ cracking tool
Author: JT Smith
systems, a crucial line of defence in the largest military and corporate
computer systems. Intrusion detection software sits “on top” of any
computer connection to the Internet, watching packets come in and
out.”
Category:
- Linux
Review: Nike PSA-Play 120 MP3 portable
Author: JT Smith
Even though other MP3 portables target the gym set in their marketing plans, Nike is the first and only player to be specifically designed and built for the exercise minded. In the process they developed a unit that is not only far more convenient when one is bouncing up and down on a treadmill, it further illustrates the power of the digital music format to transcend limitations on the size and shape of the device that plays it. 1’s and 0’s don’t possess a physical shape like CD’s and cassettes and this greater freedom of form is one of digital music’s biggest competitive advantage. The Nike is a perfect example of this.
Open standards application development framework brews new release
Author: JT Smith
Adding fonts in the GIMP
Author: JT Smith
More at pinehead.“
Category:
- Linux
InterPlanetary Net? – just sign me up, Scotty
Author: JT Smith
From anyone else, it would be a fruit-loop kind of idea. From the man who co-wrote the first paper outlining the TCP/IP protocol,
the communications medium that forms the basis of all Internet traffic, it’s a Project – one that has the cooperation of NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.”