Wired.com: “A new study shows that girls are outnumbering boys in basic math and science courses, but they still lag behind in key subject areas such as computer science.”

pkej writes “eZ systems has released eZ publish 2.0 PRE 2. The main changes are:

Deletion of company, person and consultation in eZ contact has been fixed. Various bugfixes in consultation edit. Image views no longer displays error messages, instead a standard image explaining the fault is shown. Companies no longer disappear if they have no category selected, they are placed at the top category. eZ forum uses messagelist/1/2/3 instead of messagelist/1/?$Offset=2&Limit=3 in order to allow robots to index all postings to the forum. Clicking on author name in an article will take you to a page listing all articles by the author. Support for animated gifs/pngs in eZImageCatalogue. Bugfix for files with uppercase letters in the suffix. Added a small FAQ file. Added info about windows installation. Image list is improved, there’s no longer images which take up more than one cell, they are also centered. File sizes for images are shown correctly. The login box in user/admin will remember the last page you were on and redirect to it when loggin in. Productview will list extra images with title and description in one column. A few smaller bugfixes. More friendly messages around the board.

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Anandtech: “Gigabyte was the first to deliver an Apollo Pro266 based motherboard to us. Let’s find out if DDR SDRAM and the Pentium III was in fact a match made in heaven as we look at the GA-6RX.”

MSNBC.com tells us: “After a Windows Me-based system is placed in standby mode,
the video camera’s capture-streams may not display after
awaking the computer from standby.”

“This article covers the installation and configuration of HylaFAX 4.1 beta 2 on a FreeBSD 4.2 system with an external Zoom
FaxModem attached. These basic ideas should be applicable to other platforms. My fax requirements are relatively simple
requiring a single computer which can receive and occasionally send faxes. I was able to configure HylaFAX to meet my
needs with only a little bit of difficulty.” Read more at BSDToday.com.

Saint writes “I’m off to Guatemala once again friends. You may recall that in May of 2000, when LinuxMedNews was barely a month old, I went on the road to report on the installation of a Linux network at the 300 year old Hermano Pedro hospital. As before, this is as much a personal journey as a technical one. The hospital is located in the historic city of Antigua and serves a large population of indigenous people’s.

Upon arrival to the hospital I began triaging the heterogenous GNU/Linux network. Mateo was a disaster. The hard disk had crashed badly and what was worse contained the most up to date copy of our patient database. To add insult to injury, 16 megabytes of RAM had disappeared from the mother board…’

You can read the first installment ‘Day 1: Live from Antigua’ here.”

Anonymous Reader writes “Even though wireless networking has been around for a few years it wasn’t
until recently that it began to become widely used; specifically IEEE 802.11b
(1/2/5.5/11Mbs) WLAN’s (Wireless Local Area Network). Quite a few large
Vendors (Cisco Systems, Lucent, etc.) have some really good….

Read the full article at: Linuxlookup.com“

The BBC reports that chipmaker Intel is cutting 5,000 jobs over the course of the next nine months. The report says the company will get rid of the employees mostly by not replacing employees who leave rather than lay offs.

– by Tina Gasperson –
Music download site EMusic.com really wants everyone to know that they are providing what they say is a legitimate way to get your MP3 fix. So much so that they’re planning to offer a free, 15-track MP3 download to all comers from March 12th through March 18th.”Users can simply sign up for an EMusic account — no credit card information is needed,” says Carla Papageorge, the manager of business development and marketing for EMusic. “They can pick and choose from our entire catalog of more than 160,000 MP3s.”

There are more benefits to be found at EMusic, says Papageorge, like genre-specific newsletters and recommended playlists. The company is working hard to change the perception created by the Napster fiasco that music download sites are somehow shady by nature. “EMusic would like to build awareness that MP3s are very much alive and well and legal on legitimate MP3 sites like EMusic.com.”

A quick visit to the site shows a well-categorized offering ranging from rock/pop, to blues, to country/folk, to soundtracks, and others. Additionally, EMusic has tracks that are always free, like Phish’s “Slave To The Traffic Light” and good old Elvis Costello with his live version of “Radio, Radio.”

EMusic looks a lot like MP3.com, whose name, like Napster, was also tainted with controversy when Universal Music Group filed suit claiming copyright infringement. But EMusic is determined to hold the flak that has troubled their competitors at arm’s length. According to a March 7 press release at the site, EMusic just filed a complaint against Napster because the music swapping service was allegedly allowing illegal copies of EMusic tracks to be traded through the Napter peer-to-peer network.

The release quotes EMusic president Gene Hoffman: “For over six months, Napster Inc. has flatly rejected our requests to filter out and effectively block EMusic tracks from being traded on their system without our permission. Napster has stated clearly to us and to the courts that they believed such a system was technically impossible. In light of this position, Napster’s ability to quickly implement such a filtering system over this past weekend shows the company’s true motive — to unfairly build a business upon the copyrighted works of others.”

EMusic says that songwriters and artists are compensated for every piece of their music that is downloaded from the site. Whether or not you happen to think that is important doesn’t matter. What does matter to EMusic is that you remember to head over to its site to snarf some free tracks, especially if your Napster connection’s been cut off.

EMusic’s ‘music unlimited’ service provides a way for MP3-hungry users to experience a free-for-all downloading binge. For $9.99 a month, you can get a 12 month subscription and access to the entire 160,000 title catalog with no restrictions. If you’re not ready to commit for a full year, three-month subs are available for $14.95 a month.

Papageorge says that EMusic hopes to capitalize on Napster’s downfall by going the lily-white route. “Our banner ads that will be going out state, ‘MP3 is not a dirty word.'” If they can grab enough market share out of MP3.com’s hands without getting their fingernails dirty, the campaign could be a winner.

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