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Submission + - Android ported to iPhone (blogspot.com)

Submitted by anethema
anethema writes: iPhone hacker planetbeing, from the iPhone Dev Team has successfully ported the Android OS over to the iPhone. He is doing it on a first generation iPhone, but others may be possible. The port is pretty functional, with data, voice, and many apps working, although it is running a bit sluggish and buggy at the moment, since there appears to be much work left.

Any donations of time, money, or code I'm sure would be appreciated.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Treasury Goes High Tech with Redesigned $100 Bills

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "AP reports that as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters, the Department of the Treasury has designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill with a disappearing Liberty Bell in an inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon composed of thousands of tiny lenses that magnify objects in mysterious ways. The new blue security ribbon will give a 3-D effect to the micro-images that the thousands of lenses will be magnifying. Tilt the note back and forth and you will see tiny bells on the ribbon change to 100s as they move. Tilt the note side to side and the images will move up and down. "We wanted the changes to be very obvious, visible and easy to see," says Larry Felix, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The $100 bill is a favorite of foreign counterfeiters says US Secret Service spokesperson Edwin Donovan. “It’s in the most exotic, far away and non-domestic locales abroad where this activity goes on most." While the added security features should thwart counterfeits of the new note for the time being, the old note will remain in circulation and can still be counterfeited, “While the old notes get retired, counterfeiting becomes more difficult," says Scott J. Dressler. Assistant professor of economics at Villanova University’s School of Business. "Therefore, you can think of this as the beginning of the end for counterfeiters — until they can successfully pass off a counterfeit of the new bill.”"
GNOME

Submission + - Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project? (pwnage.ca)

Submitted by blozza2070
blozza2070 writes: According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth. At the same time David Schlesinger (on the Gnome Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote. Stormy Peters claims she doesn’t agree with this but then gives everyone instructions on how to achieve this goal. She mentions that roughly 20 members are needed to agree.
Security

Submission + - What is the state of Linux security DVR Software?

Submitted by StonyCreekBare
StonyCreekBare writes: I am wondering what slashdotters have to offer on the idea of Linux based security systems, especially DVR software. I am aware of Zoneminder, but wonder what else is out there? Are there applications that will not only monitor video cameras, but motion sensors and contact closure alarms? What is state of the art in this area, and how do the various Linux platforms stack up in comparison to dedicated embedded solutions? Will these "play nice" with other software, such as Asterisk, and Misterhouse? Can one server host three or four services applications of this nature, assuming CPU/memory/disk resources are sufficient?

Comment Re:The most important unit of measurement (Score 1) 245

by Psycosys (#23176952) Attached to: Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive
Quoth the wiki...

"It is estimated that the print holdings of the Library of Congress would, if digitized and stored as plain text, constitute 17 to 20 terabytes of information.[citation needed] This leads many people to conclude that 20 terabytes is equivalent to the entire holdings of the Library, but this is misleading because the Library contains many items in addition to books, such as photographs, maps, and sound recordings. The Library currently has no plans for systematic digitization of any significant portion of its books."

I do tend to agree with you on this perhaps a change is in order. A little off the cuff calculation is in order. Assuming 250 words per page with an average of 6 characters used per word give us approximately 1500 bytes per page in plain text. Also assuming that a 1 megabyte image be used per page instead of that 1500 bytes then we get something like the following.

20TB*(1048576/1500) ~= 14 Petabytes
Operating Systems

Submission + - Patch Linux Kernel Without Reboots (zdnet.com)

Submitted by evanbro
evanbro writes: ZDNet is reporting on ksplice, a system for applying patches to the Linux kernel without having to reboot. ksplice requires no kernel modifications, just the source, the config files, and a patch. Author Jeff Arnold discusses the system in a technical overview paper. Ted Ts'o comments, "Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don't want downtime, this stuff is pure gold."
Graphics

Submission + - SPAM: A crystal as beautiful as a diamond

Submitted by
Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Why are diamonds so shiny and beautiful? A Japanese mathematician says it's because of their unique crystal structure and two key properties, called 'maximal symmetry' and 'strong isotropic property.' According to the American Mathematical Society (AMS), he found that out of all the crystals that are possible to construct mathematically, just one shares these two properties with the diamond. So far, his K4 crystal exists only as a mathematical object. And nobody knows if it exists — or if it can be synthesized. So will we say one day "A K4 Crystal Is Forever"? Read more for additional references and a picture of the beautiful K4 crystal."
Music

Submission + - How do you find new non-RIAA music? 4

Submitted by burgundysizzle
burgundysizzle writes: Hey this is /. (almost) everyone hates the RIAA and a lot of people say that they don't buy anything from the companies that are part of that trade group. What alternatives do you use or more importantly what methods do you use to discover alternative sources of music?

I use http://www.sellaband.com/ (some free legal music available) and http://www.amiestreet.com/ (new music is free and most music really cheap) to find new music, but I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to discover new music. Tell me about your experiences and any other interesting places you get new music from (that's inexpensive and legal).

Feed Engadget: Silicon nanowire could convert light into electrical energy (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Nanoelectonic devices have to have juice too, and thanks to a team at Harvard University, extraordinarily minuscule gizmos of the future could be powered via a "silicon nanowire that can convert light into electrical energy." The device itself is said to look much like a typical coaxial cable, but it's around 100,000 times smaller and shuns metal in favor of "silicon with three different types of conductivity arranged as layered shells." Reportedly, a single strand can output "up to 200-picowatts," which won't move much, but it could be just enough to run ultralow power electronics that could be worn on, or even inside, the body. Hopefully they'll have this all ironed out by the time we need a pacemaker.

[Image courtesy of Harvard]

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Software

Submission + - A new fun way of looking at server logfiles (fudgie.org) 1

Submitted by
Fudgie
Fudgie writes: "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong.

A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X).

It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at http://www.fudgie.org/ for an example movie, and more information."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Gods in color

Journal by fymidos

Gods in Color

"Apparently the ancient greek sculpture and idols used to be coloured. Although, only the white of the marble remains, research made by the university of Munich, revealed the original colors of some exhibits."

can you imagine?
Communications

Submission + - TMobile bans OperaMini and GoogleMaps on cells

Submitted by
cshamis
cshamis writes: "TMobile has recently changed their policies which now make it impossible for customers WITH appropriate data plans AND Java-Micro-App-capable phones from running third-party network applications. You can, of course, still use the incredibly clunky and crippled built-in WAP browsers, but GoogleMaps and OperaMini are left high and dry. Would anyone care to speculate if this move is likely to RETAIN or REPEL customers when the iPhone and Cingular's accompanying liberal network policies come out this summer? http://www.gearlog.com/2007/01/tmobile_disses_oper a_says_get.php"
User Journal

Journal Journal: AJAXian Canvas, Python, and Web 2.0 goodness 4

Journal by Com2Kid

Ever had to find your way around a huge college campus? How about ever been late for a class or meeting on a regular?

AJAX to the rescue!

WWU Route Finder is a proof of concept of an AJAX map using Canvas and Python. Click two buildings, and the Python back end, accessed using XMLHTTPRequest of course, shows you the shortest path between your start and destination.

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