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<dc:date>2005-10-24T17:54:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Carl Bialik writes "Gene-sequencing company 454 Life Sciences was selected as the Gold Winner in the Wall Street Journal's 2005 Technology Innovation Awards. 'Around 750 applications were screened by a Wall Street Journal editor, who narrowed the field to 104 semifinalists. Then a panel of expert judges from industry, research organizations and academia scored each entry and picked the winners.' (Listen to an MP3 clip on how the judges chose.) Other winners include a company that has developed a low-cost method for manufacturing RFID tags; Riverbed Technology's network appliances; Fujitsu's ID system that uses the veins in a person's palm instead of fingerprints; and the Agitator tool to debug code."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1397"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
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<title>Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T17:18:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>chicagoan writes "MySQL AB today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.0, the most significant product upgrade in the company's ten-year history. The major new version delivers advanced SQL standard-compliant features such as stored procedures, triggers, views &amp;amp; new pluggable storage engines. Over 30 enterprise platform and tool vendors have also expressed enthusiastic support for the new release of the world's most popular open source database."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1396"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>databases</dc:subject>
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<title>MySQL 5.0 Now Available for Production Use</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T16:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>An anonymous reader writes "From the article: &amp;quot;Once my original Mini-ITX project was completed I finally had a chance to sit back and use the computer. After a couple weeks of general internet browsing, emailing, and so forth, I was able to get a better understanding of the system and a feel for its design. Knowing how simple my needs were, the Mini-ITX project computer was orginally designed to be as basic and quiet as possible. This meant no hard drive, no extra accessories- just a stripped down system. While this suited my needs well at the time, its lack of versatility soon became an issue. This meant it was back to the drawing board for a retooling of the Mini-ITX project computer. The changes include a new case, operating system and boot device, along with improved cooling. The new system was tested using Slax and then MEPISLite."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1395"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>hardhack</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>The Mini-ITX Project Revisited</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T15:42:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Bob Dobbs writes "DR-DOS 8.1 (DrDOS Inc) came out at the begining of this month, however instead of an upgrade to DR-DOS 8.0 the new product is based on work available on the internet. The work includes shareware utilities, a badly patched version of the kernel work by Udo Kuhnt, drivers (Samsung, ESS) and utilities from FreeDOS and others (e.g. pkzip). Full information on the FreeDOS site. (Cheers FreeDOS!)"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1394"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>gnu</dc:subject>
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<title>DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL</title>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T15:02:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>SuperWebTech writes "A new generation of spam has emerged lately in the form of automatically-created spam blogs, or "splogs." One wily programmer manipulated Blogger's API to create a "spamalanche" of thousands of blogs whose sole purpose was to increase their real sites' pagerank. This clogged search engine results while filling RSS feed services with useless listings. Though Google, Blogger's owner, is doing its best to fix the problem, in the meantime several services have stopped listing any site they host. So far nobody has found a solution."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1393"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>spam</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Splogs Clog Blog Services</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T14:21:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>sydney-computer-support writes "The Greens in New Zealand who advocate the use of OSS are upset about a Novell contract because it doesn't support open source. The article mentions the greens spokeperson saying the contract "cleared the path for government agencies to adopt and expand their use of non-proprietary software" -- failing to note that Novell is a company offering proprietary versions of OSS."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1392"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>software</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Governments &amp;amp; Open Souce</title>
<slash:section>linux</slash:section>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T13:33:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>BarryNorton writes "In a world that increasingly takes the WWW, its pages and the other documents we exchange in the electronic world as given - and knights Tim Berners-Lee without an understanding of the pre-WWW background of stateless client/server document architectures (e.g. Gopher) and hypertext (e.g. Xanadu) on which he built - there still beavers away a forgotten figure, Ted Nelson, eager to more fully achieve the original hypertext vision. In recent communications Nelson says: 'The tekkies have hijacked literature- with the best intentions, of course!-) - but now the humanists have to get it back. Nearly every form of electronic document- Word, Acrobat, HTML, XML- represents some business or ideological agenda. Many believe Word and Acrobat are out to entrap users; HTML and XML enact a very limited kind of hypertext with great internal complexity. All imitate paper and (internally) hierarchy. I propose a different document agenda: I believe we need new electronic documents which are transparent, public, principled, and freed from the traditions of hierarchy and paper. In that case they can be far more powerful, with deep and rich new interconnections and properties- able to quote dynamically from other documents and buckle sideways to other documents, such as comments or successive versions; able to present third-party links; and much more. Most urgently: if we have different document structures we can build a new copyright realm, where everything can be freely and legally quoted and remixed in any amount without negotiation.'"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1391"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>networking</dc:subject>
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<title>Indirect Documents At Last</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T12:40:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>jpkunst writes "Ryan Paul at Ars Technica provides an in-depth, 13 page review of the new Microsoft Command Shell (Monad). (The beta release can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.) From the conclusion: 'Despite my initial skepticism, I am deeply impressed with MSH technology, and I am legitimately excited about the future of the Windows command line.'"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1390"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>microsoft</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>A Guided Tour of the Microsoft Command Shell</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T12:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Guillaume Pierre writes "Andy Tanenbaum announced the availability of the next version of the Minix operating system. "MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable and secure. This new OS is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode under 4000 lines of executable code. The parts that run in user mode are divided into small modules, well insulated from one another. For example, each device driver runs as a separate user-mode process so a bug in a driver (by far the biggest source of bugs in any operating system), cannot bring down the entire OS. In fact, most of the time when a driver crashes it is automatically replaced without requiring any user intervention, without requiring rebooting, and without affecting running programs. These features, the tiny amount of kernel code, and other aspects greatly enhance system reliability."In case anyone wonders: yes, he still thinks that micro-kernels are more reliable than monolithic kernels ;-) Disclaimer: I am the chief architect of Globule, the experimental content-distribution network used to host www.minix3.org."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1389"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Hemos</dc:creator>
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<title>Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3</title>
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<description>Lord_Scrumptious writes "An interesting article titled 'The software used to access the BBC homepage' has recently been published on a blog by a BBC employee. It's all about the different browsers and operating systems accessing the BBC's homepage. The analysis is from a week of page requests in September 2005. Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer accounted for 85% of site visits, but Firefox had a very respectable 9.7% share. Even requests from Sony's handheld PSP device were recorded, but interestingly there's no mention of mobile phone devices."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1388"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-24T10:45:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<dc:creator>Zonk</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>mozilla</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
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<title>Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage</title>
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