http://linux2.ohwada.net/ linux, open source, xoops 2008-11-21T19:37:25+09:00 en http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4535 xoopstux is a theme based on morphogenesis 2.10. You have to download right package to make it works ( xoofoo.org ) theme.ini theme name Name="xoopstux" Xoops compatibility Compatible="Xoops 2.0.17 to 2.3.x" Recommended usage Usage="community website" Max Columns Columns="3" Width Width="100%" Banner Xoops Banner="yes" Menu Menu="horizontal, dynamic" Overrided templates Overrided templates="system templates : system_comment.html, system_comments_flat.html, system_comments_nest.html, system_comm ... 2008-11-21T06:20:00+09:00 http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/puogsP2aPA4/article.pl TRS-80 writes "Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They changed it with the release of iPhone 2.0 and a project was started to reverse the new hash, but weren't successful yet. My guess is Apple used the same algorithm as FairPlay for the new hash, so Apple could use the DMCA to prevent competing apps ... 2008-11-21T05:18:00+09:00 timothy media http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yhsiDqaFE-4/article.pl boyko.at.netqos writes "Timothy B. Lee (no relation to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent contributor to Ars Technica and Techdirt, has recently written 'The Durable Internet,' a paper published by the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that because a neutral network works better than a non-neutral one, the Internet's open-ended architecture is not likely to vanish, despite the fears of net neutrality proponents, (and despite the wishes of net neutrality opponents.) For that reason, ... 2008-11-21T04:32:00+09:00 timothy internet http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oAOHqFg9s-M/article.pl NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up as a showdown between the Electronic Frontier and Big Music. The defendant's witness list includes names such as those of Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Author of 'Free Culture'), John Perry Barlow (former songwriter of The Grateful Dead and cofoun ... 2008-11-21T03:47:00+09:00 timothy court http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/VWNTA0S9dR4/article.pl Blue's News pointed out a report about a study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation which found that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children, teaching them basic technical skills and how to communicate in the Information Age. The study was conducted over a period of three years, with researchers interviewing hundreds of children and monitoring thousands of hours of online time. The full white paper (PDF) is also available. "For a minority of children, the casual use of so ... 2008-11-21T03:02:00+09:00 Soulskill social http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-B7CyE6VEwY/article.pl pparsons writes "Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of 'shaping' traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bell's network complained their customers were also being negatively affected. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today released a decision that denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers' request that Bell be ordered to cease its application of the practice to its wholesale customers." Read more of t ... 2008-11-21T02:21:00+09:00 samzenpus internet http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9je43OYP_q0/article.pl Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design quieter, more energy efficient, and more environmentally friendly commercial airplanes. The two-million-dollar contract from NASA is just an initial step in bringing green technologies to the sky." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 2008-11-21T01:42:00+09:00 samzenpus transportation http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/f_21o0bM1hc/article.pl Garabito writes "A spider that had been sent to the International Space Station for a school science program was lost. Two arachnids were sent in order to know if spiders can survive and make webs in space, but now only one spider can be seen in the container. NASA isn't sure where the other spider could have gone. I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 2008-11-21T00:56:00+09:00 CmdrTaco space http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/wjaWJ0PwlTI/article.pl Da Massive writes "Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it's complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, 'the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright b ... 2008-11-21T00:10:00+09:00 CmdrTaco internet http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/NZlKHlVfjvs/article.pl FornaxChemica writes "In a surprise move, Google announced today, both on-site and in its blog, that it will permanently shut down its 3D virtual world, Lively, by the end of the year. This makes Lively one of Google's few scrapped products, and one of the most short-lived, too, barely lasting 6 months. No official reason was given, only that Google wants to 'prioritize [its] resources and focus more on [its] core search, ads and apps business.' Lively might have taken too much and given back to ... 2008-11-20T23:33:00+09:00 CmdrTaco google http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/czLxSy6q-8M/article.pl ric482 writes "With the release of the Mozilla Foundation's 2007 financial report, questions have been raised by the IRS, who are due to perform an audit on the non-profit organization behind the massively popular Firefox browser. Last year, the Foundation received $66 million of its total $75 million revenue (88 percent) from search engine maestros Google, so the IRS are looking for blood over the organization's tax exempt status. Back in 2006, Mozilla got $59.5 million from Google — arou ... 2008-11-20T22:45:00+09:00 CmdrTaco mozilla http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Geon7k3b768/article.pl geekmansworld writes "From the Washington Post, 'An international team of scientists has reconstructed more than three-quarters of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct species.' Who wants a pet mammoth?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. 2008-11-20T21:57:00+09:00 samzenpus biotech http://www.ab-ins-blaue.de/ukraine/ Die Republik der Ukraine ist ein osteuropäischer Staat. Die Region liegt im äußersten Osten Europas und seine Grenzen reichen bis nach Ungarn hinunter.Die Ukraine liegt größtenteils auf der Osteuropäischen Ebene der Republik. Das Land wird in der Süd-Ukraine von den Waldkarpaten und der Pannonischen Ebene dominiert. In den Ostkarpaten liegt der höchste Berg der [...] 2008-11-20T19:58:26+09:00 ab-ins-blaue EuropaUngarn http://www.ab-ins-blaue.de/sofia/ Sofia ist die Hauptstadt des Landes Bulgarien und liegt mitten in Osteuropa.Die Stadt ist das Herz des wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen sowie des politischen Lebens des Landes. Hochschule, viele Theater, unterschiedliche Museen und andere Kultureinrichtungen besitzt die Stadt. Durch seine wunderbare geographische Lage besitzt die Stadt ihr ganz eigenes Flair. Am südlichen Stadtrand beginnt das Witoscha-Gebirge, [...] 2008-11-20T19:56:19+09:00 ab-ins-blaue EuropaBulgarien http://www.ab-ins-blaue.de/slowenien/ Slowenien ist ein wunderschönes kleines Land und liegt im Mittelmeerraum. Die Hauptstadt ist Ljubljana.Slowenien überrascht mit malerischer Naturvielfalt und dem einzigartigem Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher geographischer Regionen, welche dieses kleine Land prägen und den Urlauber beeindrucken werden. Trotz seiner Größe von nur 20 000 Quadratkilometer findet man als Reisender eine Vielfalt vor, die die Träume von naturverbundenen [...] 2008-11-20T19:54:24+09:00 ab-ins-blaue EuropaSlowenien http://www.ab-ins-blaue.de/slowakei/ Die Slowakei ist ein eher kleines Land und liegt mitten in Europa. Die Hauptstadt dieses Landes ist das alte Bratislava. Die Slowakei ist ein kleines und überblickbares Urlaubsziel, von dem man sich schon nach wenigen Tagen einen konkreten Eindruck verschaffen kann. Gebirgslandschaften mit enormen Höhenunterschieden zeichnen das Landschaftsbild der Slowakei aus. Das Mittel- und die [...] 2008-11-20T19:51:34+09:00 ab-ins-blaue EuropaSlowakei http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/HzPqUiM35IM/article.pl Today, Microsoft launched the New Xbox Experience for Xbox Live. The list of new features includes the streaming of TV shows and movies through Netflix, the ability to install games to the HDD, an avatar system, and the Community Games platform. The launch itself was shaky at first, but most issues have been smoothed out. Sony-owned Columbia Pictures immediately pulled their movie selection, though it may return when a licensing deal gets worked out. Halo 3 developer Bungie pointed out that not ... 2008-11-20T17:30:00+09:00 Soulskill xbox http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qqKyFsk7spY/article.pl coondoggie writes "NASA is trying to decide between eight space exploration missions that include further exploring Venus and comet composition as well landing on an asteroid or examining the space around Jupiter. The space agency today began accepting solicitations for these space exploration opportunities and will ultimately pick one of them to begin perusing in 2009 with a launch date targeted at 2018. The solicitations and ultimate expedition are part of NASA's New Frontiers program, which h ... 2008-11-20T15:06:00+09:00 samzenpus nasa http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KjW6jTyDTTc/article.pl Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of ... 2008-11-20T12:02:00+09:00 samzenpus internet http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/31O5_HSdA-E/article.pl alphadogg writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland say they have discovered a material to replace lead, a potential environmental hazard, in electronics products. The material, bismuth samarium ferrite (BSFO), was found by researchers in the university's A. James Clark School of Engineering. It can be used in products such as biomedical imaging devices and inkjet printers, and if implemented commercially could keep lead out of landfills and the ecosystem, they say. While manufacturers h ... 2008-11-20T09:57:00+09:00 samzenpus technology