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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Oct 2003): Ranking: 4812, Activity percentile: 65.38%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Oct 2003): Download count: 4 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Back in September when I was at MIT for the TR100 [meg@megnut.com/tr100] award ceremony, they had a part of the program where Bob Metcalfe interviewed four of the TR100 recipients. 3 of the 4 were men. The three men had... |
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- "She didn't go to work until I was a senior in high school," he said. "I was out of the house for about 18 years, but when I came home at various times, she was there for me. When I went to school at St. Joe's, I would come home for lunch, and she would make me something. She was always there when I needed her. |
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- Elliot Garfield: I play the guitar whenever I cannot sleep, and I meditate every morning, complete with chanting and burning incense, so if you have to walk around I'd appreciate a little tiptoeing. Also: I sleep in the nude. "Au buffo. |
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- Companies' earnings show the losses--and profits--due to MSBlast. Also: Son of MSBlast? |
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- The Web search giant could go public early next year using an unusual electronic bidding and placement system, according to a published report. |
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- The software giant says companies were reluctant to sign new long-term contracts in the most recent quarter amid concern over the MSBlast worm and other security issues. |
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- While stopping short of sharing its OS or freely offering a developer's kit, the Mac maker has been working with companies to boost the number of add-ons that attach to the music player. |
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- It will consider as early as next week a permanent ban on taxing people's Internet access bills, a measure that has sparked concern among state tax regulators. |
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- The PC maker prepares to launch the Profile 5, a business-oriented version of the Profile desktop that incorporates a larger LCD screen and is designed to be easier to repair. |
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- update Taking a new twist on an old antispam method, Microsoft previews a system for singling out mail from approved addresses. It plans to use the system in its free Hotmail e-mail service |
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- The university is ending a four-year collaboration with dozens of blue-chip companies that set out to advance a new frontier of information technology known as RFID. |
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- Shares in software maker Macromedia drop more than a third amid analyst downgrades and lower-than-expected sales. |
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- A supercomputer built by Virginia Tech from 1,100 dual-processor Macintosh G5 PCs looks likely to rank with the five fastest machines in the world, despite costing a relative pittance. |
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- The security firm sees a sharp rise in sales and profits and raises its revenue expectations. Also: The company announces a 2-for-1 stock split. |
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- The software giant says companies were reluctant to sign new long-term contracts in the most recent quarter amid concern over the MSBlast worm and other security issues. |
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- A program that exploits a software vulnerability Microsoft recently described could spell trouble for companies that haven't quickly patched their systems, security experts say. |
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- update The hardware maker misses analysts' expectations by a penny and reports a net loss of 20 cents a share. Revenue was slightly higher than estimates. |
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- Apple tonight will hold its "Night of Panther" kick-off events at local retail stores across the US beginning at 8 pm with "free gifts, great savings, theater demos and a chance to win a Mac." Apple will also concurrently hold the grand opening for two new retail stores: UTC (San Diego, CA) and Legacy Village (Lyndhurst, OH). The full version of Mac OS X 10.3 (client) is $130 with discounts for Family Pack ($200 for 5-user license) and education ($69). |
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- PGP Corporation has released PGP Desktop 8.03, a free update to registered users. It brings full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, significant changes to the Apple Mail.app plugin (requires re-installation), performance improvements to PGP Disk, signature spoofing prevention, improved file decryption, suport for HFS journaled file systems, and other changes. |
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- Apple has released Keynote 1.1.1, an update to its presentation tool for Mac OS X. The update improves stability and includes several user experience enhancements including a preference to control cube and flip transition clipping individually. It requires Mac OS X 10. |
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- from the cheap-at-any-price dept. alphakappa writes "The NY Times has a review of all the new Panther features which states that the 150 odd features added are so good that calling it a 0.1 upgrade is not fair. It finds the new Expose feature and other security features (like being able to encrypt/decrypt the entire home directory on the fly) extremely appealing. Gripes include the $130 price tag and the (somewhat) lack of backward compatibility. |
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- Category: Digital Cameras Steve's Digicam review of the Pentax's new 6.1 megapixel digital SLR camera, the oddly named *ist D (we're not sure exactly how, or even if, you pronounce the "*"). The *ist D is one of the smallest and lightest digital SLRs around, and is compatible with most Pentax lenses. |
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- Category: Cellphones Surprise, surprise! A new study by a British firm called Psytechnics discovered that buying a more expensive cellphone doesn't guarantee better cellular reception, and that the biggest factor in whether or not you'll get decent service is the quality of the network. Cellphone companies' response: things will get better once we all move to 3G. |
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- Category: Laptops/PCs The president of Acer is saying that the reason why Tablet PCs cost so much is that Microsoft is charging manufacturers too much for the Tablet PC version of the Windows XP operating system. He says that turning a regular laptop into a Tablet PC costs only an extra $200 or so, but that only $30 to $60 of that are additional hardware costs. The balance consists of licensing fees for the operating system, and that is what's making it so hard for companies to drop prices on their Tablet PCs. |
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- Apple is touting in-store events at all 65 Apple Store retail locations during tomorrow's "Night of Panther" event. The promotional event is being conducted to bring in the official release of Mac OS X 10 |
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- Craig Barrett, the CEO of Intel, recently gave an interview to C|Net to discuss Intel's future. Most of the interview deals with such issues as what kind of processing power will be available when Microsoft ships the next major version of Windows (called "Longhorn") |
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- The Adventures of Indiana JonesThe Complete DVD Movie Collection appears to be on the road to becoming the best-selling box set in DVD history, according to The Hollywood Reporter. |
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- Daniel Radcliffe, who again plays the title role in the upcoming third Harry Potter movie, told the official Potter Web site that he'll play the boy wizard at least one more time. |
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- October 23, 2003 It's been the subject of campfire stories for decades. A camera-elusive, grooming-challenged, bipedal ape-man that roams the mountain regions of North America. Some call it Sasquatch. Others know it as Bigfoot. Thousands claim to have to have seen the hairy hominoid, but the evidence of its existence is fuzzy. |
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- October 23, 2003 In more than 300 mammals and birds, including meerkats and kookaburras, some individuals eschew reproduction to help rear the offspring of other parents. New research now adds to the evidence that these individuals benefit instead by helping relatives to pass on the genes they both share |
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- October 23, 2003 "Jihad" is a loaded termand a concept that illustrates a deep gulf of miscommunication between Islam and the West. There are those in each community who see jihad as a clash of civilizationsand act on those beliefs. But jihad literally means "exerted effort" to most Islamic scholars and Muslims, and represents a range of activities. |
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- Slashdot- 10minutesago Roland Piquepaille writes "Some days bring big surprises. Like many people, I always believed that it was impossible to write in space with ordinary pens because ink would not flow. So imagine my astonishment when I read Pedro Duque's diary from space |
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- ABC News- 55minutesago Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have spotted two very active regions of the sun, one of which hurled a coronal mass ejection, or CME, into space and toward Earth. |
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- CNN Asia- 3hoursago ROME, Italy -- Actor Jim Caviezel, who plays the son of God in Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of Christ" has been struck by lightning during shooting. |
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- Reuters- 4hoursago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood's major film studios have lifted their controversial ban on sending out videotapes of movies vying for Oscars, but the plan met new criticism from groups who feel cheated in the annual race for the US ... |
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- Undeterred by fretful privacy advocates, a charter school in Buffalo has adopted RFID technology to track student attendance. The school's chief says it's all in the name of safety and efficiency. |
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