Sunday, January 14, 2007

FreeBSD 6.2 Released To Mirrors. AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD 6.2 has been released to mirrors. The release notes for your specific platform are also available. FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium and Athlon), amd64 compatible (including Opteron, Athlon64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98, and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development."[Slashdot] 11:14:42 PM      Google It!.

Drilling Down: Boys and Girls Use Social Sites Differently. Older teenage girls are far more likely to use social-networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, according to a recent study By ALEX MINDLIN. [NYT > Technology] 8:59:01 PM      Google It!.

Anytown, Online. In suburban towns across the greater New York area, citizen bloggers and entrepreneurs are creating town-specific, and even neighborhood-specific, Web sites. By BOB TEDESCHI. [NYT > Technology] one step away from second life virtual communities --BL 8:58:27 PM      Google It!.

Bloggers Take on Talk Radio Hosts. A San Francisco radio station pre-empted programming in response to a campaign by bloggers who recorded extreme comments by several hosts and passed on digital copies to advertisers. By NOAM COHEN. [NYT > Technology] 8:57:13 PM      Google It!.

Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs. Tarmas writes "For a limited time only, just like Ubuntu's ShipIt service, Sun Microsystems lets you order Solaris 10 absolutely free of charge. The operating system comes on a single DVD supporting both the x86 and SPARC versions. Also included is Sun Studio 11[Slashdot] 8:53:51 PM      Google It!.

Engineered Hens Lay Cancer-Fighting Eggs. celardore writes "Hens that lay eggs containing cancer-fighting proteins have been developed in Scotland. While not themselves cancer-antagonistic, the proteins can be used to create drugs that have cancer-fighting potential. The hens are, in effect, factories for cancer drug precursors. It is still unknown whether the resulting drugs would work in practice, and clinical trials are 5 years off. This research was conducted by the Roslin Institute, the ones responsible for Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal."[Slashdot] 8:52:06 PM      Google It!.

Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights. DotNM writes with an article from the CBC reporting that the Canadian government is considering removing fair-use rights from Canada's copyright law. From the article: "Exacerbating the situation is intense pressure from the United States, where Canada is considered a rogue when it comes to copyright and intellectual property. It still hasn't ratified a 1997 World Intellectual Property Organization copyright treaty... Two of the most controversial issues are [DRM] and the closely related technological protection measures."[Slashdot] 7:34:44 PM      Google It!.

Online Education Free. Online Education Free: Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts -------- some good resources here [EDUCAUSE CONNECT blogs] - very good starting points for higher ed --BL 9:57:32 AM      Google It!.