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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} An interview with Stephen Wolfram -- Comment()
O'Reillynet interviewed Stephen Wolfram: "Stephen Wolfram is the creator of the popular Mathematica program, the author of A New Kind of Science, and a keynote speaker at O'Reilly's upcoming Bioinformatics Technology Conference. Tim O'Reilly recently conducted a brief interview with Wolfram about his research, his new book, and its connection to bioinformatics. We're looking forward to a more substantial opportunity for a Q&A with Stephen at the Bioinformatics Conference." [Matt Croydon::postneo]
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Life looks good for Linux: "The open source operating system is quietly going from strength to strength, with many firms and governments adopting Linux." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Real releases digital media source code: "RealNetworks on Wednesday made available the source code for sending video and audio over the Internet to other software and hardware makers." [Google Technology News]
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Wikipedia Reaches 100,000th Article: "'Wikipedia, a community-built multilingual encyclopedia, is announcing that the English edition of the project has reached a milestone of 100,000 articles in development. In addition, the project itself has celebrated its two-year anniversary on January 15. But not just the English version has grown impressively: More than 37,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikipedia." [Slashdot]
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The Usability of Open Source Software: "The usability of open source software is often regarded as one reason for this limited distribution. In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open source development influence usability. We describe how existing human-computer interaction techniques can be used to leverage distributed networked communities, of developers and users, to address issues of usability." [News Is Free: Popular Items]
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Song Downloader Turned Over to RIAA -- Comment()
Song Downloader Turned Over to RIAA: "Recording companies won a victory in their fight against online piracy on Tuesday when a U.S. court ordered Verizon Communications to turn over the name of a customer suspected of downloading more than 600 songs in one day over the Internet." [Yahoo! news] [n3rd.net]
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Mitnick will browse Web, e-mail Lieberman -- Comment()
t e c h n o c u l t u r e writes: "This is such a great headline that I'd post this item for the headline alone: Mitnick will browse Web, e-mail Lieberman." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Readers Talk Back: OS Choices: "Managers, not developers, should choose a company's operating system; and Linux isn't suited for specific tasks, columnist Pimm Fox wrote. Boy did he get an earful back." [Computerworld Linux News]
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Linux vs. Mac: The Pitched Battle for Second Place: "We all know who makes the world's most popular desktop OS. With a greater than 90 percent market share, Microsoft's status is clear. But what's not so clear is: Who's number two? Until recently, Macintosh inarguably held that spot. In 2003, though, you can feel the two operating systems' momentum shifting fast." [osOpinion]
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Better Bayesian Filtering: "The kind of filters I'm optimistic about are ones that calculate probabilities based on each individual user's mail. These can be much more effective, not only in avoiding false positives, but in filtering too: for example, finding the recipient's email address base-64 encoded anywhere in a message is a very good spam indicator." [Privacy Digest]
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Google-It! for the titled postings -- Comment()
I added the new Google-It! macro for the item templates. Thus the posting will have a Google link after the title. By clicking on the link you can make a Google search with the words in the title.
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