]
] What is this initiative you ask? A new wireless protocol?
] A new wireless association? Not exactly! Alan Harper is
] the group strategy director at Vodafone, one the world's
] largest mobile telecom operators and he is talking about
] a recent bid to ICANN for a new unspecified mobile
] top-level domain. That's right a "mobile TLD" or mTLD.
] Nine software, telecom, and mobile handset heavyweights
] (3, GSM Association, HP, Microsoft, Nokia, Orange,
] Samsung, Sun, and Vodafone) have signed a memorandum of
] understanding to jointly set up a new Internet names
] registry company to issue domain names for wireless
] devices, in an attempt to boost mobile services.

Hmmm...

Industry Giants Embarking on Internet Frontiers

] SAN JOSE, Calif., March 10, 2004 -- Hitachi Global
] Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the
] world's highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the
] 400GB Deskstar 7K400. The new drive has been designed for
] audio video (AV) and ATA nearline environments, where
] large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key
] requirements. A new industry-standard AV feature set
] makes the drive well-suited for use in high-end digital
] video recorders (DVRs) that are designed to record
] substantial amounts of high-quality digital programming.

5 platters (big) but still ...

400GB hard drive makes Hitachi the capacity king

Jeremy wrote:
] A robotic vehicle designed by a team from Carnegie Mellon
] University in Pittsburgh on Tuesday became the first
] driverless contestant to navigate a 1.36 mile test course in
] preparation for the Pentagon's $1 million robot race this
] weekend.
]
] The Carnegie Mellon vehicle, named Sandstorm and representing
] an investment of more than $3 million, has generally been
] considered the favored entrant in the race, which is
] scheduled for Saturday between Barstow and Las Vegas.
]
] To win the $1 million prize, a vehicle must complete the
] desert course, expected to be as long as 200 miles, in less
] than 10 hours.

I know a lot of the Red Team people here at CMU ... they're *nuts*.

RE: Robot Vehicle Successfully Navigates Test Course

]
] It was pointed out to me the other day that the
] ICANN/NTIA/Verisign root zone file contains a previously
] undiscussed top level domain.

Where Did the .Root Top-Level Domain Come From?

] To gain improvement in e-mail authenticity while keeping
] as much SMTP compatibility as possible, a method is
] suggested which doesn't change SMTP at all. The idea is
] to store informations about how to verify who is
] authorized to transmit e-mails through SMTP with a
] particular sender address (either full address or - for
] simplicity - only the domain part of the address) in a
] directory service, which is currently the DNS. To be
] precise, the verification consists of two steps, the
] classical pair of authentication and authorization:

The RMX DNS RR and method for lightweight SMTP sender authorization

] ISP (Internet service provider) Earthlink Inc. will soon
] begin testing new e-mail security technology, including
] Microsoft Corp.'s recently released Caller ID technology,
] a company executive said.

InfoWorld: Earthlink to test sender authentication: March 03, 2004: By : Security

] According to Sun, the program includes "a no-risk path to
] Sun systems for HP-UX customers -- a group faced with
] product delays and inconsistent availability across HP's
] product line".

Who in their right mind would switch *to* Solaris right now?

InfoWorld: Sun expands HP Away

]
] DSPAM (as in De-Spam) is an extremely scalable,
] open-source statistical-algorithmic hybrid anti-spam
] filter. A majority of users running v2.10 achieve
] filtering rates ranging from 99.92% - 99.98 %, DSPAM is
] currently effective as both a server-side agent for UNIX
] email servers and a developer's library for mail clients,
] other anti-spam tools, and similar projects requiring
] drop-in spam filtering. DSPAM has been implemented on
] many large and small scale systems with the largest
] systems being reported at about 125,000 mailboxes.

This along with crm114 hit slashdot the other day. I'm playing with DSPAM.

Nuclear Elephant: DSPAM

] The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version
] control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS
] in the open source community. The software is released
] under an Apache/BSD-style open source license. See the
] status page for current progress.

Subversion 1.0 released!

subversion.tigris.org

]
] 64-bit extension technology is one of a number of
] innovations being added to Intel's IA-32
] Server/Workstation platforms in 2004. It represents a
] natural addition to Intel's IA-32 architecture, allowing
] platforms to access larger amounts of memory . Processors
] with 64-bit extension technology will support 64-bit
] extended operating systems from Microsoft, Red Hat and
] SuSE. Processors running in legacy* mode remain fully
] compatible with today's existing 32-bit applications and
] operating systems.

Here's Intel's AMD64 clone. You have to dig a bit for them to come
out and say that its AMD64 compatible ... but then at this point,
they really can't afford for it not to be. Itanium issues notwithstanding, Opteron would eat Intel alive in the low-end server market if they didn't have an offering.

Intel Corporation - 64-bit Extension Technology