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Tuesday, November 05, 2002

More Universities to Publish Courseware Online

In related news, dchud writes "DSpace, which has been in production use at MIT Libraries since September, is now available under a BSD-style license as version 1.0 at sourceforge. DSpace is a repository for capturing, persisting, and providing access to the digital research output of the MIT community, and will be the long-term archive for OpenCourseWare materials. Now it's available as an institutional repository platform for the rest of the world. See also coverage from the Boston Globe, CNET, and the AP (via NYT, reg req'd)."

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4:13:57 PM

More Universities to Publish Courseware Online

More Universities to Publish Courseware Online
Posted by chrisd on Tuesday November 05, @01:08PM
from the click-your-way-to-braininess dept.
prostoalex writes "After MIT's decision to put the course materials online free of charge, seven other universities expressed similar goals. With the grant from Hewlett-Packard the universities of Washington, Rochester, Toronto, Cornell, Columbia, Ohio State as well as MIT will provide their courses online at a single location. DSpace was launched with a $1.8 million grant from HP. MIT expects to spend about $250,000 annually to maintain and operate the archive. The page is available here." We also have an update on MITs courseware offerings, so read more if you care about such things.

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4:10:42 PM

FBI Bugging Public Libraries

FBI Bugging Public Libraries
Posted by michael on Tuesday November 05, @02:53PM
from the liberty-is-just-a-brand-of-jeep dept.
zamiel writes "Bill Olds writes in the Hartford Courant: 'I know my librarian, and I believe she would tell me if the government were tracking my computer use at the library. Don't you agree? No way. There's a gag order. When the FBI uses a court order or a subpoena to gain access to library computers or a list of the names of people who have borrowed certain books, librarians can't tell anyone - not even other librarians or you. They face a stiff federal penalty if they do. It's unfair that librarians should be placed in such a position.'" The American Library ASsociation has a page with advice to librarians and links to previous news stories on the subject.

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4:07:32 PM

Popular Linksys Router Vulnerable to Attack - A denial-of-service vulnerability in one of the most popular cable and DSL routers allows an attacker to crash the router from a remote location.
The Linksys Group Inc.'s BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch is vulnerable to a remote DoS attack that requires the attacker to do nothing more than access a specific script on the router's remote management interface. The vulnerability affects all of the routers with firmware versions earlier than 1.42.7.
6:27:10 AM

IBM throws weight behind utility model - Computerworld - IBM's $10 billion "on-demand" initiative announced by CEO Samuel J. Palmisano here last week echoes efforts by rivals to help companies deploy IT as a utilitylike service that can quickly expand or contract with business needs (see story).
But getting to such a flexible -- and ostensibly more cost-effective -- architecture will take time and require a radically different approach to buying and using computer systems, users and analysts said.
6:24:53 AM