Cool gadget…? Annoying that it runs Windows, but heck what doesn’t these days.. Just gotta fill her up with open source goodies, podcasts and futurama episodes…

iRiver PMC-120 Portable Media Center | The Register

AlanS2002 points out today’s article from Iain Thomson on vnu.net, which says that “Linux systems are getting tougher for hackers to crack, security experts have reported today,” summarizing “A study conducted by the Honeynet Project
has found that it takes about 3 months before a unpatched Linux machine will be owned, compared with about 72 hours in the past. According to a report on the study default installations are now more secure with less
services enabled by default, added to this is newer versions of software such as OpenSSH being more secure. Interestingly Solaris 8 and 9 did not fare so well.”

Slashdot | Linux Getting Harder To Crack

Slashdot reader cr0kin0le writes “The Farnese Atlas at the Naples National Archaeological Museum may be holding a celestial globe which accurately depicts the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, according to a physics professor at Louisiana State University.”

Slashdot | Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus’ Lost Star Map?

Slashdot reader cr0kin0le writes “The Farnese Atlas at the Naples National Archaeological Museum may be holding a celestial globe which accurately depicts the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, according to a physics professor at Louisiana State University.”

Slashdot | Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus’ Lost Star Map?

Slashdot reader cr0kin0le writes “The Farnese Atlas at the Naples National Archaeological Museum may be holding a celestial globe which accurately depicts the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, according to a physics professor at Louisiana State University.”

Slashdot | Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus’ Lost Star Map?