Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Practical RDF Practical RDF Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 23, @12:00PM briandonovan writes "World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Director Tim Berners-Lee and his compatriots would like to transform the current Web into a 'Semantic Web' where 'software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users' using 'structured collections of information and sets of inference rules.' The Resource Description Framework (RDF), designed as a language for expressing information about resources on the Web, and allied technologies are the result to date of ongoing efforts at the W3C to furnish Semantic Web proponents with the requisite tools. While it's far too early to predict whether TimBL's grand vision will be realized, RDF/XML (the XML serialization of RDF) is already in widespread use, having been incorporated into a surprising array of applications." Read on below for briandonovan's link-stuffed review of O'Reilly's Practical RDF.  [Slashdot] 1:30:16 PM

Knoppix 3.3 Is Out Knoppix 3.3 Is Out Posted by timothy on Monday September 22, @10:59PM from the ausgezeichnet dept. maedls.at writes "After 6 months of development, the latest version of Knoppix 3.3 is out - Kernel 2.4.22 with HIGHMEM (4GB) support, KDE 3.1.3, XFree86 4.3, OpenOffice 1.0.3 (German and English), KOffice 1.2.1, new boot options for RAM or hard-disk preload of the CD. Possibility to create a persistent homedir with personal data and desktop settings on a memory stick or similar, optional with AES encryption." The main Knoppix site is still down in protest of European software patent legislation (click on the link inside the English paragraph to get to the meat of the site), but the excellent knoppix.net has a detailed changelog. [Slashdot] 11:33:16 AM

Moreover opts for human mediated PageRank for its new blogsearch service. How do we find out what that rank is?? Further, Moreover claims this interesting stat: "There are now more than three million active bloggers in the US alone." Phil has some additional thoughts on Yahoo, Oracle, and Moreover. [John Robb's Weblog] 9:40:54 AM

Cliptrans 0.9.7 Beta Released Designed for use on high-end desktops, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition boasts the ability to bypass 4-gigabyte physical memory limitations found in 32-bit systems. Applications of 64-bit computing include advanced gaming, digital content creation and video editing. [BetaNews.Com] 9:35:18 AM

Desktop to go where Migo goes. A new USB-based flash memory device promises to capture a broad range of data from a computer user's PC and replicate that "personal desktop" on any other compatible Windows-based computer. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 9:27:28 AM