Clippings is taking an Easter break and will be back in a week or so. Meanwhiles, enjoy your regional festivities:
Novell drops a legal bombshell on SCO, requesting arbitration in France. SCO Is party to a UnitedLinux contract, which specified arbitration for copyright:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060412011620955
Microsoft's latest patch round fixes 10 security holes and removes functionality
proscribed by Microsoft's loss of the recent patent suit to Eolas:
http://news.com.com/Critical+megapatch+sews+up+10+holes+in+IE/2100-1002_3-6060038.html
KDE Ship KOffice 1.5, including ODF word processor, spreadsheet and presentation
manager, as well as project planning utilities and a database:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.5.php
Helped no doubt by RIM's problems getting past Chinese regulators, China
Unicom has launched the RedBerry push-mail handset:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060411.wredberry11/BNStory/Business/home
A utility called pspi (for Photoshop Plugin Interface) by GIMP hacker Tor
Lillqvist acts as a bridge between the free GIMP editor and Photoshop plugins:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/05/1828238
Good news for electric tool fans; the Power Tool Drag Races are being held againon Sunday, May 7th, 2006:
http://www.powertooldragraces.com/
And finally. A cup of coffee to finish off? Well here's a coffee that really
does taste like s**t - because the beans are excreted by Civet cats:
http://www.animalcoffee.com/
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-sylvia4670231mar22,0,4603724.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.