Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Apr 26 18:22:17 NZST 2006

Today Index

Triple boot - Mac OS, WIndows and Linux - is now possible on the new Mac/Intel PCs:
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Developers/Triple_Boot

The Free Standards Group announces that Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu and others are certifying their operating systems to the LSB:
http://www.alphatradefn.com/story/2006-04-25/MRW/200604251201MRKTWIREUSPR____0124970.html

A group capitalises on Google's $1 bounty for switching users from IE to Firefox, but yet another unpatched IE critical security hole may make more switch:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/042506-firefox-backers-aim-to-destroy-ie.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1953833,00.asp

Researchers create low-cost solar panels by replacing much of the silicon with reflective holograms:
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16736&ch=biztech

Flexible displays are shaping up to produce e-newspapers, but the driving circuitry is still impressively large:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=602

Intel is looking at a cheap PC destined for rural China, running Red Flag Linux. But what would keep the PC in the rural marketplace?:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31254

And finally. What's more ridiculous than the RIAA suing old grannies for file sharing? Suing dead grannies for file sharing. "I sue dead people":
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050204-4587.html

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.