Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Apr 29 13:28:09 NZST 2008

Today Index

Linux systems with the KDE desktop (which also runs on Windows) are to be deployed to 36 million students in Brazil, 52m by Q4 2009:
http://piacentini.livejournal.com/7871.html

Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system used in several commercial Linux distros, is found guilty of first-degree murder:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/reiser-guilty-o.html

David Litchfield publishes hacks that allow date and number data types to inject malicious content to Oracle databases:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9080378&intsrc=hm_list

Cray collaborates with Intel to boost their positions in the high-end computer market:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2849495620080428

And finally. Scientists in Germany create a prototype chip capable spinning rough spider silk fibres. Spiderman need not worry though:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13790-glass-chip-spins-silk-just-like-a-spider.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news5_head_dn13790

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.