Cornell University develops "Credence", a P2P network aide that allows file
content to be voted on, helping to avoid bogus, offensive or insecure files:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/credence/
Novell is renames SUSE Professional to OpenSUSE and is releasing it as 100% open
source, hoping to benefit more from open development:
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/08/03/1246236.shtml?tid=2&tid=138
ArsTechnica gets hold of one of the new McMice and gives it a scamper around the
test wheel:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/mightymouse.ars
In a contest sponsored by Wired, team iFiber-Redwire achieved a 201km
unamplified WiFi connection from a mountain in Nevada to a small mound in Utah:
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,68395,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
Gartner says that PDA sales are actually increasing, as it counts PDAs with
wireless connectivity in its figures where others don't:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100143
It appears Clippings is not the only site to notice a much higher than
officially reported use of the Firefox browser. The Inquirer shows 46%:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25161
An analysis of the Linux kernel shows that 2.6.12 has fixed all critical bugs
known in 2.6.9 and is getting more stable despite getting larger:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=167100678
Within 8 days of Microsoft's Vista beta release, the viruses are already showing
up:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/4FC3F14B5DB4E724CC2570530074CEBD?OpenDocument
A robotic hand is developed that can snatch rapidy-moving ball thrown at it:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7790
And finally. Running WINE under Linux apparently lets you connect to Microsoft's
website and pass the "Windows Genuine Advantage" check:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/08/08/Linux_OK_WGA/
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.