1/6th Of the world's browsers are Firefox, as Firefox celebrates
200 million downloads. IE's share slips from Jan's 85.3% to 83.6%:
http://www.forbes.com/digitalentertainment/2006/08/01/mozilla-firefox-microsoft_cx_rr_0801mozilla.html
The Harmony Project releases some very preliminary code snapshots for
Open Source Java. Pre-alpha stuff, but promising:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33382
50 Years ago, IBM released the first hard disk. The device weighed
about a tonne, excluding air compressor, and held a whole 5MB:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14096484/site/newsweek/
More usefully, IBM have published this article that details how to
get a coherent response from your PC when you whack it one:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knockage.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01Knock-Knock
By growing vertical carbon nanotubes on silicon, designers hope to
increase the number of devices per square nanometre of surface:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/8/2/4861
And finally. If VI had a paperclip assistant...:
http://www.unixconsult.org/vim.gif
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.
