Google is to provide the NSW Department of Education with e-mail services in an
NZ$12.2 million contract for 1.3 million users:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4636954a28.html
Vista SP1 will not install on dual-boot systems. Microsoft says this is for
bitlocker support. Workarounds and exceptions described here:
http://apcmag.com/vista_sp1_wont_install_on_dualboot_systems_microsoft.htm
Richard Stallman, originator of the free software movement and author of the
GPL free software licence, goes on a NZ speaking tour. Free, of course:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~corwin/rms08.html
Training for the Open Source MySQL database comes to New Zealand with
DBA and programming courses on offer in Auckland for September:
http://openquery.com.au/training/auckland
Firefox 3.1 Alpha is now out for the experienced developers:
http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/29/firefox.31.alpha.released/
Oracle ships an emergency fix for a zero-day vulnerability, remotely
exploitable without authentication:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1581
And finally. Exercise inna pill. Just the thing for increasing the fitness
of couch potatoes, and doping atheletes at the Olympics:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-couchpill1-2008aug01,0,7519614.story
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.