Microsoft's API docs, designed to open the OS in the EU, are declared unworkable
by monitors and fines of US$2.4m per day threatened for non-compliance:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051222110517614
OpenOffice 2.01 is out, which didn't take too long. It can be downloaded at this
link, and a changelog is available:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.1/index.html
Linux installations have now become so simple, that these days they can even be
loaded as a screensaver under Windows:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scrnsave/
Symantec's antivirus programs have a "highly critical" vulnerability for which
there is currently no patch. Just in time for Xmas:
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3572636
A PDF brochure on the ER 0100, an E-Ink based book reader by iRex Technologies.
Has an 8.1 inch E-Ink screen, due out April 2006:
http://www.irextechnologies.com/downloads/Productleaflet-Iliad.pdf
And finally. As we take a break for the Xmas season, I can solve the mystery of
the 50 badly-behaved Santas. Reindeer urine is a potent hallucinogenic:
http://cannabisculture.com/articles/3136.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.