Following the appearance of pre-installed Linux at the top of Dell's
most requested improvements list, they start to take it seriously:
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS8382062536.html
The Mono project launches a Visual Basic 8.0 compiler that runs under
any Mono- or .NET-compatible platform. So now VB runs on Linux & Macs:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9725385854.html
Firefox latest release delayed to fix a security bug and compatibility
with Vista:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/FF1E0AF4F605208BCC25728900113F81
How to take down your airline's in-flight entertainment system with a
game of Tetris:
http://blogs.csoonline.com/node/151/
The NTFS-3G project has just released their first stable release of an
NTFS disk driver for Linux with read/write. Useful for dual-boot PCs:
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
And finally. If the geek will not go to the beer, the beer must go to
the geek. Enter the beer-launching fridge:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/445498/robotic_beer_launching_refrigerator/
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.