Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Fri Jan 25 20:51:33 NZDT 2008

Today Index

LinuxConf starts in Melbourne next week, and Clippings will be there. Postings may be irregular for a week or so as we look around stunned:
http://linux.conf.au

Linux/Apache servers suffering from a mystery rootkit infection that then infects Windows machines connecting to the web server:
http://www.linux.com/feature/125548

Microsoft prepared to spend US$235 million to buy the educational computer market. It seems to be butting heads with the OLPC:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080123114324664

The Linux & UNIX KDE desktop makes it across to the Windows platform, with KOffice suite (OpenDocument supported) and file managers etc.:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080123-kde-goes-cross-platform-with-windows-mac-os-x-support.html

VIA Come up with a new range of low-power x86 CPUs aimed squarely at the mobile device market. Clock speeds go up to 2GHz:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7600

And finally. Take a trip with Virgin Galactic. Richard Branson's company puts out a promotional video for their upcoming spaceflight service:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=141

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.