ISP's say in a stinging letter to the Commerce Commission that they're reduced
to being "peasants collecting money for Telecom":
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/232444CFFD9ADC6ECC25703F0009B334?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
Intel & Microsoft to launch a heavily DRM'd multimedia platform for providers
that cannot, or will not provide you with a good product at a fair price:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638
Microsoft makes some promises on the expected performance of Longhorn. Is this
the beef, or just bull?:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1838263,00.asp
The Inquirer reports that a speed-up tweak for Microsoft's Longhorn operating
system already exists in Windows XP, and shows how to enable it:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24749
GlidePath drops Samba and returns to Linux, after discovering it still has to
pay Microsoft for client connections, and find Samba support on top:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/1E3AE91086E8887BCC257043000CD9D0?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld
Firefox increased its share to 8.71%, while IE's share shrank to 86.56%.
Interestingly, only 25% of 'Clippings' website readers use IE:
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,103212,00.html
After waiting more than 700 days for patches to six security flaws in Oracle
Database Products, Red-Database-Security GmbH goes public:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1838893,00.asp
Aeronix use Linux to build the ZipIt US$99 WiFi instant messenger appliance for
kids, that is rapidly co-opted by the hacker community:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8107883197.html
By stacking layers of chips on top of one another with silicon-level
interconnects, inter-chip wiring is minimised and speed increases:
http://physorg.com/news5256.html
In memoriam. James Doohan, best known for playing "Scotty" on Star Trek, dies of
pneumonia at the age of 85. Ye canne change the laws o' physics:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/James_Doohan%2C_Star_Trek%27s_%27Scotty%27%2C_dies_at_85
And finally. When US soldiers boarded a DC-10, equipped with M-16's, shotguns
and pistols, they had to hand over scissors & nail clippers under FAA rules:
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/custom/blogs/guard/entries/2005/05/19/drop_those_nose_hair_clippers_soldier.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.