While Telecom got away with the last massive outage, it shows the real need for
using local Internet exchanges to maintain service under duress:
http://publicaddress.net/default,2265.sm#post2265
Telcos told PalmOne to disable the dial-up networking over Bluetooth on the Treo
650. Fortunately, there is an easy hack to turn it back on again:
http://shadowmite.com/HowToDUN.html
The US Supreme Court finds that the writers of software are responsible for what
the users do with it, at least if they write P2P software and encourage piracy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1515894,00.html
KDE And Wikipedia announce collaboration to bring an API for Wikipedia content
to the KDE desktop:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/KDE_and_Wikipedia
An Indian researcher breaches Microsoft's much-touted "impenetrable" Windows
Genuine Advantage system for tracking licenced copies of the OS:
http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/21ms.htm
Tom's Hardware reviews the Ergodex DX1 reconfigurable keyboard. Designed for
gamers, you can position keys anywhere on the device's surface:
http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20050308/index.html
Cavendish Kinetics in the Netherlands develops a 256K Nanomech memory, using
micron-sized levers to store data in a power-efficient and durable way:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7577
In Memoriam Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger; and John Fielder, the voice of
Piglet, die within a day of each other. Oh me. Oh my:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Paul_Winchell%2C_voice_of_Tigger%2C_Gargamel%2C_dead_at_82
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Actor_John_Fiedler%2C_voice_of_Piglet_and_%22Bob_Newhart%22_regular%2C_dead_at_80
And finally. A cute little cardboard cutout dragon that has an optical illusion
inside his head. Link to printable PDF in the article:
http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm
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.