Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Jun 19 17:00:04 NZST 2007

Today Index

Surprisingly, Ubuntu validates as genuine Windows in the Microsoft Genuine Advantage test:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=475709

TUANZ Raises the alert that Telecom's new GSM network may be made deliberately incompatible with Vodafone's:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10446490

Details of how the massive web compromise that started in Italy is being carried out. More than 10,000 sites affected so far:
http://blog.trendmicro.com/another-malware-pulls-an-italian-job/

Auckland City Council is planning on setting up an open access WiFi network in the CBD:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/1F69D881566CFAFDCC2572FF00004697

A review of the Samsung SyncMaster 940UX, the first monitor driven only through the USB port. Available as 1400x1050 (DL-120) or 1600x1200:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/samsung-sm940ux.html

IBM achieves EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun's Trusted Solaris:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;306842912;fp;4194304;fpid;1

And finally. Steam Punk - the combination of neo-Victorian design and cyberpunk technology:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_steampunk

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.