The BBC's decision to use proprietary Microsoft DRM (excluding Linux &
Macs) is possibly anticompetitive under EU legislation:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070622-bbcs-use-of-windows-drm-attacked-by-open-source-advocates.html
A director of IT development company Catalyst, Don Christie, has been
elected as president of the New Zealand Open Source Society:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/F458780C0ABE307ECC257305000A5400
If you want to use your PC for banking, you'll need virus scanning,
up-to-date OS, firewall, antispyware and antispam. The bank will check:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/FDA3CE33D73B5B82CC257302000B0EE8
It appears that some "Vista only" Microsoft games can be hacked to run
on XP, such as Shadowrun. Is Halo 2 next?:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40538
Delft University of Technology gets closer to a quantum computer,
progressing from qubits to a quantum NOT gate:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=2C757567-E7F2-99DF-3F5FCC309D9C542E&chanId=sa025
And finally. The Scots introduce a law requiring a licence for
traditional sporrans. I'll nae kid ye the noo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6234290.stm
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.