Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Mon May 7 18:25:36 NZST 2007

Today Index

Anylists Gartner peg IT as being responsible for 2% of global warming:
http://www.ictworld.co.za/EditorialEdit.asp?EditorialID=28739

The Bush administration proposes a bill to retroactively make phone companies immune from prosecution if they help US spy organisations:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070504-bush-administration-proposes-retroactive-immunity-for-phone-companies.html

As well as offering Ubuntu, Dell sign up for Novel/Microsoft SuSE Linux too:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/314604_software07.html

Now the changes to daylight saving in New Zealand have been announced, it's time to hunt down the patches in your code:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/75B12EAC252AAB2ACC2572D100009E07

An intrepid reviewer tries to find out if CDs burnt under Vista can be read anywhere else. This turns out to be harder than expected:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070422083715451

And finally. Results of experiments to measure the speed of pedestrians show that they have sped up by 10% since the early 90's:
http://www.richardwiseman.com/quirkology/latest2.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.