MIT's Nicholas Negroponte shows UN Secretary General Kofi Annan a bright green
prototype of the US$100 laptop at the UN net summit in Tunis: Annan broke it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4445060.stm
Sun keeps its word and gives complete access to the advanced ZFS filesystem
source under the terms of the CDDL:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html
The Mono project, an Open implementation of .NET, gets auto-hosting,
auto-deployment, Apache support and a full C# compiler:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3565496
Want to know which Linux distribution would suit you? Here's a 20 Questions-type
website that seems to give reasonable suggestions:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
The Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 1.5RC3, available through automatic
updates:
http://digg.com/technology/Firefox_1.5_RC3_Released_
In a beautiful twist of irony, Sony's DRM rootkit contains unattributed LGPL'd
code by "DVD" Jon Johansen. So he might now sue Sony for breach of copyright...:
http://www.the-interweb.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/20051117.html
A review of a practical replacement of Windows with Ubuntu Linux in a tech
support role for Microsoft systems:
http://madpenguin.org/cms/html/47/5557.html
VNC Access is now possible via a Flash application:
http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000192.cfm
IBM Says they've developed a nanotube-on-silicon phototransistor that is 1,000
times brighter than existing LED technology without using gallium arsenide:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174300788
And finally. It's 20 years since Bill Gates released Microsoft Windows, so
here's a list of 20 things you didn't know about it:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/11/20/happy-birthday-windows/
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.