Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Nov 29 06:39:36 NZDT 2005

Today Index

ZDnet reviews Linux for corporate desktops. Ubuntu comes out on top, fully featured with good support. SuSE came a close second, but costs more:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=story&AT=39237495-39023100t-30000029c

Gartner, Inc. reports sales of Windows systems account for 37% of server revenue in the last quarter while Linux accounted for 31.7% - a 5% lead in $ over Linux:
http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2026

IBM's developer section has an article on programming Cell processors and the Cell Broadband Engine (CBE). Acronym City:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-fpfunleashing/?ca=dgr-lnxw01CellUnleash

IT manager Peter Quinn of the Massachusetts state government, who approved the move to OpenDocument, mysteriously finds himself the target of a smear campaign:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8566

Logitech now issue Flash uploads for their laser mice. True to patch form, the upgrades won't work on Linux or 64-bit Windows:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27923

MIT's US$100 laptop is to use RedHat Linux for its OS:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/viewr.php?id=731

USC SF Researchers take an image of the "Flying Spaghetti Monster" at 100 Megapixels/sq inch by using photo-sensitive bacteria as a novel film:
http://www.brainblog.com/cms/scientists_engineer_bacteria_to_create_living_photographs2480

And finally. Cannon warns photocopier abusers not to copy their nether regions at the Xmas party, and have increased glass thickness to reduce breakages:
http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39154489,00.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.