Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Oct 5 08:10:11 NZDT 2005

Today Index

The $100 laptop is still on track, with 15 million units being suggested for a trial run - and you wind it up for power:
http://beta.news.com.com/The+100+laptop+moves+closer+to+reality/2100-1044_3-5884683.html?tag=nefd.lede

Anykey publish a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox web browser users that allows archived NZ Herald stories to be viewed from their search engine:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
http://anykey.net.nz/free.php

SpreadFirefox.com gets taken down by hackers through a breach in their Wiki engine:
http://beta.news.com.com/Firefox+promo+site+taken+down+by+hackers/2100-7349_3-5888502.html?

While Google hits the headlines with free WiFi in the US, in New Zealand we have our own free WiFi spot. At Ground Zero in cosmopolitan Whakatane:
http://klixo.net.nz/story/story.105949.html

The Webmin remote maintenance tool for Linux gets a new look with interactive menus and graphics from the KDE icon set:
http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/141/2/

UC Riverside develops a molecule called 9,10-dithioanthracene that walks in straight lines on copper, suggesting molecular Turing Machines may be possible:
http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1166

And finally. Recall how much you love IVR automated telephone secretaries? Well now there's a 3D virtual receptionist desk called HAKURA:
http://www.i4u.com/article4326.html

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.