TVHarmony.com releases software to transfer programmes recorded on a TiVo into a
video iPod or video-capable Palm Pilot:
http://www.pvrwire.com/2005/10/28/tvharmonys-autopilot-converts-tivo-to-ipod-format/
Sun to ensure that their Java Desktop System (JDS) works on Red Hat, SuSE,
Debian, Gentoo and other popular Linux distros:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1877244,00.asp
eWeek carries an exclusive interview with Eben Mogen, who is only a few weeks
away from releasing the first draft of the GPL 3.0:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1879114,00.asp
Sun's pay-per-use grid computing cluster, launched in September 2004, has yet to
pick up a single customer. It's still in beta:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/sun_grid_slip/
Judge blasts Microsoft for anti-trust compliance and doing "absolutely nothing
in terms of deliverables to the licensees to help them develop their products":
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002586033_microsoft27.html
After 12 years of work, Wine 0.9 goes beta. This application allows UNIX/Linux
users to run Windows applications without the Windows operating system:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/First_beta_of_Wine_released
MySQL 5.0 Now out with stored procedures, triggers, views, and a
migration toolkit to import Oracle and Microsoft databases and objects:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_976.html
And finally. For those of you who want something vaguely freaky for Hallow'd
'een, try the Dactyl Fractal Zoom:
http://zapatopi.net/themes/dactylfractalzoom.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.