Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Tue Oct 3 20:41:02 NZDT 2006

Today Index

Sun's decision to release the Niagara SPARC specs as Open information seems to have found favour with the business community:
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25399

More news on the "unpatchable" Firefox JavaScript flaw. Suggest you run "NoScript" to block unwanted scripts, if you're not running it already:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6121608.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/

Microsoft plans to intensify its codebase monoculture by excluding or restricting 3rd party anti-virus programs, so decreasing security:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5399534.stm

And finally. Sketch out your code on a graphics tablet, and have this application turn it into a program for you:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10204-sketchrecognition-turns-doodles-into-websites.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.