Rumours that Xtra is about to side with Google boosted by domain names
reserved by a Telecom shell company:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/EE5DA8747EC72E93CC2572060003FDCE
Novell announces its intention to move from ReiserFS to ext3 format,
citing performance improvements. Mr. Reiser is on a murder charge:
http://news.com.com/Novell+makes+file-storage+software+shift/2100-1016_3-6125509.html
To celebrate its 6th birthday, the free office suite project OpenOffice
makes its 2.0.4 release. Better PDFs, new calc & presentation tools:
http://www.openoffice.org/index.html
Libya signs up for $250 million OLPC ("$100") laptops for its 1.2m
schoolkids, at about $138 each. What's the other $70?:
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5235&id_forum=3267&var_mode=recalcul#forum
F-Secure reports that McDonalds Japan distributed 10,000 MP3 players,
preloaded with 10 songs - and the QQPass password-stealing trojan:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-102006.html#00000997
A root exploit is discovered in the NVIDIA closed-source binary driver
used on Linux PCs. Open Source driver works fine, & hackles are raised:
http://download2.rapid7.com/R7-0025.html
2 Days after Microsoft's last patch batch, a new Powerpoint exploit
emerges. No known wild exploits, but give it time...:
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2166468/powerpoint-zero-day-emerges
Microsoft pulls Vista RC2 without comment:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34854
The Linux kernel gets real-time functionality built in to the mainstream code:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9566944929.html
And finally. Google plans to install 1.6 MW of solar panels on their
offices. The scary part is that this only supplies 1/3 of their needs:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-17T011203Z_01_N16392412_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-GOOGLE-SOLAR-URGENT.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
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.