The New Zealand Open Source Awards are now available on YouTube,
showing the NZ talent missed by most traditional media:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nzosa07&search=Search
http://www.nzosa.org.nz/winners
Uruguay puts in the first order for OLPC laptops; 100,000 of them.
The rollout is expected to involve another 300,000:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7068084.stm
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf warns that we'd better start pushing for
IPv6 support, or risk not being able to connect to the internet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7068140.stm
The OpenDocument Foundation says it will drop support of ODF. Just
one small problem: They're not actually affiliated with ODF:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044723&intsrc=hm_list
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/10/cracks-in-foundation.html
BusyBox and Monsoon settle the first US GPL case to go to court,
dismissing the suit in return for GPL compliance and safeguards:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071030130750322
Details on the "Ubuntu bug" (actually a BIOS bug) that can shorten your laptop's hard disk life, and fixes for it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695
And finally. This one claims to be the world's smallest working
bipedal robot, using 17 servos. Is that a challenge?:
http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/8264
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.