Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Wed Sep 6 06:54:34 NZST 2006

Today Index

Clippings will be down for the next week while the author attends Paraflows '06 in Vienna, presenting his RepRap fabrication device:
http://reprap.org
http://www.paraflows.at/index.php?id=3&L=1

NZ Telecom to offer unconstrained DSL in October for an extra NZ$10 per connection - upload speed no longer limited to 128K:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/92D9982F541F8371CC2571DA00106E1A?OpenDocument

Linspire is offering their basic "Click and Run" service for automatic application installs free of charge:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8523030175.html

The results of the 2006 Linux Desktop survey are in, sampling 15,000 users. The winner is clearly Ubuntu, with 29.2 percent of the vote:
http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html

And finally. An interesting collection of YouTube links of tasered people. Crimes include not standing up, being in an armchair, and death:
http://publicaddress.net/default,3456.sm

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.