Software Freedom Day comes round again on Saturday, with teams around
NZ and the world holding events promoting Free and Open software:
http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2008/sofwarefreedomday-events
Opposition to the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(ACTA) is rising with 100 groups openly voicing their concerns:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080916-100-groups-demand-to-see-secret-anticounterfeiting-treaty.html
Radio New Zealand extends its use of the Free OGG audio format to
Media Watch and Morning report after succesful trials:
http://s0.tx.co.nz/at/tep34n864113j191842i277986f2c280148a4t9s4z
Samsung launches a hostile takeover bid for SanDisk, hoping to
aquire its lucrative solid-state storage business:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=akjbGjRImQjs&refer=asia
The Fon free wireless network now has 1 million members and 400,000
wifi hotspots world-wide:
http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/foneros/fon-wifi-community-welcomes-1000000th-member.html
Nvidia get ready to push 3D glasses into the Windows gaming market:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/everything_you_need_know_about_nvidia’s_3d_goggle_gamble
Peru will be the first to trial the OLPC with Microsoft Windows XP on
it, but supporting XP will make the US$100 price tag harder to reach:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1608976459
And finally. For those needing to destroy hard drives quickly, it's
hard to beat that old incendiary favouite - thermite:
http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/#more-2507
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.