I haven't kept this as up to date as I'd like but the stuff that is here is good to know. I'm going to modify it so other people can add sections to it and it can be a living document, but until then this is all you get.
Well, this is an interesting double standard. Remember Apple's reaction to Palm trying to tap into iTunes? They were pretty pissed, right? Well, it seems that in Apple's world, it's not okay to access their services unauthorised, but when Apple needs to do the same to someone else's services, it's suddenly not a problem. As it turns out, Apple violated Facebook's terms of service, knowingly, and willingly.
"Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines."
The iPad pretty much has the tablet market all to itself at this point, since no serious competitor has yet been released. We've been teased to death with the first real competitor, a device from Samsung called the Galaxy Tab. It has been officially unveiled today, and it indeed looks like the first serious competition to the iPad. It runs Android, naturally.
It's been only a mere six months since its first unveiling, but Microsoft has already announced that Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturing. This means device makers can start tuning the software to their hardware, leaving plenty of time to release devices before the holiday season.
Well, this was rather unexpected. As it turns out, Commodore USA's CEO Barry Altman isn't particularly pleased about the article I wrote earlier today in which I placed a considerable amount of scepticism with regards to Commodore USA and its business (and website). He (not his lawyer) sent us a threatening email demanding we take down the article, post a new correction article, the whole shebang. The entire email - as an image, you'll want the original formatting - after the break. Our reply? We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
A whole lot of Apple news of course, but we've never really done music players or streaming devices, so let's skip the barrage of new iPods and the new Apple TV (streaming-only? Fail). The real meat is of course iOS 4.1 and 4.2, both of which were detailed during today's press event.
Well, this is kind of funny. Steve Wozniak, still an Apple employee, has defended Paul Allen and patent trolls in general. "I'm not at all against the idea of patent trolls cause I've had friends who just got forced into bankruptcy by bigger people who had more money and could have a lawsuit against them, forced them to be their own lawyers, and in the end, sometimes they're victorious. But it's a real hard way to do it. So if you're going to have a patent and say 'It's worth some money, I'll sell it', well, even if Paul Allen makes a fortune off of it, I think he had the insights to recognize which patents were valuable." Apple is one of the companies Allen is suing.
Just when you thought the Amiga world was finally getting its act together, finally making things a little less obtuse for outsiders, this happens. So, we have the AmigaOne X1000 coming up, a brand-new PowerPC computer, running the real deal - AmigaOS 4. In the meantime, Commodore USA - the one with the sketchy website - has apparently secured rights to the Amiga hardware brand, and is planning to release Amiga-branded computers running AROS. In the meantime, Hyperion, the Belgium company behind AmigaOS, who is working with A-eon on the AmigaOne X1000, claims this is a clear violation of the settlement between them and Amiga Inc., and has notified its US lawyers.
"KDE has released a series of updates to the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform. This update is the first in a series of stabilization updates to 4.5.0, coming every month, as if delivered by a cronjob. 4.5.1 brings bugfixes and translation updates on top of KDE SC 4.5.0."
"When it comes to Apple products, the iPad and the iPhone get all the headlines. But in recent years, the company's Macintosh line of computers has enjoyed a remarkable revival that has been vital to Apple's emergence as the most valued technology company on Wall Street. In the latest sign of that comeback, Autodesk plans to announce on Tuesday that it is bringing its flagship AutoCAD design and engineering software to the Mac for the first time in nearly two decades."
Despite doing what I think are some great things for the American people, the Obama administration has a dark side. Joe Biden and many others on staff come straight from the RIAA camp, and it shows. Today, the Obama administration disregarded every US law relating to theft and copyright by stating that piracy is "flat, unadulterated theft".
Highly innovative but remarkably illusive - that's how I describe the webOS. The operating system never made its way to The Netherlands, and as such, I never got to try it. Now that Palm is part of HP, development on webOS continues, and the company has just detailed what's coming for developers in version 2.0.
On August 31st, Stuart Henderson (sthen@) announced that the default Python version has changed from 2.5 to 2.6. This was following a commit by Federico G. Schwindt (fgsch@) in the ports tree. Please read on for Federico's full commit message and Stuart's announce:
Since interesting news that I'm actually knowledgeable about is still a little hard to come by, I have to work a little harder. This is something interesting to discuss: John Gruber, rather famous Apple blogger, is now arguing that Apple is in fact not fighting the jailbreaking community. Wait, what? Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
"Mozilla has announced a new alpha release of its Fennec mobile browser for Android and the Nokia N900. Fennec offers support for add-ons and has tight integration with Firefox Sync, a browser synchronization service that was formerly called Weave. The support for Firefox Sync is arguably Fennec's killer feature, especially because Mozilla is planing to include the synchronization features out-of-the-box in Firefox 4. Users will be able to have access to the their bookmarks, browsing history, and tabs across all of their computers and supported mobile devices."
"Intel Corp.'s $1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon Technologies AG's wireless unit marks another step by the chip maker to expand in the wireless device market, an area where it has struggled in the past. Intel's need to push further into wireless was highlighted Friday by the company's surprising warning that third-quarter revenue would fall short of its previous expectations because of weaker-than-expected demand for consumer PCs. Smartphones and other mobile devices have long been a faster-growing segment than the PC market."
I know it's a bit late in the month but Augusts London *BSD meeting will be held at the Cleveland Arms pub in Bayswater on Thursday the 26th, 7pm
If you use upcoming, you can find the meeting details here
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-current. This means that we are one step closer to the upcoming OpenBSD 4.8 release. Keep an eye out for pre-orders! Read below for the full commit message:
When I think about the names of people on mailing lists who have helped
me solve difficult problems or learn something new, often I have no face
to go with the name. In my day to day life I may have walked right past
them without knowing, or saying hello, or more appropriately, asking to
buy them a beer or lunch as a way to say thanks for the help they've
given me. If you've been communicating with someone for years via email
or even phone, and you finally get the chance to meet them in person, it
is always an strange combination of both fun and unusual, or more
accurately, both familiar and unfamiliar. It's the contradiction that
seems a bit troublesome at first, but it fades quickly. There's a lot of
this for people attending their first hackathon, but even those who have
attended many hackathons probably experience a little of it due to the
new people they're going to meet for the first time.
Wondering "Who are these people?" is only natural but keeping
the event organized really does help. A great deal of thought and
effort goes into planing and organizing each hackathon. One of the smart
things done is keeping a master list of arrival and departure flights so
people can coordinate meeting, sharing rides and similar. From the
master list, I knew I would be on the same flight from SFO
as Chris Kuethe (ckuethe@), so we traded emails to confirm and just
assumed we'd figure it out at the airport gate.
Knowing one of the developers would be on the same flight was
reassuring. I almost never travel and this was the first time in almost
a decade where I was traveling alone without the assistance of a family
member or friend. As a novice traveler and first time hackathon
attendee, I made plenty of poor decisions in picking out what to bring
and I seriously over-packed for the trip. Showing you how stupid I was
may save you from making similar mistakes.
Am 16.09 und 17.09.2006 findet in Essen der LinuxTag Essen, Com2Linux, statt. Auch hier wird allBSD wieder zugegen sein um die BSD-Systeme zu präsentieren. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.
Das allBSD Projekt hat neue Flyer rund um die BSDs erstellt und stellt diese als PDF Dokument zum download bereit. Auf dem Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden werden diese Flyer auf dem BSD-Stand ausgeteilt werden.
Der LinuxTag berichtet in einer News auch über das Engagement der BSDs auf dem diesjährigen Linuxtag.
In der neusten Ausgabe des freeX Magazins (http://www.freex-online.de/) wird über das allBSD Projekt berichtet. Desweiteren gibt es in dieser Ausgabe eine Reihe weiterer BSD-Artikel:
- FreeBSD auf dem IBM-Blade Center - DSL Multihoming mit NetBSD - Bluetooth unter FreeBSD - Lazarus und FreeBSD
Seite heute steht das Vortragsprogramm für den LinuxTag 2006 fest. Am Freitag dem 05.05.2006 wird es in Saal 6.2 den ganzen Tag Vorträge über BSD geben. Mehr Informationen zu den Vorträgen entnehmen Sie bitte hier und hier.
allBSD ist auf der CeBIT von 12.-15.März 2006 im Bereich LinuxPark und teilt sich den Stand mit anderen Open Source Projekten. Siehe hierzu: http://www.allbsd.de/events/cebit/index.html
Dru Lavigne, bekannt durch ihre Kolumnen bei O´Reilly, das Buch "BSD Hacks" und Ihr Engagement für eine BSD-Zertifizierung, hat ein online Diskussion mit Daniel Seuffert, Wilhelm Bühler und Axel S. Gruner geführt. Dabei geht es um die Ambitionen von allBSD.de, was der Slogan "push it, dont hype" zu bedeuten hat und wie man allBSD unterstützen kann.
Jürgen Dankoweit ist nun auch Mitglied bei allBSD.de. Er hat in der Vergangenheit viele FreeBSD Flyern erstellt und arbeitet nun aktiv bei allBSD.de mit.
Seit heute haben Sie die Möglichkeit in Ihren Kalender die hier angekündigten Events automatisch eintragen zu lassen. Hier können Sie die ICS-Datei abonnieren.
allbsd-announce - als Ankündigungsliste (Newsletter) allbsd-events - zur internen Organisation von Events (öffentlich) allbsd-misc - für sonstige Themen rund um allBSD.de (öffentlich)
Zur Bündelung der Aktivitäten zum Cebit-Stand 2006 der BSD-Projekte geht die Domain allBSD.de online. Geplant ist, bis Weihnachten 2006 eine Mailinglliste und ein Grundgerüst der Webseiten zu BSD aufzusetzen.
