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http://news.com.com/Oracle+tried+to+buy+open-source+MySQL/2100-7344_3-6040197.html?tag=nefd.lede

... or it shows how open source sw can develop to something worthy 
...

That doesn't surprise me. If there was no money in opensource IBM 
will not have pour over 1 billion into it.

The funny part is that companies are now trying to buy there way 
into opensource.

So, we should be expecting some WhyWire source code shortly?

Isn't BEER enough?

Plus the threads libraries and timers that come with it?

Please sir, may I have some more?

More Beer?

thanks.

Pass the bottle.

I would rather close source BEER, and have more docs ;)

Comunity project. Just kidding ;-)

sunanda, I'm terribly disappointed by this virus. :-) OSX is so far 
behind in this regard, basically like a Ford T vs. a modern Ferrari 
where WinXP is so far ahead in virus propagation

I don't expect an exponential growth in virus like in windows, but 
it sad to see such malware showing up.

it's always going to be there. I remember cleaning the Saddam virus 
from my old Amiga floppies, oh boy. :-)

Well Henrik, a basic rule of security is that attacks only get stronger, 
never weaker.
So just wait a while...... :-)

sunanda, it surely will be very interesting to see

Well finally there is a market for virus checkers on the Mac, I bet 
there are many virus suite companies who are pleased with that. ;-)

yes, I can imagine they'll be selling by the dozens. :-)

MS Sparkle - does not it look like View? :-) I tried to watch the 
Video, I wonder if second guy told "amiga"? (few sentences before 
he mentions "no more notepad"), but maybe I just wrongly understand 
...  http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=157843

mySQL AB buys company of one of Firebird authors - Jim Starkey .... 
Netfrastructure ... never heard about their "revolutionary" products 
... sounds like collaborative environment?


http://netfrastructure.com/main.nfs?a=netfraweb&l=;PAPERS;PAPER_NO='7'&t=drlWhitePapers


Jim was author of nextgen Firebird generation - called Vulcano or 
so ...

Jim Starkey was one of the original authors of Interbase.

Scientists at IBM say they have figured out how to produce smaller 
and more powerful microchips than previously thought possible. It 
is hoped IBM's announcement at San Jose on Monday will mean the creation 
of miniscule microprocessors which will save the IT manufacturing 
sector billions of dollars. The breakthrough revolves around the 
distance between the circuit-lines chip makers must 'draw' onto the 
surface of a computer processor. IBM scientists declared they can 
now draw lines on silicon much closer together than ever before.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/21/microchips_get_smaller/

Maybe something for Rebol as well:


dsandler writes "Researchers at Rice University have just released 
version 0.7 

of FeedTree, a peer-to-peer system for distributing Web feeds faster. 
Instead of 

polling feeds independently, FeedTree users cooperate to share news 
updates 

using multicast in Pastry, a scalable p2p overlay network. FeedTree 
reduces the 

update delay for existing RSS and Atom feeds to a few minutes without 
putting 

extra stress on the webserver (anyone who's ever been temporarily 
banned by 

Slashdot's RSS feed knows this is a real concern). Feed publishers 
can also 

choose to push digitally signed updates for immediate, tamper-proof 
delivery to 

subscribers. The client software (download) runs on Linux, OS X, 
and Windows, 
and works with any desktop feed reader." 
 
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=3816

I believe Maarten might be working on a rebol freepastry client.

Ah, who else ;-))

Gabriele was working on Chord .. but gave up due to Rebol problems.

Maybe Jaime or Ladislav can tell us whether we can build a Pastry 
like network upon Beer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4736984.stm


More bad news for male criminals.  Though I wonder how technique 
would fare in China where there are only 100 official family names.

I guess one problem with a multicast tree is that if you're disseminating 
your RSS feed this way, you may not know how many subscribers there 
are.

Graham feedtree can be implemented with BEER. The Multicast approach 
restrict the number of users that will be able to use it. As there 
is no multicast backbone on the current internet.

Does someone know this? http://www.airset.com

No. We need to get out of the browser. A place like that should have 
a REBOL client! :-)

Yep, that's true. The calendar looks pretty neat.

http://pages.google.comgoogle just launched a new beta... They are 
gooing and going faster faster...

Another unsignupable service !

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0222quantum.html<--- Quantum computing 
reaches more spooky levels. Get an answer from an algorithm without 
running the computer. It's called "counterfactual computation".

IE 7 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx

I'll wait, thanks. I have enough trouble with IE when it's *not* 
in beta :)

I tried IE7 beta - needed to upgrade to XP from 2000 so no go.

Maybe MS learned from Carl and now the beta is the more stable version? 
just thinking..

It's better than IE 6  tha'ts all i can say.

using 7 beta here also and seems ok but I still use Firefox for most 
of my surfing.IE 7 seems to have "borrowed" several ideas from Firefox 
but that's nothing new

got a pc and want to run OSX on it ? try this then :   http://maxxuss.konglish.org/

Earn your Sun Server -->> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks

http://www.ubrowser.com/and 3d browsing ;-)

Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931913,00.asp

Hope they can deliver on this: "Vista will include a built-in speech 
recognition engine, and new and improved speech synthesis. Assuming 
it works as well as it should, you'll be able to dictate emails or 
give voice commands for web navigations without buying additional 
speech recognition software."