World: r3wp

Intel quietly pulled out of support for the XO One Laptop Per Child 
program.  Hmm.  More in chat.

http://www.eye.fi/	Nice idea.

kind of hoax.

so eye-fi card has some kind of radio. In order to proceed, you have 
to put it in card reader, put it into usb on your pc, configure upload 
site, then you return it back to your DC, start shooting, and eye-fi 
card transfers photos to the station connected to usb port? I would 
save the hassle and just use card reader. Or buy decend DC supporting 
wi-fi :-)

Anyone checked out Links?  University of Edinburgh  http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/
   I'm not a real fan of AJAX but Links is being built to produce 
web frontend (Javascript), middle bit (SQL)  and backend (Java server) 
code from a single source.  I don't really care, but it may fit with 
the current Silverlight thread in REBOL Marketing.

Hey, that's from Philip Wadler. Very interesting

He's getting old :-)

Waah, he writes Java books now? He's really getting old...

Links looks quite clean. It has HTML interspersed in the source code, 
though. I have found that to be an unproductive approach in most 
cases because it does not allow a web designer to work on it

http://www.sun.com/

ah, it doesn't show every time you load it: Sun has acquired MySQL.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2008-0116/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008jan16_mysql_learn

And Oracle acquires BEA


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=alI8qN7k9lQU&refer=home

Amazing! So much money in databases. I should use more time on my 
own.

I could probably read a lot to get this info, but maybe someone here 
knows:

How do a company like MySQL make money? The database is open source 
and completely free, right? So do they earn by doing support? Selling 
books or what?

I pay for MySQL...

Enterprise costs about $600

Do you know, if MySQL holds any patents?

http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/patents.html

Why pay for mysql when postgresql is better and free?

Hm, I haven't got much experience with open source. I'll investigate, 
if the model suit my database, NicomDB. If it does, there could be 
a database written 100% in REBOL available for REBOL developers in 
the near future.

I mean available for free. It is available today, but it costs. :-)

Geomol, the business model for such a setup are mainly:


- You pay for service: Consulting, support, priority fixes, adding 
features, porting
- You pay for special versions: Pre compiled, add-ons

So, the OS stuff is the teaser for the rest. And if you are the main 
person behind the OS project, you are the one being trusted for the 
above things.

also pre-packaged easy versions with books for documentation. that's 
now most linux distro (except Ubuntu) work.

I just checked the size of the source. NicomDB is less than 50k of 
REBOL source. It's a little more than 7k compressed, so it's a nice 
'little' database. :)

iPhone turned into a virtual guitar: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=26829492

Geomol, when you have a lot of users, it's easy to make money (Sun 
might come and buy you for example :). OS source helps a lot at getting 
a lot of users (the reasons are not entirely rational). still, i 
don't know how much a REBOL db would be popular.

one way mysql makes money is to get Sun to fork over a billion dollars 
:)

You do need to have a sales organisation with customers to be able 
to get that much

HTML 5 the Draft http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/

Nokia to acquire Trolltech - http://www.osnews.com/comments/19227

VIA Isaiah architecture - shows the world how double the performance, 
stay with the same power consumption and stay pin compatible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAonOmb8l3o

Nice visit to their facilities - http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQ1MywxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

rootkit attacks Linux with Apache servers that then later injects 
Javascript to infect Windows boxes.  http://www.linux.com/feature/125548


Rats, bad guys are using our servers to get at the poor unwashed 
masses of Windows users.  No doubt this will be ammunition in MS's 
Get the FUD campaign, further ensuring a larger mass of easily corrupted 
Windows boxes.

Luckily we also have Cheyenne.  Take that bad guys!

How tough is Cheyenne, I wonder ?

Is backward incompatiblity is the new black?
Python 3.0 to break pretty much all existing code.
Just like REBOL R3 :-)
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/69326,breaking-the-python-code.aspx

Interesting interview with Aaron Seigo from KDE 4 team - http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;885892575;pp;1

Sunanda - as for Python, we know, it was posted here few months ago, 
in another article. But still, comared to R3, I can see those changes 
as more cosmetic ones :-)

KDE 4 - Plasma...sounds like rebol or where rebol wants to be

Actually no...I did not realize from the article that it is a desktop 
environment. The first I heard of these cool KDE developments.

Have you guys seen this Arc challenge? I thought it would be interesting 
to see how it was done in REBOL. They are comparing it in other languages. 
I'm not good enough yet in REBOL to do it myself, so I thought I 
would post it here. http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html

Graham posted a nice one for rsp in Rebol vs Scheme.

Oh nice, I didn't see that. Thanks!

NEC has launched a new product that will allow network administrators 
to downgrade Vista machines to XP. It takes up... 2 DVDs.

:)

CURL has got some good press links at www.curl.com         I am hoping 
to see a CURL presentation as a possible front-end to QTASK  (ducking 
quickly) because of its off-line abilities ( OCC or occasionally-connected 
computing )  I hope the VID3 folks take a look at CURL which I find 
so natural cmpared to TCL and TK ... around Rebolrs maybe CURL should 
be renamed DUCK ...  at least REBOL has a Dummies book out there 
...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/07/apples_safari_3_1_to_support_downloadable_web_fonts_more.html
<--- Safari's Javascript engine will in the next version switch some 
commonly used DOM functions to native C-code for some big speed boosts. 
That's kind of interesting.

I wonder why it's not already possible... I remember there was a 
little support for font embedding in Netscape.

RobertS: I think it would be fine to see other interfaces to Qtask, 
maybe we could learn from that too, but you surely can't expect us 
being interested in Curl, can you? :-)