World: r3wp

http://development.syllable.org/pages/index.htmlpoints to the ORCA 
status document

One czech IT related portal reports, that Cisco buys Jabber, to enhance 
its IM product capabilities. I wonder who buys R3 plus rebservices 
:-)

Just when you thought it was dead, and buried, and rotting....

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amigaos41-ars.ars

Interesting read ... explains a lot to those of us who've not kept 
up

If they make a PS3 version...

They said they have had it running on a PS3 .. so will you do the 
REBOL port ? ;)

noone can do a REBOL port unless Carl releases host sources :-)

Minor details

The fatal error in their aproach is, that they should have been moving 
to x86 in 2000 already. PPC might be fine, but it caused a damage 
...

lots of cheap PS3s

yes, PS3 is different league than plain A1 (you can't buy new ones) 
or even SAM (600 or more EUR for sigle board? 400MHz? Othere expenses 
- hd, memory, power supply, case, OS)

I remember when they had Amiga on a PCI card ...

that's all we need :)

If they release a PS3 version, I buy one :-)

Does PS3 licence allows to run different OS?

You can buy PS3 with pre-installed Linux so I think yes.

Yes, there's even an "Install other OS" entry in the system menu 
on the PS3. That's how Linux is installed.

interesting

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/osinstall.html

They may need a license from Sony to make a OS disc though. (ie. 
pay them)

one of the developers for OS 4.1 just got a PS3 so is in the process 
of port to the PS3

NO WAY! That would be so cool (#2 to Rebol running on the PS3, mind 
you).

Is OS4.1 runs on PS3, then REBOL will run ....

true but minus a lot of the newer stuff ie. agg/etc

The Syllable Server press release was also accepted at LWN (originally 
Linux Weekly News):

http://lwn.net/Articles/298583/

Adobe Talks Open Source, Innovation and the Future of Flash

http://www.eweek.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=49706&pop=1&hide_ads=1&page=0&hide_js=1

removed the license restriction this year from the SWF format. So 
anyone can go create anything they want around that format, including 
a player if they want to

... this is old news, no? Besides that it is half-full cup. SWF is 
freed, Flash is not ...

It's said that the Flash Player will not be opensource and I understand 
why.

Interesting is, that Adobe is working with the Chrome team and that 
MS is not is not a competitor.

First privately developed space rocket has reached Earth orbit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To-XOPgaGsQ

Fantastic!

Nokia launches its own mobile toolkit platform, Linux plus Qt toolkit 
based:


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080930-nokia-launches-linux-based-qt-extended-mobile-platform.html

http://trolltech.com/products/device-creation/qt-extended/qt-extended-4.4-release

Dial 'M' for Microsoft's new programming language - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/10/dial_m_for_microsoft/

The end of REBOL?

No, it sounds like we still have an opening. Those tools sound really 
complicated, overly so. Little cross-platform support too.

too -> either

That M language is like a lot of languages coming from the MS camp 
lately - they only have meaning if you are a MS shop. They even say 
that the compiler for this language would be cross platform, but 
that since it only describes stuff that MS platform software does, 
the results would have no meaning without that MS software. I guess 
they aren't ever going to go after the Mono project now - they have 
figured out how to compete in a multi-platform world, so they don't 
have to squash the competition anymore.

Strangely enough, it is not that dissimilar from REBOL's strategy.

yes, their tools are complex. I wish we would be faster in delivering 
though. We are still milles away from anything R3 usable ....

Let's switch groups.

OpenOffice 3.0 released ...

Been using OpenOffice on the EEE-PC, it is pretty cool...

Wasn't it a bit sluggish?

One Czech IT news server reports, that whole Wikipedia is moving 
to Ubuntu LTS Linux servers. They used various Red Hats, Fedoras, 
etc., so they are unifying it ...

We are talking 400 servers here ...

they're gonna wear out that poor Ubuntu installation CD :-)

OO3 is very cool. Trying to get rid of Word and XLS.

Is that really a big change? Using 2.4 here. I thought it is mostly 
incremental change. Pity they did not remove JAVA from it - it is 
reported still being kind of sluggish ...