World: r3wp

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/04/02/ipad-the-destroyer-19-things-it-will-kill/
-- this guy is a little too optimistic..

Haiku raises some funds, contracts full-time developers - power of 
open-source? http://www.osnews.com/story/23121/Haiku_Hires_Several_Contractors_Pushes_for_Alpha_2_Beyond

RIM buys QNX!  Finally some more publicly visible company (which 
Harman/Kardon is not) bought one of the best OSes ever)  - Research 
In Motion Buys QNX Software

So, when R3 will run on Blackberry? :-)

 publicly visible company (which Harman/Kardon is not)

Strange sentence


HK is something like a 4 billion in rev company, and RIM is 3.5. 
 HK is all over the world, doing huge business in China (about 1 
billion of that), and India as well.  They are in cars and laptops, 
and sold with computers.  In terms of number of impressions, I'm 
not sure you can say "not".

True that. At least RIM has more of a reputation for making devices 
known to have operating systems. HK makes devices with operating 
systems, but most people probably wouldn't realize that. I wonder 
if this QNX buy will be a good thing for QNX fans. QNX has been gradually 
dropping support for desktop QNX (primarily their development environment); 
the one-floppy QNX distro had many fans who were sad to see it go.

my peeve about QNX is that they only support ati cards.

(ATI and QNX both being based in Ontario is a probable cause  :-)

isn't RIM also based in Ontario?

but the QNX OS is realllly nice.f

http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet

I was hoping RIM would come to Ottawa, merge in with some of the 
QNX space, but I fear that might be an optimistic view.

is RIM in toronto?

depending of country side almost

WG

RIM has offices in Waterloo and Mississauga - Waterloo's about an 
hour and a half from Toronto - Mississauga borders Toronto

Palm for sale? HTC and Lenovo reported being interested - http://www.osnews.com/story/23143/Bloomberg_Palm_Has_Put_Itself_Up_for_Sale

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2

Description of Webkit 2's new process model.

Perl 5.12 available....Better UNICODE, extensions, time beyond 2038.

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/04/msg158820.html

you mean it took them 10 years just to insure they don't become irrelevent 
in 28?

R3 has been slow in coming too.

Actually, in the last year, I find no REBOL release it has ever evolved 
so quickly.

I have not read it yet, so no rude comments from me, yet :-) http://www.osnews.com/story/23181/Oracle_Starts_Charging_90_USD_Per_User_for_ODF_Plugin

SnappMX is now free.  REALLY COOL tool:  http://www.snappmx.com

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Facebook is down?

works here

Works now for me too. It was down for a half-hour here. Weird.

Sometimes when I think a website is down, it turns out to be some 
problem at my (or my ISP's) end. This is a good way to check:
   http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Or, http://downforrt.com/

I saw people saying that FB is down on twitter too. 


My guess it needed to reboot to switch into now I own the whole internet 
mode (did you hear about new features presented on f8)?

It was down for me in Hawaii FTR.

Nice analysis of the recent attack on apache.org:
   https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_04_09_2010

Great info. Thanks for posting that Sunanda.

I got the email from Atlassian too about their attack

I had been testing confluence and Jira

Opera 10.5.2 for MAC released - http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/27/

When ever I read something like this it is like I just got news a 
friend was murdered while working around their house.

There is a virus called Security Tool.  It is really evil, http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-security-tool.html


But what gets me is, with something like this, that is so popular, 
why have we not hunted down the assholes that wrote it, and made 
a public example of them?

Never heard of this one - EKEN M001 "Tablet", 100 USD price level 
... article is in Czech,  but contains photos and video ....

http://www.zive.cz/clanky/eken-m001-maly-tablet-pc-s-androidem-za-dva-tisice/sc-3-a-152037/default.aspx

Reichart - aren't those prohibited business practicess? It is misleading 
customers.

Reichart...I agree. I do not understand with the millions, maybe 
billions lost in time, resources etc why there is not some  agency 
set up to get this type of scam....they are hiding in plain site.

Kind of interesting - zoomable web sites

http://ahead.com/#view/lilaspaces/main/welcome?scene=HOME

HP buys Palm ... http://www.osnews.com/story/23221/HP_Buys_Palm


My take - a pity Palm was not bought by HTC. For me HP is big failure. 
Company without a vision, who killed Compaq by the merge.

Pekr, it is an actual federal crime, and could be considered an act 
of war!  I'm not clear why they don't go after this.

I am not sure I can understand. Is it a sarcasm? :-)

..hunted down... / ...act of war...

looks like the media-(I.tell you the thruth!)-meme just reached maui 
;-))

Just to make sure we are all clear here... I'm using no humour.


I believe Pekr to have asked me about the link I posted to the virus 
called "Security Tool".

By asking me if it is a "prohibited business practice" he is implying 
it is a business in the first place.
I see no evidence this is a real product, or a business.


In any case, let's pretend that it is a real product, now let's pretend 
(and this does not require much of a stretch) that it gets onto your 
doctor's computer, who is trying to look up an emergency peice of 
data.


This softtware actually PREVENTS other software from running on your 
computer.


If we prove malice, which is not hard to do here, then ALL issues 
are open.  It is not going to happen, but I would fight for this 
to be a felony, and put them in prison:

- Obstruciton of justive
- Distrubing the piece
- You can tack on to anything "With teh intent to do harm"

etc.

who don't remember the situation where do you wish having direct 
access to a virus hacker's face 
in the moment you are cleaning up your computer. 

but what I mean with my post was not humor also, it was about relation. 
for a very short moment your 

words (hunted/war) remind me a to another person using this 'size 
of reality building symbols' very 

strongly with a current result many people don't like. it is also 
significant to see how words

going into a kind of inflation and devaluating quickly by it's unrelational 
usage supported by the media. 
therefore the reference to the media who is responible for this.

on the other hand and just to make it complete,


the media industry gave so much love for free, I can't say how much 
I appreciating this.

they teached us don't spare to much on using love, there are important 
items for us which deserve it, really! 
like to love a cheese? no problem, now we can...
like to love a new flat TV? no problem, we can now also...

like to love a fatty, stinky, unhealthy burger? well this was difficult 
but now...guess!


and the real benefit we have with this fantastic memetic innovation 
is a nice usefull inflation.
(yes, as mentioned this works on words too).

we are now in the convenienced position to use this word daily without 
the risk of any deeper meaning

and the best of all is, the more we are using this word for all these 
other important things, the lower the 'ancient' value by time.
btw I love you all...(this is real progress isn't it? :-)))))

Amazon AWS is now officially available in Singapore (serving the 
APAC regions). http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/04/now-open-aws-region-in-asia-pacific.html

Cool.

Pekr, my understanding is that HP's purchase of Compaq was a big 
mistake for HP.  Compaq's desktop business was low value, and their 
servers were also low end.  I believe they lost a lot on that one.