Google Gives Back All Your Bases
While Google's new Chrome web browser has been met with a lot of praise and positive responses (well, mostly, at least), there has been one nagging issue that arose quite quickly after people got their hands on Chrome: the End User License Agreement accompanying the browser. It more or less granted Google the rights to everything seen or transmitted through the browser. Google now changed the EULA, saying it was a big case of woopsiedoopsie.
DirectX 11: Sooner than You Think
With a preview version slated for November 2008 and beta versions as early as 2009, Microsoft's newest DirectX will be here sooner than you think. ExtremeTech's Loyd Case digs deep into DirectX 11 and discusses its new features and how it differs from DX10. While improved graphics are expected out of the new release, DX11 hopes to improve upon crunching complex graphics with the GPU through hardware tessellation, which many people hoped to see in DX10.
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City University of New York to form New York City Open Source Solutions Lab
ZDNet Asia: "Red Hat and Intel are collaborating with City University of New York (CUNY) to form the New York Open Source Solutions Lab for software design and development."
Fonality, Backed By Intel, Plans Open Source Acquisitions
The VAR Guy: "Move over, Digium. You're not the only poster child for Asterisk and open source PBXes. Rival Fonality has scored another $12 million in financing from Intel Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson..."
Dell Bets on a Small Laptop
Fortune: "Asus has one. Hewlett-Packard has one. And now, Dell has one, too."
Ubuntu Linux Now Has 8 Million Users
The VAR Guy: "Sure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical's marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users."
IBM Ditches i and AIX in U.S. Open Systems for Linux
The Four Hundred: "The one big change at this year's tennis tournament is that IBM is not only consolidating servers, but has ported all the applications, which do scoring and provide Web applications, to Linux."
Novell: Desktop Linux Losses Trigger Server Gains
The VAR Guy: "Novell is losing money in the desktop Linux market, but those desktop deals are driving big wins in the server arena, according to Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon."
On Stupid Mascots and Closed Source Browser Plugins
Tech Broiler: "Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I’m going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out."
ATI to Show Linux Some Love
Softpedia: "According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS."
Google on Chrome EULA Controversy: Our Bad, We'll Change It
ars Technica: "Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appears to give Google a nonexclusive right to display and distribute every bit of content transmitted through the browser."
Dell's Ubuntu-Powered Mini-Laptop Arrives Today
Cyber Cynic: "...whoops they changed the name on me, it's the Inspiron Mini 9 -- mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04."
ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns
Wired: "Online privacy scored a small victory this week as the CEO for controversial net eavesdropping firm NebuAD resigned just months after Congress successfully scared the country's ISPs into abandoning dreams of windfall profits from tracking their customers around the web."
Google: Chrome Browser Will Make Money
Internet News: "The Incognito window, which is Google Chrome's privacy mode, is also a key feature that Goodger explained was meant to keep stuff off a user's computer so sites won't appear in history and cookies aren't saved."
Burned by Chrome
The Register: "Astute Reg readers have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome without paying you a cent."
zim - a Desktop Wiki for Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Geek: "Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to your desktop. For example every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically."
Managing Active Directory Accounts From Ubuntu (And Monitoring WMI)
An Irishman's (IT) Diary: "Last week I found a truly excellent tool for adding, modifying and managing user in Active Directory from Linux...adtool."
KornShell 93 Auditing
Over at one of IBM's many developer websites, there's an article on new features of the Korn Shell. "New features of the Korn Shell provide system administrators and management with the ability to monitor, track, record, and audit every command executed by any user of a system. This is different from the normal shell history, and provides detailed information that includes date, time, tty, user, and the command. This information can be stored locally or transmitted in real time to a remote logging system."
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