Russ got the #mobitopia IRC Links page up and running. So far today, my favorite links are:
I4U:
Sony Japan announces (raw translation) the Qualia 016 (Q016-WE1) small digital camera.
It’s a cute little camera, but can it really cost 380,000 yen? That’s like three grand US. Quite silly for a 2 megapixel camera, no matter how tiny it is. It still has to be larger than a piece of Memory Stick Duo.
I just wanted to let everyone know (this is mostly for the googlers in the house) that Red Hat 9 installs just fine on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. It’s a 333MHz K6-2 processor, so don’t expect it to be fast or responsive, but it works. I’m having PCMCIA IRQ issues (I haven’t been able to make any of my PCMCIA cards work yet), but hopefully I’ll get the resolved. If not I might try Gentoo or NetBSD.
The IRQ issues could also be hardware related. We shall see. At bootup, it was kind enough to tell me that I should really try passing pci=biosirq to the kernel. Tried it, no luck so far.
Next step is to get some flavour of Linux back on my friend Adam’s IBM thinkpad.
Can’t.
Focus.
Eyes.
Core News notes a sad thing:
We will be stopping all orders until we can get this straight.
An official webpage will be setup explaining the details shortly. Until then, those who have ordered will be getting a computer abit slowly as the missing parts will be coming from what different places have in stock etc.
Please allow us some extra time.
I’d be really bummed if this great thing is squashed by lawyers.
LWN notes that Richard Stallman will be speaking at George Washington University on June 12. I’ll try to get out of work and check it out:
When: Thursday June 12, 6:10pm
Where: Phillips Hall, Rm 415
The George Washington University
801 22nd Street
Washington, DC
Christoph Cemper, who I’ve recently started reading, has some great linkage this afternoon:
Thanks for sniffing out the links, Christoph. Keep it up, man!
Mental note [via Derek Willis]: look into Aggreg8, a Mozilla Firebird extension for reading RSS feeds. Judging from the version number (0.0.1), it’s alpha-fantasic, but definately worth checking out.
Of course, I’ll probably never be a two-paned aggregator kind of guy, but it’s worth a look.
Update:
Here’s a thumbnail with a full sized image. The user interface is clean in appearance, but the flow definately needs some work.
The Register reports on rumors of Apple wanting to buy Roxio:
Apple is in talks to buy Napster, Mac rumours site LoopRumors has claimed, citing “reliable sources”.
Well, not Napster per se but Roxio, the CD burning software specialist, which itself acquired Napster’s assets for $5 million after the peer-to-peer pioneer declared itself bankrupt last summer.
For the first time, networked storage accounted for more than half of worldwide storage revenue in a quarter, IDC said. The networked products took 53 percent of the $4.8 billion in storage sold during the first quarter. This compares to the 42 percent of the market owned by direct-attached systems.
Rick earlier this afternoon pointed to SharpPrivacy, an OpenPGP implementation in C# over at code project. It’s open source too!
Gizmodo (and Matt Raible before them) point to new PowerMac G5 rumors. I’m excited at the G5 possobilities, and I also recall that the G5’s will scale much better than G4’s.
Russ points to the new Java logo. I like it in a not-much-different kind of way. It reminds me of the recent UPS logo change: why?
It does look cool though.
It seems that Radio’s aggregator is only grabbing the title and description of Matt and Dave‘s RSS feeds. The ones that I’ve been subscribed to for a long time. The ones that used to let me read everything, not just a title. I’m not sure if this is a fluke with my Radio install, as the data is definately there in the feeds.
Did something change in the default feeds in the latest release of Roller? I just checked, and Matt’s feed still validates. That’s not the problem. It’s probably my Radio install, it’s on a funky machine that I’ve been too afraid to mess with.
The Samba Team is proud to announce the availability of the first beta release of the Samba 3.0.0 code base. While we are significantly closer to the final release, I will remind you that this is a non-production release provided for testing only.
Here’s a roundup of information for you:
The 3.x release is what Samba junkies everwhere have been waiting for. Props to the Samba team!
Gizmodo notes the release of Minola’s Dimage Xt:
Steve’s Digicams on Minolta’s update of the Dimage Xi, the Dimage Xt. The Xt is slightly smaller and lighter than the Xi, but has the same resolution (3.2 megapixels) and the same 3x optical zoom lens.
Actually, the zoom lens is still 3x zoom, but under the hood it’s slightly different. Both cameras have 9 elements in 8 groups, but the Xi (older model) has 5 aspheric elements while the Xt (newer model) only has 3.
I don’t know if this will translate into a visible difference in quality, but I would assume that more aspherical elements would be preferable to less.
Also note that the previous version sometimes had light falloff on the corners, I don’t know about the new one though
Just uploaded a terrific audio interview with Eric Newcomer (CTO of IONA) to the IT Conversations site. Stream or download this complete Transactions 101 from the guy who literally wrote the book: ACID, TP monitors, asynchronous messaging, loose coupling, SOAP, RPC vs. document models, orchestration, and the state and future of standards. (This is a preview. The site goes live on Monday.)
You can find more at Doug’s IT Conversations. I’m about 90% through Loosely Coupled but I’ve been distracted and had to put work in front of play. I hope to finish the book (which I have already learned a ton from) soon and post my thoughts on it.