09.14.08
Links 14/09/2008: Xfce 4.6 Reaches Alpha, London Stock Exchange (LSE) Backlash
GNU/Linux
- XBMC Remote Control App Store Application Arrives for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Xfce 4.6 ALPHA (‘Pinkie’) released
After about 18 months of development, we are pleased to announce the release of Xfce 4.6 ALPHA, codename ‘Pinkie’.
Xfce 4.6 is going to be the next major release of the Xfce desktop environment. The previous release was 4.4 with the last bugfix release being 4.4.2 released in December 2007.
- Xfce 4.6 Alpha Available With New Features [Screenshots]
- Finally Fully Ubuntu!
So there you have it. I was dancing around the edge but I’ve finally taken the plunge! From this point on I am 100% fully Ubuntu and proud!
- mythtv: A personal TV recorder
No one likes to sit at home and wait for their favorite show to come on anymore and many have turned to buying hardware to record them for later viewing. Popular solutions to this problem include the expensive and proprietary TiVo and cable/satellite boxes with built-in TV recorders.
LSE
- About that London Stock Exchange IT failure
All of which should have you wonder what Linux has to do with any of this – Microsoft’s headline, you’ll recall said that the LSE picked Windows over Linux for reliability.
The answer is that Linux has nothing to do with any of this: Microsoft simply hung an anti-Linux label on a very carefully worded story about a pair of committed Microsoft partners, HP and Accenture, getting together with Microsoft to sell rather simple technology to a willing customer – and neither Linux nor Solaris is mentioned anywhere in the text.
- Furse should not resign, she should be sacked
The farce of the London Stock Exchange not only crashing but failing to get its systems up and running again should surprise no one.
Well, no one except LSE boss Clara Furse, who demonstrates little understanding that technology is crucial to her business.
I’ve worked for members of the London Stock Exchange and everyone agrees she is world-class at corporate presentations, but the evidence that she can actually run things is rather harder to come by.
No one expects her to write FIX handlers, or optimise an order-matching engine, but her yes-men simply were not in the position to make any intelligent decisions on technology, if we look at the board of the LSE.
Do we see anything that even looks like experience in technology? No. We see three from the media, and of course accountancy, but no mention of technology.
F/OSS
- Open source conference to exit Portland
- Happy Birthday To Gnu
- OpenOffice 3 Release Candidate Arrives
- SA govt joins Software Freedom Day
- Educating Verity
Firefox
- Battle Brews Over Firefox In Ubuntu 8.10
- Two betas in the road to Firefox 3.1
- about:addons – Survey, Roadmap, Mobile Add-ons, DevDay & more
- 5 Useful Tips to Customise Firefox 3
DRM
- Did ‘Spore’ copy protections backfire on EA?
- DRM Helps Spore Make History as The Most Pirated Game Ever
- What EA’s botched Spore launch could learn from Open Source
Leftovers
- Netbooks and Mini-Laptops Buyer’s Guide
- Do ‘Clouds’ Get in the Way?
- UAE security breach puts banks on alert
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