Canonical’s ShipIt service will be distributing free copies of Ubuntu’s latest version, 7.10, when it becomes available later this month. You’ve got nothing to lose, why not try Ubuntu?
The German daily Der Tagesspiegel has published that the German federal crime police, BKA, is now catching terrorists by publishing a web page about “militante gruppe”, a supposed terror group in Germany, and now they follow up on all the IPs in the web log to find out if those people are terrorists. Let’s celebrate this great idea with a click!
Well, we’d heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we’re getting two flash models and a slimmed-down hard drive edition.
Apple has released a new seed update to developers running the latest versions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard via Mac OS X’s Software Update mechanism.
The 9A557/9A559 Seed Update includes fixes to wireless networking and RAW image viewing in the latest development build of Mac OS X Leopard. The update…
The Pirate Bay is without a doubt the most popular BitTorrent tracker. Unfortunately their current tracker system is not performing as it used to and has reached its effective limit. The TPB team is currently working on a more efficient Open Source tracker system that, among other things, will guarantee better protection against anti-piracy outfits
Net neutrality advocacy group People for Internet Responsibility has proposed establishing a distributed, global network traffic monitoring system to automatically detect—and possibly correct—abusive network operator behavior.
Joost, the free P2P video streaming service once known as The Venice Project, has nixed its invite-only status and is now open to the public. Still in beta, Joost needs more content and users to become a success.
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for (30 years without a single recharge)
Rumor has it that Sony will be making a very big announcement this coming October 12. This came from the French site GamePro which said that there is something brewing in the company’s offices.
This release codenamed “Moviestar,” includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Flash Player 9. Hopefully it will fix the freezing issues that have plagued the Linux release for way too long now..
XKCD on the Ballmer peak.
Sources close to Sony have confirmed to Ars Technica that a low-cost PS3 is on the way, and that it will be here in time for turkey and pumpkin pie.
