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0-9-0 release now available for those who are unmanaged.

Red Hat has agreed to pay USD350 million for open source application server JBoss.

The registry for the .eu top level domain received 390,000 applications in the first 100 minutes of availability.

Not computer viruses, but real viruses. The lithium ion batteries "built" by the viruses are three times as powerful as others for their weight and size.

Art and software development. What an interesting combination...

News for Friday, April 7 2006

Apple and Microsoft playing nice. I feel like I am in the land Oz.

If you use the Internet Explorer browser, and in fact, even if you just use Microsoft Windows, your favorite websites, business applications, and toolbars could stop working beginning April 11th when a non-security update is installed.

"Have you ever, you know, coded with a lady?"

Ah, they grow up so fast, then move out on their own.

"What does this button do?"

Now with suggestions, autocorrect and "Safe Browsing" support. Oh, yes, of course it's Beta.

Is Wikipedia as accurate as The Encyclopedia Britannica? Nature says "yes", but Britannica would like to differ.

Researchers have used SQL Server 2005 to prove that Darwin's professor at Cambridge was already onto the whole "variation within a species" thing. Maybe we might have to rewrite a few textbooks?

Which .COM names are still available? Seems there are still a few good ones out there, like eiyk.com. Here's an analysis.

SQL Server Mobile, rebranded as SQL Server Everywhere, will target the embedded database space. Free 2MB download, coming later this year.

News for Thursday, April 6 2006

San Francico will finally get it's free and low cost Wi-Fi.

Hybrids are going mainstream. Very cool.

Once a Microsoft Research project, BitVault may be heading out of the labs and onto hard drives to help distribute and protect large volumes of data.

Try out Visual Studio 2005, Team System, BizTalk Server 2005 or SQL Server 2005 without installing any software with these virtual labs.

First Macs run XP, now this. I think you all know what this means...

Instant Messaging, Web-based email and Skype at work become off limits at some workplaces.

Use Managed Debugging Assistants to help you debug your .NET applications.