Category: Open Source

  • Microsoft becoming more open?

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    Microsoft made two major announcements overnight – the first is an announcement by Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie that Microsoft are extending RSS under a Creative Commons licence, and calling the extended RSS, Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Russell Beattie likes it: Adding in SSE namespace could then in theory allow *any* data contained in an…

  • Firefox 1.5 rc2 released

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    I see Mozilla have released RC2 of Firefox 1.5. RC2 means release candidate 2 – in other words this is not a completed product, it is released as a beta. The release notes for Firefox 1.5 note that RC2 gives several fixes to automated update system over RC1. While RC1 has lots of updates over…

  • Will the madness never end?

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    I recently wrote an article about how the Author’s Guild is suing Google over its Google Print project and how Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, had come out in favour of Google in this case. Now it seems, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have announced the filing of a lawsuit against Google over its…

  • Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 released

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    I see Mozilla have released Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. According to the Release Notes here’s what’s new in this release: Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. Faster browser navigation with improvements…

  • Rod Johnson in Cork

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    Rod Johnson is coming to Cork in September – Rod is a leading authority on Java and J2EE development and he will be speaking at a FREE half day conference on Tuesday September 6th at 2pm at the Maryborough House Hotel, Douglas, Cork. The event is organised by IT@Cork and sponsored by DeCare Systems Ireland.…

  • MySQL 5.0 looking good

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    MySQL is an open source database engine and its latest version (5.0) is due for imminent release. According to an open letter :”open letter(from MySQL’s founders)”:http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_925.html from MySQL’s founders David Axmark & Michael “Monty” Widenius – new features in v5.0 include stored procedures, triggers and views. The lack of stored procedures, triggers and views in…

  • Firefox New Window command not working

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    I recently upgraded my Firefox install to 1.06 – while I was at it, I upgraded the extensions and added some new ones (GreaseMonkey, SessionSaver, Google Toolbar for Firefox, and Googlebar). After installing all of these and re-starting Firefox a number of times, I realised that the File -> New Window command was no longer…

  • Open source… as in beer

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    I saw on Loic’s site where a group of Danish students at the IT University of Copenhagen have produced what they claim to be the first open-source beer! The recipe and brand are under Creative Commons licences. According to the Wired article, the students said they are interested in seeing how their beer will get…