] Penn State warns students against online file sharing
]
] STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Sharing homework might get
] you in trouble, but sharing copyrighted material over the
] Internet could get you thrown in prison.

Sounds good to me.

Penn State warns students against online file sharing

] The Bush administration plans to release its latest
] strategy for implementing the E-Government Act on April
] 17, according to Mark Forman, associate director of
] information technology and e-government at the Office of
] Management and Budget (OMB).
]
] The plan will focus on better use of enterprise licensing
] for purchasing software and how to more fully leverage
] share-in-savings contracts where agencies and contractors
] share the cost of a service and the contractors are paid
] through savings gained.

Anything to make government more efficient is good for me. Just don't let the hackers take over.

Feds to Release Latest E-Gov Plan

] Internet music broadcasters and the record industry
] agreed Thursday to settle their long-running dispute over
] how much big webcasters must pay to broadcast songs over
] the Internet. The deal calls for webcasters including
] Yahoo!, America Online, Microsoft and RealNetworks to pay
] slightly lower per-song royalty fees than those imposed
] last year by the U.S. Copyright Office, which still must
] sign off on the agreement.

Webcast royalty rates deal reached

] Adam Osborne, 64, a technical writer, business executive
] and computer pioneer whose Silicon Valley achievements
] included the introduction of the Osborne 1, the first
] portable personal computer, died March 18 at his home in
] Kodiakanal, India.
]
] He introduced his computer in June 1981 at the West Coast
] Computer Fair. The computer, which retailed at $1,795,
] weighed 24 pounds and was about the size of a sewing
] machine. Dr. Osborne designed the machine to be light
] enough to carry as luggage and compact enough to fit
] under a commercial airline seat.

And an awesome machine it was, for the day. It was quickly called a "Luggable" computer, pre-dating laptop- and notebook-computer designations.

Computer Pioneer Adam Osborne Dies at 64

] A Minnesota man has plans to launch his own
] Macintosh-manufacturing business, building a low-cost,
] upgradeable Mac called the iBox.
]
] John Fraser, a 21-year-old engineer from Chanhassen,
] Minnesota, is finalizing the design for his flat
] "pizzabox" Mac and hopes to go into production in three
] to four months. If successful, Fraser will be the first
] third party to make a Mac since Apple shut down its
] three-year experiment in clone licensing in 1997.

I want one sooo bad. I miss my IIfx, still in storage somewhere in a large cardboard box that has traveled with me through 5 separate changes in dwelling places.

a low-cost, upgradeable Mac called the iBox

] RealNetworks has issued an advisory, warning that by
] creating a specifically corrupted Portable Network
] Graphics file, an attacker could cause heap
] corruption. Doing so would allow the attacker to
] execute code on the victim's machine.

And now for the real GOOD TIMES virus not-a-hoax...

Holes found in digital media players

] Below we will propose a new application architecture
] based on the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE), which can
] be shared between separate application processes. Before
] discussing the rationales and trade-offs, here are the
] implications and key elements:
]
] Switch Mozilla's default browser component from the
] XPFE-based Navigator to the standalone Phoenix browser.
]
] Develop further the standalone mail companion application
] to Phoenix already begun as Minotaur, but based on the
] new toolkit used by Phoenix (this variant has been
] codenamed Thunderbird).
]
] Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0
] branch as the stable development path, then move on to
] make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6. The major
] changes after 1.4 involve switching to Phoenix and
] Thunderbird, and working aggressively on the next two
] items.
]
] Fix crucial Gecko layout architecture bugs, paving the
] way for a more maintainable, performant, and extensible
] future.
]
] Continue the move away from an ownership model involving
] a large cloud of hackers with unlimited CVS access, to a
] model, more common in the open source world, of
] vigorously defended modules with strong leadership and
] clear delegation, a la NSPR, JavaScript, Gecko in recent
] major milestones, and Phoenix.

And much more interesting reading. The future of non-Microsoft web browsing appears to be split between Mozilla/Gecko and the camp at Opera.

Mozilla Development Roadmap

Google truly rocks! It's even become a verb, much to google's chagrin.

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