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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Notes from the Grokster hearingLawyer Timothy Armstrong has posted his notes from the MGM v. Grokster arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court. "On balance, not quite as bad a day for Grokster as I think a lot of people were expecting. Not a sure (or even a probable) victory for them by any means, but the Court did seem quite attuned to the effects on innovation of whatever liability rule it ultimately adopts. None of the Justices was talking as if the case could be disposed of on Sony alone, but there will be at least a few votes against abandoning that standard altogether."
Commercial announcements Announcing CrossOver Office, Version 4.2Version 4.2 of CrossOver Office has been announced by CodeWeavers. "This includes a long awaited update to our server product, CrossOver Office Server Edition. This release includes support for Quicken 2005, as well as new support for Quickbooks, versions 2001-2004 (note that Quickbooks 2005 is not yet supported). This release now supports the latest version of iTunes, and the iPod support code has been tuned to work with that version. We've also started an effort to properly support EndNote."
Eagle 4.14 ReleasedVersion 4.14 of Eagle, a commercial printed circuit CAD application with a free minimized demo version, is available. This version features many improvements, see the Change Log for details.
Concurrent's iHawk Control Systems selected for Australian SynchrotronRedHawk Real-Time Linux has been chosen for use in the control systems of the Australian Synchrotron Project. "iHawk, powered by Concurrent's RedHawk(TM) real-time Linux(R), was selected for its highly deterministic response and high performance capabilities to respond to ASP's data acquisition and I/O control (IOC) system requirements. These high performance and distributed IOCs will provide the foundation control system for the synchrotron light beam storage ring."
LinuxForce acquires Cyber LoftLinuxForce has announced the acquisition of Cyber Loft. "LinuxForce, the leading provider of Debian GNU/Linux outsourced systems administration services, announced today that it has signed an asset purchase agreement to substantially acquire the assets of Cyber Loft, Inc, a web hosting and web application development provider formerly based in Irvine, California."
OSDL Appoints Frank J. Fanzilli Jr. to Board of DirectorsOpen Source Development Labs has announced the appointment of Frank J. Fanzilli Jr. to its board of directors. "As the former managing director and Global CIO of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Fanzilli brings Wall Street, venture capital and global IT enterprise expertise to help OSDL drive Linux initiatives around the world."
SourceLabs releases "certified AMP stack"SourceLabs has announced the release of its "certified AMP stack." The company has put together a distribution of Apache, MySQL, and PHP which has been put through a certification process as an integrated unit. Note that the "L" has been removed from "LAMP" - the company plans an AMP offering for Windows as well. The plan is to make money on support services and maintenance subscriptions.
StreetFire Sound Labs joins linuxaudio.orgStreetFire Sound Labs has joined the linuxaudio.org consortium. "StreetFire Sound Labs is the 20th and newest member of the linuxaudio.org consortium. This San Francisco company designs open audio hardware based on Linux, and its first product is a networked audio server that can control and manage Sony CD jukeboxes."
New Books "Apache Security" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Apache Security by Ivan Ristic.
"Firefox Hacks" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Firefox Hacks by Nigel McFarlane.
"Java in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Java in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition by David Flanagan.
No Starch Press "Silence on the Wire"No Starch Press has published the book Silence on the Wire by Michal Zalewski.
Resources KDE Contributors Worldwide (KDE.News)KDE.News mentions an update of the worldwide.kde.org contributors map. "The worldwide.kde.org contributors map has hot fresh updates. The contributor map on worldwide.kde.org shows developers, translators, doc writers, artists, packagers and other contributors of KDE in all the world."
The LDP Weekly NewsThe March 30, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the latest new documentation releases.
Contests and Awards Ghostscript Bug Bounty programA new Ghostscript Bug Bounty program has been announced. "Earlier programs were quite successful, but since the 8.50 stable release we've accumulated a number of new boutiable bugs, so we're starting the program up again. As before we're paying US $500 for bugs marked bountiable in the tracker; $1000 for those set with priority P1 or P2! So if you're a coder, here's your chance for a little extra cash."
Surveys Desktop Environment User Interface SurveysThe HASE (Human Aspects of Software Engineering) group at the University of Maryland Baltimore County has a couple of surveys out, looking at the usability of desktop interfaces. There's a GNOME Survey and a KDE Survey. (Found on GnomeDesktop and KDE.News)
Gnome bounty research (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for research on the GNOME programming bounties. "I'm a graduate student at Harvard Business School in Boston. I'm conducting a survey on Gnome's programming bounties. In particular, who works on them, who chooses not to, whether or not regular users (not just the regular contributors) are attracted to them, etc." Award certificates are available for contributors.
Upcoming Events Hurricane Electric Hosts Security SeminarHurricane Electric has announced a Linux security seminar, to be held in Fremont, CA. "Hurricane Electric, a leading Technical Service Provider, will host "Linux Security for Beginners," an informative security seminar targeted at Linux newbies. The seminar, being held on April 30, 2005, follows five successful seminars hosted by Hurricane Electric on business and technology topics."
International PHP Conference 2005The Spring 2005 International PHP Conference 2005 will be held at the RAI Conference Center in Amsterdam on May 2-5, 2005.
Latin American Free Software Install Fest April 2The Latin American Free Software Install Fest has been announced. "On Saturday the 2nd of April/2005 we are holding the Latinamerican free software install fest, an event with the goal of promoving the use of free software and bringing closer together free software user groups in all the countries in Latin America. To achieve this we will hold simultaneous events in different cities, where local technical experts will install free software in any computers brought for this purpose. This will be done in an entirely legal manner and the service will be provided free of charge." Thanks to Marcelo E. Magallon.
Events: March 31 - May 26, 2005
Web sites MozillaWiki Upgraded and Redesigned (MozillaZine)MozillaZine has announced an upgrade to the Mozilla developer wiki. "The Mozilla developer wiki has been upgraded and now sports a design much more similar to that of the main mozilla.org site. MozillaWiki is a wiki that is primarily used by developers to document and plan future Mozilla development work. If you want to read some (sometimes technical) information about what you might be seeing in future Mozilla releases, it's well worth a browse."
Planet SBCL site launchedThe new Planet SBCL site has been launched. "Zach Beane has announced the creation of Planet SBCL on 25 March 2005. Planet SBCL is a web site aggregating the weblogs of developers and hackers of the SBCL Common Lisp implementation."
Whitedust Security Site launchedWhitedust.net is a new security-related web site. "The Whitedust Security group are pleased to announce the launch of www.Whitedust.net, the first unbiased web site dedicated to providing news and articles from Information Security insiders. Untainted and timely security news available side by side with articles covering a diverse range of security related topics, from opinion pieces to technical papers covering theoretical attacks and defences."
Miscellaneous 'Movies for the Masses.org' Independent Film ProjectThe concept of "open source" has made its way into film making. IBI Films has announced the launch of Movies for the Masses, a web site that aims to provide an independent film alternative. ""Movies for the Masses" (http://www.moviesforthemasses.org) is a unique Web site that allows moviegoers to select from a group of possible full-length indie films in development, and vote for which ones they'd like to see made."
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