Progressive Coder
What (will be) new in Rails 1.1
A brief overview of what will be new in the upcoming Ruby on Rails 1.1 release. Lots of great stuff there, just hope I don’t have to rewrite my TimeTracker too much to take advantage of these great features. RJS templates look very interesting, as well as some of [...]
Technology, Technology news, Times Online
> A little while ago, I received an e-mail from a lady in the Trading Standards department of a large northern town. They had encountered businesses which were selling copies of Firefox, and wanted to confirm that this was in violation of our licence agreements before taking action against them.
> “I [...]
Company claims patent win in online rich media | CNET News.com
> Internet design company Balthaser announced Tuesday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted it a patent for the design and creation of rich-media services over the Internet.
How many more of these rediculous patents will we have to endure before the US realizes [...]
ABC News: iTunes: 1 Billion Served
> Feb. 23, 2006 ââ¬â There’s been a counter on Apple’s iTunes Web page since early February that’s been ticking up to the music service’s 1 billionth download, and sometime last night it happened.
1 billion songs downloaded, and still the RIAA isn’t happy with the iTunes service. They always want [...]
Slyck News – Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA
> The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is steamrolling across the great indexing plains. Tuesday brought news the eDonkey2000 indexing server Razorback2 was taken offline by Belgian Police, in conjunction with the MPAA. Today, the MPAA has announced a tremendous escalation in their fight against online piracy [...]
If you want to track Xgl & Compiz CVS, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main
deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main
The Dapper Universe repository has these packages as well, but they’re extremely old.
Install the required packages by typing the following in a terminal:
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I am royally impressed. I’ve been running Xgl + Compiz all day, and it’s only crashed on me while fiddling with xscreensaver. Other than that, it’s been pretty solid. If this keeps up, I’m bringing my spare nVidia card to work and installing it on my machine there. It’s eye-candy overload, and it looks bloody [...]
Release Notes – 0.19 – MythTV
The major changes in this release are:
LiveTV rewritten to support saving buffered content while watching
Signal Monitoring for DVB and pcHDTV recorders
Ending times may be changed while recordings are in progress
Playgroups allow for default playback options on recordings
Channel changes can be made across tuners without changing tuners manually first
New popup keyboard [...]
NOVELL: Xgl
> Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the ‘Compiz ‘ compositing manager to the X.org project. These enhancements open up a whole world of hardware acceleration, fancy animation, separating hardware resolution from software resolution, and more. As a result, Linux desktops will become more usable, end-user productivity will increase, [...]
Inquiry set for French file-sharing plan | CNET News.com
> The French government is moving ahead with plans for a controversial law that would legalize file-sharing of music and films, a move that could undo years of antipiracy work by the entertainment industry.
Pay a flat fee / month, and you can leech all you want. Sounds [...]