Wired: “This company cast itself as a slayer of corporate behemoths — Indrema said it would produce an open-source game
console that could beat those from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. But the available evidence suggests that, in the company’s short
life, all it managed to get out the door were a few sorry press releases.”

Andrew Sazonov writes: “AMIS Software is proud to announce release of Productivity 1.1. with support of JBuilder 4, 5 and 6.
Productivity! is a genuine and rich set of tools intended to greatly simplify routine coding and navigation operations. As a result, it allows significantly greater development productivity. All Productivity! tools are carefully designed and tuned to minimize efforts to invoke and use them so you can enjoy the friendly environment Productivity! offers.

With Productivity! tools:

• Forget about typing your imports!
• Forget about annoying dialogs and Wizards while you are coding!
• Discover context and navigate through it!
• Use hyperlinks to surf and to get informed!
• Navigate freely through your classes, methods and fields!
• Obtain quick help on classes and methods exactly where and when you need!
• Add super interfaces, change super classes in several simple steps
• Override methods and constructors in a couple of clicks!
• Add access methods for your fields instantly!
• Use your own unique naming standards!
• And finally, forget that you are using Productivity! – just enjoy your favorite IDE, interesting work and your superior performance!

Try Productivity! to add unleashed power to your JBuilder environment!”

BÃ¥rd Farstad writes: “eZ xml version 1.0.4 is now officially released. eZ xml is a XML DOM parser written in pure PHP. It’s fully compatible with the libXml parser used in eZ publish, but does not require any external libraries. eZ xml is released under the GPL license.
Changes in this version
*Added function for printing string version of the XML DOM document.
* Fixed correct parsing of attributes containing =.

You can download this version of eZ xml from http://ez.no/filemanager/download/310/ezxml-1_0_4. tar.gz
You can read the latest changelog from this url: http://developer.ez.no/download/ezxml/changelog“

The Register: ”

Microsoft and IBM have been accused of patent violation in a lawsuit filed in Texas
last week by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a California software
firm.”

sloopy writes: “Cool little script/article from userlocal.com. ‘In this article I walk you through the process of making a simple Python script that uses a text file to pick a random .signature every 30 minutes (via cron).'”

Wired: “Computer worms and viruses were let loose online in record numbers in 2001, costing billions. But some coders say they are performing “community service” by finding product flaws and teaching the less savvy about security.”

Neal writes: “1. Mandrake Linux will once again amaze the Linux world with quality software and easier installation. (Editor’s note: we’re pretty sure some of this stuff happened already. Isn’t that cheating?)

2. Corel Linux will be just a memory.
3. Red Hat will finally get past the 1024 cylinder error.
4. Linux will hit 8 to 10% of the desktop market.
5. Ximian will lead the way in Gnome development.
6. Delphi Kylix will be the Linux development package of the decade.
7. SuSE will finally learn we don't want to run from the CD.
8. Sun will rock the world with StarOffice 6.0
9. OS X will change how we look at commercial OSes.
10. Linux will become a real alternative to Windows XP with better
 support and a wide range of software more than ever."

Advogato: “Would you like to write more portable code? Do you wonder how the developers of AbiWord , Mozilla and the GIMP got their programs to run on both Linux and Windows, and even other operating systems? Would you like to develop and run your application on Linux but infect Windows and Mac OS users with the love of Free Software?”

Grok writes: “In the Newspaper business, there is the National Enquirer. In the Internet News business, there is the Drudge Report. In Mozilla-related news, there is MozillaQuest. MozillaNews.org refutes the pack of lies that is MozillaQuest’s latest article. ( Editor’s note: This url seems to crash Netscape 4.78) Lies, Damned Lies, and MozillaQuest“

Anonymous Reader writes: “If you are like me and have to deal with a lot of different platforms you know how it becomes such a headache to remember every little minor difference between each system. While Unix is Unix, each system has slight differences in configuration file names, command parameters, etc that can drive you nuts when you switch between each system. Thanks to Joe Leogrande, we now have a nice concise table of equivalent commands and config file names for each platform. Plus the table can also be used as a command and config file reference with a short description next to each command. I highly recommend printing it up and making it part of your documentation. Complete story at OSFAQ.com.“