IBM News | $40 million donation of software to open source community

IBM is donating $40 million of software to a new independent open-source community.

The Java-based open source software -- code-named Eclipse -- will enable developers to use software tools from multiple suppliers together, allowing developers to integrate business processes used to create e-business applications, such as those for Web services.

Thanks to Gordon for the heads-up

Hmm! I wonder just how close Dave is to the truth of the Microsoft Settlement in his DaveNet : You're free to think piece. Scary even if it's partially wide of the mark.

A few minutes after receiving an e-mailed announcement of the JISC conference - Constructing a Managed Learning Environment: Tools, tactics and the human experience I booked a place for the Edinburgh event on 26th November. If the booking ID if anything to go by I was the 14th person to book. Looking forward to it. Report and lnks in follow-ups to this thread in the future. I suspect that most of the attendees will be 'suits'.

via Scripting News - Are You A Blogaholic?

52 points is in the 51 through 80 precent (sic)
You are a dedicated weblogger. You post frequently because you enjoy weblogging a lot, yet you still manage to have a social life. You're the best kind of weblogger. Way to go!

Since the Daypop search to find others that took the quiz produced more results than I remembered being reported so I went back to the quiz and didn't answer any of the questions to see if it'd tell me how many took the quiz. So, in the spirit of investigative weblogging...

Your Score: 0 / 100

49 people have taken this silly test so far.

48 people have scored higher than you.

0 people have scored lower than you.

1 people made the same grade as you.

What does this mean?
0 points is in the 0 through 20 precent
I'm not so sure you are a weblogger at all. If you are, you might want to consider finding another hobby since you don't seem to be so into weblogging. Too busy with social life, perhaps?

Not surprisingly the Daypop search for this doesn't yet yield any results. At least until I ping weblogs.com with this posting ;-)

The bug documented in SecurityFocus | Bugtraq | another fatal bug in NT/2000 "Command Prompt" I/O thread affects XP too by all accounts. According to a colleague - thanks Tim. Don't try the following unless you wan't to reboot XP and viciously so - no error, no BSOD, just a big black screen!:

#include <stdio.h>

void main(void)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < 5 ; i++) printf("t\tb\bb");
}

The Register | Apple seeds 1.6GHz Power Mac G5s

I have just ordered the version update of BBEdit 6.5:

BBEdit is a high-performance HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. It is designed and crafted for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text. BBEdit provides an array of general-purpose features which are useful for a wide variety of tasks, and includes many features which have been specifically developed in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers.

This will be about the fourth version upgrade that I've paid for out of my own pocket. What higher accolade could there be? It sure doesn't suck! ;-)

Ace's Hardware | Upgrading to eXtreme Performance

Luckily, Intel's exceptional compiler department, recently reinforced by the brilliant software wizards from the famous Compaq Alpha compiler group, has come to the rescue. Applications optimized - Maya 4 being a prime example - with this relatively new compiler, make the choosy "Netburst" architecture far more competitive with AMD's Athlon MP. Still, even with optimized software, the best chips of Santa Clara have a difficult time defeating the superb Palomino core, despite the fact that it is running at a 30% slower clockrate

Thanks to one of my students - Brian - for JESUSIFIED: [52.225] CAD.... It's soooooo funny and eerily apt in places. The only downside is the annoying music so before visiting turn off those speakers ;-)