freshmeat.net: Project details for MySQL
This is the first production level release of the MySQL 5.0 tree. Among the various major new features are Views (both read-only and updatable views), Stored Procedures and Stored Functions (using the SQL:2003 syntax), Triggers (row-level) as well as Server-side cursors (read-only, non-scrolling).
Minix 3 Released
Slashdot | Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3
“MINIX 3 is a new open-source operating system designed to be highly reliable and secure. This new OS is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode under 4000 lines of executable code. The parts that run in user mode are divided into small modules, well insulated from one another. For example, each device driver runs as a separate user-mode process so a bug in a driver (by far the biggest source of bugs in any operating system), cannot bring down the entire OS.“
XML Latest Front in Software Patent War
This stuff never seems to stop. I find it hard to beleive that IBM or Microsoft would stand still for something like this. Face it, XML is a straight derivative of SGML and it pre-dates 1997, so how exactly could you get a apply for a patent in 1997 and expect it to hold up?
Small company makes big claims on XML patents | Tech News on ZDNet
Charlotte, N.C.-based Scientigo owns two patents (No. 5,842,213 and No. 6,393,426) covering the transfer of “data in neutral forms.” These patents, one of which was applied for in 1997, are infringed upon by the data-formatting standard XML, Scientigo executives assert.Scientigo intends to “monetize” this intellectual property, Scientigo CEO Doyal Bryant said this week.
Using a Wiki for Presentations
This is another way to get around using Powerpoint over and over again. Hmm, maybe we should offer something to CALI presenters who aggree to not use PP at next year’s conference.
BTW, there is a lot of great info in this presentation.
Via Library Stuff
Sun Announces Global Education and Learning Community
In a keynote speech on Wednesday at the Educause annual meeting in Orlando, Mr. McNealy announced the creation of a nonprofit organization called the Global Education and Learning Community, which will provide a framework for educators to work together to develop and distribute educational resources online.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Sharing Teaching Tools Online
Sounds cool, kind of like CALI’s CODEC intiative, or for that matter just about anything CALI does. Here’s GLEC’s mission: “The community’s mission is to improve global education by empowering
teachers, students and parents with self-paced, web based, free and
open content (curriculum resources, assessment) combined with best
practices for advancing student achievement world wide“
Neef Law Library Classcaster blog gets noticed
The Neef Law Library blog at Wayne State University is using Shockwave audio files to record blog content. A slightly different form of podcasting, but it works very nicely without the ‘pod’ or iTunes. It uses ClassCaster as the underlying technology.
RSS4Lib:: Shockwave Audio and Weblogs
Another meniton of Classcaster. Word is getting out.
LoC Awards Grant To Portico For Electronic Archive
Of interest. A quick scan of the site reveals ties to jSTOR and other archiving projects , but not many details about the Portico archive will operate.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Pushing Portico
This month the Library of Congress awarded a $3-million grant to help finance the development of Portico, a nonprofit service that will archive online scholarly materials.
Try Other OSes With VMware Player
BetaNews | VMware Ships Free Virtual Machine App
VMware on Wednesday introduced VMware Player, a free tool that enables users to run virtual machines on a Linux or Windows PC. The company says that the program would be ideal for those beta testing software, or evaluating pre-built application environments. The release of the Player comes during VMworld, a yearly convention held by the company focusing on virtualized computing.
Blogging with Flock
This is going to be interesting. Flock is a new sort of browser that is blogger friendly, among other things. This post is created with Flock. You can find Flock here. And I just added this, so you can edit too. Categories would be nice.
10 Fun Things To Do With RSS
Well, in case you were wondering how the heck to have even more fun with RSS feeds, Micro Persuasion has this list of things to rev up your need 2 feed.