September 2009 Archives

http://www.getpersonas.com/

As usual, I'm always the last one to the party. This is nice! Mozilla - make this a standard feature!

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

I don't know what I like more - that someone figured this out, makes it free, that Canon built this into their product, that's it's accessible this way, or that Canon hasn't shut it down yet...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/14/emc_gelsinger/

I didn't know him when I was at INTC, but he was a Big Deal and this is really surprising.

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1271&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

I'll admit I don't understand this. Except for some auxiliary enterprise features, MySQL is OSS, under the GPL. Why is this a bigger problem that Sun's stranglehold over Java technology?