The Human-Computer Interaction Lab.University of Maryland, has released new versions of the Piccolo framework for Java and .NET and came up with a new web site.

The Evaluation Edition software enables you to build Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1-based operating systems for 120 days from the day of installation.

Red Hat's Matthias Clasen released GTK+ 2.5.1 and GLib 2.5.1 for testing.

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries are a collection of libraries that make up the foundation of the future enlightenment-0.17 window manager, and of several applications:

YellowDogLinux's co-founder is discussing Linux on the PPC and POWER.

The 'Cube' is an attempt to use 3D user interface to replace the 2D windows desktop. (The website contains explanations, features, details, and screenshots/videos.)

Shadow copies is a new feature of Windows Server 2003 that automatically creates point-in-time copies or snapshots of files in shared folders. This lets users recover accidentally overwritten or deleted work without the need to ask an administrator to restore from backup, which saves administrators a lot of time and headache.

If you are creating a class that looks and behaves like a collection, it is handy to allow your users to iterate through the members of your collection with the foreach statement. This is easier to do in C# 2.0 than it is in 1.1. In this new column by Jesse Liberty, he shows you what is coming up in .NET 2.0 to make this common task easier. Here, Widbey refactoring works on Whidbey.

This is the second article in a multi-part series in which we use Ruby and the Tk toolkit to develop a GUI front end for the cron task scheduler.

SGI recently announced plans for a new multi-paradigm architecture beyond the current ccNUMA that tries to combine scalar and vector architectures.

Designers hope low-scale desktop package shakes up Microsoft-dominated software market The idea is straightforward: Instead of giving employees computers packed with features they rarely use, companies could save tons of cash by distributing simple machines tied to powerful central servers. Computing vendors have had marginal success over the years with variations of this "thin client" concept. Now IBM Corp. is betting that with some tweaks, the technology can become a big hit, challenging the traditional approach pushed by Microsoft Corp.

Jesse Liberty shows how easy it is to provide forms-based security via login screens and authentication in Whidbey. Part I is here, Part II is here.

From humor site, Bedoper: "In light of recent legal challenges regarding 'Lindows', Double-Clicking and Source Code, yellowTab GMBH, Inc., Ltd. has elected to nip this business in the bud by renaming our forthcoming operating system 'Beta'."

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