Eugenia Loli Archive

RISC OS 4.39 and 4.02 pricings confirmed

RISC OS 3 Comments
"RISCOS Ltd., developer of RISC OS 4, yesterday announced its pricing scheme for RISC OS 4.39, the next major release of everybody's favourite 26 bit mode operating system. The announcement confirms our initial figures which we revealed early last month. RISCOS Ltd. have also disclosed that the price of RISC OS 4.02 ROM sets are set to increase from March this year." Read the rest at Drobe.
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The Day that I Will Buy a New PDA…

Wireless 75 Comments
I already have a PalmV PDA with PalmOS 3.5. I never use it. I practically have absolutely no need for an organizer. Yet, I wanna buy a new one. That geek gene in me (that my mother unsuccessfully tried to kill over the years) what really wants is a "truly mobile PC" that just isn't a laptop. So, for the last few days I was shopping around the Internet for a new PDA (preferably a PocketPC this time) that would fit the kind of thing I am looking for. I was... horrified to find out that what I need isn't... invented yet.
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Microsoft to Review Old Windows Code After Source Leak

  Submitted by Typical Coward Windows 9 Comments
In an effort to keep its customers secure following the recent Windows source code leaks, Microsoft has turned to the lessons it learned while taking a two month hiatus in early 2002 to clean house and eliminate insecure code from Windows. Also, Microsoft sent letters to several Internet service providers this week telling them that they have customers suspected of trading the stolen Windows 2000 and Windows NT code on peer-to-peer networks like Morpheus and Kazaa.
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MSDN: Learn About Indigo, Whidbey, Longhorn Strategies

Windows 14 Comments
This is a sample preview chapter of a book in progress, titled Inside "Indigo," to be published by Microsoft Press. Elsewhere, Visual C# "Whidbey" will include several IDE enhancements including a first-class code editor with rich editing features, a powerful debugger, and drag-and-drop visual designers. Additionally, these presentations describe the architectural vision that drives the "Longhorn wave" of technologies from Microsoft, and introduce a set of key initiatives that will form the pillars of the Longhorn solution architecture. Presentations require the Windows Media Player.
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Autopackage 0.4 Released

  Submitted by Alex Radu Linux 18 Comments
Autopackage 0.4, codenamed "Better late than never ;)" is now available. Version 0.4 has most of the local architecture in place, with a terminal front end and a working GTK2 based GUI frontend. It can build, install, verify and uninstall packages of medium complexity (mplayer, gaim etc).
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Next Mac OS X to be Metadata-driven?

  Submitted by smashIt macOS 34 Comments
The (unconfirmed) info says that Mac OS X 10.4 will go "further than anticipated", introducing not only a "database-driven" new Finder (possibly similar to BeOS' Tracker) --although the file system itself will still be HFS+-- but also a wide support for file metadata. Please note that both the BeFS (and quite possibly this Apple implementation) is not similar to Longhorn's WinFS (apples & oranges). All this is not a surprise for us, as the people who were behind the same realization on BeOS --Dominic Giampaolo and Pavel Cisler-- today work at key positions at Apple Computer in the file system and Finder areas respectively. Pavel is also known for the Gnome Nautilus work while Dominic's legendary book "Practical File System Design with the Be File System" was recently released for free as a PDF. Enjoy!
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SharpDevelop 0.99 Released

  Submitted by Bernhard Spuida .NET 30 Comments
Release 0.99 of the Open Source IDE SharpDevelop for the .NET platform has been released today. The most important change is a Forms Designer and Code Completion for Visual Basic .NET, another useful addition is the SharpQuery Database add-in. The Mono version of the free IDE, MonoDevelop, is scheduled for a first release in a few days.
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Linux: “udev” 018, Howto

Linux 23 Comments
With the announcement of udev 018, Greg KH noted that at this time he is running with udev managing the /dev directory on his primary email and development server. He says, "this is a major milestone for udev and it proves that it is a viable solution," going on to add, "udev development isn't done, but for anyone who has not checked it out yet, I suggest you do so."
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Get Ready for Subversion’s Reign: the CVS Killer

General Development 43 Comments
On Monday, the Subversion project is scheduled to release version 1.0 of their version control system, under development for several years now. Subversion was intended from its inception as the CVS replacement and it comes with many important features previously found only on commercial VCS like Perforce. It was designed for better remote performance, and it is multi-platform with a GUI/CLI front-end.
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Mandrake Fined and Forced to Change Name

  Submitted by Robert Blake Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 97 Comments
Not one to buck the trend, Mandrakesoft have been fined €70,000 and told to change its name by a French court after a case brought by King Feature Syndicate of America, who own the trademark of "Mandrake the Magician" There have been no clues yet to what they'll change their name to, but for those who can read French, there's an article by the french IT news site Le Monde Informatique here. Update: MandrakeSoft has a suspensive appeal that could last 3 years, at least, and until a new trial they can keep their rights and domain names.
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