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Agenda Delayed Again
aqua writes: "Two days after the announced ship date, Agenda Computing has sent mail to customers who preordered a VR3 PDA: "In keeping with our commitment to deliver the highest quality PDA possible - one that provides you with many years of enjoyment - Agenda has revised the ship date to May 21, 2001." This was previously rumored on agenda-user, since the software wasn't looking ready to ship. recent discussion on the developer list, however, suggests that many of the problems cited are now much improved. By way of apology, they're throwing in a free VR3 carrying case." Agenda sent a review model to me which I played with for about 10 minutes. I turned it off to get stuff done, and the next day when I had time to actually put it to work, it refused to turn back on. I think it needs some work yet :) But it was cool running 'ps' on a handheld. -
Spambot Poisoner
halfelven writes: "Sugarplum, the anti-spambot fighting machine, is out! Quoting from their website: Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. Its purpose is to feed realistic and enticing, but totally useless data to wandering spam-bots such as EmailSiphon, Cherry Picker, etc. The idea is to so contaminate spammers' databases as to require that they be discarded, or at least that all data retrieved from your site (including actual email addresses) be removed." I've seen this sort of thing before, but I just figured it's a fun thing to chat about on a holiday. It would be cool to put this on Slashdot some time: I bet I'm not the only Slashdot reader whose email address has been slurped. -
Mozilla M16 Gets Alpha Channels
Snorfle writes: "In the recent Mozilla status update, there's a mention that real 8-bit alpha-channel support went quietly into Mozilla last week. Web-publishing types have been crying for this feature, provided principally through (royalty free!) PNG, though other alpha-capable formats will work too." All I want now is anti-aliased fonts for christmas. -
SGI Releases XFS For 2.3.99pre2
Everybody and Their Dog writes, "SGI announced the availability of XFS for linux 2.3.99pre2, via their CVS. Timely in light of the Journaling ReiserFS controversy, and ext3 delays. " A lot of people sent this in -- good to see SGI following through on their promise. -
LWN's Penguin Gallery
aqua writes "Linux Weekly News posted its penguin gallery, a collection of the various forms in which Tux has been used in logos and such. Some are quite entertaining." Great stuff! I'm glad LWN is doing this. I immediately sent them two new entrants myself. Perhaps you have a favorite penguin of your own for them. If so, please send it. -
wcarchive Upgraded
aqua writes "Just noticed that ftp.cdrom.com, renowned for being the single biggest/fastest FTP server in history, yesterday quietly received its first hardware upgrade in two years -- the old machine was a single PPro200 / 2GB RAM; it's now a Xeon500 / 4GB. Software and disk stayed the same. Nice to see such a venerated old server get some more ponies under its hood. For the first time it also includes a credit for where they buy their hardware. The message is here. " The good news is that the max. user limit is 5000 now - I hope they have the bandwidth for it. And phil thinks he sends out a lot of data.