Rui CarmoMy company is closing FY2003 today, so it's been hectic. The first few stories are April Fools' jokes or pretty dumb. Figure it out for yourself. :)
- Pigeons have larger bandwidth than ADSL. A rehash of the famous IP Over Avian Carriers RFC, which seems to have re-surfaced together with its successor IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (QoS classes being Concorde, First, Business, and Coach). Currently being slashdotted, which means they must be desperately trying to get more pigeons...
- Via engadget, Asus' iBook clone. I was wondering when a PC manufacturer would try out a milk white laptop...
- The SonyEricsson/LH-Z200, for left-handed people. Er... Guys? I used to be ambidextrous. It makes little or no sense to have a "left handed" phone with the numbers swapped - it only confuses people, since even lefties order things (like numbers) from left to right. I can SMS at about the same speed with either hand, too.
- ArsTechnica looks at Gnome 2.6. Recommended reading for Linux folk, who, by the way, now have Cobind as another example of focusing on usability rather than features (I'm planning to try it out sometime this weekend after I clear my usual backlog).
- The MuVo goes USB 2.0, and is upgraded to 512MB capacity. Of course, finding the 256MB model in Portugal is damn near impossible, more than 6 months after it was launched...
- The WLAN Smart Card Consortium has finally published the EAP-SIM Handler Specification (PDF), which is the main enabler for truly secure (and standards-based) Wi-Fi access to GSM operator networks. Took them their own damn time.
- Following up on the Quicksilver furore, LaunchBar now has a downloadable beta of version 4.
- The local Linux zealot haven is 5 years old today. Congrats to them (they still manage to be fairly level-headed when compared to Slashdot).