KOCHI: A Centre for Advanced Training in Free and Open Source Software (CATFOSS) will be opened in Kochi soon. The new centre will be a joint venture of Kerala State IT Mission and Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT). Full Article at The Hindu

by Kristin Shoemaker - Jan. 04, 2009Comments (0) | Trackback URL ...whether we call it an object framework, nomad or Compiz++, the reality is that all these branches are counter-productive, regardless of how fun or flashy they... Full Article at OStatic

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. Full Article at Times Online

A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. Full Article at Samizdata.net

Wouldn’t it be great if, when your PC gets infected by a virus or other malware, you could just delete it or instantly reset it to the condition it was in when you first installed Windows? Full Article at VNUNet.com

Digital photo frames were one of the best-selling consumer electronics products this holiday season, but some of them carried a nasty surprise -- malicious software code that tried to hop onto personal computers when the frames were plugged in. Full Article at The News & Observer

Google Docs offers a solid set of "productivity in the cloud" features that allow users to get basic office work done with nothing but a browser. Full Article at Ars Technica

A wireless router is great when toting a computer with a wireless interface around, but moving a wired computer to another room or floor often means stringing an unsightly Ethernet cable through the house. Full Article at LXer

Since that time, hobbyists have been hard at work trying to craft a general jailbreak scheme for the G1. Over the past few days, developer Eddie C. Dost worked out how to dump the HTC bootloader from the G1. Full Article at Ars Technica