Su Twitter e Reddit c’è stato un pullulare di messaggi fin dal tardo pomeriggio di ieri… la notizia ha dell’incredibile, almeno per com’è stata improvvisa. Il working group di XHTML2 sarà smantellato entro la fine di quest’anno! Prima o poi sapevamo che una notizia del genere nella guerra degli standard web ci sarebbe stata prima o poi, in una delle due opposte fazioni. Finalmente una decisione è stata presa: il working group contribuirà all’accelerazione degli sviluppi riguardo HTML5… posizione chiara, netta, come brevemente annuncia il comunicato ufficiale. È prevedibile, quindi, che alcune delle idee di XHML2 possano trovare luogo in HTML5. A tal proposito vi consiglio qualche lettura come questo articolo, HTML5 versus XHTML2, forse il migliore del genere.[continua...]

Nano è un editor di testo libero per sistemi Unix ed Unix-like, distribuito con licenza GNU GPL. È un Software Libero che trae ispirazione da Pico, l'editor di testo proprietario del client e-mail pine, rispetto al quale risulta migliorato. Il nome deriva dal simbolo nano che è un prefisso SI che esprime il fattore 10−9, ossia un miliardesimo, ed è 1000 volte più grande di pico che esprime il fattore 10−12, ovvero un milionesimo di milionesimo. Il suo nome può essere interpretato come acronimo ricorsivo: Nano's ANOther editor.

Tantissimi editor di testo per Linux. Conosciuti o meno. Tutti validi. Singola recensione ancora da aggiornare. leafpad editor di testo ultraleggero e veloce Ledit, line editor for interactive programs levee editor basato su Unix mousepad le Xfce oriented text editor

La protezione dei dati è un argomento molto importante nei sistemi embedded odierni: enormi quantità di informazioni vengono scambiate ad elevate velocità tra processori e periferiche, oppure vengono immagazzinate su file system su memorie flash; al fine di evitare ogni utilizzo di dati errati o corrotti, è diventato necessario l’utilizzo di un controllo divalidità come il CRC.

LPE has support for visual features like automatic indentation, brace flashing, and syntax highlighting. The editor includes a generic plug-in architecture supporting a variety of languages with "modes" that can be added at any time. It also supports easy commands to run the current buffer through an awk or sed script, and a macro recorder and command repeater to ease repetitive editing.

Dopo alcuni rilasci beta di rodaggio, gli sviluppatori di Sun hanno reputato VirtualBox 3.0 sufficientemente stabile per il grande debutto. Come anticipato in occasione della disponibilità della prima beta, VirtualBox 3.0 compie grandi passi avanti nell’area delsymmetric multi-processing (SMP) e dell’accelerazione Direct3D/OpenGL: ora è infatti possibile sfruttare fino a 32 CPU virtuali e utilizzare l’accelerazione hardware della propria scheda video all’interno di tutti i tipi di sistemi operativi host supportati. Oltre a queste funzionalità e all’immancabile presenza di correzioni, VirtualBox 3.0 introduce anche una barra degli strumenti ridotta per le modalità fullscreen e seamless, il supporto a client RDP di Windows 7, Guest Additions per SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 e il nuovo demone vboxadd-service; quest’ultimo, disponibile solo per guest Linux, gestisce la sincronizzazione dell’ora con la macchina host e fornisce informazioni sulle proprietà del sistema guest (OS, utenti attivi, informazioni di rete, etc).

Formido is one of those games, where you are loaded with some guns and you go shooting different things. 'Things' in this case are big, ugly, - not green though - alien insects. The idea is to kill as many of those bastards as possible. Eventually they will overcome you, but struggle as long as you can. There are some power-ups to aid you in your honorable quest. Keep in mind, that those critters are rather tough and generally do nasty things when in close range of any player-characters. In Formido, you are loaded with some guns and you go shooting different things. ‘Things’ in this case are big, ugly, -- not green though -- alien insects. The idea is to kill as many of them as possible. Eventually they will overcome you, but struggle as long as you can. There are some power-ups to aid you in your honorable quest. Keep in mind, that these critters are rather tough and generally do nasty things when in close range of the player.

In 2009 we are on the cusp of "cloud computing". 3G wireless services, WiFi and mesh networking are widely deployed. Ebook readers, digital photoframes, and richly-featured touch-screen phones abound. Mini-notebook computers – netbooks – are growing rapidly in adoption. It's not just about big-iron computing anymore. Pixel Qi has a belief on the future of the computing - it's not about the CPU or the OS - It is about the screen. New classes of thin-client devices will increasingly lack complex motherboards and operating systems. We are already in a world of $10 CPUs, next year they will be less expensive. We see the future of the portable electronics as simply the display - with embedded electronics eventually right in the display glass itself. This is the future laptop, the future cell phone and the future PDA. Instead of focusing on higher speed (more MHz) and larger memory (more GBytes), we work toward new device designs by focusing on displays that we can read, as easily as paper - indoors and out - with battery life measured in days not hours.

Mozilla will patch the just-released Firefox 3.5 in the next few weeks to stamp out several bugs that went unfixed in the final version of the browser, the company said Tuesday. Firefox 3.5.1, which Mozilla intends to deliver in mid-to-late July, will include fixes for at least three bugs and "topcrashes," the term the company uses to describe the frequently-reported crashes. Like many applications, Firefox asks users to report crashes by displaying a prompt after the browser goes down. "[The] goal of this release should be a quick turnaround that fixes topcrashes and bugs we almost held ship for," Mozilla said in notes published after a weekly status meeting. One of the topcrashes scheduled for a fix involves TraceMonkey, the new, faster JavaScript engine that debuted in Firefox 3.5. At least one of the bugs was fixed a week before Mozilla released the final code on Tuesday.

More than 7 million users downloaded Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox 3.0 Web browser during the first 24 hours after its launch, according to the company. A Web metrics company tracking hour-by-hour use of Firefox 3.0 added that the new version quadrupled its market share during the first day. Although Mozilla's download servers were offline for more than an hour Tuesday after the scheduled 1:00 p.m. Eastern launch, 8.3 million copies of the browser were downloaded in the first 24 hours, Mozilla's CEO John Lilly reported Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. led all countries on the download count, with 2.6 million, followed by Germany with more than 662,000, Japan with 403,000 and the U.K. with more than 295,000. Other countries with large numbers of downloads included Canada (223,000), China (173,000), France (290,000) and Iran (250,000). Before Firefox's launch, Mozilla had urged users to help set a single-day download record that it hoped would be sanctioned by the Guinness World Records organization. While there is no current record to beat, Mozilla said last month that it wanted to top the 1.6 million downloads of Firefox 2.0 on its first day in October 2006.