I’ve been out of the loop for a couple of weeks, but there’s some interesting comments/quotes from James Gosling on how hard it was to quit Oracle: here, and in his personal blog here
PS3 to lose Linux support on April 1st? Or is it?
Maybe this is an early April Fools, or maybe it isn’t. The pre-Slim PS3s have the ability to partition their harddrive and install Linux and dual boot. Apparently this feature may be going away in the next firmware upgrade. It’s a shame if it is, but since the date quoted is April 1st, maybe we’d better see if this comes to fruition or not.
I uninstalled my Yellow Dog install a while back to free up some disk space, but it will be sad if this option goes away.
Sprint announce 4G Android phone on thie WiMax network
Sprint have announced the first phone to support 4G data service on their WiMax network – it’s running Android 2.1, has a 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, has a beautiful screen and comes backed with other goodies like an 8Mp camera and ability to shoot 720p video. Suddenly any version of the iPhone seems irrelevant.
Enabling ssh for Iomega StorCenter ix2
It’s a lot easier to move around files if you can just ssh into the box – instructions to enable and logon here.