I’m at a lost for words to imagine exactly what the attraction of a limited edition ‘Steve Ballmer’ signature version of Windows 7 is. Maybe it jumps round shouting ‘developers, developers, developers!’? Maybe it’s just fat and sweaty. Whatever. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t make me want Windows 7 anymore than I currently do, which is about as much as I want to get hit round the head with a 2 by 4.
Java 7 – what’s in and what’s out?
InfoQ.com have a post discussing some of the new features that will be included in the final build for Java 7 expected early next year, and some of the features that have been dropped.
Android 1.6 Donut coming over the air to Android phones in next day or so
Google/T-Mobile are rolling out the Android 1.6 ‘Donut’ OS upgrade to small groups of users sometime over the next day or so, according to this article.
The T-Mobile My Account app also had an update today, to support 1.6 according to the release notes.
Installing available updates on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get upgrade
This will download and install all available updates to your existing system.