A new version of PHP has just been released. Version 5.1.0 includes major security and performance improvements along with a few new features. View the changelog for details.
I’ve updated my apache installation guide to include the latest version.
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Now that Sony has several lawsuits filed against them, they decided to stop producing CDs with the so-called “rootkit DRM” on them. A little too late Sony!
Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their [...]
From Slashdot
Lawyers in California have filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony and a second one may be filed today in New York. The lawsuit was filed Nov. 1 in Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles by Vernon, CA. It asks the court to prevent Sony from selling additional CDs protected by the anti-piracy [...]
One of my favorite websites digg.com, run by Digg, Inc., recently received $2.8 Million in funding! Congratulations to Kevin Rose and the whole Digg community!
From Business Wire:
Digg, Inc. a pioneering Web community that enables the mass Internet audience to prioritize news and content, today announced that it has closed an initial round of funding [...]
We’re closing in on a date for the next MPCon! Check out mpcon.org for details. For those of you who don’t know, MPCon is a LAN party I run. Our next event should bring in 200+ gamers — making it Michigan’s largest LAN party!
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Opera has impressed me lately. I’ve been switching back and forth between Opera 8.5 and Firefox. Opera is a lot more streamlined — It takes up less memory than Firefox, and renders pages much faster. As far as standards compliance goes, Opera beats Firefox hands down.
On Thursday, Opera made Opera 9.0 Preview [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau just released some interesting data showing daytime populations of cities and counties. According to the results Detroit’s population actually decreases during the day by 1%. About half of the workforce in Detroit (160+ thousand) lives outside the city. In contrast, the population of Auburn Hills, MI increases by [...]
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and news site, had a 130% increase in visits in this past year far surpassing Google News and even CNN main threads. The site, now almost #1 on the internet, has become the major news and information hub. While I doubt mainstream media will go away, more and more people [...]
How many undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in universities in China? 19 million, according to Gu Binglin, president of Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
The U.S. needs to wake up, and focus more on education, science and technology. As the education gap shrinks, and the U.S.’s technological leadership deminishes, the standard of living will decline here, [...]
China and India are educating so many scientists and engineers that it is all but certain that the United States will lose some of its technological advantage and will suffer difficult economic adjustments, according to a recently published paper.
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