I intended to release the Q3 source under the GPL by the end of 2004, but we had another large technology licensing deal go through, and it would be poor form to make the source public a few months after a company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for full rights to it. True, being public under the GPL isn’t the same as having a royalty free license without the need to disclose the source, but I’m pretty sure there would be some hard feelings. Previous source code releases were held up until the last commercial license of the technology shipped, but with the...

The sweeping devastation and intense horror wrought by the south Asia tsunami will shake the faith of many “believers”. How could a God, or some other force for good, have orchestrated a natural disaster with such dreadful consequences? Here, believers from the Hindu, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist faiths, and an atheist, explain how they have come to terms with the events in south Asia. HINDU – RANI MOORTHY The tsunami brings into question both personal and collective destinies for Hindus. In terms of the latter, we are born in an age of destruction, known as Kali Yuga, an age...

After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this “power-user” trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It’s only useful for broadband users, so if you’re still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now. Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally...

The Mac Lover’s website ThinkSecret.com is reporting that Apple will introduce a “bare bones, G4-based iMac without a display at Macworld Expo on January 11 that will retail for $499.” A sub $500 G4 would put the Mac solidly in rent to own territory for the first time. Reportedly, the new Mac will be incredibly small and housed in a flat enclosure similar to the 1.73 inches of Apple’s Xserve and will ship without a monitor. Apple has always resisted entering the low end PC business. Instead, the company has focused on music, software, and hardware. According...