Louis Dethy, a reclusive pensioner who booby trapped his home in Charlerois, Belgium with the intention of killing his estranged family, died himself when he inadvertently triggered one of his own devices
In addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Bill Gates has donated to India’s fight against HIV, he’s funding the Microsoft jihad against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million
Dublin’s Trinity College Library administrator, Robin Adams, would like to discuss an uncanny resemblance between the 18th-century Long Room Library at Trinity, and the Jedi Archives
in the latest episode of the Star Wars
epic
Best practices and step-by-step guidance on how to build a working Linux system on older hardware or on modern hardware with limited memory and storage
The Australian competition watchdog, the ACCC, has launched an action against retail chain Harvey Norman and two of its most senior IT executives over alleged breaches of the Trade Practices Act
The drought gripping large parts of the country is starting to take its toll on the wildlife of outback Australia. The drought has become so bad in the far west of New South Wales that birds are dropping out of the trees
The ACCC has filed proceedings against the New York based operator of a web site it alleges posed as the official site for the Sydney Opera House
Australia’s telecommunications complaints authority has welcomed federal government moves to cut off a practice whereby consumers are unknowingly lured into copping excessive telephone bills for Internet usage, but industry groups are less than happy with the proposed legislative changes
Pixar has been sued by artist Stanley Mouse. Mouse created a movie treatment titled Excuse My Dust
, which was set in Monster City
, where the animated monster characters worked for the Monster Corporation of America
. One of the characters was a green, wisecracking, ambulatory eyeball. Furthermore, the lawsuit claims that a story artist from Pixar visited Mouse in 2000, and discussed Mouse’s work
Kaspersky Labs, a Russian anti-virus company, has apologised for an e-mailed virus alert that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to warn against
Mobile phones, electronic organisers and portable DVD players would be so much less cumbersome if they were surgically implanted under your skin. Science fiction? Not any more
German prosecutors were investigating a complaint on Saturday that the brain of urban guerrilla Ulrike Meinhof was removed after her death in 1976 and examined to find a reason for her violent behaviour
Telstra is offering sweetheart deals to municipal councils in an attempt to cripple competition for telecommunications services in regional Australia
The Federal Privacy Commissioner is expected to get tough with business over privacy breaches in response to a record quadrupling of formal complaints in the past year
If John Le Carré were in Belgrade, he would have enough material to write at least three spy novels. Belgrade has been the main spy centre in Europe for a decade, and with an estimated 4,000 foreign spies in Belgrade now — most of them hiding behind various humanitarian, economic and non-government organisations — that doesn’t look likely to change
While you’re working your way up to that case mod of your dreams, why not start small and modify your optical mouse by changing that red LED to a nice blue one
Homosexuals are to be offered legally-registered civil partnerships under UK Government plans to give them the same rights as married couples
After a wait of almost ten years and passing through a series of owners’ hands, new Amiga hardware is on sale. G4 processors at up to 800 MHz. Development of AmigaOS 4.0 has been continuing at a steady pace by Hyperion and will be ready for release early 2003 — via Slashdot
A new set of fonts being developed by six publishers of scientific, technical and medical journals promises to contain every character — more than 7,000 in all — that might be needed in a technical article published in any scientific discipline. When complete, sometime next fall, the STIX fonts will be shared freely with publishers, software manufacturers and scholars, under the condition that they not be altered
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