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Glucon Glucose Monitoring Watch. Israeli company Glucon has received a patent for their Glucose Monitoring Watch, which uses an ultrasound unit to identify blood vessels in the arm, then pinging the vein with a laser to determine sugar levels. Once Glucon can bring their watch to market, millions of diabetes patients will be able to… Continue reading Glucon Glucose Monitoring Watch

Nope, still hate it. I still hate Java. A little more every day.Spending my free time working on Snippy in Python is definitely increasing the hatred. I agree with Paul Graham. [Ceejbot]

Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.. Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.. Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious risk to corporations and individuals. [InfoWorld: Top… Continue reading Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Pirated Windows to Remain Unpatched. From the Associated Press: Microsoft Corp. plans to severely curtail the ways in which people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system can receive software updates, including security fixes. The new authentication system, announced Tuesday and due to arrive by midyear, will still allow people with pirated copies… Continue reading Pirated Windows to Remain Unpatched

Everyone who sells software should have this information. When starting a microISV, many people do marketing the old fashioned way. Trial and error. With that in mind, I thought that many of you would be interested in knowing some statistics on things like “which day is best for downloads” or “on what day are most… Continue reading Everyone who sells software should have this information

Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX. Johan Sørensen has put together a great guide for getting lighttpd 1.3.10 running on OS X. All the steps needed to have lighttpd serving a FCGI-powered application. This is particularly exciting now since the next version of Rails will be even better suited for running on lighttpd through the introduction… Continue reading Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX

Novell's Open Source Collaboration Server.  Novell is contributing its NetMail server code base to create a new open source collaboration server, Hula . Hula will support CalDAV, and is currently tested to be robust and scalable for up to 200,000 accounts with 50,000 concurrent connections on a single Linux server. Having this kind of server… Continue reading Novell's Open Source Collaboration Server

Microsoft forced by security concerns to fix IE browser. Bill Gates announced a new, more secure version of Microsoft Internet Explorer this week in response to general public dissatisfaction with holes in the browser and to particular worries that the open source Firefox browser was emerging as a strong alternative. Gates, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief… Continue reading Microsoft forced by security concerns to fix IE browser

Quote on Designing Software. A GREAT quote by Jamie Zawinski that I found in a post where he wrote about software development and the reason writing groupware is bad: If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to… Continue reading Quote on Designing Software

The Hula Project. #  Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've… Continue reading The Hula Project