Monday, March 29, 2004

PC In An XP Box PC In An XP Box Posted by Hemos on Monday March 29, @06:45PM from the teh-joy-of-machinery dept. wolrahnaes writes "There is an article up on mini-itx.com explaining how to fit a fully functional PC based on a VIA M10000 EPIA board in to a Windows XP box. The author even explains how he then fit it in to a Red Hat box and used a sensor to tell the bootloader which OS to run based on which box it is in." [Slashdot] 11:04:46 PM

ionicChat 0.04. ionicChat is an instant messenger which tries to connect users who are interested in a given topic to other users who are chatting on that topic. It does this dynamically and in realtime. It is based on the idea that human beings have a tendency to digress during conversations and therefore it is important to realize that it is only the content of the messages that shuttle back and forth between the users in a chatroom which goes towards describing the state of a chatroom. It consists of a server and a client that can be made to work on your network. It can also act as a LAN messenger. It is not hosted on any global server. [freshmeat.net] 10:58:03 PM

Office add-on for Sarbanes-Oxley now available. Microsoft Corp. on Monday released an add-on for its Office System products designed to help companies meet reporting requirements set in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:00:30 PM

Google rolls out personalized search, Web alerts. Google Inc.'s Labs has cooked up two new search offerings, introducing a Personalized Web Search and Web Alerts, as part of the Mountain View, California, company's plans to continue to heat up the market. [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:47:36 PM

Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt Posted by Hemos on Monday March 29, @12:31PM from the making-it-better-and-faster dept. Balinares writes "NewsForge reports that Novell has settled for Qt as its Linux desktop development environment, casting more light on their strategy to unify KDE and GNOME. This ought to be interesting. The prospect of using Mono to code against Qt makes me drool in advance. Maybe programming will suck no longer!"  [Slashdot] 2:46:19 PM

Google Puts Froogle on Site, Tests Personalization (Reuters). Reuters - Google Inc., the No. 1 Web search engine widely expected to go public this year, on Monday put its Froogle shopping tool on its main Web site and said it is testing new services to deliver personalized search results. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 2:41:45 PM

The Table Ruler: A List Apart 11:10:45 AM

LinPHA 0.9.3. LinPHA is an easy-to-use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses an SQL database (MySQL or PostgreSQL) to store information about your pictures. It comes with an HTML-based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB. It features complete user management, top ten statistics, hidden albums, different themes, slideshow, filemanager, uploader, watermarks, benchmark, printing, and more. [freshmeat.net] 10:30:38 AM

Squeezebox MP3 Player Hacked to Play Video Squeezebox MP3 Player Hacked to Play Video Posted by CowboyNeal on Sunday March 28, @11:38AM from the stupid-mp3-player-tricks dept. Xenna writes "The Squeezebox MP3 Player has found a new application: With the Videobox software and some cabling it becomes a networked Video Player. This is the latest development to come out of the active community Slim Devices have managed to attract around their very hackable MP3 players. Only last week the SoftSqueeze software player was announced on the Slim users mailing list. The Squeezebox was reviewed on Slashdot last December."  [Slashdot] 9:58:57 AM

Documentation APLAWS Quick Start released (APLAWS). Total project downloads to date: 18 Project description: APLAWS is an Open Source Content Management System. The system has been designed to help UK authorities deliver services online as part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Local Government Online programme. [Download] [Release Notes] By berrange@users.sourceforge.net (Daniel Berrange). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:25:48 AM