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Bill Buck reports on EFIKA, running REBOL - http://bbrv.blogspot.com/

That is cool.


The day is coming when someone builds a very durable thin laptop, 
with no Fancy hardware, no harddrive, just a few gigs of chip space, 
and a REALLY good wireless interface.  It would be especially cool 
if the keyboard and display detached from each other.  All it had 
was enough to run Firefox.  Qtask is READY to make this hardware 
platform its home…

BB may yet save the "Amiga" ?

It seems Carl received his EFIKA too, he now put his comment to the 
BB runnin gon EFIKA :-)

Ok, what exactly is an EFIKA ?  the link has no clear statement.

EFIKA is small PPC board (PC)

it can run and consume only 4.4 watt, it has PPC 400 MHz CPU - good 
for embedded stuff ...

and with MorphOS, you've got your not so powerfull, but still more 
powerfull than any amiga AmigaOS compatible computer ...

http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php

Looks like Morphos is dead according to their website.  All licenses 
withdrawn.

Graham don't forget, this is connected to Amiga. So if MorphOS is 
dead depends on website you are reading...

If the MorphOS developers withhold all licensing ... what does one 
do?

they don't. That is the old site, where some ppl felt that Genesi 
owes them something, so they put up the site IIRC. But then some 
ppl decided to develop it further. 1.5 version is near, and it should 
be pretty much legal ....

JAVA 6 released after 2 years of development. They used familiar 
aproach - one week builds, over 330 developers colaborated. Hopefully 
RT stics with one release per week or month at least ....

very interesting http://www.swivel.com

yep, especially the 'Wine and Violent Crime' comparison :)

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=261254<-- XNA makes 
it possible for bedroom programmers to make Windows and XBox 360 
games. Somehow I think it's a very clever way to to let anyone access 
and program such powerful hardware, much smarter than just slapping 
Linux on PS3. Where could REBOL fit in to such a scheme to program 
a piece of hardware like that?

Canvas Paint - browsers getting better and better (by including another 
containers) - http://canvaspaint.org/

my god!  http://robotic.media.mit.edu/projects/Leonardo/Leo-tutelage.html

Max: there was a PBS on that recently ... http://www.pbs.org/saf/1303/segments/1303-4.htm

BS

http://www.enterpriseweb2.com/?p=176

IBM Yahoo Ominifind .. free indexing software for the enterprise... 
limited to 500,000 documents, webpages.

A nice Xmas present for Google.

It says it indexes PDFs, but it doesn't do that unless the PDF includes 
text ie. it doesn't OCR them :(

I never understand this fuzz about desktop indexing. This problem 
is solved for me for... 8 years? Take a look at: www.dtsearch.com

The noise is because there's money in it.

VID NG by Microsoft - watch the video - http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=266036

damn, that 's a big video

funny, I am not overly impressed...

maybe its because I've used sooo many 3D apps.

3D animation apps that is... and developped interactive tools in 
them.

I tried WPF demos on the mac. it runs OK, but the pages are quite 
large.

It seems like there is sooooooo much code for so little result.

IMHO

Google axes search API - http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16769/Google-Axes-Search-API

some ppl speculate it is because they had no income from it. It is 
going to be replaced with AJAX. Maybe they want to force ppl to "display" 
the result somehow, just to see advertisements? If so, it is stupid. 
I would better pay for such service with API, then was being forced 
to use some obscure aproach ....

1.3 Appropriate Conduct and Prohibited Uses.
... You agree that you 
will not, and you will not permit your users or
other third parties 
to: (a) modify or replace the text, images, or
other content of the 
Google Search Results, including by (i) changing
the order in which 
the Google Search Results appear, (ii) intermixing
Search Results 
from sources other than Google, or (iii) intermixing
other content 
such that it appears to be part of the Google Search
Results; ... 


Amen - so much for a company, which seemed to become new Internet 
"platform" leader .... they seem to be money oriented - that decision 
simply sucks ....

Interesting and balanced opinions (SOAP complexity) - http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/04/29/oreilly_amazon/

it also makes the use of their search really nil.

rather just use an http post and extract the results.

I have been hopping for multi keyboard, mutli-mic input on one screen 
for long time..

I wonder why it took so long for someone to do this. Isn't it obvious 
that multiple mice would be usefull in many cases.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/dec06/12-14MultiPoint.mspx

Nicely specced UMPC for Rebol :-) http://mobile-review.com/pda/articles/htc-athena.shtml
... surely it will also be nicely priced :-)

want a linux based UMPC

in English too!

I had a working Rebol SOAP google interface too!

Not that I ever used it ...

http://www.oqo.com, maybe you can uninstall Windows and install 
Linux? Who knows ...

800x480 .. have to wait till they get better resolution!

Sony UX90S UMPC-
1024 x 600