Thursday, January 13, 2011

13-Jan-2011 AM clippings

Enjoy:

Welcome to the 2011 season of Clippings. Happy New Year!

Catalyst IT starts a pilot "Academy" in Wellington to boost the number of students with skills in Open Source systems:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/schools-in-for-open-source-advocates

France follows suit, announcing plans to make Paris a centre for Open Source software development to boost economic growth:
http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/7508/france-plans-open-source-centre-of-excellence

World-wide protests planned on the 15th January in defence of WikiLeaks and our freedom of expression:
http://www.whyweprotest.net/en/

Sony starts shutting CD outlying plants as downloading starts to bite into the sales of physical media:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/sign-digital-times-sony-shutting-plant-used-m

Google's Chrome and Opera to end support for H.264 in favour of open codecs for HTML5 video. Apple holds back:
http://www.muktware.com/n/12/2011/661

And finally. Using outside air-cooled PCs in the home to do your little bit for the environment:
http://hackaday.com/2011/01/10/outside-air-cooled-pc


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