links for 2007-03-04

• Fusion Beta Program
  VMware’s desktop virtualization for the Mac, codename Fusion, allows you to run any PC application on your Intel-based Mac. Fusion’s Cocoa-native user interface is designed from the ground up to make running Windows or other x86 operating systems side-by-
  (tags: vmware emulation apple virtualisation)
• Infinite Loop: VMWare Fusion Beta 2 comes with “Experimental 3D Acceleration”
  It wasn’t long ago when a leaked video made its rounds showing that the VMWare team was working on 3D graphics acceleration behind the scenes. VMWare acknowledged it at the time, saying that it was from an internal beta and that they were working hard on
  (tags: vmware virtualisation apple)
• Truthdig – Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran
  Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (ret.), a veteran of the Pentagon with firsthand experience of the administration’s cherry-picking of intelligence, reveals why Bush thinks he can win a war with Iran, why few politicians are serious about withdrawal and why
  (tags: news Current_Affairs interesting interview)
• Linux Monitor: Ripping MP3s from Last.fm with Linux, Streamripper and LastFMProxy
  (tags: audio mp3 music software tutorial ubuntu howto)
• When is a standard not a standard? | Free Software Magazine
  I do not believe Microsoft are really interested in open standards, but just paying lip service to them. The history of the OOXML and ODF “discussions” supports this theory. OOXML is not as open as it’s name applies: it ignores existing standards and it o
  (tags: open_office XML standards odf)
• Maemo 2.0 on AMD64
  This document describes how to make Scratchbox 0.9.8 work on Ubuntu for AMD64. The approach taken is to set up a 32-bit chroot environment for Scratchbox to run in. Please note that I’m writing this documentation about one week after the fact and thus t
  (tags: nokia ubuntu linux maemo)
• Xcerion – Free Software and OS as a Service
  We have the technology platform to create Web 2.0 applications faster, cheaper, more scaleable and richer than anyone else. We are using it to build hundreds of applications that over the coming years will be delivered free as a massive service over Inter
  (tags: web2.0 webOS XML)
• 5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash Your Data
  Call them pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups or whatever else but fact is that recently we have seen a good number of new services that allow developers and users to build mini-apps and mashups that mix and re-mix data. Here we run through 5 applicati
  (tags: web2.0 mashups)
• 38°13′36.38″N, 112°17′56.59″W – Google Maps
  You’ll never guess what is here:
  (tags: google interesting)
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
  This standard enables:

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  Software to predict the location of installed files and directories, and
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  Users to predict the location of installed files and directories.

  We do this by:

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  Specifying guiding prin

  (tags: linux reference)