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Firefox

Submission + - Firefox Just Perfected Tabbed Browsing. Tab Candy (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Nunavut
Nunavut writes: Be sure to watch the video below for a full overview — from the looks of it, it seems as if Tab Candy is sort of like Apple’s Expose feature mixed with their Spaces feature, both of which are baked into OS X. For those who don’t use a Mac, basically these features allow you to zoom out and get a bird’s-eye-view of all your windows (or tabs, in this case) that are open — and you can also arrange open windows (or again, tabs, in this case) in certain spaces so they’re clumped together. This allows you to more easily find what you’re looking for with so many tabs open.
Google

Submission + - Google's Googlebot indexing the IPv6 internet (fix6.net)

Submitted by Japje
Japje writes: As of 18th of June (perhaps sooner) the Googlebot has been indexing websites via IPv6. This means unique content on the IPv6 internet will finally be searched and indexed.

From the combined log of Fix6.net:

"2001:4860:4801:1109:0:6006:1300:b075 — [18/Jun/2010:08:46:05 +0200] GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1 200 69 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
BSD

Submission + - Freebsd 8.1 Released (freebsd.org)

Submitted by datentod
datentod writes: The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:

zfsloader ,zpool version of ZFS subsystem updated to version 14,NFSv4 ACL support in UFS and ZFS; support added to cp(1), find(1), getfacl(1), mv(1), and setfacl(1) utilities,UltraSPARC IV/IV+, SPARC64 V support, SMP support in PowerPC G5,BIND 9.6.2-P2,sendmail updated to 8.14.4,
OpenSSH updated to 5.4p1,GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.5
Intel

Submission + - Dell pay $100 million settlement to the SEC (economist.com)

Submitted by Sri.Theo
Sri.Theo writes: Dell's brilliant business model may not have been all it seems. HIdden slush funds and secret agreements between Dell and Intel helped the two giants to thrive, in exchange for locking out AMD Intel provided Dell with huge sums of money that at one point made up to 76% of Dell’s quarterly operating income. Accounting mistakes are being blamed.

Submission + - PayPal & The 9th Circle of Customer Service He (ocremix.org) 1

Submitted by djpretzel
djpretzel writes: Awhile ago PayPal classified our site, OverClocked ReMix, as a file-sharing service. I pointed out at the time that 1. all submissions were reviewed by staff and 2. technically, all websites are comprised of files at some level, which are being shared... but the shenanigans have continued. They've requested numerous policy documents — which can only be uploaded in JPG, BMP, or GIF via their website — and just recently requested a "guest account" so they can monitor content on our site. Since providing them with such an account would bypass their own acceptance of & agreement to OUR Terms of Service, I composed the following response. Are we being picked on for some reason, or is this now common? We have some ads but rely increasingly on donations to cover our hosting costs, and I have to think there are other sites out there in the same boat...

Submission + - Tongue Thai'd over Facebook? (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: Thailand is taking aim at social networking....for hurting their language. The country's Culture Ministry says sites like Facebook and Twitter are causing deteriorating language skills. It says young people in Thailand aren't concerned about misspellings, abbreviations, and grammatical errors....because they're common in social media exchanges and text messaging. Culture Minister Nipit Intarasombut says "We must preserve our national language. If nobody sees its importance, then we're doomed".
America Online

VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision 315

Posted by Soulskill from the more-shouting-imminent dept.
The folks over at VideoLAN are in the process of releasing version 1.1.0 of VLC, and one of the major changes is the removal of SHOUTcast, a media-streaming module from AOL-owned Nullsoft. "During the last year, the VLC developers have received several injunctions by e-mail from employees at AOL, asking us to either comply to a license not compatible with free software or remove the SHOUTcast capability in VLC." Within the license is a clause prohibiting the distribution of SHOUTcast with any product whose own license requires that it be "disclosed or distributed in source code form," "licensed for the purpose of making derivative works," or "redistributable at no charge." The license would also force VideoLAN to bundle Nullsoft adware with VLC. Update: 06/22 00:52 GMT by H : The 1.1 release is ready from their site; you can also read up on the release information.
Linux

Submission + - Bluecherry releases it's MPEG-4 driver, GPL (bluecherrydvr.com)

Submitted by azop
azop writes: Today Bluecherry released its GPL licensed multi-input MPEG4 audio / video hardware compression driver. This driver supports 16 channel MPEG-4 encoders using the Video4Linux API, and up to 16 audio devices (using ALSA). More information about the driver and features can be found at Bluecherry's site (http://www.bluecherrydvr.com/2010/06/16/bluecherry-releases-its-version-2-driver-gpl/) and at Ben Collin's personal blog (http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/06/softlogic-6010-4816-channel-mpeg-4.html).

Bluecherry is the first Linux software company to release a complete driver based on Linux kernel API's (Video4Linux and Alsa) under the GPL license for multiple input hardware compression (MPEG-4) capture cards. A H.264 version is 'in the works'.
Sci-Fi

Submission + - Doctor Who: what's in the Pandorica? (No spoilers) (wordpress.com)

Submitted by
Mirk
Mirk writes: "Season Five of Doctor Who — the first season to feature Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor — is drawing to a close. Only the final two-part story remains to be shown, consisting of The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang. But what is inside the Pandorica? With only a few days left before the episode is broadcast, The Reinvigorated Programmer speculates, on the possibilities."
Science

Submission + - New York's Rat Problem Goes Underground (wordpress.com)

Submitted by looncanada
looncanada writes: A new study by Purdue's rodentology expert and advisor to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirms that thousands of rats have infested the city's subway stations in search of garbage left by their human neighbours.
Desktops (Apple)

Submission + - Trouble With the New Mac OS X Snow Leopard Update (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The new Mac OS X Snow Leopard update fixes a number of security problems, but it also can introduce one. As Adobe's Wendy Poland pointed out: 'The update includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player, 10.0.45.2, than the newest one that's available from Adobe.com. While the Mac OS X v10.6.4 update does not appear to downgrade users who have already upgraded to Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe recommends users verify they are using the latest, most secure version of Flash Player (10.1.53.64).' And, as blogger Steven Vaughan-Nichols points out, 'Flash Player 10.0.45.2 is a real stinker of a Flash player with no fewer than 32 vulnerabilities.'

Submission + - A ballsy way to stop the oil leak (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: A maverick scientist who made a name for himself by directing the capping of the more than 500 hundred burning oil wells in Kuwait after the Gulf War in 1991 is proposing a deceptively simple way to plug the gulf oil leak: drop steel balls into the gushing well. If the steel balls are big enough in diameter, their weight will pull them downward even through the upward-rushing torrent of oil and gas. So they'll settle into the well at some deep level and begin to clog it. Two hundred tons of the things should slow the gusher enough that it can then be stopped with a more conventional injection of mud, he says.
America Online

Submission + - AOL dumps $1.2 billion worth of acquisitions (wsj.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: The social networking site Bebo is being sold for just "a small fraction of the $850 million AOL paid for the site two years ago," according to the Wall Street Journal. Since its acquisition, "the site has been shedding users as fast as Facebook and Twitter have been gaining them," according to one industry observer, quoting an April memo reportedly sent by an AOL executive arguing that Bebo "has been declining and, as a result, would require significant investment in order to compete in the competitive social networking space." Bebo's traffic is already down 44% from last year, according to the Wall Street Journal, attracting just 5 million unique U.S. visitors in May (versus 130.4 million for Facebook). And earlier this month, AOL shed the instant messaging service ICQ for $187.5 — which it had acquired in 1998 for over $408 million.

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