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  • Massive Martian Glaciers Found
    Kozar_The_Malignant writes “Scientific American is reporting that ‘data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.’ Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible.”

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  • How To Find a Mobile Games Publisher?
    n01 writes “The last few months of my spare time I’ve been implementing an abstract strategy board game (that I invented) along with a decent AI. The game resembles TwixT in that it is also a connection game, and could be played without the need for a cellphone or computer. The implementation on the Java 2 Mobile Edition platform will soon be finished, with only some minor usability and sound issues to fix. While I enjoyed working on the game (actually more than on my day job as a programmer) I would still like to earn some money from selling the game, so I can work more on such projects in the future. What experiences have Slashdot readers made with selling their applications/games for mobile phones? With which publisher will I have the broadest audience and achieve the highest earnings? Would you try to publish the game both as a mobile game and a traditional board game?”

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  • Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply
    somanyrobots writes with an interesting followup in the New York Times to the earlier-reported substantial reconstruction of the woolly mammoth genome: “Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA.” (The Washington Post article linked from the earlier post was much more skeptical, calling such an attempt “still firmly the domain of science fiction.” The New York Times article, while describing the process in similar terms, also calls attention to recent advances in sequencing DNA, as well as recoding DNA for cloning.)

    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle
    destinyland writes “For decades, people have been asking this brain teaser: ‘What’s the longest word you can type with only the left-hand letters on a keyboard?’ The answer is supposed to be ’stewardesses,’ but grepping the standard dictionary that ships with Unix reveals a much better answer. There’s nearly 2,000 shorter words that can typed with only the left hand — including one word that’s even longer. (The article also quotes a failed novel attempt using nothing but words typed on the keyboard’s left side.)”

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  • Kaminsky Bug Options Include “Do Nothing,” Says IETF
    netbuzz writes “Meeting in Minneapolis this week, the Internet engineering community is debating whether to aggressively fashion and apply fixes for the so-called Kaminsky bug in the DNS discovered this summer, or to simply let its threat stand as motivation for all to move with greater speed toward DNSSEC, which is considered the best long-term security solution. Problem with the latter approach is that DNSSEC has been in the works for a decade already, no one is confident it will be universally embraced, and the Kaminsky flaw is causing real problems today.

    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End
    duh P3rf3ss3r writes “The Associated Press reports that, after 200 years of speculation and investigation, the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus has been found. Although the heliocentric concept had been suggested earlier, Copernicus is widely thought of as the father of the scientific theory of the heliocentric solar system. The positive identification was made by comparing the DNA from a skeleton’s teeth with that from hairs in a book known to have belonged to Copernicus. A computer-generated facial reconstruction is said to also bear a resemblance to contemporary portraits of the scientist.”

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  • Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project
    TRS-80 writes “Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They changed it with the release of iPhone 2.0 and a project was started to reverse the new hash, but weren’t successful yet. My guess is Apple used the same algorithm as FairPlay for the new hash, so Apple could use the DMCA to prevent competing apps like Songbird and Banshee from talking to iPods/iPhones. BTW, don’t tell Apple, but the project uses a wiki, so the old page versions from before the takedown are still there.”

    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Network Neutrality — Without Regulation
    boyko.at.netqos writes “Timothy B. Lee (no relation to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent contributor to Ars Technica and Techdirt, has recently written ‘The Durable Internet,’ a paper published by the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that because a neutral network works better than a non-neutral one, the Internet’s open-ended architecture is not likely to vanish, despite the fears of net neutrality proponents, (and despite the wishes of net neutrality opponents.) For that reason, perhaps network neutrality legislation isn’t necessary — or even desirable — from an open-networks perspective. In addition to the paper, Network Performance Daily has an interview and podcast with Tim Lee, and Lee addresses counter-arguments with a blog posting for Technology Liberation Front.”

    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA
    NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “The RIAA’s case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up as a showdown between the Electronic Frontier and Big Music. The defendant’s witness list includes names such as those of Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Author of ‘Free Culture’), John Perry Barlow (former songwriter of The Grateful Dead and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), Prof. Johan Pouwelse (Scientific Director of P2P-Next), Prof. Jonathan Zittrain (Author of ‘The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It’), Professors Wendy Seltzer, Terry Fisher, and John Palfrey, and others. The RIAA requested, and was granted, an adjournment of the trial, from its previously scheduled December 1st date, to March 30, 2009. (The RIAA lawyers have been asking for adjournments a lot lately, asking for an adjournment in UMG v. Lindor the other day because they were so busy preparing for the Tenenbaum December 1st trial … I guess when you’re running on hot air, you sometimes run out of steam).”

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Headlines from Google Sci/Tech

Headlines from freshmeat.net

  • Fresh Memory 0.4-alpha (Default branch)
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    Fresh Memory is a program for studying foreign words. It can manage flashcards stored in dictionaries. The user can create and edit the dictionaries. The flashcards are used to study words with word drills (random flashcard browsing) or spaced repetition. It can also be used to study any structured data. The examples could be capitals of countries, chemical elements, or even birthdays of friends.

    License: GNU General Public License v2

    Changes:
    A spaced repetition algorithm based on SM-2. The study data is kept in a user-specific directory. Support for multiple fields in cards. A dictionary can have cards with many languages. All dictionaries, cards, and fields are identified with UUIDs. It is possible to add/remove cards or fields in a dictionary without any negative effects to the study data. Support for image includes. Basic HTML tags. Backwards compatibility with 0.3 version dictionaries

  • boxtream 0.999 (Default branch)
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    Boxtream is both an audio and video encoder and streamer and an assembly of audio and video hardware, forming a mobile video streaming studio. It is designed to easily record and stream live presentations, including a presenter and synchronized slides, or slides only, or presenter only. It was built to stream live courses over the Internet for distance learning students. It supports and autodetects several brands and models of video switchers. It can be entirely controlled remotely over XML-RPC, and includes an X11 interface. By default, it supports five different streaming and recording scenarios. The software part can also be used with very minimal hardware, like a DV camcorder and a laptop.

    License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

    Changes:
    For the very first time, three basic scenarios have been added for people with minimalistic hardware like a single USB Webcam or mini-DV camcorder, so finally Boxtream can be used by everybody. An example script to start both the backend and the frontend on the local machine has been added to further simplify use. Axis Webcams are now handled with the souphttpsrc GStreamer plugin. Minor bugs were fixed all over the place. A small French presentation of the project’s history was added to the distribution in the OpenDocument format.

  • WYMeditor 0.5 b2 (Default branch)
    WYMeditor is a Web-based WYSIWYM editor (What You
    See Is What You Mean) whose goal is to produce
    XHTML-CSS compliant code. It lets the writer
    concentrate on the structure and the content of
    the document, not on the visual layout.

    License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

    Changes:
    This release has new translations, and new API calls: wrap() and unwrap(). These new helpers bring support for more inline elements, such as acronym, abbreviation, cite, code, span, etc. Many bugs have been fixed since beta1. The documentation and the test suite have been improved. New example pages have been added. Last but not least, work is being done on a WYMeditor-based RDFa editor. A proof of concept is available in the package or the repository browser.

  • pppd-sql 0.1.0 (Default branch)
    pppd-sql is a plugin for the Point-to-Point server
    (pppd) on Linux and Solaris that adds an
    authentication backend using a MySQL or PostgreSQL
    database for the Challenge Handshake
    Authentication Protocol (CHAP) and Password
    Authentication Protocol (PAP). It supports
    MS-CHAPv1 and MS-CHAPv2 too. The IPCP negotiation
    after authentication handshake is also supported.
    pppd-sql supports a flexible configuration scheme,
    has built-in failover functionality (no
    load-balancing), and comes with easy and handy
    documentation.

  • Digmia Enterprise SSH 1.1h (Default branch)
    DSSH was written as a direct replacement for the
    OpenSSH client. It adds SSH over SSH tunneling
    capabilities (for example, to log in to a network
    hidden by a firewall), scripting support (using
    Groovy), an advanced agent (which allows storing
    of passwords) and “su -” interactive logging for
    machines that have disabled direct root login. All
    of this was done to enable automated scripting and
    logging to many machines based on a few simple
    rules. It uses the Trilead SSH library (slightly
    patched).

    License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

    Changes:
    This release adds support for the AMD-64 architecture on Linux.

  • phMagick 0.3.0 (Default branch)
    This class can be used to perform image
    manipulation operations with the ImageMagick
    program. It calls the ImageMagick program passing
    parameters to process several types of operations
    on image files. Currently, it can resize images,
    create thumbnails, darken or brighten images, add
    watermarks, rotate, flip, crop, convert to
    greyscale and invert images, create text images,
    and generate thumbnails from PDF or video files.

  • Frinika 0.5.1 (Default branch)
    align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10">
    Frinika is a free, complete music workstation
    program for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, and
    other operating systems running Java 1.5
    (J2SE5.0). It features a sequencer, soft-synths,
    real-time effects, and audio recording.

    License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

    Changes:
    This release fixes some annoying bugs in 0.5.0, which was never announced to the public. It is bundled with the Gervill soft synthesizer, and has audio recording/editing improvements, a drum pad, priority fixes for Linux, Toot Mixer effects, and much more.

  • phpWebSite 1.6.0 (Default branch)
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    phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and much more.

    License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

    Changes:
    This release is for PHP 5 only. It has new modules (PHPWSBB, Checkin, and Skeleton), a new theme (vv_3col), many new features, and bugfixes.

  • MySpace for Mac 1.0 beta (Default branch)
    align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10">
    MySpace for Mac is a MySpaceIM client. It is very
    simple and easy to use, supports multiple chats in
    one window, and has no annoying ads.

Headlines from PHP News

  • PHP 4.4.9 released!
    The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.9. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last PHP 4.4 release.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.9:Updated PCRE to version 7.7.Fixed overflow in memnstr().Fixed crash in imageloadfont when an invalid font is given.Fixed open_basedir handling issue in the curl extension.Fixed mbstring.func_overload set in .htaccess becomes global. For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.9, see the ChangeLog.
  • PHP 5.3 alpha1 released!
    The PHP development team is proud to announce the first alpha release of the upcoming minor version update of PHP. Windows binaries will be available starting with alpha2 (intermediate snapshots available at snaps.php.net). The new version PHP 5.3 is expected to improve stability and performance as well as add new language syntax and extensions. Several new features have already been documented in the official documentation, others are listed on the wiki in preparation of getting documented. Please also review the NEWS file.THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!The purpose of this alpha release is to encourage users to not only actively participate in identifying bugs, but also in ensuring that all new features or necessary backwards compatibility breaks are noted in the documentation. Please report any findings to the QA mailinglist or the bug tracker.There have been a great number of other additions and improvements, but here is a short overview of the most important changes:Namespaces (documentation maybe out dated)Late static binding and __callStaticLambda functions and closuresAddition of the intl, phar (phar is scheduled for some more work a head of alpha2), fileinfo and sqlite3 extensionsOptional cyclic garbage collectionOptional support for the MySQLnd replacement driver for libmysqlWindows older than Windows 2000 (Windows 98, NT4, etc.) are not supported anymore (details)New syntax features like NOWDOC, limited GOTO, ternary short cut “?:”Several under the hood changes also require in depth testing with existing applications to ensure that any backwards compatibility breaks are minimized. This is especially important for users that require the undocumented Zend engine multibyte support.The current release plan states that there will be alpha/beta/RC releases in 2-3 week intervals with an expected stable release of PHP 5.3 between mid September and mid October of 2008.
  • TestFest 2008 wrap-up
    Overall 158 tests have been submitted as part of TestFest 2008 since the launch of the TestFest submission site by 30 different people from people all over the world. Actually this is not counting the various submissions by existing core developers, who also took this opportunity to add some more tests. This has actually increased total test coverage for ext/reflection, ext/dom and ext/exif by about 10% each. While the organization of the TestFest was a bit adhoc, there were numerous TestFest events in local user groups. So the number of people exposed to the PHP test framework is much greater. Hopefully this will lead to more people submitting bug reports with an accompanying phpt test file!Our top submitter Felix De Vliegher has actually committed his last submissions himself since, based on the high quality of his submissions, he has been granted commit rights to the PHP repository. We have not heard back from all participants, but we encourage everybody to blog about their experience and provide us with feedback on how to improve future events.Now better late than never, here are the 10 winners of the promised elePHPant raffle sponsored by Nexen. Note that Felix asked me not to include him in the raffle, since he is already herding quite a number of elePHPants at home.Eric StewartHåvard EideMarc VeldmanMichelangelo van DamRein VeltRob YoungSami GreenburySebastian DeutschSebastian SchürmannStefan KoopmanschapWe will provide Nexen with the email addresses of the winners, so that they can arrange to get the elePHPants shipped. Also for those people wondering, you can continue to submit tests on the TestFest submission site. A bit thank you to all participants and TestFest organizers! Without the countless people that helped organize local events, implement the infrastructure and submissions reviewers, the TestFest would have obviously not worked out as well as it has. We will surely do similar events in the future based on the big success of TestFest 2008.
  • Manual restructure and license change
    A few weeks ago the manual was restructured to improve navigation and make room for per-extension chapters and usage examples along with improved documentation for object oriented extensions. The most noticable changes are the function reference, predefined variables, context options and parameters and predefined exceptions manual pages, for which we would really appreciate feedback on. The upcomming PHP5.3 release introduces several major features such as namespaces, closures, late static bindings, internationalization functions, INI sections, and Phar among others. We would really appreciate any and all help we can get improving the documentation. In related news, the manual was relicensed recently and is now covered by the CreativeCommons Attribution license.
  • PHP 5.2.6 Released
    The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6Update (May 6th): The Windows installers were missing the XSL and IMAP extensions.Update (May 3rd): The Windows archives were missing the XSL and IMAP extensions.
  • Google Summer of Code: php.net students
    The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Ten students will “flip bits instead of burgers” this summer: Zend LLVM Extension by Joonas Govenius, mentored by Nuno LopesPHP Optimizer by Samuel Graham Kelly IV, mentored by Derick RethansPhD (PHP Docbook) Project by Rudy Nappée, mentored by Hannes MagnussonReplace auto* with CMake by Alejandro Leiva Rojas, mentored by Pierre A. Joyegsoc:2008 - XDebug by Chung-Yang Lee, mentored by David CoallierRewrite the run-tests.php script by Cesar Montedonico, mentored by Travis SwicegoodPHP Bindings for Cairo by Akshat Gupta, mentored by Anant NarayananAlgorithm Optimizations by Michal Dziemianko, mentored by Scott MacVicarPECL, Website Improvements by Barry Carlyon, mentored by Helgi Þormar ÞorbjörnssonImplement Unicode into PHP 6 by Henrique do Nascimento Angelo, mentored by Scott MacVicarUpdate (May 11th): Unfortunately Nicholas Sloan had to drop out of the program, but he will be replaced by Rudy Nappée working on the same application.
  • TestFest 2008
    The PHP-QA team would like to announce the TestFest for the month of May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net mentors.All it takes is someone to organize a UG to spearhead the event and to get others involved in writing phpt tests. The submissions will then be reviewed by members of php.net before getting included in the official test suite. Please visit the TestFest homepage to get additional details on the TestFest on how to get involved, either as a UG or by setting up the necessary infrastructure.
  • Google Summer of Code 2008
    Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year’s GSoC.We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008. Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source passionate join us in our most enjoyable Google Summer of Code projects.
  • PHP 4.4.8 Released
    The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.8. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4 release. If necessary, releases to address security issues could be made until 2008-08-08. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.8:Improved fix for MOPB-02-2007.Fixed an integer overflow inside chunk_split(). Identified by Gerhard Wagner.Fixed integer overlow in str[c]spn().Fixed regression in glob when open_basedir is on introduced by #41655 fix.Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens.Added “max_input_nesting_level” php.ini option to limit nesting level of input variables. Fix for MOPB-03-2007.Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL - now not allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active.Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378). For a full list of changes in PHP 4.4.8, see the ChangeLog.

Headlines from Mono Project News

  • SIMD support in Mono Announced

    At the Microsoft PDC we demostrated for the first time the
    upcoming the hardware accelerated Vector types using the
    processor SIMD instructions in Mono (SSE1, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4).
    You can read more
    on Miguel’s
    blog     or you can check
    the API
    documentation    .

    This feature will be available in our upcoming Mono 2.2.

  • Mono 2.0.1 has been released

    We’ve release Mono 2.0.1 as a minor bugfix update to Mono 2.0

    See
    our detailed
    release notes     covering the changes since Mono 2.0.

    Or you
    can go directly
    and download
    Mono 2.0.1     for your platform.

  • Mono on OSX Survey

    If you are targeting MacOS X, we would appreciate if you
    could fill
    the Mono
    on MacOS X survey     to better understand how you would like
    us to improve Mono.

  • Mono 2.0 has been released

    Mono’s 2.0 grand release has finally arrived.

    See
    our detailed
    release notes     covering both the 2.0 launch and the
    changes since Mono 1.9.

    Or you
    can go directly
    and download
    Mono 2.0     for your platform.

  • SecondLife Launches Mono-based servers

    Jim Purbrick (Babbage) from Linden Labs has announced on
    the SecondLife Blog
    that they
    have started the rollout of their Mono-enabled servers    .

    They are using Mono as an engine that accelerates the
    execution of user provided scripts by translating LSL scripts
    into ECMA CIL bytecodes and in turn letting Mono turn that
    into x86 machine code.

    [Read
    More…]    .

  • First Preview for Mono 2.0 is out

    Marc Christiensen has announced the release of our first
    preview for Mono 2.0. You can read
    our preliminary
    release notes     for this release.

    The preview release is available from
    our preview
    download     directory. The source code for this release is
    available here.

    Please report any bugs that you may find using our Bugs
    page, AND reply to this thread with the bug numbers so we can
    track them! http://www.mono-project.com/Bugs

    You can see the bugs we’re tracking for Mono 2.0 here:
    https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.go-mono.com%2Farchive%2F2.0%2F&order=bugs.bug_status%20

    The earlier you file the bugs and reply to this message,
    the more likely your bugs will get fixed.

    Special attention is given to regressions, so if you can tell us a
    version of Mono where the bug worked and you tag the summary of the bug
    with [Regression], then it is much more likely your bug will get fixed.

    Please help the Mono team to make 2.0 the best ever.

  • Moonlight 0.7 released

    We have just released Moonlight 0.7 to the public.

    Get your copy
    here    .

    This
    new version of Moonlight works on both Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 and
    sports some significant changes from 0.6:

    • Webkit loads the plugin (kangaroo, lewing)
    • The stream/downloader/request/response logic (used for
      downloading media) has been been almost entirely moved from the
      browser bridges into libmoon, with the browsers providing
      subclasses. (kangaroo, sde)

    • Finally add argument checking to all wrapped plugin objects
      (fejj).

    • Windowless mode fixes (lewing, toshok)
    • Plugin event handling fixes (lewing)
  • Engine
    • Many clock/animation framework fixes. We now pass both animation
      matrix tests, and many, *many* other bugs (and regressions) have
      been fixed. (mdk).

    • Bug fixes in the Stroke{Collection}.HitTest and
      Stroke{Collection}.Bounds code (toshok, sde).

    • Namescope merging fixes (sde, jackson)
    • Parser fixes, and changes paving the way for 2.0 work (jackson)
    • Fix mouse event bubbling behavior (toshok)
  • Media
    • Big, big strides in our media framework and the various (file,
      http, mms) downloaders, (fejj, rolf, kangaroo, fer)

    • MMS stream selection (kangaroo)
  • Performance
    • Shape caching and bounds computation reduction (spouliot)

    • Geometry bounds work (spouliot)
    • Fast path for position updates (Canvas.Left/Canvas.Top) (toshok)
    • Improved temporary cairo surface bounds (lewing)
    • Glyph rendering speedups (fejj)
    • Resort by ZIndex as a dirty pass (toshok)
  • Silverlight 2.0
    • work is progressing. A very simple 2.0 application successfully
      ran. (miguel, jackson, sde).
  • Forums added to Mono Website

    Web-based forums for Mono discussions have been added at
    http://www.go-mono.com/forums

    Most active Mono community members participate in on-line discussions
    through our mailing lists; however, many Mono users have expressed a
    preference for web forums based discussions.

    In order to address this demand for an official forums for Mono,
    while keeping the community engaged in our mailing lists, we have
    embedded nabble.com into our
    site to create a bridge between the two groups. So, you can now use
    whichever method you prefer participate in the community.

  • First Moonlight Source Code Release

    To encourage users to try out Moonlight, we are doing a
    source-code only release of Moonlight for developers to try
    out Moonlight.

    To try out Moonlight, you have two options:

    • Media codecs: you must do your own build from
      source code.

    • No-media codecs: we provide one-click addins for
      Firefox that will install with no effort.

    Firefox addins are available
    from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight.

    Source code for Moonlight is available
    from here.
    To compile Moonlight from source code
    follow these
    instructions    .

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