Category Archives: Open Source

Internet Explorer Flash 8 ExternalInterface Bug

In IE6, ExternalInterface.call method will result in a Javascript error when the flash object is within a html form! (an undefined error)
Steve Kamerman had produced a fix for the bug. (Check his blog)
IE’s implementation of Javascript seems to want to look for “window.yourObject” and not “document.form[x].yourObject”, so his script figures out which form you are [...]

Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy to 7.04 Feisty

I have just upgraded my home pc from Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty. There are some problems along the way.
I am unable to use the Update Manager UI to upgrade the system. The Update Manager cannot proceed to upgrade if any available updates are not first installed, but it will just say that there is some [...]

Sky Explorer Supports Unicode Filename

Unicode filename and path are supported in version 1.0.3
The symbian python os functions can accept utf8 string and will also return utf8 string (eg. in os.listdir). It does not use unicode string like in other native symbian functions.
Since the Sky Explorer code uses path.join to get the full path in a lot of places, I [...]

SimCity Goes Open Source as Micropolis

From ars technica.
Will Wright’s original SimCity has now gone open-source under the GNU General Public License. Though the name and some code have been changed due to EA’s requirements, the core of the title remains intact and is now open for the public. This follows the inclusion of SimCity into the OLPC project.
Originally written in [...]

One Laptop Per Child

From FoxNews.com.
It has taken more than two years, but the One Laptop Per Child initiative has finally released its much-anticipated laptop: the OLPC XO-1.
The XO-1 costs $200 each to donate, but for a limited time — until Dec. 31, 2007 — people can avail themselves of the “Give One, Get One” promotion to give [...]

Interview with Google Android’s Makers

From CNET News.com.
After years of rumors of a Google phone, the search giant a week ago finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android.
On Monday, Google released the software developer kit, or SDK, for Android and announced that it would set aside $10 million to give [...]

UC Berkeley Free Video Courses

From Massive Free Education List by JimmyR.com.
Related:
Campus launches YouTube channel. (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to “Physics for [...]