KDE.News takes a look at a new
IDE for Qt. “News emerged recently that Qt Software (formerly
Trolltech) were working on their first IDE for Qt, code named Project
Greenhouse. Today saw the release of the first technical preview under the
name Qt Creator. The initial release is binary only, and under the terms of
the Qt preview license, but the final release will be released with source
code under a GPL compatible license. The initial release is available for
Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows.”

Curiosity about computing’s future can be found in its past: The mighty Mainframe (MF) lives again.

Dave Phillips discovers
AlgoScore, a Csound-based program for sound and music composition.
“AlgoScore is not a “graphical composition” environment, i.e., the
sound is not created by the graphics per se. AlgoScore supplies graphic
objects, but their ultimate content and shapes result from Csound and/or
Nasal code (a Nasal interpreter is included with the package). Thus, unlike
other programs that simplify Csound, AlgoScore requires some knowledge of
computer programming. Fortunately Csound and Nasal are relatively simple
languages to learn, and even a little familiarity will take you a long way
into the possibilities of AlgoScore.”

A memory management error in libspf2 might allow for remote execution of arbitrary code.

In the early days of desktop virtualization, there were few low-priced alternatives to VMware Workstation that didn’t involve a steep learning curve. Even the freely available VirtualBox didn’t affect Workstation’s market domination and instead faced competition from the newly rebranded VMware GSX server, which was offered for free as VMware Server. Despite being an entry-level server virtualization product, many people used VMware Server on the desktop. Taking that into consideration, you have to look at the recently released VMware Server 2, from two angles — as an entry-level server virtualization platform and as an alternative to desktop virtualization products like VirtualBox. With its performance and other improvements, it does enough to keep existing customers happy, but probably not enough to get others to switch.