Well, here’s the latest and greatest:  The Sony Classics film, "Who Killed the Electric Car? ":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

The film covers the GM car called the EV1, of which about 1000 were sold and driven from 1997 to 2003… They were owned by many VIP’s including Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks and Alexandra Paul of Baywatch fame.

In 2003, they were repossessed by GM and crushed .   …The vehicles had plenty of power and would drive 110 - 160 miles on a charge… for the equivalent of of $0.60 / gallon (!!!)

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=who%20killed%20the%20electric%20car&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#

Lots of users are unhappy with Windows Vista, looks like:

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Provides+XP+Downgrade+for+Unhappy+Vista+Users/article9027.htm

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

Permalink:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html?ex=

Initially, this is of primary concern to Linux users.  Generally, if you have a PC of some sort, either Nvidia or AMD/ATI makes your graphics chip (and therefore has to produce video drivers).  …Intel also produces some on the lower end.

Since forever, these drivers and device technology have been closely guarded secrets.  Nvidia was generally better, especially on Linux, but was kind of like Coke & Pepsi or maybe McDonald’s & Burger King… More or less.

With AMD’s purchase of ATI last year however, and their focus on using open source methodology to compete with Intel, they have finally decided to release all the info on their video technology to the public.

This will lead to huge leaps in performance as various enthusiasts tinker with it all over the world.  Exciting, Exciting, Exciting!

http://programming.reddit.com/info/2pdan/comments

Link to see the ATI driver full spec:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/

IBM has announced that it will commit resources and developers to the Open Office.org project. This has been long-anticipated, but apparently has been finalized:

Story from Yahoo!News & PC World

Fed up with the annoyances of Quickbooks?  Don’t want to get tied into Office 2007 and M$ Accounting?  Well, then you may want to take a look at GnuCash.

 Totally open and free, the program is nonetheless a full-powered double-entry accounting system.  It’s very capable and has just been ported to the Windows environment:

GnuCash Release Announcment

“I wanted to be clear that Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations outside the United States,” Menchaca wrote.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070709/tc_infoworld/90048;_ylt=AolGfeO_v_vny8eRsKi2cy8jtBAF

This is a really great article, maybe the best I’ve seen on this topic:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000888.html

Don’t worry about the name of the blog, the guy is a top-level programmer and this actually is one of the more popular programming blogs anywhere on the ‘net.

BTW, to monitor and/or kill Windows processes and Start-up programs, allow me to also post these links to the SysInternals Process Explorer and AutoRuns app’s.

Big News: SAP AG has announce plans today to acquire Stamford-based OutlookSoft Corp (!!) :

Yahoo News

Yahoo News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070419/tc_infoworld/87835;_ylt=AikGk2qkCNYkiFjWzuHVl68jtBAF