Precipitate: search Google Docs and Bookmarks from Spotlight:
“Google’s Mac group has released Precipitate, a plugin which allows you to search Google Docs and Google Bookmarks from the same interface that you search you Mac. It works with both Spotlight and Google Desktop for Mac….”
Convicted murderer Hans Reiser leads police to Nina’s remains:
OAKLAND, CA (KGO) — ABC News has confirmed that authorities are in the process of recovering Nina Reiser’s remains from Redwood Regional Park, east of Skyline Boulevard.
We spoke with the office of Reiser’s attorney, William Dubois. They confirmed to us that Dubois and Reiser accompanied police into the park Monday afternoon. ABC News reports Reiser led them to his wife’s remains.
The body was found in a bag, buried deep in a ravine. The bag was well concealed and could have been easily overlooked. The remains have not yet been exhumed. Present at the scene were Judge Goodman, members of the district attorney’s office, Oakland police and Alameda sheriffs.
Reiser’s son testified at the trial that he had a dream that he saw his father carry his mother out of the house in a bag.
Sources tell ABC News that a deal was struck with Reiser that would reduce his conviction from first-degree murder to second-degree murder. The lesser charge means Reiser could receive a sentence of 15 years to life, instead of the previous 25 years to life.
Via abc7news.com
Slashdot | De Icaza Regrets Novell/Microsoft Pact
“Novell Vice President and GNOME architect Miguel de Icaza sounded off at a MIX 08 panel on a number of topics. First, he claimed that he was ‘not happy’ with Novell’s cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, saying that if he had his way, the company would have stayed with the open-source community. He also said that neither Windows nor Linux are relevant in the long term, thanks to Web 2.0 business models: ‘They might be fantastic products … but Google has shown itself to be a cash cow. There is a feature beyond selling corporate [software] and patents … it’s going to be owning end users.’ He also tangled with Mike Schroepfer, a Mozilla engineering executive, about extending patent protection for Moonlight to third parties. However, de Icaza did say that Novell has ‘done the best it could to balance open-source interests with patent indemnification.’ We discussed the beginnings of the deal between Microsoft and Novell back in 2006.”
I liked this guy a lot better in his Helix Code/Ximian days….