Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.0, a major update introducing symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines as well as much improved 3D support. See the ChangeLog for details.

Overview of new features & improvements:

• Available in more than 70 languages.
• Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
• Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

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If you want to read something about all new features of iPhone OS 3.0 just have a look at this 213 pages document

Related to this post tethering was not activated after installation of the settings.

Several websites propose an interface to download the configuration for MMS and Tethering: http://www.iphone-notes.de and http://benm.at

I tried the second one and tethering with my iPhone, MacBook Pro is working great.

1. Browse with your iPhone here
2. Choose your country and provider
3. Install the downloaded settings
4. reboot your iPhone and you’re done

Opera has release a new service in its web browser: opera unite but was is the added value?

Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy and flexibility than other online services.

introduction to opera unite

You must keep your opera browser open, and your computer running at home to be able to access and give acces to the datas you share.

Opera unite allows people to run a personal file/web server without the complete installation of services on a dedicated machine.

The search engine “Wolfram|Alpha” is able to answer complex queries. It can make amazing comparisons, perform linguistic searches, and provides a way to do calculations that are impossible elsewhere other than in a copy of Mathematica.

Now Wolfram|Alpha has an iPhone portal http://www.wolframalpha.com/iphone.

Yo can also submit your input about Wolfram|Alpha here http://community.wolframalpha.com/

I installed the RoR monitoring plugin but my application was crashed because of it.

I had this error uninitialized constant Scout::RAILS_GEM_VERSION

as a dirty workaround I changed in lines 16 and 19 of vendor/plugins/scout_rails_instrumentation/lib/scout.rb

RAILS_GEM_VERSION by its value ‘2.3.2’ for my application.

It works but needs to be digged out.

Ruby enterprise edition 20090610, Rails 2.3.2, phusion passenger 2.2.2, Ubuntu server 9.0.4.

This morning I checked the updates for my iPhone after having iPhone OS 3.0 installed and the message was:

It is installing the carrier bundle for MMS and Tethering.

If you look for the new iPhone OS 3.0, you can download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=30D7BWES

To install it connect your iPhone, do a sync (backup) and restore your iPhone:

1. Update iTunes to version 8.2 if not done yet
2. Connect your iPhone to your computer
3. Alt+click Restore button on Mac OS
4. Select the file you downloaded
5. After the restore (installing iPhone 3.0) sync again your iPhone

You have access now to all the new features…

Have fun!

Ruby Enterprise Edition 20090610 fixes the DoS vulnerability in Ruby

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090610 is an emergency release containing a backport of the fix. All users are advised to upgrade. We have tested this release against RubySpec, the Rails 2.3 test suite and the Phusion Passenger test suite, and everything passes.

REE releases are usually hosted on RubyForge, but it’s currently down, so we’re temporarily hosting this release on our own web server. Please note that these links are temporary and will be replaced by RubyForge links once RubyForge is online again.

• Download source code
• Download x86 Ubuntu package
• Download x86_64 Ubuntu package

To upgrade from a previous version, simply install into the same prefix that you installed to last time. Please also refer to the documentation for upgrade instructions.