In light of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s admission this month that he should have designed World Wide Web http addresses without the double forward slashes, TIME looks back at some other memorable screwups involving the Internet.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989, doesn’t seem like a man who has many regrets. But he admitted earlier this month at a symposium in Washington that his decision to include those annoying forward slashes in http addresses was made on a whim. If he could change one thing about the Internet now, he says, he would slash the slashes, which are completely unnecessary.

A nice compilation and a nice read for end of year holiday . Take a look the complete list of best & worst list in 2009.

Many of you have commented that our NewsVac section hasn’t been refreshed since the middle of last month. Others have noticed that our story volume has dropped off. Changes are coming to Linux.com, and until they arrive, you won’t see any new stories on the site.

For legal reasons, we can’t tell you yet about what’s coming — but we’re not joining forces with Microsoft or any other proprietary software company. As soon as we can tell you, you’ll hear it here first.

The story has been revealed after the announcement about linux.com take over.

Just a memorial moment, The Linux.com URL was a main asset for of VA Linux, SourceForge’s original name. Rumors said that the URL worth for about one million dollars. Linux.com maybe one of such qualified domain name so it would be possible if SourceForge keep it as their main asset.

Asked about the reason why the transfer took so long, Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, refused comment. However, Jon Sobel, group president, media at SourceForge, replied, “There was no specific reason. We did our best to preserve the site, but, understanding that this relationship [between SourceForge and the Linux Foundation] would likely come to fruition, we were careful not to do anything that would interfere with its future. We were proceeding with a great deal of care.”

Read more on “Inside the Linux Foundation Purchase of Linux.com”

Qt Creator is a brand new and powerful IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing Qt application. Beside  Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator 1.0, Trolltech also provide Qt SDK for helping developer get in touch with Qt. Qt 4.5 release with a new licensing schema with  LGPL beside commercial and GPL license those available on previous edition.

Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator 1.0 available for download at http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads. It seems the download server has too many download request because I got a low connection while trying to download the Qt for Linux from my hosting server. Please feel free to used torrent service if you wish another option for downloading or you have any difficulties for download from http.

Qt 4.5 NOW AVAILABLE
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Qt 4.5 is now available for download from the Qt Software website. For Qt 4.5, the Qt development team focused on:
- Improving the runtime performance of Qt-based applications
- Enabling users to take advantage of the latest version of WebKit
- Adding support for 64-bit development on Apple’s Cocoa Framework

Qt CREATOR 1.0 RELEASED
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Qt Creator is a new, cross-platform IDE tailored to the needs of Qt developers. Qt Creator is available under the LGPL license for download from the Qt Software website.

FIRST-EVER COMPLETE Qt SDK
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The Qt SDK is a complete Qt development environment in a single binary package. Packages are available for Windows, Mac and Linux, with support for embedded development coming later this year. The Qt SDK is available under the LGPL license on the Qt Software website.

For more information about Qt 4.5, Qt Creator and the Qt SDK, please visit http://www.qtsoftware.com/whatsnew.

Apple inc today announced the availability of their browser, Safari 4 beta. Safari 4 beta released with new features and bug fixes, including  Cover Flow effect (it was my favorite effect on KDE 4 ), full history search, faster Java Script engine with dubbed Nitro, and some  new features.

Beside the look and feel improvement, the main feature are adapted Nitro engine, which claimed more faster than their competitors. Safari 4 beta claimed to be runs faster  3X than Firefox and  30X than Internet Explorer 7.

Some feature seems to be clone from another browser. New idea about Top Sites feature as an example, more likely copied from Google Chrome with some improvement. My first impression on Initial install and usage shown that this browser would  increase the browser war jargon in the world. It looks pretty, easy to use with faster response and better loading.

If you wish to give it a try, please refer to Safari 4 Beta Download Page. Too bad the Safari 4 beta only available for Windows and Mac

Note : Picture credited to Lifehacker.