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Semantic Web - I wanted you to know about this -

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Reference to what is below is Wikipedia - Original link h3r3 The semantic web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language , but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents , thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily. [1] It derives from W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee 's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data , information , and knowledge exchange. At its core, the semantic web comprises a philosophy, [2] a set of design principles, [3] collaborative working groups , and a variety of enabling technologies. Some elements of the semantic web are expressed as prospective future possibilities that have yet to be implemented or realized. [4] Other elements of the semantic web are expressed in formal specifications. [5] Some of these include Resource Description Framework (RDF), a variety of data interchange formats (e.g. RDF/XML , N3 , Turtle ,

Acer to offer Ubuntu Powered laptop

As the title says h3r3

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google

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By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites. Original Post and Details h3r3 Publish Post

Software Freedom Day page

This is the Software Freedom Day team page and Wiki if you are interested in helping and participating , please add your name ,contact mail, and how you think you can help h3r3 http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/africa/arabfoss Want to see you all there.

Games on Linux - Linux with Games

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The games go in no particular order: Neverball Category: Strategy Description: The main gameplay of Neverball is based on moving a ball to collect coins using gravity by tilting the game world, not directly controlling the ball; similar to Super Monkey Ball . Home Page: http://icculus.org/neverball/ Frets on Fire Category: Music Oriented Description: The gameplay of Frets on Fire is the same as in Guitar Hero - the player emulates playing a guitar. Frets on Fire is meant to be played by picking up the keyboard like a guitar, with one hand pressing the fret buttons and another pressing the pick buttons and hitting the notes as they scroll down the page. Home Page: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ Second Life Category: Simulation / MMORPG Description: Second Life is an Internet-based virtual world where you can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, create and trade items and services from one another. Home page: http://secondlif

MySQL Proxy 0.5.0 alpha Release

MySQL Proxy is a program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for a wide variety of use cases, including: Load balancing Failover Query analysis Query filtering and modification and many more Documentation h3r3 Getting Started with MySQL proxy is h3r3 it is released under a GPL license.

know Domains that a web server have ?

In other words, If you have an IP and want to know domains that are loaded on this web server use the following site : http://www.webhosting.info/ Steps: 1) go to the above URL 2) enter the IP you want to check in Search box (for ex. 64.236.91.23 ) 3) click on Search 4) you will find cnn.com 5) Thankx to Waelaase for sharing. 6) if you know how they do it, please let me know

Access Pay sites without payment or authentication

Guys, This is to Access pay/registration required sites for free I do not know if this will work with every site on the internet plex. but it worked on many sites for me. All what you need to do, is to make your web browser distinguish itself as Google Bot All of us have seen Google returns search results that lead to sites that require a registeration ?, How googlebot index the site without a registration ? Many sites want their site indexed in google to recieve more hits and thus, make more money with advertisment on their site. Even more interesting is the following question: How do we use this to our advantage ? It is Simple , we need to disguise ourselfs as the googlebot, many sites will let you in without authentication/registration. The parameter we have to change is called the User Agent. The user agent defines the browser and version that you use. For example it would show Internet Explorer as your browser if you are using this one. You need to alter your Browser settings to t

PC to PC call - Open Source Softphone-

is that a Skype competitor OpenWengo is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP. The flagship product of the OpenWengo project is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place. OpenWengo was started and is supported by the french VoIP provider Wengo . Through our partnership with Wengo, we also offer very cheap PC to telephone and SMS rates. Site h3r3

WINE releases 0.9.42

What's new in this release: - Support for activation contexts and side-by-side assemblies. - Many more gdiplus functions. - More messaging support in crypt32.dll. - Many HTTP protocol handling fixes. - Lots of bug fixes. Official Release h3r3 For those who don't know what is WINE, please read below Some Screenshot for Windows Applications (yak) running on our beloved Linux, please click h3r3 for a List of Window$ application$ that runs on WINE , please click h3r3 Binary Compatibility Loads Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows 3.x and DOS programs and libraries Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux and FreeBSD) "bug-for-bug" compatibility with Windows Graphics X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts DirectX support for games (limited Direct3D support) Support for OpenGL based games and

ATI New Linux Driver

Although it is not Open Source, but I like to see that different vendors are releasing driver for my beloved Linux h3r3

Intel Creates Open Source Project for Its Popular Multi-Core Development Software

Intel announced today that they're open-sourcing their cross-platform Thread Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB) template library. While the company contributes code to open-source project like the Linux kernel and drivers, the opening of TBB marks the first time that Intel has taken a commercial tool and open-sourced it, making it Intel's largest open-source commitment to date. Official announcement h3r3

LINUX POWERS 1,024 Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, 4TB RAM, and ultra-dense 240TB SGI(R)

First in Plain English NASA latest super computer has the following: i) 1024 - One Thousand, twenty four Processors- Dual-Core Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors - in total of 2048 PROCESSORS. ii) 4 TB - TERA BYTE - RAM iii) Ultra-dense 240TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage This SUPER COMPUTER will produce 13.1 TFLOPs of compute power THIS ALL IS POWERED BY A SINGLE IMAGE OF LINUX THIS ALL IS POWERED BY A SINGLE IMAGE OF LINUX Guys, if you are interested to know how to build your own super computer, send me comment and I will write a howto on that. NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World SGI Altix 4700 with 4TB Memory To Power NAS Technology Refresh Program Details: SGI and NASA today announced that the agency has selected a record-setting SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer in its evaluation of next-generation technology to meet future high-performance computing (HPC) requirements. The system was acquired as part of NAS Technology Refresh (NTR), a four-phase procurement p

Linux based device for Visually impaired

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This pot is copied as is, I post here as I wanted you to share it with me. Levelstar used embedded Linux to create a PDA (personal digital assistant) for visually impaired users. The "Icon" has a custom hardware design with built-in 30GB hard drive, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB, and comes with a full complement of "life managing software," much of it written from scratch for blind users. According to founder and lead developer Marc Mulcahy, the Icon is the only PDA for blind users to integrate a hard drive. He expects the Icon's drive to become a "huge advantage" next month, when the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped starts offering its enormous library of talking books in downloadable form. . Instead of a power-hungry LCD touchscreen, the Levelstar PDA for blind users has stereo speakers and a telephone-style keypad (Click to enlarge) Meanwhile, the Icon features close integration with Bookshare.org , a service offering 32

Open Education

I believe in Freedom, and my/our right in Education as part of our freedom. So,I compiled this list of online University Courses, below are links to online course provided by some universities - -;((( my university "Kent" does not provide such a service so far - and I have found a very interesting site called WikiVersity - it was my first time to find it ?!!! - WikiVersity link is http://www.wikiversity.org/ h3r3 Universities online Courses The Sweet Berkeley : http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php The Lovely MIT : http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm Carnegie Mellon : http://www.cmu.edu/oli/ Johns Hopkins : http://ocw.jhsph.edu/topics.cfm Notre Dame : http://ocw.nd.edu/eduCommons/Courses_listing Podcasts from Universities The Sweet Berkely : http://itunes.berkley.edu/ Stanford : http://itunes.stanford.edu/ Purdue : http://boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013/Boilercast/ University Channel PrinceTon : http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php UCLA : http://www.b

OpenDesktop Released

OpenDesktop released ! What is OpenDesktop ? it is a site that links and contains a network of other sites that is related to Open source desktop themes application, user experience and so on. h3r3 you can find the OpenDesktop site the OpenDeskTop network has the following resources : KDE-Look has collection of KDE Themes, Icons,Skins,Mouse pointers, Screen Shots. KDE-Apps has collection of KDE Applications. KDE-Files has collection of more variant files on KDE , and OpenOffice Templates,Artworks.... GNOME-Look has collection of Gnome Themes,Icons,Skins, Mouse Pointers, , Screen Shots. Xfce-Look has collection of XFCE Themes,Icons,Skins, Mouse Pointers, , Screen Shots. Maemo-Apps has collection of Maemo applications, Themes ,... - what is Maemo is on another post- . Beryl-Themes has collection of Beryl Themes,Icons,Skins, Mouse Pointers, , Screen Shots. Compiz-Themes has collection of Compiz Themes,Icons,Skins, Mouse Pointers, , Screen Shots. Qt-Apps has collection of QT A

Joomla 1.5 RC1 released Today yap

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Joomla! lead developer Louis Landry announced Joomla's release candidate of Joomla! 1.5 today. The much-anticipated announcement of Joomla's amazing new framework was met with with enthusiastic applause. Meanwhile, almost simultaneously, Wilco Jansens delivered the good news to a group of Joomla! fans in Germany. "This release candidate is more than one small step for Joomla!," Louis said. "It's a massive technology step for open source as a whole. This release candidate marks a defining moment in Joomla! history ... our progression away from old legacy code into a more powerful, flexible modern framework." More details h3r3

"$100 laptop" production begins

Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Details h3r3

Kernel 2.6.23 Release Candidate 1

As expected, Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.23 -rc1 kernel two weeks after the release of 2.6.22 , ending the merge window, " and it has a *ton* of changes as usual for the merge window , way too much for me to be able to post even just the shortlog or diffstat on the mailing list ". He noted, " I personally like how 'sendfile' is now totally gone internally, and the kernel now ends up doing all that with splice insted. Good riddance, although we'll obvously end up supporting the old user level interfaces for a long time. "

Earth from Satellite !

below is some interesting views for Earth from different Satellites. 1) http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth h3r3 The whole list of Satellites available for viewing our poor earth is at h3r3 http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html Happy viewing...........

How to make a Backup copy of copy protected CD or DVD ?

In this post, I will describe how to make a backup copy (in other words for legal purpose). it is not 100% bullet prove (nothing is 100% bullet prove !!) it is simple , I use this software called Clone DVD h3r3 http://www.clonedvd.net/ it copies most of the copy protected CD or DVDs that uses media layer copy protection scheme

116 Open Source Application that you can use

Below is a list of Open Source application that I used/tried/researched. Please share your experience with us and add your application as well. 3D Animation Editor 1. White_Dune This 3D modeler and animation tool allows users to read, display, and perform low-level editing tasks on VRML97 files. VRML97, which stands for "Virtual Reality Modeling Language," is the current industry standard for displaying 3D animations on the Web. Operating system: Linux/Unix, OS X, Windows. Address Book 2. Rubrica Written using GNOME and GTK+, Rubrica stores contact information as XML data. It can import/export from a variety of formats, including GnomeCard, KAddressbook, Evolution, and csv file format. Operating system: Linux/Unix. Audio Tools 3. Audacity Audacity allows users to record live audio, convert tapes and records to digital formats, or mix pre-existing digital audio tracks. Supported formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Operating system: Linux/