Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Screenshots

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Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux

San Francisco - Adobe Systems released an early alpha version of its rich Internet application platform AIR for Linux on Monday, and announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes and standardizes Linux.

AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) allows Internet-enabled applications to run on Windows and Mac OS X desktops. AIR applications use the same technologies as Web applications built to run inside a browser, including HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), and Flash, Adobe's own multimedia programming language.

The AIR runtime framework is already available for Windows and Mac OS X:
Adobe's goal is to allow such applications to run on Linux too, although some applications may not work with the version released Monday.

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Open Source SMS Gateway

I have been through this good Open Source WAP and SMS Gateway. it is called Kannel, and the site is kannel.org link is h3r3

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Nokia Maps to gain real-time traffic updates

Nokia Maps 2.0 will soon be able to tap into the Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI) service provided by European in-vehicle information specialist ARC Transistance. RTTI currently sends out traffic information specific to 16 European countries.

Nokia said that Maps will using the data to automatically re-route drivers or to provide them with alternative pre-planned routes to their destination. However, RTTI will be offered as a premium service, so you'll have to cough up if you want to use it. Nokia also charges for turn-by-turn guidance, though Maps will plot routes in advance, for free.

A pre-release version of Nokia Maps 2.0 is available to download now, but the handset giant didn't say when the additional download required to enable RTTI will be available, or what the costs involved will be ?

Where your Mobile can find 9 GSM Operators ?

I think it is very rare when you can be in a place where your mobile can find 9 different GSM Networks.

That place is Taba-Egypt N 29 10.718 E034 43.150 (Close to Isreal)

AMD Continues to lose money ?!!!

I love AMD processors and all my gears are running AMD processors, but I have been through this sad news that AMD is making 100% loss margin

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Ubuntu 8.04 is Released

As the Title and the logo on the right hand side tells , UBUNTU 8.04 is relased

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Self Destructive DVD

A German company has introduced a disposable DVD that can be viewed for 48 hours, then thrown away. The DVDs will sell for just €3.99 ($6.44 /£3.20).

So, it's about the same price as a new video rental in Europe - and it used to be about the same price as in the US, before the Mighty Dollar shrank into the Pygmy Dollar. But there are no late fees and no need to pop the disk in the post or return to the store. This opens up DVD distribution possibilities for new premium-priced movie releases - in petrol stations, convenience stores, coffee shops and the like, as well as online retailers - as there is no longer the need to book the DVDs back in. That's the idea. Will it work?

DVD-D Germany Ltd's 'Einmal' (German for 'once') - discs incorporate a self-destruct chemical coating to render them unreadable after a pre-set time. The process begins as soon as the discs are removed from vacuum-sealed packaging. After 48 hours (or longer, depending on the price) the DVD gives a 'No disc' error when put into a DVD player or PC. There appears to be no DRM (digital rights management), so you could copy the disks, if you're quick enough.

Openoffice 3.0 Released

Yes, that is True, OpenOffice 3.0 Released.
You can create online blog , Online Wiki using your New OpenOffie, and PDF Import functionality
OOo-Dev 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m7) Download Link is h3r3

Wine 0.9.60 Released

his is release 0.9.60 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
 - Better support for Windows IMEs.
 - Option for Windows-style window decorations.
 - Improved system tray behavior.
 - Window management fixes.
 - Improved quartz audio support.
 - Better support for launching apps from Unix file managers.
 - Lots of bug fixes.

Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you
before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will
be available from the following locations:

 http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.60.tar.bz2
 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.60.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

 http://www.winehq.org/site/download

You will find documentation on

 http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git or CVS
repositories. Check respectively http://www.winehq.org/site/git or
http://www.winehq.org/site/cvs for details.

If you fix something, please submit a patch; instructions on how to do
this can be found at http://www.winehq.org/site/sending_patches

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

----------------------------------------------------------------

Bugs fixed since 0.9.59:

  2989  Wine supports only one DISPLAY per session
  3185  Invalid working directory results in crashes file open/close dialog
  3534  Systray icons are not transparent...
  4056  winecfg is unusable with the default virtual desktop size
  5034  Wrong size of commdlg OpenFile dialog in radvideo.exe
  5346  Library initialisation crash with USER and X11DRV
  5396  Tabbed Text
  5804  iTunes detects incorrect version of QuickTime
  5887  Wine does not load dynamically generated fonts
  6257  Ankh Demo crashes in OpenGL mode
  6450  Deus Ex user input stops working intermittently
  6573  Errors while trying to run Ragnarok Online causing game to crash at
startup
  6785  Continuum doesn't run in non-virtual desktop when windowed
  6786  Continuum windowed mode under virtual desktop puts pixels ~15 too low
  6871  Textures in GTAIII are rendered as grey and silver weirdness
  6907  Delphi applications printing bug
  6999  Prince of Persia Warrior Within plays videos with blank screen then
closes
  7137  game Secret Files Tunguska dies randomly with "unknown error" poping up
  7140  segfault running rc.exe via make
  7174  Master of Orion 2 does not switch screen resolution correctly
  7193  Deus Ex fullscreen > 1024x768 cut off
  7231  TextPad4: Can't print
  7477  Uplink demo crashes
  7596  HomeSeer 2.2 will not install
  7622  Sony Vegas 7.0
  7631  Titan Quest hangs after 5 seconds in menu
  7647  The updater for Gekkeiju Online crashes with an error message.
  7679  IMVU 3D Avatar Chat client crashes
  7786  Grand Prix 3 dplay error
  7836  Prism fails to start
  7879  Mono (D3D Game) dies with an error about sound
  7945  3dmark 2000 demo immediately exits
  8049  Edit control text length is off by one
  8086  gdi32 font test fails in fonts with charset 130
  8116  MyScribe doesn't start (Suse 10.0)
  8143  Project IGI 2 : Covert Strike crashes at the end of intro movie
  8319  Autocad 2008 trial install fails very early
  8540  C&C3: Malfunctioning shaders (ATI)
  8547  Intel Image processing Library - ipla6 error preventing operation.
  8551  MoveFileWithProgressW unconditional fails for directories with flag
MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING
  8641  Supreme Commander Patch crashes
  8809  When in "Wine desktop" mode, systray crashes
  9010  HebRech takes forever to load
  9011  incorrect dup() behavior
  9047  Civilization IV Expansion pack "Beyond the Sword" Install Crash
  9286  nice icon and menu
  9315  Running Corel Draw 7 causes crash
  9631  Window with specific classes/styles/ex_styles should bypass WM taskbar
  9647  iTunes 7 sound loopy, unstable
  9671  Derive 5 no longer draws graphs in color
  9731  GdiConvertToDevmodeW trying to copy -32 bytes on memcpy
  9740  Unimplemented function causes Phantasmagoria 2 to crash
  9765  iTunes 7.4.3 can't connect to the iTunes music store
  9793  Circuitmaker 2000 trouble with wire manual routing
  9809  Autodesk Revit Architecture 2008 install fails
  9969  OPAS shows error boxes when hovering over calendar item
 10446  Capslock key press not detected
 10750  shdocvw carshes after showing webpage
 10867  Trying to run Ztree under wine : "Could not get hWnd"
 10917  Checkpoint Smart Dashboard crashes
 11026  newly created tool window does not have keyboard focus
 11111  Picasa slideshow does not have focus on Gnome
 11252  Adobe Photoshop CS2 window motion cosmetic problem
 11347  Microsoft Word 2000 - some fonts are always bold
 11371  Not possible to open documents with Teach2000
 11463  conflicting types between Wine list.h and Solaris list.h in server/fd.c
 11474  winelauncher mixes up stdout & stderr
 11547  corrupted double-linked list - glasgow haskell compiler
 11593  winecfg does not correctly import colour theme profiles
 11679  BW Styler Plugin for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 ugly cosmetic problem
 11731  iTunes doesn't register mouse clicks properly
 11775  Oleview does not correctly generate idl files
 11784  3dsmax2008 installer crashes:err:cursor:DIB_GetBitmapInfo (1633746944):
unknown/wrong size for header
 11870  Steam Crashes when trying to install any game with GLX Error
 11973  Chatstat crashes into wintrust
 12050  No mouse cursor after minimize-restore in Uru
 12073  Cyberboard: selection windows don't change selection
 12108  Regression in mshtml results in page causes page fault when visiting a
web page
 12110  Regression in Starfleet Command game since 0.9.57
 12150  Photoshop7 -> open file -> select more than 36 files, Wine dies
 12156  closing multiple help windows crashes wine
 12162  Heroes of Might & Magic IV awful frame rate
 12203  Windows Live Messenger 8.1.0178 fails to install
 12249  Ultraedit v14.00a builtin MSI doesn't work.
 12250  Call of Cthulhu: Slow and jerky mouse movement
 12264  IDA disassembler (and other apps developed in Delphi) window isn't
added to taskbar
 12266  EVE Online interface got several glitches between 0.9.58 and 0.9.59
 12296  Some games are crashing when they switch the resolution
 12325  winebrowser / mapi32.dll does not support accented characters in
mailto:
 12331  windows driver doc kit won't install.
 12343  Anarchy Online: Shift Clicking anything with left shift does not work
as intended
 12362  Systray support for all applications is broken
 12365  ntoskrnl: crash on unimplemented API: KeQueryActiveProcessors /
KeQueryInterruptTime  (starforce)
 12397  Can't accept licence of Swat 4 demo
 12399  Oregon Trail 5th Edition: will not start
 12408  Swat 4 Demo Installer license text displayed incorrectly
 12409  EVE Premium Client Login Screen Black
 12410  f761b908013698ee4e015ea03f48ce5d170fb666 breaks ghostrecon
 12413  Pokerstars windows not refreshed
 12424  QIP: message window hangs often if minimized
 12439  Regression: Age of Mythology: Installer page faults
 12445  Arcgisexplorer crashes in dbghelp
 12461  SmartFTP Client requires an implementation of cryptui.dll
 12465  winetest compilation regression with 0.9.59 (Bourne shell problem)
 12469  Keyboard navigation regression in some controls
 12482  Wine 0.9.59 don't do linefeed when ENTER is pressed in any "MEMO" in
applications  compiled by DELPHI7.
 12493  CreateCompatibleDC creates a compatible DC from everything
 12496  SSF: SendMessage Error MessageBox ends program
 12498  fixme:htmlhelp:HtmlHelpW Not all HH cases handled correctly
 12499  RnQ: chat input textbox became non-multiline in 0.9.59
 12512  Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End don't match Windows behaviour for the edit
control
 12543  Shift-click not working in World of Warcraft after upgrade to latest
wine (0.9.59) (affects Photoshop, too)
 12579  regression : cohabitation between windows in "mdi" application


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New Storage Technology makes IPOD up to 500TB

Researchers at the university have developed a technique for radically increasing the number of gigabytes that can be crammed into one square inch of data-storage chip, raising it from just 3.3GB to around 500,000GB.
Glasgow University’s Professor Lee Cronin told Register Hardware that the revolutionary process uses a molecule-sized switch which consists of two molybdenum(VI) oxide 'polyoxometalate' molecular nanoclusters positioned about 0.32nm - 32 millionths of a millimetre - apart within a metal oxide 'cage'.

He claimed that the switch can be used to manipulate electrical fields, allowing it to store data and have that information read back. By placing switches on a carbon or gold surface, up to 1bn transistors could be put onto a single chip – around five times the current limit.

Cronin said this explosion in storage capacity could be extended out past iPods, but admitted that it could be 20 years before consumer electronics are available that employ such storage methods to gain huge amounts of capacity.

Full details of the research - Reversible electron-transfer reactions within a nanoscale metal oxide cage mediated by metallic substrates - have been published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

God Bless Lunix

One more reason to Love Linux

It is Easter Time

Since, it is Easter time ; I have noticed something "I'm lucky for Being Christian".
The Character of Jesus is Supreme , we can learn every good thing for our soul from him

GIMP 2.5 Screenshots

The GIMP team announced today the first release from the 2.5 development series. It is true that this version is unstable, but a little bird told me to give it a try and see what's it capable of. First of all, let me tell you that its interface is quite redesigned and I think that some users will have problems adjusting with it, but that's just my two cents. On the other hand, version 2.5.0 of The GIMP includes some hot new features, like the integration of GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) which will finally get support for higher color depths, more colorspaces and eventually non-destructive editing.

Redesigned interface:


Is this what you have expected from a new major version of The GIMP? Maybe not, but as you can see from the above screenshot, The GIMP's main window (yes, the one you've already used with) has no menu! Instead, from now on you will have two windows opened. The main window is the one in the left, where you can drag and drop images, and the toolbox (the one in the right) it's treated as an utility window.

Polygonal Selection Tool:


By public demand, a simple polygonal selection tool was added in this release.

The Power of GEGL




GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework. It's original design was made to scratch GIMP's itches for a new compositing and processing core. In other words it will get support for higher color depths, more colorspaces and eventually non-destructive editing in The GIMP!

Improved Text Tool


The Text tool was greatly improved in this unstable release of The GIMP.

For those of you who don't know yet what GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is and what it can do, it is a freely distributed piece of software for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. But that's not even 1% of what it can do, as it has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, you name it! The GIMP works on many operating systems, in many languages. Below you can find more screenshots from The GIMP 2.5.0.


Contect courtsey of softpedia.com

For those who do not know GIMP, GIMP is an Open Source Image processing and manipulation software. it is up to Photoshop, it is able to run Photoshop filters at some points.

Richard Stallman in Manchester

Free of charge evening talk organised in association with the Manchester branches of the BCS and IET.

'Free Software in Ethics and Practice' - speaker: Richard Stallman

Thursday 1st May, 2008 - Talk starts at 6:45pm (ends approx. 8:30pm) with refreshments from 6:15pm.

Venue: Room D1, Renold Building, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB

There is no need to book a place - just turn up on the night.

Abstract:

Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.

About the speaker:

Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
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UKUUG Secretariat

Regex Generator

It is a Superb site to generate any Regular Expression you may need

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The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report

As the Title says, it is "The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report" it is a good report not lengthly written.

Download link of the whole report is at the button

Summary Points:

|Introduction|
In our interaction with business, government, education and the Open
Source industry, we have found a sharp disconnect between the
perceptions held by the market, and the reality of Open Source in
Australia.

We knew that our country has produced some of the world's most
influential Open Source innovators and projects. We knew that clever,
home-grown Open Source companies were succeeding in local and export
markets.

But we didn't have the numbers. Until now.

The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report delivers those
numbers, to encourage an informed conversation about the potential for
Open Source in Australia.

|Industry|
Our conservative projection of earnings suggests that the Open Source
industry generates $500 million in revenue each year, with over 50% of
that being directly related to Open Source.

|Community|
The Australian Open Source community is more diverse than the
stereotypical young, single, student programmer.

|Education & Skills|
The most valuable Open Source skills are forged outside the classroom,
in the hands-on lessons of open, collaborative development and
practical, commercial experience. The industry and community are very
much aware of this, but most of our formal educational institutions
have some homework to do.

|Careers & Employment|
Community respondents are mostly full-time employed ICT professionals,
many of whom found Open Source work and skills through their
participation in the community... However, some are not involved in
ICT at all.

|Innovation|
The Australian industry and community constitutes a powerhouse of
innovation and Open Source world leadership.

|The Market|
The Australian market for Open Source is very strong in both the
private and public sectors, and rapidly growing.

|Business Development|
Open Source solutions and innovation provide numerous business
development and export opportunities for Australia and our ICT sector,
but more must be done to harness our existing skills base and
potential.

|Opinion|
Industry and community respondents were asked, "What do you feel are
the major impediments facing increased adoption of Open Source in
Australia?" Their answers focused on market knowledge and perception,
leadership of industry and government, and Australia's relatively slow
adoption of new ICT solutions.


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Online Bakcup is not a Security Risk

I just read an interesting article in "CSO" Onlne about online backup and how it is not a security risk in the opposite it is good for your security , your corporate security and enhanced your Disaster Recovery plans.

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ISPConfig 2.2.22 Released

ISPConfig 2.2.22 is available for download.

This ISPConfig release adds support for Fedora 9, Mandriva 2008.1 and Ubuntu 8.04.
It contains many small enhancements and several minor bugs were fixed.


Detailed Changelog
------------------

- Added support for Fedora 9, Ubuntu 8.04 and Mandriva 2008.1.
- Added support for the /etc/apache2/envvars file on Ubuntu 8.04.
- Added: The decimal separator and the currency for the isp_fakt module are now configurable in

/home/admispconfig/ispconfig/lib/config.inc.php.
- Added: The installer checks now if there's enough disk space for the installation/upgrade.
- Update: Updated ClamAV to 0.92.1
- Changed: Made the first name and last name fields mandatory for creating resellers and clients.
- Bugfix: Replaced ENGINE=MYISAM with TYPE=MYISAM in sql dump.
- Bugfix: Fixed the /usr/sbin/nologin vs. /sbin/nologin problem in the installer.
- Bugfix: Bugfix for PTR records: only one PTR record per IP address; PTR zones are now created correctly

even if a zone contains records from multiple subnets.
- Bugfix: Fixed some bugs in the "Move Website" tool. If you move a web site to another reseller, the

"Move Website" tool checks now if the website fits into the resources that are allocated to the reseller

(disk space, amount of MySQL databases, etc.).
- Bugfix: reseller limits could be changed without taking into account the max. resources that were

allocated to the reseller's web sites.
- Bugfix: Added support for log files > 2GB to the webalizer.php cron job (which creates the Webalizer

statistics and monitors the log file sizes). PHP on 32bit systems doesn't support integer values >

2,147,483,647; this problem is fixed now with the new webalizer.php version.
- Bugfix: User quota could be set to -1 when the web site had a positive quota value; this is now fixed.
- Bugfix: if a customer is in the recycle bin, that customer can't be selected anymore under ISP Manager

> New Site when a new web site is created.
- Bugfix: Fixed log rotation problems (mail log and FTP log).


Download
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http://www.ispconfig.org/downloads.htm

Forums
------

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums


Installation Instructions
-------------------------

Download the ISPConfig-2.2.22.tar.gz from sourceforge.net:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ispconfig/ISPConfig-2.2.22.tar.gz?download

Installation on the shell as root user:

tar xvfz ISPConfig-2.2.22.tar.gz
cd install_ispconfig
................................./setup

The installer automatically detects the installed ISPConfig version and
performs an update.

UKUG is not happy with BSI approving OOXML

from UKUG (UK Unix User Group)

Press Release -- Tuesday 8 April 2008


Last week the BSI (The British Standards Institution) decided to approve the
fast tracking of the Microsoft sponsored OOXML format (DIS29500).

UKUUG is concerned that this decision is against the public interest for several reasons:

* The current draft attracted over 1000 unique comments (i.e. corrections), of
which the largest list (635) was from the BSI itself. How does the BSI then
approve fast-tracking, in the absence of a revised draft?

* Accepting an unfinished draft into the fast track standards route can only
serve to harm the sector to which the standard will apply, as well as
undermining wider faith in the standards bodies who are allowing this to happen.


* Given the absence of a single implementation of the standard (Not even
Microsoft are willing to state when they'll implement it) it seems hard to
justify the fast tracking on the basis of urgent market need.

* Rejection of the Fast-track is not rejection of the standard. If this
standard were put on the slow track, there would then be time for all involved
to examine the 6000+ pages in the detail that such an important standard needs
if we are to rely on it into the future.

* To be fast-tracked a proposed standard needs a high level of consensus, whereas
OOXML has been marked by high levels of controversy.

That being the case, the UKUUG is seeking legal advice on how best to proceed in
order to convince the BSI to reconsider its decision and instead raise an
objection to the fast-tracking of the standard within the 2 month window allowed
by the ISO.

Alain Williams, Chairman of UKUUG, said:

"We are very disappointed that BSI has chosen to take this decision against
the advice of its technical committee. The format used for storage of documents
will affect our lives for decades to come, and it is imperative that standards
such as OOXML are given a rigorous review rather than being rubber-stamped by
the BSI. Where would we be if the original Magna Carta was unreadable ?"

Previous proprietary document formats have become difficult or impossible to
read within little more than a decade. There is no reason to believe this trend
will not continue if allowed so to do. Without open standards for our documents
we are likely to inflict a 'digital dark-ages' on our descendants when they
discover that they are unable to read any of the sources for their history, such
as Government records, acts of Parliament, property title deeds, scientific
research papers, and family histories. They will not forgive us if we fail to
act to protect them now, but instead allow another generation of poorly
specified proprietary standards are allowed to become widely adopted.

UKUUG calls on all that share our dissatisfaction with the BSI, to join us in an
effort to save them from their folly, and so ensure that lasting harm is averted.

-- ENDS --


Editor's Notes:

UKUUG is the UK's Open Systems User Group, for people who care about open IT
standards and the systems that implement them. UKUUG promotes education and
understanding through its newsletter, regular briefings and conferences. It is
independent of any industry groupings and not-for-profit. It values
intelligence, thoughtfulness and long-term thinking rather than immediacy and
froth.

BSI: Since its foundation in 1901 as the Engineering Standards Committee, BSI
Group has grown into a leading global independent business services
organization. The Group now operates globally through its three divisions: BSI
British Standards, BSI Management Systems and BSI Product Services.

For further information about UKUUG visit:
http://www.ukuug.org/

For an overview of the story behind this visit:
http://tinyurl.com/2r3bkw

Red Hat Asks Federal Court To Limit Patents On Software

Red Hat describes the special problems that patents pose for open source and seeks modification of the standards for patentable subject matter that take open source into account.

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Google Apps Engine

Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

A new project that offers a full-stack, hosted, automatically scalable web application platform. It consists of Python application servers, BigTable database access (anticipated here and here) and GFS data store service

At first blush this is a full on competitor to the suite of web services offered by Amazon, including S3 (storage), EC2 (virtual servers) and SimpleDB (database).

Unlike Amazon Web Services’ loosely coupled architecture, which consists of several essentially independent services that can optionally be tied together by developers, Google’s architecture is more unified but less flexible. For example, it is possible with Amazon to use their storage service S3 independently of any other services, while with Google using their BigTable service will require writing and deploying a Python script to their app servers, one that creates a web-accessible interface to BigTable.
What this all means: Google App Engine is designed for developers who want to run their entire application stack, soup to nuts, on Google resources. Amazon, by contrast, offers more of an a la carte offering with which developers can pick and choose what resources they want to use.

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HP launched a Kind's laptop

It looks like a trend these day, all Hardware vendor are releasing OLPC imitation. HP was the last one to follow

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How to extract RPM ?

In other words, how to get the files inside RPM (Redhat Package Management).
it is by using rpm2cpio.
If you do not have rpm2cpio and u are on Ubunut, do the following :
1) sudo apt-get install rpm
2) rpm2cpio xyz.rpm | cpio -ivd

Enjoy

9000 PCs in Swiss schools will switch to Ubuntu only

Beginning from next term, all computers at schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will be switched to Ubuntu Linux only.

Geneva newspaper Tribune de Geneve reports today that from September 2008 all computers at schools that currently are dual-boot MS Windows and Linux will have MS Windows removed and become FOSS (Free Open Source Software) only.

Besides lower costs for the administration, students will also profit from the use of Ubuntu, as they then will be able to use the same applications at home without additional cost.

Manuel Grandjean, director for the schools (Ecoles-Médias) IT services pointed out that the use of FOSS “…encourages participation and the democratization of knowledge and provides product independent competences…“. He also sees the use of FOSS as a “reinforcement of equal opportunities” for students.

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Wines 0.9.59 Released

What's new in this release :
 - Improved support for the .NET framework.
 - Better services handling through a separate services.exe process.
 - Support for ATI fragment shader.
 - Better support for http proxies.
 - Window management fixes.
 - Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree.
 - Lots of bug fixes.

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VISTA Source Code Leaked

I have found it in the cloud and I liked it very much
Windows Vista Source Code - Simple View -

SUN Certify it's Servers for Ubuntu

Sun is preparing to certify more of its servers for Canonical's Ubuntu Linux. The effort includes Sun's latest small and midsize business servers. In an interview with Reuters on April 2, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth reinforced the growing relations between Sun and Ubuntu.

The timing couldn’t be better for Sun. Canonical is scheduled to ship the latest Ubuntu release — Hardy Heron — in late April. (Here's an early review of Hardy Heron.) It’s expected to include several major server enhancements.

Great. But Sun isn't stopping there. The hardware giant also plans to sponsor Ubuntu Live, a conference for Ubuntu users scheduled for this summer.

At that event, watch for Sun to potentially describe how its core open source assets -- the MySQL database and OpenOffice desktop productivity suite -- will evolve with Ubuntu.

Profits from open source may not be immediate. But Sun's open source assets -- and growing Ubuntu Linux efforts -- have finally put the company back on the agenda with software developers and corporate customers.

Paper Enigma Machine

It is one-page PDF file by clicking the link above and print (I suggest using heavy card stock). You can then cut out the strips, and follow the directions on the page to build your own fully functional Enigma machine.

This machine is compatible with the original 3-rotor German Enigma used during World War II. For simplicity it omits the "ring settings" and plug board, but the primary workings of the machine are captured in this model. Great as an educational tool, or just for fun!

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one Million USD Prize Refused

The below pics of Dr. Grigory Perelman refused one Million USD as a prize for solving a Mathematical Problem which is 100 years old.

The Mathematical problem is Poincaré conjecture, proposed by French mathematician Henri Poincaré in 1904, was the most famous open problem in topology. Loosely speaking, the conjecture surmises that if a closed three-dimensional manifold is sufficiently like a sphere in that each loop in the manifold can be tightened to a point, then it is really just a three-dimensional sphere. The analogous result has been known to be true in higher dimensions for some time, but the case of three-manifolds had turned out to be the hardest of them all. Roughly speaking, this is because in topologically manipulating a three-manifold, there are too few dimensions to move "problematic regions" out of the way without interfering with something else.

on BBC refusing the prize is h3r3 : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5274040.stm

QUOTE from wikipedia:

“As of the spring of 2003 Perelman no longer works in the Steklov Institute.[4] His friends are said to have stated that he currently finds mathematics a painful topic to discuss; some even say that he has abandoned mathematics entirely.[16] According to a recent interview, Perelman is currently jobless, living with his mother in St Petersburg.[4]

Although Perelman says in The New Yorker article that he is disappointed with the ethical standards of the field of mathematics, the article implies that Perelman refers particularly to Yau’s efforts to downplay his role in the proof and play up the work of Cao and Zhu. Perelman has said that “I can’t say I’m outraged. Other people do worse. Of course, there are many mathematicians who are more or less honest. But almost all of them are conformists. They are more or less honest, but they tolerate those who are not honest.”[3] He has also said that “It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.”[3]

This, combined with the possibility of being awarded a Fields medal, led him to quit professional mathematics. He has said that “As long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice. Either to make some ugly thing” (a fuss about the mathematics community’s lack of integrity) “or, if I didn’t do this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now, when I become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and say nothing. That is why I had to quit.”[3]”

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World War 2 Picx

Dmitri Nickolaevich Bal’termants was born in 1912, in Warsaw, Poland (the part of the Russian Empire at that time). In 1915, at the beginning of the revolution, his family moved in Moscow, where he have been living for the most part of his life.

During the World War 2 he made his shots through all over the front in such places as Moscow, Stalingrad (Volgograd nowadays) or Leningrad (St. Petersburg).

Now the pictures of Bal’termants have become the world famous symbols of the War.

See also:
The Battle in Volkhovsky Forest
On-ground Torpedo
Russian Tanks
Russian Snipers from WW2
Swings - 1944
Russian Fortications from World War 2
Astonishing Shot Back from 1942
Battle For Staliningrad
Finnish Propaganda to Russian Soldiers During WW2

Pictures courtesy of englishrussia.com link h3r3

Google Docs goes offline

As per official Announcement from Google. Now you can work on your documents offline powered by Google Gears.

Official Announcement goes h3r3

Piratebay moved to Egypt or it is April's fool -

Swedens copyright laws changes from today

Due to the new copyright legislation that are going to take effect from today we had to move all of the system outside of Europe.

We decided to move to the desert of Sinai in Egypt since we feel that we'll be safe there. Tiamo has already got himself a permanent place to live and will reside in Sinai from now. Those of you who need to get in contact with him can use the contact page.

In Sinai we've set up the systems with three redundant fibre links. Besides local connectivity in Egypt we also have connectivity to Saudi-Arabia and Israel. Jordan is quite close and we hope to install a link there as well as soon as our budget will reach that level. This way we're actually hosted in Asia as well as Africa.

More updates on this will come later today, hopefully. Everything will be the same as before, we will have slightly higher latency for European and American visitors.

A special note to Ifpi: Moses walked in the desert of Sinai for 40 years. Our servers will be active for at least another 40 as well.

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