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Google Released a Video called "Gmail: Behind the scene Video". it is a collaborative video, Frankly, I do not know what is beyond for for ?!!! May Google Mistakenly believes that they are not well known !!!????? First Link h3r3 Second Link h3r3

SUN Microsystems, is giving free High Performance Computing hours on it's SOLARIS 10 Grid. Go to this link to have free 200 CPU hour h3r3. SUN can run several application on thier HPC including Open Source application as they wrote in the above link.

Skype is very contradicting to Open Source spirit - It uses proprietary closed and encrypted protocol (closed also means weak); - Written using obfuscation in software (decryption and checks also uses additional n800 power and resources) Skype Detailed Analyzes that I enjoyed reading - WhitePaper from BlackHat Europe, March 2006 - http://www.secdev.org/conf /skype_BHEU06.pdf - According to latest reports it reads sensitive user information (many /etc files, Firefox Profile, and many others) and nobody knows why (because software is closed source and obfuscated) and how it can be used by crackers. Detailed discussion at Skype forum could be found here http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=95261 So, Wengo is viable as alternative to the Skype. What is Wengo ? Wengo is an Open Source Software for IP communication that competes with Skype in features , User Interface, and it almost runs on all Operating System (Linux, MacOS X, Window$) Why Wengo ? Please read the introduction. Scre

I think you may like this photo gallery, so I wanted to share it with all of you http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/subject-all.html Link h3r3

As the title tells X-ORG 7.3 is currently under development, and is scheduled to be released in August 2007, but is available for review. Features Xorg server 1.4 - see Server14Branch for more details. Highlights: RandR 1.2 : RandR 1.2 offers output hotplug, as well as on-the-fly output reconfiguration and mode switching. Input hotplug : Input hotplug allows hotplugging of input devices, and also adds enhanced support for touchscreens and tablets, through either HAL or D-Bus. KDrive: Numerous enhancements have been made to the KDrive codebase, including better support for multiple input devices. DTrace : When running on OpenSolaris , DTrace support is available in the X server, allowing detailed accounting of operations inside the server. EXA: A great deal of work has been done on the EXA framework to make it more usable. New applications: xbacklight New drivers: xf86-video-glide, xf86-video-vermilion New man pages for API's: libXinerama, libXcomposite, XKB functions in libX11

Medicine seems like will start to use Implantations more often nowadays Hear Aids are implanted nowadays. Complete post h3r3

Lots of Students in German Universities are moving to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Complete post h3r3 I have some comment on moving to Novell/Linux in particular but as "One thing leads to another" this move is a good step

Aardvark - A cool extension for web developers and designers, allows them to view CSS attributes, id, class by highlighting page element individually. chromEdit - Alter the appearance of any page by editing CSS and Javascript files with this extension. CSSMate - Firefox extension to edit CSS files. CSS validator - Check the validity of your webpage using this CSS validator extension. CSSViewer - See the CSS properties of page elements with this extension. EditCSS - Play around with loaded CSS, Web Developer extension also provides this functionality. IE Tab - Designers and developers can view their CSS projects on Internet Explorer using this extension. Style Sheet Chooser II - Users can pick and choose alternate style sheets for a website. FireBug - A console for debugging JavaScript, HTML, and Ajax code snippets. HTML Validator - Cool extension to validate web pages with HTML standards of W3C. JavaScript Debugger - JavaScript debugging extension enables a strong de

It seems that every1 is riding the wave these days of portal phone that does everything and anything you can imagine, even if you don't need it. SONYE RICOSN Gaming chief , just announced that PlayStation phone will be available my Xmass. Original Link h3r3.

I cane through this project, although I did not have the chance to explore or use it, but I wanted to share it with all of you Poky Linux h3r3 Ubunutu Mobile and Embeded h3r3 I'm not sure if this vendor can be something like Simputer Check their devices h3r3

Stellarium is an Open Source 3D sky that allows you to see stars. Features default catalogue of over 600,000 stars extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars asterisms and illustrations of the constellations images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue) realistic Milky Way very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset the planets and their satellites UserInterface a powerful zoom time control multilingual interface scripting to record and play your own shows fisheye projection for planetarium domes spheric mirror projection for your own dome graphical interface and extensive keyboard control telescope control Visualization equatorial and azimuthal grids star twinkling shooting stars eclipse simulation skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection Customizations add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts... Link h3r3

As the title tells, the OLPC GUI - Sugar - was demonstrated. check this link h3r3 http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/olpc_emulated_sugar_ui.html Another interesting link h3r3 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070822-olpc-team-shows-off-ui-design.html Video Showing UI - Sugar- of OLPC h3r3

PHPMyAdmin 2.11.0 was just released. it is one of the best or I may say it is the best Web Based MySQL Administration tool. it allows you to do virtually anything that you may need on MySQL engine. URL: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php Screen Shots : http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/phpMyAdmin-Screenshot-77.html Demo URL : http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/demos.php Download Link : http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has, along with others like Richard Stallman, literally changed the world of software forever. This is an Interview have been done by APCMAG.com with Linus, I like this Interview, and wanted to share it with you. Initiator of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds: Photo credit: Linuxmag.com, licensed under GNUFDL Linus at WikiPedia h3r3 Complete post h3r3

I just have found that Google Analytics URL http://www.google.com/analytics/ does not support HTTPS in other words https://www.google.com/analytics/ forwards me to main google search page ???!! Why Google you forgot this one ?

Without scrutiny, highly usable software that neglects security can seem heroic and revolutionary. Such may be the case for Google Desktop. Most users see the web-meets-desktop search capabilities and don't consider the security implications of making the boundary between google.com and the desktop so seductively porous. Particularly troubling is the potential for an attacker to access information, documents, and possibly executables through Google Desktop via flaws (XSS in particular) in Google’s website. In February Yair Amit et. al. found a vulnerability that could allow remote attackers access to data and functionality through Google Desktop. Rsnake has also pointed out some existing Google XSS vulnerabilities on his blog at ha.ckers.org . Also, consider that Google Desktop keeps a fairly sizable index and cache for rapid search that by default is unencrypted. This index contains an amazing amount of historical data: It retains previous versions of files, web-based email c

This release is the most user-friendly, powerful and highly anticipated release of Plone ever, and has an amazing amount of new functionality. Some highlights: Full versioning support, history and reverting to older revisions Improved performance Inline (Ajax) editing Link and reference integrity checking Automatic locking and unlocking Improved handling of permissions and sharing Upgraded visual (WYSIWYG) content editor Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents Wiki support and multiple new mark-up formats Rules engine for content Strengthened security For the full overview, see the Plone 3.0 feature list . Download Plone h3r3

zoho now offers offline utility to use it online and offline for those who dont know what is Zoho, it is an online Office Suite, CRM, NotePad, Planner,..... actually it is 101 things. In plain English it is something similar to Google Writely but in a wider range of applications - Actually Zoho Started before Google deal to buy www.writely.com. the Zoho Site h3r3 Enjoy it guys it is the online era

People don't know that Microsoft releases project/program under Open Source license. So let us declare it here and list those projects that I know. Microsoft kept attacking Open Source and questioning its quality as a matter of attack, and now we find it releasing Open Source, that after her alliance with Novell. Details goes during the post, and I hope that people find and know that Open Source is not bad, and even MicroSoft is going for it now CodePlex (an imitation to the name of Google Plex,Microsoft cant make something original) : http://www.codeplex.com/ h3r3 what is CodePlex read it h3r3 So, Please Micro$oft stop saying that Open Source is not the thing. List of some of the projects there AJAX Control Toolkit - a collection of samples and components which make it easier than ever to build and consume rich client-side controls and extenders built on the Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. The Toolkit provides both ready to go samples and a powerful SDK to

Version 6.7 is an update that fix minor bugs and add minor new features. AwStats parses logs and gives nice and clear graphs to track traffic on Web Servers,FTP,Mail, and even custom logs. You can download 6.7 from AWStats official web site: http://awstats.sourceforge.net New features/improvements: - Full support for -day option. To build different report for each day - Added virtualenamequot tag - Added option NotPageList - Addes .jobs and .mobi domains Fixes: - Minor bug in awstats_configure.pl

As of an update from a few days ago, users are now able to access a graphical user interface for editing xorg.conf, though only for graphic and display settings. This tool has support for dual monitors at the moment, and with the release of X.org 7.3 it will be possible to add even more. You can turn on and off both (or one) of your monitor(s), change the available resolutions, orientations, and set mirror or exteneded desktops. Original Post h3r3

Guys, OpenMoKo is an Open Source Mobile. It is based on Linux and it is mainly for developers and hackers. it is a great one. Link h3r3

This OCR is originally owned by HP , and Google Bought it since around 9 Months, and Google Released it as Open Source. This is Engine is one of the best engines Google Code Link h3r3 Project Link h3r3 How to Install Version 1.03 was the latest version at the time of this writing, and the build and install process still needed a little work. Also, integration with libtiff (which would allow you to use compressed TIFF as input) was configured by default, but it was not working properly. You might try configuring it with libtiff, as that would allow compressed TIFF image input: # ./configure If you later find that it doesn't recognize text, reconfigure it without libtiff: # ./configure --without-libtiff The build is done as expected: # make Configure for version 1.03 also indicated that make install was broken. I managed to figure out the basics of installation by trial and error. First, copy the executable from ccmain/tesseract to a directory on your path (for example, /usr

Thanks to recent commits in the RandR 1.2 branch for the open-source X.Org Radeon driver, it's now possible to use S-Video and composite TV output on your ATI graphics card without any patches. This is not limited to the R200 series but will also work with the R300 series and theoretically any graphics card supported by the xf86-video-ati driver. In this guide have outlined the instructions for enabling TV output support from the Radeon driver git code as well as some of the current limitations. The commits in the RandR 1.2 branch earlier this month by Alex Deucher brought in initial TV-Out support (as a result of GATOS relicensing its code ). However, some of the initial limitations include only 800 x 600 resolution supported, composite and S-Video support with no component support, and no TV-Out detection support. Below are the basic steps needed to checkout the xf86-video-ati driver from the randr-1.2 branch and then to build and install the driver. X server 1.3 is

This online tool, search on the internet for all related information regarding a person,phrase , or a company. After such a tool, I wonder what is the definition of Digital Privacy, that is there is anything called Privacy anymore. it reveals lots of information from many internet resources about the identity you are searching for. You still can use this utility for Security and Pen Testing and security. http://www.paterva.com/evolution-classic.html Link here Details : volution is a program that can be used to determine the relationships and real world links between: People Groups of people (social networks) Companies Organizations Web sites Internet infrastructure such as: Domains DNS names Netblocks IP addresses Phrases Affiliations Documents and files These entities are linked using open source intelligence. Evolution is easy and quick to install - it uses Java, so it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Evolution provides you with a graphical int

WikiPedia Audit can be found h3r3. The Above link, shows you who Edited/changed an entry at the WikiPedia, it is Superrr. Needless to say that my dear friend Dan Kaminsky Helped in this Details below:

IBM and Novell Join Forces to Support Growing Demand for Open Source SAN FRANCISCO (LinuxWorld Conference & Expo)— 07 Aug 2007— At the opening of the LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center trade show in San Francisco, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Novell today announced a new agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Novell will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as part of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, making it the industry's most comprehensive open source-based server offering. The agreement comes on the heels of the one millionth distribution of WAS CE, IBM's open source-based application server, which is based on Apache Geronimo and free to download and use. IBM and Novell will offer support and migration tools to help customers using JBoss to quickly and easily move to WAS CE. Combining WA

o one would have believed me if I had said five years ago that Microsoft would have a page on its Web site called “ Open Source at Microsoft ” with the following remarkably sane and reasonable statement on the subject: Microsoft is focused on helping customers and partners succeed in a heterogeneous technology world. This starts with participating and contributing to a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source approaches and applications. From thousands of lines of code and scripts on MSDN and TechNet, to open source applications like IronPython, ASP.NET AJAX, SharePoint Learning Kit, and WiX on CodePlex and SourceForge, Microsoft is continually growing the number of products released with open source access. That's right: Microsoft has released not one but several pieces of code as open source. Moreover, it's submitting some of its home-grown licences to the Open Source Initiative for approval. So what is going on here? In part,

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Linus Torvalds is often described as an open source champion, interested in licensing only insofar as it affects his ability to share code and improve software more quickly. However, his real position is more complicated -- and to some, perhaps surprising. Asked point-blank which is more important, sharing code or empowering users -- the declared goal of the free software champions whom Torvalds is routinely depicted as being in opposition with -- and his first response in what he calls "the usual Linus polite words" is "That's a really stupid question. Why do you put it as an 'either or' kind of concept?" He then goes on to explain that, because open source operates in the same manner as scientific query, and is a matter of enlightened self-interest, sharing code and empowering users "are not at odds at all" -- a view that, in the end, places him closer to the free software position than

It isn't only privacy violation, but it reminds me with the "Matrix the Movie". They all will be part of the system Original Post here

Google Adds OpenOffice to its Google Pack, which makes OpenOffice more visible and raise awareness that there are alternates to Micro$oft Program Original Link h3r3

Google Promises not to use it's patent against Linux and Open Source Projects. Original Post h3r3

Dell today unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the Inspiron 6400n and the Inspiron 530n – with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux operating system factory installed. Available now in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, the systems are Dell’s first steps to meet the needs of the Linux enthusiast community outside of the United States. For full information about Dell on Ubuntu see www.ubuntu.com/dell For Ubuntu in France see (from August 8th) www.dell.fr/ubuntu For Ubuntu in Germany see (from August 8th) www.dell.de/ubuntu For Ubuntu in United Kingdom see (from August 8th) www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu Original Link at Ubuntu Site h3r3

All, This is a special post, it shows how to have the WikiPedia on your pocket (on a DVD/CD-ROM or your handeled) They called it Wiki for Schools. It has the size of a 15 volume encyclopaedia with 24,000 pictures, 14 million words and articles on 4,625 topics. It includes the best of Wikipedia as well as many thousands of pages of extra material specifically selected to be of interest to children who follow the UK National Curriculum and similar curricula elsewhere in the world. Target group that can benefit is : Schools without internet connection Remote locations without internet connection Mobile user (users on mobile devices or moving users) NGOs The selection is organised around National Curriculum subjects The articles have been cleaned up and checked for suitability for children Website: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ Available for free as BitTorrent download (2.5GB compressed with full size images) or HTTP download (792MB compressed with only thumbnail images) or on DVD from SOS

All, let me define what and why is an online Proxy : It is a site/service/program that you use to mask/hide your IP from the sites you visit, and allows you to visit sites that are blocked by your current Internet Provider (Internet provider can be your School,your Work,your University, your Silly network administrator ,or your Country censorship). How to Build an online Proxy: i) The most challenge you may face is to find a hosting company that allows you to host your proxy script - most Hosting providers doesn't allow you to do so-. A small list of Hosting Providers that supports Proxy hosting 1) www.westhost.com 2) Any VPS hosting provider 3) and ME -;) ii) The Script you can use : 1) http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ 2) http://whitefyre.com/poxy/ I recommend James Marshall Script for many reasons , first of them that it saves bandwidth, I tried James's proxy and the PHP proxy, and I found that James's proxy serves the same amount of pages of a fraction of bandwi

All, This is how to remove SugarCRM logo and keep the login page working and everything working. it is not only removing the SugarCRM logo , but replacing it with any image on your own and keep SugarCRM happy and does not feel anything. I'm posting this as I took it as a challenge once, and since it is open source the license is enough for me, no need to force me to have you logo. How it works: it is Simple, they hash EVERY file on the SUGARCRM folder, and they create on fly a has for every file and compare it with the original hashs. when the comparison fails, SugarCRM get stucked. Details are below: File Name&Path : include/utils/encryption_utils.php --> please modify the above file to have only the below lines function sugarEncode($key, $data){ return base64_encode($data); } function sugarDecode($key, $encoded){ $data = base64_decode($encoded); return $data; } _____ File Name & Path : modules/Administration/ updater_utils.php function check_now add exit; add the en

The Community Choice Awards are over! The SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards provided you an opportunity to recognize projects that stand taller than the rest. Everybody got to vote, and everybody’s vote counted equally. The winning projects, each with superlative quality, productivity, and ingenuity, represent the cream of the crop on SourceForge.net. Original Post h3r3 PCWorld Article h3r3

Recently Google extended Google Apps Education Edition to all registered nonprofits in the U.S. Our hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools -- email migration, 24/7 assistance and integration APIs, plus web-based email, calendaring and online document collaboration -- fits well with the vital need among nonprofits for easy-to-use, flexible technologies requiring little or no investment. After all, schools and organizations should worry less about technology and focus more on fulfilling their mission. http://www.google.com/a/npo With the Education Edition, your non-profit organization can: Decrease its total cost of ownership Get up and running quickly, even if it doesn't have a dedicated IT staff Offer staff and devoted volunteers the very latest innovation from Google, on its domain With Google Apps' free communication, collaboration and publishing tools, including email accounts on your organization's domain (like staff@your-nonprofit.org), your

Development of OpenHAL, a wireless network component for Linux, can now resume unfettered after months of legal uncertainty. OpenHAL allows people with wireless cards based on technology from Atheros Communications, Inc. to connect to networks using solely free and open source software. Earlier this year, allegations were made that OpenHAL might include material that infringed the copyright of Atheros' proprietary HAL software. The Linux Wireless developers asked the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) to investigate these rumors, and SFLC agreed to help on a pro-bono basis. SFLC subsequently conducted a confidential audit, carefully comparing OpenHAL to Atheros' proprietary HAL code. After performing the audit, SFLC concluded that OpenHAL does not infringe copyrights held by Atheros. As a result, OpenHAL development can now continue safely, unencumbered by legal uncertainty so long as the OpenHAL developers continue their work in isolation from Atheros' proprietary code

Today IBM will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux, saving $250 million in the process. The 4,000 replaced servers will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services. The six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields." Original Post h3r3

Microsoft’s next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded. Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product’s name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature — might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service , as many have been speculating. A hosted version of Works would give Microsoft a head-to-head competitor with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and other consumer- and small-business focused services, analysts have said. For the time being, however, the new version of Works will be ad-funded, according to Satya Nadella, the newly minted Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. Nadella told me during an interview on July 27 that Microsoft recently released the new ad-funded version of Microsoft Works. If Works 9.0 is out, I haven’t found it yet — other than a couple download links on torrents and other sharing sites. Anyone else se