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The environmental group WWF has urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes Saturday starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were. Organizers see the event as a way to encourage the world to conserve energy. Cities go dark to mark Earth Hour http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD /asiapcf/03/29/lights.out.ap /index.html? The campaign began last year in Australia and traveled this year from the South Pacific to Europe in cadence with the setting of the sun. "What's amazing is that it's transcending political boundaries and happening in places like China, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea," said Andy Ridley, executive director of Earth Hour. "It really seems to have resonated with anybody and everybody." Earth Hour officials hoped 100 million people would turn off their nonessential lights and electronic goods for the hour. Electricity plants produce greenhouse gases that fuel climate change. Lights also went out at the famed Wat

ASUS released an SDK and Tutorials for EEE-PC and EEE Desktop as an Open Source Project. Interestingly, the SDK's guide documentation refers not only to the Eee but also to the EP20, Asus' compact, Linux-running desktop widely seen as the anticipated desktop Eee , also known as the E-DT. The SDK supports coding in the C and C++ languages, and the bundled guide takes novice coders through designing dialogs, writing code to underpin then and creating an icon to go with it. There's a reference for key API routines, and advice on packaging the completed app up for distribution. The SDK is availble from SourceForge website . the Project is trying to form EEE-PC community and sponsored by ASUS as written in the project page on SourceForge.

Here is a an easy explanation on how to use Netscreen debug command to be able to check traffic on a NetScreen firewall in a better way than NSM or the GUI of Netscreen firewall.

I have been through this Open Phone thingy, it is even better than the Iphone. It is open and based on Google Android Code , this is why it makes me call it Gphone for Google Phone. What is so special about this phone, that you can use it in anything you can imagine or program, starting from inventory to your restaurant , School, even three dimensional mouse , oh ya it rock. and Remember it is Open Source, completely open source so you have the control and peace of mind that nothing fishy is running inside Details are found h3r3 Video is h3r3

An education supplies company has announced a portable science education computer that runs embedded Debian Linux. Pasco says it designed its sensor-equipped Spark Science Learning System for collaborative science experiments by students, for example measuring conductivity or tracking temperature changes. Based on a Marvell PXA270 processor clocked at 320MHz, the 6.7 x 5.5 x 1.7-inch device is equipped with 1GB flash, a 5.7-inch VGA display, and two USB ports. The Spark includes dedicated temperature and voltage sensors and two expansion slots for plugging in optional Pasco scientific sensors. The embedded software includes about 60 guided inquiry labs said to integrate educational content, data collection, and analysis wizards, along with charting and assessment features. Pascoo site is h3r3

As we just spoke that Fedora 9 is released, Screenshot are available h3r3

As per the announcement on RedHat Site , Fedora 9 Beta is Released. Ref Link is h3r3 [ Date Prev ][Date Next] [ Thread Prev ][Thread Next] [ Thread Index ] [ Date Index ] [ Author Index ] F9 Beta release announcement From : Jesse Keating To : fedora-announce-list redhat com, fedora-devel-announce redhat com Cc : Subject : F9 Beta release announcement Date : Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:27:43 -0400 Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release of Fedora 9! The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider community's help with testing. Beta is a point of much greater stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to occur to improve usability, performance, and stability. This release is great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts! The Fedora 9 Beta boots on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the fina

How the Arab world see prostitution ? How they fight it ?

Today is Document Freedom Day: Roughly 200 teams from more than 60 countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards. To support the initiatives surrounding the first day to celebrate document liberation, DFD starter packs containing a DFD flag, t-shirts and leaflets have been sent to the first 100 registered teams over the past weeks. In a world where records are increasingly kept in electronic form, Open Standards are crucial for valuable information to outlive the application in which it was initially generated. The question of Document Freedom has severe repercussions for freedom of choice, competition, markets and the sovereignty of countries and their governments. "We are very happy about the response and activities that teams around the world have scheduled," says Ivan Jelic, DFD Coordinator. "Activities we have heard about range from local speeches and information events through to prizes being given to

At the End of Idlelo 3, FOSSFA Urges African Governments to Participate more Effectively in the Debate on Open Standards FOSSFA calls on African governments and Standards bodies to participate more effectively in the global debate on Open Standards by encouraging public involvement in the debate at the national level. DAKAR, SENEGAL – (March 20, 2008) The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) today called on African governments and Standards bodies to participate more effectively in the global debate on Open Standards, especially the Open Office Extended Markup Language (OOXML) standard. Following a five-day conference in Dakar, Senegal, with a theme, "Making the Knowledge Economy Work for Africa", participants agreed that open standards allow for interoperability (e.g. software packages from various sources can work together), promote innovation and economic growth, and help users avoid being locked-in to proprietary solutions. FOSSFA encourages Africa

Voice of America Reporter is in Idlelo 3, and Actually he made some interviews of the attendees and the presenters. I had a Radio interview with Seragerry from Voice of America Radio on the usages of Open Source in different areas, starting from NGOs,Schools,Development and Business as well. With the interview is broadcasted/published on Voice of America site, I will link to it on my blog.

1) How community/individuals can contribute to OLPC (for example like localizing) OLPC maintains a webserver for translation. There are currently over 450 people helping with translations. Please see http://wiki.laptop.org/go /Translation 2)How to download and work on the operating systemof OLPC or develop applications for it. Please see http://wiki.laptop.org/go /Developers For those who do not know what is OLPC please check the OLPC the sinde out post h3r3 or h3r3

That is an e-mail I received from a friend from Tibet Please sign this petition to push on China to RESPECT Human Rights in Tibet (ti will not take couple of minuted from your time). http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet _end_the_violence/98.php/?cl _tf_sign=1 " I just signed an urgent petition calling on the Chinese government to respect human rights in Tibet and engage in meaningful dialogue with the Dalai Lama. This is really important, and I thought you might want to take action: http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet _end_the_violence/98.php/?cl _tf_sign=1 After nearly 50 years of Chinese rule, the Tibetans are sending out a global cry for change. But violence is spreading across Tibet and neighbouring regions, and the Chinese regime is right now considering a choice between increasing brutality or dialogue, that could determine the future of Tibet and China. We can affect this historic choice. China does care about its international reputation. Its economy is totally dependent on "Made

I can not believe it ,Maddog and Myself are in the same place/conference/room with in Idlelo 3. It is a great pleasure and honor. His presentation was superb today, although that i have been through Open Source and FOSS since 8 years or even more,Maddog thought me something super today (difference between Copyright and License). You may "Copyright" your presetation but that does not prevent me from licensing under any open source content license scheme. Copyright protects you from people that may change what you say, but does not contradict with licensing it under GPL,GNU or any other. Maddog and such people are great resources and knowledge that making change in today's world Maddog and Kernel the Canine

OLPC in Action in Senegal @ Idlelo 3. Kids are using it and Fatimata (which is an MIT graduate) and part of OLPC feedback process promised to answer some of questions I have, like how the community can contribute to OLPC in development , localization and many other. I will keep you posted once I receive her reply

Ubuntu Stickers were used by South Africa Public Service and Administration Ministry officials at Idlelo 3. As I spoke to him, he told me that "My Child is Your Child" which is a South African worlds means you problems are my problems and we are one world. Free and Open Software will help Africa to break the digital divide and develop.

The Keynote given by Minister of Public Service and Administration of South Africa says a loud NO to OOXML and louder YES to ODF. Video of the Keynote could be found here (courtesy of this video goes to Zaheda and Raffee) I hope that they say NO in Egypt to OOXML, I wish that they understand in Egypt what is the meaning of saying yes to OOXML. We spoke before on OOXML h3r3

Quoted " Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make (and receive) free, great quality video calls on Linux." Link on Skype site is h3r3 Those who are interested in an Open Source Alternate to Skype and know privacy risks/obscurity in Skype check this old post please h3r3

WOW, everything is superb so far. Organization is very good, and they are taking care abut every one of us. Even Interpretation is there from English to French an vice versa. big names are there 1) Google 2) IBM 3) HP and we are all trying to raise awareness on FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and all of us with all the differences and cultures having the same problems, the Media machine is not giving us the chance, and the proprietary software enterprises are doing the best they can to fight FOSS cuz it is a great danger to their money stream. Ubuntu Straps are provided by me, so people can use it and actually i found ppl sticking it to their bags and laptops. Although that Nenna Comment that on how Ubuntu is not here and attending Idlelo 3, although that Ubuntu came out of Africa is a valid question that I wish to find an answer to (Actually I will send to my canonical friends asking them about that) I asked Google presented by Zaheda about Google Summer code and how/why it is no

I'm flying tomorrow (15 March 2008) to attend Idlelo 3 , which is organized by Free Software and Open Source Foundation of Africa (FOSSFA). The Nguni translation of 'Idlelo' means "common grazing ground". I have found the organizers are doing great job to arrange everything, they are very prompt, sent all accommodation details early and everything is in perfect shape (thank you guys specially Nnenna,yaou are very fast, very friendly and work around the clock) The theme in Idlelo 3 is “Making the Knowledge Economy Work for Africa”. The Idlelo 3 Conference will bring together participants’ representative of governments, businesses and civil society organisations for three days of intense discussions about the state of the knowledge economy in Africa. My presentation in Idlelo 3 discuss what I Called FOSSy Security , or in other words Security using Open Source building blocks/project. We will discuss several solution that an SME/NGO/Organization may use starting

Notepad++ is an Open Source generic source code editor (it tries to be anyway) and Notepad replacement written in C++ with the win32 API. The aim of Notepad++ is to offer a slim and efficient binary with a totally customizable GUI, running under the MS Windows environment. Here's the new release Notepad++ v.4.8.2 : 1. Fix unicode input problem for non-western language. 2. Add the capacity (behaviour) of keeping line highlighting even when Notepad++ loss its focus. 3. Fix missing fonts problem in font list of Stylers configurator. 4. Fix the hot key problem : make Alt+f+s work again. 5. Fix the hardware problem : make keyboard commands (such as "e-mail", "calculator", "sound", ...) works again. Notepad++ v4.8.1 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.7.5) : 1. Enhance Shortcut Mapper - all the commands (including plugins commands) can be assigned to a shortcut, even for the unmapped ones. 2. Upgrade Scintilla from v1.73 to v1.75 3. Add multi-line and ver

Sun announced that they are developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone with the newly released Software Development Kit (SDK). "We're going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible," he said. The specific version of Java will be based on the Java Micro Edition (ME) and will open the iPhone to a large library of existing Java applications. Sun's announcement comes after reviewing the iPhone SDK since its release just on Thursday. Sun expects to release this version of Java "some time after June". Sun maintains a sample library of Java ME games and applications. This list includes EA Sims Bowling , Scrabble , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , Libris eBook reader , and more. Sun adds its name to a list of other developers who have already announced support for the iPhone. Others include Gameloft , Omnigroup , Freeverse , SixApart , reQall , EA , and

Tags: At the Mobile World Congress trade show, I was lucky enough to run into Sonia Sharma from My Mobile , who has a job even better than mine: she's like me, but in India. I write about cell phones. She writes about cell phones that are completely transforming a nation of a billion people, many of whom don't have running water. Both she and I were very interested in Spice Mobile's low-cost phone for the blind, shown at left. The "Phone for the Visually Impaired" is a very simple, voice-only phone with a braille keypad. When you press a button, it speaks the number, and when you press the call key, it speaks the number you dialed. It has ten speed dials, and it could retail for less than $20. Spice reps at the show said they're in touch with various advocates and charities for the blind, and could produce the phone in European, American GSM, or even CDMA models, covering t

26 March: A global day for document liberation Sign up your DFD team today! The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for Document Liberation with grassroots action for promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. The DFD was initiated and is supported by a group of organisations and companies, including, but not limited to, the Free Software Foundation Europe, ODF Alliance, OpenForum Europe, IBM, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems, Inc. On 26 March 2008, the Document Freedom Day will provide a global rallying point for Document Liberation and Open Standards. It will literally give teams around the world the chance to "hoist the flag": A "DFD Starter Pack" containing a flag, t-shirt, leaflets and stickers is in preparation and is planned to be sent out in the first weeks of March to the first 100 teams that sign up. Sixteen teams already signed up during the preparation phase of the DFD prior to this release. Sign your team up now! &q

For those who do not know what is wikimania is everything related to wiki like wikipedia,wikiquote,wikiversity and many others. WikiManis 2008 is in Alex-Egypt. Call for papers are out , and all details are at the official site link is h3r3

Some good news for Touch fans, Apple released ITouch SDK for publich Quoted" Today at a town-hall meeting at Apple's Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, Steve Jobs showed off the iPhone software developer's kit for the first time. There has been a lot of speculation about what the kit would include, and what it specifically wouldn't. Now Steve Jobs says it will have the same APIs and Tools that Apple itself uses to develop iPhone apps. Here are details: Reference Link : http://gizmodo.com/364727/apple-reveals-iphone-sdk

We have been through VI with a small tutorial part I link is here Part II of this VI Tutorial goes h3r3 V. Deleting, Copying and Changing The next three operations we will discuss will be deleting, copying, and changing. These three will be discussed together because the methods of describing the text that these commands operate on is identical. There are well over 30 different ways that you can tell VI to move the cursor to a new location in the document. These movements can also be used to describe sections of the document that you wish to perform the delete, copy or change operation on. Typically, you will type a single keystroke which describes the type of operation you wish to perform, (e.g. 'd' to delete), then you type the cursor movement command that will tell vi on which piece of text you would like that operation to work. For example, if 'w' moves one word forward, 'dw' will delete a word, while 'cw' will change a word. These editing comm

I have many geek toys, I have Nokia Tablet N770, and I just bought Apple IPOD Touch. Once I Jailbreak the Apple Ipod Touch, and Spent sometime with it, I realized that Nokia failed to dleiver what Apple succeeded in. Apple Ipod Touch uses BSD Linux derivative (for those who do not know Appl OSX uses BSD derivative as well, needless to say that Apple made a tremendous job in the GUI of BSD to make it OSX). IPOD Touch, is a kind of a full linux box, I enjoy SSH to it. Running most of Linux Commands , ps , top,reboot,shutdown,.......) Still you can install many applications to your sweet lovely sexy Itouch like Apache,OpenSSH,VSFTPD,lighthttp,......) and many other i-specific application like PDF readoer, CHM reader,ebook reader,.... I did not enjoy all that with maemo Nokia platformfor some reason or another. the only thing that Apple should do (from my point of view) is to release it jailbreak and let the community role as always. Some values from IPOD Touch ssh session # vmstat Mach V

Lots of ppl talkin on the internet about Jailbreak IPhone and no one is giving enough attention to IPOD Touch specially 16GB the new models with two Nand Chips. Use the post that shows how to downgrade your IPod Touch h3r3. Point your IPOD Touch that runs Firmware 1.1.1 to www.jailbreakme.com and click on installer and you have a Jailbreak IPOD Touch 16GB Please note that Ziphone.org program does not jailbreak IPOD Touch 16GB, Ziphone.org is mainly dedicated to Iphone although it supports old versions of IPOD touch Please when this post work for you,just drop me a small comment to know from you guys .

This post descries how to downgrade your Ipod Touch (ITouch) Firmware. This post shows you how to downgrade Ipod Touch (ITouch) from 1.1.4 Firmware to 1.1.1, or from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1. If you ask why we need to perform this downgrade, the answer will be to be able to Jailbreak your Ipod Touch (ITouch). This post works for all Ipod Touc (ITouch) 8GB, 16GB, New 16Gb with two nand chips. Files Needed 1) Download the Firmware 1.1.1 from h3r3 2) Download AutoDown from h3r3 If you ask why you need we need "AutoDown", because without it ITunes will refuse to downgrade the IPOD Touch (ITouch) that goes to 8GB,16GB. 3) ITunes from Apple site. Steps to do the downgrade 1) Run AutoDown, by clicking the down.bat file 2) Run ITunes , and click SHIFT+RESOTRE 3) This will open File Borwse window, please point to the downloaded Fimrware at step (1) 4) ITunes will downgrade your IPOD No we have an IPOD Touch 8g,16GB with Firmware 1.1.1 now to Jail Break your IPOD Touch(ITouch)