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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. Link is h3r3

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 Overview is h3r3

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 ?

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)

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 Details are h3r3

As the Title and the logo on the right hand side tells , UBUNTU 8.04 is relased Download link is h3r3

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)...

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

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....

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 storag...

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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

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 o...

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...

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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...

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. Reference to the Article is h3r3

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...

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-t...

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. Link is h3r3

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 int...

It looks like a trend these day, all Hardware vendor are releasing OLPC imitation. HP was the last one to follow Reference Link is h3r3

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

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. Original Post is h3r3 (it is in French)

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. Official Post is h3r3

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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 o...

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! Links is h3r3 Original Project Page is h3r3 For a great article on the history and operation of the Enigma, visit WikiPedia h3r3

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:...

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