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I have today 31 Dec. 2008 that the outage and cable cut in Egypt is completely resolved by now. by today, the Internet is routed via Flag as expected or better say as per pre-cable cut in the Mediterranean . I wish to have 2009 without Internet Cable cut

Linux based Firewall that Support IPv6. Shorewall Team just announced the release of Shorewall 4.2.4 Which support IPv6 on any standard Linux based system. Shorewall Website is h3r3 Announcement is below" The Shorewall Team is pleased to announce the release of Shorewall 4.2.4 including IPv6 support. Minimun system requirements for taking advantage of IPv6 support: - Kernel 2.6.25 or later. - iptables 1.4.0 or later with 1.4.1 strongly recommended. - Perl 5.10 if you wish to use DNS names in your IPv6 config files. In that case you will also have to install Perl Socket6 support. Two new packages are included: a) Shorewall6 - analagous to Shorewall-common but handles IPv6 rather than IPv4. b) Shorewall6-lite - analagous to Shorewall-lite but handles IPv6 rather than IPv4. The packages store their configurations in /etc/shorewall6/ and /etc/shorewall6-lite/ respectively. The fact that the packages are separate from their IPv4 counterparts means that you control IPv4 and IPv6...

Years ago, Mozilla introduced its mobile equivalent of Firefox, then-called Minimo. Minimo unfortunately largely died of boredom within Mozilla. In early 2008, however, Mozilla resurrected Minimo as Fennec, and the heavens rejoiced (though even the heavens couldn't get it installed on [Name your mobile device of choice]). As recently announced by Mozilla , however, Fennec just hit its second alpha release, with the option to download and install the mobile browser on Mac, Linux, and Windows desktops for testing purposes. (If you want to install it on your mobile device, you're going to need to have a Nokia N810 device on which to install it.) Alpha 2 has made significant improvements to Fennec's performance (e.g., Faster panning and zooming plus improved responsiveness while pages are loading) and ease-of-use (e.g., Bookmarks, tabbed browsing with thumbnails, etc.)

New Release of Pidgin is out , lots of improvement and some new features Change log is h3r3

The Wine development release 1.1.11 is now available. What's new in this release: Numerous fixes for IE7 support. Support for 64-bit cross-compile using Mingw64. User interface support for crypto certificates. Better support for MSI installation patches. Various Direct3D optimizations. Various bug fixes. The source is available now . Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations .

This is the list of the first 100 Domains on the Internet with the date each started!!! 1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985 2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985 3. think.com: May 24, 1985 4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985 5. dec.com: September 30, 1985 6. northrop.com: November 7, 1985 7. xerox.com: January 9, 1986 8. sri.com: January 17, 1986 9. hp.com: March 3, 1986 10. bellcore.com: March 5, 1986 11. ibm.com: March 19, 1986 12. sun.com: March 19, 1986 13. intel.com: March 25, 1986 14. ti.com: March 25, 1986 15. att.com: April 25, 1986 16. gmr.com: May 8, 1986 17. tek.com: May 8, 1986 18. fmc.com: July 10, 1986 19. ub.com: July 10, 1986 20. bell-atl.com: August 5, 1986 21. ge.com: August 5, 1986 22. grebyn.com: August 5, 1986 23. isc.com: August 5, 1986 24. nsc.com: August 5, 1986 25. stargate.com: August 5, 1986 26. boeing.com: September 2, 1986 27. itcorp.com: September 18, 1986 28. siemens.com: September 29, 1986 29. p...

Below is the number of Internet users in countries where there is huge internet penetration In top ten nations in the world, India has been ranked fourth with 81 million Internet users even as the world aggregate touched 134,85,72,040 by the end of 2007. United States is leading in the chart with 220 million Internet users followed by China (210 million) and Japan (88.1 million). Brazil comes next to India with 53.1 million users, UK 40.2 million, Germany 39.1 million, Republic of Korea 35.5 million, Italy 32 million and France 31.5 million. Asia has the highest number of Internet users with an estimated 68.7 million people followed by the Americas with 377.9 million. From about 70 million people (1.7 per cent of the world population) who had access to the Internet at the end of 2007, the figure crossed 134.8 crore by 2007. Asia has the highest number of Internet users with an estimated 568.7 million people followed by the Americas with 377.9 million. India, however, does not find ...

Developers of Trillr, a project similar to Twitter, announced this week that its source code is released. The idea for Trillr was conceived in 2007 as a peer group experiment among team members who wanted to learn more about Python and Django, and was created as an enterprise tool with enhanced features like group discussion and a user directory. Trillr project member Stefan Aust admits the code base is "kind of crappy" as it stands now, but that's to be expected since it was part of a learning process. He says that, looking back, he would have done some things differently but notes, "perfect source code does not create communities. Our source code can." Trillr is a standalone Web app that uses JavaScript, but can also run without it. With some tweaking, it can be set up to run in about a half an hour, and is already capable of handling 100 users or more. Aust also says to be on the lookout for a similar contribution in the future -- a "more ambitious p...

The Internet is almost back to normal after the second cut in the same year 2008 , first cut was in Jan and the second cut is in Dec. 2008. I have noticed that we are connected to the Internet again through Turkey Telecom. Although my ADSL at home is from link.net but I have found myself peered with Teddata (another ISP in Egypt) and then to Turkey Telecom. it sounds like ISPs in Egypt peered together and all going out of Egypt through Turkey.

This is the Second Global Internet outage in Egypt due to submarine cable cut during 2008. It is almost 90% of Internet users are disconnected. I tried several major ISP in Egypt like Link.net, TE Data,Etisalat,Nile Online , Raya and they are all down. The only thing that allowed me to be connected now and blog is the Vodafone 3G Modem. Mobinil 3G connection is working as well, Etisalat is not working. Few website that hosted in Egyptian ISPs are working using regular ADSL or dialup like masrawy.com and very few others

Hello Developer-Friends, I wanted to let you know about a contest for developers. It's called the SE Asia Open Social Application Contest and is open to all developers (professionals and students). All you need to do is create an Open Social application. Contest began on November 15, 2008. Entries are limited to three per person. All entries must be received by January 10, 2009. Entries can be submitted here . Each entry will be judged a panel of experts who are employees of eXo Platform, Friendster, Globant, Google Inc. And hi5. Entries will be evaluated on: - Creativity and user appeal - Internationalization (Message Bundles) - Use of other Google APIs - Cross-platform operability - Use of App Engine for storing user data and hosting files. For more details kindly visit the SE Asia Open Social website . Hope you guys can pass this around to your friends and other forums. Kelangan natin itaas ang bandera ng Pilipinas!

For those who don't know Zenoss, please follow this link Core 2.3.2 is available for download: http://www.zenoss.com/download The 2.3.2 release notes are available for download: http://www.zenoss.com/ community/docs/release-notes/ Zenoss_Release_Notes_2_3_2.pdf Installation and upgrades from earlier versions are covered in a unified document: http://downloads.sourceforge. net/zenoss/Zenoss_Core_ Installation_2.3.0.pdf.zip OSX instructions: http://downloads.sourceforge. net/zenoss/Installing_Zenoss_ for_OS_X.pdf.zip

Sun Imitates Ubuntu and makes a deal with Toshiba to release preloaded laptops with OpenSolaris. The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11. "Toshiba and Sun are announcing that we're going to pre-configure and optimise OpenSolaris for certain Toshiba models," said Jim McHugh, Sun's vice president of datacentre software, in a promotional video. The firms have yet to release details on availability, pricing or which laptop models would feature the operating system. OpenSolaris is Sun's flagship operating system, designed for desktop, server and high-performance computing environments. Features in OpenSolaris 2008.11 include Time Slider, a graphical interface slide bar that allows users to access previous versions of files. "Time Slider lets us integrate ZFS [file system] snapshots taken automatically by the system with a standard window environment file browser," said Stephen...

Texas Instruments (TI) is demonstrating a tiny video projector that could prove small enough to embed in devices such as mobile phones. The 10-lumen "Pico" projector uses TI's DLP (digital light processing) technology, and is shown rendering a Linux desktop playing 24-bit RGB video at 60Hz. TI's Pico projector measures a scant 2.8 x 1.6 x 0.6 inches (71 x 41 x 14mm). It accepts 5-V DC power, and uses a low-powered LED as its light source. It accepts a single mini-HDMI video input, and costs $350 as part of a Development Kit .

Geek2live participation in ICT@Innovation Initiative Inwent (Capacity Building International, Germany) posted a recognition page for all the participants in ICT2Innovation site, which includes myself. Thankx to Inwent guys and to ICT@Innovations team link is h3r3 Quoted" FOSSFA partners with InWEnt to implement the ict@innovation programme. FOSSFA is the premier African FOSS organization. The vision of FOSSFA is to promote the use of FOSS and the FOSS model in African development, and the organization supports the integration of FOSS in national policies. FOSSFA also coordinates, promotes, and adds value to African FOSS initiatives, creativity, industry, expertise, efforts and activities at all levels. http://www.fossfa.net/ To become a FOSSFA member, please fill the FOSSFA Membership Application . FOSSFA members contribute to the ict@innovation programme in various functions: * The ict@innovation Africa coordinator George Nyambuya is staff member of FOSSFA, placed at the InWEn...

Microsoft launched Oxite, an open-source blogging platform. Yes Microsoft goes open source. However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type. Microsoft posted the Oxite code on its CodePlex Web site on Friday and made an official announcement on Monday. The software, described as an alpha release, is available under the Microsoft Public License, one of Microsoft's OSI-certified open-source licenses. Oxite is a standards-compliant, extensible content-management system designed to support either blogs or larger Web sites, Microsoft said. The platform includes support for features such as pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting, gravatars (globally recognized avatars), and RSS feeds at any page level, the company said. Users can create and edit a set of pages on a site, add customized HTML into pages, and support mu...

ISPConfig 2.2.28 is available for download. This ISPConfig release updates ClamAV to 0.94.2 and PHP to 5.2.7. Changes in the new version: - Updated PHP to 5.2.7. - Updated ClamAV to 0.94.2. Download link is h3r3

SFI (Softwre Freedom International) is seeking a Publicity Officer, you can send your CV and you may be selected and become one of the Board at SFI (SFI is the organization beyond SFD"Software Freedom Day" the exact call is below" Hi SFD'ers, Software Freedom International (SFI), the organisation behind Software Freedom Day, is gearing up for SFD 2009 and is currently seeking the services of a Publicity Officer. The position offers the opportunity to serve a community of over 500 team leaders and thousands more software freedom enthusiasts, as well as gain exposure and experience in developing the public profile of Software Freedom Day. Like all positions at SFI, this is a voluntary position with no remuneration apart from reimbursement of approved costs. SFI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit company registered in New Hampshire, USA. We have been organising SFD since 2004 and have supported events in over 90 countries since then. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR.... The chosen candid...

If you are not happy with OSCommerce, the most widely used Open Source Shopping Cart, and you wish to find another Open Source alternate ou can try Magento Magento is an Open Source Shopping Cart with extensive features list as being optimized for phone and : Full Features list is h3r3 like: Site Management: * Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed * Multi-Lingual * Support for localization * Support for multiple currencies * Administration Permission System Roles and Users * Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application * Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets * Fully 100% customizable design using templates * Customer Groups * One-Click Upgrades * Content Management System for Informational Pages Marketing Promotions and Tools * Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ab...

When you us eWi-Fi on your laptop, probably you're using Atheros chipsets for your wireless networking. Atheros' silicon is in gear from Linksys, D-Link and Netgear to name but a few vendors. However, although Atheros has been popular, they haven't always been friendly to open-source and Linux developers. That has been changing over the years and now, thanks to Sam Leffler, noted open-source developer, the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) for Atheros' ath5k and ath9k chip families. This is another major step in opening up hardware for Linux, Free BSD, and the other open-source operating systems. Earlier this year, Atheros released an open-source driver for its latest 802.11n chipsets. While Atheros had long offered some support for Linux, it has always insisted on keeping its HAL code proprietary. Last year, an open-source alternative, OpenHAL, became available , but it wasn't completely compatible with the newer chipsets. Now, Leffler's efforts has lead ...