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1st Asian Nation to Adopt Open Software Standards

Japan has adopted a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards and thus becomes the first country in Asia to embrace the open software Standards.

Create an Autosuggest Field with XForms and Ajax

  • IBM/developerWorks; By Michael Galpin (Posted by IdaAshley on Jul 14, 2007 12:20 AM EDT)
  • Groups: IBM; Story Type: News Story
XForms is a standardized technology that offers many simplification and optimizations that are complimentary to Ajax. In this article you will see some of the benefits of using Ajax and XForms together by implementing an autosuggest-form field, widely used today in web applications.

Jeroen van der Zijp Interview

Jeroen van der Zijp, the author of Fox Toolkit, gives kerkythea.net an interview. The Fox Toolkit is a platform independent GUI that has become one of the fastest and well structured APIs.

Lock in productivity with Lockout utility

You can stop computer-based slacking -- like the compulsive reloading of Digg or Reddit at the expense of productivity -- with a few changes to your computer's DNS profile, and enforce the changes using Lockout, a tool designed to enforce discipline and increase productivity.

People Behind KDE: Matthias Kretz

After a short break, we return to the next interview in the People Behind KDE series, travelling back to Germany to talk to a developer who wants to make things as simple as possible - for both users and developers. The recent winner of an aKademy Award for Best Non-Application for his work on Phonon - tonight's star of People Behind KDE is Matthias Kretz.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 Released

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 was released on Thursday 14th June. This update to the Mozilla Corporation's mail client includes bug fixes but no new features. For the first time, this release of Thunderbird is available in Korean.

Linux: Hibernation With Kexec

Offering a potential alternative to the existing suspend and restore implementations in the Linux Kernel, Ying Huang posted a patch utilizing kexec, "kexec based hibernation has some potential advantages over uswsusp and suspend2. " He listed two such potential advantages, "the hibernation image size can exceed half of memory size easily," and, "the hibernation image can be written to and read from almost anywhere, such as a USB disk [or] NFS."

Handling of inactive Debian Accounts

We are currently reviewing the debian.org account database and checking a list of developer accounts that *appear* to be inactive. The purpose of this review is simply to minimize the number of live but unused debian.org accounts since they (in sufficient numbers) are an active security concern. It's _not_ intended as a judgment or criticism of contributions to Debian made by those who may end up on our radar.

Linux: Debugging With"git bisect"

Following up to a bug report against the 2.6.22 kernel, Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds offered some tips on how to debug kernel problems. Andrew first pointed to netconsole.txt for instructions on setting up a netconsole, "when the machine has stalled, see if you can get a task trace with ALT-SYSRQ-t. This will require CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y and possibly setting ignore_loglevel on the kernel boot command line."

Update on ODF and Massachusetts

As you may know, a brief comment period (expiring July 20) has been announced by the Mass. ITD during which anyone can agree or disagree with it's decision to add Microsoft's OOXML format to its list of approved "open standards." If this sounds like the right decision to you, then just stand by. If not...

Intel GMA950 & xf86-video-intel 2.1.0

It was earlier this month that version 2.1.0 of the xf86-video-intel driver was released, which among other things had introduced open-source Linux graphics support for the G33, Q33, and Q35 chipsets as well as fixing a horde of bugs and adding PCI IDs for the 945GME, 965GME, and 965GLE chips. As our last Intel graphics performance article was looking at the Q965 back in May, in this article we have enclosed some benchmarks from Intel's GMA 950 IGP using the new xf86-video-intel 2.1.0 driver.

Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Jul 13, 2007 2:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
Zabbix is a solution for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. With Zabbix, you can monitor multiple servers at a time, using a Zabbix server that comes with a web interface (that is used to configure Zabbix and holds the graphs of your systems) and Zabbix agents that are installed on the systems to be monitored. The Zabbix agents deliver the desired data to the Zabbix server. This tutorial shows how you can install the Zabbix server and agent on a Debian Etch system.

I'm In Your Leenucks Box Changing Your Password

So I'm having a conversation on the phone with Scrap [another IT Toolbox member — Sander] this morning and he relayed this little story from his adventures as a professor of information security studies at a local school. I'm going to share this story with you and include my usual warning and disclaimer: Put your beverage down. Do not attempt to drink beverage while reading this. I am not responsible for liquids spilled in your keyboard or all over your screen! Scrap tells the story...

Where are your site visitors? GeoIP knows

If you maintain a portal, ecommerce site, or heavily trafficked Web site, you might appreciate the ability to identify the geographical location of your site visitors. Geolocation information can help you localize content, serve relevant local advertisements, offer a download mirror close to visitors, and detect online fraud. Techniques like whois lookup of IP addresses are of some help, but they don't always find accurate locations. A better approach is a database that maps each IP address to a location -- such as MaxMind's GeoIP.

Pardus 2007.2 - A Review

The latest installment of Pardus, version 2007.2, was officially released on, July 12, 2007. Worried this review has been rushed due to the recency of the release? Do not worry, I had been using the release candidate for a while now and installed the official release before authoring this review. Please note that this review is quite short, therefore I invite any Pardus users to write about their experience in the comments section.

Tutorial: Master Your Linux Keyboard (And Fix Caps Lock Forever)

If the command line is your preferred management interface, smooth out your keyboarding with these handy utilities.

BBC to hear open source concerns

Calls to make the BBC's on demand TV service work on all computer operating systems are to get a fresh look. The BBC Trust has offered to meet with open source advocates who argue that the corporation has a duty to make the download service platform agnostic. When the BBC iPlayer, as it is known, launches on 27 July it will only work with PCs running Microsoft Windows XP.

[Somehow this article avoids using the word Linux, but otherwise it's a good article. — Iain]

Apple buys CUPS

  • Linux Watch; By Steven J. Vaughan Nichols (Posted by dinotrac on Jul 13, 2007 8:40 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux, PHP
Apple has purchased the source code and all IP for CUPS, the prevalent solution for printing under Linux. Michael Sweet, developer of CUPS, will go to work for Apple, though working primarily on projects other than CUPS.

An FAQ has been posted at the cups website:

[url=http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L TFAQ]http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L TFAQ[/url]

Critical vulnerabilities announced for all Adobe Flash platforms, including Linux and Solaris

Adobe patch critical security flaws in Flash Player for all platforms, and for once Linux (and Solaris) users do not get away scot free.

US court ruling threatens return to dark ages of radio

What many may describe as a ludicrous decision by a US federal court of appeal has threatened the immediate future of Internet radio, with many smaller net broadcasters saying they will not be able to afford new fees imposed by the US Government's Copyright Royalty Board. The new fee structure has resulted from intense lobbying from SoundExchange, a group representing artists and record companies.

[Isn't it nice to know that when they really want something, they get it? - Scott]

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