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RIO DE JANEIRO - Although Brazilians live with Third World levels of poverty and violence, they are emerging as trailblazers in the kind of high technology that is propelling First World economies. Fields such as open-source software, online banking and social networks are finding a welcome home in this nation of more than 180 million people. So are legions of sophisticated hackers who regularly make international headlines with their exploits. That combination of high-tech savvy and lawlessness has pushed Brazil to the front line of some of the day's hottest technology debates, such as those over intellectual property

The upcoming Open Source Desktop Workshop in San Deigo is fast approaching. Slides are being prepared, tutorials developed and registration is filling up fast.

Storekeeper 1st Class Shawn Millang of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy was selected as Serviceperson of the Month for August, and was honored by the New London Kiwanis recently at the Lighthouse Inn. Millang is also active with the New London Linux computer users group, which helps low-income families obtain computers at low- or no cost

IBM will conduct twelve technical briefing in North America in October. For a briefing near you, we've provided access to IBM's page where you can also register for the events. You should consider attending. (ED)

I missed going to mass last Sunday because I was too sick to go to church and I slept through TV mass for the same reason. But I won’t miss a sermon again because there’s this priest who podcasts his sermon, reflections, and other thoughts on his website. One such priest is Fr. Stephen Cuyos, a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart who podcasts from Rome while on sabbatical. Father Stephen is a certified Pinoy, a certified techie, a blogger, a Cappuccino-lover, a Linux user and an open-source devotee.

Business Software Alliance (BSA), the global organisation dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world, has resolved to intensify its campaign against software piracy in the Middle East in coming months, in collaboration with regional governments committed to providing a momentum to the IT industry.

Very few commenters seem to be able to look out of the box during discussions. If you follow the news about google's activities on CNET, you will see how things add up. History repeats itself, they say, and here'show
1> Microsft is floundering today just like IBM was in the 1980's PC market
2> Google seems to be coming up with all the path breaking ideas just like MS did (basically MS fulfilled the need for cheap personal OSes).

IBM has kicked off this morning the fourth Middle East CIO Conference hosting over 50 of the leading players in corporate technology deployments in Dubai as part of the company’s strategic initiative to work more closely with customers across the region. The CIO conference sees the Chief Information Officers (CIO) of some of the Middle East’s leading government and corporate entities converging in Dubai’s Park Hyatt Hotel just before the GITEX 2005 exhibition.

Occasional headaches are worth the value of an open community, according to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. He says most Web developers anticipate problems instead of potential. "To me, that's like opening a steakhouse and saying, 'Wait. What if people want to stab each other with their steak knives?' ... What does that do to your community?"

For those of you who do not understand how to use KimDaBa, there is now no reason not to use it. KimDaBa is the first KDE application to offer small flash videos with voice-overs describing how to use it

maddog announces two talks in Hanoi, Vietnam, and kicks off a couple of articles about Free and Open Source Software in that country which will continue over the next couple of days.

This guide shows how to set up a web, mail, and ftp server with Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog" and demonstrates the details with the help of 21 screenshots.

This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.0.4 - The Hoary Hedgehog) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/POP3s/IMAP/IMAPs, Quota, Firewall, etc.).

Computer hardware is expensive enough. Add the cost of software, and you could really bust the budget. But you don't have to spend any money at all to use software that's perfectly capable for typical office tasks. There's plenty of free software available for what you need - and most of it is even compatible with today's highest-priced office programs used by businesses.

Open source theory and fact walked hand in hand this week. Pundits and prognosticators all came calling with their own miscellaneous and sundry opinions about how this whole open source Security, strength, a lower TCO: find out about all the advantages of IBM Middleware on Linux. Latest News about open source thing works and what it really means. Leading the pundits and prognosticators was industry giant Gartner Latest News about Gartner Group. The Gartner Application Development Summit in the U.S. brought some tasty tidbits to light. According to Gartner, the near future of open source will bring, among other things, the following: * A complete open-source implementation of a Java Latest News about Java VM within three years.
* PHP will become a mainstream enterprise tool.
* Mono usage will grow in the enterprise.
* More commercial support for the LAMP stack.

That's right kids. Unlike most of the Linux solutions out there, Cinelerra requires no emulation of proprietary operating systems, no commercial add-ons, no banner advertizements, no corporate dependancies, no terrorists, just a boring old Linux box.

IBM this morning opened its fourth Middle East CIO Conference to coincide with the start of the Gitex computer show in Dubai. More than 50 of the leading players in corporate technology deployments are gathering in Dubai to hear about the latest developments, including Linux.

Hartselle's Shawn Woods just wants cheap software that works.He thinks open-source software may be the answer. Woods is the systems administrator for the city of Hartselle. What attracts him to open-source software is its cost.

Who will be the last man to promote open-source programs here _ the No. 1 enemy of Windows operating system of Microsoft Korea? The answer may be the president or ex-presidents of the firm. But such an implausible thing is now happening in this country as a former president of Microsoft Korea is leading the government initiative to boost open-source programs in place of Windows. Ko Hyun-jin, president of the government-sponsored Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA), is the man who is making the hard-to-believe story.

If one were to define the model of development using a standard terminology, one would say that what we have is "development from below," or "trickle up" economics, as opposed to "trickle down" economics.

When I talked to Meg Whitman last week, we used plain old telephones. But since both of us belong to the 54 million-member Skype community—a global society one joins simply by signing up to use that company's voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service—we could have had the conversation free via laptops and our Net connections. Or she could have Skyped me (yes, it's a verb) from her computer to my land line, paying a couple of cents a minute. It would have been appropriate because eBay CEO Whitman has just spent $2.6 billion of her company's cash and stock to buy Skype, a move that seems destined to become a marker of cataclysmic change.