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Programming problems can be solved using multiple solutions. Discover the first approach in a four part series for creating an Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML weather badge, a reusable widget that's easily embedded on any Web page.

PCLinuxOS Magazine, April 2008 (Issue 20) is available to download. If you would like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list.

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users.

Some highlights include:

1. PCLinuxOS...On a Stick
   

2. Formatting with OOo Writer
3. LPI Exam: Taking Your Linux Seriously
4. Smart Package Manager and PCLinuxOS
5. PCLinuxOS Based Distros

6. And more...

Microsoft thinks its high time some quality open source games are released noting a significant hole in the Linux Gaming market. "We see it as a great opportunity to introduce Linux users to Microsoft products."

Some people are still under the delusion that Linux is written by unwashed hackers living in their parents' basements whose only social life is playing D&D and having flame wars over IRC (Internet Relay Chat) about whether vi or EMACS better and debating Picard versus Kirk. Nothing, nothing could be further from the truth.

Build 85 is the first Nevada build with xen 3.1.2 bits implemented. Several issues have been inspired due to this changes : 1. Install SNV 85 DomU at Xen 3.2 Linux Dom0 (CentOS 5.1,Ubuntu 7.10) crashes immediately due to broken by Xen 3.2 backward compatibility...

As many of you may know, the SCALE chairs have been organizing SCALE for 6 years now. We are delighted with how the show has grown and have enjoyed the countless hours that have gone into the planning and execution of the event. That effort has resulted in SCALE becoming the premier grassroots Open Source software show.

KDE is my preferred choice of desktop and every time I install a distribution I spend around an hour customizing it to my taste. Most of the distributions provide customized KDE but most of the customization go into the functional aspect of KDE(which should be the case) . This guide does not intent to point out to a specific choice but rather tells what can be done with a fresh KDE.

Discover a tool that analyzes javacore and diagnoses monitor locks and thread activities. Using Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer Version 2.2, learn to identify the root cause of hangs, deadlocks, resource contention, and bottlenecks in Java threads.

The Firebird Project today officially releases the much-anticipated version 2.5 Zeta 2 of its open source Firebird relational database software.

HOAXVILLE, USA -- In a stunning and unexpected announcement, Tim O'Really, founder of O'Really Publishing and the O'Really Network, announced today that "Web 2.0 is history, not that anyone ever really understood what it meant, anyway. In its place we offer Web 3.14159265358979323846…" O'Really said he expects to hold numerous Web 3.14159265358979323846… conferences that will "bring together a diverse crowd of lonely geeks with too much time on their hands, gullible investors, and marketing people looking for new buzzwords they can use in their PowerPoint presentations."

Microsoft beware, Apple is set to launch an assault on the world's biggest computer marketplace with plans to release a version of its new Leopard operating system for PCs. According to Apple insiders, the launch is set for sometime in Q3 of this year and a select group of Apple beta testers are reporting stunning results running Leopard across a range of OEM PC hardware.

Contributors to Spring devising and developing extensions to the open source framework will soon get dedicated help from project leaders through a new community site. Spring leaders, though, will maintain a high commitment threshold for those contributing to the core Spring Framework itself.

Adobe Systems is to join the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to fostering growth of the open source operating system.

In an unforeseen move Microsoft has announced the release of the Windows 95, 98, Me and MS-DOS source code for today only. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that "by releasing the code for these operating systems we are allowing software developers worldwide to create better applications for these systems".

High definition HTML is coming to a site near you -- whether you will see it is another matter. An addition to the HTML5 working draft specification was approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group over the weekend, including several new HTML elements and attributes designed to support output on high definition displays. But due to patent protection, open source Web browsers may not be allowed to implement a significant portion of the standard.

I'd love to run Linux. I'm ready for Linux. But Linux isn't quite ready for me. Or perhaps even you. But it's getting closer.

Please find the official results for the ISO vote for OOXML (DIS 29500) below. Probably the impact on the adoption of ODF of the OOXML process will be minimal, but surely there will be some interest from the public around this. OOXML which was submitted by Microsoft to ECMA, and by ECMA to ISO, has literally crawled through the needles eye.

[Empasize mine. Sadly not an april fool's joke - Sander]

RMS is known for his promotion of Free Software, or maybe more so for his disdain of non-Free, proprietary software. So it came as a surprise to many visitors to the GNU home page to see an announcement not asking for a call to arms against software patents or so-called DRM, but to say that he was getting married. What makes the news surprising? He found his soon-to-be wife by playing World of Warcraft.

This document describes how to set up Openbravo ERP (enterprise management system) on Debian Etch. Taken from the Openbravo page: "Openbravo is an open source ERP solution designed specifically for the SME (small to midsize firm). Developed in a web based environment, it includes many robust functionalities which are considered part of the extended ERP: procurement and warehouse management, project and service management, production management, and financial management."

Not only is this a good book to have if you want to learn JavaScript from the ground up, but it's a good book to have if you want to learn the basic principles of programming. Chapter 2, Programming with JavaScript alone is worth the price of admission. So many books seem to throw the reader directly into the JavaScript (or some other programming language), without describing how to do the basic steps of programming in that language. Chapter 2 is truly written for the beginner and takes the reader by the hand, showing them how to build a simple program from the ground up.