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OpenOffice.org extensions are a quick way to add functionality. Writable in a variety of languages, including Java, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org Basic, Python, and C++, they allow developers to contribute features without having to master much of OpenOffice.org's notoriously cryptic source code. For users, they provide quick fixes for commonly requested features.

In "Last.fm makes Internet music social," Dmitri Popov extols the wonders of Last.fm, a "social" music site that lets users create Internet radio stations that fits their tastes. Last.fm provides a free player for Linux, but if you want to use Last.fm with your favorite Linux player, you'll need the LastFMProxy written by Vidar Madsen.

Despite being on record as disliking public speaking, Mark Shuttleworth was in Dublin last month to give the keynote speech at this year's ApacheCon Europe. His theme was the future direction of open source software (OSS), and the issues developers should focus on to ensure the OSS movement’s continued success.

The Mozilla Foundation is wary of entering into too many sponsorship deals however, as they've learnt from Netscape's experiences.

Many governments and organisations are moving towards open standards and frameworks. To assist users in understanding open standards the International Open Source Network has released FOSS: Open Standards, the latest in its series of "e-Primer" books.

[Free book, foreword by Peter J. Quinn. -- grouch]

Open source start up Pentaho Corp grabbed $8m in venture funding to drive development of its rapidly evolving business intelligence suite.

A doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Zurich in Switzerland has focused on the question of what makes developers of open-source software tick.

The KOffice team today released the second bug-fix release in their 1.5 series. Several crash bugs were fixed, as well as a PowerPC issue in Krita and of course many smaller issues. There are also updated languages packs and a totally new language: Traditional Chinese.

Open source legal expert Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Center has given the OpenDocument Format its stamp of approval, declaring the office productivity format free from legal encumbrances.

HP, Blueloop And Omni demonstrate how up to 10 users can share a single linux desktop computer.

This new record beats the previous 2-core HP/Itanium2 and Oracle 10g performance record for Linux by 58 percent. It also beats the previous 2-core HP/Opteron and Microsoft SQL Server performance record and is less expensive by 23 percent.

It took some years - which is normal in the development of new architectures, but very slow until the market (read: big guys like Dell, or the stock exchange) reacted and accepted the fact that AMD had a clear winner, at least in the server and game PC areas.

Jitterbit, Inc. and salesforce.com, an on-demand business services, announced that Jitterbit's open source integration suite is now available through salesforce.com's AppExchange and can integrate directly with Salesforce implementations.

An innovative expert help service is turning heads in cyberspace. Richard Frank caught up with Capetonian co-founder, Helmar Rudolph.

VPSLink, of http://www.vpslink.com, today announced the addition of Gentoo Linux to its VPS product line. Gentoo is now available on all VPSLink hosting plans as a Stage 3 Install. VPSLink is committed to providing cutting edge technology at ultra-competitive prices.

The Smart Package Manager hopes to beat the native package management applications for distributions like Red Hat, SUSE, and Debian at their own game. Still in beta, it has support for most major GNU/Linux package and repository formats, with a modular codebase that hints at further compatibility. Smart introduces many innovative and useful ideas, but its killer feature, with which it purports to excel beyond its counterparts, is the algorithms it uses to select packages and versions that best resolve dependencies and ensure cooperation between the hundreds of applications and libraries on a user's system.

The AMD outlet in Dresden, Germany, is aggressively advertising its search for experienced Linux knowledge workers.

Due to maintenance, many Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation servers will be offline for much of tomorrow.

[Oops. That's today. Sorry for getting this out late. -- grouch]

This article shows how to recover from damaged ReiserFS filesystem. Linux comes with different filesystems and different repair utilities. With the help of GNU 'ddrescue' program one can copy data from one file or block device to another, it is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition. reiserfsck program provides special options for repairing and recovering partition.

Reiserfsck searches for a Reiserfs filesystem on a device, replays any necessary transactions, and either checks or repairs the file system. ReiserFS saves data or log in a special file for pending disk updates and later on it commit updates to disk resulting into very good filesystem consistency.

What a contrast to the usual behaviour of sacking the workers! As the giant told the Sacramento Business Journal, it will “release” these 1,000 suits on July 28.