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The class, scheduled for October 23-27, is five days of intensive instruction on PostgreSQL 8.1 as a database solution for professional applications. Instructor Chris Campbell guides students through the ins and outs of PostgreSQL wherein, by the end of the week, attendees will emerge with advanced skills in PostgreSQL administration.

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The GnuCash development team released the milestone 2.0.0 version of the open-source accounting program on July 9, featuring several major advances over the last version (1.9.8, released on June 18). GnuCash is released under the GPL and available for Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and Mac OSX.

Meet Elisa, software from a project aimed at developing "an open source media center solution for GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems."

A new database will tackle one of the persistent problems facing Linux deployments - figuring out what hardware is and isn't compatible.

Have you ever seen the Mac OS X desktop and wished all that eye candy were available for Linux? Now you can jazz up your Linux desktop with desklets -- nifty little windows that float on your desktop and display information such as weather updates, system monitors, and calenders. Once you have aDesklets installed, you can download and install an assortment of desklets.

In order to write DVD/DVD-RW from shell prompt you need to install a package called dvd+rw-tools.

DVD is another good option for backup, archiving, data exchange etc. You can install dvd+rw-tools with following commands. Also note that this package works under *BSD, HP-UX, Solaris and other UNIX like operating systems.

NGOs APC and Catia have joined forces with the Ethiopian Free and Open Source Network to host a series of workshops over the next 10 days to promote the use of of free and open source software in that country. The series of three workshops will range from FOSS policy discussions to advanced systems administrator training.

From today, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows ME, which could lead users to trying alternative operating systems such as Linux.

The book DNS in Action is a guide to DNS implementation, os specific configuration, and administration. This is a practical book for new sys admin and network architects about how to run and configure DNS. Libor Dostalek and Alana Kabelova has done a good work to put together complicated topic such as DNS and its implementation. The entire book is divided into ten chapters.

Chapter 1: Domain Name System
We humans take advantage of DNS whenever possible by using terms URLs and e-mail addresses. The first chapter explains the basis of DNS and its principles.

I've been using the Firefox Web Developer toolbar for about a month now and quite simply....it rocks! It's got a tonne of features but here are some of my favourite:

The company's new product, available as part of Lotus Notes Version 7, uses the Eclipse development environment and will support both RHEL 4 and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.

This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of PostgreSQL's posting as a public, open source project. To celebrate, the PostgreSQL project held a two-day conference at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Signs of rust are starting to show with JavaServer Pages (JSP) amongst the Java Community. Longstanding conventions inhibit Java programmers from using Java code within Web pages now, and even frameworks that take Java Web development beyond JSP fall short of dynamic language capabilities. This article shows you Ruby's Web page development strategy and touches on Seaside's radical approach.

Luxoft - Russia's leading provider of end-to-end information technology services and solutions - continues its expansion in Eastern Europe as well as strengthening its focus on delivering complex outsourcing services by opening an office in Odessa, Ukraine. The office's new team will provide development expertise in embedded software and hardware systems, micro processing, real-time computing, and Linux.

There are four core ways to use open source techniques and technologies to dramatically increase the effectiveness of any organization's tech writing. These techniques can greatly enhance the power of technical writing applied in user guides, marketing materials and software documentation.

Splunk-2-Nagios Integrates Network Management and Troubleshooting

Opinion: Linux takes second place to Server 2003 when it comes to applications stacks. Here's why and what can be done about it.

TORONTO -- What would a birthday party be without presents? Good thing PostgreSQL didn't have to find out.

ELGIN, Ill., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- TCE Company, Inc - a company specializing in the design, manufacture and distribution of technology products for small, medium and multi-location businesses, today announced the establishment of Guardian System Management Services, a nationwide technology support services division specializing in the certified installation, and network integration, of IP-PSTN-Hybrid PBX systems including TalkSwitch(R), Bizfon(R) and Epygi(R).