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The great divide between programmers (who work with back-end applications) and Web programmers (who spend their time writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is long standing. However, the Document Object Model (DOM) bridges the chasm and makes working with both XML on the back end and HTML on the front end possible and an effective tool. This article introduces the Document Object Model, explains its use in Web pages, and starts to explore its usage from JavaScript.

Intel has embedded a 2.6 Linux kernel in a compact NAS (network-attached storage) server that aims to bring enterprise storage management features such as hot-swap SATA drives and enclosure management to the entry-level SMB/SOHO market. The SE4000-E stores up to 2TB, and is available now.

EVERY time internet users search on Google, shop at Amazon or trade on eBay, they rely on open-source software—products that are often built by volunteers and cost nothing to use. More than two-thirds of websites are hosted using Apache, an open-source product that trounces commercial rivals. Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia with around 2.6m entries in more than 120 languages, gets more visitors each day than the New York Times's site, yet is created entirely by the public. There is even an open-source initiative to develop drugs to treat diseases in poor countries.

Linux Reality is a weekly podcast aimed at the new Linux user that has just released its fifth episode.

The choice of John Loiacono's replacement could be key for the vendor's fortunes, and for the open-source community.

After a long year of trying, Windows Live Mail BETA developers claim it just crossed the one million subscriber mark, on the way, they gush, to a fast ten million accounts. Bruised and battered beta testers who have suffered through giant ads, crashing browsers, sluggish performance, and lost contact lists are no doubt wondering how long it will take for the peppy Windows Live crew to build a Google-worthy email solution.

Bucharest, March 16, 2006 – AXIGEN messaging solution is now in charge of the email traffic in the 140,000 mailboxes of Rol.ro, the second most trafficked Romanian Web portal.

The joint undertaking by the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Wireless Services Asia (WSA) and the European IT Service Center Foundation (EITSC) recently resulted in the creation of an Open Source courseware that will be integrated into selected colleges and universities in an effort to build the country’s open source skills.

The courseware for the Philippine Open Source Initiative (POSITIVE) will take effect starting next school year in 250 member schools of the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE).

The Business Case for Open Source Management Tools

A NSW government project to make open source software and solutions cheaper and more accessible to its agencies is understood to have been boosted by IBM's confirmation of its membership of a panel of authorised suppliers.

This guest column by Wasabi VP and General Counsel Jay Michaelson responds to a

Grasshopper LLC Tuesday announced the first release of its PageStream desktop publishing application specifically designed for the LinuxPPC distribution. PageStream is also available for Mac OS, Windows, and Amiga variants with a large assortment of features and a 20-year history, Grasshopper said.

"PageStream is a high-end publishing package that, like an onion, has many layers," Dan Kilroy, a spokesman for Wisconsin-based Grasshopper, told DesktopLinux.com via email. "Basic functions like pages, text, and drawing can be 'opened' into more customizable, user-controlled functions.

It's hard not to see money and corporate politics at work here. After all, less than two months ago Microsoft was also trashing the inexpensive MIT computer—and suggesting that a cell phone should take its place. Intel has also been a hater, and in December an executive dismissed the new computer as a gadget. The biggest rivals of Microsoft and Intel (AMD, Google, and Red Hat) are all substantial contributors to the new project, which does not use Intel hardware or a Microsoft operating system, and doesn't stand to make anyone a pile of money (though it will be a commerical venture). still, you would hope that such tech heavyweights as Microsoft and Intel could lend some assistance (or at least stop the usual FUD) for a project of this magnitude, but that's apparently too much to ask.

The new service, which is currently in beta, will be available to all UK Yahoo Mail customers today and users will be given a choice as to whether they wish to try out the new service when they next log in. Highlights of the new beta version of Yahoo! Mail include increased speed and features such as a reading pane to instantly view messages, an RSS reader which you can either chose to subscribe to Yahoo's own news feeds or input your own URL and support for both Firefox and Internet Explorer as standard.

15 and 16 July 2006 the Crystal Space team, together with the Center of Learning and Knowledge Management and Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (ZLW/IMA) at the university of Aachen (Germany) will hold the very first Crystal Space Conference. During those two days developers and users of Crystal Space will talk about technical and artistic issues related to developing 3D games using the Crystal Space framework.

[Ed.: Has link to conference registration site.]

COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) is an international open standard of good practices for IT governance, security, and control. It is a framework that produces a verifiable audit of IT processes across the enterprise that can be used both internally and by external audtiors. With the high profile of the Enron scandal and the subsequent passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, business and especially IT managers' concern for governance standards and means of providing verifiable audits for both internal and external use, awareness of IT governance functions is at an all-time high. COBIT, many believe, provides a means of achieving these goals for the enterprise.

[Ed.: 24 monitors, 30 million pixels, 12 Linux servers, $40,000 LCD]

“Other schools and institutions have built power wall displays, but what makes this one unique in that ours is reconfigurable and can be curved around the user,” North said.

Running Linux or Windows CE, the PC has a 72mm x 55mm touch screen, 64MB SD-RAM and up to 1GB storage in a built-in SD memory slot. The device has batteries built into the strap and can give up to six hours productive time. Full GPS is built in, as is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and the device is controlled via a stylus and touch screen. A speaker is incorporated as is stereo sound via headphones. [Now that's my kind of watch. - sharkscott]

It's a lot easier to make the leap from Windows to GNU/Linux on a desktop machine (or even a server) than it is a laptop. Laptop computers are far more likely to contain unsupported unique or proprietary hardware than desktop machines, so laptop computers in general can be difficult to get your favorite free software operating system onto. Confused as to what distro you should use, or what computer you should buy? Here are some tips to make your decisions easier.

The Chairman and President write: In the days since Research In Motion (RIM) announced a final settlement agreement that ended a lengthy and complex patent battle...we have also heard broad concern expressed about a patent system in obvious need of reform. Who knew that patent litigation and the subject of patent reform could ever become such mainstream topics of conversation?

They took out full page ads in eight U.S. newspapers on Tuesday. Next? A Linux server for Blackberry would work.