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I urge you to consider leveraging the free resources available and trust you already have the motivation, the people and resources under your employ to create something durable and important for people all over the world. One way to move ahead is by scanning the works of the libraries of Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and others into the OASIS "OpenDocument" File Format of the OpenOffice desktop office suite. This will guarantee public access to the libraries' contents as well as indirectly promote Google's interests in search.

It deals with reading XML-files using DOM. I will learn more about FPC/Lazarus/XML like SAX-parsing, XPath, XML-RPC and then write some more tutorials - so, perhaps, in the end we will have a collection which can be called "FPC and XML"

South African Linux training company Afribiz is spearheading an effort to have more than 200 applicants sit the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) examinations in just one day next year. Kin le Roux of Afribiz says the only other country that has attempted this before is China which did it earlier this year. "Obviously we would like to do even more than China did," says Le Roux.

Adobe's combination of PDF, XML and productive use of J2EE and WebSphere, creates Intelligent Documents that can dynamically interact with core applications and integrate people into business processes.

With great pleasure I would like announce creation of the kde-graphics-devel mailing list. The list is developer oriented and will be the central place for all eye-candy development within KDE. Developers and researchers from the computer graphics field are welcomed and strongly encouraged to subscribe. Everything computer graphics related will be on topic - that includes developments within the X.org community, uses of OpenGL within a desktop environment or simply sharing your latest computer graphics research findings with others.

A little thing I wrote after reading some biology book, about how software development works, and how we can take advantage of it.

Welcome to this year's 49th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Bruce Byfield released a short introduction into apt-get on NewsForge. Again, developers were advised to close bugs automatically with a changelog entry only in connection with a proper description. Jason Boxman wrote a guideline for using Exim 4 and Courier IMAP on a Debian system.

To paraphrase this LA Times story: The RIAA and MPAA got their posteriors handed to them on a platter this year. HR 4077, the PIRATE Act, and INDUCE (among others) all got bogged down in Congress. If this news fills you with holiday cheer, you should donate to Public Knowledge, the D.C.-based nonprofit that made it happen. I've been working with this organization since their formation and can vouch for both their effectiveness in lobbying and that their hearts are in the right places. 'Tis the season for giving. 'Tis also the season for tax-deductible donations.

The New York Stock Exchange announced its new TradeWorks trading system today, though portions of the system have been in place for months. Described as an "Extreme Availability" system by IBM, it includes up to 3,000 -- 650 are already in use on the floor of the NYSE -- custom made wireless handheld devices used by floor brokers. The handhelds talk to Linux-based workstations, which in turn talk to HP servers, and they speak to IBM Z-series mainframes running a DB2 backend.

Got questions? LinuxQuestions.org has answers -- and a lot more. This popular and well-established site run by Jeremy Garcia has at last count 148,040 registered users. That's 4,473 more registered users than the Linux Counter itself.

"The Cybersource Linux vs. Windows TCO Comparison is back and better than ever. In April 2002, Cybersource undertook the first study contrasting the overall Total Cost of Ownership differences between Linux and open source platforms on the one hand, and Windows and Microsoft platforms on the other. We have now updated this report to accommodate the changes in both platforms. We have also extended the model to increase its relevance and accuracy.

Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation claims running a business based on open source software is possible.

Application News MozSource, the independent company that operates the Mozilla Store and the Netscape Store, has announced the launch of its new high-quality, affordable technical support service for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla 1.7.

In this part I will show you how to speed up Debian by using hdparm, getting sound and video to work, and finally wrapping it up with printing.

Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.

A recent controversial IDC study said that some 62% of the TCO of Linux comes from support, versus only about 50% for Windows, for which support is slightly cheaper. Though you can argue about the validity of the survey's results, no one can deny that Linux would be a more attractive solution if it were cheaper and easier to support. OpenCountry, a small company with big aspirations, is today announcing new software that aims to make that happen.

An introduction to several Linux MIDI utilities, including JSynthLib, Midirgui and SynthEd.

Linux PDA software vendor Empower has joined Texas Instruments's (TI's) DSP (digital signal processor) third-party network, and will offer TI's DSP customers products and services related to Linux PDTs (portable data terminals), including industrial, portable medical, point-of-sale (POS), asset inventory, and enterprise applications.

Stanford Computer Science Researchers Analyze 5.7 Million Lines of Software, Identify 985 Software Bugs - Most Already Fixed by Open Source Community

Contrary to popular perception, many open source vendors are making money, even growing in size, revenue, installed base, and influence. Their secret? The dual license, a business model that allows software makers to provide commercial software licenses for a fee, while simultaneously providing free software to a broader community. Industry analyst and longtime Linux watcher Stacey Quandt explains how it works.