Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging, written 3 hours ago, rm writes "Internet search and mail provider Yandex, which many view to be the Google's main competitor in Russia, recently has added an instant messaging capability to its mail notifier application Ya.Online. As it ...

Linux Foundation to host End User Collaboration Summit, written 16 hours ago, The Linux Foundation plans to hold an End User Collaboration Summit in New York City in October. The press release we received introducing the event said, "It's by invitation, but registration is free, in keeping with...

New startups explore new niches for open source, written 11 hours ago, Over the weekend two new open-source startups caught my eye (and my inbox): OrecX and Transverse. The first is notable for its demonstration that open source is ready for niche applications. The second? Well, the second is notabl...

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 9, written 1 day ago, Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 9 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedor...

OCILIB next release : version 3.0.0, written 5 days ago, OCILIB v3.0.0 is coming soon ! We swicthed from v2.5.1 to v3.0.0 because this new version will add some important features : Support for Oracle scrollable cursors : OCI_Resultset object can now be fetched in both direction and the current posi...

Analyzing and Preventing s_loadenv DOCUMENT_ROOT Attacks, written 5 days ago, 01 September, 2008 Over the past month, in my web logs for cipherdyne.{com,org} there have been suspicious web requests against the file s_loadenv.inc.php even though this file does not exist on cipherdyne.{com,org}. These...

Have you Hugged a Developer Today? Classic Video Short for Techies, written 5 days ago, This is a new internet classic. It's a must see short video for techies. And I usually hate these small viral crappy things!

New startups explore new niches for open source, written 11 hours ago, Over the weekend two new open-source startups caught my eye (and my inbox): OrecX and Transverse. The first is notable for its demonstration that open source is ready for niche applications. The second? Well, the second is notabl...

App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple, written 18 hours ago, When Apple opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, tools, and other applications for cell phones was a rarity. Handset owners could buy apps from their carriers or the occ...

Software Testing, written 3 days ago, In spite of the fact that in every software development project the product undergoes testing, delivered software always contains residual defects. Software testing is a difficult, time-consuming process. It requires specific skills from software testers, skills...

Essentials Softwares for problem free XP2 system, written 1 month ago, Here is the list which you need apart from applications provided by WindowsXP2, usual MS Office, Adobe acrobat reader, Windows Media Player etc., for Problem free working on windows XP2, all software links are provided, visit lin...

Happy Birthday To GNU, written 3 days ago, Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday. Happy birthday GNU!Read more: Happy Birthday To GNUTell us how we're doing:: Please answer a few questions about your experience to help us improve nixCraft.

Notes on Chrome, Google's New Browser, written 5 days ago,

open source ColdFusion CMS, and ending up installing PHP, Looking for a good, written 2 weeks ago, Cheap web hosting services on non-oversold fast servers with php5, gd, curl, zend optimizer maiahost cms hosting: we can modate all your cms needs: more than cms systems. Services menu services web des...

Oxford University Institute Study on Open Innovation to Be Released, written 1 week ago, A new study has been completed by Oxford University Internet Institute (UK) and will be published next month that was funded by McKinsey and Company.  Titled "The Wisdom of Collaborative Network Organiza...

Cultural biases and our unconscious proclivities, written 3 weeks ago, I've written on this topic before and recently revisited the Project Implicit study at Harvard. They've built a virtual laboratory where "visitors can examine their own hidden biases." The web tests measure which direct...

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New Poll: Vote For Your Favorite Desktop Environment, written 3 days ago, In our last poll we asked you to vote for your favorite distro; as expected Ubuntu pretty much dominated the poll with more than 57% of the votes. In my opinion, this poll 'roughly' reflects the Linux desktop market share out ...

DimDim 4.0 is here!, written 3 weeks ago, I blogged about open source web conferencing software a while back, but I wanted to share this significant update of the DimDim project. They have justed released version 4.0 of their software which adds significant functionality and makes DimDim a serious c...