2008 July

Archive for July, 2008

Microsoft to sponsor Apache Software Foundation

posted on July 30, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software, Tech with 2 Comments

Microsoft has announced that it will sponsor ASF “Apache Software Foundation”. Yahoo and Google are already on board. Microsoft was quick to say that they will not ditch IIS as tremendous work is constantly being put into it. IIS 8 is already in development and native support for PHP is on the todo list. As [...]

Malaysian GSOC student in the media

posted on July 30, 2008 in Linux, Malaysia, Open Source, Software with 1 Comment

Raj Kissu Rajendran from APIT, who is also a Google Summer Of Code participant gets featured in the local papers. Raj is working on the “BLOB Streaming Support for phpMyAdmin” project which enables the management of streaming content (audio, video) in and out of the MySQL database through phpMyAdmin. keep up with his progress This [...]

KDE 4.1.0 released

posted on July 30, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

The KDE community released KDE 4.1.0 today. The second release for KDE4. Boasting new features, new applications and improved eye candy, KDE 4.1 is managing to WOW many. Nothing but good reviews all around the net unlike 4.0. Plasma now supports multiple panels and allows the resizing of panels like how it was with KDE3. [...]

How To Execute Linux commands from Windows

posted on July 29, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 2 Comments

Most of the time, users are having a Windows Machine on their desk or laptop. Normally, we want to perform a full scale data retrieval from our Linux servers in the DC, where we don’t have a trusted Linux server to manage it….the answer to it is use “PLINK” utility. Plink comes together with the [...]

BarCamp Malaysia in a few hours

posted on July 26, 2008 in Cool Stuff, Malaysia, Open Source with 3 Comments

BarCamp’s in a few hours. It’s gonna be my first. The Google Android session is what I’m going for first. What is BarCamp? It’s an Unconference . Interested? Initialy seats were limited but due to overwhelming interest from the public, BarCamp decided to opened up it’s door to all. Just walk in. See you there, [...]

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