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 quated from MS;
Open Specification Promise: Microsoft is putting a wide range
of protocols that were formerly in the Communications Protocol Program
under the Open Specification Promise (OSP). This guarantees their
freedom from any patent claims from Microsoft now or in the future, and
includes both Microsoft-developed and industry-developed protocols.
Source: nixCraft || port25
Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy.
Here’s the fix/workaround,
Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go.
#> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
add lines into /etc/squid.conf
# Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header
acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain support.microsoft.com
header_access Accept-Encoding deny support.microsoft.com
#> service squid restart
The other way is to remove the tick from “Use HTTP1.1 through proxy connections” in IE’s Advanced internet options tab. Beware that this might break other sites.
Source: Whirlpool.net.au
Update:
Newer versions of squid need a different approach as demonstrated by Dave over at davehope.co.uk
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena.
As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. Currently Firefox 3 has managed to beat Firefox 2 and IE7 by working around the 100MB mark after loading and unloading 30 random web pages. The graph below will speak for itself, at peak (30 pages) IE7 was consuming around 500MB while Firefox 2 hovered around 280MB and Firefox 3 steadily working around 200MB. 
IE8 is said to attention the memory issue but till then it’s looks like the road is clear for Firefox 3.
If you are interested in running the benchmark, there’s a python script which will load open and load 30 random pages for you. Run the benchmark here or download the script.
Download Firefox 3 Beta 4
Source: Paulou.net [ Stuart Parmenter (Mozilla Developer) ]
HP is planning to roll out a few of it’s Notebooks and Desktops preloaded with Novell’s Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10). Dell had the head start with it’s offering of machines preloaded with Ubuntu and recently also preloaded with SLED10.
“We are really excited because of the power that the HP distribution channel brings, the reach they have and their commitment to interoperability. I am very enthusiastic about what this relationship could bring,â€? Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian told eWEEK in an interview during Novell’s BrainShare 2008 conference.
This is good for Linux, not that Linux is going to overwhelm Microsoft’s market share anytime soon but it will certainly help built much needed awareness among users. From the hands of hobbyist into the enterprise environment.
Source: eWeek
Most Linux desktop users don’t fancy the default fonts which ship default with Linux. Luckily there are a few ways you could easy enjoy Microsoft fonts on your Linux desktop.
The simplest way would be to use the package manager to add distro specific packages to install the fonts. openSUSE, Ubuntu and many other distros now provide the fonts with a disclaimer which you will have to agree to before the fonts get installed.
If the above did not work for you then download this rpm package: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/AnyDistro/noarch/MicrosoftFonts-1-jen14.noarch.rpm which will provide the fonts for you. Use your package manager to install the package or simply install it from the command line using the command below. An advantage of this rpm package is that it includes the Tahoma fonts which is not included by the distro specific packages.
rpm -ivh MicrosoftFonts-1-jen14.noarch.rpm
The third and final way which is also the legal way would be to copy the fonts over from a licensed Windows XP computer. Move them over using winscp or a usb thumb drive,WinSCP in my case. Once moved over simply use your font’ manager to install them. In my case KDE, the font manger can be accessed at KDE Menu -> Configure Desktop -> System Administration -> Font Installer -> “Administrator Mode”.
Enjoy your fonts, drop me a comment if you need help.
