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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. ...

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 is what he had to say about the local OSS scene, I envision a more innovation-centric industry driven by research and collaboration, especially in open source. The nature of open source is in its shared environment where experts help newbies design and implement efficient code. I think the local ICT industry needs to be more adventurous in R&D (research and development). ...

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. A new “folder view” plasmoid sees it’s way on to the desktop providing a new way to interact with the desktop. The removal of desktop icons scared many but with the new folder view plasmoid users are able to access any folder they please from the desktop instead of being locked down to the default desktop. ...

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 Putty… A simple example of usage is: ...

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, When July 26-27, 2008 Saturday 10:00 AM-6:00PM (official section) Hangout time 6pm to Sunday morning Sunday 10:00 AM-2:00PM ...