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Monday, July 18, 2005

Details Emerge about Debian Linux Plan

Linux in Government: Outside the US, People Get It | Linux Journal

Linux in Government: Outside the US, People Get It | Linux Journal: "With it, you can discover the simplicity of setting up assembly lines for inexpensive computer parts from China. You also will discover that Linux can make the job of manufacturing such systems even simpler."

Sunday, July 17, 2005

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | New life in Africa for old PCs

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | New life in Africa for old PCs: "We've reached the point where we've got more computers than we have organisations to distribute them to, so our priority is to identify new organisations in developing countries that can receive and distribute high volumes of computers."

Saturday, July 16, 2005

BBC NEWS | Technology | Patents: gone but not forgotten

Friday, July 15, 2005

BBC NEWS | Technology | Co-opting the creative revolution

BBC NEWS | Technology | Co-opting the creative revolution: "Institutions will come under increasing degrees of pressures and the more rigid they are, the more pressures they will come under."

Install XAMPP for easy, integrated development

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Linux and Windows security neck and neck - vnunet.com

Linux and Windows security neck and neck - vnunet.com: "John Engates, chief technology officer at managed hosting company Rackspace, which offers both Linux and Windows hosted servers, said: 'If you think about where you get Linux talent it's in the younger generation.

'Linux has a slight advantage in that computer science students are learning it, but Microsoft has made life easier for non-techies, particularly with its improved patches.'"

NanoHorizons

NanoHorizons: "New photovoltaic devices utilizing NanoHorizons' technology can be manufactured with lower-quality materials on high-throughput production lines that use rollers and coating/spraying machines. "

Nano-graphite may store H2 gas

Nano-graphite may store H2 gas: "Graphite films only nanometers or billionths of a meter thick could help store hydrogen in an inexpensive, easily manufactured, lightweight and nontoxic manner, an international team of scientists told UPI's Nano World."

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World: "'Our dream is that one day a family in Africa can walk into their corner store, buy a solar sheet and install a system that will give them electricity the same day,' Waimann emphasizes. 'When our technology works, it will allow access to clean, cheap electricity for the billion people who don't have it now.'"

PCWorld.com - Mobile Phone Fuel Cells Coming in 2007

PCWorld.com - Mobile Phone Fuel Cells Coming in 2007: "The Toshiba version is bigger, at 4.5 inches by 4.4 inches by 1 inch, and the prototype weighs 8.8 ounces, about twice the weight of a typical Japanese-model third-generation mobile phone. But size brings power in Toshiba's case: A 0.7-ounce vial of fuel can deliver 20 hours of power, he said."

Voice-to-Voice Translation Machine Perfects Bedside Manner

Voice-to-Voice Translation Machine Perfects Bedside Manner: "The Transonics system runs on a laptop computer using the Linux operating system. Doctor and patient both wear headphones with attached microphones. A small keypad connected to the computer speeds and simplifies certain routine commands - switching from doctor mode to patient mode, for example."

Fugleinfluensa

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Fujitsu Develops World's First Film Substrate-based Bendable Color Electronic Paper featuring Image Memory Function : FUJITSU

Creative Archive Licence Group

Creative Archive Licence Group

VERY exciting project from BBC and other UK companies!

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The Ubuntu Foundation and Debian | Open Source | ZDNet.com

� The Ubuntu Foundation and Debian | Open Source | ZDNet.com: "In fact, as open source and Linux become more and more accepted in the mainstream, I think there will be a shift away from a vendor-controlled Linux distros like Red Hat and SUSE and towards a single standard. Debian seems ideally-suited to provide that standard, whether one wishes to use standard Debian, or another flavor of Linux based on Debian."

IMO: We already see this trend with Munich, Vienna and a county of Spain is migrating to Debian based distros because they dont want vendor lock-in.

Debian has almost 16 000 readied software packages easy to install for free, plus the important social contract just like Debian based Ubuntu. Mandriva, TurboLinux and Progency is now working on a Debian based entreprise Linux too. Anyway, Linux is Linux is Linux, the Linux kernel is what ensure the compatibility anyway.

Monday, July 11, 2005

Meraka Institute - Wireless Africa

Meraka Institute - Wireless Africa: "The challenge faced by many African countries is how to harness the power of ICTs in order to fight poverty and improve the quality of life of all people. Many initiatives have been implemented but failed due to lack of or poor connectivity.

The FM/FI project seeks to address this shortcoming by innovating different ways of providing connectivity to the user (First Mile) and streamlining the interface between the user and the computer (First Inch). This will include a range of First mile technologies including WiFi, power line communications (PLCs) and mesh networks and Fist Inch technologies such as IVR, Voice messaging and HLT."