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This is release 0.9.34 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What’s new in this release:
- Support for Xcursor.
- A range of fixes for various installers.
- New builtin xcopy tool.
- The usual assortment of Direct3D fixes.
- Lots of bug fixes.

Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you
before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will
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In this article I’ll show you some simple tricks to help you tighten security for your secure shell (SSH) service.

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Red Hat Inc. reported its financial results today for its fourth fiscal quarter and full fiscal year, both of which ended Feb. 28. While total revenue was up, the market was disappointed at the report that net income for the quarter fell about 25 percent year-over-year.

Specifically, Q4 net income dropped from $28.75 million (13 cents per share) in 2006 to $21.5 million (10 cents per share) in 2007. Total revenue for the quarter was $111.1 million, an increase of 41 percent year-over-year and up 5 percent from the prior quarter. Subscription revenue was $95.9 million, up 44 percent year-over-year and 8 percent sequentially.

For the full year, total revenue was $400.6 million, an increase of 44 percent over fiscal 2006 revenue, and subscription revenue was $341.2 million, up 48 percent from the prior year.

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“After yet another contentious vote on the .xxx concept, ICANN has finally rejected the pornography TLD. The debate has gone on for quite some time, and the 9-5 decision was the third time a decision was reached on the subject. This is the second time the body has ruled against the idea, and is likely the last time we’ll see it come up for vote any time soon. One member abstained from voting. From the article: ‘Many of the board members said they were concerned about the possibility that ICANN could find itself in the content regulation business if the domain name was approved. Others criticized that, saying ICANN should not block new domains over fears like that, noting that local, state and national laws could be used to decide what is pornographic and what is not. Other board members said they believed that opposition to the domain by the adult industry, including Web masters, content providers and others, was proof that the issue was divisive and that .xxx was not a welcome domain.’”

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ArsTechnica reports that Quanta, the company manufacturing the XO laptops, has plans to begin selling low-cost budget mobile computers for $200 later this year. ‘According to Quanta president Michael Wang, the company plans to leverage the underlying technologies associated with OLPC’s XO laptop to produce laptop computers that are significantly less expensive than conventional laptops.’ While OLPC plans to sell the laptops in bulk to governments, which will then distribute the hardware to school children, the XO computer itself is not for sale on the open market. These XO-like commercial devices are still something of an unknown, but it has been announced they’ll be using Open Source software.”

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In an earlier post I had explained how to host websites on ones personal machine using apache webserver as well as password protecting the website using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. But there is much more to apache than these configuration features I described. For instance, there is the mod_rewrite module which is heavily used by most content management systems to provide a easy to remember

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Mandriva strengthens Intel’s contribution to education by actively participating in Intel’s Classmate PC project. Several technology companies joined forces to produce Classmate PC, a portable computer for students in developing countries.

read more at Linuxlookup

A couple of weeks back, I was greeted by the news of a very interesting project having been moved to KDE base. The project in question is a file manager named Dolphin. What is unique about this file manager is that it is light weight, is simple to navigate without overwhelming the Computer neophytes but at the same time does not sacrifice much functionality.

read more at Linuxlookup

Oracle has demonstrated there is demand for its Unbreakable Linux program by announcing no fewer than 26 customers that have signed up to its cut-price Linux support offering.

read more at Linuxlookup

The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Apache Batik version 1.7beta1, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.This is the first release of Batik in approximately two years, and brings many new features and improvements over version 1.6. Notable new features include:

• DOM Level 3 Core/Events/XPath support
• Improved WMF transcoder support
• Near complete SMIL Animation support
• A few SVG 1.2 features, such as:
  • resource documents
  • shapechange and RenderedBBoxChange events
  • SVGGlobal startMouseCapture/stopMouseCapture methods
  • handler elements

Read more at Apache News

If you gave a presentation at OSCMS (or attended one and took really good notes), please add a child page to OSCMS 2007 event page in the handbook with your stuff (slides, outline, etc.). Looks like several people have done this, but not everyone quite yet.

Thanks!

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This short guide describes how you can configure your GNOME desktop to display various icons such as My Computer, Network Servers, Trash, etc. on the desktop. By default, these items are placed on one of the panels (Trash) or hidden in the Places menu. Having these icons on the desktop is useful if you switch from a Windows desktop to a GNOME desktop and are used to having them on the desktop.

Read more at HowtoForge

OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER

Volume 04 - Issue 9 - 03/2007

Please send news clippings to:
newsletter@marketing.openoffice.org
For up-to-date news visit the OpenOffice.org Newsletter Blog:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com

To read all of this month’s stories in full:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html

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Contents

1. Announcements
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* OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
* OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2007 - Call for Papers

2. Success Stories
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* German City of Freiburg moving to OpenOffice.org and ODF
* OpenOffice.org on Intel Classmate PC’s
* Dell will ship Linux on desktop computers
* French parliament picks Ubuntu for Linux switch

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The idea that Linux is primarily a community-based project based on the work of thousands of independent, idealist hackers died a quiet death at home on March 27.
The proximate cause of death was the Linux Foundation’s naming of its new board of directors. This leading non-profit Linux organization’s board included many Fortune 500 executives from around the world — but not one representative from a purely community-based Linux organization.

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Hackers have built their own encrypted IM (instant-message) program to shield themselves from law enforcement trying to spy on their communication channels.

Read more at LinuxWorld

kmccombs writes “April’s meeting of Mad Mongers features JT Smith presenting on WebGUI. WebGUI, an open source content management system, is built purely on Perl. Developed to run enterprise web environments, WebGUI is easy to use, extremely powerful, and easily customized. JT will discuss developing for WebGUI, highlighting its benefits through a demonstration of the system. This is an excellent opportunity for Perl programmers to learn about developing for WebGUI from one of the creators of the cms himself.

Read more at Perl

Comments about the third draft of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), which was released yesterday, are still coming in. So far, we’ve spoken with Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman, Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and Bruce Lowry, director of global public relations for Novell. Their reactions offer some new perspectives and at least one possible sign of movement toward consensus. Together, they also highlight the issues that are likely to dominate discussion of the draft in the days to come.

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“I have been watching the trends being set forth by Linux vendors for sometime now. While keeping a close eye on public reactions, I have seen great reaction from the educational sector, while observing lukewarm results from the office space.

“Much of this, I suspect, is that schools are looking at a tighter bottom line than we see with much of the world’s leading corporations. With this in mind, I believe that concessions are made when something does not work exactly as they might like. Would it not make sense that for most educational institutions cost trumps minor inconvenience? But just how flexible are today’s schools and will they indeed, become the catalyst that Linux needs to become a household name…?”
Read more at MadPenguin

I was once motivated enough to write a guide on Bash scripting which I chose to call “The 10 Seconds Guide to Bash Scripting” which, if missed, you can read here. Even though many of you may challenge me on the time I claim is enough to read through the guide, I am sure you will find it useful.

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“There are different ways of sharing files between GNU/Linux and Windows. Mostly we make use of the services of a FAT32 (or FAT16) partition which can be read and written to by both Linux and Windows. The disadvantage of using a FAT partition for sharing files between Windows and GNU/Linux is that you are forced to reserve a part of disk space solely for sharing files. But this is just one of the number of file sharing methods available for people who wish to dual boot between the two OSes.

“Another method which comes to my mind is to use the new stable release of ntfs-3g module which allows you to mount an NTFS partition as read-write in GNU/Linux…”
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