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Most of you would be really familar using commercial software in windows for various activities. But actually there is an open source equivalent for most of them and they come for free and almost do the same job as the commercial software. This is a site that you have to scan through to find your open source equivalent. Its a huge list of free software you wouldn’t want to miss!

Here is the link for the Linux Alternative Project : http://www.linuxalt.com/

Holas FOSSers!

It sure has been a while hasn't it?  Just two weekends ago, we ran the inaugural FOSS.my conference!  Boy it was really Awesome!

This conference was made possible by the kind sponsorships by APIIT, Microsoft, Mixi, Mozilla, Novell, ByteCraft, and Inigo.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, November 19 (RT) — Hein-Pieter Van Braam, self described as “an arrogant viking,” has engaged in a David Blaine-style self-imposed total isolation experiment. The task: to survive a week using all proprietary Software. Van Braam has dubbed it, “The Freedom-Free Week.”

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These are links to my favorite free software. After using them for a while, i found that these free software were almost as superior as the premium ones, so that i dont have to buy or download the trial version,
nor i have to find cracks..

There is an interesting article on Martin Lewis’ money saving expert about antivirus and related horrible software. It includes links to some of the best free and paid for software that you can use.

This article describes what each of these malicius software do and how they may effect your computer. Please use this as a guide in defending your PC against attacks.

Anoche estuve ojeando XAMPP, que es una aplicación que nos permite montar un servidor web completo con soporte de lenguajes de script como PHP y PER, un motor de bases de datos, así como un servidor FTP (depende del sistema operativo utilizado), administración web para mysql a través de PhpMyAdmin, análisis del tráfico con Webalizer… así como otras funcionalidades, muy útil para aquellos que deseen programar en PHP o istalar de forma local una de las muchas plataformas a las cuales podemos acceder gracias a su licencia (joomla, wordpresss, drupal, cms made simple, moodle, dokeos, oscommerce, etc).

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO-1 laptop

You might consider this Christmas season donating to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign. If you donate $400, you can get one laptop for yourself to keep, but only if you donate during the brief give one, get one period. Of course, you can always donate without asking for a laptop in return.

Here’s the summary of the Top 500 Supercomputers, broken down by Operating system. Linux only has 87.8% of the Top 500 supercomputers.  But it really isn’t fair to compare Windows and Linux, after all, Linux cost 10.8 billion dollars to develop, and Windows development team probably only had a budget of a couple of billion dollars or so. Poor Bill Gates…

Here’s a list of a few of the reasons I think you might want to take a look at Ubuntu.  Thanks to the Ubuntu UK Podcast episode 10 for originally inspiring this post.

Malam ini saya merasa muak banged. Bukan karena makanan yang nda enak. Bukan juga karena pemandangan yang menjijikan. Saya muak dengan ucapan banyak orang disekitar saya hari ini yang mengatakan bahwa F/OSS (baca: Linux) adalah GRATIS ! Kalau itu diucapkan oleh anak kecil yang tidak tahu komputer atau orang awam yang jarang bersentuhan dengan internet, maka ucapan itu masih saya anggap wajar. Namun, apabila ucapan itu diungkapkan oleh orang2x yang mengatakan bahwa dirinya adalah para penggiat F/OSS movement maka itu membuat saya serasa ditohok oleh preman pasar.Dan saya sudah hampir merasa putus asa meluruskan kesalahpahaman ini.F/OSS, salah satunya GNU/Linux, bukan barang gratisan kawan.

Don’t you hate it when you get on your Favorites on YouTube and see that one of your videos is no longer available? With mediaconverter.org you can have all your videos on your desktop for your constant viewing pleasure completely free! I was looking for a simple file converter so i can easily watch my favorite clips or listen to my favorite song. I fell upon Mediaconverter.org and really like it. It is very easy to use and so quick in converting files. As you see in the pic below, in order for the conversion to take place - you must copy and paste the link of your video into the Conversion Wizard. Next step, choose the type of file you want to turn it into. For a video you can choose mpg.

CheckPoint Software: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index.html

Text from PCMag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334774,00.asp

On Tuesday, Nov. 18, Check Point Software will offer the ZoneAlarm Pro software package for free for 24 hours, in celebration of Check Point’s 15th anniversary, a company spokeswoman said Friday.

ZoneAlarm Pro, which contains a firewall, antispyware, and ID protection service (including credit monitoring) normally costs $39.95. The download location for the free ZoneAlarm Pro package will go live just after midnight on Tuesday morning.

Have a look at this little puzzle, the code below simply prints the names of all the entries in the ACL of a database, but it doesn’t work unless you uncomment the commented lines

Sub Initialize
Dim db As New NotesDatabase("", "acltest1.nsf")
' Dim acl As NotesACL
Dim entry As NotesACLEntry
' Set acl = db.ACL
Set entry = db.acl.GetFirstEntry
While Not entry Is Nothing
Print entry.Name
Set entry=db.acl.GetNextEntry(entry)
Wend
End Sub

So accessing the ACL through db.acl.GetFirstEntry returns nothing, unless you have stored a handle to the ACL. The odd thing is you don’t have to access it via the stored handle, db.acl.GetFirstEntry magically starts working. Has anyone got a rational explaination for this?

Thanks to Kim Cofino I learned of Green School in Bali, Indonesia. Kim linked to their enlightening slideshow describing alternative sources of energy, the use of bamboo and volcanic rock to build essential structures, their organic permaculture system, the extraction of methane from cow manure for fuel, and other fascinating endeavors.