Joel Cohen of The Simpsons and John Halamka of Harvard Medical School to discuss the use of open source solutions in the entertainment and healthcare industries
Raleigh NC – March 11, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Joel Cohen, writer and co-executive producer for The Simpsons, and John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will keynote at the fourth-annual Red Hat Summit, taking place June 18-20, 2008 in Boston, Mass. In addition, …

NEW YORK, March 5, 2008 – Ziff Davis Media Inc. (”Ziff Davis” or the “Company”), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Ziff Davis Holdings Inc., announced today that it has reached an agreement with an ad hoc group of holders of more than 80% in principal amount of its Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes (the “Senior Secured Notes”) on the terms of a restructuring to reduce substantially the Company’s funded indebtedness.
In order to implement the restructuring and permanently improve its capital structure, Ziff Davis and certain of its affiliates today …

Highly-confidential correspondence confirms that the Penang state government had asked the federal government to offer a RM1 billion project to Motorola in a desperate attempt to stop the American telecommunications giant from pulling out of the state.
If this wasn’t done, the Gerakan-led state government warned Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi that its “catastrophic impact” would be “politically very detrimental” especially in the run-up to the general elections on March 8.
pak lah and koh tsu koon and motorola factoryThe three-page letter, signed by outgoing Penang chief minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon, …

Shuttle today announced that the newly launched $199 KPC will feature the Foresight Linux operating system. With an intuitive interface and user focused design, Foresight does away with the need for users to be familiar with Linux.
A host of the latest software is packaged with the operating system, giving users convenient and enjoyable access to music, photos, videos, documents, and the Internet. Even keeping up-to-date with the latest features and fixes is a simple process with the user friendly update button.
Foresight uses the revolutionary Conary® Package Manager developed by rPath …

Google has called for ISO member bodies to reject Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format during the upcoming voting period. According to Google, OOXML is unnecessary and suffers from technical flaws.
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Primary Computing Models
o Non-administered Desktop: Here users have their own desktop system. Users/System Administrators manage each system individually including installation and upgradation of software and OS.
o Administered Desktop: Using this model the System Administrators can install and manage applications on users’ desktops remotely from a centralized remote location.
o Thin client/Server-based: In this model, processing takes place on one or more centralized servers. Users can access these applications locally and remotely, using a standard browser, wireless device, desktop device, or thin client device.
Basic Categories of Thin Clients
1. Basic
2. Robust
3. Flexible
4. Mobile
5. Legacy
Basic Thin Clients
• Provides server-based computing
• …

HylaFAX is the leading fax server for Unix-like computer systems. It uses a client-server design and supports the sending and receiving of faxes as well as text pages, on any scale from low to very high volumes, if necessary making use of large numbers of modems. It is free software and can be used commercially without charge.
History
Sam Leffler, while working at Silicon Graphics (SGI), wrote a fax server for SGI’s IRIX servers called FlexFAX and released it to the public in June of 1991. Leffler and others worked for several …

YouTube has been blocked by Pakistan’s government because it contained “blasphemous content, videos and documents”. Shortly after, Pakistan shutdown YouTube globally by (possibly accidentally) hijacking their IP space via BGP!
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It seems Stage6 will be shut down on Feb 28th 2008. According to the blog post by a DivX employee, it is simply a matter of the site becoming too expensive to maintain. I’m deeply saddened by this: some channels alone have so many documentaries that they’ve become veritable historical archives.
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I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, …

You have noticed that your printer has been displaying the words ‘Error 11′ or ‘Error 12′ for a few hours now. What does that mean? How do you get the error messages to go away? Don’t panic. These are just printer error codes to let you know that your printer needs some attention, even if the problem isn’t major. Here are some common error codes that you may see fairly often, as well as what to do about them.
Error 11. This just means that the printer is out of paper. …