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- IP Voice 2008 (http://www.ipvoice2008.com/eng/index2.php) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on March 5th to 6th, 2008, and with the main audience of this conference being targeted to enterprise customers and communication carriers.
There have been a number of Open Software Phone projects that have happened in the past year and which continue to move forward: more>>
- Unlike a lot of the events that I discuss in my Blog, the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is a "by invitation only" event with a twist. Normally for "invitation only events", the potential attendee sits by the phone with their prom clothes on, waiting for the call that may or may not come. more>>
- After speaking at the Florida Linux Show on February 11th, I return ever-so-briefly to the New England area to re-pack my bags and head for Sao Paulo, Brazil to attend Campus Party (February 11th to 17th, 2008). more>>
- The emails and calls started coming in this past Monday afternoon: follow up inquiries from our booth team, gracious comments on the LPI exam prep sessions, and most importantly LPI members who had all kinds of good things to say about SCALE 10X. Event attendees were particularly pleased with the highly successful LPIC-1 exam prep [...] - This last fall, LPI-Pakistan undertook an innovative training program to promote LPI certification in Afghanistan with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) at that organization’s Information and Communication Technology Institute (ICTI) ITU Internet Training Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. The ITU Academy Internet Training Centre (ITC) initiative is a global network of approximately 80 institutions supported through [...] - Here is a blog for the season, and the end-of-the year…. While at LinuxCon, Brazil I met Leonard Wadewitz, the CompTIA Business Development Manager for Latin America. While most people know CompTIA for its certification program, it is actually a non-profit association of computer vendors stressing the education, certification and development of IT channels. Its [...]
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- Sustainable management has made fisheries
more profitable.
It was clear this had to be true in the long run, since after
overfishing makes the fish disappear, nobody can catch them. The
question is whether humanity is smart enough to choose the long run.
- The ideology of global trade is endangering food production and
impoverishing the poor. It could stir up massive riots.
The proposed agreement between India and the EU will surely have many
unjust, antidemocratic provisions aside from crushing 14 million
chicken farmers in India. Just about every "free-trade" agreement
attacks democracy, and nowadays they typically give corporations
power over laws.
Most attack the rights of Internet users too.
- Cambodia
has kicked hundreds of thousands of citizens out of their homes
and lands, for development projects.
These projects aim to make lots of money, and could afford to pay
poor people for their homes, but the rich are so greedy they would
prefer to screw the poor.
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- A Pública (www.apublica.org) foi indicada a seu primeiro prêmio, o Troféu Mulher Imprensa. Marina Amaral concorre na categoria Reporter Web pelo trabalho publicado no site da agência este ano. É um reconhecimento importante para o jornalismo independente e um incentivo para todos que curtem nosso projeto. No grupo em que concorre, Marina é a [...] -
Depois do protesto avassalador contra os projetos de lei SOPA e PIPA, os parlamentares norte-americanos decidiram congelar o que parecia uma decisão certa a favor da indústria da intermediação.
Tudo indica que para evitar a “saia justa” de ter que sansionar mais uma lei contra sua base social e seus aliados, Obama pressionou os autores para [...] - As pessoas não querem que a Internet se transforme numa grande rede de TV a cabo.
O blackout contra os projetos SOPA e PIPA, chamado pela Wikipedia e pelo Reddit, obteve a adesão massiva de sites norte-americanos. Surpreendeu a todos que o protesto obteve a adesão solidária de centenas de sites brasileiros. Este blog orgulha-se de [...]
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- A first installment of a GNU Status Report is available. This is a partial revival of the original GNU's Bulletin, with the aim of providing GNU-wide information from time to time, for as many packages as possible. More info. - Savannah was down for a few days recently due to a password compromise and then a disk failure. Also, some Apache features have been turned off for web pages. Full news items. - US citizens: Stop the Internet blacklist bill. Sign the petition at http://demandprogress.org/blacklist, and see the post on fsf.org for more information.
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- Welcome to this year's second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the
Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: -
According to a recent W3Techs survey, Debian has just surpassed CentOS to become the
most popular GNU/Linux distribution on web servers.
The survey is based on the analysis of the top million web sites
according to Alexa, in order to select a representative sample of
established sites, and focused only on the technologies used for web sites (and
not individual web pages or desktop installations).
In fact, at the beginning of 2012, Debian was used by 29.4% of all
Linux-based sites (and by 9.7% of all web sites), while CentOS was used
by 29.1% of all Linux-based sites (and by 9.5% of all web sites).
Debian "is also the fastest growing operating system at the moment: every
day 54 of the top 1 million sites switch to Debian", said Matthias
Gelbmann in the article.
With regard to the geographical distribution of web sites using Debian, the
most are in Europe (with 39.7% of all sites in Germany, 36.1% in
Poland, 33.6% in France and 26.4% in Russia).
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Thomas Goirand recently proposed to relax or even remove some dependencies of web applications on a
web server package.
This would help users wanting to install such web applications in chroots,
while the web server is installed only outside the chroot.
During the following discussion, several solutions were proposed,
such as providing a dummy web server package in Debian. It was
pointed out that such dummy packages are actually very easy to create
with the equivs package,
which deserves to be better known.
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