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Amrita University & TIFAC CORE in association with VeriSign proudly present InCTF’10, India’s First National Level “Capture the Flag” Style Ethical HACKING contest.
InCTF’10 is from February to March 2010 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience in [...]
Personally, I am a Durpal fan. It is, according to me one of the most powerful Content Management System. Here is yet another break through (grammy.com) for Drupal after the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/). Lullabot is a team that focuses on providing Drupal videos, tutorials, training, consulting, and guidance… Now, read on to know how [...]
After the Success of FOSSTER ‘09 that was conducted on 28th and 29th of March, 2009; FOSSTER ‘10, the National Level FOSS Conference at Amritapuri Campus is back. It will be held on 20th and 21st of February, 2010.
FOSSTER now has an official website http://fosster.co.in [we we not able to reserve fosster.in - which is [...]
Slowly but surely, we’re getting an idea of what Google’s Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system. Soon Google was launching a [...]
I was just surfing on the internet. As you all would have known by now, I am a FOSS lover and promoter. This little thing never struck my head! Why? Just have a look. It has to change!!!
Source: http://www.gendershouldntmatter.org/
Gender balance, global:
In the ICT sector:
In the Free Software community:
Seriously,
Is the free/open-source community missing something?
Attending JavaOne 2009 Conference at San Francisco was a wonderful, learning experience. As a part of Sun Microsystems’s Campus Ambassador Program, they nominated five CA’s from all over the world who would get an opportunity to attend the JavaOne 2009 Conference, fully sponsored by them. Let me now share my JavaOne 2009 experiences with you [...]
Sun Campus Ambassadors Talk about OSUM Clubs and student communities.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/globalcommunities/
There are literally thousands of totally free ways to customize your Firefox to fit exactly what you like to do online.
Mozilla to let enterprises build custom Firefox browsers
The upcoming Build Your Own Browser program will let companies customize Firefox 3.5 and install it across multiple desktops
Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to [...]
Database giant Oracle has established an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. Ars takes a close look at Sun’s key open source software projects and how these could be affected by the acquisition.
News: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp
Database giant Oracle announced Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share—roughly $7.4 billion. The two companies reached an agreement [...]
One of the several advantages of having many GNU/Linux distributions is that there is always one distribution that meets specific needs for a group of users with similar interests. Whether you are a student or a scientist or someone who believes in some religion; you could use one of these special purpose distribution and share [...]
Article from Netcraft.Com – http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/03/15/march_2009_web_server_survey.html
In the March 2009 survey, netcraft.com received responses from 224,749,695 sites. This has brought the total up by more than 9 million sites, with QQ and Microsoft making the most significant contributions. Apache remains in the lead with a total of 104 million sites, while Microsoft-IIS’s gain of 3.3 million sites [...]
Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation.
Andrew Binstock: You are one of the fathers of the open-source revolution, even [...]
April 6, 2009
Amritapuri Campus
When
NASA decided to build Mars Exploration Rovers at a cost of several
hundred million dollars, it chose free and open source software to
power the robots. Launched on the Martian surface in 2003, the rovers
are still going strong today. When Amrita decided to build a complex
ERP software solution for its 1300-bed specialty hospital [...]
Google is going great!
Now we can mail in 5 different Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam). I have changed the title of my blog using this great Gmail feature. This tool has a language specific spell checker and corrector!!!
I am waiting for this feature to come on google chat too.
Here is my name [...]
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can [...]
Sun Microsystems has announced the Code JavaFX Contest 2009 contest. Students and developers across India can participate in this contest.
This contest is aimed to generate enthusiasm for the JavaFX technology and to encourage developers to develop and contribute sample applications or games that demonstrate use of JavaFX in creating rich internet applications.
Prizes will be awarded [...]
I have added a new page: http://avinashjoshi.co.in/users-speak/
Here, I will be posting (in reverse chronological order), my blog users, visitors and Friends experience with FOSS and generally with my blog.
So, If you like my blog and would like to put up your comments on that page, mail to mail at avinashjoshi dot co dot in and [...]
1. Proponent of free software gets marching orders!
2.. Tax returns!
Kerala IT policy envisions an inclusive knowledge society, but it still remains just words. There is no effort to implement the policy in any of the initiatives the government is taking. The recent incident is the tax filing application which mandates use of Microsoft Excel fomat [...]
Time is set to reveal the system that will have the last laugh.
OpenSolaris 2008.11 is out with more robust features. It would be great if you see the screen cast rather than me describing how great OpenSolaris is :)
