Aurora Browser - 2

Mozilla, a gaint of all opensource browser, fits into the research called Aurora, Aurora a future web browser allows you to

feel what is the reality on integrated web. This research team has colabrated with an adaptive path, who creates the concept

of aurora.They recently released a conceptual video, they presented in the way, their topics with full energy makes the

contributor to understand effectively.

Mozilla now forms the team, and started working on Aurora. First every opensource 3d based browser, not even proprietary

does. Now the world of open source is waiting for Aurora to release. They represents some features..

1) The drag and drop communication browser.
2) Cluster based history lists
3) 3d Clouds for recently visits
4) Suggestions on your given inputs

so and so...

How is it? ready for it? start your contribution now!

To be continue...

World's most Secured USB Pendrive

Enterprise Data on a USB Drive

IronKey's hardware-encrypted USB flash drives secure your most critical portable data.

* Secures your endpoints and helps prevent data leaks. No one can access the data on your IronKey if it is ever lost or stolen.
* Data is hardware-encrypted using AES CBC-mode encryption.
* Encryption keys are generated in hardware by a FIPS 140-2 compliant True Random Number Generator for maximum protection.
* Securely stores employee passwords
* Can safely tunnel through insecure wireless networks.
* Does not require software, drivers, or administrator privileges.

Self destructor program

If you do enter password for 10 times. This self destructor will activate and burnt your pendrive.

Mozilla's next step AURORA

Mozilla finalize its next step of browser called AURORA, highly interactive with userfriendly, no disturbances of tool bars, filemenu, scrolling touch etc. The HISTORY is high way of cluster based visualization feels so cool to navigate the websites.

Will discuss with you more in detail.

IMBOT research!

Any one who is interested in IMBOTS please do contact, i started a new opensource source community called CLOSEDLOGICS.

here we discussed about some main features

• Google Codes
• Google Android application development (An Open source mobile)
  
• LAMP

IMBOTS on google chat, jabbim, yahoo messenger

IMBOTS - Instant Messaging Automatic response from inbuilt programming autoresponse system.

To make them within a miniute

1) Goto IMIFIED.com
2) Signup there
3) After signup, visit myapplication link
4) In that page click +New Application button (Upto 3 application you can create)
5) Give the BOTname, BOT url -(Specify the address of the server program where it process)
eg(www.imb.com/control.php)
6) Describe about your BOT(OPT)
7) Describe the first step under help!(OPT)
8) Term your privacy! (OPT)

Enjoy...

Here is a simple program for im bots


switch ($_REQUEST['step']) {
case 1:
echo "Hi, what's your name?";
break;
case 2:
echo "Hi " . $_REQUEST['value1'] . ", where do you live?";
break;
case 3:
echo "Well, welcome to this hello world bot, " . $_REQUEST['value1'] . "
from " . $_REQUEST['value2'] . ".";
break;
}

?>

Using php! a simple helloworld program.
Save as filename.php
upload in any server say awardspace.com ( a free server to host php and mysql).

After upload provide the link in imbot settings.

ENJOY!

SMS Lab from google

When i come across orkut! i have joined a new community called chennai social service. Here they provided a link for sms subscription, the link has redirected to google labs. I was totally happy about an opensource program from google servicing a concept. This visit will help you to create sms servicing and sms blogging. A very good concept from GOOGLE. I really upricate google to maintain this.

Red Hat Partners With Amazon.com On SaaS

When I added Amazon.com to our SaaS 20 Stock Index, a few readers asked me whether the online retailer is really a software as a service (SaaS) company. My answer: Absolutely. And a growing number of tech companies agree with me.

A prime example: Red Hat has inked a SaaS partnership with Amazon.com to offer JBoss middleware as a hosted service. Here’s a look at the deal, and its implications for managed service providers.

At Red Hat Summit in Boston, the open source company disclosed that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is now available within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Red Hat claims JBoss is the first cloud-based application server.

For MSPs, the Red Hat-Amazon relationship is the latest example of open source software moving into the cloud. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was already available through Amazon EC2. And fast-growing open source databases and applications like MySQL and SugarCRM, respectively, are increasingly popular as hosted services, MSPmentor has noted.

The challenge for MSPs is trying to figure out whether to build out hosted data centers, or to leverage third-party hosted services like Amazon EC2 or Google Apps, or Master MSP hosted services from such companies as Ingram Micro Seismic and Do IT Smarter.

Even traditional MSP platform providers such as Kaseya say they will now offer network operation center (NOC) and hosted services, in an attempt to assist MSPs with 24×7 customer support and other gap services.

Right now, it’s sometimes easy to overlook how online companies like Amazon.com and Google are gradually moving into the SaaS worlds. But as SaaS and managed services continue to converge, MSPs will need to adjust their business strategies accordingly.

Women in Open Source

We here at Pingdom have been talking about why we don’t see that many women in Open Source, and were actually about to investigate it further and possibly write a blog post about it.

However, when we started to actually look around we were happily surprised. There are lots of women involved in Open Source! For some reason men just seem to stick their nose out more and put themselves in positions where they are seen (and of course there are more of them).

That said, women do seem to be highly underrepresented in the Open Source community. A study from 2006, Flosspols report, indicates that about 1.5 % of the Open Source community is female compared to 28% in proprietary software.

The Open Source community is large, though, so that 1.5% amounts to a fair share of women.

There are several different groups and websites devoted to just women and Open Source such as: LinuxChix , Apache Women, BSDChix, Debian Women, Fedora Women, GNOME Women, KDE Women, Ubuntu Women, PHP Women and Drupalchix.

This post is our contribution to the community to highlight some of the women in Open Source and to hopefully engage other women to join.

Mitchell Baker

Included in Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005. She is the Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairman and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the company that coordinates the development of Firefox and the Thunderbird email client.

Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper is an advocate of open source software and sits on the board of the Open Source Initiative. Previously she has worked at Sun where she created and managed the Open Source Programs Office among other things.

Kim Polese

Kim Polese is the CEO of SpikeSource, a provider of business-ready Open Source solutions. Previously she has spent seven years with Sun working as a Java product manager, and also acted as the president and CEO of Marimba during the dot-com era. She was included in Time magazine’s list of “The 25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997.

Margo I. Seltzer

Margo Seltzer was the CTO of Sleepycat Software prior to the acquisition by Oracle in 2006. She was the lead author of the BSD-LFS paper and is a director of the USENIX association while continuing to serve as an architect on the Oracle Berkeley database team.

Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters is a co-founder of the non-profit GNOME Foundation and frequently speaks about Open Source at major conferences. Stormy has also addressed the United Nations, the European Union and various U.S. state governments regarding Open Source software.

Mena Grabowski Trott

Mena Trott is the president and co-founder of the company Six Apart, creators of Movable Type and TypePad. She was named one of the People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004.

Val Henson

Val Henson has worked at companies such as Intel, IBM and Sun. She is a specialist in file systems and was a key developer and architect for ZFS at Sun and is currently developing chunkfs, a new Linux file system.

Máirín Duffy

Máirín Duffy is a senior interaction designer with Red Hat and is the team lead of the Fedora art team. She is also involved in the GNOME project where she is working on the GNOME marketing team and has developed the GNOME brand book.

Allison Randal

Allison is the president of the Perl Foundation. She is a key figure in the Perl community and has been active in the Perl 6 design process since the start as a project manager as well as contributing code and design.

More women in Open Source

As you can imagine, we simply don’t have enough room in this blog to post about every woman in Open Source, but here are a few more examples of women who have made their mark in Open Source:

• Dru Lavigne, maintainer of the Open Protocol Resource, writer for the “FreeBSD Basics” column on ONLamp, and author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics books.
• Lynne Jolitz, an early BSD user and Open Source contributor and advocate.
• Machtelt Garrels, Linux veteran, member of the Linux Documentation Project and BSD Certification Group Advisory Board and founder of the OpenDoc Society.
• Pia Waugh, president of the organization that runs Software Freedom Day and the former president and vice-president of Linux Australia.
• Radia Perlman, a contributor to network security, strong password protocols, IPSEC among other things. Silicon Valley Inventor of the Year in 2004.
• Erinn Clark, a Debian developer as well as the leader and co-founder of Debian Women.
• Hanna Wallach, a GNOME and Debian developer who helped the GNOME foundation to get its Women’s Summer Outreach Program off the ground.
• Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, a Debian developer and co-founder of Debian Women, as well as conference organizer and evangelist.
• Celeste Lyn Paul, participating in the KDE usability project as well as a member of the HCI working group. She has worked on the KDE4 Human Interface Guidelines.
• Eva Brucherseifer, co-founder of KDE Women, the KDE Edu project and the KDE Solaris mailing list.

This list is of course nowhere near complete and is based on mentions in articles, blogs, mailing lists, etc.

A special thanks to ITtoolbox which had a blog post called Top 10 Girl Geeks in 2006 which acted as a starting point for this list.

We hope that this post has helped highlight some of the women in Open Source, and the fact that there actually are lots of talented women working with Open Source even though they often act behind the scenes.

Canadian Firm Shows Faith In Ubuntu Server

While most major server vendors take a “wait and see” approach to Ubuntu, a major Canadian Web host says the server operating system is ready for prime time. Indeed, Cirrus Tech is now offering Ubuntu on its server hosting plans. Here’s a closer look at Cirrus Tech’s announcement, and the state of Ubuntu on the server.

Cirrus Tech’s Ubuntu server move comes less than two weeks after I noted Canonical’s Ubuntu server push is progressing slowly. Still, a few more small victories resembling Cirrus Tech could help Ubuntu to gradually gain mind share — and market share — on servers.

In addition to Ubuntu, Cirrus Tech says it offers Fedora Core, CentOS and Debian as Linux server options. Cirrus introduced Ubuntu server support because customers have been requesting it “for some time now,” according to a prepared statement from Mani Aminian, a sales manager at Cirrus. Aminian adds that Cirrus has experienced no problems running Ubuntu on the company’s servers.

Meanwhile, most major server vendors continue to take a “wait and see” approach to Ubuntu servers. While Sun offers Ubuntu servers, rival hardware makers like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM remain on the sidelines.

Sensing Opportunity

Smaller server vendors, however, are making progress with Ubuntu. System76, for instance, offers a range of Ubuntu-certified servers. And I’ve received dozens of inquiries from white box PC makers who are testing Ubuntu as a small business server.

Application providers are gradually climbing aboard as well. Untangle, an open source security specialist, now writes its applications to support Ubuntu servers, according to MSPmentor.

Still, Ubuntu’s momentum on the server remains a work in progress.

Microsoft IS Targeting Open Source Users

Much of the reaction from FOSS folks to news that Microsoft is joining the Open Source Census centers on concern that Microsoft is out to find open source users and what open source software they’re using. I think that may be exactly right.

However, I don’t think Microsoft has embarked on a SCO-style hunt for open source users it can cajole, threaten or sue for unnamed patent infringements. No, I think Microsoft has genuine interest in finding out how many open source software users are candidates for open source on Windows. I believe the company, which has changed, is aware of the scrutiny on it and its strategy with open source. Does Microsoft want to know exactly which open source software packages are most popular in datacenters? Wouldn’t you if you were provider of the most popular server/desktop OS in the world? Certainly Microsoft would rather see growth of its own products rather than growth of open source, but I believe it has accepted that it also has opportunity in open source that will be taken by others if it does not step up.

Microsoft is indeed targeting open source software users. However, being in the cross hairs means being a customer and I highly doubt any of those customers will ever find themselves defendants against Microsoft. Will Microsoft use Open Source Census data to sharpen its focus on its own products that compete with open source? Sure, but whether Redmond is aware or not, the bigger opportunity lies in Microsoft’s own support of open source. Should Microsoft be precluded from obtaining information about how much and which open source is being used? That doesn’t sound like open source to me. Once again, we see that open source is increasingly being viewed not as a hobbyist fad, cheap alternative, or enterprise-limited. No, instead open source is being viewed and handled by Microsoft and most other vendors as a source of real rivalry and real opportunity.