Blogs

definitely worth the 5 mins to read them

Time to get Google Gears - allows you to work w/ any of your Google docs offline

http://gears.google.com/
install, select offline and there you go:

Well... why not ask the king of search:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogosphere

If you get in my way, I'll kill you! - ideal project manager
If you get in my way, you'll kill me! - somewhat less than ideal project manager
If I get in my way, I'll kill you! - somewhat misguided project manager
If I get in your way, I'll kill you! - A tough project manager (eats glass, live cats, etc.)
If get kill in will way I you. - dyslexic, functionally illiterate project manager
I am the way! Kill me if you can! - messianic project manager
Get away, I'll kill us all! - suicidal project manager

Well to my own surprise, when accessing a Silverlight app on the net on my little Ubuntu laptop, here is what I got:

Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.

Yes... I had to do it !

For many strange reasons, I had to convert my main work laptop back to a single boot: Windoze XP. It was once upon a time a triple boot Windoze XP, VISTA and Ubuntu machine. However, having gained nothing from VISTA, I had kept it as a simple dual boot Ubuntu 8.10 and Windoze XP SP3. Anyhow... To remove the dual boot, you will find many articles about this specific procedure, but as you are here, just keep on reading.

In simple words and few lines, here is what you have to do:

• boot your machine from a Windoze XP bootable CD (press enter or any key to boot from CD and check your BIOS boot settings if you do not have this option)
• select the option R (for repair) when prompted
• press 1 to select the default C:\windows installation (or appropriate number if you have more installs or different directories)
• login w/ the administrator password (hoping you noted it down)
• at the prompt, type "fixmbr" and press Enter
• then type "fixboot" and press Enter
• remove the CD-Rom and reboot your machine
• now... all that you have left to do is delete or reformat the (linux or other OS) partitions in order for you to "see" them in Windoze

PS: my recommendation would be to remove Windoze if you don't have any strong dependencies at the workplace ;)

This list is not complete or exhaustive, but as stated on the site:

Free and open-source software is good for you and good for the world.
This is the best free Mac software that we know of.

URL: http://www.opensourcemac.org/

and for iPhone: http://opensourceiphonesoftware.com/

This list is not complete or exhaustive, but as stated on the site:

This is the best Windows software that we know of.
No adware, no spyware, just good software.

URL: http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

What is GreenSQL?

GreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks. GreenSQL works as a proxy for SQL commands and has built in support for MySQL.

Source: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/enterprise_applications/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212700482

1. The Impact of Open Source
2. BI Tool Innovation: less isolated
3. BI Tool Innovation: users demand richer experience
4. BI Tool Innovation: new focus on relationships
5. Business Modeling meets MDM
6. Breaking the BI/DW Mold: MapReduce meets large-scale data analysis
7. Breaking the BI/DW Mold: Column-oriented databases take aim at performance woes
8. Breaking the BI/DW Mold: Event processing opens new analytical possibilities
9. Too big to fail