By Sean Michael Kerner

If Mozilla, Opera and Apple’s Safari browser have their way, the HTML specification (define) could be getting its first major point update in a decade.

The three vendors have banded together in a proposal to the W3C for the HTML 5 specification, which includes Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications and that it’s also backwards compatible with HTML 4.

“HTML5 is about preserving the information people have accumulated over the years,” Opera spokesperson Anne van Kesteren told internetnews.com. “By remaining backward and forwards compatible, we hope to ensure that people will be able to interpret HTML for decades if not centuries to come.”
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By: Mặc An Di
At: SaigonLUG

• VMware - Official Site : Get VMWare; learn how virtualization can reduce costs, improve manageability.
• New! - Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu: How-To install InnoTek’s VirtualBox to create and run “guest operating systems” (ie, “virtual machines”), such as another Linux or Windows, under Ubuntu Desktop.
• New! - JupiterWebcasts: Several Web seminar broadcasts on virtualization are scheduled for the next few days, starting ICT.19-04-2007, at Jupiter’s “Online Educational IT and Events” page. Note: Prior registration is required. Though these “Webinars” (or “Webcasts”) likely focus on Windows, some SGLuggers may still be interested, if only for the sake of comparison or a more comprehensive knowledge of the virtualization.

It’s indubitable: Linux geeks are now the ultimate in hip, chic, cool or what have you.

Thursday, August 31 12:00 AM ET

Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux By Nikolaj Borg

New York, NY - The Linux world grew by yet another distribution this summer, as Paris Hilton announced the release of Tinkerbell Linux. On her MySpace blog, the New York socialite announced the release named after her famous Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.”First,” she writes, “I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I’ve been dabbling with coding for ages, but it’s taken me some time to find the courage to release it. As you know, I’m a shy and modest person, and wasn’t sure if it was good enough for the strict standards of the coding community.” [cut] It’s almost too much to even imagine: Paris hammering away at 10,000 lines of code with her tanga twisting deep into her toosh… ((;)))- ADM

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Novell’s Xgl takes advantage of the latest
accelerated 3D rendering hardware

Graphics subsystem upgrade improves interface
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 08 Feb 2006
Novell has unveiled enhancements to its Xgl (X over OpenGL) graphics subsystem, which it claims will make Linux desktops [even] more [slick and] user-friendly.

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French Learner Language Oral Corpora or (Free|Libre|Linux|Open|Commons)?

Just pondering the relative strengths of FLLO and FLLOC versus FLO as an acronym and meme to replace FS and OSS, FS/OSS, FOSS and, the ever-so-despised FLOSS, all current pop’ descriptors of Free/Libre, Linux, Open-source, Commons software and other products, now including not just so-called soft Intellectual Property (IP), Information Systems (IS) or InfoTech (IT) but even hardware.

We’d been using FLO for reasons spelt out in several places here and elsewhere, principally brevity, comprehensiveness and marketing appeal. But FLO suffers like all the terms it seeks to replace from search-engine ambiguity or incompatibility.

Both FLLO and FLLOC solve the search-engine issue while retaining the short, sharp, positively relevant, feel-good factors suggested by their pronunciations: FLO like “flow”; FLLOC like “flock”.

Think freedom, independence, alternative lifestyles, activism, community, ecology, then search for FLLO or FLLOC to find quick links to
(Free|Libre|Linux|Open-source|Commons) communities and their products, whether software, music, films, fiction, computer hardware, physical media or documentation, networking, campaign or other information services.

AcronymFinder has no definitions for FLLOC, yet. It’s only definition for FLLO is “Form-Launch-Lay-Off” which apparently sources to an older SatireWire article entitled, Business-To-Unemployment (B2U) Dubbed Next Big Thing, as Googling FLLO suggests. (How apropos! Humor is always good. No?)

While FLLO now pulls up some 14,500 hits from Google, most seem to be misspellings or intended slang for “floor” (positive too, no?) or an apparently now-obscure chemical reaction, though it may have popular usages in languages other than English.

FLLOC, on the other hand, only really competes with the French Learner Language Oral Corpora (FLLOC), an obscure but still-positive association with some relevance to Software Libre. Some minor ambiguity might exist with Flock, but it should be mutually and positively reinforcing, no?

Personally, we’d rather “Go with the FLLO”, though we could perfectly understand and feel comfortable with others wanting to “FLLOC - Together”.

How about you? Add your comment. Or maybe we should link a poll to this post…

We did. Please do add your vote here. (You might have to register first.)

Harvard’s Global Voices blog-tracking system posts a report on some FLO systems providing valuable contributions to the fight against the H5N1 bird flu.

Rudi Cilibrasi, a contributor to the Avian Flu Help blog and a Machine Learning researcher in the Netherlands, wrote CompLearn, an FLO data-mining toolkit he is now using for analyses of the H5N1 virus’ spread and mutation. A CompLearn-generated image set of 30 H5N1 strains in tree-like format (PDF version / PostScript version) suggests the avian flu virus is mutating closer to an H2H (human-to-human) strand, a probable cause for widespread concern.

Read the full Global Voice post

Of related ironic interest, blanket blocking of blogspot.com by Vietnam’s national firewall prevents most users here from accessing the Avian Flu Help blog. Thank gad geeks love their liberties and circumvention techniques and tools are developed faster than Vietnamese firewall admins do their dirty work.

Easy to follow howto on setting up a mail server. Based on an Ubuntu distribution platform but instructions are distro agnostic.

Beware: the “digg-effect” was rendering this site’s server inaccessible a few times just before we posted this. Maybe try again some hours later if it happens to you.
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In Why Linux repositories are a huge competitive advantage for Linux, Monday July 12, 2004 (12:00 PM GMT), Chris DiBona provides a quick insight into how some Linux repositories, such as those of Debian, Redhat and Novell-SuSE allow users to get all their security updates from single sources and how this gives some Linux users convenience and security advantages over user of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

How “huge” that advantage is remains open to debate of course.