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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.

The man behind http://secure-my-email.com/ weighs in on the Microsoft “Get The Facts” campaign and discusses what Microsoft fails to mention…

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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.

Yes, dear fellow høes and guests, that is your faithful system admin, yours truly. If you can get past the crooked smirk, check out the alien growth on my left collar bone. That’s what you can get in SaiGon, or anywhere i suppose, when you dump your Dream™ (Honda, 110cc, motorbike). Don’t try this at home.

That bone is also the biggest reason for the sudden outburst of creative production here on the HøLUG site. But my convalescence ends with the lunar new year’s beginning. It’s back out onto the job-or-project market for me.

This means that either HoTV or someone else, maybe new, will have to take up the slack on keeping things moving online. Anyone can just register and plug away. Please feel free.

BTW, if you’re not sure what we mean by “hø” here at HøLUG, it’s a nickname for members here, a standard term and practice of scientific method and a sort of modus operandi for this community and its info systems. We provide a specific definition on our home page, here.