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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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Read the Full Report

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.

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Kurt Vonnegut, novelist who caught the imagination of his age, is dead at 84

By Dinitia Smith, Published April 11, 2007

From Salon:

Stalking Kurt Vonnegut

LinuxElectrons reports a new ABI Research study, “Mobile Linux”, forecasts that by 2012, more than 127 million devices will be enabled with a commercial Linux OS, up from 8.1 million in 2007. Additionally, device shipments that incorporate Linux as an RTOS replacement are set to grow to more than 76 million units in 2012, up from nearly zero in 2007.

ABIR research director Stuart Carlaw is quoted as saying, “Linux in the cellular phone is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’.”