TECTONIC - THE SOURCE FOR OPEN SOURCE NEWS The good news is that SA company Jumping Bean has teamed up with Munich-based Eppleton, to offer a NetBeans training series. NetBeans is an open source development environment for creating Java applications. Mark Clarke of Jumping Bean tells us that the courses will be held in Johannesburg and Cape Town between 23 August and 3
September.
2003 MAY : TECTONIC
Networking – A beginner\’s guide Third Edition Bruce A. Hallberg Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2003 Price: R499,99 Book supplied by Intersoft As the name suggests, if you\’re an absolute networking novice this could very well be a useful book to own. However, if you\’re a seasoned veteran of TCP/IP and the like you\’re best advised
2005 MAY : TECTONIC
Following on from the highly successful mass-LPI examination fest which saw the qualification of 37 new level-one and three new level-two LPI graduates in February this year, Linux Holdings and The Shuttleworth Foundation yesterday held another mas LPI certification event.
DAIRY FARMERS MILK OPEN SOURCE : TECTONIC South African dairy farmers are starting to use open source software to improve their farming techniques and outputs. ACS Online has developed a range of dairy farming-specific modules using PHP, Apache and MySQL running on Sun boxes with Solaris 9. 2002 DECEMBER : TECTONIC Security firm e-matters this week warned that multiple vulnerabilities in the popular open source database MySQL make it possible for crackers to access accounts without passwords or even crash the server. e-matter’s Stefan Esser has also discovered a heap buffer overflow as well as a flaw in MySQL’s client libraries that allows crackers to write
OPEN SOURCE TV SERIES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD : TECTONIC The Go Open Source campaign this week announced the downloadable version of the Go_Open television series. The show, which aired in South Africa late last year, has been released under a Creative Commons licence that allows users to re-distribute the show for non-commercial purposes. They are not able to modify or make derivative version of the show however. 2005 AUGUST : TECTONIC The open source task team, a collection of government, private and technology experts with an interest in promoting open source, wrapped up its conference in Sandton, Johannesburg, yesterday with a finalised open source action plan which it hopes will be presented to South Africa\’s government. 2006 JANUARY : TECTONIC The open source movement has always had its fair share of enemies. It’s no secret that there’s little love lost between Microsoft and the OSS community, while SCO continues its attack on Linux. 2006 JULY : TECTONIC Watching a South African TV channel’s news a few nights ago, I was amazed that all the footage from the Congo regarding the troubled cease-fire before its all-important coming election was shot on a cell phone.
2007 JANUARY : TECTONIC Microsoft Corporation’s products were locked out of the recent World Social Forum (WSF) held in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organisers of the WSF preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products at the forum. TECTONIC - THE SOURCE FOR OPEN SOURCE NEWS The good news is that SA company Jumping Bean has teamed up with Munich-based Eppleton, to offer a NetBeans training series. NetBeans is an open source development environment for creating Java applications. Mark Clarke of Jumping Bean tells us that the courses will be held in Johannesburg and Cape Town between 23 August and 3 September.
2003 MAY : TECTONIC
Networking – A beginner\’s guide Third Edition Bruce A. Hallberg Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2003 Price: R499,99 Book supplied by Intersoft As the name suggests, if you\’re an absolute networking novice this could very well be a useful book to own. However, if you\’re a seasoned veteran of TCP/IP and the like you\’re best advised
2005 MAY : TECTONIC
Following on from the highly successful mass-LPI examination fest which saw the qualification of 37 new level-one and three new level-two LPI graduates in February this year, Linux Holdings and The Shuttleworth Foundation yesterday held another mas LPI certification event.
DAIRY FARMERS MILK OPEN SOURCE : TECTONIC South African dairy farmers are starting to use open source software to improve their farming techniques and outputs. ACS Online has developed a range of dairy farming-specific modules using PHP, Apache and MySQL running on Sun boxes with Solaris 9. 2002 DECEMBER : TECTONIC Security firm e-matters this week warned that multiple vulnerabilities in the popular open source database MySQL make it possible for crackers to access accounts without passwords or even crash the server. e-matter’s Stefan Esser has also discovered a heap buffer overflow as well as a flaw in MySQL’s client libraries that allows crackers to write
OPEN SOURCE TV SERIES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD : TECTONIC The Go Open Source campaign this week announced the downloadable version of the Go_Open television series. The show, which aired in South Africa late last year, has been released under a Creative Commons licence that allows users to re-distribute the show for non-commercial purposes. They are not able to modify or make derivative version of the show however. 2005 AUGUST : TECTONIC The open source task team, a collection of government, private and technology experts with an interest in promoting open source, wrapped up its conference in Sandton, Johannesburg, yesterday with a finalised open source action plan which it hopes will be presented to South Africa\’s government. 2006 JANUARY : TECTONIC The open source movement has always had its fair share of enemies. It’s no secret that there’s little love lost between Microsoft and the OSS community, while SCO continues its attack on Linux. 2006 JULY : TECTONIC Watching a South African TV channel’s news a few nights ago, I was amazed that all the footage from the Congo regarding the troubled cease-fire before its all-important coming election was shot on a cell phone.
2007 JANUARY : TECTONIC Microsoft Corporation’s products were locked out of the recent World Social Forum (WSF) held in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organisers of the WSF preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products at the forum. 2006 JULY : TECTONIC Watching a South African TV channel’s news a few nights ago, I was amazed that all the footage from the Congo regarding the troubled cease-fire before its all-important coming election was shot on a cell phone.
2006 JANUARY : TECTONIC The open source movement has always had its fair share of enemies. It’s no secret that there’s little love lost between Microsoft and the OSS community, while SCO continues its attack on Linux. 2006 AUGUST : TECTONIC The New Zealand Open Source Society(NZOSS) has claimed a moral victory in the patent office after Microsoft amended its patent on XML schema. NZOSS president Peter Harrison says the changes made to the patent were such that the organisation was no longer concerned about the 2007 JANUARY : TECTONIC Microsoft Corporation’s products were locked out of the recent World Social Forum (WSF) held in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organisers of the WSF preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products at the forum. ONE SMALL STEP ONTO PLANET MONGO : TECTONIC After years of writing about open source, promoting open source and using open source, I’ve decided it’s about time I actively created some open source.
2005 AUGUST : TECTONIC The open source task team, a collection of government, private and technology experts with an interest in promoting open source, wrapped up its conference in Sandton, Johannesburg, yesterday with a finalised open source action plan which it hopes will be presented to South Africa\’s government. 2005 MAY : TECTONIC
Following on from the highly successful mass-LPI examination fest which saw the qualification of 37 new level-one and three new level-two LPI graduates in February this year, Linux Holdings and The Shuttleworth Foundation yesterday held another mas LPI certification event.
2001 APRIL : TECTONIC First and foremost I am a journalist and while I can appreciate the level of development that goes into producing an “office suite”, it continues to amaze me that the combined strength of the open source development community is seemingly unable to come up with a word processor that meets even the most basic of 2006 MAY : TECTONIC
Developers are rather picky about the editors they use, and open source developers more so than most. There’s a bit of elitism amongst the community – if you don’t use vim or Emacs then you’re just not hard-core enough. 2005 NOVEMBER : TECTONIC Mozilla Firefox, the open source world\’s favourite browser, released version 1.5 late yesterday. New features include increased security, a speed boost, support for new Web standards, and increased support for Apple OSX. 2003 MAY : TECTONIC
Networking – A beginner\’s guide Third Edition Bruce A. Hallberg Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2003 Price: R499,99 Book supplied by Intersoft As the name suggests, if you\’re an absolute networking novice this could very well be a useful book to own. However, if you\’re a seasoned veteran of TCP/IP and the like you\’re best advised
2003 JANUARY : TECTONIC DATELINE JANUARY 28, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KDE Project Ships Major Feature Release of Leading Open Source Desktop, Improves Enterprise Usability KDE Project Ships Major Feature Upgrade of Third- Generation Linux/UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution January 28, 2003 (The INTERNET).
2007 MARCH : TECTONIC March saw the first release of OutKafe, a full-featured cybercafe management suite under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL). OutKafe was forked from the parts of the ZybaCafe project (see story on its alpha release) which fell under the GPL, with the intention of replacing all the proprietary modules with free alternatives to create a completely 2004 MAY : TECTONIC
Novell this week said its involvement in the open source community is intended to foster greater development in the sector. Ed Anderson, Novell\’s vice president for enterprise, said during the opening address ofthe three day long Brainshare conference that the company is trying to \”give back to the open source community more than we have 2005 MAY : TECTONIC
Following on from the highly successful mass-LPI examination fest which saw the qualification of 37 new level-one and three new level-two LPI graduates in February this year, Linux Holdings and The Shuttleworth Foundation yesterday held another mas LPI certification event.
2006 AUGUST : TECTONIC The New Zealand Open Source Society(NZOSS) has claimed a moral victory in the patent office after Microsoft amended its patent on XML schema. NZOSS president Peter Harrison says the changes made to the patent were such that the organisation was no longer concerned about the 2004 JANUARY : TECTONIC \\headline LinuxWorld 2004 expo attracts big names, and MS \\headline January 20, 2004: The biggest multinational IT vendors and the biggest geeks will rub shoulders at the much anticipated bi-annual LinuxWorld trade show, which starts Wednesday, 21 January 2004. 2007 MAY : TECTONIC
The concept of flexible digital displays is not exactly new but working flexible displays are few and far between. Now it seem Sony has made something of a breakthrough with a working, razor-thin display that bends while simultaneously displaying full-colour video. 2007 JULY : TECTONIC Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft, announced last week at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), that the company was submitting its shared licences, which include the permissive license, community license and reference licence, to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for certification as true open source licences.
2003 OCTOBER : TECTONIC The Teltron group, owners of FotoFirst and other retail photography businesses, has turned to Linux to manage its software and data synchronisation across the its more than 80 branches in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. 2003 MAY : TECTONIC
Networking – A beginner\’s guide Third Edition Bruce A. Hallberg Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne 2003 Price: R499,99 Book supplied by Intersoft As the name suggests, if you\’re an absolute networking novice this could very well be a useful book to own. However, if you\’re a seasoned veteran of TCP/IP and the like you\’re best advised
2003 JANUARY : TECTONIC DATELINE JANUARY 28, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KDE Project Ships Major Feature Release of Leading Open Source Desktop, Improves Enterprise Usability KDE Project Ships Major Feature Upgrade of Third- Generation Linux/UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution January 28, 2003 (The INTERNET).
2007 MARCH : TECTONIC March saw the first release of OutKafe, a full-featured cybercafe management suite under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL). OutKafe was forked from the parts of the ZybaCafe project (see story on its alpha release) which fell under the GPL, with the intention of replacing all the proprietary modules with free alternatives to create a completely 2004 MAY : TECTONIC
Novell this week said its involvement in the open source community is intended to foster greater development in the sector. Ed Anderson, Novell\’s vice president for enterprise, said during the opening address ofthe three day long Brainshare conference that the company is trying to \”give back to the open source community more than we have 2005 MAY : TECTONIC
Following on from the highly successful mass-LPI examination fest which saw the qualification of 37 new level-one and three new level-two LPI graduates in February this year, Linux Holdings and The Shuttleworth Foundation yesterday held another mas LPI certification event.
2006 AUGUST : TECTONIC The New Zealand Open Source Society(NZOSS) has claimed a moral victory in the patent office after Microsoft amended its patent on XML schema. NZOSS president Peter Harrison says the changes made to the patent were such that the organisation was no longer concerned about the 2004 JANUARY : TECTONIC \\headline LinuxWorld 2004 expo attracts big names, and MS \\headline January 20, 2004: The biggest multinational IT vendors and the biggest geeks will rub shoulders at the much anticipated bi-annual LinuxWorld trade show, which starts Wednesday, 21 January 2004. 2007 MAY : TECTONIC
The concept of flexible digital displays is not exactly new but working flexible displays are few and far between. Now it seem Sony has made something of a breakthrough with a working, razor-thin display that bends while simultaneously displaying full-colour video. 2007 JULY : TECTONIC Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft, announced last week at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), that the company was submitting its shared licences, which include the permissive license, community license and reference licence, to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for certification as true open source licences.
2003 OCTOBER : TECTONIC The Teltron group, owners of FotoFirst and other retail photography businesses, has turned to Linux to manage its software and data synchronisation across the its more than 80 branches in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. 2006 AUGUST : TECTONIC The New Zealand Open Source Society(NZOSS) has claimed a moral victory in the patent office after Microsoft amended its patent on XML schema. NZOSS president Peter Harrison says the changes made to the patent were such that the organisation was no longer concerned about the 2006 JANUARY : TECTONIC The open source movement has always had its fair share of enemies. It’s no secret that there’s little love lost between Microsoft and the OSS community, while SCO continues its attack on Linux. 2006 JULY : TECTONIC Watching a South African TV channel’s news a few nights ago, I was amazed that all the footage from the Congo regarding the troubled cease-fire before its all-important coming election was shot on a cell phone.
2007 JULY : TECTONIC Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft, announced last week at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), that the company was submitting its shared licences, which include the permissive license, community license and reference licence, to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for certification as true open source licences.
2005 AUGUST : TECTONIC The open source task team, a collection of government, private and technology experts with an interest in promoting open source, wrapped up its conference in Sandton, Johannesburg, yesterday with a finalised open source action plan which it hopes will be presented to South Africa\’s government. 2003 SEPTEMBER : TECTONIC The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (Fossfa) has secured funding for the development of the Fossfa web site. The Euro 25000 funding is to be supplied by the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Development Countries(HIVOS). 2007 JANUARY : TECTONIC Microsoft Corporation’s products were locked out of the recent World Social Forum (WSF) held in Nairobi, Kenya. With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organisers of the WSF preferred to provide open source software products and blocked all Microsoft related products at the forum. 2008 FEBRUARY : TECTONIC Improving access to telecommunications in South Africa is as much a policy challenge and it is a technical challenge. This is according to The Shuttleworth Foundation’s Steve Song who was speaking at the launch of the foundation’s four new focus areas yesterday, one of which is telecommunications. 2004 FEBRUARY : TECTONIC Bruce Cohen, founder of South Afric\’a\’s newest Jabber server says open source software has a powerful role to play in the developing world and can be equated to a \”digital liberation\” movement.
2008 MAY : TECTONIC
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