September, 3th. ISO JTC-1 Korea Committee voted "No with comments" to Office Open XML as P member body. Mr. Youngsik Kang, Korea Agency for Technology and Standards, one of ISO/JTC-1 members confimed voting result to ISO on August, 31th after collection the public opinion from various experts, companies and government in Korea.
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UK response to the draft international standard, ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML
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The UK has submitted its comments on the adoption of the draft of ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML (also known as ECMA 376) to JTC1, the joint technical committee of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission. The comments were collated after several months of technical review by industry experts.
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Screenshots of Zenwalk Linux 4.8 Beta.
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It looks like XFCE is being used more often than expected. Just take a look at the result of the 2007 Desktop Linux Survey. In this article I will show you lots of interesting screenshots of Zenwalk 4.8 Beta.
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World Map showing which way countries voted on OOXML
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World map showing which way countries voted on OOXML. Not as much green as I would like.
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Advocate Young Man/Woman, Advocate
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Sit on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) task force committee, write editorials, participate in government. These activities are of supreme importance for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in medicine to succeed. If FOSS advocates are not present or do not speak up at the table when decisions are being made, guess what direction the decisions will go?
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How to get fastest Ubuntu apt-get repository server with Synaptic : mypapit gnu/linux blog
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Downloading software from repositories can be a long and daunting task especially when you are downloading from a repository server which is far from your location.
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Thunderbird productivity guide
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Using Thunderbird’s advanced features and a few nifty extensions, you can turn a humble email client into a fine-tuned productivity tool. The following guide shows you how.
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RESTful Web Services: A Review
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"Every so often, you come across a book that not only informs, but challenges your perceptions, leaving you seeing things in a way that you would not have before you started reading..."
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Richard Stallman coming to SJSU
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"Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide..."
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France's AFNOR Has an Idea: Merge ODF and OOXML
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"If you read French, here is AFNOR's very intriguing suggestion, that OOXML and ODF merge..."
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KompoZer is now at 0.7.10
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KompoZer is a WYSIWYG HTML Editor based on Nvu. KompoZer provides novice web authors without any HTML experience with a tool to create web sites.
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RenaissanceCore IDS Seeks to take Intrusion Detection to the Next Level
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Blue GNU got Jim Sansing to talk about the fairly new RenaissanceCore IDS project, and what they have been able to accomplish. It's certainly a project you might want to consider, especially if security is your gig.
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Microsoft Open XML standards vote foments politics, dismay
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This Sunday is the deadline for an important standards vote on Microsoft's Open XML file formats, with early reports pointing to an inconclusive result--and a hefty dose of disillusionment with the standards process.
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Using TrueCrypt on Ubuntu for Encryption
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TrueCrypt is open source software for on-the-fly encryption. TrueCrypt can use an encrypted file or partition and mount it for use transparently by any application. The Windows version has a fancy GUI, but on Linux there is a good command line interface.
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Wikipedia aims to roll over Google
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"The online encyclopedia will use the power of the people to take on Google and Yahoo"
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