Two years ago, Bob Frankston wrote Why Settle for Just 1%? while in the midst of his ramp-up as a Verizon FiOS customer. The question is still on the table. I'd like us to help answer it by re-phrasing the question: What could we, as Linux developers and users, do with fiber to our homes and businesses?

The Open Business Foundation (OBF) operates on two premises: that the open source development community makes good business sense, and that small businesses can be more successful if they band together with each other to share resources of all kinds.

Think your CCHIT certified, proprietary EMR from a 'big' corporation is a safe bet? Think again.

What would you say if we told you that there are people out there that want to make sharing your media between devices over a home network illegal?

Black Hat USA 2007 was fast-paced, fun, and informative. It demonstrated that security is big business. The halls were lined with vendors, some new, some old, and the smell of money was everywhere. Still, I'm left thinking this year's show had a different tone to it than last year's.

According to this story, the Allahabad High Court has rolled out a new website, as well as deploying 15,000 laptops running GNU/Linux. The site does not specify which distribution, but I am assuming a GNOME-centric distribution, since Evolution is listed as the PIM software.

"...MozRepl is a Firefox extension that allows you to open a connection to a running Firefox session and gain access to a JavaScript interpreter context that can access all aspects of the Firefox runtime. This is quite neat, I can now use the power of Emacs to write and debug end-user JavaScript applications...

"...The syndication framework is used to add syndication feeds to your Django project. [...]I decided to dig into the source of the syndication framework contribution in an attempt to better understand exactly what is going on under the covers..."