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aboutsololearning — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:30:31 +0000

For many, hands-on testing is the perfect way not only to develop, but also to prove your employees’ capabilities.

The Red Hat Certification program makes room for troubleshooting, but focuses on end results, not the traditional method of reaching said result.

From technicians to engineers, security specialists to architects, the Red Hat Linux Certifications help you accurately determine your team members’ level of expertise

The end run around the OS is underway

thegtapatriot — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:34:08 +0000

The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS’s diminishing importance.
Let’s connect a few dots:
• On Tuesday, Dell rolled out a new line of laptops and one of the best features was the ability to get your email, contacts, calendar and other items without booting the operating system, a process that can take awhile (at least on my system).
• On Thursday, Intel talked up software that can wake a system out of sleep mode to take a PC phone call. It’s probably a security disaster waiting to happen, but it’s handy for PC calls via the Internet.
The common thread: These efforts from Dell and Intel are arguably taking away some of the tasks that the operating system would normally do. My working theory: The OS is being slowly downplayed as hardware vendors and Web developers grab more control over the user experience. The OS will never be totally irrelevant, but it will be increasingly less important. It’ll be plumbing. Simply put, the OS is being squeezed between hardware vendors that are cooking up their own applications to handle key tasks and the so-called Webtop, which will deliver programs through the browser.

[VACANCY] Freak PHP Programmer

doddyprima — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:12:37 +0000

We are a IT company located in Jakarta (Gandaria) as a provider of IT solutions and outsourcing services.
We have been developing an Asset Management System and a Digital Document Management System, that interconnected each other.

We need a strong and freak PHP artist to become our team member.
ARE you ?

<?php
if ($phpExperts && $needJobs ) {
mail($me,"PHP Experts" , $resume );
}
?>

Objectives:
- To design and administer software and databases.
- To test and develop software.

Responsibilities:
- Develop some codes that are needed for the project’s website development
- Manage systems provided for business study and plan

Education:
- Hold Minimum Diploma degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or any course related

Required skill(s) :
- Excellent PHP programming Skills
- Understand about Webservices in PHP
- Experienced in framework, CMS development
- Skilled in CSS and xHTML, concerned in latest web standards

Prefered Skill(s) :
- PHP Framework - Zend | Prado | Sympony | Cake
- CMS Customize
- AJAX
- Web Design (Template, icons, menu, CSS)
- Web Security
- Knows how to handle Linux Servers (Red Hat).

- postgreSQL (syntax and design)
- Oracle (syntax and design)

Prefered experience/knowledge
- Asset Management System
- Digital Document Management System (Filing)

Full-Time, Part-Time and Contract position available.

Work in a team,
Able to work under pressure and willing to work overtime,
Productive and able to work hard under pressure

Please send your CV to :
doddy@gipindo.com | doddy.prima@gmail.com
+ with screen-shoot or web-address of portfolio
Doddy Prima Kd

To the lovely person that tried to reset my Wordpress password...

Ryan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:55:09 +0000

I WILL FIND YOU........and send my personal friend after you:

After that, I will prosecute you under Amendment 18 of the United States Constitution, which calls for not less than 10 years of incarceration.

This is after I launch an investigation through Whois and harass your ISP, who files the complaint at the highest priority in the /dev/null queue.

Things I've learned in the last 24 hours:

Yes, every fucking idiot on the planet seems to be an active user of Livejournal.

The worst offenders get jobs at companies like Red Hat.

My dad can beat up your dad.

My penis is so big that I have to carry a permit.

BusinessWeek on Open Source at Red Hat

Savio Rodrigues — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:34:09 +0000

BusinessWeek has a surprisingly non-hype-laden story about open source today. Very cool to see that more of the media is coming around to the points I've been making for a few years now. Specifically, while I'm a believer in open source driving customer value, I have never seen it as a panacea. I've always argued against oft-quoted myths about why the open source business model will crush the traditional software business model.

It's refreshing to read quotes from open source leaders who "get it" because they're living through the challenges of converting "Category B" users.

Marten Mickos is quoted in the BW story:

"Open source is not a get-rich-quick scheme. You have to have patience."

While Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is quoted:

"There's a concern that our growth rate will slow. We've been in that funk the last couple of years."

Frankly speaking, I'm quite excited about the following comments from Whitehurst re. Red Hat:

...is shifting engineers and marketers away from nice-to-have projects toward areas where Red Hat gets paid. He's pulling resources out of consumer desktop Linux, and he shuttered an online store that sold other companies' open-source programs. "I took a look at that and said, 'We're not eBay,'" he says. "Red Hat is open source, but that doesn't mean we do everything in open source."

Whitehurst is definitely making the tough decisions to help Red Hat's business grow. It appears he's leaving the philosophical discussion about the virtues of open source to someone else.

I'll leave you with a final Whitehurst quote. I'm taking it to be completely supportive of my call to OSS vendors to sell products, not just support and services around a freely available OSS product:

"A pure service business is not particularly defensible. Some open-source companies have not truly figured that out."

I may not have been invited to dinner with Whitehurst, but he seems to think very much along the lines that I do. Very cool. My mom will be quite proud. lol :-)