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Jatin wins VMWARE Virtual Appliance Developer Category Award

Jatin Golani, a friend and a fellow consultant has won the award in the Best Developer Category for his appliance (eBrainPool) which allows users to share applications and enviroments, based on the P2P network...

Send him a congrats email here

ODF (open office) is ISO Approved

The new Open Office format for writing documents has now been approved by the ISO standards organisation, which is very good news. This now means that we can free ourselves from oppressive and freedom damaging proprietary formats, thus ensuring that the documents created in this format will be readable by everyone, anywhere, anytime and by any system designed to with proper standards.

Stupid Anti-Spam measures

How does the new aol, yahoo, msn and like with their new, so called "anti-spam" measures affect you ?

Think of how stupid this actually is, Spam detection should be non-intrusive. Whitelists, Rbl lists, Bayesian filters are known ways to fight spam. OK so it ain't perfect, but the whole point here is not to inconvenience the users.

Fedora Creation of Services

# Source function library.

# chkconfig: 345 105 15
# description:
# The above two lines are imp to put it in chkconfig

PID=`pidof service`

start() {

echo There is a service process already running: $PID
else
/Path to service/service > /dev/null &
echo `pidof service` > /usr/local/bin/servicepid
echo Starting : service `pidof service`

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