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At the advice of a friend of mind from TrendMicro, it would be best to learn Chinese mandarin by learning the Chinese characters at the same time. Since, similar looking characters have similar meanings. So, I decided to try it by installing 拼音 (pin1yin1) input support for my Fedora Core 5 system. There are a […]

I just did a talk in Bluepoint’s Open for Business conference yesterday. It was held in the Richmond Hotel. Mark Mayo did a presentation entitled “QoS, Computer Telephony and Asterisk”. I did a presentation entitled “Trixbox: Practical Open Source Voice-over-IP“. There were other presentations on large scale MySQL and PHP. Finally, a informative presentation on […]

Looks like phishers are really being more and more creative these days. Previously, I wrote a number of blog entries about phishing. One particular entry was about a way to use XSS vulnerabilities to beat SSL security which was previously used on Paypal. The scary part is that phisher’s already have started exploiting these […]

A few months ago, I blogged about an article that discusses the use of Voice-over-IP in phishing scams. This NetworkWorld article now gives this kind of phishing a new name. They now call it Voice Phishing or Vishing.
Secure Computing has reported an ingenious new type of phishing scam that uses VoIP telephony to entrap its […]

Sun just announced the release of its new Sun Fire X4500 server into the market. Most people will just dismiss it as another “big” box from a dying Unix vendor. I do not normally blog about server computing hardware. However, this new machine deserves some special attention.

Fast, energy-efficient dual-core AMD Opteron processors. This server […]

After incessant user demands, IBM has finally completed a native Linux client of its popular desktop productivity tool called Lotus Notes. This NetworkWorld article discusses it in more details.
Lotus Notes on Linux will be available for free download to existing Notes users come July 24, according to Arthur Fontaine, a senior offering manager at IBM […]

Previously, I wrote an article entitled Fun with Solaris 10 where I reviewed the official Sun-released Solaris 10 operating system and the Belenix OpenSolaris LiveCD distribution. I did even more browsing on possible things to do with OpenSolaris. Right now, I am checking out another OpenSolaris-based distribution. This one is called Nexenta. What makes this […]

Party List Congressman Teddy Casino has sent one of his legislative staffers to the PLUG mailing list to solicit opinions regarding a proposed bill on open source. The archived copy can be found here. Here is the email inline:

hey!
i’m a legislative staff of a partylist congressman in the house of representatives. we are in the […]

Finally, after a number of governments and organizations tooks turns pressuring Microsoft, it has finally yielded to their request to have the MS Office Suite have support for the OpenDocument Formats. NetworkWorld has this article.
The company said that the next edition of Office - Office 2007, now expected early next year - will include menu […]

I just read this article from Macsimum News about Apple’s recently release of a $899 iMac specifically catered to educational institutions (eMac). I am pretty excited with this release since this allows us to procure low cost Apple Computers.
Apple has introduced a US$899 configuration of the 17-inch iMac designed specifically for education customers featuring a […]