Archive for the ‘FOSS References’ Category

Using Linux to Disinfect Windows

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Using Linux to Disinfect Windows: Yes, you can use Linux to disinfect your MS Windows computer. This is a good “how to” from the Linux Journal outlining the easy steps from downloading to disinfecting your Windows computer without the risk of having even your anti-virus being infected too.

Using Linux to Disinfect Windows
May 19, 2010 By Gene Liverman
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-linux-disinfect-windows

Are you responsible for one or more Windows computers? If yes then the odds are really good that you have had to deal with cleaning viruses and malware. Did you know F-Secure offers a free Rescue CD built on Knoppix for just this purpose? Let’s take a look at how easy the F-Secure Rescue CD is to use.
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FOSS Android running on iPhone!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Android now running on iPhone. This is good news! I don’t have an iPhone and doesn’t plan on having one precisely because I prefer free-and-open-source-software-based phones. But now this may change :-) .

Here’s the link to Programmer David Wong’s “Linux on the iPhone” blog showing a screenshot of the Android boot and some background on his project.

David Wong also posted on his blog: Android running on iPhone links to pre-built images and sources for those wanting to try running Android on the iPhone and the following youtube video:

Hope a lot like me will be interested in this and will benefit from this sharing. :-)

NASA’s Open Source Software Development

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

One of the best proof to the growing acceptance and superiority of the Free and Open Source Software model is NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) use of “Open Source software release” under the NASA Open Source Agreement or “NOSA”.

NASA believes that by releasing their software codes as “Open Source” it will increase software quality, accelerate development, maximize awareness, increase dissemination in support of its education mission.

From NASA’s Open Source Website: http://opensource.arc.nasa.gov/

The motivations for NASA to distribute software codes Open Source are:

* To increase NASA software quality via community peer review
* To accelerate software development via community contributions
* To maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research
* To increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA’s education mission

Current Open Source Projects
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Web Development Toolbox: 100+ open source Web Development Tools and applications

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Open Source reference site for web developers with an Index of open source web development tools:

1. Code Editors
2. Modelling Tools
3. File Transfer Clients
4. Code Documentors
5. Browser Plugins
6. Unit Testing
7. Load/Stress Testing
8. Usability/Accessibility and General Testing
9. Regular Expressions
10. Image Editing
11. Colour Matching and Sampling
12. Database Design
13. Source Control
14. HTTP Debugging
15. Servers
16. Databases
17. Database Administration
18. Site Statistics
19. Other

Read more: Web Development Toolbox: 100+ open source Web Development Tools and applications

Choosing and Using Free and Open Source Software: A primer for nonprofits

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

“Describes what open source software is and what impact this type of software may have on the nonprofit sector.”

Includes:

* case-studies of nonprofits of various sizes that are using open source software,
* a process for evaluating whether or not open source is right for an organization,
* a live feed of Social Source Commons FOSS toolkits
* and useful resources and information.

Written primarily in non-technical language, the Primer is accessible to a wide audience, including nonprofit managers with little hands-on technical expertise.

Access the primer at http://nosi.net/projects/primer

Links: LPIC 1 & 2 Manuals and Online Book Exam Prep

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Here are some URLs of manuals/online book, I came accross that I think will
be of use for LPIC-2 training and exam preparation. some of them also includes LPIC-1

- LPI Manuals Download Site (including LPI 2 (201/202)
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lpi-manuals/

- LPI-2 Exam Prep (online book in html)
http://snow.nl/dist/htmlc/index.html

- IBM developerWorks (Self-study tutorials to help you learn Linux fundamentals and prepare for system administrator certification)
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/lpi/

Open Access Journal: Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, Vol 2, No 2 (2007) Special Issue on HIC 2006 now online

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

The electronic Journal of Health Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://www.ejhi.net

The issue is a special issue on HIC 2006, the Australian Health Informatics Conference that took place in Sydney last year. This year, this conference was incorporated in the international Medinfo conference, which took place in Brisbane last week.

The special issue as been guest-edited by Joanne Callen and Johanna Westbrook.

The authors of the Top 10 papers from the conference were asked to submit extended versions of their research to this journal and 5 papers were accepted after full peer-review.

In addition, this issue also features two unsolicited fully peer-reviewed papers.

The Table of Contents and the papers are at:
http://ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi/issue/view/4

The electronic Journal of Health Informatics is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of Health Informatics and information technology in healthcare. It is a journal for all health professions and informaticians of all levels.

eJHI is a truly open access journal – it provides open access both for authors (i.e. no publication fee or page charges) and for readers (i.e. free access to all papers).

This announcement came from:
Dr Sebastian Garde
Managing Editor - electronic Journal of Health Informatics
Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University
Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics

Reference: http://www.ejhi.net
http://healthinformatics.cqu.edu.au