Microsoft supporting Open Source? Yes its true see this article, but there is one thing that you will notice here is that MS knows that 80% of PHP programmer are doing their development on a Windows and deploying it in linux. I wanted to point out that yes we do this but our development server is still linux.

So why linux instead of windows as deployment platform? There are many reasons but here are mine:
* Software are considered part of the system after you install them so you can combine all software and make one ultimate software for your site
* Cron or automatic job in in linux is a lot simpler
* Windows file structure is so hard to get around using command prompt, look at your keyboard where is / and \.
* Windows command prompt doesn’t feel right meaning MS created them to be GUI and why the heck would you still use command line when you have a GUI

And the ultimate reason and also the reason why linux is not mainstream.
Most of the software for servers are created for linux not microsoft, and vice versa most of the software for desktop are created for microsoft not linux. So if the Linux feels that it’s so hard to get the mainstream desktop, MS will feel the same on servers no matter what or who MS is coz if you will be saying MS is MS, then why linux still lead this market after all this years.

The community-driven Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN) today released its 100th issue. UWN is a weekly round up of the goings-on in the Ubuntu community.

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Yahoo had rejected Microsoft multiple time, and they have contributed to open source community with projects like the YUI javascript library. What makes me wonder is that why are they not even making software on linux? If you look at their unix download page http://downloads.yahoo.com/?p=unix all of downloads seems not to be from yahoo. And from what i know (which i might be wrong), yahoo has no plan of even building software for linux. If you look at their messenger/IM client, they didn’t even manage to upgrade it for years or has no future plans for it.

If yahoo doesn’t notice yet, almost all the places where they are strong, people are starting to use the cheap laptop that run on linux (asus eee and likes), and more and more my friends are switching from yahoo to skype (which is good anyway).

I do know that they are not a software company and windows is still their biggest market, but if they supported Mac with their new softwares, why in the world would they leave linux when they hated Microsoft?

Update: Thanks to Thomas, we could use the linkify addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7878

Sometimes you might stumble on some sites where gives you a list of rapidshare link (not really a link) and you want to download all of it, you cant do Ctrl + click, or Open All Urls in new tab on firefox tab mix plus. So how to do it? This requires you to use the terminal, vi, premium Rapidshare account and Unix base OS (sorry windows user, you can still do this but your on your own).
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As the title indicates, for the ubuntu funs out there head over http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-14/

With Ubuntu 8.04.1 scheduled to be released on July 3 the Ubuntu development team is putting the final touches to the popular Linux distribution. Ubuntu 8.04.1 not a new release of Ubuntu but an updated CD image so that users trying Ubuntu 8.04 for the first time only have to download the CD
More read at http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2513

Another interesting stuff on ubuntu is the the clock, by default has Time, Date and Calendar. But as i was messing around with it i figure out something cool.
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