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Matt just posted a sneak peak on how WP 2.5 looks like.

If you are brave enough, you could download a copy of the Release Candidate  1 version of WordPress 2.5.

Free Windows and Linux Integration Training at TechX World Online

May 31, 2007

TechX World Online is a full day of four free IT training courses brought to you in an online format.

Sign up today for the TechX World Online event featuring four training sessions designed to give you the knowledge to make Windows and Linux work effectively together.

Learn the latest tips about Windows-Linux integration without having to travel away from your office. Get unbiased, reliable information about cross-platform IT solutions you can use today-whether you’re on the Windows side of the house or the UNIX/Linux side or somewhere in between trying to make it all work together.

Get hands-on management solutions from famed Linux and Windows expert Darren Mar-Elia for:

• How to monitor UNIX and Windows from a single console
• Tips to use Group Policy across platforms
• How to apply industry standards for heterogeneous management

Get the inside scoop on new directory services integration products and tools from independent expert Brian Komar.Everyone’s talking about virtualization, but they teach you to take it to the next level to solve your most common IT problems. Register today for two virtualization sessions featuring Michael Otey’s advice for creating the optimal virtual environment with little-known tips around the latest virtualization technologies. Michael will also compare VMware and Windows Server “Longhorn” virtualization technologies so you can make educated decisions for your infrastructure.

Learn from industry experts how to work more effectively in a mixed-platform IT environment.

TechX Virtual World Sessions

Session 1

Systems Management
Speaker: Darren Mar-Elia

Policy-Based Configuration Management
Windows comes with Group Policy, a robust, scaleable technology for managing configurations across servers and desktops. But, how about non-Windows systems? Now you can manage these Unix, Linux and even Mac systems’ configuration using Group Policy. We’ll look at this trend at the trend towards cross-platform configuration management including the use of Group Policy and other technologies for creating a unified view of configuration across your enterprise. And we’ll look at how CMDB trends are changing the notion of configuration management.

Session 2

Directory Services and Security Integration
Speaker: Brian Komar

Managing Multiple Directories
This session provides the basic understanding of today’s virtualization technologies. It begins by introducing the different types of virtualization including hardware virtualization, virtual machine virtualization and application virtualization. Then it provides a high level look at the major products in each of these areas. The session concludes by looking at future directions of virtualization with hardware virtualization and the role of the Windows Longhorn Server Hypervisor.

Session 3

Virtualization
Speaker: Michael Otey

Introduction to Virtualization
This session provides the basic understanding of today’s virtualization technologies. It begins by introducing the different types of virtualization including hardware virtualization, virtual machine virtualization and application virtualization. Then it provides a high level look at the major products in each of these areas. The session concludes by looking at future directions of virtualization with hardware virtualization and the role of the Windows Longhorn Server Hypervisor.

Session 4

Virtualization
Speaker: Michael Otey

Virtualization Strategies
The session covers the business benefits and uses of virtualization technology. It presents some of the major IT challenges today such as server sprawl, deployment, and testing and shows how virtualization can be used to address these problems. It also covers the business scenarios for using application virtualization and concludes by discussing the planning issues for future virtualization directions.

Register now!

WordPress just released updates for both the 2.1 and the 2.0 branches. The 2.1 branch will get the 2.1.3 update while 2.0 branch will get the 2.0.10 update.

The update fixes several security issues which can be exploited via cross site scripting as well as a fix for a major XML-RPC problem. In this release, Wordpress performed a proactive full sweep of their codebase to minimise potential future problems.

Grab a copy of WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10

PLUG would like to request for people to support SFD! Go and/or invite people to attend the celebrations. Burnfest of FOSS distributions and other activities would be done courtesy of UnPLUG and other affiliated student organizations. Companies and/or individuals may give support (either financially or manpower or food, among others).

[info lifted from http://linux.org.ph]

As part of the global Software Freedom Day celebrations, the University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), UP College of Engineering Department of Computer Science (UP COE-DCS), UP Computer Center (UPCC), Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter (ACM-UP), Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology Foundation, and the Philippine Linux Users’ Group (PLUG) will hold the Annual Software Freedom Day celebrations along with the Third Quarter Free Technical Seminar for the year 2006 on 16 September 2006, from 9AM to 6PM at the UP College of Engineering Theater, UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! ALL ARE INVITED - FEEL FREE TO COME AND JOIN!

Saturday, 16 September 2006
9am - 6pm
UP College of Engineering Theater
UP Diliman Campus, Diliman, QC
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The 20% early bird discount has been extended to September 16, 2006.

Paolo Alexis Falcone posted this update on the PLUG Technical Mailing List with regards to the registration for PLUG’s 2nd Quarter Free Seminars

1) There’s NO online registration for this technical seminar. So feel free to tag along people who’d be interested.

2) We’d be doing a manual registration at the site itself… which we pass around the audience btw.

If you wish for your PGP/GPG keys to be signed, please bring along two (2) ID’s so those who would be involved could ascertain that you are indeed who you claim you are

For more info, check out my earlier post on PLUG’s 2nd Quarter Free Technical Seminar 2006.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is available today. It is ready now in English; check with the Native Language projects for other languages. The release is recommended for everyone. It contains some nifty new features, fixes many small bugs and resolves numerous issues. For instance, spellcheck dictionaries are now directly integrated into OpenOffice.org and are immediately available after installation; there is no need for extra downloads. The community have also added import filters for Quattro Pro 6 and Microsoft Word 2. As well, other import filters have been improved, so that documents created by other applications can be edited in OpenOffice.org more seamlessly. Continuing with the the push to enhance OpenOffice.org’s business functionality, it is now easier to use mail merge. As well, integration with the KDE address book is now possible.

The appearance of the application has also been enhanced, and for Linux users, there are new icon sets for KDE and GNOME. The result of this and the other improvements is not just a prettier OpenOffice.org but a friendlier and more capable suite.

Grab a copy of OpenOffice 2.0.2

The Philippine Linux Users’ Group is inviting everyone to attend the PLUG 2nd Quarter Free Seminar series scheduled on the 8th of April 2006 at Asia Pacific College, Makati City, from 9AM to 5PM.

Iloilo City — A curriculum which incorporates Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is now available for schools offering Computer Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), and Information Management (IM) major concentrations. At the national convention of the Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE) in this city, the Philippine Open Source Initiative (POSITIVE) launched the curricula for four courses and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PSITE involving training and orientation on the curricula. The MoU signing ceremony was formalized between PSITE National President Alex Ybasco and POSITIVE Project Lead Joseph Paul Sianghio, and witnessed by Juliana Hinterberger, Country Portfolio Manager of Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, or German Technical Cooperation) and Commissioner Emmanuel Lallana of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT). Members of the PSITE Board of Trustees also stood as witnesses.

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