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CertCities.com has a new piece to walk you through the connection of PHP to a Microsoft SQL server from a Linux machine.

This package is an XML parser completely written in PHP. It is lightweight, fast, and implements a generous subset of the DOM Level 1 specification. all heard that PHP decided to bundle SQLite with their free distribution

"PHPAudit technology allows PHP Developers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to finally distribute their software without worry of piracy. "

Updated Gaim packages that fix a number of serious vulnerabilities are now available.

This is the third (and final) post in our series of LinuxWorld snapshots. Don't look for fine photographic art here; these are candid shots taken in bad light with a bottom-of-the-line, fixed focus HP Phtotosmart 320 digital camera, posted without any digital processing after the fact, along with some commentary about the people and displays that were at this "last time in NYC" edition of LinuxWorld.

"Legal threats an 'incentive' to resellers to sell SCO's worldwide licensing scheme"

"Linux advocate Oracle Corp. is all talk and more action. Besides touting its huge Linux project with online mega-retailer Overstock.com at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week, the company's execs are talking about Oracle's actions and plans on the Linux desktop front."

"The originator of the Linux OS has sharp words for SCO's 'cornered rat' claims of intellectual-property infringement"

"SCO's huge Linux suit against IBM is a long shot that may yield nothing but bile"

Andy may be just a student. But listen and learn. Take him seriously because he is right. I run a small busineess with 24 desktops Linux. announce about "Cooperative Linux", in this message from Dan Aloni.

Sun Microsystems has offered IBM the benefit of its "experience," if Big Blue decides that it wants to implement a wholesale move to the Linux desktop. announce about "Cooperative Linux", in this message from Dan Aloni.

Inventor of GNU Linux and founder of Free Software Foundation, Stallman met the leader of opposition and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader here

There are few things as confusing, frustrating, and aggravating for those who come to Linux from Windows as the whole notion of permissions. Based on my own personal experience, I would say as much as 25% of the problems I've had using Linux over the years have been permissions related. It's a subject your mother didn't teach you, and you didn't learn on the playgrounds. That's why we're going to get down and dirty with the CLI today: to learn about permissions on Linux, right here, right now.

By Rick Whiting. IBM and Sybase Inc. have taken steps to improve the Linux capabilities of their database software offerings. Sybase

"Only an open source platform with the full source code published for review can be regarded as sufficiently secure. The GSMK CryptoPhone is the only existing GSM mobile phone featuring that."

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

"The group set up to represent New Zealand’s Linux community, the Open Source Society, is seeking legal advice over SCO's Linux licensing scheme, which the company last week extended to New Zealand."

"Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala's veteran Marxist leader V.S. Achuthanandan Sunday had an education of sorts when free software guru Richard Stallman updated him on the merits of the copy-left system."

"Microsoft is admittedly feeling the heat. Ignoring the 'Linux revolution', as its supporters like to call it, hasn’t helped. And so the battlelines are clearly drawn. Besides the press events, Microsoft is planning to issue print ads, to start with, to take on Linux. "

"It's bigger, it's better, it has what it takes to be the new browser champ"