What is the economics behind FOSS?

August 24th, 2008 honey Posted in Blogroll, How to, Linux, open source No Comments »

How does one earn money from FOSS

I am a part of Indian Linux User Group Delhi (ILUG-D) and yesterday we got a question mail on the ilug-d mailing list from abhishek jain asking “where does the money comes from in FOSS?”.He ask that “What is the economics behind FOSS? How can one earn substantial money through FOSS?.I would like the through the solid reply of the mail from Raj Mathur.

1. Why do people work with FOSS?

Raj says:its pretty simple, People work with FOSS because Read the rest of this entry »

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New change in website Ranking system of Alexa

August 22nd, 2008 honey Posted in How to, Linux, NewsTech, Politics, Reviews 1 Comment »

announcement_graphic by you.In recent days i gained more than 60000+ alexa rank (check here) and this make me research for the alexa algorithms of ranking websites.Before few years i just know that “you have to install alexa toolbar for better alexa rank”, later i know that “having a alexa widget (just like i used on my sidebars) also boost up your site rank”, but today i get to know that their is a new change in website ranking of alexa.To diagnose more read my old entry “SEO’s addons for alexa and google ranks“.

Official says that “When Alexa began displaying rankings in 1998 it was with the goal of showing Alexa Read the rest of this entry »

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Google freely released its personal Web Application Security Scanner - ratproxy

July 3rd, 2008 honey Posted in Full Download's, Linux, Tips & twiks, hacking, open source 4 Comments »

ratproxy

Google freely released its personal tool for checking security issues of web applications as an open source tool.Ratproxy is the name of the devil that is released under an Apache 2.0 software license.Google says “Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environmentsRead the rest of this entry »

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XBox Media Center

June 3rd, 2008 honey Posted in Linux, Music vedios/mp3, games, movie No Comments »

xbmc(xbos media center)

XBox Media Center aka XBMC is a free software cross-platform media player and media center entertainment hub or you can simply call it a jukebox. XBMC is capable of playing back almost all known video, audio and picture formats from a computers harddrive, DVD-ROM drive, a local-network, and the internet.
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Python tutorial for beginners

May 17th, 2008 honey Posted in How to, Linux 1 Comment »

This tutorial is just for beginners who never programmer before on the python.Python is one of the strong language which make long code in just few lines.Have a look over this video.

Python runs on most of the platform starting from Linux/Unix,Windows, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and even on Nokia mobile phones.

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