New Book on Religion Shows Teachings of Jesus Came from Buddha

"New book by Robert Korczynski, “Buddha’s Big Foot,” presents the well-documented evidence that a Jewish man was not the first person to speak the words of Jesus; all of the, “New Testament,” books of the, “Bible,” turn out to be sourced from the teachings of the Buddha."



 http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=10,6714,0,0,1,0

Planning the Demise of Buddhism

"Hattaway claims that Buddhists, like other non-Christians, are leading empty meaningless lives ..."



 http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=10,6724,0,0,1,0

30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions

"We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason."



http://mashable.com/2008/06/26/firefox-3-extensions/

Tinypaste

"If you absolutely love to write on and on without any kind of restraint whatsoever, you now can! TinyPaste will give you a free text box in which to write your huge masterpiece unhindered and without any character limits. You can then post it online wherever you want."



 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/06/27/move-over-tinyurl-here-comes-tinypaste/

The Hello World Collection

"Hello World" is the first program one usually writes when learning a new programming language. The first Hello World program appeared in chapter 1.1 of the first edition of Kernighan & Ritchie's original book about C, "The C Programming Language", in 1978 and read like this:

main() {
    printf("hello, world\n");
}

http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm

ISO puts standard for Microsoft's OOXML document formats on hold

"After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva have responded by postponing publication of the revised specification. As the ISO announced, the planned ISO/IEC DIS 29500 cannot be published until these complaints have been heard. Procedure requires that they be dealt with by the end of June, when the ISO and IEC have to hand over their comments on the complaints to two management committees for a final decision."

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/ISO-puts-standard-for-Microsoft-s-OOXML-document-formats-on-hold--/110892

antiodt: view OpenOffice documents as plain text

"I don't like launching heavy office applications just to read a file. And there are antiword and wv to read MSWord *.doc files, unrtf to read RTF, and pdftotext to read PDF. Only open, ISO standard, ODT (OpenDocument, produced by OpenOffice) cannot be read that way"

http://usefreetools.blogspot.com/2008/06/antiodt-view-openoffice-documents-as.html

Neelie Kroes on Open Standards

"When open alternatives are available, no citizen or company should be forced or encouraged to use a particular company’s technology to access government information.

No citizen or company should be forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open one, through a government having made that choice first."

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2346

O3Spaces Workplace

"O3Spaces Workplace is the essential Web 2.0 OpenOffice.org enterprise extension.

O3Spaces Workplace brings document management and document collaboration features to OpenOffice.org / StarOffice and Microsoft Office, including real-time version control, check-in/check-out and document security.
O3Spaces Workplace is the integrated Basic Content Service for OpenOffice.org / Staroffice and Microsoft Office."

http://www.o3spaces.com/

90 things that are the same in Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org

"I've put together three articles, showing tasks that are the same between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org."

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/06/90-things-that-are-the-same-in-microsoft-office-and-openofficeorg.html

Technical Distinctions of ODF and OOXML

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/618667/Technical-Distinctions-of-ODF-and-OOXML

OOXML: “Dead Format Walking”

"Since most Office users would be happy to continue using Microsoft’s old binary formats, and since those for whom open standards are important would probably prefer ODF or PDF formats anyhow, I won’t be surprised if OOXML quietly dies before that future Office iteration ever sees the light of day."

http://www.michaeldolan.com/1199

Good bye, British Library

"Microsoft announced a project to digitize 100,000 rare and out-of-print books from the British Library collection. …Farquhar says that that effort is not directly related to the Open XML announcement"

http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-61777/good-bye-british-library

How would you compress your MySQL Backup

Backing up MySQL Database most people compress them - which can make a good sense in terms of backup and recovery speed as well as space needed or be a serious bottleneck depending on circumstances and approach used."

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/06/05/how-would-you-compress-your-mysql-backup/

How would you compress your MySQL Backup

Backing up MySQL Database most people compress them - which can make a good sense in terms of backup and recovery speed as well as space needed or be a serious bottleneck depending on circumstances and approach used."

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/06/05/how-would-you-compress-your-mysql-backup/

Building a Database-Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL

"In this 10-part weekly series of articles, I'll provide a hands-on look at what's involved in building a database-driven Web site. We'll be using two new tools for this: the PHP scripting language and the MySQL relational database. If your Web host provides PHP/MySQL support, you're in great shape. If not, we'll be looking at the set-up procedures under Unix and Windows, so don't sweat it."

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/ddws/

Use command-line MySQL for additional flexibility

"The more popular ways of using MySQL are to use GUI front ends, such as phpMyAdmin or the MySQL GUI administration tools. While these tools are fantastic and make managing a MySQL database easier, the mysql command-line program works quite well also, and is more flexible."

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=192&tag=nl.e011

More on Excel in-cell graphing

"We received an enthusiastic response to our post on in-cell bar graphs in Excel. The community quickly explored every edge case. I want to highlight some of the great ideas raised.

Henk was first out of the gate with a great suggestion that two columns could be used to show positive and negative values."

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/more-on-excel-in-cell-graphing/

Lightweight data exploration in Excel

"We often are given a chunk of data in Excel that we need to explore. Of course, the first tool you should pull out of your toolbox in cases like this is the trusty PivotTable (it slices, it dices!). But at times we have to dig a little deeper into the toolbox and pull out the in-cell bar chart."

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/lightweight-data-exploration-in-excel/