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Do you want to make a 802.11b antenna in home? Here is how.

Waveguide antennas don’t use the director assembly (the washery bits), and therefore are much simpler to build. An old tin can of the right size, about $5 in parts and 10 minutes of time are all that are needed. The math for computing correct sizing of the components in a waveguide antenna is simple.

Links:

• How to build a tin can waveguide antenna
• Antenna on the Cheap

Mosfet who made superior Liquid Interface for KDE, believes that Redhat does not like KDE.

• The modifications to KDE and Qt create several bugs not in the offical version. It would of been worse if several KDE developers didn’t rush to help them out.
• People have reported many compile problems under RedHat and I’ve gotten mail from several who switched distributions because of it. This is not due to GCC3.2, either, since I also use GCC3.2. It’s due to RedHat’s modifications to Qt and the KDE libraries.
• RedHat’s desktop is based on unofficial, unreleased software including the X server. Several of the hacks they did to support unreleased software conflict with the actual solutions developed openly because RedHat made their hacks in secret without letting developers know about it. Essentially what they did was use an unreleased beta X server and hacked a bunch of stuff like KDE to work with it without sharing or cooperating with the official projects.

Read the full story here.

Now its time for VMWare to prepare a court filing against microsoft!
Microsoft bought Virtual Machine and Virtual Server technology from Connectix. This means VMWare will be the competitor of Microsoft instead of Connectix. Who wins?
By this acquisition, Microsoft will take over development and support of Virtual PC for both Windows and Mac, as well as Virtual Server from Connectix.

Do you know how many Mac OS users live in your country?
Did you know that some people in Antarctic are using Unix?

Check out this cool map and add yourself too.

As a hardcore BSD user, I am not a linux fan. But this one is interesting:

CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is “keep it simple”, which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.

Check it out at CRUX.NU

“Not everyone can make money writing free software. It’s a good way to hone your skills and get your name out to prospective employers, but the number of jobs available to work on your project full-time is rather low.”
In his weblog, chromatic suggests diffrent ways to help free software projects.
Except donating money or being a coder ,there are other ways to help.

• I am trying to implement Postfix + SASL + Cyrus.
• PAM is a good thing™. First implemened by Sun, now most modern Unix systems supports PAM as their primary authentication system.
• MovableType asked users to upgrade to 2.62 due to a security issue in 2.6
• Cisco-centric Open Source Initiative (COSI) - Opensource utilities for your Cisco gear

The former maintainer of Galeon, Marco Pesenti Gritti, recently started a new project to develop a Mozilla-based GNOME browser called Epiphany. The project’s goal is to build an end-user browser that is simple, standards-compliant, follows the GNOME HIG 1.0 and integrates tightly with the GNOME desktop environment. A screenshot is also available.
Like Phoenix, Beonex and Galeon, I think this is just a new SKIN for Gecko redering engine!

Last minutes note: Netscape has released Netscape 7.02 today. It is based on Mozilla 1.0.2.

The MicroBSD project was found to have countless copyright violations in their CVS repository. Initially they had planned to fix the problem, however, now they have simply shutdown.
Here is Theo de Raadt, complaining about licence violations.
In answer, MicroBSD shutsdown the project and apologizes OpenBSD community.
“In closing we simply ask the the community carry on as it were, and all person(s) with MicroBSD installed, Please remove the code, and install OpenBSD.”

Slashdot reports: “The folks at LASEC have found a flaw in the SSL protocol. Quoting Professor Serge Vaudenay from a BBC article the security problem is in ‘the SSL protocol itself and not in how we use it or how we implement it.’ Apparently the flow only affects webmail and not banking or credit card payments and took less than an hour (160 attempts) to crack.”
OpenSSL.org posted a security advisory regarding the issue.
Note: This was not a protocol issue, but an Implemenation issue.