CLONEZILLA.... alternate to Norton Ghost

Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and
deployment solution.
Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shaiu and developed by the NCHC Free
Software Labs in Taiwan.
Clonezilla SE provides multicast support similar to Norton Ghost
Corporate Edition.

*Clonezilla Live*
'Clonezilla Live' enables a user to clone a single computer's storage
media, or a single partition on the
media, to a separate medium device. The cloned data can be saved as an
image-file or as a duplicated
copy of the data. The data can be saved to locally attached storage
device, a SSH server,
Samba Server or a NFS file-share. The clone file can then be used to
restore the original when needed.
The Clonezilla application can be run from a USB-flash-drive, a CD-ROM,
or a DVD-ROM.
Clonezilla requires no modification to the computer; the software runs
in its own booted environment.
*Clonezilla Server*
Clonezilla Server is used to clone many computers simultaneously across
a network.
This is done using a DRBL server and computer workstations that can boot
from a network.

http://clonezilla.org/

SUN MICROSYSTEMS :( NOT ANYMORE..

Have you noticed whats happening when you type www.sun.com
<http://www.sun.com>? if not try now.

Redwood Shores, CA – January 27, 2010

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced that it had completed its
acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Combination of the local entities
worldwide will proceed in accordance with local laws.

Internet Under sea World. THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET COMES AT UR PLACE

http://www.indianewomen.com/posts/list/724.page

BBC E-mail: Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf

Tharaka saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.

** Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf **
The latest Windows offering is available for pre-order, and sales of the operating system already exceed those of Vista.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8151342.stm >

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MIS Party 2010 All Of your participation Important

 

 

Understanding fstab ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab

Open Source Usage and Economic Benefits

• Economic benefits from open source are both direct and indirect. The direct benefits begin with the fact that, generally, open source software is distributed without a software license fee and is extended to the entire hardware and software stack and related services when compared with proprietary systems. In place of the license fee, customers are offered an optional subscription for services or support fee per server. While self-support isn’t an option for most customers, entertaining competing bids for support is a very attractive proposition. This can result in lower costs for support throughout the life cycle of the open source component or application. There are also indirect economic benefits that ultimately accrue to everyone who adopts open source from the more efficient use of resources across the industry, with less redundancy and fewer opportunities for any one vendor to monopolize a product category. This helps to minimize vendor costs and, therefore, keep customer expenses down.

• open source software doesn’t necessarily do a better job of delivering business value than commercial software. It isn’t necessarily easier to develop new applications with open source software, and it doesn’t necessarily produce better applications than commercial software. But a majority of respondents did indicate that open source was playing a role in helping to lower their companies’ overall operating costs, a business benefit that can’t be underestimated. A majority of respondents indicated that open source software played an important role in improving the quality of their companies’ products and business processes . This goes along with the perception of the high quality of open source software itself and the flexibility open source provides that can allow changes and modifications to be made more quickly and with less effort. This is a clear benefit, although one that is difficult to quantify in hard dollars. On the other hand, a majority of respondents did not see open source playing an important role in directly affecting their companies’ abilities to acquire and retain new customers or to manage ongoing customer relationships. This points to the fact that in practice, open source software is technology, and the impact on customers will come from what a firm does with that technology, not the technology itself. The other attributes of open source, such as community, choice, and flexibility, are harder to translate into customer relationship benefits.

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